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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 



simply an oval rubber ball, with a nozzle at- 

 tached to one end. By cutting off the 

 strainer from the large end of the nozzle, 

 we had a putty machine all ready for use. 

 Mix your paint and putty just right, till the 

 rubber ball, then by squeezing the ball you 

 can send a stream of the liquid paint exactly 

 where you want it. Two of our men decid- 

 ed at once they could work faster with the 

 15-cent machine than they could with the 

 $1.50 machine. This insect-powder gun can 

 be sent by mail at an expense of only 1 cents 

 for postage. 



SAVING TOMATOES FOR SEED. 



In answer to several questions, you may 

 save the seed from any tomato that pleases 

 you ; and even if you have a dozen varieties 

 in the same row, there is no danger of mix- 

 ing—at least I have been told so by the ex- 

 periment-station folks. The present indica- 

 tions are that the Ignotum tomato-seed will 

 command a big price next season — perhaps 

 $1.00 or #1.50 au ounce; therefore you had 

 better save every seed. To pave the seeds, 

 just scoop them out of the tomatoes before 

 you cook or can them ; set them in a bowl 

 or dish, with a little water, in some warm 

 place, until the whole mass gets sour. When 

 it is sour enough to begin to smell bad, the 

 seeds will wash out as clean and handsome 

 as you please. Spread them on plates or 

 boards to dry, and that is all there is to it. 



COLD-FRAME CABBAGE- PLANTS. 



If you are going to have some sash, or 

 even wooden shutters, to cover your cold- 

 frames, this is the month to sow your Jersey 

 Wakefield cabbage-plants. It is often said, 

 that just as good plants can be obtained by 

 sowing them in the greenhouse in February; 

 but my opinion is, that, even if we can, we 

 do not often succeed in getting them. Plants 

 properly wintered in cold-frames may he 

 planted out just as soon as the ground can 

 be worked, even in the latter part of March ; 

 and as they have already been frozen up 

 hundreds of times, freezing does not hurt 

 them a bit ; and your first cabbages will, as 

 a rule, be from the cold-frame plants. Start 

 them about the middle of September, and 

 get nice plants, just as you would do in 

 spring. In order to get a good stand— that 

 is, just as many and no more than can oc- 

 cupy your cold-frame, you must transplant 

 them. They also want to be in the ground 

 clear up to the first leaves, and you can not 

 secure this without transplanting. 



THE KU MERLE LIMA BEAN. 



The Henderson lima bean is now ready 

 for the table, and some of the pods are ripe 

 and dry. It is all right, except being so 

 small. Its size, in my opinion, is going to 

 rule it out. We are glad to report, however, 

 that the Kumerle has proved to be very pro- 

 lific, and many of the beans are ready to 

 shell. The probability is, that most of them 

 will escape frost. The Kumerle is a real 

 honest bush lima bean : the Henderson is 

 not, for the reasons above given. 



400 BUSHELS OK POTATOES TO THE ACRE. 



I have this season succeeded in getting 

 over 100 bushels of potatoes from a quarter 

 of an acre. They were Lee's Favorite. At 



an expense of 3 cts. per bushel they were 

 dug, picked up, and stored. In my next I 

 will tell you how I did it. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



Published Semi-Monthly. 



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 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



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Thy testimonies have 1 taken as a heritage for ever: for 

 they are the rejoicing of my heart.— Psalm 119: ill. 



FRENCH, GERMAN, EKGL1SH, AND AMERICAN BEE- 

 KEEPERS. 



Our proof-reader, in glancing over foreign ex- 

 changes for August, found the following iu the 

 Schweizer Bi&nenfrcund, from the pen of Mr. T. 

 Kellen, of Luxemburg. Mr. Kellen writes from 

 Paris, in regard to the apicultural display. After 

 describing the American exhibit he says: 



This American display is the most noteworthy, 

 practical, and beautil ill of all that Americans have 

 till now produced. An enumeration, with a short 

 description of all the hives, implements, products, 

 etc., would fill several volumes. Whoever would 

 describe the same must needs write a complete 

 handbook of American apiculture; and that is 

 something that Europeans still lack The English 

 and Americans have noticeably surpassed the Ger- 

 man bee-keepers (not to speak of others) in many 

 respects. They may at first have learned many 

 things of Germans, I admit ; but they have learned 

 how to apply science, and do not remain stationary. 

 To-day can the German and Frenchman go to the 

 English and Americans for instruction. Already 

 what belongs to bee-lore, the Europeans can no 

 longer measure with the Americans. It will be a 

 long time before we in Europe shall have such a 

 work as Root's A B C book, or Langstroth's. The 

 only one, till now, worthy of notice, on this side of 

 the ocean, is Gravcnhorst's; and as opposed to that 

 we have numberless works and "worklets;" and 

 the most wonderful part of the whole is, that such 

 books have ever seen the second and third edition. 



A VISIT FROM J. W. JENKINS, OF JAMAICA, W. I. 



We have just had a very pleasant call from our 

 Jamaica correspondent, Mr. J. W. Jenkins, of Prov- 

 idence, Jamaica, who for three years back has been 

 laboring as a missionary among those semi-civilized 

 people. The island, on account of the interference 

 of various nations, has been drained of its wealth, 

 and the people are almost poverty-stricken. Mr. 

 Jenkins become interested in apiculture, and at 

 once began bee-keeping in his missionary field. 

 His idea was to teach the natives a new source of 

 income; and thus while he was ministering to their 

 spiritual wants he could at the same time give 

 them the means to administer to their own bodily 

 wants. The bees of the island are black, and the 

 honey resources are almost unlimited. Mr. Jen- 

 kins is sure that apiculture can be made a profita- 

 ble means of livelihood, and he is very anxious that 

 the nntives have a start in this line. While they 

 have no wintering problem to contend with, they 

 have various species of ants which are very fond of 

 honey, and which, unless checked, would in time 

 prove the total destruction of the colony. Tq 



