October, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



811 



^V\\en it's GOLDENS it's PHELPS. Try one and 

 be convinced. 



C. W. Phelps & Son, Binghamton, N. Y. 



Southwest A'^irginia live-band Italian queens, the 

 fancy comb-honey strain, gentle to handle. They 

 will please vou. Try one. |1.00 cacli. 



Henry S.'Bohon, Kt. 3, Bo.\ 2112, Roanoke, Va. 



QUEENS OF SUPEIilOK QU.VLITY.— Untested, 

 75e each, $8.00 per doz. ; select untested, 90c each, 

 $9.00 per doz. ; select tested, $1.50 each, $15.00 per 

 doz. : e.xtra select breeder, $5.00. 



H. N. Major, South Wales, N. Y. 



Queens, Queens, Queens. We are better pre- 

 pared than ever to supply you. Untested, 55c each; 

 tested. $1.00 each; select tested, $1.65 each. See 

 our bii; illustrated ad. on first leaf of this journal. 

 W. D. Achord, Pitzpatrick, Ala. 



FOR SALE. — Three-banded Italian bees and 

 queens from the best honey-gathering strains obtain- 

 able. Untested queens, 75 cts. ; 6, $4.25; 12, $8.00. 

 Tested queens, $1.50 each. 



Robt. B. Spicer, Wharton, N. J. 



My bright Italian queens will be ready to ship 

 April 1 at 60 cts. each; virgin queens, 30 cts. 

 Send for price list of queens, bees by the pound 

 and nucleus. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. M. Bates, Rt. 4, Greenville, Ala. 



Golden Italian queens from June to Ncwember, 

 untested, 75 cts.; 6, $4.25; doz., $8.00; tested, $1.25; 

 6, $7.00; select tested, $1.50; breeders, $5.00. Bees 

 by pound or nucleus. Pure mating guaranteed. 

 Send for circular. J. I. Danielson, Fairfield, la. 



None but the best Queens are sent out by us — 

 three-band Italians that are guaranteed to give satis- 

 faction. Untested queens, 75c; $8.00 per doz.; 

 tested, $1.00 each. No disease. Orders filled 

 promptly. J. W. K. Shaw & Co., Loreauville, La. 



The demand for PHELPS' GOLDENS has been 

 so great that wei shall not be able to fill orders for 

 less than $12.00 a dozen for the remainder of the 

 season. Single queens $1.00 as usual. THEY ARE 

 BEAUTIES! Try one. C. W. Phelps & Son. 



Golden Italian queens, good as the best, to close 

 out quick. Price, select tested, $1.00-; tested, 75 

 cts. ; untested, 50 cts. ; no discount of any kind. 

 D. T. Gaster, Rt. 2, Randleman, N. C. 



HELP WANTED 



HELP WANTED. — Factory positions, men for 

 lumbei'-yard and woodworking-machine operators; 

 boys over 16 years for helpers on woodworking-ma- 

 chines; women and girls over 17 years to work on 

 light manufacturing. Steady employment to com- 

 petent workers. Apply by letter, giving previous 

 e.xperience, if any. Address The A. I. Root. Co. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



THE G.A.RUENETTE AXD THE SANDWICH SYSTEM. 



In our issue for Nov. 15, 1916, I gave quite a 

 write-up of the work done by B. P. Albaugh at 

 Covington, Ohio, along the line of high-pressure gar- 

 dening. I have made some tests of the " sandwich " 

 plan, and I am glad to say it comes fully up to my 

 expectations. It gave the finest lot of cantaloupes 

 and melons I ever grew on our clay soil ; but every- 

 thing grows so rank, that my melons are going to 

 be a littlei late in ripening. I first dug out a pit 

 in the hard clay about 18 inches deep, 3 feet wide, 

 and perhaps 12 feet long, .\fter laying a tile thru 

 the center to carry off tlie .surplus water I put on 

 perhaps six inches of strawy stable manure; then a 

 load of sand and a load of old well-rotted stable 

 manure, thoroly mixed up, and some good garden 

 soil to top off with. Well, everything growing on 



this sandwich bed has shown remarkable thrift and 

 vigor. I can readily believe what friend .\lbaugh 

 says in his book, that three or four s(i,.an' roils 

 under such treatment will pay a 1 i.; per tent o.'. 

 the money and work invested. If jou have only a 

 little spot, where the sun can get at it some time 

 during the day you can grow a lot of stuff on it. For 

 a single hill of melons, squashes, or cucumbers, dig 

 j a hole about the size of an ordinary wash-tub. Fill 

 this with manure, sand, fallen leaves, or trash of 

 almost any kind, and you will get vines that wi.l 

 grow and produce beyond anything you ever saw. 



The book also describes what the author calls a 

 " plant incubator." It is a miniature liot-ljcd wari.i 

 ed by a single little coal-oil lamp; and I feel sure 

 that it would be a wonderful and attractive play- 

 thing for the children, even in winter time. Just 

 now, while there is so much talk about " war gar- 

 dens," such things ought to possess a new interest. 



The price of friend Albaugh's book, nicely bound 

 in cloth, is $1.25. The beautiful pictures" that il- 

 lustrate it from beginning to end are worth almost 

 if not quite the price of the book. We offer the 

 book postpaid by mail with Gleanings one year for 

 $1.75. If you want to make one or more of the 

 children a birthday or Chri.stmas present, I can think 

 of nothing better than "The Gardenette ; or. City 

 Backyard Gardening by the Sandwich System." 



" THE EVILS OF TOBACCO AND CIGARETTES." 



The above is a book of 126 pages, just out, writ- 

 ten by L. H. Higley, Butler, Ind. Mr. Higley is 

 the editor of the Butter Record. I am glad to see 

 just one editor who dares come out " in the open," 

 and tell us the truth about tobacco. I wonder how 

 many editors of our various periodicals are not users 

 of tobacco in some manner. On a page partly blank, 

 right in the middle of the book, in large plain 

 letters, I find the following : 



" As girls nurse a doll to imitate women, boys 

 smoke and chew to imitate men. What is the moral?" 



I will tell you what a part of the moral is. Small 

 boys get glimpses of cigarettes, and think that 

 cigarettes are just the thing with which to imitate a 

 nian. The summing-up of things in this book is 

 simply awful to contemplate, especially when we are 

 talking of " efficiency " and " preparedness " as the 

 whole world never talked it before. 



Send 25 <ents and get the book; and if you have 

 a boy or boys let them read it too — yes, letthe girls 

 read it. I think that if you start in, on almost any 

 page, you will read the book thru to the end. 



" HARNESSING " THE WIND. 



If any of our readers can give me any informa- 

 tion in regard to charging storage batteries by means 

 of windmills or wind power, I should be very glad, 

 just now, to find out where it is being done. There 

 may be shortages and monopolies on coal, gas, and 

 gasoline; but, thank the Lord, there is not likely 

 to be any " holdup " on the wind that blows, just 

 over our heads, everywhere. 



Sept 24. — Just as we go to press I learn that 

 J. F. Poster, of Poynette, Wis., is running an elec- 

 tric automobile the batteries of which are charged by 

 means of a windmill. Therefore it has actually come 

 to pass that automobiles; can be propelled by wind 

 power instead of gasoline. 



A FAR:MER'S RAT STORY. 



We take pleasure in clipping the follow- 

 ing' from the Fatriot-Fhakmx, Indianapolis: 



Dear President Wilnon : — Statisticians tell us that 

 rats consume $160,000,000 worth of food every 

 year in the United States. This leads me to ask a 

 question : If you had the power would or would 

 you not annihilate all the rats and forbid anybody 

 bringing them back.' In your effort to anniliilatc 

 these useless and wasteful rodents would you enact 

 township laws or national laws .' for surely if you 

 drove all the rats out of one township you could not 

 keep them out unless you destroyed the rats in all 

 other townships. 



In fact, Mr. President, would it not be a fine 

 thing, worthy of attention by your departments, to 

 inaugurate a general rat-killing? 



Rats don't make good soldiers, nor do they help 

 to feed them, nor to weaken the enemy, nor to" build 

 airship,s or U-boat destroyers. 



Mr. President, let's banish the rats. 



