For several seasons we have been troubled to get a nice article of Japanese buckwheat, or at least enough of it to supply all demands. We are glad to tell you however, this spring we have a big lot of extra nice seed Prices are as follows: Trial packet, 4 ounces postpaid, 3 ets: 11b, postpaid. 15 ets; peck, $5 cts; g bushel. Be, bushel, $125; two bushels A These prices include bag to ship it in.

Of course, buckwheat is not usually pat in the ground until July or August: but so many times of late years we have sold out or could not get hold of first-class seed it may be a good idea to make your purchases now so as

to be sure. I suppose the price has advanced a good deal in sympathy with wheat; but it seems to me there ought to be big money in growing buckwheat at present prices, aside from its value for honey, to any one who keeps bees.

SUCCESSFUL FRUIT CULTURE.

The above is the title of a new book just out, well printed on nice paper, with fine illustrations all the way through. It is published by the O. Judd Co, New York, and contains 274 pages. The principal fault I should find with it is that it undertakes to cover too much ground, for it considers not only small fruits, orchard trees, and grapevines, but even has something to say in regard to sub-tropical fruits. And then there is quite a chapter in regard to fruit-growing under glass. Now, if one wants a birdseye view of all these different fruits, boiled down, as it were, this book is all right; but if he wants to go into any particular branch of fruit culture he will need other books to go with it. But this one certainly fills a very important place just now, for it brings each department clear up to the present date. The price of the book is $1.00 by mail. We can supply it from this office.

IMPROVED METHODS OF GROWING CORN. The above is the title of a book just out, containing 160 pages. The author is J. B. Armstrong, of Shenandoah, Page Co., Iowa. The first chapter in the book commences, "Don't sell the Farm." Every thing in the book is good all the way through. It was written by a practical man and a successful farmer. I do not know of any thing I have read in a long while that is more encouraging to the farmers' boys and girls. The only fault I have to find with the book is the price, $1.00 in cloth: paper, 75 cents. At this price the book should be printed on better paper with better ink, and be gotten up more in keeping with the standard works on agriculture. J. B. Armstrong & Sons are seedsmen, and make a specialty of growing seed corn of every description, and the book is offered to every customer who purchases $5.00 worth of seed corn or other seeds. This makes it better; but I still think so valuable a book should be offered at a price low enough so it will be generally read by everybody. However, it is well worth a dollar, even if is not gotten up in as good shape as are books on similar industries.

FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES.

This is another valuable book from the O. Judd Co. It contains 250 pages, and has very fine illustrations. and is all devoted to grasses, millet, etc. Not even the clovers are included. I believe this is the first time we have ever had a book devoted entirely to the subject of growing crops for hay. It seems to me every farmer who has a meadow, little or big, can well afford to study it. It discusses all of the new and valuable grasses clear up to date; and it is much better authority than the extravagant statements that are found in many of our seed catalogs. The author, W. Jasper Spillman, is Agrostologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, so we know he is authority, and, best, of all, disinterested authority. There is also a chapter on lawns and lawn-making. And another, too, in regard to grass fads, cautioning farmers about being taken in with new forage plants. Let me quote as follows:

"Every few years some enterprising seedsman discovers a new forage plant that, to quote from the seedsman's catalog, produces eighty tons of green feed per acre, is indestructible beth by fire and water, and fürnishes shade in summer and shelter against the storms of winter. Unfortunately, thousands of farmers have spent their hard-earned dollars for these much-advertised seeds, at prices that amaze those who are familiar with their actual market value, only to learn that they are worthless weeds, or some old and well-known forage plant that is masquerading under a new name."

I had to smile a little when I read the above, especially when I remembered my own experiments and what I had written up in this carnal in regard to "Latkyrus sacaline." svestris' and

GOOD NEWS FOR POTATO-GROWERS.

I do not mean friends, that the present low prices of potatoes are good for the grower, but I refer to the acellent books and periodicals we have, clear up to date. First, the issue of the Practical Farmer for March 25 is a potato special. There were 116 articles sent in for this petato special, and submitted to T. B Terry to select the best and go over them and prepare them for

print. I suppose friend Terry is as good authority on potatoes as any man living. In fact, I do not know of ar other man who has ever done as much to make potato-growing a success Well, this special number is potatoes from beginning to end. There are 18 or 20 pages containing letters from those who have made a success with potatoes. Then there is a summary at the end of it all. Now, it would be a splendid thing for every potato-grower to subscribe for the Practical Farmer; but if you do not do that you can certainly send five cents for this special potato number. It ought to be worth a dollar to every man who grows an acre or more of potatoes. Address the Practical Farmer Co., Philadelphia.

Besides the above, the O. Judd Co. has just gotten out a new potato-book of 200 pages, fully illustrated, called The Potato." This book is more of a scientific treatise than our own by T. B. Terry. It is largely a report of the results arrived at by our various experiment stations, by Samuel Fraser, Assistant Agronomist, Cornell University. In our own A B C of Potato Culture, T. B. Terry and your humble servant tell what they have done and what they have seen. There is a good deal of "I" about it. This new book has so little of the "I" that it is hard to tell what the author has ever done or ever seen in the way of potatoes. He simply makes statements. Here is one of them: "Plowing under rye does not diminish scab, as has been stated." For his authority in the above statement he quotes the Geneva, N. Y., Bulletin. Now, I think it would have been very much better for Prof. Fraser and the Geneva people also to have said rye was of no benefit in diminishing scab in their locality, or so far as their experiments extended. I have made experiments of my own, covering a period of years, and I have visited large potatogrowers in our own vicinity who have tested plots repeatedly side by side where rye was plowed under. The results were, in quality and quantity, such as hardly to admit of discussion. The experiment stations are splendid institutions, and they may settle questions pretty well for their own localities. The book also states that sulphur is of little use on infected lands. Here I can entirely agree with them, for I purchased a whole barrel of sulphur on the recommendation of the Rural New-Yorker; but I would not for a moment think of saying that sulphur does no good with other people just because it failed on our land. I am satisfied sulphur is sometimes a benefit just from what other people say, even though it does us no good here. This book gives a vast amount of valuable information not found in any other potato-book, and I think every potato-grower ought to have both books and study them thoroughly, year after year.

The above book is furnished by the O. Judd Co., or it may be mailed from our office. It is a very nice book for the reasonable price of 75 cts., postpaid.

FLYING-MACHINES UP TO DATE; WRIGHT BROTHERS STILL AHEAD.

Since my write-up of this invention a great amount of correspondence has come in, and many newspaper sketches, extracts from magazines, etc., for which I am exceedingly obliged. But some of the friends seem to have overlooked the fact that this flying-machine I am talking about flies of itself without any balloon to sustain it. Flying-machines held aloft by the aid of a balloon are comparatively old. Such experiments are being made across the ocean, in California, and all the world for all I know.

It was recently stated through the papers that a man in California, with a flying-machine that weighed only 42 pounds, had ascended 2000 feet by its own power. Investigation reveals, however, that it was a glidingmachine instead of a flying-machine that made the trip; and in order to make it a hot air baloon lifted the machine 2000 feet in the air and then let it drop. The operator managed it so as to sail like a bird, and was 18 minutes in coming down. No doubt some credit is due him for operating successfully a gliding-machine; but the Wright Brothers stand alone, I believe, in having a machine that flies like a bird, and may go with the speed of a bird, without anything like the expense of the balloon or air-ships. So far none of my correspondence has revealed that anybody ever before made a machine that would fly a single rod and carry a man to manage it. If such a thing has been done before, let us have the documents to show it.

From a letter just received from the Wright Brothers we are pleased to learn they are planning a machine for 1905 that will carry a passenger besides the operator. They did not say the passenger might possibly be A. I. one trip"), but my imagination caught

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on to it nevertheless.

Convention Notices.

The Western Illinois Bee-keepers' Association will hold their spring meeting at Galesburg, on April 5, all day, in the county court room. Our meetings are more interesting each time, and with the aid of bee-keepers in this vicinity we will continue having profitable meetings, and all who are interested in bee-keeping are invited to come and help and be helped. Galesburg, Ills. E. D. WOODS, Sec.

The annual convention of the Northern Michigan Bee keepers' Association will be held in Lady Maccabees Hall, at Central Lake, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 5 and 6. Central Lake is centrally located, easily accessible from all directions, and we expect a good attendance of bee-keepers. Hotel rates will be, The Tavern, $1 50 per day.

As officers of the Bee-keepers' Association, we earnestly 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 Bee-keepers' Association giving you a chance to participate in any benefits these associations may confer on their members

Editors A. I. Root, Medina, O., and W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich., will be present; also E. D. Townsend, Remus, Mich., Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Mich., and a number of p actical apiarists of Northern Michigan. If you have never attended a convention let us suggest that you try it for 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 accomplish many things which are at present not possible. Trusting that you will become one of our members, and that we may meet you at Central Lake April 5 and 6, we remain yours truly,

GEO. H. KIRKPATRICK, Pres.,
W. MOHRMANN, Sec'y,

Northern Michigan Bee-keepers' Ass'n.

The National Bee-Keepers' Association.

Objects of The Association.

To promote and protect the interests of its members. To prevent the adulteration of honey.

Annual Membership, $1.00.

Send dues to the Treasurer.

Officers:

J. U. HARRIS, Grand Junction, Col., President.
C. P. DADANT, Hamilton, Ill, Vice-president.
W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Flint, Michigan, Secretary.
N. E. FRANCE, Platteville, Wis., Gen. Mgr. and Treas.
Board of Directors:

E. WHITCOMB, Friend, Nebraska.
W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Flint, Michigan.
W. A. SELSER, 10 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa.

R. C. AIKIN, Loveland, Colorado.

P. H. ELWOOD. Starkville, N. Y.

UDO TOEPPERWEIN, San Antonio, Texas.
G. M. DOOLITTLE, Borodino, N. Y.
W. F. MARKS, Chapinville, N. Y.
J. M. HAMBAUGH, Escondido, Cal.
C. A. HATCH, Richland Center, Wis.
C. C. MILLER, Marengo, Illinois.
WM. MCEVOY, Woodstock, Ont.

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LSO breeders of Golden and Leather Italians. One untested queen, $1.00; six for $5.00; twelve for $9.00. Tested, $1.50. Best breeder, $3.00. Best imported, $5.00. Special prices on large orders.

No foul brood here. Bees and queens guaranteed to arrive in good condition in United States or Canada. Descriptive price list free.

F. A. Lockhart & Co.

BEES

Carniolans. -We have bred this race of bees for twenty years, and find they are among the gentlest bees known; very hardy and prolific, and the best of honey-gatherers, and work on red clover; great combbuilders, and their combs are of snowy whiteness.

Golden and Leather Italians.-Are gentle, prolific: swarm very little; hustlers to work, and are a red-clover strain.

Lake George, N. Y.

QUEENS

HONEY QUEENS Laws Italian and

Plenty of fine queens, and of the best strains on earth. Also, I offer a carload of bees on special correspondence. Prices: One queen, any race, $1.00; six for $5.00. Nuclei-one frame, with queen, $1.75; two-frame, $2.25; three-frame, $2.75. For the next 60 days I will sell fifty Laws' Improved Baby nuclei, in flat, prepaid to any point in the U. S., for $7.50. A first-class eight-frame hive complete, 1-story, 60c; 12-story, 80c. Full-depth extracting-supers, empty, 26c. Hoffman frames, $1.50 per 100. Circular on application.

W. H. LAWS, Beeville, Texas.

GEORGIA QUEENS.

Of the highest standard bred from our superior Golden and Leather Italian stock. Gray Carniolan queens mated to Italian drones. Our colonies with these queens reared last season have from three to four frames of brood now. All queens are large and fine.

Untested queens, $1 00 each, 6 for $5.00, 12 for $9.00; tested, $1.50; select, $2.50; extra best, $5.00. Nuclei and full colonies in season. Let us book you for a trial order from our Superior stock-a fine lot of breeders on hand now. List soon. T. S. HALL, Jasper, Pickens Co, Ga.

Virginia Queens o

Italian queens secured by a cross, and years of careful selection from red-clover queens and superior stock obtained from W. Z. Hutchinson. Untested queens, 75c -after June 15th, 65c; tested queens, $1.00-after June 15th, 75c; selected tested queens, $1.25-after June 15th, $1 00. Write postal card for circular.

CHAS. KOEPPEN, Fredericksburg Va.

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Try Taylor's 3-banded leather-colored and 5-banded golden queens-the best honey-gatherers in America. Untested, 75c each or $8.00 per dozen; tested, $1.00, or $10.00 per dozen; select tested, $1.50 each; breeders, the best, $3.00 each. I have been breeding queens for 17 years, and I know what a good queen is. No small queens sent out. I guarantee safe delivery. Send your orders to J. W. Taylor, Ozan, Ark.

Same Old Place

is where you get the best of queens; untested, $1.00; $4.25 per 6; $8.00 per dozen. Tested, $1.50; best breeders, $5.00. Absolute satisfaction and safe arrival guaranteed. Carniolans, Cyprians, Holy Lands, Italians. The JENNIE ATCHLEY CO.. Box 18, Beeville, Bee Co., Tex.

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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. W. T. Crawford, Hineston, La.

H. C. SIMPSON, CATAWBA, S. C.
MANUFACTURER OF AND DEALER IN
BEE - KEEPERS' SUPPLIES
and Breeder of Italian Bees and Queens.