GLEANING8 IN BEE CULTURE. 



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SECONn-HAND FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



Those Intorestod in second-hand foundation-mills 

 will do well to write for a list of what we have, with 

 samples of foundation made on them. Indicate the 

 size you want, and the grade of foundation you 

 wish "to make. ___^_____ 



SPECIAL BAKGAINS. 



We call attention to the three bargains on the 

 third cover pape of this issue. We are already 

 shipping quantities of the Mas 'n jars, and the bi- 

 cycles are sellitig here like hot cakes. We have al- 

 ready sold here in Medina almost two dozen of these 

 Aja.x wheels, and they are giving- the best of satis- 

 faction. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND STROP. 



Our surplus stock of these has been sold, although 

 we shall doubtless be able to secui-e what is needed 

 for any orders that we may receive. We shall hard- 

 ly be able to make quite as low prices on syrup as 

 we have quoted. For the present we ask for syrup 

 90ct8. per gallon; iO gallons, $8.50; 20 gallons and 

 upwards, 80 cts. per gallon. 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Those in need of choice extracted honey to sup- 

 ply tneir home market till the new crop is 

 harvested, we can furnish in one-gallon cans the 

 choicest Wisconsin honey at f6..50 per case of 8 gal- 

 lons; 2 cases at S6 2'); 5 cases or over at J6.00 per 

 case. Less than a full case at 8.5 cts. per gallon (12 

 lbs.). We have also the same quality honey in 60-lb. 

 cans, two in a case, at 7 cts. per lb. 



DRAWN FOUNDATION. 



The demand for sample lots of the drawn founda- 

 tion is such that we have not been able to get suffi- 

 cient stock ahead to keep going while we complete 

 the dies to their full size. 5x8 inches. We are still 

 furnishintr the drawn foundation in pieces 2x4 

 inches, about 8 feet to the pound, cells about H inch 

 deep; 6 such pieces with other goods 10 cts., or post- 

 paid <'orl2cls. A box of V2 lb., or 72 pieces, lor 75 

 cts., witli other goods, or prepaid for $1.00. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



Orders, especially for sections, were crowding us 

 at such a rate that we have for the past two weeks 

 been running our wood-working department night 

 and day, with two gangs of workmen, and may con- 

 tinue to do so for several weeks to come. We iire 

 turning out sections at the rate of 100,000 every 

 twentj'-four hours, yet we have been obliged to 

 order a car from anoiher manufacturer to help us 

 out. We don't propose to get behind on orders very 

 far if we can avoid it. We are filling all orders with 

 reasonable promptness, very few remaining in oui' 

 hands unfilled for a week or longer, and most orders 

 going out within one to five days after being re- 

 ceived. 



Several carloads have been shipped since last re- 

 port — one to New York for export, another to Liver- 

 pool. England: one to Rawlings fmp't Co.. Balti- 

 more. Md ; one to .los. Nysewander, Des Moines, 

 Iowa, and one to Henry F. Hageti, Uocky Ford, 

 Colo. As we go to press we are loading a car for 

 Syracuse Branch, and another for M. R. Madary, 

 Fresno, Cal. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



CANAD.\ FIELD PEAS. 



We can furnish a very nice article. i4 peck, 2.5c; 

 peck, 40c; 'i bushel, 70c; bushel, $1.2.5. Ten bush- 

 els or more, SI 00 per bushel. The above includes 

 bags for shipping. 



SWEET-POTATO PLANTS. 



We have now a splendid stock of the two vineless 



varieties— General Grant and Bunch Yam. We 

 liftve also nice plants of Yellow .lersoy and Early 

 Peabody. Pric(> r.c for 10, 40c per lOO, or $.3.00 per 

 1000. You will nolii-e wc are offering the new Gen- 

 eral Grant and Hunch Vain at the same prices as 

 the ordinary Hwtet iiotatocs. Later in the season 

 we may be able to give bettei' prices on lots of .5000 

 to 10,000. 



TWO MORE VALUABLE BOOKS. 



Our veteran friend Henry A. Dreer has given us 

 two more books, companions to that excellent work 

 which is having such an immense sale, " Gardening 

 under Glass." The titles of the new books are, re- 

 spectively, "Grasses and Clovers, with Notes on For- 

 age-plants;" and the other, ''Open-air Vegetables." 

 The three are called " Dreer's Library." Bee keep- 

 ers will be especially interested in the "Grasses and 

 Clovers " book, because it has so much to say about 

 plants that bear honey. The frontispiece shows us 

 a photo of six tons to the acre of hay grown by Geo. 

 M. Clark, of Higganum, Ct .and he tells exactly how 

 Mr. Clark did it. The book discusses fully all the 

 clovers, and, in fact, all plants that have "butter- 

 fly " blossoms. Those we are most interested in are 

 alfalfa, alsike, bokhara, crimson clover, cow pea, 

 flat pea, Japan clover, mammoth, medium, soja 

 bean, tares (or vetches), trefoil, etc. The b ok gives 

 the quantities of seed to sow per acre for eveiy one 

 of them, and more or less particulars in regard to 

 the cultivation. There is also a chapter on root 

 crops. Reports from crimson clover are given from 

 different States. The impression seems to be that 

 crimson clover will grow more or less throughout 

 the Northern States when we learn how to manage 

 it. If our readers could see our crimson clover this 

 morning (April 26), I think they would have faith 

 that it can be grown in Northern Ohio. 



The other book. "Open air Vegetables," is a a-en- 

 erai treatise on growing vegetables without glass. 

 There are quite a number of pictures of crops that 

 are alone worth considerable to the gardener. 

 There is just one picture of a crop of spinach, 

 grown under shutters, that is worth to me a great 

 deal m re than the price of the book. I have for 

 some time had the impression that spinach might 

 be grown to perfection, without any glass at all- 

 just board shutters— but 1 did not know that any- 

 body had ever tried it. Here is a picture of the 

 whole thing. The worst part of it is, however, the 

 picture is all tliere is to tell the story. The book 

 does not give any directions at all how to do it. 



We can furnish either of these books for 20 cts. ; 

 postpaid by mail, 23 cts. each. 



THE HAND-POWER BREED WEEDERS. 



This morning, April 28, I feel like calling the 

 Breed weeder the greatest invention that was ever 

 made in agri( ulture. The company make a hand- 

 weeder that costs about .50 cents. I will try to give 

 an illustration of it in our next issue. This imple- 

 ment has been lying in our tool-house almo^-t a year, 

 and yet nobody had found out how to use it. Last 

 Sunday we had a tremendous April sliower. It 

 made such a crust between our plants in the plant- 

 beds that the ground liad l)egun to crack. I knew 

 by experience that this would greatly injure and 

 even kill many plants just set out. 1 thought of 

 the Breed weeder, and in a few hours 1 had the 

 ground nicely broken and fined up between beets, 

 radishes, cabbage-plants, lettuce, and almost every 

 thing else. It is really a stiff' broom, made of steel 

 wires, that m.ashes up the dirt and little weeJs while 

 the wires slip around all plants that have sufficient 

 root to stand In some beds of choice strawberries, 

 planted 18 inches apart, it just made the whole bed 

 look beautiful; and it was done about as quickly as 

 you would sweep a floor with a broom. 



After we had got the beds finished we took the 

 tool out among the currant-bushes, choice raspber- 

 ries, and even among the pie-plant that had just 

 been cultivated. The ground was in just tnat st ite 

 of mellowness after the rain so the weeder wijuld 

 pulverize and smooth it down. Why, it made eveiy 

 thing look as it the whole premises had been swept 

 with a broom, sweeping out all the little weeds, and 

 leaving the plants. If you want to know more 

 about tiiese machines, write to the Z. Breed Weeder 

 Co.. 26 Merchants Row, Boston. 



After we got through in the garden across the 

 street, two boys took the onion-weeder and went 

 through a patch of onions that were just coming 

 through the ground; and in a very short space of 



