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a lot of very clioice stock. Just recently one of our 

 bee-keeping' friends ott'eicd nie a big- lot ot Hubbard 

 squasli seed. I did not want so niucli, but I made 

 him an offer for it. Now, tills seed is not cleaned so 

 as to look exactly as nice and white as that we get 

 from seedsmen; but I tliiuk it will grow .just exact- 

 ly as well. He is a squasli-grower liimself. and says 

 he is going to plant largely from tlie very same lot 

 of seed he sent us; and if you want some of thi,s 

 seed, you may have it at 40 cts. per lb. ; 5 lbs. at 35 

 cts. per lb. ; 10 lbs. or over, 30 cts. per lb. If wanted 

 by mail, add 10 cts. per lb. for postage and packing. 

 A8 there is no particular hurry about getting the 

 seed into the ground, if you choose you can order a 

 flve-cent package for sample, before you purchase 

 largely. By the way, Hubbard squash can be put 

 in between a great variety of crops that come off 

 early in the season. Our neighbors in the Harris- 

 ville swamp plant Hubbard squash between their 

 seed-onions; and as soon as the seed is ripe enough 

 to gather, the ground is cleared off. and the squashes 

 have the whole Held. You can do the same by put- 

 ting them among your early potatoes, early celery, 

 sweet corn, and ever so many other things. Very 

 likely they may not sell for S50.00 a ton next year; 

 but there is money in Hubbard squashes at even 

 $30.00 a ton, or less. 



SEED POTATOES. 



These are all gone except a few barrels of second- 

 size Freemans in excellent condition; peck, 40 cts. ; 

 one bushel, «1.2.5; one barrel, $3.00. Also four or 

 five barrels of Rural New-Yorker, a few Lee's Fa- 

 vorite an'd Early Ohio, and about 50 bushels of 

 Monroe Seedling, all first size. We can still furnish 

 the Craig Seedling, and probably shall have some 

 of them left during the month of May. By the first 

 of June, however, we expect to plant every thing 

 not sold. 



We have a nice lot of Mammoth Russian sun- 

 flower seed that we can furnish at 8 cts. per lb.; 5 

 lbs. or over, 6 cts. per lb. ; 10 lbs. or over, only 5 cts. 

 If wanted by mail, add 10 cts. per lb. for postage 

 and packing. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



FREEM.\N-POTATO REPORT. 



Although it was a poor season for potatoes, I rais- 

 ed 32 lbs. of vo-y nice potatoes from the one pound 1 

 got of you. John D. Wise. 



Camden, Ind., Jan. 26. 



I sent you Oxydonor circular, and now ad't in the 

 Eudeavorer, th'At you may place it with Electropoise. 

 Tlianks for your expose of frauds. Go for tlie re- 

 ligious papers tliat are leagued with Satan to cheat 

 their patrons and lessen their own influence for 

 good. Our own New York Christian Advocate refers 

 to Electropoise as fraudulent. Oh for moral stami- 

 na in pulpit and press to kick tlie Devil wherever 

 lie is found'. Oh for a Christian manhood that con- 

 fers not witli flesii and blood, but stands for the 

 right, without regard to con.sequences. 



Philipsburg, Pa., Feb. 19. John D. Gill. 



I enjo.y very much your writings on your Florida 

 trip. I lose about a tliird of my bees, liut my neigh- 

 bors lose all. Oh. yes! what is the matter with Bro. 

 Rambler, on page 166— high hat, stand-up collar, 

 and store clotlies from fire down town ? Hah ! I 

 often feel very sorry for him, living alone in this 

 world. 



I hope you will not stop your Scripture talk. In 

 fact, every thin a- in Gleanings is so interesting to 

 me that, when I take it up. I can hardly lay it down 

 until I have read it through. D. N. Ritchey. 



Blackllck, O., March 30. 



kind words from a QUAKER. 



A. I. Root:— A few years ago I read in Gleanings 

 thy plan for warding oft sick headaciie. I was so 

 much pleased with it that I determined to write at 

 some future time, thanking thee for the manliness 

 to pviblish such iin article— feeling sure tliat it was 

 a pure and noble philanthropy wliich prompted it. 

 To what extent thy readers will avail themselves of 

 the information contained therein given, I do not 

 know— I fear not much. People like to be liumbug- 

 ged. Butthat is not tliy fault; and if the publica- 



tion of such principles as given in the article in 

 question are not directlj' beneficial to a large num- 

 ber of people, it will at least do much toward edu- 

 cating the people to a reform in medicine, wliich 

 must come through an imperative demand from the 

 people and not through the schools of medicine of 

 their own volition ; because, when men get both 

 honor and emolument, with little labor, they will 

 not " kill the goose that lays the golden egg." 



I will say, concerning thy treatment for preven- 

 tion of sick-headache (and other forms of disease as 

 well), "that ought ye to have done, and not leave 

 the other undone." Give the patient hot water to 

 drink (I mean as hot as can be used comfortably)— 

 hot-water baths (or, better, vapor baths), proper 

 food and exercise, in addition to thy prescribed 

 course, and we can cure most forms of disease that 

 are curable, and they are nearly all curable. 



I myself was educated in the physio-medical 

 ("steam doctor ") faith. We are like the old toper. 

 He said, "Ever since the flood, water tastes of 

 drowned sinners. I always put a little su'thin' in 

 mine." We always "put a little su'thin' in " our 

 hot water; but water in its various states is one of 

 nature's best. I have no fight with the hydro- 

 therapeutic (or water-cure) system; but I detest the 

 poison and humbugging system. 



I thank thee for being a man with the courage of 

 his convictions. There are more of that stripe need- 

 ed. There are many lines on which people need to 

 be educated. Just now we have started in a wrong 

 direction— I mean military education in school and 

 church. The National W. C. T. U. has 46 depart- 

 ments of education and trnining organized, and mil- 

 it;iry is not one of them. I have a sneaking kind of 

 idea that woman suffrage and equal rights is one of 

 the most important if not the mo.'it important of the 

 46. Paul Tomlinson, M. D. 



Cedarville, O., Ltee. 10. 



Carniolans 



Imported, $5 each. 



Bred in 18i)4 at the 

 --,-----—-.—-—— -—^» most elevated point 

 ^▼▼▼▼"^▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼^ among the Carnic 

 Alps where bees are kept. Untesred daughters of 

 these, $1 each; 12 for$10. Tested daughters produc- 

 ing gray bees. .t2 each; 12 for *ls. 



MRS. FRANK BENTON, 

 "The Carniolan Apiaries." Charlton Heights, Md. 



Sfln responilinjr to this advertisement mention Gleanings. 



For Sale, Nuclei or pounds. 

 See article on page 171, 

 March 1st Gleanings. 

 For prices address T. f. A.JS nREWS, 



Farina, Fai,^. Co., Illinois, 



Cheap Bees 



Bee=Supplies for Sale. 



T offer for sale the fol'owing articles. Packed for 

 Shipment, F. O. B., except made-up hive-bodies and 

 supers r<^ady for use, which are not convenient to 

 box or ship: 



87 Heddon's slatted honey-boards, each 08 



.50 Oil-cloth covers for supers, each 03 



800 No. 1 Snow-white 4^x4iix2 in. sections, open 



2 sides, per 1000 $3 GO 



2800 No. 1 Snow-white 4V4x4>4xl% sections, open 



2 sides, per lOOO :..... ...2 00 



1000 Wood separators, per 100 .'. ' 15 



10 Simplicity bodies with 2^-, in. covers and 



bottom-boards, in the fiat, each 20 



90 T supers with T and L tins, in the fiat, each 10 



300 Simplicity frames, in the flat, per 100 50 



Lot of L. frames with V-groove top-bars, in the 



flat, per If^O 50 



Lot of T tins, per 100 : . 50 



Lot of wood division-boards, made up and in the 



flat, each 03 



30 Queen-excluding sheets, zinc, plain, each... 10 



38 Simplicity bodies, with tops, made up, sec- 



ond hand, each 20 



39 Bodies with 6-in. and 10-in. tops, telescopic, 



each 20 



105 T Supers tilled with sections and founda- 

 tion, ready for hives, each 25 



All these fixtures and hives for L. 10-1'rame hives. 



J. M. AKERS, Smithville, Mo. 



»^"In responding to this advertisement mention Gleaninps. 



