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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Fig. 2. — Trimming the celery and pacliing it in boxes. 



berries, celery, sweet and Irish potatoes, and 

 other crops according to the season. As a 

 matter of course, everybody does not succeed 

 as my good neighbor Rood does ; and some 

 are so unkind as to intimate that his beau- 

 tifully kept gardens are more to help him 

 sell real estate than to make a profit on his 

 crops; but as he is located just across the 

 street from my own five acres, I think I 

 have an opportunity to know something 

 about what it costs him to keep his place in 

 such beautiful trim and what he gets for 

 the stuti' he sells. And, by the way, it just 



now occurs to me that this is the biggest 

 kind of a chance for any of you to sell 

 your real estate, if you happen to have 

 moie than you need, or are getting too old 

 to take care of a farm. The best advertise- 

 ment that can possibly be gotten up for a 

 I)iece of land is to put on it a few aci'es, a 

 single acre, or even a part of an acre, in 

 ''liigh-ijressure" up-to-date gardening. The 

 books and periodicals now devoted to rural 

 industries will keep you posted as to the 

 wonderful things being done along these 

 lines in this year of 1912. 



Fig. 3. — A glimpse at "short range" of the trimmed 

 bunches ready to be packed in cases. 



Fig. 4. — A glimpse of the celery rows and the 

 stalks after cutting. 



