1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



905 



Taumen, and contains neither starch nor sugar, 

 it is, I believe, almost as free from objection as 

 he lean meat itself. I presume, however, it 

 would not answer fftr a steady diet, like the 

 lean meat. With most patients the yolk is ob- 

 jected to. I think I have heard Dr. Salisbury 

 say that it contains sulphur in considerable 

 quantities; and where there is a disposition 

 toward gravel or mineral deposits in any part 

 of the system the yolk of the egg should not be 

 used — or, at least, very sparingly. Inasmuch 

 as the use of eggs does not necessitate the tak- 

 ing of life, 1 entirely agree with you. But in 

 most markets, where one uses eggs for even a 

 small part of his diet, it would be rather ex- 

 pensive—more so, I think, than lean meat. 



THAT POTATO PREMIUM. 



MAULE'S NEW EAKLY THOKOUGHBRED 



Nothing we have ever suggested in the way 

 of a premium has made such a stir as that 

 pound of Maule's Early Thoroughbred potato, 

 offered for one new subscriber. By the way, 

 we are just informed by friend Maule that the 

 price of the potato for 1896 is $1.50 per lb., post- 

 paid; .3 lbs., $3.00; 10 lbs., $7.50. Of course, I 

 am not to undersell him, therefore we can not 

 sell a single pound of potatoes for less than 

 $1.50; but we are permitted to make every pres- 

 ent subscriber to Gleanings a present of 1 lb. 

 of the potatoes if he will send us a new sub- 

 •Scriptiou. We do this in order to have Glean- 

 ings introduced in a new locality, new post- 

 office, or even into a new family. Of course, 

 no one would be so foolish as to send us $1.50 

 for a pound of potatoes when he could have the 

 same pound for only .?1. 00. and have Gleanings 

 thrown in hesulcs; so if you really want a 

 pound of the potatoes, and do not want to pay 

 $1.50, why, send us $1.00, and then make some- 

 body a present of Gleanings for the one year. 

 It is a tremendous offer we are making. I am 

 well aware; but it is of very great benefit, as 

 you may readily see. to any publisher who has 

 a good journal (and that means mir journal, 

 does it not?) to have that journal introduced 

 and read. Sending sample copies does pretty 

 well; but nobody gets acquainted by looking 

 over one sample copy. Your humble servant. 

 A. I. Root, is said to be a little peculiar, and 

 that ho has some queer fashions of his own; 

 but after having Gleanings a whole year, 

 people genei ally get acquainted with him and 

 understand him, and they very generally like 

 to keep up the acquaintance— it pctys them to 

 ■do so. Now. this is not boasting or bragging, 

 for we are all peculiar to a greater or less ex- 

 tent; and it helps amazingly in this world of 

 ours to get acquainted one with another, espe- 

 cially where there is even a little bit of " hun- 

 gering and thirsting after righteousness," we 

 will say, on either side. 



Well, now, since making this offer of mine, 

 unforeseen and unexpected complications have 

 come in. For instance, instead of getting one 

 new subscriber, a man gets two*; and then 

 some one else wants to know how the new sub- 

 scriber is to get a pound of potatoes, for he 



*If amanffets two new subscriptions he gets 2 

 lbs. of the ThtJroug'hbred potatoes, and so on — a 

 pound of pot;itoes for every new subscription ; and 

 he can work at it all winter if he wants to— that is, 

 so long as the five barrels of potatoes hold out. By 

 the way, our offer on page 811, Nov. 15, a pound ot 

 potatoes for subscribing for 1896 and "I. all togetlier, 

 will be withdrawn alter you see this. If you do not 

 see this at all, it will be after Dec. 15. You see 

 there are not going to be potatoes enough in that 

 flve-barrel lot to go around. 



wants it just as bad as the other man. Well, 

 the plain and evident way is for the new sub- 

 scriber to start out himself and get another new 

 name among some of Ids friends and acquain- 

 tances; or if you secure a new name, and the 

 subscriber wants a pound of potatoes also, you 

 can be neigiiborly and divide up. Tell him if 

 he will subscribe for Gleanings, and give you 

 $1.00, you will give him half of the pound of 

 potatoes. Why, just look here, friends; what 

 do you suppose can be done with a single half- 

 pound of potatoes, or even less .' When I was 

 down in Missouri, one dark night I blundered 

 into ihe family of our good friend Yoder. They 

 were all gathered around the supper-table. 

 But, weren't th(>y astonished when they found 

 that A. I. Root was there among them at that 

 late hour of the night! and wasn't there a 

 hustling of the chairs to make room for the 

 editor of Gleanings! and didn't they just pile 

 the good things over at my end of the table! 

 Well, the next morning we went out and looked 

 at friend Yoder's garden. I told you about his 

 Prizetaker onions for which he was going to get 

 $1..50 per bushel. He got the plants started 

 under glass (you wiii remember) by pulling the 

 windows out of his shop. Now, if you will 

 turn back to Gleanings, page 752, you will see 

 what he undertook to do with only 6 ounces of 

 the Craig potato. In fact, we copy his state- 

 ment from the above page: 



The Craig Spedliog potatoes you sent me arrived 

 at the postofflce on the coldest Sunday of last win- 

 ter, and were not taken out till Monday. They were 

 frozen, all hut 6 ounces. I now have 16 hills of the 

 plants, and 60 side-shoot hills. G. J. Yoder. 



Garden City, Mo., Aug. 6. 



Now, here is the outcome: 



Friend Root : — The 6 ounces of Craig potatoes 

 mentioned in Gleanings, page 752, produced 87 lbs. ; 

 the main plants, 45 lbs. ; side shoots, 43. The latter 

 part of September was very dry, but the side-plants 

 remained Kreen until frost. G. J. Yoder. 



Garden City, Mo., Nov. 15. 



There, friends, you see what Gideon Yoder 

 did with () ounces of Craigs— 87 lbs., or at the 

 rate of 232 lbs. from 1 Ih. planted. But the 

 Craig is a late potato. With this new Maule's 

 Early Thoroughbred potato you can probably 

 get two crops in a season — at least, most of us 

 can. The way to do it is being pretty well 

 written up in our various gardening periodicals. 

 And while we are abotit it we might give right 

 hore what friend Greiner says in the Practical 

 Farmer for Nov. 9, in regard to the Thorough- 

 bred in his locality: 



Blood will tell.— This is what Mr. Terry tells us in 

 P. F. of Oct. 5, first page. We have tried the same 

 potato of which he speaks, a new early one sent by 

 Mr. Maule for testing. In my own patch, four hills 

 were planted with the two tubers, and the yield was 

 nothing remarkable. A brother of mine made 

 twenty-one bills of his two specimens, and planted 

 them in the field with Carman No. 1, Clapp's Favor- 

 ite, and Star. The yield of the twenty-one hills 

 amounted to just half a l)arrel (90 lbs.), or twice as 

 mifcli as Mr. Terry got. The potatoes are of enor- 

 mous size, and in quality all that any one could 

 desire. Yes, blood will tell. If you plant a heavy- 

 yielding variety, even with careless culture, you 

 will be more liable to get a big yield than when you 

 plant scrub varieties, even with the Ix'st of treat- 

 ment. 



He also says, in regard to the Freeman pota- 

 to, in the same issue, as follows: 



The Freeman, I think, has made more friends this 

 year than ever before. It is surely as beautiful a 

 potato as OHO can ever hope to find, so smooth and 

 clean and uniform. It is also as fine a table potato 

 as we evei' had, so white and mealy. Of five com- 

 petitors for premiums on be-st peck of talile pota- 

 toes at a local Western New York fair, three exhib- 

 ited Freemans, and one got first premium, wlnle an- 

 other had second. When it comes to " best table 

 potatoes," the Freeman surely takes the lead. We 



