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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKIl. 



June 



glad indeed to hear the kind words from 

 friends Hutchinson, Cutting, and other 

 " furriners " as you term it. 



SETTING OUT PLANTS. 



HOW TO VO IT PAST AND EASV. 



A man may lend his store of g-old or silver ore; 

 But know ledj^e none can borrow, none can lend. 



R. EDITOR:— The atiove saying- is only par- 

 tially trne, and 1 will now g-ive to the read- 

 ers ot Gr.i'ANiNOS some experience in set- 

 ting- out plants, by Capt. Charles Gary's 

 method. Mr. Gary and myself live on ad- 

 joining- lots in the suburbs of Titiisville, and I often 

 hear him telling- some one how to set calibage. He 

 is so enthusiastic in it that T often have men say to 

 me, aside, "That Gary 's an old crank, is he not?" 

 Well, my work is to uraom the iron horse at present, 

 and I find that it is a, crank motUm that sends it 

 along-the track with speed. When plants of cabliag-e, 

 and that family of cauliflower, Russia turnips, kohl- 

 rabi, also beets, are large enougrh to transplant, if 

 there comes a shower, wait till the wafer has drain- 

 ed off and the ground is wet but not imuldy. Then 

 take your plants, lay them on the ground where 

 you wish them to grow (you can drop them as you 

 would corn), then with the corner of a hoe take a 

 little earth and place on the root, pressing slightly 

 with the back of fhe hoe. For a few days they will 

 He on the ground, but will soon root and holdup 

 their heads, and there will be no more loss of plants 

 than by taking more pains; and the advantage is 

 great, especially at a bus3' time. A boy of fourteen 

 or fifteen set out, without help, day before yester- 

 day, over one thousand plants of cabbage. 



In setting on a large scale, if the ground is fur- 

 rowed out, as for corn, the plants could be set at 

 the side of the furrow, and, with a small boy to 

 drop, a man could set out thousands in a day. I 

 used to raise vegetables for a living, and I know 

 how a person's back feels after a day's work setting 

 plants, and how the knees don't want to straighten 

 out when you get, out of bed in the morning, and I 

 write this in the interest of those who have a 

 " crick in the back," or, like Falstaff or Santa Glaus, 

 are men and women of unbounded stomach. I want 

 every one who works a bit of ground to try this 

 method this summer. 



A year or two ago Mr. Gary hired a German to set 

 out cabbage in 7ms way; and as I was going out the 

 next morning I met the German right at the patch. 

 He said, 



" Allen, go softly, or you might wake'Gary's cab- 

 bage dot has gone off sleep already." In the fall 

 the German was here again, and the cabbages were 

 fine. I said, " Gary's cabbages woke up, did they 

 not?" 



" Laeshgang!" he said; " ya, dot is so, Allen." 



Tltusville, Pa., May 'M, 1S8S. A. H. Ar.T.EN. 



Many thanks, friend A. Your communi- 

 cation may be worth hundreds of doUars to 

 our readers, coming just in time as it does. 

 I would suggest, that, where the groimd is 

 not marked out, as in field culture, you 

 stretch a string, and tell the l)oy to lay the 

 roots of the plants right under "the string. 

 Now throw your string off to one side, and 



cover as you direct. Unless you have tried 

 it, and know, I should be afraid that for 

 beets, tfiruips, and plants where we depend 

 on the root, the result might be a crooked 

 bottom. We once tiausplanted a lot of tur- 

 nips by pressing the root into the ground 

 with a dibble, and ;it harvest time we had a 

 lot of deformities iliat were very funny, but 

 not quite so salable. 



THAT GLEANINGS PAPEH. 



MRS. CHADDOCK HAS FOUND OIjEANINQS PAPER 

 HANDY TO HAVE IN THE HOUSE. 



I'y 



WONDER how many of the readers of Glean- 

 ings know what a cheap and handy thing that 

 Gleanings paper is to have in the house. I 

 have been using It to write all my manuscript 

 on for two years, and 1 find it very sat Isfacto- 

 I used to have considerable trouble about get- 

 ting paper to write on. Gommon note paper I dis- 

 carded long ago (I'd have been a pauper by this 

 time if I had kept on using it), and I found a kind 

 of linen paper that came in boxes, at 7."> cts. a box, 

 that was good strong paper; but when a word was 

 scratched out it left so thin a place that the writing 

 was apt to blot. Then, too, that linen paper was 

 too expensive to throw away, and I did not use it 

 till I had written every thing on old envelopes, the 

 margins of newspapers, and backs of letters. The 

 good thing about the linen paper was, that I could 

 send ten sheets of it for a three-cent stamp. Since 

 I have been using Gleanings paper I do not both- 

 er to write on sci-aps of waste paper, but do all my 

 writing on fresh clean sheets; and if I spoil one I 

 throw it away, as the cost is so little that it does not 

 twinge my thrifty soul at all, and take a fresh one. 

 At first the family sniffed at Gleanings paper, and 

 would not use It; but when they ran out of all oth- 

 er kinds they were glad to try it, and now they use 

 it for every thing, almost. The children fasten it 

 together at one end and use it for scratch-books at 

 school; they draw maps and pictures on it. and put 

 on it what the regular examination papers will not 

 hold. Minnie gives it out to her pupils just as free- 

 ly as if she owned all the paper-mills in the United 

 States, or was boss of the " paper-trust;" and we 

 use it to put in the bottoms of pans when baking 

 cakes; write all our letters on it, and— our poetry! 

 and we can send ten sheets of it for a two-cent 

 stamp. I like this Gleanings paper; and unless I 

 find something that I like better, I shall use it al- 

 ways. When using paper in cake-tins, it is not nec- 

 essary to cover the pans all over. In most cake- 

 tins there is a brown burnt spot that is apt to burn 

 before the cake is done. Cut a piece of papei- a 

 little larger than this spot; grease the pan, stick 

 the papei- fast, and pour in the dough. For a loaf 

 cake, line the bottom all over. 

 Vermont, III. Mahala B. Chaddock. 



My good friend, it is a little consoling to 

 my feelings to have you decide as T have 

 done. We buy Gleaxings paper by the 

 carload, and get it ever so much cheaper 

 than anybody can get small quantities of 

 different kinds of paper at stores. It was 

 one of my pet projects, a few years ago, to 

 have no paper used for any ptupose what- 

 ever, except Gleanings. All the clerks 

 were to write on Gleanings paper ; all the 



