1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



537 



quoted the 15th. When wax was advancing in price, 

 and some parties shipped when we were paying 28c, 

 if it readied us when we were paying 30c tlie sliip- 

 per got the benefit of the rise. It is a poor rule tliat 

 doesn't worlj both ways. We mention this that 

 none may be disappointed if they don't get as much 

 as they expected, now that tlie market is declining. 

 We have a good deal of wax on hand which cost us 

 more than we can sell for now. 



WANTED— SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



Tell us how much you have, and what you will 

 take for it. At tlie price that is offered for it now 

 it will pay to cut what goes to seed along the road- 

 side, and it will very soon be making seed in most 

 localities. It seems to me that some of the friends 

 away out in Utah, where it grows all over the great 

 sandy desert, might gather and ship us a carload. 

 If you can not make a carload of seed, then give us 

 a caiload of sweet-clover lioufiu, with some seed put 

 in to fill up. There is no better honey in the world 

 than that from sweet clover, and there is no plant 

 that I have ever found that would grow with such 

 thrift and vigor on the poorest, hardest, unfertiliz- 

 ed, and uncultivated roadside. Besides all that, it 

 is a valuable forage-plant. We cut it for our horses, 

 and they eat it with more avidity now, since they 

 have learned how, than any thing else in the line of 

 green feed or cured hay. Some people call it a 

 weed; liut it is an exceedingly vahtnble weed. Let 

 your stock get used to it and they will eat up every 

 bit of it, even the hard and dry seed stalks. I be- 

 lieve it succeeds rather better on hard dry clay, or 

 gravelly clay, than on sandy soil, for I never saw 

 any of it in Florida— that is, to amount to any thing. 



SQUASHES, RASPBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES, ETC. 



Jioic 2.S.— Well, the striped bugs have found the 

 Hubbard squashes after all; but it was not until the 

 vines had got out a yard or more; and then the bugs 

 centered on the tender tips of the vine. The vines 

 are too old to be covered; and, running so fast, it 

 was hardly practicable to cover them with tobacco 

 dust; so we just brushed the insects off the tender 

 shoots and stamped them in the dirt. They have 

 got now so they will fly as soon as anybody comes 

 in sight. We got a small boy to flght them to the 

 bitter end. 



Our Gault raspberries from the first wood are so 

 gnarly and imperfect as to be of no account. This 

 was doubtless the result of the fi-ost. The late crop, 

 without question, will be all right. 



We had thought once of discarding the Parker 

 Earle strawberry; but under the influence of the 

 recent rains, after all the other strawberries are 

 gone the P. E. is doing nobly. We are going to hang 

 to it for a late berry. We shall have strawberries 

 sufficiently rooted so as to begin to fill orders— at 

 least small orders— very soon after this reaches you. 



THE CRAIG POTATOES. 



They are now (June 29) doing finely; but the frost 

 "sat down" very heavily on those we had started 

 in the greenhouse. In fact, it hurt them rather 

 worse than some that were up just a little way, that 

 grew themselves outdoors. They are all, however, 

 now beginning to show the distinct characteristics 

 of the Craig as we knew it last year— strong, rank 

 foliage, in spite of drouth or bugs; and we are just 

 now mulching the space between the rows and 

 rfround the liills with coarse stable manure— that is, 

 the most advanced ones. This is the same treat- 

 ment given the ten hills last season, you may re- 

 member. Tlie manure is put on after the last cul- 

 tivating, and just before the tops get so large as to 

 be in the way of the manure. 



DOCTORING WITH MEDICINE; A VALUABLE MEDI- 

 CINE THAT I CAN RECOMMEND. 



We have a liniment In our home that we have 

 used for ten years or more that will cure or allevi- 

 ate almost instantly a good many kinds of pain, 

 such as toothache, earache, sore throat, rheuma- 

 tism, neuralgia, bowel complaints, etc. This lini- 

 ment, which we ha\e used so long and like so well, 

 is made by Dr. W. Wayland Wilson, of Billerica, Mass. 



During a great part of nij' life I have been trou- 

 bled with a chronic sure throat, that sometimes has 

 a tendency toward quinsy. For many years I sup- 

 posed there was nothing to do but grin and bear it 

 when I felt it coming on. This is especially trying 

 when I am obliged to talk, for talking greatly ag- 

 gravates it. I have sometimes said I would give a 



pile of money to anybody who would get me through 

 this stage of a cold without that disagreeable 

 hoarseness and pain in my throat. Well, " P/({/si- 

 anthropic So/i((io»i" will usually give me relief in 

 just about a minute, and it really seems as if the 

 sore throat were driven away after using the rem- 

 edy, say once in 16 minutes for an hour or two. 

 When diluted with water, with a little sugar added, 

 I find it rather pleasant to take. The rest of the 

 family laugh at the idea of my liking medicine; 

 notwithstanding, there was quite a complaint all 

 around the neighborhood when our last bottle of 

 " Physianthrop" was found to be nearly empty a 

 few days ago. Why, the last spoonfuls were divid- 

 ed up like something exceedingly precious, and 

 passed all around the neighborhood. I do not know 

 whether Dr. Wilson will consider this a puft' for his 

 medicine or not; but if he would only sell it for 25 

 cts. a bottle, instead of 50 cts., I should feel a good 

 deal more free to recommend that a bottle be placed 

 in every household. Yet when one considers that 

 a single dose will frequently save calling a physi- 

 cian, it can not be called an expensive remedy. He 

 will, no doubt, send you a printed circular, telling 

 all about it, with great pleasure. He used to be a 

 bee-keeper, or had something to do with bee cul- 

 ture, years ago. 



Queens 



now ready by return mail, 

 reared in full colonies, 

 from the best honey-gath- 

 ering strains in America, 

 at the following very low 

 prices : 



Tested, = = = each, $1.50 



=. = half-doz., 8.00 



Warranted Purely=mated, .75 



" " half'doz., 4.25 



perdoz., 8.00 



If you want queens for 

 business, get my old re- 

 liable strain. 



40-page descriptive catalog free. 



W. W. GARY, 



Colrain, Mass. 



In writing advertisers mention this )japer. 



Crimson Clover Seed! 



Having more than I shall sow, I oft'er it for sale. 

 It was grown on hind land: is acclimated fully. 

 Clean, good seed, and will grow. 2 bush., $7.00; 1 

 bush., S3.75; 'o bush., #2.0ii; i.i bush.. *I 25. No 

 charge for bags. J. COLBY SMITH, 



Willow Grove, Del. 

 Please mention this paper. 



Black and Hybrid Queens For Sale. 



I have 1 dozen black and hybrid queens ready for 

 delivery at 30c each. Joe C. Moore, Globe, N. C. 



My order. No. 3S,592, came to hand to-day in good 

 shape. I found all the articles all right; also your 

 favor of the 17th, with bill and 30 cts. in stamps, 

 which I did not expect to be within 10 cts. of enough 

 to pay freight on the box of goods, which was 40 cts., 

 or 2c a pound from your place. I think that is very 

 reasonable. Lewis Williams. 



Cinnaminson, N. J., May 22. 



