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GLEANINGS IX CEK CULTURE. 



Jax. 1 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



[Established in 1873.] 



Devoted to Bees, Honey, and Home Interests. 



Published Semi-nlonthly by 



The A. I. Root Co., - - Medina, Ohio. 



A. I. ROOT, Editor of Home and Gardening Dep'ts. 



E. R. ROOT, Editor of ApiciiUural Dept. 



J. T. CALVERT, Bus Mgr, 



A. h. BOYDEN, Sec. 



TERMS. $1.00 per annum ; two years, $1.50; three 

 years, $2,00; five years, $:100, in advance,- or two copies 

 to one address, $1,50; three copies, $2,00; five copies, 

 $3.75. The terras apply to the United States, Canada, 

 and Mexico. To all other countries 48 cents per year 

 extra for postage. 



DISCONTINUANCES. The journal is sent until 

 orders are received for its discontinuance. We give 

 notice just before the subscription expires, and fur- 

 ther notice if the first is not heeded. Any subscriber 

 whose subscription has expired, wishing his journal 

 discontinued, will please drop us a card at once; other- 

 wise we shall assume that he wishes his journal con- 

 tinued, and will pay for it soon. Any one who does not 

 like this plan may have his journal stopped after the 

 time paid for by making this request when ordering. 



CATALOG FOR 1903. 



We are pleased to announce that we are a little 

 ahead of former years in getting our catalog out on 

 time. We have already begun mailing the new edi- 

 tion for this year. We are mailing to southern terri- 

 tory first, and will get around to the entire list as 

 .soon as possible. If j-ou can not wait till your copy 

 arrives in its turn, we shall be pleased to mail you 

 one on request sent to us on a postal. 



NO. 25 JARS IN STOCK AGAIN. 



We are pleased to be able to announce that we are 

 again supplied with No. 25 glass jars which have 

 become so popular for putting up extracted honey for 

 retail trade. They hold an even pound of honey. 

 While we can supply them in crate at 50 cts. per gross 

 less than in barrels, yet we have had so many com- 

 plaints of breakage in .shipments going long distances 

 in ciates. we can not recommend that method of ship- 

 ping except for short distances We cin sell the new 

 " Tip Top " jars cheaper than the No. 25, and many 

 prefer them. Either supplied promptly to tho.se in- 

 terested. 



BEESWAX WANTED. 



The market for beeswax remains steady with a mod- 

 erate supply. We are shipping so much foundation to 

 dealeison next season's trade that we are using a much 

 larger quantity early in the season than we have in for- 

 mer years ; con.sequently our surplus is exhausted, and 

 we aire using supplies as fast as they arrive. We shall 

 be pleased to hear from those having wax for sale. We 

 are paying at present for average wax, delivered here, 

 2S cents cash, 30 in trade, and from one to two cents ex- 

 tra for choice quality. Send on your shipments as soon 

 as ready ; and be sure to mark them, so we may know 

 whom'they come from. Write us at the .same time, and 

 send shipping-receipt and a notice of the weight ship- 

 ped. 



SECOND-HAND FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



We have on hand and offer for sale the following 

 second-hand foundation-mills. Any one desiring a 

 sample of the work of any one of these machines, or 

 further particulars, we shall be pleased to accommo- 

 date on request. 



No. 013. 2x6, hex. cell, extra-thin super. Piice, $8.00. 



No. 014. 2x6, hex. cell extra-thin super. Price, $8.00. 



No. 037, 2x6, hex cell, ex thin super, good. Price, $10. 



No, 2132, 2x6, hex. cell, thin super. Price, $10. 



No. 2227, 2x6, hex. cell, thin super. Price, $10. 



No. 2275, 2'/^x6, hex. cell, ex. thin super. Price, $10. 



No. 035, 2x10, round cell, medium old-style frame, in 

 good condition. Price, $12 



No. 038. 2x10, round cell, med. to light, in good con- 

 dition Price, $14. 



No. 050, 2x10, round cell, medium. Price, $12. 



No. 014. 2x10 Pelham, nearly new. Price, $6 



No. 034, 2}ixV2}4, round cell, very old style in fair 

 condition. Price, $10. 



No. 043, 2V^xl4, round, medium to heavy, good con- 

 dition. Price, $14. 



No. 051, 2x10, round cell, me*iium brood. Price 810. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



CJINSENG AND ITS CULTIVATION, HARVESTING, MAR- 

 KETING MARKET VALUE, ETC. 



The above is the title of a new book just published 

 by the O. Judd Co. It contains 144 pages, is full of 

 beautiful illustrations, and it is, without question, a 

 very valuable book for those who are growing or in- 

 tend to grow ginseng I have looked it over very care- 

 fully, especially that part of it devoted to the medici- 

 nal properties of the plant, and I am sorrv to say it 

 has no medicinal value, or nearly none, outside of Chi- 

 na; and their ideas in regard to its value are very like- 

 ly mostly superstition. It is true, there are a few peo- 

 ple in the United States who think it has medicinal 

 value, and a medicine is already in the market made 

 frum ginseng. It seems to me exceedingly strange our 

 .American people do not at least unagine. with the 

 Chinese, that ginseng has some wonderful virtue. I 

 htve all my life been in sympathy with all horticul- 

 tural opera"tions unless, indeed, it has been the cultiva- 

 tion of tobacco: and I .still believe in growing even that 

 to kill bugs, but not to kill our boys. I con ess I have 

 read over the ginseng book with great interest: and I 

 have been tempted again and again to have a ginseng- 

 garden in place of the one little patch we have across 

 the way. I do not think it will ever harm anybody in 

 the way tobacco does: and I do not know tha' it does 

 any harm to the Chinese unless it is to furnish them a 

 god to worship. I should not wish to go into the busi- 

 ness of making idols of brass or gold, or of wood or 

 stone; however, I believe ginseng has some medici"al 

 properties. May be it is not a valuable medicine for 

 every one, but I think it is good for me, or at least it 

 was when a boy. I used to carry it in my pocket to 

 chew whenever I felt symptoms of a chronic dysentery 

 that has followed me tiearly all my life; and for many 

 years it was certainly a good medicine for me, or at 

 least I imagined it was gooi, and this ?nay amount to 

 the same thing. This book has many photos of beau- 

 tiful ginseng-gardens. The same kind of lath covering 

 that they use for pineapples and other tropical fruits 

 in Florida is what you want for ginseng. In fact, a 

 covered ginseng-bed looks exactly like a pineapple- 

 bed. 



This book gives a very fair estimate of the profits — 

 that is, at present prices of the root. It has none of 

 the spread-eagle figures that go away up into the mil- 

 lions. Perhaps you have all seen them. If you want 

 the book we can mail it to vou for 50 cents. 



YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. 



Every man and woman, and, for that matter, every 

 child, should be urged very early to adopt some partic- 

 ular way of signing his name and address Yes, as 

 soon as a child can write his name he should be urged 

 to adopt some particular form. If he decides to use 

 only initials let him always do it the same way. If his 

 name is Smith, in view of the great number of Smiths 

 he had better spell out in full his first or second name; 

 but having once decided (perhaps by the aid of his 

 friends) just how he is going to make his signature, 

 let hxm a!~uavs slick io it. And he should also be en- 

 couraged to have a rubber stamp to put on his station- 

 er\', so that all can know in pljin and unmistakable 



