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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



around to take it, there did not happen to be 

 many people around at the lime. I guess it 

 was just about time for the horseraces, and 

 so it is mostly women and children who re- 

 main around tlie stand. In the center of 

 the building is a pyramid of shelves. This 

 was mostly tilled with cabbages, large ones 

 at the bottom and smaller ones at the top, 

 until the top shelves had some that weighed 

 only a pound apiece. These we offered for 

 a penny. Many of them were the product 

 of the shoots that put out from the 

 stumps after cutting our early Jersey Wake- 

 fields. A basket of them was kept on the 



board was put up on another corner of the 

 building, reading as follows : " Some of the 

 products of our Medina clay soil." This 

 was for the encouragement of those who 

 were in the habit of saying that certain 

 things could not be raised in Medina clay. 



The individual behind the counter, with a 

 package in his hand, is supposed to be your 

 humble servant, and I stayed there the great- 

 er part of the three days the fair was in ses- 

 sion. I formed, during these three days, 

 many new acquaintances, exchanged new 

 ideas with hundreds of people, and learned 

 some very important and valuable facts by 



A GLIMPSE FROM OlIU COUNTY FAIKGROUNDS, WITH OUK BUILDIKCf FOR THE FALE 

 OF GARDEN VEGETABLES AND HONEY. 



talking with old farmers. At first it seemed 

 rather dull, but I had made up my mind 

 that it was my duty, and I determined to 

 carry it out. I have already told you of the 

 difficulty of selling the products of our mod- 

 ern agriculture. Our ground is now getting 

 in such a state [ot cultivation that we raise 

 more on a little plot than our whole town 

 can consume; in fact, it begins to be quite 

 plainly apparent, that, on the ten acres we 

 now have under cultivation, enough garden- 

 stuff can be raised to sell in our town of less 

 than 2000 inhabitants so as to amount to be- 



counter, with a neatly printed card, reading, 

 " Only 1 cent each, or 10 cents per dozen.-' 

 The counter, clear around the outside, was 

 covered with beets, squashes, potatoes, cu- 

 cumbers, tomatoes, baskets of peppers, etc. 

 But the particular vegetable on exhibition 

 was " White Plume " celery. This was ar- 

 ranged in celery-glasses, clear around the 

 building. We soon discovered that people 

 were at a loss to understand whether these 

 vegetables w'ere simply for exhibition or for 

 sale, so we put up little boards, saying, 

 " These vegetables are for sale." Another 



