1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



309 



BASSWOOD OR LINDEN TREES. 



Now is the time to set 1 hem out. One foot and un- 

 der, each. 5 ct-. ; 10. 30 cts,: 100, $2 00, By mail, S cts , 

 3), and 82.25 respectively. \V e are at present sold out 

 of the larj;er sizes, ;•!, 4, and o feet ; tint we have plenty 

 from one to two fet t. The.se will be, each. Sets.; 10, 

 50 cts.; 100, S3 00 If wanted by mail, 12 cts., tio cts., and 

 $3.75 respectively. 



SEED POTATOES. 



At this date, April 1, our potatces are all in beauti- 

 ful condition — not a potato spiouted. As some of the 

 early kinds are nearly out, in ordering these perhaps 

 vou had better .state if you can use some other kinds 

 in case the kind yon order is sold out. Our Early 

 Ohio and Bovee arc Michigan grown, and these have 

 for years had a special reputation, as Northern grown 

 seed-potatoes. 



TABLE OF PRICES. 



NAME. 

 Varieties are in order 

 as regards time of ma- 

 turing ; earliest first, 

 next earliest second, 

 and so on. 



Red Bliss Triumph 



•White Bliss Triumph. 



JEarl.v Ohio 



Earl.v Trumbull 



Bovee 



Early Vermont 



New Queen 



Lee's Favorite 



Freeman 



Twentieth Century 



State of Maine 



Maule's Commercial . . . 



Carman No. 3 



Sir Walter Raleigh 



New Russet 



New ('raig 



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« 40 

 5U 

 35 

 50 

 40 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 40 

 50 

 85 

 40 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 35 



m 



*1.'25 

 1.5,) 

 1.00 

 1.53 



& 

 85 



75 1.25 



60 1.00 



60! 1-UU 



60 1.00 



75 1.25 



85' 1.5U 



1.25 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 



* This is the same thing as Junior Prie e. 



Early Ohio and the New Russet, Michigan grown, 

 can be shipped at above prices from Traveise City, 

 Mich,, when our customers are nearer that point. 



E.\RLY OHIO POTATOES. 



I have just purchased from a grower in Michigan 

 a carload of extra-nice Early Ohio potatoes — the 

 celebrated Red River .st )Ck. A year ago we paid 

 Vaughan, ot Chicago, S3 00 a barrel (freight and all) 

 for 30 or 40 bairels of this stock of Early Ohio pota- 

 toes in order to fill the orders we got along in March, 

 April, and May — that is, after our own siock was 

 exhausted. We >old these for S3 50 a barrel. U e did 

 not make much, it is true; but we never had a can 

 plaint from them. We planted the same !-to;k (Red 

 River) on our creek-bottom grounds, and grew the 

 finest crop of Early Ohios we ever had — nice shapr, 

 free from scab, extra early, good qual ty. And. by 

 the by, the-e early Ohios were about as eaily, with 

 one exception, as any potato we grew, and the yield 

 was liitle. if any, behind That one exception was 

 the Bliss Tiiumvih. But the latter blighted when the 

 Early Oh'o did not, so that the yield, although a little 

 earlier, was much smaller, Now, we bought these 

 Michigan grown Early Ohios by the carlo.id so we 

 can let you have them at the low piice of $1 00 per 

 bu.-hel. orS2 50pe' barrel of 11 pecks; % bushel will 

 beOOcts.; peck, Ii5 cts. There will be a few seconds, 

 at SI, 75 per ba'rel. As we have always been sold 

 short of Early Ohios ever .•■ince we have been in the 

 seed-i otato business, we expect to be this year, so 

 you had better send in your orders at once. This 

 same kind of potatoes can be shipped from Leslie, 

 Mich,, or Traverse City, Mich., when you are nearer 

 the above points than to Medina, Ohio. 



OTHER POTATOES FOR SEED. 



At present writing, April 1, we are practically sold 

 out iif all seconds of early potatoes, except a few 

 Early Ohio, as mentioned above. We have, how- 

 ever, .'■econds of Maule s Commercial, Carman No. 3, 

 Sir Walter Raltigh, and New Russet Of the fir.sts we 

 have a fair stock of almost every thing except New 

 Queen and Lee's Favorite. These two are entiie v 

 out. We have only a limited quantity of all kinds of 

 early and extra early poiatoes except Early Ohio, as 

 mentioned above; and my candid opinion is, there is 

 not a much better extr?-early potato known at pres- 

 ent than the Early Ohio, especially the strain we offer 

 for sale, and such as we grew last year. 



Any one .sending $1 00 for Gleanings, and asking 

 for no other premium, may have 25 cents' worth of 

 potatoes. And any one who is a subscriber, and who 



sends us $1.00 and one new name, may have .50 cents' 

 worth of potatoes; hut if the potatoes are wanted by 

 mail the subscriber must pay postage. 



sweet POTATOES — THE NEW VARIETIES, ETC. 



The number of varieties of sweet potatoes that have 

 come out in the past two or three ye\rs, with high- 

 sounding names, such as Gold Coin, General Giant 

 etc , especially when these new things are only well- 

 known varieties under cliffeieiit names, has led to so 

 much confusion that I've really speut hours in trying 

 touniangle the matter and decide which is which. We 

 have grown plants for sale for years, and I have test- 

 ed mo^t of the new thiugo offeied, enough lo say what 

 is really valuable or diffcrem from what we have al- 

 ready. I have fin il y settled down on four difTcent 

 kinds: A sweet potato and a yam zfzVA vines, and a 

 sweet potato and a yam zvithout vines. 



First we have the oUt wi.ll-known yellow Jersey 

 sweet potato. Yellow Nansemond and Yellow Caro- 

 lina are only two more names for the same thing. 



Then we have the Early Pcabody Red jam. This is 

 al.so the same thing as the Red Bermuda. 



Then we have two viueless sweet potatoes — first the 

 Vineless s« eet potato, oi General Grant, ai d this is 

 round-leafed like the old-fashioned sweet potato. 



Lastly we have the Vineless or Bunch yam, also 

 known extensively as Gold Coin. This last is cut- 

 leaved, and has a toliage entiiely different ftom any 

 Ihing heretofore known in the swett-potato line. 



I hope the above will enable you to straighten the 

 matter out, and decide what >ou want. There are 

 other varieties in the lists (nearly a dozen), but 1 think 

 they might all be classed under some one of the 

 tour I have mentioned. 1 can not tell jou which is 

 be-t. One suits one locality, and another suits an- 

 other. 



In regard to prices, the Yello.v Jersey is the cheap- 

 est of all. Our price will be, y^ peck. 25 cts ; peck. 40; 

 Yi bushel, 75; bushel, SI 25; barrel ot 3 bushels S2 75. 



All the others will be, ;4 peck, 35 cts.; peck, 60; ^ 

 bushel, $1 CO, bushel, SI 75; barrel, S4 50. 



Of the Eai ly Jer.-ey, we will send 1 lb by mail post- 

 paid for '20 cts.; 3 lbs , 50 cts. Of the others, 1 lb. by 

 mail, postpaid, 25 cis.; 3 lbs., 60, 



Plants of any of the above will be ready about May 

 1. The price will he bv mail, 10 plants, 15 cts.; ICiQ 

 60 cts. By expres , 1000, 83 00. 



Sweet Potatoes and All About How to Grow Them. 

 A little book by Waldo F. Brown. 10 cts. The above 

 book will be sent free of charge to every one who buys 

 50 cents' worth or more of swett potatoes or plants. 



ARTIFICIAL EAR-DRUMS AND OTHER REMEDIES FOR 

 DEAFNESS, 



The Rmal Nerv Yorker sa\ s : 



"The world seems to be filled with so-called cures 

 and remedies for deafness just now," 



To which I may add that these remedies, or at least 

 a g' eat part of them, do no good whatever. There iire 

 a good many bee keepers who are more or le.ss deaf, 

 and in my travels I have taken pains to inquiie about 

 the remedies. Artificial ear diums and other adver- 

 tised appliances h.ive been purchased and tried, in 

 great numbers ; but instead of the bu>er getting any 

 benefit, these ear-drums have done harm instead of 

 good. I have had one experience of my own along 

 this line. It is bad enough lo rob people who are well 

 and sound ; but the man who goes delibeiately to 

 work to steal from a deaf man, and, after getting his 

 money, do him harm instead of good — w^ 11, to put it 

 mildly he should not be allowed advertising space in 

 a respectable family newspaper. 



HIGH-PRESSURE POULTRY, AND HIGH-PRESSURE EGG- 

 LAYING. 



There, didn't I tell you 1 could manage hens so as to 

 make them lay iu winter? It is not winter just now, 

 but it is winter weather, even if it is March 22. We 

 have just six pullets and one rooster. On Monday, 

 March IS, they laid four eggs; Tuesday, five eggs; 

 Wednesday, six eggs ; Thursi ay, seven eggs. There 

 were six eggs laid in the trap nests ; the seventh, with- 

 out any shell, was dropped the night before on the 

 dust-shelf underthe roost. We mightsay this seventh 

 egg was laid the day before : but every one of the six 

 pullets laid an t gg apiece in the trap-nests the day be- 

 fore. Mrs Root says the ne'ghtiors' hens came over 

 on the sly and laid an e gg ju-il to give me a chance to 

 make a big report : and although that is possible. 1 do 

 not think it probable. Is it not pos-ible tor a hen to 

 lay an egg every day, and o^/ce in a zvhile one in the 

 night besides? Friday they laid six eggs again, an 

 egg apiece. 



