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OUR SEED-CATALOGUE FOH MARCH. 



This has several important chang'es, and many re- 

 ductions in price of seeds since our January cata- 

 logue. If you would like it, drop us a postal. 



THE NEW SEEDS. 



The " Grand Rapids " lettuce is now selling on the 

 streets of Medina at 30 cts. a pound; and as many 

 of the heads weigh a pound each, we get 30 cts. for 

 a plant. We have plenty of seed left tor those who 

 want it, at the prices heretofore given. The stock 

 seed of H. A. March's Jersey Wakefield cabbage is 

 almost gone. Wc can, however, furnish any (juan- 

 titj' of Maroh's Jersey Wakefield at the prices given 

 in our seed-catalogue; but the latter is not stoch 

 seed. 



MAPLE SUGAR. 



On account of the very bad sugar weather during: 

 March, the demand for maple sugar has been 

 greater than the supply, and at present writing 

 every bit of sugar we can buy is used to fill orders 

 as fast as we can get hold of it. I believe the qual- 

 ity is, however, better than that of any year here- 

 tofore. Very likely Prof. Cook's book on maple- 

 sugar making has had something to do with this. 

 Our prices are now 9, 10. and 11 cents; but it is not 

 likely that we shall be able to fill more than a small 

 part of the orders for the nine-cent grade, for the 

 I'eason mentioned. 



EARLY POTATOES. 



One of our neighbors, a pupil of Terry's, raised a 

 great crop of "Early Vermont" potatoes last year. I 

 have purchased of him 130 bushels, which I offer 

 for sale at $1.50 per bushel; .50 cents a peck, or one 

 pound by mail, postpaid, for 35 cents. The Early 

 Vermont is a seedling of the Early Hose. Our 

 neighbor who raised them says they are just as 

 good in every respect as the Early Rose, and a 

 great deal more prolific. For table use at this 

 season of the year, they are the nicest-eating potato 

 we have got hold of in a very long while. 



Cleanincs in Bee Culture, 



Published Setnl-Month hj. 



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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



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TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



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For Chblsisg Batos, Sse First Page of Seadisg Matter. 



Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.— Ps. 118 :26. 



We now have an actual bona-flde subscription- 

 list of 8054. Our list still continues to grow from 

 month to month, as you will notice. 



NOTHING TO DO. 



If there is any month in the year when the above 

 expression is inexcusable, it is in the month of 

 April. If you can not do any better, make garden. 

 If you have only a few square rods, go to raising 

 plants and it will keep you and your children busy 

 for weeks. God's rain and sunshine are free to all. 



IN HONOR PREFERRING ONE ANOTHER. 



Almost every spring I am pained to notice that 

 some of our finest and best seed-catalogues persist 

 in claiming not only that their seeds are ever so 

 much better than any other, but that the folks who 



buy of other parties make utter failures, while 

 those who buy of this one special house make a 

 great success, no matter how bad the soil or other 

 circumstances. Sometimes we see pictures illus- 

 trating the magnificent crops Mr. So and So's seeds 

 always give; but if you buy anywhere else— fail- 

 ure. Now, friends, this is not a'-good way to do. If 

 is unworthy of the spirit and progress of the times. 

 The man who calls his neighbor a knave and a fool 

 is not a good man. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Very often, in meeting bee-friends, and a good 

 many times visitors at our establishment, when the 

 subject of our bee-.iournal comes up, some of them, 

 with a little embarrassment, acknowledge that they 

 have been taking the A. B. J. instead of Gleanings; 

 and sometimes they seem to think that may be I 

 shall feel displeased when I am told this. Why, 

 bless you, friends, if I should let any such feeling 

 get possession of me I should be unworthy of my 

 position. It affords me just as much pleasure to 

 take a brother by the hand who has taken the A. B. 

 J. for years past— yes, and contributed to its col- 

 umns—as if it were the other way. In fact, I am 

 more likely to get original ideas, thoughts, and sug- 

 gestions from him. The A. B. J. is an honor to our 

 industry. It comes weekly, which is more than 

 Gleanings ever expects to do, and it costs only a 

 dollar a year. Brother Newman has been standing 

 faithfully at his post for many long years. Not a 

 single number has failed or even been behindhand. 

 Many of the best friends of Gleanings are among 

 the contributoi's to the A. B. J. Now, if we can not 

 be hrothei's, all the same, even though we do take 

 different journals, we are not up to the spirit and 

 progress of the times. 



SENDING THE SAME COMMUNICATION TO DIFFER- 

 ENT BEE-JOURNALS. 



I PEAR this is getting to be somewhat the fashion 

 of late; but I am sure it is not a good fashion. Our 

 progressive bee-men expect to take more than one, 

 and oftentimes all of the bee-journals. Well, how 

 does such a one feel to find the same article in both 

 journals— or, if you choose, the same article slightly 

 altered in wording? I believe the editors of all the 

 journals have a great surplus of good original arti- 

 cles; and while it is easily within our power to give 

 you something every time which you have not or 

 will not see anywhere else until it is copied, is it 

 not the best way'/ The editors of the different bee- 

 journals have recently, however, made somewhat 

 of an exception to this rule in favor of father Lang- 

 stroth; and we have been in the habit of paying 

 him just as much for his communications as if 

 they had not been sent to some other journal also; 

 but I think we had better let the matter stop with 

 friend Langstroth, and not have it go out as a pi-ec- 

 edent. This, of course, has no reference to arti- 

 cles copied from other journals, where the journal 

 that first gave the article, and paid the author for 

 it, has due and proper credit. I just want to add 

 to the above, by way of a wee bit of postscript, that 

 perhaps it would promote this brotherly feeling to 

 take liotJ) of the journals. 



THE cottager's (BRITISH) BEE-JOURNAL. 



The publishers of the weekly British Bee-Journal, 

 in view of the fact that the price of the weekly at 

 10 shillings 10 pence (or $3.63) is beyond the reach of 



