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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



keepers in the United States. Mr. Faulkner, Sr., is 

 in his 100th year, and was born among the bees in 

 Scotland. The family recently sold a large portion 

 of their bee-range for over $260,000. They still re- 

 tain the buildings and ten acres of the best part of 

 the farm, worth another $50,000. The house stands 

 on a ridge that was once the shore of Lake Chicago, 

 which at one time covered the entire site of the pres- 

 ent city. It can be reached by trolley from anywhere 

 in the city for a five-cent fare. A basket dinner will 

 be served by the queens that do not swarm, which 

 we hope wiU attract enough drones to furnish an 

 intellectual feast as well. 



Chicago, 111., June 6. C. O. Smith. 



TRADE NOTES 



SKCOND-HAND FOUNDATION-MILL IN LOS ANGELES, 

 CAL., FOR SALE. 



We have for sale at our Los Angeles branch a 12- 

 inrh medium-brood mill in fair condition, with some 

 defaced cells, but in good enough condition for years 

 of service for a beekeeper who makes his own foun- 

 dation. We offer the mill for $15.00. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



We have several bargains to offer in sweet-clover 

 seed. If interested, write us, stating the quantity 

 you can use and the variety you prefer, and we will 

 quote you and submit sample. We have some stock 

 at Ues Moines, Iowa, and Chicago, 111., as well as 

 Medina, and will quote bargain price to close out 

 stock. 



BUCKWHEAT FOR SEED. 



The time is here for seeding buckwheat for a 

 honey crop. We have here at Medina a limited sup- 

 ply of both Japanese and silverhuU, which we offer 

 at $2.75 per 100 lbs., bag included, subject to pre- 

 vious sale. We can also furnish at the same price, 

 and subject to sale, the Japanese variety from Ash- 

 land, Mo. 



NO. 2 OR B GRADE SECTIONS. 



Our surplus stock of B grade sections in the reg- 

 ular size, 41/4 X 1%, two beeway, is reduced to nor- 

 mal proportions. The new lumber on which we are 

 now working is of excellent quality, and produces 

 only a small proportion of B grade. We still have 

 a good stock of B grade in plain sections of regular 

 pattern; and as these are supplied this year at a 

 reduction of 75 cts. per 1000 below A grade, they 

 should be well worth using at this rate. 



The a. I. Root Company, Medina, Ohio. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



BY A. I. BOOT 



GOOD BOOKS AT A GREAT BARGAIN. 



Most of these books are old, but not all of them. 

 They are offered at a bargain because they have ac- 

 cumulated, and do not seem to sell at the regular 

 prices. First we have "Love: the Supreme Gift; 

 or, the Greatest Thing in the W^orld," by Henry 

 Drummond. $ome years ago this little book of 32 

 pages had a great sale, and created quite a stir in 

 the world. The price was 10 cents. As we have 

 250 copies on hand, you may have one or more of 

 them free of charge if you will send a stamp to 

 pay the postage. 



" The Revised Version of the New Testament." 

 This was gotten out in 1881, when the New Version 

 first appeared. It is a very pretty little book, print- 

 ed with large type so old people can read it easily. 

 It sold readily for 10 cents; present price 5 cents 

 postpaid. We have about 300 coppies. 



In 1881, by request we made selections from the 

 Home Papers, which had then been running for some 

 six years. The original price was 10 cents. We 

 have' about 300 copies left, which you can have post- 

 paid for 5 cents each. The book contains 48 pages, 

 and includes gardening, poultry, and suggestions 

 like those in several others of our books about what 

 to do when out of work, and, first and last, more 

 particularly, the kingdom of God and his righteous- 

 ness. We have about 300 copies left, which we will 

 furnish at 5 cents each as long as they last. 



The next one is " Poultry for Pleasure and Poul- 

 try for Protit." This is a very pretty little poultry- 



book with an illuminated cover. It has 48 pages 

 and some very good illustrations. The price was 25 

 cents. We have some 20 copies left; and while they 

 last you may have them postpaid for 10 cents. This 

 little book ought to make any boy or girl happy who 

 is getting interested in poultry. 



" Silk and the Silkworm " — also 25 cents. It has 

 30 pages, illustrated. It will be sent by mail for 10 

 cents. We have 28 copies. 



" Merrybanks and His Neighbor." This is a book 

 of 210 pages, fully iUustrated. This book is like our 

 larger one ("What to do," etc.), written with the 

 view of telling idle people what they may do to earn 

 a living right around home. Nearly all the events 

 mentioned in it are actual occurrences, but they were 

 put in story form by A. I. Root over thirty years 

 ago. The price was 25 cents; but you may now 

 have it postpaid for 10 cents. 



Here is another book — -" The Story of Art Smith." 

 I have made mention of it once or twice already. 

 The book took such a hold on me that I could 

 scarcely eat or sleep until I had finished it. The 

 principal moral of the book is the account of how 

 this boy. Art Smith, persevered and finally overcame 

 more obstacles, accidents, and discouragements 

 (mainly thru a lack of means) than any man or boy 

 I ever heard of. The disappointments and disasters, 

 it seems to me, would have set almost any other 

 boy crazy; but, like Edison, he stuck to his hobby of 

 making a flying-machine that would actually fly, 

 until he finally conquered. The last I heard of him 

 he was making flights in Japan. The boy had (and 

 perhaps has yet) a praying mother. I hope the 

 good woman is still alive. The price of the book is 

 25 cents ; but as we have something like 80 copies 

 left out of 100 we now oft'er it postpaid for only 10 

 cents. 



" Injurious Insects of Michigan," by Prof. A. J. 

 Cook. This book was first put out in 1874; and 

 while improvements have been made in the way of 

 insecticides, I believe this work of Prof. Cook stands 

 with perhaps few exceptions as perfectly orthodox up 

 to the present time. If I am correct, our good 

 friend Cook was one of the pioneers in introducng 

 the arsenite sprays for the destruction of the codling 

 moth. The book contains 48 pages, and is abun- 

 dantly illustrated. As we have 38 copies yet on 

 hand we reduce the price, 25 cents, to only a nickel, 

 for which we will send the book postpaid. It ought 

 to be worth that amount to go over the early work 

 of such an interesting writer as our old friend, who 

 has done so much, not only for beekeepers but for 

 the world at large. 



Besides the books mentioned we have " What to 

 Do, and How to be Happy While Doing it." This 

 was a 50-cent lxK>k, bound in cloth; paper, 35 cts. 

 We now offer it, bound in cloth, for 25 cents, and 

 in paper for 15 cents. See A. I. Root's Special 

 Notice, Gleanings for May 15. 



We have also about 12 copies of the " New Agri- 

 culture," mentioned on the page referred to. This is 

 really a valuable $2.00 book, which we now offer for 

 only 75 cts., because it is old. As long as the pres- 

 ent copies last we will mail the book postpaid at the 

 latter price. 



THE 1915 YEAR-BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES BREW- 

 ERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The above is the title of a large book of 360 pages. 

 It is put out by the United States Brewers' Associa- 

 tion, and is gotten up without regard to cost, for the 

 sole purpose of defending the brewing business. It 

 is quite evident that they have spared no expense, 

 and have employed the most able attorneys and men 

 of all callings to help them to prove that the temper- 

 ance wave is a mistake and a misrepresentation. It 

 is not worth while to go over the arguments they 

 present. It is quite evident, however, that they 

 have, with much commendable study, looked up every 

 " hook and crook " that would enable them to con- 

 tradict or counteract the effect of the facts that 

 temperance periodicals and temperance people are 

 giving to the world. I will close this brief notice of 

 the book by calling attention to a self-evident fact. 

 Tlie Anti-saloon League, our churches, our schools, 

 our Endeavor societies, Sunday-schools, etc., are 

 laboring for the sole purpose of protecting humanity, 

 especially the boys and girls and the babies of the 

 wliole wide world. The brewers, on the contrary, 

 are laboring and spending their millions for the 

 " sole purpose " of holding their customers and keep- 

 ing their breweries running so they can get more 

 money from the unwary and unsuspecting. 



