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any of these potatoes at any time, he will have 

 to write to me. All you say about my beiug a 

 beekeeper, and being a successful one, is quite true. 

 I started six years ago with two colonies of bees, 

 and I have today 133 colonies and a complete 

 equipment with which to handle them. When I 

 started I did not know anything about bees. I have 

 had to learn from books (your books), and as 

 thea-e was no other beekeeper near here I had no 

 one of whom to ask any questions. But I have 

 done well, and have a lot to thank you for. I 

 just love the bees, and, if I am spared to be a 

 hundred years old, I will still be a beekeeper. I 

 am enclosing you two prints of that fine crop of 

 potatoes as they lay in the field. I sent the pota- 

 toes to you because I had read so much about your 

 Florida home and the potatoes you had grown 

 there, and how you took them to the store in your 

 electric automobile, which is driven by wind power, 

 I knew you would be interested in them. I sent 

 some of these potatoes to Luther Burbank, Santa 

 Rosa, Calif. He has written nie two letters about 

 them, saying they are certainly fine potatoes. The 

 actual yield of this plot was 1020 bushels to the 

 acre. Charles Norg-^te. 



Dryden, Ontario, Can., June 3, 1920. 



In addition to the above we give part of 

 a letter received last February. It gives 

 some explanation in regard to that lo<'ality, 

 not only for potatoes but for clover and 

 bees as well. In fact, at the head of his 

 stationery he has in print, ''From the 

 Famous Clover Fields of Dryden." 



A. I. Root, Esq., 

 Bradentown, Fla. 



Dear Hir: — This district is, so fur as I know, 

 the only one that is known to produce potatoes free 

 from disease. We grow potatoes here and ship 

 them both east and west for seed, and the people 

 who buy them say that they can get none so good 

 anywhere else. We have a very cold climate in 

 winter but very hot in summer, and a short but 

 very fast growing season. The potatoes grown here 

 are so hardy that when they are taken to a warmer 

 climate they mature early and are much better 

 than seed grown farther south. Tliis district is cut 

 ofif from any other, being a piece of land sixty miles 

 long and 10 to 20 miles wide, with about 150 miles 

 of rock east of us towards Fort William and 150 

 miles of rod* west of us and 60 miles of rock 

 south and all rock north of us to Hudson Bay. 

 We are 1200 feet above sea level, so you see we are 

 in a district all by itself. I think this is one of 

 the reasons why we can grow potatoes free from 

 disease. We have never seen any potato bugs here, 

 which is a wonder. We grow some of the finest 

 clover seed in the world here. This is where the 

 famous Northern clover seed is grown. The clover 

 never freezes out here; the seed from the first crop 

 , of blossoms is always saved. I would like to tell 

 you how much I have to thank the Root.s for. It 

 is with your help that I have got thru Gleanings 

 and your ABC book, that have helped me along 

 in this world. Seven years ago 1 happened to get 

 hold of your A B C of Bee Culture and read it, 

 and got a bad dose of the bee fever. I bought two 

 colonies of bees that spring and subscribed for 

 Glcianings and todav I have 120 colonies and all 



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