June, 1917 



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be somewhat higlier, especially to distant points, 

 considerable time is saved in nailing up. We oflfer 

 the following: 1280 single-tier for 24 4^4 xl% 

 sections at 10 cts. ; 720 double-tier for 24 4^^ xl% 

 sections at 10 cts.; 390 single-tier for 24 3% x5x 

 1% sections at 10 cts.; 400 single-tier for 24 4 x 5 x 

 1% sections at 12 cts. If new corrugated pads are 

 wanted with these cases add 2 cts. each for same. 



12-LB. SHIPPING CASES. 



While we no longer list the 12-lb. cases they are 

 very convenient many times for local delivery of 

 conib honey. Many a retail customer might take a 

 full 12-lb. case who would hesitate to take the larger 

 size. We still have an accumulation of two iind 

 three row cases for the regular styles of sections, put 

 up 10 in a crate at 85 cts., or 50 in a crate for 

 $4.00. These prices are less, proportionally, than the 

 regular cases, and are made only to close out stock. 

 If we do not have your size we cannot make them 

 up at this rate. 



60-POUND CANS FOR HONEY. 



We have in stock at Medina for shipment as 

 needed three carloads of 60-pound tin cans. We 

 have five more cars bought, but are not sure at this 

 writing whether we shall get them or not, because 

 of the restrictions placed on can-manufacturers about 

 the middle of May. What we have we offer while 

 thev last. Cans only, without boxes, tied 9 in a 

 bundle, at $3.00; weight, 24 lbs.; 50 in a crate, 

 $20.00; weight, 190 lbs.; 2 in a box at $1.25, or 10 

 boxes, $12.00; 50 boxes or more, at $1.10. 



NO. 4 NOVICE EXTRACTOR, OLD STYLE. 



We offer for sale an old-style No. 4 Novice extractor 

 which takes short frames up to 13 Vi x 13 inches. 

 This has the old-style cast gears without slip gear. 

 It is a machine which has never been used, but has 

 been standing idle in an agency because there is a 

 very small demand for machines of this size. We 

 offer it for $7.00, which is less than half the present 

 price of an up-to-date machine of the same size. 



ACCIDENTAL OR INTENTIONAL. 



We doubt whether there are many publications 

 in the country requiring as much of their adver- 

 tisers as do the publishers of Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture. The Information that we require regard- 

 ing responsibility, etc., is so searching that not a few 

 would - be advertisers have protested vigorously. 

 One advertiser in particular, a queen-breeder, re- 

 cently intimated that we had a personal grudg-e 

 against him because of our requirement of guaran- 

 tees from him before inserting his advertising. In 

 spite of this care, some advertisements get inserted 

 occasionally that should have had still more searching 

 investigation. Every publisher has the same experi- 

 ence. 



On two different occasions the advertising of the 

 Valley Farm Co., Newburgh, N. Y., Geo. W. Mosely, 

 manager, has appeared in our columns. We have 

 before us two complaints, both arising from failure 

 on the part of Valley Farm Co. to remit for honey 

 shipped to them. Drafts sent to the bank in New- 

 burgh were returned unpaid. We have written the 

 Valley Farm Co., but have received no reply what- 

 soever, except in one instance, when Mr. Mosely 

 wrote us that there were two sides to the situation, 

 and that the matter did not concern us anyway. 

 The matter does concern us, however. Of course, we 

 do not know whether the failure to remit is the result 

 of careless business methods and lack of system or 

 what. We are able to get no explanation whatever. 



out different messages urging men, women, and 

 children to go into backyard gardening for growing 

 standard vegetables, and especially potatoes under 

 present conditions. Our little book, of close to 400 

 pages, has passed thru four editions, has recently 

 been revised up to date, and is furnished with a 

 good cover, making it specially adapted to the boye' 

 and girls' potato' clubs. Price, paper-bound, 50 cts. ; 

 neatly bound in cloth, 75 cts. If your children take 

 any notion to potato-growing, hadn't you better give 

 them this book ? 



" WHAT TO DO, and HOW TO BE HAPPY WHILE 

 DOING IT." 



The above book was printed close to thirty years 

 ago, and 10,000 copies were made with only a part 

 of the sheets bound and put into covers. As the 

 books did not seem to go off very lively of late 

 years, I made a very low price on the work last 

 December. This low price helped to run the books 

 off; but when the excitement arose about backyard 

 gardening in consequence of the high price of food, 

 it received another start; and when I got back from 

 Florida I was told the books were all gone, both 

 cloth and paper bound, but that there were several 

 thousand of the sheets not yet bound and put into 

 covers. Now, here comes in the trouble : The book 

 originally sold in cloth covers for 65 cts., or 40 if 

 bound in paper. In order to hurry up the sale and 

 get rid of them before they got any older I offered 

 to club them with GLEANINGS so as to make the 

 cloth-bound 25 cts., and paper for 15 cts. When 

 Mr. Calvert got out our catalog for 1917 he adver- 

 tised the book at 15 and 25 cts., without any men- 

 tion of their being clubbed with Gleanings; and 

 when the war started, and even our President 

 strongly urged backyard gardening, the book just 

 " hit the spot." But here is the trouble: The books 

 were offered at the ridiculously low price mentioned, 

 postpaid; and the postage alone on the paper-covered 

 book to California would be 12 cts., leaving only 3 

 cts. for a book of 206 pages, weighing almost a 

 pound, that originally sold for 40 cts. We have 

 just had a lot of the books bound up with new 

 covers, and an appendix added in regard to back- 

 yard gardening down in Florida, where I grew two 

 crops of potatoes in one winter, and got over $100 

 for the potatoes grown in my backyard garden. 

 Under the circumstances we are obliged to increase 

 the price of the book, as follows: Paper-bound, 

 postpaid, 25 cts.; cloth-bound, 35 cts.; and even 

 these prices would not pay for the paper and print- 

 ing at the present time. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



THE A B C OF POTATO CULTURE. 



If there ever was a time when this book should be 

 kept and studied over and over again, it is just now 

 when potatoes are a dollar a peck, and in some 

 places as I write even $1.25 a peck. It tells all 

 about what is possiljle to do with potatoe.s, not only 

 here in the United States, but down in Florida and 

 clear over in the Isle of Jersey and in the Bermudas. 

 An appendix has been added, telling what I have 

 been enabled to do down in Florida during the past 

 winter in growing two crops oi, potatoes on the same 

 ground in one winter. Our good President has sent 



" HOW TO BE HAPPY WHEN PEOPLE ABUSE YOU." 



Many of our readers, perhaps, are aware that 

 we have sent out little tracts with the above title, 

 by the thousand, during the past year. But during 

 my absence in Florida our printing-office was great- 

 ly" crowded, and I fear a good many of the readea-s 

 of Gleanings who asked for these tracts were told 

 that they were out of print, etc. Unfortunately the 

 requests for them were not all left on my table, so 

 I could not see to the matter when I returned. We 

 now have plenty of them ahead; and if you will 

 kindly repeat youi- request I think you can have the 

 tracts by return mail. The Home paper for Febru- 

 ary calls attention to the matter. I am verj' sorry 

 that many of our friends have been disappointed 

 because their requests did not have the prompt at- 

 tention they should have. 



GOOD BOOKS FOR A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY. 



In our issue for December 1 I mentioned a num- 

 ber of books at a bargain. Well, they are mostly 

 cleaned out now; but we have remaining one copy 

 of " Barn Plans and Out-buildings," the former 

 price of which was $1.25. We offer it postpaid now 

 for 50 cents. 



Of Peter Henderson's Gardening for Pleasure we 

 have two copies left. The original price was $1.25, 

 but we now offer the remaining copies at 75 cents 

 each. 



Of Gardening for Young and Old ($1.25) we 

 have four copies left. Present price 60 cents. 



Irrigation for Farm, Garden, and Orchard. This 

 was a dollar book, of which we have four copies left, 

 which we now offer at 50 cents each. 



Garden and Farm Topics, also by Peter Hender- 

 son, a $1.25 book, we have five copies left. We 

 offer them now for 50 cts. each, postpaid. 



Onion Culture, by Greiner, a nice 40-ct. book, 



