1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



871 



turned g-reen, and most of the eyes beg'au to sprout. 

 I planted them the 18th of June. Several hills 

 were up the 1st of July. I think all were up by the 

 10th, excepting- three hills. Two of them came 

 up later, but did not amount to any thing. I 

 planted 23 hilts; harvested 30 liills, and got 30 lbs. of 

 potatoes; nice ones. D. J. Wagar. 



Flat Rock, Mich., Nov. 11. 



SECOND-CROP THOROUGHBREDS. 



My second-crop Thoroug-hbred potatoes came up, 

 38 out of 43 eyes, about as soon as spring'-planted 

 potatoes. 1 think a good many make the mistake 

 of planting- too. deep. Plant shallow, and see that 

 they don't dry out. Mine were planted June 11th; 

 and for the chance they had they have done finelj'. 

 Keep up your Home Talks. S. K. Austin. 



Amityville, N. Y. 



THE PEABODY YAMS. 



I read in Gleanings last spring about the Pea- 

 body yam, and 1 sent and got a few plants. I have 

 potatoes Dt)w ihat weigh 8 lbs. Can you do better 

 than that in Ohio ? Albert B. Young. 



Kiverhead, L. I., Oct. 19. 



OUR last days our best, even IE' WE DO HAVE 

 ,_ -J POOR SEASONS AND LOW PRICES. 



Bro. itoof;— I have been looking for the journal 

 for some ten days, but it does not come. 1 sent you 

 $3 00 last fall, and received two jourruxls and a pound 

 of potatoes, Maule's Thoroughbreds, from which 1 

 raised 57 lbs.; but. oh dear! not ;i aoUar from 60 

 stands of bees, and I have now fed them 700 lbs. of 

 granulated sugar, and three starved before 1 began 

 to feed. Don't stop the journal because you don't 

 get the dollar, because 1 want it, and you can wait 

 till next summer for your pay if yon can't get it be- 

 fore. Bees were in tine order I'he last of May, and 

 were starving in June, and conimued to stai-ve all 

 summer, so you see it makes me feel poor. But we 

 live in liopes of better times another year, as the 

 clover looks well this fall, and plenty of it. We de- 

 pend on honey for our bread and butter. We are 

 old people. I am SI— born in 1813— so you see we 

 can't work much more. i{ut I can go to prayer- 

 meeting, and have a good talk with the people. 

 But I guess we shall not go to the poorhouse this 

 winter as long as we can get potatoes and salt, of 

 which we have plenty, and try to live near the 

 Savior; so our last days will he our best 



Albion, Mich., Nov. 10. A. Grifper. 



A GOOD report FOR THE EARLY OHIOS AS WELL 

 AS FOR THE THOROUGHBREDS. 



I note with pleasure what you have to say, in last 

 .Gleanings, about my potato crop; but you have 

 got things mixed somewhat, or perhaps it is my- 

 .self. At any rate, I meant Ohios when 1 said I had 

 dug 711 bushels from Ifs acres. 1 had only one bar- 

 rel of Thoroughbreds, and from it I grew only 1.50 

 bushels, of which you received the greater part. I 

 think this will agree with what I have been writing 



ou all along, will it not? 



1 i)lanled the barrel of Thoroughbred seed all in 

 ten rows. The rovvs were 35 rods long and 3 feet 

 apart, so you see 1 was not very much aliead of Mr. 

 Tt-ri-y after all. Now in regard to whether the 

 gnjund was manured the year before or not, 1 may 

 say that no manure had ever been applied at (diij 

 time. The ground was broken up last summer (1 

 mean '9.">) for the first lime, and sown to buckwheat. 

 This crop of buckwheat shaded the ground and 

 lielped materially to rot the tough heavy sod which 

 all this new land has at flrtt. It also choked out all 

 weeds so that it was in good shape for a crop of po- 



atoes the following season. 



1 have a s.imilar piece of about three acres, which 

 I have cleared with my own hands this summer, and 

 I want to do even better with it if possible. At any 

 rate 1 shall spare no pains in the matter. 

 Sanilac Center, Mich., Nov. 3. W. J. Manley. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



SHELLBARK HICKORYNUTS. 



These are not so plentiful as last year, a -.id the 

 price is higher. We can, however, furnish small 

 quantities at 35 cts. a peck, or $1.35 a bushel. 



NUTS OF THE BLACKWALNUT. __ 



These are so plentiful in our locality that we can 

 offer them already hulled at the low price of 15 cts. 

 a peck, or 50 cts. a bushel. If any of the friends 

 who are .ordering goods of us would like to have 

 some of these included with their other goods we 

 shall be glad to accommodate them while our supply 

 lasts. 



THOROUGHBREDS FOR PREMIUMS. 



Remember, 1 lb. of Thoroughbreds will be given 

 for every subscription to Gleanings provided you 

 do not ask for any other premium; and this will 

 apply to paying up old dues or subscribing for the 

 future— that is, a pound of Thorouglibreds lor every 

 dollar sent. Bub you must pay 9 els. for postage 

 and packing; and to every present subscriber who 

 sends us a dollar with a new name, that js, for in- 

 troducing Gle.\nings into a new family or neigh- 

 borhood, we will allow him a peck of Thorough- 

 breds worth f l.LO, or }i bushel of seconds, worth $1.00. 



OTHER POTATOES AS PREMIUMS. 



You can select any other kind of potatoes from 

 the table, reckoning 35 cents' worth of potatoes for 

 every dollar sent us for Gleanings, or 50 cents' 

 worth of potatoes for every dollar sent for a new 

 subscriber, as explained above. 



VEGETABLE-FORCING. 



This is the title of a new book by H. G. Winkler, 

 of Hanging Rock, O. It is the first book we have 

 ever had on the matter of growing vegetables under 

 glass, so far as I am aware; and as soon as I saw it 

 advertised 1 felt that there was abundant need of 

 just such a book. The work contains 157 pages, 

 bound in cloth; price $1.00. It has many valuable 

 hints and suggesiions; but, unfortunately, a great 

 part of it, if not the most important part of it, is 

 copied from Peter Henderson, from reports of va- 

 rious experiment stations, and from other sources. 

 Again, there is not a single cut or illustration in 

 the book, from beginning to end. The print is very 

 coarse, and there is a good deal of waste paper at 

 the end of the chapters and other places. Besides, 

 the book is full of bad spelling and typographical 

 errors. In fact, some of it is unintelligible unless 

 the reader is sutHciently acquainted with the sub- 

 ject to know what word was meant in place of the 

 one printed in the book. lam sorry to find fault 

 with a work on a subject so much needed. If the 

 book weie put in paper covers, a nd sold for 35 cents, 

 1 should consider it a very good thing; but with 

 the present prices that market-gardeners get for 

 their stuff, $1.00 ought to pay for a good-sized book 

 full of illustrations from practical work, and at 

 least the greater part of it oHyuml. In going 

 through the book 1 found just one single sentence 

 to indicate that the author himself was a practical 

 gardener, and liad a greenhouse or greenhouses of 

 hi sown at Hanging Rock, Lawrence Co., O. To those 

 who have little or no knowledge of vegetable-forc- 

 ing, and who are unacquainted with the books and 

 periodicals in regard to this line of work, the book 

 may well be worth a dollar. If you want it, write to 

 friend Winkler as above. 



DECLIN E IN PRICES OF GARDEN AND OTHER SEEDS. 



We have thought best to note below some of the 

 changes that will be made in prices from our seed 

 caialog which many of you may have in your pos- 

 session the coming year. Instead of as it is in the 

 catalog, read : 

 Kidney Wax bean— Qt., 10 cts.; peck, 60. 

 Davis Wax bean (new)— Pint, 10 cts.; qt., 18; peck, 

 $1.00. 



Best of All beans.— Qt., 5 cts.; peck, 40; bushel, 

 $1.3.5. 



York State Marrow beans.- Qt., 8 cts.; peck, .50; 

 bushel, $1.50. 

 Navy beans.— Qt., 5 cts.; peck, 35; bushel, fl.25. 

 Sweet corn, either Corey. Stowell's Evergreen, 

 1 Ford's Early Sweet, Mammoth, County Gentleman, 

 I — Qt., 8 cts.; peck, .50; bushel, $1 50. 

 ; Grand Rapids lettuce seed.-Ounce, 10 cts.; 1 lb., 

 \ $1 (10. 



i Henderson's New York lettuce.— Ounce, 10 cts.; 1 

 i lb, $1.00. 



I Onion-sets —Best yellow—a very nice lot — Qt., 

 15 cts. ; peck, 60; bushel, $3.00. 



Whitiaker onion-sets.- Qt., 18 cts.; peck, $1.35; 

 bushel, $4.00. 

 Full sized Whittaker onions (just right to plant 



