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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



AMERICAN GROWN 



Extra -Early Jersey Wakefield 

 CABBAGE-SEED- 



AND GROWN BY A 'BEE-MAN" TOO. 



I PRESUME that most of the fiiends have heard 

 enough of the .lersey Wakefleld cabbage to know 

 what it is, even if they do not raise cabbages. Well, 

 you have probably also heard of Puget Sound, in 

 Washington Territory, as a wonderful field for mar- 

 ket-gardening, especially seed growing. Our older 

 readers will remember our contributor H. A. March, 

 who gave us such important facts in regard to the 

 distance that bees will tly. Well, friend M. is not 

 only a bee-keeper, but he is a seed-grower; and for 

 several seasons he has been urging me to test his 

 cabbage and caulitlower seed. With the multitude 

 of cares here at the Home of the Honey-Bees, do 

 you think it any thing strange if 1 forgot who sent 

 me the cauliflower-seeds, until friend M., a long 

 time afterward, made inciuiries? All we know about 

 it is, that the finest cauliflowers we ever saw or 

 heard of grew from those few seeds, and they were 

 not half cared for at that. A few days ago I sent 

 him an order for .Terse.\' Wakefleld cabbage-seed: 

 but it so happened that our great seedsmen had dis- 

 covered the value of his surds as well as myself, and 

 he was sold out entirely ; but he was so anxious to 

 accommodate his old bee-friend A. I. Koot that he, 

 contrary to seed-growers' custom, let me have just 

 two pounds of his precious " stock-seed," as It is 

 termed in seed-growers' parlance. Do you know 

 what stock-seed is? Well, the seed-grower who is 

 trying to build up a reputation, strives to sow seed 

 for his seed cabbages which are a little better than 

 any thing else to be had. The way he does it, he 

 goes to a great flcld of cabbages and picks out, say, 

 one head in a thousand that is greatly superior to 

 tlie surrounding ones. This head is made to pro- 

 duce seed for his own use— that is, to raise cabbage- 

 heads expressly for seed; and, as a rule, no seed- 

 grower ever sells anj^ of his stock-seed. Well, be- 

 cause it was myself, A. T. Root, I got hold of two 

 pounds of this precious double-extra Jersey Wake- 

 fleld. What shall [ do with it? Why, I think we can 

 help friend March more, and help each other more, 

 by dividing it up in flvecent packages, as we are 

 dbina- with the Grand Rapids lettuce, and next fall 

 we shall have some reports from friend March's 

 cabbage-seed similar to the ones we have had in 

 regard to the Japanese buckwheat. Anybody can 

 have five cents' worth who wants it; but to make 

 the two pounds go iiround, we can not give more 

 than one package to each person. His stock came 

 from Francis Brill; and, by the way, you may 

 have a few seeds of his cauliflower at the same 

 price. As cauliflower is very expensive, however, 

 you can not expect many seeds for a nickel. In 

 ordering, be sure to say " March's seed " it you want 

 his'especial strain. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. 



50 Colonies of Hybrid Bees for Sale. 



I have 50 colonies of hybrid bees in double-story 

 Langstroth-frame hives, in good condition, the win- 

 ter having been very mild here. No snow. Ice a 

 few times. 1 would sell them for f3.50 a colony, de- 

 livered to railroad or to Mississippi River steamers. 

 I think they are a capital bargain for Northerners, 

 as I can ship them at a moment's notice. Would 

 give them as part pay for a new or second-hand 10 

 H. P. steam-engine arid boiler. N. ('. ELFER, 



Pugh, Lafourche Par., La. 



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IMPORTED CARNIOLAN QUEENS. 



I have 11 FINEST SELKC'TED Ql'KIiNS, 



bred by ]SIr. Benton in Carniola, August and Sep- 

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 soon as weather will permit; never saw foul brood. 

 One (jueen by mail, $10. Queen, with frame of 

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N. B. — Am booking orders now for untested 

 queens in May. 



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 for the March number of the Aiuerit-an Apioul- 

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 best-known writers on apiculture. Sent Free. 



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POULTRY FOR SALE. 



I have 50 head of Wyandotte chickens, thorough- 

 bred, that 1 wish to dispose of immediately. 

 4d JOHN NORRIS, Manchester, Adams Co., O. 



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What is the Matter? 



1 wish to inform the readers of Gleanings that I 

 am lietter prepared the cominsr summer to furnish 

 bees by the pound, Italian Queens, Nticlei, Comb 

 Foundation, Hives, Smokers, Honey-Extractors, 

 Honey-Knives, and every thing needed in the bee- 

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Oliver Foster, of Iowa. 



Italian bees, (id cts. per lb. in July, to $100 in 

 Ai)riL Pkgs. with queens, brood, etc., cheap. No 

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