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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15 



A Page with Our Readers and Advertisers. 



"A SQUARE^DEAL" 



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 paper is backed by a responsible person. But 

 to make doubly sure we will make ?ood any loss 

 to-paid subscribers sustained by trustinsj" any 

 deliberate swindler advertising in our columns, 

 and any such swindler will be publicly exposed. 

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 do not guarantee to adjust trifling differences 

 between subscribers and honest responbible ad- 

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 us within one month of the time of the transac- 

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 IN Bee CuiiTTJRB when writing the advertiser. 



MEASURING CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS. 



There has been some inquiry as to how to 

 estimate the number of lines an ad. will oc- 

 cupy in our classified columns. A very sim- 

 ple and effective rule is to allow eight words 

 of average length to the line. Write out the 

 proposed ad. in as condensed wording as 

 will clearly express your idea, and sign your 

 name and address. Then count all the 

 words, divide by eight, and this number, 

 plus one, if there happens to be a good-sized 

 fraction, this number multiplied by 20 cts. 

 will be the amount toremitfor one insertion. 

 If the ad. will go in less than the estimated 

 space we will return the money. 



THE GREEN-BONE INSTINCT. 



The jungle fowls, scratching and fighting in the sol- 

 emn woods of long-ago India, did not have any one 

 to prepare patent foods for them that were warranted 

 to push a procession of fertile eggs fairly into their 

 nests; but when they wanted a meal they surely had 

 to work for it. It was all around them in swarming 

 millions and crawling thousands, for insects and 

 worms filled the sunlit air, and wriggled in every dank 

 and steaming yard of earth. 



The modern fowl inherits this craving fpr animal 

 food. The best and cheapest form of this food to-day 

 is green bone, which, chopped to dollar-making, labor- 

 saving size, should be fed liberally to every flock. 

 There are many machines for doing thi.s work. One 

 of the standards is that of the F. W. Mann Co. manu- 

 facture. You will tind their ad. on another page. 

 Send for their illustrated catalog. 



Have you noticed what a variety of goods 

 is offered in our want and exchange columns? 

 For instance, see the advertisement of H. H. 

 Hawley offering business and calling cards 

 (and his samples are fine), and then see what 

 a range of goods is mentioned by other ad- 

 vertisers, up to apiaries and fai'uis. 



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STILL, ANOTHER. 



Please cut out my beagle-dog ad. in classified de- 

 partment of Gleanings. Dogs all sold. Any thing 

 advertised in Gleanings Is sure to sell. 



So. Cabot, Vt., Jan. 7, 1907. D. S. Hall. 



The above confirms what many other sub- 

 scribers say of our classified columns. A 

 two-line ad. inserted twice brought these 

 sales. 



catalogs received. 

 A 4-page poultry list of White Plymouth Rocks from 

 Dr. C. L. Van Osdol, Dellsboro, Ind. 



We have just received the 1907 seed-book of Wm. 

 Henry Maule. It is a book of over 1.50 pages, filled to 

 the brim with descriptions and cuts of the best and 

 newest varieties of vegetables and flowers. Mr. 

 Maule's advertisement appears in this number of 

 Gleanings, and we suggest that every reader of 

 Gleanings interested write for it. 



The first bee-supply catalog for 1907 to appear is, as 

 usual, from our Southern friend J. M. Jenkins, We- 

 tumpka, Ala. It contains 64 pages, and should be read 

 by all bee-keepers in the South. Mr. Jenkins not only 

 manufactures and handles a full line of supplies, but 

 has a large and growing trade in bees and queens. 



The first queen-breeders' circular to appear is from 

 the Snyder apiaries, Lebanon, Pa. Mr. Snyder writes 

 that already he has urgent requests for information 

 about his bees and queens (golden-all-over Italian, 

 Banat, and Caucasian); and to give the desired infor- 

 mation he issued his circular early. Bee-keepers de- 

 siring any of these races will do well to get his prices 

 at once. 



A 12-page queen circular entitled "Quality in 

 Queen-bees " has just been issued by Robt. B. McCain, 

 Oswego, 111. In spite of the large demand for queens, 

 no breeder can hope for a continued trade unless he 

 furnishes queens of quality. Mr. McCain reports an 

 increasing trade, due, undoubtedly, to the quality of 

 his queens, and to his care in tilling orders. The first 

 page shows the product of one of his colonies for 1906, 

 viz., 280 lbs., which speaks well for his stock. 



"Great Crops of Strawberries and How to Grow 

 Them" is the title of a handsome book just received. 

 It is published by the R. M. Kellagg Co., the famous 

 growers of thorough-bred pedigree plants, of Three 

 Rivers, Mich. The book tells you just what and how 

 and when to do every thing, from the time the plants 

 are set until the berries are marketed, and how to 

 handle the plants to make them produce larger crops 

 the second year than they did the first. It teaches 

 you how to improve plants by selection. The book is 

 handsomely printed. Everybody interested in straw- 

 berry culture, either for market or for family use, 

 should have it. Send for a copy of the 1907 edition. 

 The book is free to our readers. Address R. M. Kel- 

 logg Co., box 400, and tell them you are a reader of 

 Gleanings. 



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 want ads. — 20c a line. 



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No objectionable advertising accepted. 



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