1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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A customer in Idaho sent us a large order for Hoff- 

 man frames with square edges, after having seen a dis- 

 cussion on that subject in these columns. We have 

 just received a telegi-am from him, ordering the square 

 edges changed to V. Possibly he had read what Mr. 

 Louis H. Scholl says in his department, " Bee-keeping 

 in the Southwest." 



THE MEDINA CONCRETE COMPANY. 



We would call special attention to the advertisement 

 of the Medina Concrete Co., elsewhere in this issue. 

 The personnel of this company is wpII kngwn to the Root 

 c;o., and any contractor or others interested in a small 

 portable machine that will make the stone right at the 

 job will do well to write to them. We have seen their 

 machine in actual operation, and can certify to the 

 excellence of its work and the general simplicity of its 

 construction. It makes beautiful i-ock-face artificial 

 stones for building purposes, and the machine, so far 

 as we know, is the cheapest of any thing in the market 

 by a long way. At present artificial stone is rapidly 

 taking the place of the natural hewn stone, because it 

 is cheaper, and by many considered to be much more 

 durable. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



E. C. GREEN & SON, SUCCESSORS TO THE A. I. ROOT CO. 

 IN THE GARDEN-SEED BUSINESS. 



The above firm have gotten out one of the neatest lit- 

 tle seed catalogs it has ever been my fortune to notice. 

 Of course, it did not cost as much money as those sent 



out by the great seed-houses; but it has a condensed 

 list of useful garden seeds selected from the best there 

 is known. Mr. E. C. Green has been for many years 

 connected with the Ohio Experiment Station: and his 

 bi'other. Prof. W. J. Green, is still one of the old wheel- 

 horses of that institution. With the aid of our experi- 

 ment station their seed business is well up to the times; 

 and any thing new that comes up that is really worthy 

 of adoption is not likely to escape ther notice. The 

 younger member of the firm, Stephen, who was with 

 me on my trip to Cuba, is, a great part of the time, 

 right here in our office, where I can give him such coun- 

 sel in the seed business as I am able. Better send for 

 their catalog, if you buy seeds. Address E. C. Green 

 & Son, Medina, O. 



PHACELIA SEEDS, ETC. 



Our readers will recollect there has been quite a little 

 discussion in regard to the above honey-plant, and sev- 

 eral have asked where they could get the seeds. I am 

 pleased to tell you that our old friend G. W. Park, of 

 La Park, Lancaster Co., Pa., in his 1905 catalog offers 

 three different kinds of phacelia at 5 cts. per packet, or 

 all three mixed at his ridiculously low price of 3 cts., or 

 four packets for 10 cts. Friend Park has been furnish- 

 ing good flower-seeds for 3 and 5 cts. per packet for 

 something like 35 years. I think he used to be a bee- 

 keeper before he got to be so much of a florist. He says 

 of phacelia, " The first two are excellent for bee-pastur- 

 age as well as being showy in the garden." If your 

 women-folks have any interest at all in flowers and 

 flower-seeds they had better send for his voluminous 

 catalog. 



Our old friend A. T» Cook, of Hyde Park, N. Y., is the 

 seedsman who will not sell tobacco seed nor any thing 

 else that, in his opinion, will not be a real substantial 

 benefit to his customers. Better send for his catalog 

 and look it over. 



Kind Words from our Customers. 



I intend to keep your paper as long as I can spare the 

 money for it, and 1 hope that will be as long as I live, 

 for it is very interesting to me, although I have only 

 four hives of bees; but I like your Home talks, for I 

 have been in poor health for some time, and am often in 

 bad humor; but when I get your paper, and read your 

 Home talks, it cools me right down and makes a differ- 

 ent person of me for some time. A. S. 



Somerset, Wis., Nov. 24. 



WISHES TO BE A LIFE SUBSCRIBER. 



Because I have not paid my subscription in advance 

 is no sign I do not value it. I have taken Gleanings 

 for twelve or fourteen years, and the only objection I 

 have to it is that it does not come twice a week instead 

 of twice a month as it does. Just put me down as a 

 life subscriber, and I will see that I never get so far in 

 arrears that I can not catch up. Wm. L. Midlam. 



'Marion, Ohio, Sept. 11. 



A KIND WORD FROM EDITOR OF THE IRISH BEE JOURNAL. 



Mr. Root:— Every one who studies Gleanings page 

 by page, as I do, knows that you and your father are 

 motor enthusiasts; and that petted and pampered motor 

 which stands at your factory door all day, and responds, 

 like a living thing, to the compassionate skill of A. I. 

 Root, is familiar to bee-keepers all over the globe. 



It occurs to me that your father may be interested in 

 the inclosed photograph which I have taken for him 

 from an old print dated 1821. This steam road-carriage 

 was, I understand, the first of its kind. It was to carry 

 18 passengers, and to travel from 8 to 12 miles an hour. 

 You will see that the speed was not too great for the 

 use of telescopes by the passengers, and the machine 

 was adapted for mild flirtations; and that, of the 

 "crew," the hardest worked was the blower of the horn! 



Allow me to express my indebtedness to Gleanings 

 —your delightful publication, so full of valuable in.struc- 

 tion, so bright and encouraging in all its pages, and so 

 excellent in the sympathy and fair play it extends to all. 



Dromod, Ireland, Nov. 29. 1904. J. G. Digges. 



WANTED -Every reader of this paper to try my 

 new tomato; largest ever grown Sample pack- 

 age seeds, 10c. Edward Day, Florist, Peckville. Pa. 



