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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



or new neighborhood, we will allow him M peck of 

 Thoroughbreds, (or one peck seconds) worth $1.00; 

 but in both cases we pay no postage nor express or 

 freight charges. If you want your premium potatoes 

 sent by mail, send us 9 cts. for postage and packing 

 potatoes. 



SEED POTATOES. 



We have perhaps the finest lot of Early Ohios that 

 we have ever ^ot hold of or seen before. They are 

 the same mentioned on page 800. The price will be 

 as in the table below: 



Name. 



Varieties are in order as 

 regards time of matur- 

 ing; earliest first, next 

 earliest second.and so on. 



White Bliss Triumph . . . . 

 E. Thoro'bred, Maule's* 



Early Ohio 



Early Norther 



Burpee's Extra Early 



Freeman 



New Queen 



Monroe Seedling 



Rural New-Yorker No. 2. 



Sir William 



Carman No. 1 



Carman No. 3 



Koshkonong 



Manum's Enormous 



New Craig. 



■ At present writing. October 30. 1S96. we have sold all of 

 our best Early Thoroughbred potatoes, or piactieally all of 

 them, to W^m. Henry Maule; therefore the potatoes offered 

 in the table at the above price are all t^econds. If .you want 

 firsts they will hav^• to be taken from the stock now in our 

 possession, belonging to Mr. Maule. at .¥15.00 per b.irrel. 



We (luarmiiee apamst. damaoe hy fntut nil potatoes 

 ordered and shi-pped during ihis month of November. 



OTHER POTATOES AS PREMIUMS. 



Quite a few have wanted to know on what terms 

 they could have other potatoes as premiums, and 

 ■we have decided to allow 25 cents' worth of any kind 

 of potatoes for every dollar sent us for GLEaNiNGS, 

 present, past, or future. For every dollar sent by 

 an old subscriber for a new name which is secured 

 as explained above, you may have 50 cents' worth of 

 any of the potatoes in the table. We can furnish sec- 

 onds for half the price mentioned in the table, with 

 the exception of White Biiss, Burpee's, Monroe 

 Seedline', and Rural. All the potatoes sent out this 

 full of Thoronghhred, Early Ohio, Freeman, Monroe 

 Seedling, Sir William, (JHrmnn No. 1, Carman No. 3. 

 and Enormous, are grown for us on sandy potato 

 soils, and are extra fine tubers. 



KOSHKONONG AND EARLY NORTHER POTATOES. 



I ran across some of these on one of my wheel- 

 rides, as you will see on page 799, and since then I 

 have secured ten bushels to distriliute among our 

 friends wlio may care to try them. This potato 

 gave the largest yield of any at our Ohio Experi- 

 ment Station last season, running up to 309 bushels 

 per acre, while the Sir William gave 308. 



We have also succeeded in obtaining some very 

 nice Early Norther, grown by a branch of the Ohio 

 Experiment Station. The station gives this potato 

 a very good recommend for an extra early one. It 

 seems to succeed everywhere. 



GOOD NEWS FOR ALL THE FRIENDS WHO OBTAINED 



THOROUGHBRED POTATOES FOR PREMIUMS, 



OR WHO PURCHASED THEM LAST 



SEASON. 



Just as we go to press to-day. Oct. 30, we have 

 received an offer from Wm. Henry Maule, the 

 originator of the Thoroughbred, for our whole 

 stock, or practically so, of Thoroughbred potatoes. 

 This practically gives him control of the market; 

 and as the potato is of his own originating, it is his 

 privilege to put what price on it he chooses. The 

 price, therefore, from this time on, will be fl.'i.OO 

 per barrel, or $10.00 per barrel for 10-barrel lots. 

 Single-barrel lots may be shipped from here: but 

 larger orders will have to go to Mr. Maule himself; 

 butwe shall notsell anyflrsts for less than the price 

 above— $1.5.00 per barrel. At present writing we 

 have not received Maule's prices for smaller lots 

 than one barrel; but have quite a quantity of very 

 good seconds that we shall still offer at the price 

 given in the table above. These seconds are not all 



seconds because they are small in size, but there 

 are some potatoes among them that were cut in 

 digging, some that are prongy or otiierwise badly 

 shaped, and some that are scabby. I believe our 

 experiment stations have decided the scabby are 

 just as good as any to plant if they are first treated 

 with corrosive sublimate. This, however, should 

 be done ju.st before planting, if I am correct. Fur- 

 ther particulars will be given in our next issue. 



Now, friends, this is good news for all who have 

 Thoroughbreds for their own use or to sell, because 

 it indicates that the price is going to be high next 

 year. It will pay to save and plant every potato. 



GARDENING FOR NOVEMBER, ETC. 



Unless you have glass, there is very little planting 

 to be done; but I think it pays the gardener and 

 everybody else to have the ground cleared off. all 

 rubbish plowed under or buried out of sight. It is 

 poor economy to burn up the trash unless you want 

 to get rid of weeds that have gone to seed. No 

 weed should ever go to seed on your premisps. If. 

 however, it is already done, burn them up: and 

 then 1 would put in rye. even at this late date. It 

 will be worth something to plow under in the 

 spring; and if you have a wet time, the ground, as 

 a rule, will be di'ier where rye is sown. If you do 

 not care to put in rye, throw it up in ridges so as to 

 let the frost work it up; then the ridges will be just 

 the place for planting out your early peas. 



Perhaps you remember what I said about peas 

 sown in March, last spring. If you use glass, some 

 lettuce should be put in every ten days or two 

 weeks, so as to have lettuce plants on hand. 



Winter onion-sets can be put out now any time 

 when the ground is not frozen. You can also set 

 out strawberry-plants whenever the ground is not 

 frozen, if you have learned the trick by practical 

 tests. 



For myself I have had excellent success in plant- 

 ing apple trees in the fall; and I notice now that 

 very nice trees can be had for 10 cts. apiece, and 

 even less by the quantity. Remember, an apple- 

 tree grows while you are asleep. It costs but little 

 to start it, and it may chance to give more delight 

 to the good wife and children in a few years than 

 any other investment you ever made. 



If you have extra sashes, put in spinach. With a 

 protection of glass, without any heat whatever, 

 you can grow beautiful spinach, and it has with us 

 never failed to command as good a price as lettuce, 

 when nicely grown. 



Take good care of your seed potatoes, and fix up 

 your cellar— not only frost-proof, but make it neat 

 and tidy. With a little pains a cellar can be made 

 so pleasant and vidy that you will not be backward 

 about taking your friends down to show them your 

 nice apples, potatoes, etc. 



ANACER 



BIG ORDER FROM RUSSIA. 



We recently received a good-sized order from 

 Russia, calling for 3 dozen foot- power saw-mandrels, 

 8 dozen circular saws, and 15 comb-foundation mills, 

 as well as a number of other items. 



BEESWAX HIGHER. 



There has been an advance in the general market 

 for beeswax during the past few weeks, and we are 

 now able to offer shippers 24 cents per pound cash, 

 27 cents in trade for average wax delivered here. 

 We do not look for any further advance for some 

 time, although we can not tell, of course, how the 

 market will go. If you have wax to dispose of you 

 will do well to ship it at above prices. We have 

 bought up several tons recently, and are always 

 ready to add to our store, especially to be paid for 

 in trade. 



EARLY-ORDER DISCOUNT. 



Now is a good time to lay in such supplies as you 

 know you will be in need of next season. Only a 

 month remains of the time when the largest discount 

 is allowed. Up to Dec. 1st, 5 per cent is allowed on 



