1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



801 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



ALL ABOUT BEANS. 



This is a nicely illustrated pamphlet of 28 pages, 

 and it would be well worth while for those who grow 

 beans of any sort to any extent to send to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, and ask for " Bean 

 Bulletin No. 289," just issued. 



THE SPENCER SEEDLESS APPLE. 



At least one of our subscribers (I hope there are no 

 more) has invested $2.00 in a Spencer seedless-apple 

 tree. With the wide publicity that has been given 

 through almost all of the agricultural press, warning 

 people against this much-advertised fraud (for it is 

 little else) one can not help wondering how they can 

 make sales of an apple (called by experts inferior to 

 the Ben Davis), at $2 00 a tree. My good friends, it 

 will pay you well to take the Rural Sew - Yorker on 

 account of its expos6 of humbugs along their line, if 

 for no other reason. 



THE PARADISE SWEET WINTER APPLE. 



In answer to many inquiries, the Storrs & Harrison 

 Co., of Painesville, O., can furnish trees of this variety 

 in the proper season at 25 cents each, or $2.00 for ten. 

 Perhaps I might remark that, after our apples of this 

 variety were all gone, I tried some other sorts, or 

 such other sorts as I could get hold of at this season 

 of the year; but so far I have not found any other ap- 

 ple that I can eat with impunity a little before bed- 

 time, as I always do (in the spring) the Paradise win- 

 ter sweet. The tree is a rank grower and a great 

 bearer; but the apples are not fit to eat in the fall, 

 even if they do loo/c as if they were ripe. 



INCUBATION AND INCUBATORS. 



The above is the title of an exceedingly interesting 

 bulletin of 31 pages, sent out by the Department of 

 Agriculture, and mailed free to any applicant. Ad- 

 dress Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 and ask for Farmers" Bulletin No. 236. I regai-d this 

 bulletin as especially valuable because it is written 

 by an expert who is not biased in any way in favor of 

 any particular incubator. The instructions are sound 

 in every respect, and it gives many hints of great val- 

 ue to me that I never got from any incubator catalog. 

 The writer says, "The bill opens and shuts about the 

 15th day, and the cry of the chick is heard about the 

 18th day." Now, I have listened to eggs in incubators, 

 and to those under a sitting hen, most intently, all 

 along up to the time they began to break, but I never 

 heard a sound until some time during the 20th day, 

 and then it was just as the shell began to break open. 



SOME NEW BOOKS ON GARDENING. 



The O. Judd Co. have just submitted to us samples 

 of three new books — Bean Culture, Celery Culture, and 

 Tomato Culture. They are all handsomely bound in 

 cloth, fully illustrated, about 150 pages each, beauti- 

 ful print and paper, and the price is only 50 cents post- 

 paid. These handsome books are somewhat of a re- 

 buke to some of the cheap paper pamphlets that are 

 sent out as fifty-cent books. I refer particularly to 

 some of the poultry-books. When I pay 50 cents I ex- 

 pect to get quite a good-sized book, but I have been 

 disappointed several times of late by receiving for my 

 money only a cheap paper pamphlet, oftentimes print- 

 ed on poor paper, poor print, and only a few small 

 pages at that. I know the authors make as an excuse 

 for these big prices the value of the contents of the 

 book; but the books put out by the O. Judd Co. con- 

 tain about as much valuable matter, and are as well 

 up to date, as any of the other books I have mentioned. 



The book on tomatoes not only contains every thing 

 up to date in regard to growing a crop, but it includes 

 growing tomatoes under glass, and it discusses all the 

 latest diseases and insects, and refutes the ancient 

 legend that tomatoes induce cancer, etc. 



The book on celery culture is equally exhaustive. 

 It also includes celery-growing in Florida that has 

 grown up to such proportions in different parts of 

 that State. The half-tone cuts are some of the very 

 finest of the kind. 



The book on bean culture discusses not only the 

 beans that grow in the garden, but bean-growing as a 

 great farm industry in growing snap beans in the 

 Southern States for the Northern markets. 



All three of the books are out this present year of 

 1907. They will be mailed from this office on receipt 

 of price. 



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NOTICE 



Free Lecture and Demonstra- 

 tion on Bees, Season 1907, 

 Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 to 

 12 o'clock, A. M., 10 Vine 

 Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



So great has been the interest, and so numer- 

 ous the calls, to see our bees, from parties who 

 have not the time to visit our Jenkintown apiary, 

 that we have arranged our plans to set aside 

 Tuesday and Friday during the season of May 

 and June, from 10 to 12 o'clock, to give a public 

 demonstration for any one, whether a customer 

 or not, to call and have explained to him the 

 marvelous work of the honey-bee. 



While our apiary, of some forty or fifty col- 

 onies, has always been open to inspection, yet 

 the calls to see the bees coming at all hours of 

 the day, many times when we were rushed with 

 other work, were necessarily hurried and unsat- 

 isfactory, and were confined mostly to our cus- 

 tomers. We now invite the general public, and 

 a much more complete and general demonstra- 

 tion will be given. By giving us your name and 

 address on entering the office, veils will be fur- 

 nished you and your friends, so there will be no 

 danger of being stung. 



P. S. Our Jenkintown apiary is always open 

 by appointment to visitors. Ask for 



WM. A. SELSER, Mgr, 



The A. I. Root Company, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Telephone tsl 11'. Oaontz. 



