1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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one hundred kinds but showed signs of blight 

 by the middle of August; and by Sept. 1st all 

 were ciead or practically so. The Craig held 

 out as long as any KMnd, but had to give up 

 long before any frost. We had an acre or so of 

 different kinds planted about the Krst of .July, 

 and they went before the frost came. Even a 

 few planted tlie 26ihof July did not wait for the 

 frost. Now, just why the blight should be so 

 severe with us here in Wayne Co., and twenty 

 miles north be almost free from it during the 

 latter part of the season, is something 1 can not 

 e.xplain. The two seasons before this potatoes 

 did e.xtraordinarily well during the latter part 

 of the season. 



I undertook quite an experiment in the late 

 planting of potatoes this year: and although it 

 has turned out just as 1 expected, there have 

 been souie facts learned that I think of value. 

 One is, that potatoes that grow tintil the frost 

 kills them are of more value for seed than those 

 killed by the blight. We found that such seed 

 potatoes throw up a few vigorous stalks, while 

 those that were blighted would have many 

 small slender stalks. The consequence of this 

 is, that the potato from the late-planted seed 

 would give a much larger per cent of large po- 

 tatoes than would tlie others. 1 think I am 

 safe in saying that your Craig Seedlings, that 

 have grown through the summer without 

 blight, are worth much more for seed than ours 

 which have blighted, although we have some 

 very tine Craigs notwithstaning the blight. 



Some varieties behaved ditt'erenily from 

 others in this respect. If you can spare any of 

 the kind that grew tintil frost came we should 

 be glad to get them, so as to carry on this ex- 

 periment another year. 



I hope you will publish the exact yield, and 

 the amount of ground occupied by that crop of 

 Craig potatoes. 



When I was at the Medina fair I had some 

 specimens of the green and yellow soja beans. 

 Several farmers were quite interested in it, and 

 asked where they could get the seed. I told 

 them that perhaps the A. I. Root Co. would 

 keep it in stock; if not, they can get it of T. C. 

 Wood & Co., seedsmen, Richmond, Va. 



I believe this bean is a decidedly better forage- 

 plant than many that have been introduced 

 with a great deal of advertising. On the sta- 

 tion ground this year one ton of green feed was 

 cut from a tenth of an acre. E. C. Green. 



Wooster, O., Oct. 7. 



[Many thanks, friend G. There was no 

 blight in our Craigs at all. They stood right 

 up till the frost, just as you saw them. So our 

 st-ed will be entirely from potatoes free from 

 blight. Come to measure the ground with a 

 tape-line, there was not nearly two acres all 

 together. The largest piece, measured accu- 

 rately, showed % of an acre, and from this we 

 got 250 bushels, at the rate of an even 400 bush- 

 els per acre, as I have told elsewhere. 1 shall 

 be glad indeed to furnish the soja beans. If 

 thert- is more than one variety, tell us exactly 

 the kind that gave you at the rate of ten tons 

 of feed per acre. 



My answer to your request to communicate 

 results about the Craig potato is as follows: 



I procured of you last spring ^. peck of seed. 

 I cut them into single eyes, and planted on the 

 side of other potatoes. They took a single row 

 of 175 feet. Yesterday I dug them. There 

 was a little more than three bushels; weighed 

 from 19 ounces down; very few small ones; 

 free from blotches and such things. They are 

 the best potatoes I have. 1 shall plant all I 

 have next year. S. W. Salisbury. 



Independence, Mo., Sept. 30. 



I tried thy potato called the Craig; and from 

 thy pound I raised nearly one bushel. The sea- 

 son hen; was the worst known for years. The 

 blast struck very early ; some crops were ruin- 

 ed. The Craig grew very profusely, very large 

 vines; resisted blight the best of any I noticed. 

 In fact, they were green when all other varie- 

 ties W(!ri! dead. Jacoh Almy. 



Soiuli Portsmouth, R. I. 



Those Craig potatoes that we purchased of 

 you last spring are very nice. You say the 

 vines stay green till frost comes; but that is 

 not the case with ours. They are all dried up 

 now. But 1 guess the reason of that is we 

 planted them when we did our early potatoes. 

 We planted half a peck of smail Crait? potatoes; 

 and when wu came to dig them this tall we got 

 four bushels and a half of nice tilg potatoes; 

 but they were In rich ground. We like them 

 on account of size and good flavor. 



We have now 115 colonies of bees. I have ten 

 of my own— all but one in your Dovetailed hive, 

 eight frames. 



We have a pretty fair crop of honey this 

 year, but it is all from fall flowers. 



Savanna, III., Sept. 24. Cuas. D. IIandei-. 



The one pound of Craig potatoes I purchased 

 of you yielded 3^ bushc-1, but quite a lot of 

 small ones. They had a very poor chance, a 

 pear-tree shading part of them. 



Tidal, Pa., Oct. 19. Saml Heath. 



In the August iSth number of Gleanings 

 was sometliing for which I desire to thank you, 

 under the heading of " Sub-irrigation vs. Toma- 

 to rot." I have been trying to introduce a sys- 

 tem exactly the same, for the house we have 

 lived in here for a number of years past, but 

 without avail, as the owners are not ready to 

 listen to any thing different from what the 

 plumber has to otter them. They are very well 

 satisfied to run waste water from the sink to a 

 well situated some distance down In the gar- 

 den, away past every thing growing in the 

 garden— no opportunity for watering unless we 

 pump cold water from the well direct. 



East Downington, Pa. Frank T. Hoope. 



BUSINESSj^^ 



PUIGB OF GLASS, AGAIN. 



When we made tlie announcement hi last issue, 

 of a large advaiicu in price of window jilass, we 

 were not cogiiizjiiit ot' the fact that tlie manufac- 

 turers' list prite had been changed recently. Since 

 we h;ive the new list to which present discounts ap- 

 ply we find present prices not nearly so high as 

 indicated, thougii quite a little higher than last 

 spring's prices. In view of this change of base we 

 revise sigaiu our price of glass to the following: 



Small sizes cut to order will he $:i.5U per box of 50 

 feet. Strips in stock us follows: 



Price of Wgt. of 

 10 100 100 



3xl7?i for 24 single-tier and 48-ll>. 



cases 2,5 2.00 50 lbs. 



3xl3"2 for VI and 24 lb. JJ-row cases 20 l.HO 45 " 

 2.x9 for 12 lb. 2-row 8 fiu 20 " 



CAKLOAD OK ALFALFA HONEY. 



There is a carload of alfalfa honey on the way to 

 us from Reno, Nev. It is chiefly e.xtracted, of good 

 quality. There is some comb; but as we have or- 

 ders already waiting for several tons of choice 

 comb honey, we are likely to close this out soon 



