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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 15 



The new and revised edition of Facts about Bees, 

 fully describing the Danzenbaker hive and system of 

 producing comb honey, will be ready for mailing in a 

 few days. T hey may be had by applying to Francis 

 Danzenbaker, Boxtii-, Washington, D. C, or to us. 



COMB HONEY. 



When in need of comb honey let us supply you, as 

 we have a large stock to select from. Our stock of ex- 

 tracted is very low, and we shall be pleased to get 

 samples and prices from those having choice extracted 

 for sale. 



BEES^VAX WANTED. 



If you have any beeswax to sell let us hear from you. 

 We need it now more tlian we .shall next June For a 

 luimberof years a great many shipments of wax have 

 been delayed too late in the spring. .Some hold it an- 

 ticipating a rise in price, and others do not gel around 

 to making shipment as promptly, perhaps, as they 

 might. Jn order to .stimulate early shipments we ad- 

 vance the price we pay to the highest point it has 

 reached in years, and is bkely to reach this year. We 

 will pay 2S cents cash, 80 in trade, for average wax de- 

 livered here, until further notice. Be sure your ship- 

 ment is marked so we may be able to identify it 

 among others on arrival Write us when you ship, 

 giving the gro.ss, tare, and net weight shipped. If yoi: 

 ship 111 a box, see that it i-; a strong one well nailed. 

 If you have enough to fill a barrel, that makes the 

 best package to ship in. If you ship a .'^ack it should 

 be double, and extra strong. You can better afford to 

 be careful in shipping than to lose several pounds on 

 the way. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



cow PEAS ; ADVANCED PRICES. 



We have only the Wonderful and F;.xtra-earlv Black- 

 eye. Price of Wonderful, I qt., r.icls.: by mail. I5cts. 

 more; peck, 7.S ; 'a bushel, Sl.So; bushel, $J.50. Ex- 

 tra-early Blackeye, '/ more than above prices. 



This latter will ripen seed almost ain where in the 

 North, but it does not produce anywhere near as large 

 an amount of feed, either for stock or to tu n under. 

 Both kinds will, however, produce suffic-ient bloom to 

 furnish considerable quantities of honey in favorable 

 localities. L,eaflet mailed on application. 



SEED POTATOES — REDUCTION' IN PRICE OK NO. 1 BY 

 THE BARRKIL. 



We have reduced the price on our first-quality pota- 

 toes by the barrel from $1.00 to $;5..n(). I'rices by the 

 bushel and less will be the same as given heretofore. 

 Price of seconds will be S^ 00 per barrel, as heretofore. 

 Those who have paid us S4.00 per barrel, either last 

 fall or during the winter, can have a rebate of 50 cts. 

 per barrel if they v.- ill give us notice of the fact. 



Our seed potatoes, seconds, of Triumph. Bovee. and 

 Sir Walter, are all sold out. We have, however, plen- 

 ty of both firsts and seconds of all the other kinds 

 mentioned on page 73, Jan, 15. 



A DOLLAR POULTRY-BOOK TO EVERY'BODY WHO SENDS 



US |1.00 FOR GLEANINGS AND ASKS FOR NO OTHER 



PREMIUM. 



This book is the same thing we have been selling 

 largely for several years past. All things considered, 

 I do not know but i sho ild recommend it as being the 

 best poultry-book we have. But this edition we give 

 away is printed on cluaper paper, with heavy pa-te- 

 board covers. The covers, however, are embellished 

 with pictures of poultry in bright colors, making it a 

 "lost attractive book to have around. By taking a 

 1 irge quantitv we get them of the publishers at a very 

 1 )vv price, with the understanding they are to be given 

 ;is premiums only to our subscribers They are not 

 fir sale at any price. The book contains 3"2 pages, 

 i.ud is full of illustrations. Kemeinber, everybody 



ho sends us 91 00 for Gleanings, past, present, or 

 f uure, can have the book by asking for it, and send- 

 i ig postage, which is 6 cts. 



J.AM.\ICA sorrel; DID ANY'BODY^ SUCCEED WITH IT? 



We did not succeed in getting any " fruit " from our 

 Jamaica sorrel last fall, although we had great sturdy 

 plants two or three feet high. Perhaps we gave it too 

 rich soil, and it grew with too much luxuriance to 

 blossom early. No doubt the trouble was it was not 

 started early under glass as we start tomatoes. Just 

 now. Feb. 7, we have some plants up and growing 

 nicely in the greenhouse. Will those who tried Jamai- 

 ca sorrel please report ? We have some seed left, at 5 

 c s. a packet. I am anxious to know whether it can 

 be grown in the Northern States as well as in Florida. 



THE PRIZEWINNER FIELD BE.AN. 



I have told you that in 1900 I grew of this variety 

 two crops of mature drj' beans on the same ground in 

 one sea.son ; and the second crop was from the seed 

 gathered from the first crop. I do not know how many 

 days it was from the time of planting to the mature 

 ripe seed. Last year I sent a few of these beans up to 

 my Michigan ranch, to be planted. I find the letter 

 WHS written May 22. My boy must have planted the 

 beans near our"cabin in the woods " very near the 

 first of June - may be a day or two .sooner. There was 

 a row perhaps two rods long. My neighbor, James 

 Hilbert, wrote me as follows, Aug 28 : 



I was surprised at the peach-trees and beaos. Those two 

 rows of beans that are by the house are just loaded. An 

 acre like that would just shell out 10 bushels ; the.v are al- 

 most ripe. I am going over and gather them when ready, 

 then I can sell you some " seed beans." 



I wrote him at once to gather all there was dry 

 enough for seed, if he wanted any, and he did so, 

 prob blv, about Sept. 1. From the above we gather 

 that these beans, from the time they were planted un- 

 til thev were dry enough to gather, were only just 

 about 90 days in growing, and this in the comparative- 

 ly cooler locality of Northern Michigan. There has 

 always been troiible there about getlingbeans to ripen 

 before frost or wet weather ; but with the Prizewinner 

 theie certainly can be no trouble anj' seas n. Mr. 

 Hilbert gathered about a peck, and Mrs. Root and I 

 picked a good many afterward ; and I still say, as I 

 said the year b fore, they are the best table bean, to 

 niy notion, there is, not even excepting the linias. 

 They are also the best yielder for a field bean I have 

 ever tried, both here in Ohio and in Northern Michi- 

 gan. 



We expect to plant a lot of them around that cabin 

 in the woods. ,So far as we have tried them, they bear 

 planting very thick in the row. I do not think those 

 I have mentioned could have been more than tw or 

 three inches apart. Our boy planted them as he 

 would early peas. From one single stalk we shelled 

 out 152 drv beans, if every stalk had yielded like 

 that, we ought to get 150 bushels from one bushel 

 planted 



As there has been a big demand for the bean ever 

 since it was brought out. the price is still prettv well 

 up. We have seured, however, ten bushels of seed 

 which we will sell as follows ; ^A pint. 8 cts.; pint, 12 ; 

 quart, 20 (by mail 24 c); % peck, 65 ; peck, tl 25 



THE FLORIST'S MANUAL ; A NEW BO K ON FLOWERS 

 AND GREENHOUSE MANAGEMENT. 



I have just been made happy by getting hold of a 

 magnificent volume of 225 pages, 9x11 ^. The book is 

 full of pictures, sometimes several on a page, and it is 

 planned exactly after the style of our A B i. b'^ok It 

 commences with " Abutilon '"' and ends with " Zinnia." 

 These alphabetical heads name almost every plant 

 known to florists— that is. commercial florists; and 

 there is a splendid picture of every thing of note to be 

 found in the greenhouse. Not oiilv are plants fully 

 described, but all the different opera'tions of the green- 

 house ; and with all the other good things about the 

 book, the writer is an exceedingly practical man. and 

 has a comical way of telling you how every thing is 

 done, in a way that makes the book interesting to 

 everybodv Let me give you one illustration. I want- 

 ed particiilarlv to know about ^<////"^— potting soils, 

 making cuttings, and every thing belonging to the pot- 

 ting business Well, when I had hunted the book 

 pretty we 1 through, and turned over to the la.st part, 

 I fouiid a heading, "Potting." This is what I read: 

 "There is no chapter in this book that I started into 

 with such a relish as this f ne It is a t reft t It is bet- 

 ter than falling off a log " How vividly this brought 

 to mind the time, some 25 vears ago, when I was writ- 

 ing the A B C book ! There were certain chapters I 

 did not feel just in touch with ; and then other things 

 —queen rearing, for instance— that I felt so familiar 

 with I just rejoiced when I got along to that subject. 

 Now, this writer goes on in this same vein of pleasant- 



