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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



I think it a very good thing to put them in 

 rich soil, where you can shade and water 

 them for a week or two until they send out 

 new roots ; then lake them, dirt and all, to 

 the field, and you can make a pretty sure 

 thing of it. Friend Winquist writes as fol- 

 lows in regard to the new strawberry : 



Friend Runt:— I am literally flooded with orders, 

 and have only a limited number of p. ants left to 

 sell, as I intend setting- out two or three acres this 

 winter, because they bring me more net cash than 

 all other berries, fruit, etc., combined. I had no 

 idea that my little notice would bring- so many 

 orders. 



For runners and large plants, plant on rich land; 

 if for berries all summer, plant on your poorest 

 land. We now get 40 cents per box, wholesale, for 

 our berries, and can not supply the demand at 

 that price. We got as low as 2 l / 2 cts. per lb. or box 

 for nice Wilsons this spring, and paid 1& cts. for 

 picking; had to go begging at 2(4. They do not pro- 

 duce nearly as many runners as do the common 

 varieties, neither do they bear as many years, al- 

 though they bear as many, if not more, crops in 

 their life. The berry was originated here at Mount 

 Tabor by Mr. N. Remillard, who sold his first plants 

 as high as twenty dollars a dozen. He has no 

 plants for sale now, and he says that he refused to 

 sell Vick any. One of his neighbors got some 

 Chinamen to steal plants from him. In regard to 

 the berry, I refer you to Mark Levy, Portland, Ore., 

 also to Levy & Spriegel, Portland, Ore. 



Your climate in the States, I think, is better 

 adapted to the plants than this, as you have show- 

 ers during the summer, while here we have but lit- 

 tle rain during the summer, or dry season. 



Seth Winquist. 

 Mount Tabor, Or., Sept. 20, 1889. 



He has now advanced the price to 75 cts. 

 per dozen, or -50 cents per * dozen.* 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



Published Senii-Mon th 1y. 

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-&-. I. EOOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



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1ERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



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Tor Clubbing Bates, See First Page of Beading Matter. 

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i^EEIDIlNr^a-, OCT. 1, 1889. 



Let my mouth he tilled with tin praise and with thine honor 

 all the day.— Psalm 71:8. 



We have at this date 9115 subscribers. 



THE nONEV MARKET. 



We clip the following from the American Qrocer, 

 of New York, of Sept. 25: 



The market on this article is firm, consignments 

 few, and higher prices looked for. California crop 

 is about all in, with the exception of a few odd lots 



*Please take these prices instead of those in his 

 advertisement on next page. Some complaints have 

 been received because friend W. returns the money 

 instead of filling the order; but I believe it is ai- 

 wajs considered honorable in such matters tore- 

 turn the money when the demand is beyond the 

 supply. 



still in the interior. Prices will undoubtedly be too 

 high for the Eastern trade. 



Perhaps it may be well to add, that we have nev- 

 er had so good a demand for honey before; but 

 purchasers are very particular about having a 

 good article. There seems to be somewhat of a dis- 

 position to wait for better prices on the part of 

 some; but altogether, we think our honey will be 

 taken up at fair prices quicker than it has been any 

 season before for a long lime. The false state- 

 ments of the newspapers seem to have blown over 

 a good deal, and truth is beginning to assert itself; 

 therefore the public are asking for honey with 

 more confidence than they did a few months ago. 



don't sell too cheap. 

 We had a pleasant call a week ago from Joseph 

 Nysewander. Des Moines, la , publisher of the 

 Western Apiarian. He said, while here, that very 

 nice comb honey was selling in Iowa, in a whole- 

 sale way, at 10 cts, and some even as lowas8!4; 

 that nice extracted was selling for 5J4 and 6. Now, 

 if you notice the above report of the New York 

 market, and the quotation's in the Honey Column, 

 from the East, and remember that the freight 

 from Chicago to New York, Boston, or Philadel- 

 phia on comb honey is 75 cts. per 100 lbs. on ex- 

 tracted in cans boxed, or kegs 65 cts. per 100, and in 

 barrels 50 cts. per 1(10, yon can easily see that 

 there is an opening in the East for some of the 

 surplus west of Chicago, without selling at such 

 low prices. Remember, however, that there is 

 considerable risk in shipping comb honey so far in 

 small lots, especially when not well packed and 

 properly loaded on cars. 



HOW I RAISED 100 BUSHEL8 OF POTATOES FROM A 

 QUARTER OF AN ACRE. 



About a year ago 1 purchased 50 bushels of Lee's 

 Favorite potatoes for seed, paying 50 cents a bushel 

 for them. They wintered splendidly; but in the 

 spring I found myself unable to get even what I 

 paid for them. Finally, along in May 1 began sell- 

 ing them for 10 cents a bushel, to get them out of 

 the way. Many of them had sprout6 on them six- 

 inches long. When it was pretty evident that no 

 one wanted to buy any more for seed, I took about 

 20 bushels of the largest and finest ones, and plant- 

 ed them on a quarter of an acre of our rich market- 

 garden ground. You know I have been telling you 

 that, if you want earlier potatoes than anybody 

 else, plant whole ones, and the biggest ones you can 

 get. Well, these potatoes covered the ground soon- 

 er than any I ever saw before; and in just a little 

 while the ground began to heave and crack open 

 with the great beauties underneath. They had 

 plenty of rain, and therefore went right along from 

 planting to maturity. They were dug, and placed 

 in the cellar at a cost of only 3 cents a bushel. We 

 used a cheap potato-digger that cost us only $12.00. 

 Do you ask what the matter is with a cheap potato- 

 digger that will give such a result as this? Only 

 one trouble, my friend : In plowing the ground and 

 fitting it for cabbages afterward, the boys took up 

 at different times nearly ten bushels that the digger 

 missed. It cost a good deal more than 3 cents a 

 bushel to get out those last ten bushels. 



Mural.— Whenever potatoes are very low in the 

 spring, it will pay jou to plant perhaps even one 

 hundred bushels to the acre, for seed ; for large po- 

 tatoes are worth a good deal for manure whenever 

 they can not be used for any thing else. 



