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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1.5. 



they are certainly a bargain. Tlie largest of them 

 will do nicely to bake. Perhaps it is well to men- 

 tion that our stock of second size of Rural New- 

 Yorker is always limited because they run large so 

 invariably. 



A word in regard to the Early Ohio potatoes. 

 They are so much disposed to scab, especially on 

 our ground, and so unsatisfactory in yield, we think 

 of dropping them. It is true, the Freeman is not 

 quite so early, but in every other respect we think 

 it a much better pt)tato; and for an extm enrJy po- 

 tato we have settled down on Everett's Six Weeks. 

 Although I have not raised it very much myself, it 

 has been making- an excellent record with many of 

 ray neiglibors. We have now in stock about 40 

 bushels, and the price will be the same as the Free- 

 mans above. 



In my enumeration of potatoes, with prices, on 

 page 776. Oct. 1. by a blunder the Monroe Seedling 

 was omitted. We had no thought of leaving out 

 this now considered standard potato, for it is our 

 best medium early. The price will be tlie same as 

 tlie Early Ohio, Puritan, Lee's Favorite, and Rural 

 New-Yorker, as above. 



THE SEED-TFJADE t'OR 1895. 



There seems to be quite a healthy activity among 

 seedsmen in regard to prices and quality of seeds 

 for next year. Tt begins to be a settled fact that 

 there is such a thing as cheap seer's. If they are 

 not in the market they are certainly in the hands of 

 the governmnit seed-shop — see p. H8:i. Prof. Green is 

 right in saying it would be cheaper to buy lettuce 

 seed at $100 a pound than to take that furnished by 

 the government department as a gift. One might 

 think at first glance that this is a tremendous ex- 

 aggeration; but when we take into cot.sideration 

 Ihe expense of the glass that covers the crop, the 

 care required, and the value of a good crop of 

 Grand Rapids lettuce grown under glass, he finds 

 there is a tremendous importance attached to the 

 kind of seed one starts with. T find Grand Rapids 

 lettuce seed quoted in most of the seed-catalosrs, 

 and also in advance wholesale sheets. The price 

 is low. so that it mav be readily retailed at 10 els. 

 per ounce; and my impression is. that all the Grand 

 Rapids lettuce seed offered by our large well-known 

 seedsmen will prove pretty nearly true to name — 

 perhaps not quite so good as the stock seed grown 

 by the originator, Eugene Davis, and carefullv 

 watched, as none but tlie originator would be likely 

 to watch a production of its own. 



By the way, this reminds me that we are out of 

 Ignotum tomato seed, and I do jiot know where to 

 find any that is just what I want. Tt is pretty cer- 

 tain there has be^n quite a little sold that is not up 

 to the original Ignotum as I first gave it to the 

 world. I feel somewhat ashamed of myself to 

 think I did not have enough enthusiasm in time to 

 raise my own seed. Can any of the readers of 

 Gleanings help me out in this matter? 



I undertook to rai=e a lot of onion seed from my 

 strain of Spanish onions bought in market; but the 

 dry weather " sat down " on it so tliat I am not sure 

 I have any good seed at all. We are commencing to 

 test it in our greenhouses. Of course, during such 

 a, severe general drouth as we have had the past 

 summer, there liave bpen a good many disappoint- 

 ments, and very likely the seedsman has been 

 blamed, when only the dry weather wa'^ at fault. 

 All I can say in regard to the seeds we offer for sale 

 is, that we are planting our own seeds — at least a 

 great part of them— cuej-y maiitfi in the year, and we 

 shall not try to sell to anybody else seeds that we 

 would not plant ourselves. In fact, if there is any 

 reason for being suspicious of any lot of seed, I 

 make a planting of it myself before offering it for 

 sale. 



march's strain of jersey WAKEFIELD CABBAOE, 

 STOCK SEED. 



Frte/id JJooL"— I send you today 5 11)8. of the best 

 stock seed that I have ever put on the market. I 

 saved 5 lbs. for you when Gregory ordered every 

 ounce of this year's ciop, and 40 lbs. of my last 

 year's yield. The 5 lbs. is all you can get this" year, 

 for I have six orders already tiiat I can't fill. I feel 

 safe in saying this is the l)est 5 lbs of Wakefield in 

 America. I liave been 10 years working this stock. 

 The original was from Francis Brill's Long Island 

 stock, considered at that time to be the truest stock 

 of Jerse.v Wakefield grown. At that time only 

 75 per cent of the lieads were cone-shaped; the rest 

 were roundish-oval, with a great many soft heads, 



and over 10 per cent that made rosettes, witli no 

 sign of a head. 



This seed that I send you will make every head in 

 a thousand cone-shaped, and 99 per cent of gCKKi 

 plants, well grown, will make solid heads. I stake 

 my reputation as a seed-grower, on this seed. 



I have 25,000 plants for next year's seeding, and I 

 hope to have enougli then to go ai'ound. This seed 

 that I send j-ou is from the choicest heads of a field 

 of over two acres. The heaviest and most perfect 

 heads were picked, and wintered under glass. It's 

 the heaviest-heading variety of early cabbage in the 

 world. 1 have been perfecting this stock for over 

 ten years, and I defy the warki to heat it. Try it and 

 report. H. A. M.\rch. 



Fidalgo, Wash., Oct. 16. 



[You will notice by the above that I have failed 

 in getting March's seed next year, with the excep- 

 tion of 5 lbs. of xtoch .seed, described above. Now, 

 as this 5 lbs. would go only a little way in supplying 

 our customers, we have bought a supplj' of the 

 best Jersey Wakefield of Francis Brill, for general 

 purposes that is, to furnish at prices mentioned in 

 our catalog. But this preeiou!^ seed, that friend 

 March was kind enough to send me, we are going to 

 give to the readers of Gleanings in this way: 

 Every one of you who pays or has paid for Glean- 

 ings for 1895, before Jan. 1st, may have a paper of 

 the seed free of charge. If you have paid for 1895 

 already, simply tell us on a postal that you want 

 your paper of cabljage seed, according to this otter. 

 Of course, the packets will not be very large; but 

 they will be large enough so that you can see 

 whether friend March has exaggerated in his ac- 

 count of what he has done. Remember, this seed 

 is not for .so^c at any price. So long as it lasts, it 

 will be given to our subscribers. If you want more 

 than one packet, get some of your friends to sub- 

 scribe with you. Foi' new names we will send both 

 of you a packet— the new subscriber, and the one 

 who induces him to subscribe. 



500 YOUNG FERRETS 



Now ready to ship ;it only f 3.00 

 a pair. Price list of Bees and 

 Ferrets free. N. A. Knapp, 



Rochester, Lorain Co., O. 



TAKE NOTICE! 



DEFORE placing your orders for SUPPLIES, write 

 " for prices on One-Piece Basswood Sections, Bee- 

 Hives, Shipping-Crates, Frames, Foundation, Smo- 

 kers, etc. PAGE & KEITH, 

 8tfdb New London, Wis. 



Gash for Beeswax ! 



Will pay 23c per lb. cash, or 3.5c in trade for any 

 quantity of good, fair, average beeswax, delivered 

 at our R. R. station. The same will be sold to those 

 who wish to purchase, at 30c per lb., or 33c for h^ot 

 selected wn.r. Old comhs will not be accepted under 

 anil cnn><ideratinn. 



Unless you put your name on the '>oj-, and notify 

 us by mail of amoui.t sent. I can not hold myself 

 responsible for mistakes. It will not pay as a gen- 

 eral thing to send wax by exprexs. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina.Ohio. 



Read what J. 1. Parent, of 

 Charlton, N. Y., says— "We 

 cut with one of your Combined 

 Machines last winter 50 chaff 

 hives with 7-inch cap, 100 honey- 

 ra;'ks, 500 broad frames, 3,000 

 honey-boxes, and a great deal of 

 other work. This winter w e 

 have doubled the amount of bee- 

 ^ 'lives, etc., to make, and we ex- 

 ' pect to do it all with this saw. 

 Mt will do all ytm say it will." 

 Catalogue and Price List free. Address W. F. & 

 JOHN BARNES, 545 Ruby St., Rockford, 111. 



When more convenient, orders for Barnes' Foot.- 

 Power Machinery may be sent to me. A. I. Root. 

 eiotf Please mention this paper 



