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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1. 



BUSINESS^ 



'^^P^i^AWAGER 



I shall be on my way to .\tlanta about the time 

 this reaches you, and shall be ghid indeed, to meet as 

 many of tlie "friends as possible. 



SOLD ODT. 



The Early Ohio and Early Puritan, botli first and 

 second sizes, are sold out, and tlie prospect is just 

 now that we shall not be able to get any more to 

 furnish at the low prices we liave been offering- 

 them; also second sizes of all other potatoes are sold 

 out except Lee's Favorite and Freeman. 



ORDERING POTATOES NOW, TO BE SHIPPED WHEN 

 YOU DIRECT IN THE SPRING. 



■ We shall once more undertalie to send out pota- 

 toes as we did last spring but we sliall not ri.sk start- 

 ing them before the first of April, uo matter bow 

 enticing the weather. You will "need to order the 

 potatoes now (say before Jan. 1st) to secure ao tiie 

 uery i'ur prices given in our poiato circular mailed 

 on application. You must either pay for them now, 

 or malse a sufficient payment on them to pay us for 

 putting them up and furnishing cellar space for 

 them till next April. Or we will ship them sooner 

 providing you will stand all loss from freezing. In 

 other words, they are to be sliipped April 1 unless 

 you direct otherwise. At the very low rates we 

 have given, we shall very likely run out of many 

 kinds before spring (Early Ohio and Early Puritan 

 are already sold out); but if they are put up now, 

 your name marked on them, "paid for," you make 

 a sure thing of it. We guarantee them wintered 

 safely without freezing, and with no more sprouting 

 than can be prevented by an ejccellent cellar made 

 on purpose, and opened and closed according to the 

 weather, that they may be neither too hot nor too 

 cold. 



POLISHING MITTEN. 



There are very few house- 

 keepej's who do not have a 

 stove to black, and many take 

 piide in making it sliine. One 

 of the best implements fortius 

 purpose is the polishing-mitten 

 shown herewith. This is a wo- 

 man's invention, and a good 

 one too, as you might know. 

 It consists of a mitten of oil- 

 cloth, faced with sheep or 

 lamb's skin fanned with the wool on. The mitten is 

 accompanied by a dauber, also of wool on the hide. 

 Those who have tried the mitien are loud in its 

 praise. They are usually sold for 3.5 cts. postpaid. 

 We can furnish them tor 25 cfs. postpaid, or, with 

 other goods, not postpaid, 20 cts. each, or 81.80 per 

 doz. ; 3 doz.. $4 50. We will send one free, postpaid, 

 for one new subscription to Gleanings at $1.00 



ON TO ATLANTA. 



Ask youi- ticket-agent for tickets to the Cotton 

 States Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., via the Louisville 

 & Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. 

 Louis Railroads. This is the old soldiers' route dur- 

 ing the late war, passing through Murfreesboro 

 (Stone River battlefield), Tullahoma, Bridgeport. 

 and for miles in full view and around the base of 

 Lookout Mountain: also the famous Moccasin Bend 

 to Cliattanooga; thence over flic Western & Atlantic 

 Railroad to Atlanta. The schedules are as follows: 

 The fast mail leaves Cincinnati at 1]::!0.\.M. : arrives 

 at Louisville at 2:.5T P. M.; Nashville. 8:58 F- M. 

 Leaves St. Louis 7:.52 A. M.; Evansville, 2:13 PvM.: 

 Nashville, 9:10 P. M.; Chattanooga, 1 A. M. Arrives 

 at Atlanta t):50 A. M. The Cotton States Flyer 

 leaves Cincinnati T:30 1'. M.; arrives at Louisville 

 11 :l4 P. M. ; Nashville, fi:.50 A. M Leaves St. Louis at 

 7:3.T P. M.; Evansville, 1:25 A. M. Due at Nashville 

 7:10 A. M, : Chattanooga, 11:.50 A. M. Arrives at At- 

 lanta 4:00 P. M. The Atlanta special leaves Cincin- 

 nati 5:30 P. M.; Louisville, 9:30 P. M.: Nashville, 

 2:40 A. M.; Chattanooga, 7:00 A. M. Arrives at At- 

 lanta 11:35 A. M., and is a solid train from Cincin- 

 nati to Atlanta. All trains have elegant day coaches 



and Pullman's finest sleeping-cars. Her.man 

 Holmes, T. P. A., Medina, Ohio. Jackson Smith, D. 

 I', .v., Cincinnati, Ohio. C. P. Atmore, G. P. A., 

 Louisville, Ky. 



SO.METHING NEW IN COMB FOUNDATION. 



We have in successful operation a new machine 

 for sheeting- beeswax, invented by E. B. Weed, for- 

 merly of Detroit, late of Ludlow, Ky. By means of 

 the machine a decided advance is made in the man- 

 ufacture • 'f comb foundation. A much superior 

 article is secured, at quite a redaction in cost of 

 making. A patent has been applied for by the in- 

 ventor, on the machine and its product. The wax 

 is supplied to the maciiine in liquid form, and It 

 comes from it in a continuous shest of any desired 

 thickness, and trimmed to width desired. It can be 

 still further perfected so as to pass the sheet 

 through the embossing-rollers of a foundation mill, 

 and be trimmed to length as it comes out. Already, 

 before the machine is quite out of the experimental 

 stage, one man sheeting and another rolling, pro- 

 duced four hundred pounds of medium brood 

 founda.tion in a day. Further particulars of the 

 machine will be given later. We shall be pleased to 

 mail samples of foundation to those interested. 

 Foundation made by this process is more transpar- 

 ent, a.nd less brittle when cool. 



SEED BUSINESS FOR 1896. 



With the much improved liealth I have been en- 

 joying for the past few momhs. we are making 

 better provisions for good seeds for 1896 than ever 

 before, and many of them will Ije at greatly reduced 

 prices. At present, prices have not been decided on 

 all seeds, but enough so that we anticipate much 

 pleasure in surpi-ising our friends of past je;u-s with 

 prices on many things lower than they have ever 

 been since we have been in the business. We will 

 try to give you a condensed list for Jan. 1. We are 

 making arrangements, however, so that any orders 

 sent in early will liave the benefit of the reduced 

 prices, even before they have come out. 



GARDENING FOR DECEMBER. 



In our locality, making garden for this month 

 must be mostly confined to working under glass. 

 As to how well this will pay, the only way I know Of 

 to find out is to make some practical tests. Take up 

 some big heavy clumps of asparagus after the 

 ground lias been once well frozen; start them in a 

 lioi bed heated either by steam or manure, and see 

 what you can get foi- asparagus-shoots along about 

 Cliristnias and New Year's. If you have protection 

 enough, do the same with kidney wax beans. 



It is a good plan to start beets now, and they do 

 not take very much heat, but it takes them a good 

 while to grow. Sow the seed now, and you will have 

 beets for market in January or February. They al- 

 most always bi ing big prices. 



Wakefield cabbage and cauliflower usually bring 

 good prices also, for growing under glass. 



With the scarcity of celery all over the country, 

 it is an excellent time now to work out some plan 

 by which we can get nice celery under glass. We 

 are trying it now. White Plume is the most promis- 

 ing. 



Watercress always sells, and it is one of the eas- 

 iest plants to grow under glass that we have ever 

 tried. A package of seed costs only 5 cents, and di- 

 rections tor growing under glass go with each 

 packet. 



If you have got a nice warm greenhouse you can 

 start cucumbers; but unless you have had experi- 

 ence you will probably fail. 



Grand Rapids lettuce should now be pushing on 

 in all stages of growth; and this probably leads all 

 other growing vegetables as a winter crop. It al- 

 ways .sells, and is one of the prettiest crops to man- 

 age I have ever had any experience with. Send to 

 the Ohio E.\periment Station, Wooster, Ohio, for 

 their bulletin on growing lettuce by sub-irrigation. 



You can start onion-plants now— a few of them — 

 and the winter or Egyptian onion can be pushed 

 now or any time later. But you must not keep it 

 too warm. It is emphatically a cold weather plant. 



Dig your ijaisniijs -that is, enough to last while 

 thegrcMind is frnzt-n— during any open spell. 



The American Wonder peas are very easily grown 

 undei- glass. i)roviiiiiig you have the room to spare. 



Peppers and tomatoes can l)e kei)t l>earing all win- 

 ter, if you have got a house warm enough, and take 

 the precaution to save some plants IxM'ore they are 

 killed by frost. 



