July, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



567 



50 Tested Italian Queens, $1.00 each; warranted 

 queens, 75 cts. Satisfaction s:uaranteed. 



Geo. A. Hummer, Prairie Point, Miss. 



Queens of my own and Dr. C. C. Miller's 3-band- 

 ed select stock the rest of this season, 75 cts. each ; 

 $65.00 per 100; tested, $1.50 each; $15.00 per 

 dozen ; breeders, $5.00 and $10.00. A fine breeder 

 sent on two frames of brood in nuclei, $10.00. 



Curd Walker, Jellico, Tenn. 



I think so much of my Walker queens and bees 

 lliat I have been able to induce my friend Mr. Walter 

 Hall to try one. I am quite sure he will find them 

 as good as I recommend. I have in my apiary 

 nueens from four different breeders of queens, but 

 the Walker beats them all. When I want more 

 ([ueens yours are good enough for me even if the 

 price is a little steep. J. M. Meadors, Dorton, Tenn. 



HELP WANTED 



WANTED. — Man to work with bees, season 1917. 

 State age, experience, and wages. 



The Rocky Mountain Bee Co., Billings, Montana. 



WANTED. — Industrious young man, fast worker, 

 as a student helper in our large bee business for 

 1917 season. W^ill give results of long experience, 

 and board and small wages. Give age, weight, ex- 

 perience, and wages in first letter. 



W. A. Latshaw Co., Clarion, Mich. 



WANTED. — Young man with a little experience, 

 fast willing worker, as student helper with our 1000 

 colonies. Crop for past two years, 6 carloads. Will 

 give results of our long experience and small wages; 

 every chance to learn. Give age, height, weight, ex- 

 perience, and wages, all in first letter, or expect no 

 answer. E. F. Atwater, Meridian, Idaho. 



WANTED. — From Sept. 1 to April able-bodied 

 young man who has had some experience with bees 

 to help work in apiary in New Zealand. State 

 wages wanted, with board furnished ; also send refer- 

 ences and description of self in first letter. Write 

 J. M. care Gleanings. F — 4214 



WANTED by an experienced apiarist a partner to 

 go south and rear queens and bees for the northern 

 market. We understand queen-rearing, also produc- 

 tion of both comb and extracted honey. Would 

 take a position with some large apiarist. 



C. Witham, Syracuse, N. Y. 



WANTED a good single man 48 or 50 years old 

 who understands bees and farming. Address Mrs. 

 M. Catlin Morse, Owego, N. Y., South Side. 



TRADE NOTES 



ADVANCING PRICES. 

 Because of very sharp advances in lumber of all 

 kinds entering into the manufacture of hives and 

 supplies we are oblised to withdraw all prices listed 

 in our catalog and price lists. We are working on 

 new price schedules, and hope to have them in 

 print by Aug. 1. We have quite an accumulation 

 of unfilled orders for which we are making goods 

 as rapidly as possible, and we ought to be caught 

 up soon. On new business received, pending the 

 issue of revised prices we will make prices as close 

 as we can. Advances will be from 10 to 20 per 

 cent. Present prices on most kinds of lumber which 

 we use are forty to fifty per cent higrher than they 

 were a year ago, and prices continue to advance, 

 so it is impossible to tell where the end will be. 



BARGAIN IN SHIPPING CASES. 



Simultaneous with announcement of an advance 

 in all articles made of wood, including shipping- 

 cases we have some old stock of shipping-cases 

 holding twelve and sixteen sections which we are 

 closing out at bargain prices. We not only have a 

 quantity of these at Medina, but also at various 

 branches. The-e are offered K. D., at $8.00 to 

 $10.00 per 100 while they last. Let us know for 

 what size of section you can use them, and the 



quantity, and we will advise if we have the size 

 wanted. We have the largest stock fitted to the 

 4% X 1 1/& section. 



SHIPPING-CASES NAILED UP. 



We have an accumulation of nailed cases used 

 once, but good to use again, which we are selling 

 at $10.00 to $12.00__por ]()0. We have the largest 

 stock for 24 4^4 x 1% i-ections, but can supply some 

 other sizes. If interested, WTite us, naming quantity 

 wanted and size of section to be cased. 



60-POUND CANS FOR HONEY. 



We have in stock at Medina for shipment as 

 needed five carloads of 60-pound tin cans and 2 

 cars of friction-top pails chiefly 5 and 10 pound. 

 Until further notice we offer the 60-lb. cans at the 

 following priies. Cans onlv, without boxes, tied 9 in 

 a bundle, at $3.60; 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. 



HONEY-BARRELS, SECOND-HAND. 



We have accumulated a number of good empty 

 honey -barrels which will serve a good purpose for 

 use again. We offer these as follows: 



6 .SO-gal. bbls. of cvpress at 75 cts. each. 



6 50-gal. bbls. of soft wood at $1.00 each. 



7 50-gal. bbls. of oak at $1.25 each. 



Wliile barrels are somewhat cheaper than cans at 

 present prices they are not so convenient to empty, 

 especially after the honey granulates. The demand 

 for tin in packing perishable food products is sft 

 great that some may be forced to use barrels in 

 packing their honey. 



The a. I. ROOT Co., Medina, O. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



POTATOES, AND THEIR PROMINENCE IN THIS ISSUE. 



I hold in my hand the first new potato of this 

 neighborhood this 22d day of June. By the way, 

 friends, perhaps you may think that on account of 

 old age, the war, etc., I never laugh nowadays. 

 W^ell, the Plain Dealer, in speaking of my favorite 

 text relative to the good woman whose " price is far 

 above rubies," suggests that we might put it just 

 now, " Her price is far above ' potatoes.' " Potatoes, 

 more precious than rubies 1 Do you wonder that I 

 laughed until it " began to hurt " ? 



THE STORY OF RIGBY FARM ; HOW JACOB M'QUEEN 

 TURNED CLAY HILLS INTO A GARDEN. 



The above is the title of a little pamphlet put out 

 by Jacob McQueen, of Baltic, Ohio. Jacob is the 

 son of a veteran beekeeper who was in close touch 

 with Gleanings when it was first started. It has 

 been said of me that I ran away from mii funeral 

 on a bicycle, and the funeral has not caught up with 

 me yet. Well, Jacob was told by the doctors that 

 he might live a year, but he ran away from his 

 funeral by experimenting with soy beans and nitro- 

 bacteria. His work differs from my potato storv 

 in this issue inasmuch as it has the indorsement of 

 our Ohio Experiment Station and experienced veter- 

 ans in agriculture. In fact, he has been in close 

 touch with the Station thru all his work. His prep- 

 aration for inoculating legumes is different from 

 that on the market in the fact that it does not need 

 to be " corked up " nor to be used all up when you 

 open the bottle. In fact, it is a dry powder. "He 

 says soy beans, with suitable weather, will show the 

 truth of his statement in jrist ten dai/s. Send and 

 get his twenty-page pamphlet: and if you are any- 

 thing like myself you will not lay it down until you 

 have read the whole 20 pages. I paid him a visit 

 June 15, and drank of the beautiful spring that 

 was a large factor in restoring him to health, and 

 also rambled over the most beautiful farm and farm 

 home, to my notion, I ever met in my life. 



The booklet is sent free of charge, as it advertises 

 his bacteria ; and for 10 cents he will send you a 

 sample of the inoculated soy beans that should show 

 the bacteria in ten days after planting. 



See his advertisement in this issue. 



