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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1919 



there was shipped out of one California town, hy 

 one buyer, 1,275 tons, for which $76,000 was paid 

 to the growers. Sunflower seed is . used for feed 

 and for oil. 



Will some of our California friends 

 please tell us where this great sunflower 

 region is? and also tell us, if possible, if 

 thei'e are beekeepers near (and I take it 

 for granted there surely would be) ; also 

 how about the lioney as to quantity, quali- 

 ty, etc. 



OUR FLORIDA GARDEN AND SOME GLIMPSES 

 OP OUR PLORIDA HOME. 



During the past winter Hiiber paid us a 

 visit, bringing along a kodak; and as ke 

 succeeded in getting some better pictures of 

 things than I may have shown before, may- 

 be you will think there is some repetition. 



No. 1 shows our garden back of the house 

 after most of the potatoes were dug. 



No. 2 is a picture of the same ground 

 about 50 days later, when the potatoes were 



peas were mostly gathered we planted Tri- 

 umph potatoes between the rows of peas. 

 The potatoes matured and were sold, and 

 Cuban flint corn planted in their place; and 

 between the corn we planted velvet beans, 

 see No. 2. The picture was taken May 20th. 



The paths between the beds are deep enough 

 so that when we have our great Florida 

 rains, which come occasionally, my pota- 

 toes are never drowned out. In that loose 

 soil the water is all out of the way before 

 it can do any harm. After the potatoes are 

 (lug they are nicely washed and graded as 

 firsts and seconds. 



During the past winter, when I took my 

 first load to the grocer I intended to tell 

 him they ought to bring 50 cents a basket; 

 but he understood that / expected to get 50 

 cents a basket. As they were very busy I 

 did not wait for my pay for several days, 

 and then was agreeably surprised to find he 

 had sold them for 60 cents per half-peck bas- 

 ket, allowing me the 50 cents I mentioned, 

 or $4.00 a bushel. But our customers took 



-A glimpse of o\u' Florida garden where I grew my potatoes in the winter time, nt Bradeintown, 



Manatee County, Florida. 



dug and corn had taken the place of them. 

 I have given it in order to show you the 

 possibilities in Florida of not only growing 

 two but even three crops on the same ground 

 in one winter. 



At the right hand of pictures 1 and 2 

 you will see a bed that runs clear down to 

 the pine trees close to the drainage canal. 

 Well, when we reached Florida the second 

 week in November I planted garden peas, 

 and we had a very good crop. When the 



them off as fast as I could get them uptown, 

 and at $4.80, or almost $5.00 a bushel. Per- 

 haps one thing that helped the rapid sale 

 was that I carried them to market in an 

 electric automobile; and this automobile 

 was stored by wind power. Next page is a de- 

 scription of the electric automobile, and 

 also a picture of the windmill with dynamo 

 right under the wheel that turns with the 

 vane to the mill. This dynamo charges the 

 storage batteries that propel the automobile. 



