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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



"notes of travel." 

 You will see. by reference to tlie Juvenile De- 

 partment of current issue, that the senior editor of 

 this journal, A. I. Root, has taken his departure for 

 California, going- bj' way of New Orleans, for a six 

 weeks' sojourn. He has worked long and hard at 

 his post; and while some of us at home will have to 

 work a little harder, perhaps, in his absence, it is a 

 pleasure to us to think that he has now arrived 

 at that po^nt in life when he can take this change 

 and rest, which he so richly deserves. He will fui-- 

 nish notes of travel by the way, besides telling of 

 that great bee - country — California — a country 

 whose resources seem boundlt ss, and about which 

 we bee-keepers of the East know comparatively 

 little. 



ECLIPSE BEETS— OVER 1350 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. 



Last spring we sowed a little patch of Eclipse 

 beets, intending to pull them for beet greens, and 

 for beets for the wagon as wanted. They were near 

 the turnip-patch, that I have told you of before. 

 The ground was heavily manured with stable 

 manure in the fall, and rye was sown with a drill, 

 guano being used in the drill instead of phos- 

 phate. In the spring the rye received another 

 heavy top-dressing of well-rotted stable manure. 

 When it was about knee-high it was plowed under, 

 and the beets were drilled in by hand. The ground 

 occupied was twenty feet wide and eighty feet 

 long. When we commenced to pull them there 

 were 38 good full bushels of beets, and none of 

 them too large for table use either. We started 

 to thin them out at the proper time, but did not get 

 around to it, so half of the patch grew so thick that 

 they crowded each other out of the ground. Esti- 

 mating 12 bushels used for market (and there were 

 certainly more than this), this little patch gave us 

 over 50 bushels, which would be at the rate of 1350 

 bushels per acre. I am aware of what mangle-wurt- 

 zels often do; but is not the above pretty good for 

 table beets, say about the size of good apples? 



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HOW ffOT TO SUCCEED. 



Recently, in talking with a bee-keeper from a 

 distant State, I happened to make some inquiries 

 in regard to a bee-keeper near him, who does quite 

 a little in the supply business. It seems he does 

 not get along very well. In a few moments' con- 

 versation I gathered the following: This proprie- 

 tor of the supply factory does not get around until 

 about 9 o'clock in the morning; and even after he 

 gets there he makes it his business individually to 

 go to the postofflce f(jur times a day, and on the way 

 there and back he always smokes a big pipe. 

 Now, my friends, these three things, it seems to 

 me, would effectually kill any business in the 

 world. The man who expects to succeed ought to 

 be up before any of his hands have reached the fac- 

 tory—yes, even before the engineer. This latter 

 may be a little too exacting, but he should certain- 

 ly be on hand before the machinery is started. 

 Secondly, the man who. has charge of hands and 

 machinery can not afford to go to the postofflce 

 himself, even once a day. In regard to the pipe 

 matter, there may be differences of opinion ; but I 

 do not believe that anybody would be so bold as to 

 claim that a big pipe and the accompanying tobac- 

 co would be conducive to the prosperity of any bus- 

 iness. If the above will be the means of setting 

 any young man, just starting into business, to 

 thinking, I shall be very glad. 



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go well together. Bees fructify the blossoms. The 

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