1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



547 



Neither was of special merit here; but theThor- 

 oug-hbreds are A No. 1 Indeed. 



Bro. Root, the White Bliss Triumphs I offer for seed 

 at !I3.00 a barrel are specially cured, and hardened 

 up, and are guaranteed to spnnit when planted for 

 second crop; while the marliet potatoes at $1.50 in 

 Cleveland, while fully matured tubeis, are not cur- 

 ed, and when cut and planted in hot summer for 

 seed will rot before sprouting, therefore are worth- 

 less to planters. Abbott L. Swinson. 



Goldsboro, N. C. 



Now, friends, I do not know much about this 

 second-crop business, only I know it works all right 

 in friend Swineon's locality; and the second crop of 

 White Bliss has given u< the earliest potatoes we 

 ever raisi d in the world. We have ordered the crop 

 of potatoes all shipped here to us: and if any of you 

 want to try your liand at raising a second crop, as I 

 am going to do, we will miike you a special low 

 price on these Thoroughbreds, as it is an experi- 

 ment. They can be shipped from our place here or 

 from friend Swinson's 



grow anywhere, and stand any winter. In fact, 

 they will keep growing right in the same spot year 

 after year, without any care of cultivation. Rich 

 ground and heavy manuring will, of course, make 

 them finer and larger. We can furnish these, cither 

 large or small sized sets, 5 cts. per quart; peck, 35 

 cts. ; bushel, $1.00. If onions or onion-sets are want- 

 ed by mail, add 10 cts. per quart for postage. 



SEED POTATOES FOR SECOND CROP. 



We are now supplied with a good lot of Thorough- 

 breds, grown and prepared bj' A. L. Swin.son— see 

 page 546— to be planted for second crop. He says 

 they will grow without any trouble in northern 

 latitudes if planted prior to Aug. 10. I should, how- 

 ever, prefer to have them put in now as soon as pos- 

 sible. Prices: 1 lb., postpaid by mail, $1.00; 3 lbs., 

 postpaid. $3.00; Vi peck, bv freight or express, $1.00; 

 peck, $1.75; '4 bushel. $3.0U; bushel, $5.00; barrel of 

 11 pecks, $12.50, and GLEANINGS sent one year for 

 every dollar sent us for Maule's Thoroughbreds. 

 Or, if you choose, we will send a dollar's worth of 

 potatoes at above rates to every one who sends a 

 dollar for Gleanings. We can also furnish White 

 Bliss Triumph Dotatoes to |)lant for second crop. 

 1 lb. by mail. 25 cts. ; 3 lbs. by mail, 60 cts.; V2 peck 

 by freifiht, 50 cts.; peck, 90 cis. ; M bushel, tl. 50; 

 bus-hel, $2.50; barrel ot II pecks, il6.00. 



This matter of growing second-crop potatoes as 

 far noith as this is a rather new thing here; but I 

 am told that Waldo F. Brown, in Southern Ohio, has 

 for years grown excellent second crops of the Early 

 Ohio and other early potatoes. These second-crop 

 potatoes are worth very much more than others to 

 winter over, because they are not matured until 

 close on to cold weather. My impression is, that all 

 early and extra-early seed potatoes should, foi gen- 

 eral planting, be second crop, or, at least, they should 

 be potatoes from a crop planted not earlier than 

 July. We know very well that old potatoes will 

 give good results when planted in July, for Wilbur 

 Fenn has been getting large crops of potatoes year 

 after year in just this way. His Monroe Seedling 

 potatoes, grown from a crop planted the 5th of July 

 last are at this date, July 14, very nice table pota- 

 toes. At this writing we have just one bushel left. 

 I hardly need add that our old potatoes are now 

 practically all planted or otherwise disposed of. 



WHITE MULTIPLIER AND WHITTAHEK ONIONS. 



These are now harvested, and we have a beautiful 

 crop that we offer at reduced prices; viz., 10 cts. 

 per quart; 70 cts. per peck; $2.-50 per bushel. Com- 

 pare these prices with those on potato onions and 

 multipliers in your seed catalogs. Now please 

 remember that, if you want to raise hiy onions next 

 season, you want to purchase the smallest ones. If 

 you want to raise little onions to plant again you 

 will need to order the big onions. If you plant 

 medium size, part of them will grow big, and part 

 of them will split up into small ones. If you order 

 them big, little, and medium, just as they come, 

 you can sort them yourself. If convenient, you had 

 better plant the little ones, medium size, and large 

 ones, each by itself; then when you come to gather 

 your crop you will be more likely to have the differ- 

 ent sizes by themselves. These are beautiful hard 

 onions, and are excellent keepers. In fact, they 

 have given us less trouble to keep over winter than 

 any other onion we ever handlea, and there is very 

 little sprouting. On our grounds they will winter 

 perfectly outdoors. We have grown them on the 

 creek bottom and on high ground For extra-early 

 onions, and for bunch onions for the market, it 

 seems to me they are the easiest to manage of any 

 thing in the onion line. 



We have also a beautiful lot of winter or Egyptian 

 onion-sets. These can be planted at any time, will 



THE NUT CULTURIST. 



The above is the title of a bright new book by 

 Andrew S. Fuller, published by the Orange Judd 

 Co.. New York. Price, by mail, $1..50. The book 

 contains 290 pages, and is illustrated by over 100 

 cuts. It is said that great quantities of nuts are 

 annually imported from foreign countries, and nuts 

 that might be grown right here in our own country. 

 I presume it would pay any one who is interested 

 in this new industry of nut-growing to obtain the 

 book. It niHj- be ordered from our office at the 

 above price. Any one who has read Fuller's Grape 

 Guitarist need not be told that friend Fuller has a 

 wonderful talent for making things iilain. He also 

 gives us the honest truth in legard to the whole 

 matter of nut culture; and his descriptions of the 

 ne%v nuts make a pretty vivid contrast to some of 

 the statements in the catalogs. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



M?-. Editor:— The fixing of the time for the meet- 

 ingot the N. A. B. K. A. at Lincoln, Neb,, has been 

 left bj'the Executive Committee with the Nebraska 

 bee-keepers, so that they may be able to arrange 

 tor reduced railroad rates: and in a letter just re- 

 ceived from Mr. L. D. Stillson, of York, Neb , sec- 

 retary of the Nebraska State Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tioti, who has the matter in charge, he says: "I 

 have been to Omaha to see the railroad people, who 

 promised to let me know July 1st: but no satisfac- 

 tion yet as to rates or dates. I will write you at the 

 earliest moment when I know the dates. They gave 

 me dates for our Horticultural meeting moi'e than 

 ninety days before the meeting." 



I was hoping to get the program in all the July 

 bee-journals, but have waited so as to get the time 

 set. So far as arranged for, the following can be 

 announced: 



The Past and Future of Bee-keeping. Mrs. J. N. 

 Heater, Columbus, Neb. 



Bee-keepers' Exchange. Prof. A. J. Cook, Clar- 

 mont, Cal. 



The Wild Bees of Nebraska. Prof. Lawrence 

 Bruner, Lincoln, Neb. 



Improvements in Bee Culture. E. R. Root, Me- 

 dina, Ohio 



Some of the Conditions of Nebraska. L. D. Stil- 

 son, York, Neb. 



The Union and Amalgamation. Thomas G. New- 

 man, San Diego, Cal. 



Economic Value of Bees and their Products, C. 

 P. Dadant, Hamilton, 111. 



Artificial Heat and Pure Air, properly applied in 

 Wintering. R. F. Holtermann, Brantford, Ont. 



The Honey-producer and Supply-deiiler. Rev. E. 

 T. Abbott, St. Joseph, Mo. 



An Original Poem. Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest 

 City, Iowa. 



Importance of Watering in the Apiary. Hon. E. 

 Whitcomb. Friend, Neb. 



Honey Adulteration and Commission Men. Geo. 

 W. York, Chicago, III. 



Sweet Clover as a Honey-producing Plant. Wm. 

 StoUy, Grand Island, Neb. 



The President. Mr. A. 1. Root, will gh'e us an ad- 

 dress, atid it is expected that Somnambulist will be 

 present with one of her inimitable pajiers; but as 

 she seems to be asleep at present I have not been 

 able to learn the subject of it. 



It is the jiresent intention to devote most of the 

 second evening's session to an address of welcome 

 by the Hon. Geo. E. McLean, Chancellor of the 

 Nebraska State rniveiity. with a response by Hem. 

 Eugene Secor, of Iowa. The Hon. Alvin Saunders, 

 an old-time bee-keeper, and a war governor of Ne- 

 braska, will also address the convention; and if time 

 will permit, other addresses will be made or papers 

 read. A. B. Mason, Sec. 



