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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 15. 



ready to plant. The onion-plants, however, espe- 

 cially if tliey are grown in a g-reeiiliouse or iiot-bed, 

 can not be safely put in the open air until a month 

 or more later. 



SECOND-SIZE POTATOES. 



At the very low prices we have put on these, we 

 are all sold out exce|)t a few Early Ohios, a few of 

 the new Craig, and ii, few of Lee's Favorite. 



PRICES ON MANUM'S "ENORMOUS" POTATO. 



We can furnish these potatoe- at Manum's prices; 

 viz., 1 lb., by mail, 40cts.;3 ll)s.,$l 00; by freight or 

 express, M peck.40cts. ; pock, 75 cts. ; S bushel, $1.2.5; 

 bushel, $3 00; biin'el, $4.50. Tlie potatoes will be 

 shipped from Medina or from Bristol, Vt , as may 

 be most convenient. 



SEED POTATOES FOR SOUTHERN SHIPMENT. 



With the practical experience we have liad in the 

 matter (and some burned fingers in the bargain) we 

 will undertake from this date onward to ship all 

 potatoes going south of the State of Ohio, at our 

 own risk from f lost. With the very efficient aid the 

 Weather Bureau now furnishes, and with good stout 

 paper put all around the potatoes, we think we can 

 get them over the frost-line before the frost catches 

 them— at least, we are going to undertake it, there- 

 fore send in your orders, whether it be for one 

 pound or for ten barrels. 



SECOND-SIZE CRAIG POTATOES. 



The boys .iust now report that It Is a very hard 

 matter to find any more second-size Craigs, from 

 the fact that they all run large or very large. Now 

 I will tell you what we will do: Dui-ing this .season 

 of potatoes in such great plenty it seems to be the 

 fashion to pick out the best and nicest shaped ones 

 for seed; therefore in the future all orders for 

 second-size Craigs will be filled with bad-shaped 

 ones— those bruised perhaps a little in digging, or 

 any of them that are not so smooth and handsome 

 as some of the others. For planting, these seconds 

 will be practically just as good us any other, but by 

 running them off ac half price we will have left only 

 the smooth, handsome, good-sized ones for those who 

 order and pay for a strictly No. 1. This will bring 

 them down to about tlie ordinary price of good seed 

 potatoes; namely, $1.25 per bushel, or $3.00 a barrel. 



THE IRISH DAISY POTATO. 



Mr. Wilbur Fenn, of Tallmadge, O., is well known 

 to many of our readers as the man who succeeds so 

 well with potatoes planted late, and gives us such 

 beautiful-keeping Monroe Seedlings because they 

 were grown and dug the very last thing before 

 frost. Well, Mr. Fenn Informs me that he has about 

 500 bushels of the Irish Daisy, so well known before 

 the potato world that I hardly tieed describe it. 

 These potatoes are oflfered at the following very low 

 prices, until further notice: 1 lb., by mail. 13 cts. ; 

 one peck, by freight or express, 20 cts. : '4 bushel, 35 

 cts,: bushel, 60 cts.; barrel, $1.50. You can send 

 your orders direct to us or to Mr. Fenn, as given 

 above, as you choose. If you want to see what a 

 magnificent bargain we are giving you on these 

 Irish Dalslee, just look at the prices on them in the 

 catalogs. 



Let me call attention once more to Mr. Fenn's 

 Monroe Seedling potatoes. These (for this season) 

 were planted the day after the Fourt h of July. The 

 consequence is, they are really "second crop,' like 

 the White Bliss Triumpli, except that the seed was 

 raised in exactly the same way the year before. 

 They will keep hard and firm long after other pota- 

 toes have sprouted or become soft, and they also 

 have a much stronger tendency to send up only one 

 strong shoot instead of sprouting all over, as the 

 early-grown potatoes do. His late-grown Monroe 

 Seedlings have quite a reputation At the very low 

 prices we have already put on them It ought to give 

 them a good sale. Peck. 30 cts. ; '4 bushel, 30 cts. ; 

 bushel, 50 cts. ; barrel, only $1,35. 



T HE WHITE BLISS TRIUMPHOPO^TATOES. 



In our last issue, in speaking of these, second 

 crop extra early potatoes, I omitted to say that we 

 had made an arrangement so we could ship them 

 from here or from Goldsboro, N. C, at the prices 

 mentioned. In fact, we have just received a bar- 

 rel, packed in cotton seed. They came in excellent 

 order, right in the middle of winter. Friend Swin- 



son makes the following claim, aside from the fact 

 tlist these potatoes are second crop and extra early; 

 viz,i 



Thesi- are grown from Selectkd Seed for Two Years, and 

 produced by vines upon which no Potato-bug.s were allowed 

 to live, develop, and go down to deposit their ecrgs in tlie po- 

 tatoes, ready to come up in the t-pring, with the yonng pota- 

 toes, to devour them before they get large enough to treat. 

 This of its-elt is of paramount value to planters whose land is 

 not alre;idy infested with tliese pests. 



In regard to immediate shipment, friend Swinson 

 writes: 



I can sliip anyx'here south, from now on, with safety; but 

 north of here, till Ajuil 1st, add $1,00 for each barrel, to be 

 shipped at my risk, and I will pack as 1 did yours, and ship 

 anywhere. 



SWEET CORN FOR SOWING FOR FODDER, ETC. 



Until the stock is exhausted, we will furnish 

 Stowell's Evergreen and Mammoth sweet corn, 

 grown in 1894, at the low price of only $1.00 per 

 bushel, Tliegieater part of it will germinate: and 

 for sowing broadcast for feed, perhaps it will do 

 almost as well as any corn. 



PIE-PLANT IN WINTER TIME. 



When Mrs. Harrison's letter in another column 

 came to hand, it made me think that I saw some pie- 

 plant across the way. right over the drain-tiles that 

 carry the exhaust steam, looking as if it had a great 

 notion to start up and grow. A frame made on 

 purpose to hold si.x ordinary hot-bed sash was se 

 over the plants, and the glass put on; and in just 

 about a week I had one of iny " pleasant surprises" 

 by seeing the great leaves doubling themselves up 

 in the vain endeavor to push the glass sashes out of 

 their way, and we are now furnishing material for 

 "early pies," grown already in the year 189(1. 



PARSNIP SEED AT A VERY LOW PRICE, 



In the fall nf 18P4 we harvested several bushelsof 

 the nicest parsnip seed 1 ever saw. In fact, the 

 stalks were away up above one's head on our rich 

 raarket-gardeniiig trround, and the seeds were re- 

 markably large and plump. Now, we have found 

 by practicil test that parsnip seed of our own rais- 

 ing grows just about as well when it is two years old 

 as when it is only one year old. But I should not 

 want to sell anybody two-year-old seed without tell- 

 ing him of it, and making the price accordingly. 

 Therefore we will furnish this 1894 seed, while it 

 lasts, at the low price of only 10 cts. per lb. If 

 wanted by mail, add 9 cts. extra for postage and 

 packing. If you are in the habit of drilling your 

 parsnips in pretty thickly, with the idea of thinning- 

 them out, this two-year-old seed will i)robably 

 answer just as well as any. 



HUBBARD SQUASH SEED, ETC. 



We have just purchased several bushels of extra 

 nice Hubbard squash seed from one of our bee- 

 keeping friends. The sqnai^hes were raised from 

 seed furnished by us la.st season, and the grower 

 pronoimces them a very nice strain of Hubbard 

 squashes. In consequence of the short cut from 

 the grower to the dealer, without any middleman, 

 we are enabled to furnish them at the very low 

 price of 35 cts. per lb., or five pounds or more at 

 30 cts, per lo. Hubbard squashrs are now worth 

 about $30,00 per ton in the market, and for ever so 

 many years past the demand in the month of Feb- 

 rtiary has been away beyond the supply. Success- 

 ful growers claim they can be raised at a profit for 

 $5.(0 per ton; but if you get $15. S20. or $25 they are 

 an excellent thing to rai-^f . By following the di- 

 rections given in our little book, "Gregory on 

 Squashes," you can keep them until February, al- 

 most without los«. If in spite of you some of them 

 spoil on your hands you can easily dispose of the 

 seeds— that is if you are a reliable man, and we take 

 It for gr inted you are. By the way, if you have 

 never read the little book. Gregory on Squashes, 

 you ought to have it. T, B. Terry says it is one of 

 the first books that started up his enthusiasm on 

 the subject of agriculture, I have read it a good 

 many times: but even now it does me good, and 

 eives me enthusiasm to read it again. We can send 

 it to you by mail for 35 cents, 



ALSIKE CLOVER— WHEN AND HOW TO SOW THE 

 SEED. 



From now on until the middle of March is the 

 time to sow the seed. Watch your chances; and 

 when you see the ground freezing in the morning, 

 so that it is opened up full of holes or cells like the 



