GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 



that he had forty or fifty barrels that had become 

 so much air-slacked by the damp weather that he 

 would sell it out to me cheap. By the aid of a ma- 

 nure-spreader we covered our richly manured lots 

 with the lime until it looked white. We immediate- 

 ly harrowed it in and put on cabbages. The result 

 has been good every time. The lime seems to have 

 a remarkable effect in setting free the ammonia 

 from stable or other manure so that it is available 

 to the plants. But my impression is, that lime 

 alone, without any manure, amounts to but little 

 as a fertilizer. Now, besides liberating the ammo 

 nia it has another office. Our heavily manured 

 soil is full of angleworms; in fact, I have been 

 troubled because it seemed to me they must owe 

 their fatness and great size to the rich manure I 

 have been buying around town. Well, in the fall 

 we gave several plots a heavy dressing with slack- 

 ed lime, and then plowed it into lands with deep 

 dead-furrows between, to carry off the winter rains, 

 so we could work it quickly in the spring. Well, 

 after the first good rain, great fat angle- worms 

 were found in those dead-furrows, dead, in such 

 quantities that they could have been gathered up 

 by the handfuls. The lime killed them. They 

 crawled out in the dead-furrows; and the lime 

 water, as it washed down, fixed them in good shape 

 to give off their ammonia. This matter is already 

 partly understood, as I have already noticed by the 

 agricultural papers; but I am quite certain that it 

 is not fully understood and appreciated in plant- 

 beds and in greenhouses. 



OBITUARY. 



We are pained to announce that Mr. Wm. H. 

 Shane, who has been, perhaps, the most prominent 

 raiser of comb honey in Medina Co., died on the 7th 

 inst. Shortly after 1 succeeded in securing such 

 large crops of honey by the use of the extractor, as 

 mentioned in the introduction to the A B C book, 

 Mr. Shane became interested in bees, visited me 

 repeatedly, and asked me so many questions that T 

 began to think that, if he remembered all my an- 

 swers, he would know all I knew, any way. He was 

 an earnest student, and soon became master of al- 

 most all that was known on the subject of bees. 

 From the first he secured profitable crops of honey. 

 Last season, and the season before, were no excep- 

 tions. Mr. Shane had a nice crop of honey, put up 

 in beautiful shape, when almost every other bee- 

 keeper in the land failed. While we lament his 

 death, we rejoice to know that, like friend Raitt, 

 while he loved his bees he loved his Savior more; 

 and when the call came he was ready to go. 



We now have Dadant's Langstroth Revised, and 

 can send them out by return mail. Price $2.00. 

 By freight or express, 15 cts. less. 



160 SIMPLICITY ALL-WOOD BROOD-FRAMES FOB 



$1.75, AT HIGHLAND MILLS, ORANGE CO., 



NEW YORK. 



Here is a chance for some one in that vicinity. 

 Who speaks first? 



POULTRY NETTING AND FENCING. 



We call the attention of our readers to our ad- 

 vertisement of netting and fencing, on the inside 

 cover page of this number. Notice that prices are 

 still lower than last year. We shall be pleased to 

 mail a special 16-page netting and fencing cata- 

 logue to any one requesting it. 



REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OP THE FIVE-PRONGED 

 GARDEN-WEEDER. 



LiThe above implement is now furnished for 10 

 cents instead of 15, as formerly. If wanted by 

 mail, add 7 cents for postage and packing. These 

 are retinned, to prevent rusting, and we think it 

 pays to have half a dozen of them hung up in con- 

 venient places about our grounds. 



CHOICE COMB HONEY AT 18 CTS. PER LB. 



We have about 100(1 lbs. of very choice comb honey 

 in 4&x43£ sections. 7 to foot, put up 28 sections in a 

 case, ne1 weigh! of which is about 23 lbs. We offer 

 it in single-case lots for 19 cts. per lb.; 5-case lots or 

 more, 18 cts. per lb. It was produced by our neigh- 

 bor W. H. Shane, who has so recently passed to his 

 eternal reward. 



12-INCH FDN. MILL FOR SALE IN CANADA. 



We have at Cheltenham, Ont., one of our late 12- 

 inch fdn. mills, sent from here a year ago, and has 

 been used almost none. It is just as good as when 

 new. We will sell it for $30.00. The duty on mills 

 to Canada is 30 ;,'., so you will make a saving of$9.00 

 by buying this machine, besides the transporta- 

 tion charges from here there. Who will be the 

 first to speak for it? 



DISCOUNTS FOR GARDEN SEEDS, POTATOES, ETC. 



As we are beginning now to sell a good many 

 more seeds by ounces, pounds, pecks, and bushels, 

 than formerly, we have decided to make the follow- 

 ing discounts on large orders. But please bear in 

 mind that this does not apply to five-cent packages 

 of seeds. For all else in our seed catalogue we will 

 allow a discount of 5 per cent on all orders of $5.00 

 or over; 10 per cent on all orders of $10.00 or over; 

 15 for 15 or over; 20 for 20, and so on up to 25 per 

 cent off for $25.00 worth or any larger quantity. In 

 consequence of the great plenty of nice potatoes in 

 our vicinity at the present time, we will, from this 

 date on, allow a discount of 5 cts. per peck, or 25 cts. 

 per bushel from prices given in our seed catalogue. 



Later.— Since the above was written we have pur- 

 chased two large lots of Burbank and Beauty of 

 Hebron potatoes, suitable for seed, which we offer 

 at 50 cts. per single bushel, or only 40 cts. in lots of 

 five bushels or more. 



OUR MARCH 1ST CATALOGUE, 68TH EDITION. 



This has been increased in size to 4-1 pages by the 

 addition of a rose-colored cover, thus giving room 

 for more matter, and adding to its appearance a 

 little more attractiveness. A careful observer will 

 notice a great many changes over former editions, 

 especially in the matter of hives. There are very 

 few changes in prices, except in the Counter Store 

 department, to which are also added a great many 

 new cuts. Three pages relating to hives are en- 

 tirely re-written, also the matter relating to sec- 

 tions; likewise that relating to circular saws, hive 

 and section machinery. Our $25.00 saw-table is ad- 

 vanced to $30.00. Thin flat-bottom fdn. is reduced 

 to 55 cts. per lb., and where it is taken in 25-lb. box- 

 es the price is only 50 cts., and we furnish Vandu- 

 sen's make, in sheets 16*4 x 28, or 17 x 30. We shall 

 be pleased to mail this catalogue to any of our 

 readers requesting it; and if you have any bee- 

 keeping friends and neighbors we will mail them a 

 copy also, if you add to your request their name 

 and address. 



CLEVELAND'S ALASKA PEA. 



I thought 1 had got through for the season men- 

 tioning all new things in the way of garden-seeds; 

 but a notice of the Alaska pea, by our good friend 

 A. C. Kendel, has reminded me of something: 



The A. B. Cleveland Co. Cleveland. Ohio. June 26. 



Gentlemen:— In reply to yours* of the 23:1. we would say the 

 Alaska peas were given to a number of our most careful 

 growers, and the reports are as follows : Planted at the same 

 time, and on equal quality of soil, the Alaskas in every in- 

 starn i were from two to four days earlier than any other 

 variety, and were as good as any in quality. We predict for 

 the Alaska a leading place among the lirst early peas. 



A. C. Kendel. 



See also the following from the originator of the 

 Chartier radish : 



Allegheny City, Pa. 



1 made two personal trials of Alaska peas this season— an 

 early and a late sowing, and in both eases with similar results. 

 In my trials 1 planted them with Landreth's Extra Early. First 

 and Bist, and Rural New Yorkers. In habit I find them of 

 about the same height as the very extra-early varieties, but 

 more slender in the stalks, and lighter green in foliage. They 

 are in bloom nearly a week earlier than the others, and ma- 



