1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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sented free of charge to every subscriber to the Rural. 

 If you are not a subscriber to this excellent rural home 

 paper I would advise you to send at once for it one year, 

 and get the book. The book is worth the dollar, even if 

 you did not get the Rural one year thrown in. The 

 paper and print are excellent; the illustrations, which 

 are scattered thickly all through, are splendid, and 

 right to the point. The book is exactly what it claims 

 to be— the business hen. And now while eggs are 

 worth from 40 to 50 cts. a dozen, an intelligent invest- 

 ment in poultry is a hundred times better and safer 

 than any oil-well stocks or gold-mines, or any of the 

 get-rich-quick frauds that are pushing on to a body 

 from every direction. 



SWEET-CLOVER, SEED, ETC. 



We have a large stock of nice fresh seed that has just 

 been tested in that little greenhouse, and it germinates 

 quickly. Please remember the reduced prices for the 

 present year: 100 lbs. or more, 6 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs., 8 

 cts. per lb.; 1 lb., 10 cts.— by mail, 20 cts. Just now it 

 begins to be evident that sweet clover is one of the best 

 if not the best plant for introducing nitrogen bacteria 

 in the soil, and this explains why it is that turning 

 under a crop of sweet clover prepares the poorest soil 

 for a good crop of almost any other plant. 



In regard to sweet clover being called or considered a 

 noxious weed. Prof. Thome, Director of our Ohio Exper- 

 iment Station, writes as follows: 



Ohio Agricultdkal Experiment Station, ( 

 WoosTER, Ohio, Feb. '23, ]905. ( 



Mr. Root:— When you get out a new circular I wish you 

 would cut out the statement that this Station has ever 

 classed sweet clover as a noxious weed. Away back in 1877- 

 78 I called attention, through Farm and Fireside, in an 

 article which was copied generally in the agricultural press, 

 to the fact that this plant grows only where nothing else 

 will grow, and appears to be designed as a renovator of 

 exhausted soils. I have never permitted it to be classed as a 

 noxious weed while in control of this station. 



Wooster. O., Feb. 23. Chas. E. Thorne, Director. 



THE SEEDLESS APPLE — " EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE." 



There are now class journals on almost every indus- 

 try; and these class journals are, as a rule, at home and 

 reliable in their own domain. But every little while 

 they spread out and undei-take to teach in other 

 fields. Now, it is all very well to [look Tover the fence 

 occasionally, and see what your neighbor is doing, and 

 tell folks about it. But when you are teaching some- 

 thing outside of your regular calling, you had better be 

 sure you are right. As an illustration: The Scientific 

 American is excellent authority on every thing pertain- 

 ing to science and mechanics; but when it gets into 

 farming and gardening it is often very misleading. Just 

 after our agricultural papers had all sounded a note of 

 warning against being swindled with the seedless apple 

 the Scientific Atnerican took it up and exploited it at 

 length as one of the great achievements in scientific 

 agriculture. Why did they not consult an agricultural 

 periodical, or even ask some up-to-date farmer if their 

 article was sound ? If they got paid for giving a tre- 

 mendous advertisement in their reading-columns of 

 what has been generally agreed to be a fraud, that is 

 worse still. When things of this kind come up suddenly 

 our experiment stations belonging to the different 

 States are not only up to date in all scientific knowledge, 

 but they are always prepared to give an unbiased and 

 unprejudiced statement. 



In the Tri-iccekly Tribune for Feb. 20 they give it a 

 similar "boom," though not so extravagant as the 

 Scientific American. 



Below is wiiat Prof. W. J. Green, of the Ohio Exper- 

 iment Station, has just published in the Ohio Farmer 

 in regard to the seedless apple : 



I have had a chance to sample this much-lauded sort, and 

 am unable to rate it properly as to quality, for it falls below 

 that well-known standard of poorness, the Ben Davis. This 

 well-known <!laimant is sailing under false colors, for it is 

 not without seeds, although it has less than is usual; but it 

 has a place for them in the shape of a great big core. At 

 the calyx end is a hole large enough for one's little finger, 

 the purpose of which has not been explained. In color this 

 variety excels some of its predecessors, but this is the only 

 good thing to be said of it. 



Convention Notices. 



The annual convention of the Northern Michigan 

 Bee-keepers' Association will be held in I,ady Macca- 

 bees Hall, at Central I,ake. on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, April 5 and 6. Central I,ake is centrally located, 

 easily accessible from all directions, and we expect a 



good attendance of bee-keepers. Hotel rates will be, 

 The Tavern, |I 50 per day. 



As ofiicers of the Bee-keepers' Association, we ear- 

 nestly solicit your attendance, and if it be impossible 

 for you to be present, please consider whether it is 

 not in your interest to become a member by sending 

 your dollar This payment makes you a member for 

 one year of both the Northern Michigan Association 

 and the National Beekeepers' Association giving you 

 a chance to participate in any benefits these associa- 

 tions may confer on their members 



Editors A. I. Root, Medina, O.and W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son, Flint, Mich., will be present; also E. D. Town- 

 send, Remus, Mich., Geo. E Hilton, Fremont, Mich., 

 and a number of p actical apiarists of Northern Michi- 

 gan. If you have never attended a convention let us 

 suggest that you try it tor once, and you will have a 

 higher opinion of your calling. '' In union there is 

 strength " is as true with bee-keepers as others, and 

 if we can get a good, strong association we can ac- 

 complish many things which are at present not possi- 

 ble. Trusting that you will become one of our mem- 

 bers, and that we may meet you at Central t,ake April 

 5 and 6, we remain yours ruly, 



Geo. H kiRKPATRiCK, Pres., 

 W. Mohrmann. Sec'y, 

 Northern Michigan Bee-keepers' Ass'n. 



The Jennie Atchley Co., Beeville, Texas. 



Dear Sir: — I received the bees all o. k., and I must 

 say that these are the finest bees I have had for some 

 time. I had purchased ten hives from Michigan a few 

 weeks before ordering from you. I am sorry that I 

 did not wait the arrival of yours, as they excel the 

 others 100 per cent. I was greatly disappointed in the 

 ten hives, as they are almost all d'ead; but the ones re- 

 ceived from you are simply fine-working bees — as 

 busy as can be — and I must compliment you on the 

 way you send out your goods, as it is a credit to any 

 firm. Geo. 'L,. Buxton. 



East Palestine, O., May 23, 1904. 



If you desire the best of bees let us have your orders 

 Bees by pound, nucleus, and full colonies, in small lots 

 or carloads. We understand how to pack and ship 

 safely, and this counts a long way. See our adv. in 

 this journal The above letter was unsolicited. 

 The Jennie Atchley Co., Box 18, Beeville, Tex. 



1/¥AG0N SEWSE 



Don't break yourbaek and kill your 

 horses with a high wheel wagon. 

 For comfort's sake get an 



I Electric Handy Wagon. 



It will save you time and money. A 

 set of Electric- Steel Wheels will 

 make your old wagon new at small 

 cost. Write for catalogue. It is tree. 



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Wood=working 

 Machinery. 



For ripping, cross-cut- 

 ting, mitering, grooving, 

 boring, scroll-sawing,edge 

 moulding, mortising ; for 

 working wood in any man- 

 ner Send for catalog A. 

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Power 



$1.00 - LOOK - $1.00 



Send me $1.00 and receive Gleanings one year, new or 

 renewal, and a warranted Italian queen as a premium, 

 bees are vigorous, healthy hustlers. Try one. Queens 

 sent after April 15. VV. T. Crawford, HIneston, La. 



POULTRY PAPER I YEAR 10 CENTS 



Describes incubators, houses, feeding, care, etc. 

 Sample free. Mention this paper. Poultry Gazette, 

 Kansas City, Mo., or Topeka, Kan. 



WANTED.— To send you two bee- journals for the 

 price of one. Gleanings and the Rural Bee-Keep- 

 er,bothfor$l. Address W. H. PUTNAM. River Falls. Wis 



