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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Jl'LY, 1918 



The result of testing corn as shown in Fig. 1 ; also some potato plants ready to be placed in the fieJd, 

 with a picture of the spade used for loosening! up the sod of growing plants. 



gather it from your own garden; but when 

 it comes to i^aying' out forty to fifty cents 

 a pound for sweet corn and bush lima 

 beans, you had better take some way of 

 finding a short cut " from the grower to the 

 consumer." Look over every seed catalog" 

 (You jirobably have a pile of themi at your 

 elbow), and see how much you could save 

 by growing your own corn, beans, and 

 other seeds instead of paying a seedsman's 

 prices.* Why, just plain navy beans are 

 quoted in the seed catalogs at 50 cents a 

 pound ! If you go to the groceries to get 

 some navy beans to eat, you will find they 



*0f course, the price of 40 to 60 cents pel- pound 

 includes postage, but nobody has any postage to pay 

 on seeds you grow yourself. 



are 20 to 25 cents a jDOund, and they are 

 not ijerishable at all — that is, j^ou do not 

 have to use them as soon as they are ripe. 

 You can just put them in a tight paper bag 

 and keep them for two years or more. 



You will notice, besides the basket of 

 seed corn, there are some other things in 

 the picture; and notwithstanding all I have 

 said about my '' new invention " of trans- 

 planting potatoes I have something more 

 to say about it. When I first got back 

 from Florida, the only early potatoes I 

 could get at the seedstore were Burpee's 

 Extra Early, and the price was not at all 

 extravagant — 50 cents a peck. Well, I cut 

 the peck so as to make about 300 eyes, and 

 planted them in a little bed about four by 



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3. A bed of potato plants started from one eye, and ready to be taken out and moved to the field. 



