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BEE HUNTING.

A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters. Tells How to Line Bees to Trees, etc. (The following is taken from the author's introduction to Bee Hunting.)

HUNTING

Many books on sports of various kinds have been written, but outside of an occasional article but little has been written on the subject of Bee Hunting. Therefore, I have tried in this volumeBee Hunting for Pleasure and Profit-to give a work in compact form, the product of what I have learned along this line during the forty years in nature's school-room.

Brother, if in reading these pages you find something that will be of value to you, something that will inculcate a desire for manly pastime and make your life brighter, then my aim will have been reached.

Preferred position, inside pages, 30 per cent additional.
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Address GLEANINGS IN BEE culture,
Advertising Department,

Medina, Ohio.

The author says: "While the book is intended for the specialist it is none the less desirable for the plain, every-day bee-keeper, with his one home apiary, or for the amateur with his five or six colonies."

There have been so many inquiries for this book from those who are already subscribers to GLEANINGS that we repeat here our offer D2, as follows:

A Year's Work in an Out-apiary (for self). .50Six months' subscription to Gleanings

(for a neighbor)

BOTH until March 15, 1909, for only . .

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Of course, if you are not already a subscriber you may have the paper and the book both sent to you, or you may have a year's subscription to GLEANINGS and the book for one dollar. THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY,

MEDINA, OHIO

E. R. ROOT

Editor

H. H. ROOT Ass't Editor

The Potato Implement Co., whose advertisement appears on another page, is offering to GLEANINGS readers an excellent booklet on the culture of potatoes which is well worth sending for. The information given therein is certainly valuable, being the result of many years' experience in the culture of this important crop. Secretary Wilson has recently drawn attention to the fact that this great agricultural nation does not grow enough potatoes to supply its own wants. This certainly ought not to be, and it behooves the more alert and progressive farmer to be up and doing something. You can certainly rely on the information which this booklet contains, and it is so written and worded that any intelligent farmer can understand it.

A POULTRYMAN'S DIARY.

The Geo. Ertel Co., of Quincy, Ill., is offering to the readers of GLEANINGS a diary book gotten up expressly for the use of poultry-keepers. With it there is no difficulty in keeping an account of your eggs, chicks, and items of expense; and by a simple system of book-keeping one is enabled to know just what the profits have been at the end of the year. We believe this is a good thing, and hope our readers will promptly accept the offer so generously made. Of course, this is done to advertise the incubators made by the Ertel Co., of which they make a complete line at very moderate prices; but it shows a commendable spirit of thoughtfulness and enterprise on the part of this company to get out such a book and to distribute the same free to all who send in their address accompanied by a request.

A FAMOUS SEED FIRM.

Again we have with us for another campaign the wellknown seed-house of D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Michigan. Probably nearly all of our readers are acquainted with the name of this firm, as it has been doing a seed business for a generation and more. This being the case, it is unnecessary for us to devote any space to an introduction. They are always well to the front with novelties, and they sell a line of good reliable seeds on which their reputation has been built. Their business extends to all parts of the United States. If you are intending to purchase seeds this spring it would be well to keep in touch with Messrs. Ferry by sending for their annual catalog, ready for use when you are making up an order.

CARRIAGES AND BUggies.

As usual the Elkhart Carriage and Harness Co. place their advertisement in these columns for their usual business campaign during the winter and spring months. They have done this for years to the complete satisfaction of hundreds of the readers of GLEANINGS who have bought their buggies and carriages from this old reliable concern. In fact, they are so well known to our readers generally that we do not feel that we can add to their reputation for fair dealing. We do know, however, that they have been selling buggies to our readers for something like a generation, and always with pleasant and satisfactory results; at least, so far as we can now remember there has never been a complaint of unfairness on their part received by us from any of our readers. They were one of the first concerns of the kind to undertake to sell their goods direct to consumers; and the fact that they have succeeded so well speaks volumes for their method of doing business.

THE UNITED FACTORIES CO.

This is one of the large business institutions of Cleveland, O. It is composed of a number of factories banded together for selling purposes. Their intention is to make a short cut to reach the consumer by selling direct. No two of the facto ries make the same goods. In this issue they advertise iron or metal roofing, felt roofing, and incubators. Evidently they think our readers are interested in these lines, and doubtless they are right. We hope our friends will write for descriptive matter and prices before sending elsewhere. This method of selling factory-made goods has much to recommend it, as the parties to the combination are large well-financed concerns which must sell goods to keep their workmen employed all the time. They are not speculators in any sense of the word, but manufacturers very anxious to deal directly with consumers. They not only save jobbers' and dealers' profits; but they can more quickly build up a reputation for their goods by appealing to the consumer direct. On the other hand, consumers should see to it that firms of this kind are duly encouraged with orders, as it is only by cutting out middlemen that the prices of goods can be reduced. Some combinations are decidedly bad; but this is one deserving of encouragement and support.

Field and Garden Seeds Bee and Poultry Supplies

The best quality bee-supplies. None better to be had. Now is the time to send in orders, and be ready for the rush season. All kinds of Garden and Field Seeds. Choice sweet-clover seed always in stock. A large variety of best seeds for the South. Bee-keepers and gardeners who also raise poultry will be interested in our large stock of poultry-supplies, the largest and most complete line in the South...

Catalogs of all of the above lines on request. Send now, and get your orders in early.

E. R. Philo, cover.

Electric Wheel Co..... 14, 18

TEMPERANCE POST CARDS.

It is with pleasure that we again call attention to friend A. T. Cook's temperance post cards as advertised in our classified columns. Mr. Cook has made a specialty of this kind of literature; and if you are interested in temperance it would be well to correspond with him at once. Mr. C. is an old member of the GLEANINGS family.

IMPROVING THE INCUBATOR.

A man who has done much to improve the incubator is Mr. H. M. Sheer, of Quincy, Ill. He has devoted a lifetime to the study of artificial incubation, and by his inventions has done a great deal to simplify the construction and operation of the modern incubator. We do not have sufficient space at our disposal to describe and elucidate these inventions; but Mr. Sheer sends out a book free to all who apply, which amply covers the whole subject of modern imorovements on the incubator. This book contains much valuable information for poultrymen. We have often alluded to the splendid catalogs issued by the manufacturers of incubators, and the one issued by Mr. S. is no exception to the rule. It forms an excellent treatise on the science of incubation and the rearing of chickens, and conveys a great deal of information on chicken culture in a very pleasant and interesting manner. Poultry-keeping is rapidly becoming a high science, and it is only by keeping in touch with all that is newest and best in the poultry world we can do it; hence we urge all our interested readers to write to Mr. Sheer, asking for a copy of his book describing his inventions. We think they will be pleasantly rewarded for their trouble.

POTATOES FROM NORTHERN MICHIGAN. Again we print, in this issue, the annual announcement of Messrs. Darling & Beahan, the potato specialists of Northern

toes.

Michigan who are known far and wide for superior seed potaOf course, locality has much to do with their phenomenal suceess; but they also have made a deep study of potato culture, so that any one sending there for seed is pretty sure of getting what he expects. Messrs. D. & B. are regular seedsmen, and have built up an excellent reputation in connection therewith. Many of our readers have had satisfactory relations with this firm in years gone by, and doubtless this season will witness a host of orders from GLEANINGS readers anxious to try their hardy northern-grown seeds.

HEADQUARTERS FOR HARDY TREES.

About this time of the year we always carry the advertisement of D. Hill, the evergreen specialist, who urged the planting of trees by the million many years ago, and long before the agitation for the preservation of our great forests had commenced. He has made a lifelong study of evergreen trees suitable to the hard winters of our western States, and at present lists 38 varieties as suitable. Some of these are well suited for the purpose of making windbreaks which are so essential to the comfort of men and animals on the farms. Not only so, but windbreaks shelter crops of all kinds as well as animals. On our wind-swept prairies and table lands they are doubly important, and as nurse trees to more delicate kinds fulfill a great mission. In Europe most of the forests were first planted in nurse-trees of some hardy evergreen species, and the reason why we are not more successful in tree-planting is that we neglect to provide the proper conditions for success by affording ample protection to the young plants. Treeplanting is a business peculiarly adapted to bee-keepers, and we hope they will take the matter up and correspond with Mr. Hill. He sells young trees cheap, and has all the necessary information for success ready to tell to all his customers.