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By Our Business Manager 



SECOND- HAND 60-LB. CANS. 



We still have a supply of good second-hand 60-lb. 

 cans, two in a case, which we guarantee free from 

 rust on the inside, but which will require a thor- 

 ough cleaning before they are filled. If care is 

 taken in this respect they are safe to use for good 

 honey. For fall or ofl grades of honey we can rec- 

 ommend them without qualification. Price, 83.00 

 for 10 boxes; S25.00 per 100 boxes; 25 or over at 100 

 rate. 



E.4.RLy-ORDER CASH DISCOUNT. 



We are again prepared to reward by a liberal 

 early-order cash discount those who are forehand- 

 ed in anticipating their next season's require- 

 ments. For orders received during this month, 

 accompanied by payment, for goods for next sea- 

 son's use, we allow a discount of 7 per cent; during 

 October, 6 per cent. As the season advances the 

 discount is reduced one per cent each month. 

 This discount applies to goods listed in our general 

 catalog except as follows: Paint, Porter bee-escapes, 

 Bingham smokers, bees, queens, printed matter, 

 cartons, honey-packages, tin and glass: bushel 

 boxes, hotbed sash, honey-labels, seeds, and such 

 seasonable goods. Where a large general order 

 includes some of the excepted articles, not exceed- 

 ing ten to twenty per cent of the entire order, the 

 discount may be applied to the whole order. 



SAVEET-CLOVER SEED. 



We have secured a good supply of both hulled 

 and unhulled white sweet-clover seed, a part of 

 which is on the way to us, and should arrive before 

 any orders can reach us in answer to this notice. 

 We have also secured a thousand pounds of un- 

 hulled yellow biennial seed, Melilotus officinalis. 

 This variety seems to be so uncommon that it is 

 not easy to secure the seed, and we had to pay lib- 

 erally for what we have secured. In order to make 

 sure we were getting the genuine article we sub- 

 mitted a sample to the seed expert in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 and he pronounces it all right. We still have an 

 abundant supply of last year's seed of yellow annu- 

 al, which is good, and germinates freely. No old 

 seed of any other variety remains on hand, as all 

 stock has been sold and disposed of. We oflfer the 

 seed of the various kinds mentioned at the follow- 

 ing prices: 



in lots of— 1 lb. 10 lbs. 85 lbs. 100 lbs. 



Hulled Yellow Annual 



(Melilotus Indica) , per Ih 15c 120 lie 10c 

 Unhulled Yellow Biennial 



(Melilotus officinalis) , 25c 22c 21c 20c 



Hulled White 2:3c 20c 19c 18c 



Unhulled White (Melilotus 



aifta) per lb 16c 14c 13c 12c 



In this connection we wish to give a word of cau- 

 tion. The past season we have offered and sold 

 what we believed to be hulled yellow biennial 

 sweet clover, Melilotus officinalis. We secured the 

 seed from what we regarded as a reliable seedhouse 

 in Louisville, Ky. Among other orders received 

 was one from the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, for 'id lbs. each of annual and biennial 

 seed, which we forwarded. On receiving it the 

 government expert pronounced both lots of seed 

 annual. Several who had bought seed early in the 

 season, and sowed it, confirmed this opinion by 

 reporting blossoms within a few weeks after the 

 seed was sown; whereas the biennial is not expect- 

 ed to bloom till the second year. 



We have had the matter up with the seedhouse 

 of whom we procured the seed; and, in spite of the 

 evidence produced, they are inclined to discredit 

 the idea of two kinds, and insist that thej' furnished 

 us the genuine yellow biennial, claiming they had 

 secured it from California (the same place where 

 we obtained the yellow annual) , and had sold over 

 30,000 pounds, and ours was the only complaint 

 they had received. This is a wholesale seedhouse, 

 and they have disposed of a very large quantity of 

 this year's seed. If we, with our long experience 

 with sweet clover, were misled the past season, it 

 is more than likely that many innocent buyers of 

 seed may be likewise misled into buying the an- 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



nual when they want and expect to get the bien- 

 nial variety. We give this experience to put our 

 readers on their guard. We can furnish the deal- 

 er's name to any one interested. 



By A. I. Root 



"garden profit; or, big money in small plots." 

 There are so many good books on gardening now- 

 adays that it is a hard matter to notice them all. 

 The one with the above title is just out this year of 

 1911. The first chapter is entitled "The Self-sup 

 porting Home." The next is "Money in the Back 

 Yard." If this chapter shall result in transforming 

 our unsightly back yards into things not only of 

 beauty, but of real profit, and health to the owner 

 thrown in, it will do a good work. There is one 

 chapter entitled "Successful Gardening," telling 

 what has been done, and another excellent one on 

 frames and hotbeds. Every one who makes any 

 pretensions to high - pressure gardening should 

 have some glass sashes, and, to go with them, some 

 cloth-covered .sashes also. Even if you do not have 

 a regular manure-heated hotbed, these sashes will 

 be a great help. The book tells one how to start 

 gardening any month of the year, and, I may 

 almost say, no matter where you five. The price is 

 SI. 50 postpaid. It comes from Doubleday A- Co.; 

 but we have made arrangements to club it with 

 GLEANINGS so you Can get it for much less than 

 the regular price. 



The book 'Garden Profits," containing 240 pages 

 with many illu.strations, and nicely bound in cloth, 

 is offered with The Garden Maaazine, a leading 

 monthly horticultural publication, and Glean- 

 ings IN Bee Culture (.semi-monthly) and the 

 "Townsend Bee-book;" two magazines, each one 

 year, and two books— a 84.50 value for only 82.00. 

 This offer is open to new and old subscribers of 

 each magazine alike. Address Subscription depart- 

 ment. Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



hunter-trader-trapper for august. 



The above excellent magazine has two articles 

 that interest me greatly. The first is the feather 

 industry of the United States, which amounts now 

 to over 812,000,000 per annum; and at present the 

 largest part of our feathers for pillows comes from 

 China, where they grow ducks by the million. 

 From this article we learn there is a market in the 

 United States for every thing in the way of feathens. 

 Chicken feathers picked indiscriminately bring 

 from 3 to 5 cts. per lb. If picked dry they are worth 

 about 15 cts. White turkey feathers bring from 60 

 to 70 cts.; while down from the breast of a goose is 

 worth from 81.00 to 81.50 per lb. The Partridge 

 Wyandotte furnishes feathers that are used to dec- 

 orate hats, and of course these, when properly 

 saved, bring a lot of money. This article also tells 

 all about renovating feathers by steam. And this 

 reminds me that, a few days ago, when I took a 

 Pullman sleeper on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 

 before the porter put on his clean pillow-slips the 

 pillow-cases were not only ragged and full of holes, 

 but the feathers were so soiled they looked as if 

 they might smell bad; and they did smell l)ad, so I 

 had trouble in getting to sleep. I want to call the 

 attention of the health department of the several 

 States to the importance of notifying the Pullman 

 Car Co., and all similar ones, that the feathers in 

 their pillows should be renovated by steam. They 

 certainly get money enovigh to pay for the expense 

 of furnishing their patrons with hygienic, sanitary 

 pillows. 



The other article is about blueberries. I quote 

 the following: 



Blueberries are about the ouly fruit I know of that can be 

 eaten in larg-e quantities without any injurious results. One 

 can consume aiipallingr quantities without suffering- any de- 

 rang-ement of the stomach. This can not be said of straw- 

 berries or raspberries. 



After having had blueberries for my supper in 

 place of my apples for some time I heartily agree 

 with the above. During my recent visit in Con- 

 necticut I saw blueberries literally covering the 

 hills and going to waste. You may recall that, in 

 our issue for Dec. 15, page 807, I made mention of a 

 government bulletin in regard to blueberry culture. 



