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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR A. I. ROOT, AND HIS 

 FRIENDS WHO LOVE TO RAISE CROPS. 



That art on which a thousand millions of men are dependent 

 foi' their sustenance, and two hundred millions of men expend 

 their daily toil, must l)e the most important of all — the parent 

 and precursor of all other arts. In every country, then, and at 

 «very period, the investiffation of the principles on which the 

 rational practice of this art is founded ought to have command- 

 ed the principal attention of the greatest minds. 



James F. W. Johnston. 



<JUITTING THE BEE-BUSINESS AND GOING 

 INTO GARDENING. 



A FEW days ago notice was received from 

 a postmaster soraewhere away down in Tex- 

 as, saying we need not send Gleanings 

 anymore to a certain bee-friend at his office. 

 I think that the postmaster said that this 

 friend had gone into other business, but I 

 don't quite remember. I do remember this, 

 however, that the postmaster, for some 

 reason or other, inclosed a photograph, and 

 a copy of this photograph we submit to our 

 readers. 



legend inscribed, "First Credit Foncier 

 Bee-hive." If 12 onions weigh IS lbs., these 

 white onions weigh H lbs. or more. In our 

 market such onions would bring 10 cents 

 per lb. in July, and we have been selling 

 them at that price for nearly a month past. 

 Ours are the White AHctoria. We sowed 

 the seed in the greenhouse, and planted the 

 onions in the open ground as soon as the 

 frost was out of the ground so it could be 

 w orked readily. Two rows only 150 feet long 

 gave us six bushels of these great onions. 

 As six potatoes weigh 6 lbs., they average a 

 pound apiece. During the month of July 

 such potatoes Avould have brought 4 cents 

 per lb., or perhaps nice specimens like the 

 above would have brought a nickel apiece. 

 With us, carrots are slow sale ; but perhaps 

 we might have got 1 cent per lb. for them. 

 Now, if our friend has as good a market as 

 we have, he perhaps is doing a fine thing in 

 gardening. It should be remembered, how- 

 ever, that these prices are to be obtained 

 only by carrying the vegetables fresh from 



giving up bee culture and going into gardening ; BEETS, ONIONS, POTATOES, 



AND CARROTS. 



You will notice that all these veeetables 

 are piled up against a bee-hive. You can 

 not get much of a glimpse of the hive on 

 account of the vegetables ; but by the way 

 the cover is cleated we infer that our friend 

 has read the journals and kept up with the 

 times. Right under the cover we find the 



the ground right to the people's homes. Our 

 land is inside of the corporation of a town 

 of 2000 inhabitants. I have told you how we 

 get our good prices. Most of you know that 

 green corn is very much nicer when taken 

 directly from the garden right to the kitch- 

 en stove ; therefore one of our boys gets up 



