1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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bees swarm over the blossoms when In bloom, 

 bill 1 fear the honey would not be ot very high 

 qiialily. Yon ask in a late number of (Jlkan- 

 iNusif it is an onion. 1 do not know. How- 

 ever, ii must be ndated to liie onion. 

 Linlen, Ind., Jan. 10. Josiah (iii,i,ii-ANn. 



[Tlianks for your suggestion, friend (J. Since 

 I called for information about chives, I notice 

 that a number of our seed catalogues advertise 

 them. J 



GAKDENINO IN THE MIDDLE OF FEBRUAHY. 



If you have glass, you can do a great lot in 

 the way of gardening tins month. Eai'ly beets 

 and early cabbage sliould be sown at once; also 

 cauliflower, celeiy, corn salad, cress, lettuce, on- 

 ions for transplanting, and onion-sets; Amei'ican 

 Wonder peas, peppers; radishi'S, Scarlet (Jlobe 

 and Early Ki'ame; spinach and tomatoes. Jf 

 you have no glass you can make a hot- bed and 

 cover it witli cotton cloth, on the plan given in 

 th(M,ouiato book. The great trouule with the 

 cloLh is from the heavy snows; but if your 

 rafters supi)ort the clotli, say every ?, feet, and 

 you sew curtain-rings to the ends, to be hooked 

 uver nails, the cloth will stand a considerable 

 fall of snow. Fastening tlie ends is an excel- 

 lent thing to prevent cold winds from flopping 

 the cloth. Better not ti'y any other way of us- 

 ing cloth than the plan given in the tomato 

 book. It must be made to roll up on a heavy 

 pole, or else the wind will make havoc. Cloth 

 fastened to frames is only a bother and disap- 

 pointment. The wind will blow your woi'k all 

 to pieces until you will wish you had never 

 thought of gardening. 



GARDENING IN THE OPEN ATR IN FEBRUARY. 



If you feel like it, and wish to get aheau, you 

 can often do considerable without any cloth or 

 frames. Select a warm locality, south of build- 

 ings or high board fences; if there are al^o 

 buildings or high board fences so as to cut off 

 the west wind, without cutting off too much of 

 the sun. it will do better still. Sheltered places 

 between the hills, or close to heavy timbei-— the 

 latter, I believe, is best of all — will often give a 

 splendid spot for early gardens. The ground 

 needs to be tremendously I'ich. Ridge it up so as 

 to dry otl quickly, and .-o the snow will melt oft' 

 quickly; then as soon as the top of the ridge is 

 fine enough to pulverize and rake, woi'k it down 

 smooth. First put in your American Wonder 

 or Alaska peas; next, lettuce and radishes;* a 

 little later, early-cabbage seed; then beets and 

 spinach; onion -sets; potato onions, multiplier 

 onions, etc., can be put in safely o.i top of these 

 ridges; and, Hnally. black onion seed. Some- 

 times these things will come ujj and afterward 

 be injured by frost, without jjrotection. Hut 

 this rarely hap|)ens. Such stuff' will stand ever 

 so much more in the early spring than it will in 

 the fall. Somehow it seems to know that warm 

 days are ahead. 



Since apples are so scarce, there is going to 

 be an unu<ual inducement for starting i)ie- 

 plant; and this will grow as well, or even bet- 

 tei'. in a dark cellar than in a light place. It 

 will grow slowly in almost any ordinary cellar; 

 but if there is a chimney that is just slightly 

 warm, down near the ground, or even if there 

 is a cooking stove right on the floor above, it 

 will give you an excellent chance to start rhu- 

 barb if the bed be made on the cellar bottom 

 right under the cooking-stove. Take u\) great 

 big roots, dirt and all, any time when the ground 

 is not frozen. Pack them close together in a 

 bed on the cellar- bottom. Fill in around them 

 with damp manure or rich dirt, and have a few 



I have had lettuce and radishes c ime up right in 

 the open ground, in the month of February, with- 

 out any protection wiiatever. 



inches of dirt right over the crowns. Rhubarb- 

 roots will make a start, towai'd spring, with the 

 least bit of (mcourag(!ment. You can get eai'ly 

 asparagus in tlu! same way, and we get 40 cts. 

 per lb. lor all we can produce in this way. Pie- 

 plant ought to bring half as much this season. 



PLANET .lit. CULTIVATORS. 



We have a bupply of 1894 catahjgues of Planet Jr. 

 implements, which wo shall be pleased to mail, on 

 request, to those iiiterosced, together with our net 

 price shee, giving prices at whicii we can supply 

 tliese goods, and ship direct from factory in Pliila- 

 deipliia, Pa. 



SWEET (OR BOKHAKA) CLOVER SEED. 



We call the attention of oar readers to the article 

 in last number, on sweet clo\er, by H. H. liuard- 

 maii, one of Ohio s leaning bee-keeners and honey- 

 producers. We have secured from Mr. Boardraan 

 a choice lot of seed of this clover he finds su valu- 

 able not only us a pasture for bees, but for stock 

 also. Tlie seed is Indled, and of e.\tra line quality. 

 We otter it at :i.5c per lb., postpaid; by freiglitor 

 express with other goods, l«c per lb. ; 10 lbs., $1.5U; 

 25 lbs. or more, 12c. 



SPECIAL SECTIONS At SPECIAL PRICES. 



In addilion to the several lots of special sections 

 listed in this department last issue, we would say 

 that Joseph Nysewander, of Des Moines, la., has in 

 stuck, of our I&93 nianufactiire, lUt,()uO No. 1 white 

 sections, mostly I's, that he will sell at $2.5U per 

 lUO ; til-o about 30.UuO No. 1 cream, 7 to foot and Ij-g, 

 that lie offers at iii:i.UO per lObO. This is a small stock 

 for that point, and those who wish to avail them- 

 selves of tliese prices must apply early. Polished 

 sections and other goods at our usual prices. 



CALIFORNIA WHITE-SAGE HONEY. 



If we did not get the car of Mercer's honey for 

 whicli we were planning, we have samples of a lot 

 equally good, now in Chicago, of which we shall 

 liave some in stock here also, very soon. We can 

 furnish it f. o b., either place, in '60-lb. cans, 3 in a 

 c.ise, at 7i4c per lb.; in lots of 4 cases or more, at 

 7l'. Samples mailed for 8 cents, to pay for mailing- 

 package and postage. Clioice while comb honey, 

 in 1-lb. sections, l(M-lb. lots, 15c per lb ; fair, 13c. 

 E.vtracte I clover and basswood Ijouey. in kegs, at 

 7>^c; in 60-lb. cans, 2 in a case, 8c. 



WAX ADVANCED 2 CENTS A POUND. 



The wax-market has shown a decided improve- 

 ment in prices, so that we quote an advance of 2c 

 per lb. over the prices which lia\'e ruled for several 

 months. Until further notice we will pay 23c (;ash 

 or 26.; in trade for average wax delivered here. 

 Selling price will be 3l)c for refined wax. We make 

 no advance in price of comb foundation, but, on 

 the contrarj% we reduce the price of extra thin sur- 

 plus foundation 5c per lb., making it only 5c per lb. 

 more than thin surplus, instead of 10c, as formerly. 

 Tills reduction is made at the suggestion of Chas. 

 Uadant & Son, who make a like reduction. 



SPRAY PUMPS AND SPRINKLERS. 



Although it is eaily yi't in most places to use 

 spray-pumps, it is not too earlj- lor tlio.se in need of 

 th(!Se implements to l)e looking about for the best 

 and most elflcient i3umps at the best prices. We 

 ask your attention to the line we otter, which you 

 will And on the two inside cover pages of tliis num- 

 l)er. The M^ers pumps, wliich we have sold for the 

 past two .seasons, are tlie best pumps on the market 

 at any price, so far as we know; yet the price is 

 rau(-h lower than sucli goods are generally sold at. 

 They have a new canpump this year, which Is very 

 convenient. See pages referred to for further par- 

 ticulars; and if you desire still f iiither particulars, 

 send to us for Myers' ei^ht-page spray-pump cir- 

 cular. 



