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Aniiunl Whito Swoct Clover seed, trial packets 

 at $1.00 per packet, postpaid. 



Henry Field Seed Co., Shenandoah, Iowa. 



No ants vhevc tansy crows. Get it started this 

 spring. 3 plants, 25c. 



M. D. Smith, Preston, Iowa. 



Write for shipping taars and our prices for render- 

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 HELP WANTED 



WANTED. — Man to work with bees. Board fur 

 nished. State ase. experience, and wages wanted 

 in first letter. Mathilde Candler, Cassville, Wise. 



W.VNTEl). — A competent beekeeper to work bees 

 in southern New Mexico. Must be thoro and fast 

 worker. Mesilla Valley Honey Co., Canutillo, Tex. 



W.XNTED. — Experienced man for comb honey. 

 Give age, experience, and salary expected. 



B. F. Smith, Jr., Promberg, Mont. 



W.VNTED. — .V competent young man to help 

 care for 300 colonies of bees and other work. Capa- 

 ble of running a Ford car. State experiemce and 

 wages wanted. .T. W. Hackney, Weldona, Colo. 



WANTED. — A good queen-breeder, begin at 

 once. An opportunity to learn the package busi- 

 ness and a good position for the right man. State 

 age. amount of experience, and salary wanted in 

 first letter. W. D. Achord, Fitzpatrick, Ala. 



W.-V^^TED. — We can use an experienced man in 

 pxtracted-honey production during the season of 

 1920. Applicant kindly state age. experience, and 

 wages expeicted in first letter, and oblige. 



E. D. Townsend & Sons, Northstar, Mich. 



WANTED. — Man, season of 1920, to work with 

 bees. State age, experience, and wages. Give ref- 

 erence. Permanent employment to right man. The 

 Rockv Mountain Bee Co.," Box No. 1369, Billings, 

 Mont. 



WANTED. — One experienced beeman and one 

 helper. Must be yoimg man, able-bodied, and with 

 good character. Prefer one man that can handle 

 auto truck. State salary and give references when 

 answering. Ernest W. Fox, Fruitdale, So. Dak. 



W.\NTED. — One experienced man. and students 

 or helpers in our large bee business; good chance tn 

 learn. Modern equipment and outfit, including auto 

 truck, located near summer resorts. Write, giving 

 age, height, weight, experience, reference, and 

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



SITUATIONS WANTED 



WANTED. — Position on bee farm near Connecti- 

 cut this summer. 



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In Gleanings in Bee Culture for the year 1911 

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 were " Beekeeping for Beginners," 12 articles, by 

 E. D. Townsend: "Beekeeping in Florida," 13 ar- 

 ticles, by E. G. Baldwin; "Beekeeping as a Hob- 

 by," 5 articlfv!. by F. Dundas Todd; "General Top- 

 ics of Beekeeping. 9 articles, by S. D. House. Tliis 

 volume of 1911 was one of the best ever publislied 

 by the Editors of Gleanings. W^e chance to have 

 55 bound volumes of the year 1911 (a very littler 

 shelf-worn, some of them) that we will sell, post- 

 paid, at $1.25 each. First come, first served. .Ad- 

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Books and Bulletins 



The following is from the " Foreword " of 

 " North American Honey Plants," by Frank C. 

 Pellett: "In the first volume of American Bee 

 Journal, published in 1861, appears a plea for the 

 publication of a volume devoted to the honey flora 

 of America. In numerous instances since that time, 

 writers have mentioned the great need of a work 

 of this kind. In common with other students of 

 lieekeeping, the author came to feel this lack in our 

 beekeeping literature. This book is an attempt to 

 fill that need. It is to be expected that the first 

 work on this great subject will overlook many things 

 which should have been included and that numer- 

 ous errors should creep in. In an attempt to gather 

 the desired material the author has visited the im- 

 portant beekeeping regions from the Atlantic Coast 

 to California and from Canada to Florida and 

 Texas." 



After an interval of nearly 60 years one of the 

 present editors of the same journal has published 

 a book to meet the need expressed by the first editor 

 of the American Bee Journal. It cannot but oc- 

 casion surprise that a book on this phase of bee 

 culture has not appeared before; but the honey 

 plants were and still are very imperfectly known, 

 and the interest of the majority of beekeepers has 

 centered perhaps too closely on apparatus and meth- 

 ods of honey production. Mr. Pellett has given 

 brief but clear and interesting descriptions of all 

 the more important North American plants, north 

 of Mexico, valuable as sources of pollen and nectar, 

 arranged in alphabetical order. The book is illus- 

 trated by 155 figures, which will add much to the 

 pleasure of the reader and should greatly aid in the 

 identification of the species. Interspersed among 

 the descriptions of the plant are articles on jmllina- 

 tion, pollen, nectar-secretion, honeydew, weather, 

 etc. The more important honey plants of the dif- 

 ferent States are also enumerated. 



Under the description of sage, Chadwick's state- 

 ment that in 30 years the sage ranges of California 

 will be almost a thing of the past is quoted (see 

 page 231). This may be true for his locality. The 

 Editor has traveled over all of California and is 

 convinced that there is as much black and purple 

 sage as there ever was, altho there may be less of 

 white sage. While the acreage of sage in general 

 may be slightly less, there are more bees and bee- 

 keepers to gather it. In a good year there will, 

 therefore, be more sage honey produced than in 

 former times. This opinion was confirmed by Dr. 

 Phillips in conversation with the Editor at the rer 

 cent short course in beekeeping held at Columbus, 

 Ohio. Sweet clover is said to secrete nectar most 

 abundantly in the hot dry climate of the plains re- 

 gion west of the Mississippi River. It is further 

 pointed out by Pellett that the aid of the minor 

 honey plants and of the pollen flowers in building 

 up the colonies may often in a large measure deter- 

 mine the size of the surplus. 



Few beekeepers know much about the honey 

 plants outside of their own locality. _ Many are un- 

 able to distinguish the plants, which yield pollen 

 only, from those which are nectariferous, and er- 

 roneous beliefs are often more hurtful than actual 

 ignorance. A book of reference is a necessity and 

 this valuable volume will doubtless give a new im- 

 petus to the study of the American honey flora. A 

 course in botany, indeed, should form a part of 

 the tr.aining of every young beekeeper. There are 

 great possibilities in the study of the honey plants, 

 and it is safe to say that they will never be neg- 

 lected again as they have been in the past. Mr. 

 Pellett is to be congratulated on the production of 

 the first book dealing with a phase of bee culture, 

 which the late Mr. Doolittle declared was second 

 to no other in importance. 



