1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



353 



SEED POTATOES. 



We are all sold out except New Rtisset and New 

 Craig, and the seconds are all gone of these. We can 

 ship promptly, on receipt of orders, firsts, for $3.50 per 

 barrel, as long as they last. We have about HO or -10 

 bushels of the New Russets, and perhaps 00 or 70 of the 

 Craigs. The greater part of our seed potatoes for the 

 coming year will be grown in Northern Michigan, 

 Providence permitting; and we expect to have some 

 nicer potatoes for our customers than any thing we 

 have grown here in Medina for many a year. Pc liaps 

 1 might say we have odds and ends of ahndst all varie- 

 ties, .so we can still furnish potatoes by mail, or per- 

 haps half a peck or so of a kind, by express or freight, 



SHALLOTS, OR POTATO ONIONS. 



For some years ^ve have been sold out of these 

 onions, .so we have not even advertised them. >ow, 

 however, we have a nice lot of about three bushels 

 which we can sell at the following prices: Small ones, 

 from the size of a hulled walnut down, 1.5 cts. a quart; 

 90 cts. a peck; S^.OO a bushel. I really do not know 

 the difference between a yellow shallot and a yellow 

 potato onion. They look so near alike and act so 

 much alike I should be inclined to call them one and 

 the same thing (Our old Whittaker onion is also the 

 .same, only it seemed to make a bigger onion). The 

 small sets, when planted alone, will produce one or 

 two large onions; but the larger ones, when planted, 

 will break up into small sets, producing all the 

 way from half a dozen to a dozen or even two dozen 

 in a hill. They are very hardy, and will usually win- 

 ter outdoors all right; but when kept in a dry cold 

 place over winter they are the best keepers of any 

 thing in the onion line; in fact, ours are as hard and 

 firm as when they were first gathered, and there is 

 not a sprouted one in the lot. If wanted by mail, add 

 10 cts. per lb. for packing and postage. 



THE GRAND TR.AVERSE HAND POTATO-PLANTER. 



I notice the manufacturers have changed their di- 

 rections for using the planter, slightly, for this year. 

 The new directions read as follows : 



" It is very important in planting potatoes that they 

 he plaud in moi'sf soil and covered before the soil diies 

 out. This the Acme planter does perfectly. Ordina- 

 rily the holes are made, or furrow turned if horse is 

 used, and the soil exposed to the hot sun for the day. 

 The soil soon dries. Next the sets are dropped, and 

 perhap-i they are left to blister in the sun; they are 

 then covered at unequal depths. 



"directions for USE. 



" Carry the planter with the horizontal arm or lever 

 across the row you are following. When putting in 

 the seed raise the planter to the left hand. Do not 

 stoop. Put the planter into the ground with the toot 

 stepping squarely on the hopper, not on the lever; keep 

 the foot on the planter while throwing the handle to 

 the left, which releases the seed, then raising the 

 planter you naturally step on the hill, which firms the 

 ground. 



Carry the seed in a sack, as shown in the cut. It is 

 very important to hav - the right kind of sack; it 

 should be about 20 inches wide and 11 inches deep. A 

 common grain bag makes three good ones. The strap 

 for carrying it should be fastened about three inches 

 from each edge of the bag. Carry the bag high enough 

 so that the bottom can be easily reached. Do not 

 make the bag too deep." 



From what vre used the machine last year I am in- 

 clined to think the above directions are rather an im- 

 provement on those we gave a year ago, especially in 

 regard t . keeping the foot on the planter while throw- 

 ing the handle to the left. 



Please remember the new prices : One planter, 60 

 cts.; 3 or more at 5-5 cts. each ; half-dozen or more, 50 

 cts. each ; one crate of a whole dozen, f5 25. 



;OR SAI^E — 2000 lbs honey, buckwheat mixed, 7c, 

 freight paid; in (iO lb. cans, 2 cans in case. 



B. F. AvERiLL, Howardsville. Va. 



200-Egg Incubator 

 for $12-80 



Perfect in construction and 



action. Hatches every fertile 



epg. Write for catalogne to-day. 



GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III. 



Victor's Strain of Italian 4 



Bees Awarded the Diploma ^ 



as Being the Best Bees ? 

 at the Pan=American. 



BUREA U OF A WARDS. 



XPOSITION,) 

 L^ORK. U.,S. A. V 

 uaiv 12, 1902.) 



PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION,^ 

 Buffalo, New Y( 

 Februai 

 Mr. IV. O. Victor, Wharton, Texas. 



Dear Sir — I have the honor to advise you 

 that a Diploma rf Honorable Mention has been 

 awarded to you for j'our exhibit of Italian bees 

 at this Exposition. 



Very respectfully, Wm. I. Buchanan, 

 Director General. 



Orel L. Hershiser Bought of Me an 

 Untested Queen. This is what 

 He Says of Her Colony : 



"They are very industrious characteris1i/:al- 

 ly marked, and extremel3' gentle. It was a 

 daily experience and repeated many times 

 daily, to go into the inclosure with interested 

 visitors, at the Exposition, open the hive, full 

 to overflowing with beautiful tees, the prog- 

 eny of the queen you sent me, and handle 

 them in the various manipulations cf hunting 

 out the queen ; shaking the bees from the 

 comb, as is done in extracting, showing the 

 brood in all stages, etc., all without the use of 

 a smoker or any thing else to quiet the bees, 

 and I do not recollect that any one ever got a 

 sting from any of them.'' 



Of the bees I exhibited at the Pan-American, 

 he .says : "The nucleus you sent for exhibition 

 and award was certainly very fine-looking . 

 bees, and, in my opinion, thry deserve the 

 award given them by the judges." „_ i^j^i^-s 



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But Who is Mr. Hershiser? ''T3 



"^ See Gleanings of date of Feb'y 1, 1902, page 

 97 Send in your orders for queens, and in a 

 short time, as Mr. Hershiser and hundreds of 

 others are now doing, you, too, will be singing 

 the praises of "Victor's Bees." Price lists on 

 application. 



I Am Filling Orders by Return Mail from 

 This Superior Stock at Following Prices : 



Untested queens: 1, $1,00; (i, f5.00. Select un- 

 tested queens: 1, $\.'lo: 0, Jti.OO. Tested queens: 

 1, I1..50; t), fS.OO. Select tested queens: 1, $2 00; 

 6, $11.00. Breeders, $i.W) to $7 00. See circular 

 for specifications. 



W. 0. VICTOR, Wharton, Tex. 



^ Queen Specialist. 



