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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1. 



growing corn, as I have told you. Just before 

 Thanksgiving we expect to pull all the turnips, 

 then the clover has " undisputed sway." 



NEW VEGETABLES AND PLANTS TESTED DUK- 

 ING 1895. 



Our friends will remember that Gleanings 

 had considerable to say about the lathyrus 

 silvestris, or fiat pea. Well, it has not stood 

 the drouth of the past season as I expected to 

 see it do. Perhaps our haid clay soils are not 

 just th(! thing for it. It stood the severe win- 

 ter all ritrht, and furnished a great amount of 

 feed until the severe dry weather set in. I do 

 notthinic its roots have gone the great distance 

 claimeil for it— not at this stage of growth, any 

 way. So far as we have tried it to feed stock, 

 they all seem to take it readily. Our experi- 

 ments were mostly made in the spring. Bert 

 Cook, when he was with us, said tliat. so far as 

 he could find out, it was a success in Michigan 

 at the Agricultural College, so far as produc- 

 ing feed was concerned, but no kind of stock 

 seemed to be very fond of it, and he thought it 

 was going to be a failure in that respect. Sac- 

 aline, though it grew up perhaps three feet 

 high, and then produced quite a quantity of 

 cream -colored blossoms, has not as yet had 

 sufficient foliage to make any test of it for feed; 

 but very likely it is getting root so as to make 

 a show another year. At present writing it 

 would seem that neither of these plants is going 

 to he exactly what has been claimed for them. 



The bush yam, or vineless sweet potato, that 

 wa« growing so handsomely, made a fine show 

 of top-*, but no potatoes of any account, on our 

 soil: but for that matter we never have had a 

 good yield of sweet potatoes, or yams either, 

 on our ground. Yes, we did have some very 

 good -sized yams, but they were not dry and 

 mealy like the sweet potatoes we get from Bal- 

 timore. We tried selling them around town; 

 but all of our customers voted the home-grown 

 were not as good as those shipped in from other 

 localities. 



Best of All beans I have reported on before. 

 There seems to be no fault coming out with 

 regard to these; but they are not particularly 

 new. 



We have tested several kinds of sweet corn, 

 but do not find any of them enough better than 

 we have, to give them a place in our new cata- 

 log. 



The Sweetheart melon, mentioned in August, 

 we have thought worthy of a place. 



Burpee's Fordhook tomato will also be cata- 

 loged for 1896. 



We are testing the Marshall strawberry, and 

 think quite likely we shall give it a place in 

 our catalog next July. We have at present, 

 however, no plants for sale. 



The Gault raspberry has already received 

 sufficient notice. We think it has come to stay. 



On page 499 we copied at length from the 

 Rural New-Vorker in regard to Electropoise, 

 and the editor there agreed to test the thing 

 for a period of several weeks. He has done so, 

 and here is his report: 



Some mouths ag-o the TIic R. N.-Y. gave its opin- 

 ion of the Electropoise, a device for which extrava- 

 gant curative properties are claimed. The people 

 who sell this contrivance promised, as proof of the 

 value of their "Poise," to cure a person who has 

 been an invalid for some years. That person tried 

 the device carefully for two months according to 

 the directions of tlie comp;iny's physician. He was 

 to have tried it three months, but after two mouths' 

 trial he was taken with a serious illness! His opin- 

 ion of the Electropoise, after the two months' trial, 

 is that, as a remedial agent, it exerts no effect what- 

 ever. 



Books for Bee- Keepers and others. 



Any of t .ese books on which postage is not given wiU be 

 torwardeU by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. 



In buying books, as evei-y thing else, we are liable to disap- 

 pointment if we in.ike a purchase without seeing the article. 

 Admitting that tlie bookseller could read all tiie books he 

 offers, a^ he has them for sale, it were hardly to be e.xpected 

 he would be the one to mention all the fiaults, as well as good 

 things about a book. I very much desire that those who favor 

 me with their patronage shall not he disappointed, and there- 

 fore 1 .am going to try to prevent it by mentioning all the 

 faults, so far as 1 can. that the purchaser may know what he 

 is getting. In the following list, books that I approve I have 

 marked with a * ; those I especially approve, ** ; those that 

 are not up to times, 1 ; books that contain but little matter for 

 the price, large type, and much space between the lines. t; 

 foreign, § The bee-books are all good 



BIBLES, HYMN-BOOKS, AND OTHER GOOD BOOKS. 

 As many of the bee-books are sent with other goods by 

 freight or express, incurring no postage, we give prices sepa- 

 rately. You will notice, that you can judge of the size of 

 the books very well by the amount required for postage 

 on each. 



8 I Bible, good print, neatly bound 20 



10 I Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress** 30 



20 I Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress**. 75 



This is a large book of 42.5 pages and 175 illustrations, and 

 would usually be called a 82.00 book. A splendid book to pre- 

 sent to children. Sold in gilt edge for 25c more. 



6 I First steps for Little Feet. By the author of 



the Story of the Bible. A better book for young children can 

 not be found in the whole round of literature, and at the same 

 time there can hardly be found a more attractive book. Beau- 

 tifully bound, and fully illustrated. Price 50 c. Two copies 

 will be sold for 75 cents. Postage six cents each. 



5 I Harmony of the Gospels 35 



3 I John Ploughman's Talks and Pictures, by 



Rev. C. H. Spurgeon* 10 



1 I Gospel Hymns, consolidated Nos. 1,2, 3, and 



4, words only, cloth, 10 c ; paper 05 



2 I Same, board covers 20 



5 I Same, words and music, small type, board 



covers 45 



10 I Same, words and music, board covers . . 75 



3 I New 'Testament in pretty flexible covers. . . 05 

 5 I New Testament, new version, paper covers. 10 

 5 I Robinson Crusoe, paper cover 10 



4 Stepping Heaveiiwiird** IS- 

 IS I Story of the Bible** 1 00 



A large "book of 700 pages, and 274 illustrations. Will be read 

 by almost every child. 



The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life** 25 



Same in cloth binding 50 



" The Life of Trust," by Geo. Muller** 1 25 



1 Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, T. S. Arthur*. . 05 



5 Tobacco Manual** 45 



This is a nice book that will be sure to be read, if left around 



where the boys get hold of it, and any boy that reads it will 

 be pretty safe from the tobacco habit. 



BOOKS ESPECIALLY FOR BEE-KEEPERS. 



Postage fPrice without postage. 



15 A BCof Bee Culture. Cloth 110 



A Year Among the Bees, by C. C. Miller. . . 45 

 Advanced Bee Culture, by W. Z. Hutchinson 50 



3 i Amateur Bee-kee|)er, by J. W. Rouse 22 



14 I Bees and Bee-keeping, by Frank Cheshire, 



England, Vol. L§ 2 36 



31 I Same, Vol. 11. § r 2 7& 



or, $5.21') for the two, postpaid. 



10 I Bees and Honey, by T. G. Newman 90 



10 I Cook's New Manual. Cloth 115 



5 Doolittle on Queen-Rearing 95 



2 I Dzierzon Theory 10 



3 I Foul Brood; Its Natural History and Ra- 



tional Treatment . 22^ 



1 I Honey as Food and Medicine 05 



15 I Langstroth Revised by Ch. Dadant & Son.. 1 25 

 10 1 Quinbj'S New Bee-Keeping 140 



I Thirty Years Among the Bees, by H. Alley 60 



4 I Success in Bee Culture, by James Heddon 46 

 I Handling Bees, by Langstroth. Revised 



by Dadant 08 



1 Bee-keeping for Profit, by Dr. G. L. Tinker 25 



5 I The Honey Bee, by Thos. William Cowan. . 95 

 I British Bt-e-Keeper's Guide Book, by Thos. 



William Cowan, England§ 40 



;i I Merry banks and His Neighbor, by A.I. Root 15 



4 I Winter Problem in Bee-keeping, by Pierce 46 



MISCELLANEOUS HAND-BOOKS. 



n I An Eirg-Fiirm, Stoddard** 45 



I Am.iteur PhotoarMplier's Hand-hook** 70 



5 I A B C of Carp Culture, by Geo. Finley 35 



5 I A B C of Strawberry Cnlture**By T. B.Terry 35 



Probably the leading liook of the world on strawberries. 



I Barn Plans and Out-Bulldings* 1 50 



I Canary Birds. Paper 



50 



