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MANAGER 



NO. ~ ^K< riDNS Ol'KN AM, AltOUND. 



We are still short on No. 2 .sections, e.xcept as you 

 can use them open on lour sides eau supplj this 

 style in No. ~. 3 in.. 1)8 in., or 1 ,^a inches wide, very 

 promptly. We are tiirningr owl !KI to UKI M sections 

 every ~4"liours during thi' week except. Sunday, and 

 theyV'ootit as last as we can make them. We are 

 now making: from inch lumlier. and have a surplus 

 of n.ii row widths. 1':. I's, and T to foot. The ten- 

 dencx i< t. .f the use of narrower sections. In Can- 

 ada the standard is 1 'a- 



smith's novelty force pu.mp. 

 The spraying season is not yet past, but just at its 

 height. We have an extra supi>ly of Smith Novelty 

 force pumps. This is undoul)tcdl>- the licsi tin 

 pump ever made. We have sold lliem for upwards 

 of fifteen years, and they t;ive universal satisfac- 

 tion. For a cheap force pump they have no eciual. 

 Being made of tin thc\ will not last as long as a 

 brass i)ump. but you e;in afford to buy four or five 

 of these for what you would pay for a good brass 

 pump. For the next oil days wc offer these pumjis 

 at the foUowinj.' special prices: T.") cents each; Ji for 

 J?2.00: 12 for fV.otl; 24 for *14.(Ki; a crate of 3 doz., if20. 



MOHERMAN SPl{AY-P,UMP. 



We have also an extra supply of the Moherman 

 spray pump which we took in a trade. It is an ex- 

 cellcTH lirass |>uiiip. with air-chamber, ruiibertube, 

 and sprinkler and sjuax nozzles; is very similar to 

 the Mvers pump we have been .selling for several 

 years, usuallv retailing for *.5.0(l. For the next 30 

 days we offer these at $2.00 each, or *."> 00 for 3; *1S.00 

 per dozen. Catalog and fuller description of these 

 pumps will be found in our seed catalog, among our 

 other .spraying-pumps. We make these special 

 prices for only a limited time, to reduce stock. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



We have not had such a rush of orders since 1890. 

 and we hear from other manufacturers that they 

 are having a rush as well. We have been running 

 our factory day and night for the past six weeks in 

 the effort to keep up. but we have been losing 

 ground the past two weeks. We are about one 

 week behind on orders. Of course many orders go 

 out in less time, some of them the same day re- 

 ceived, or next day, hut the larger p.itt of ttie or- 

 ders take a week before we gel to them. As the 

 demand usually is grt-atest in May and lets up in 

 June, we expect to gain rapidly on orders from now 

 on so that we hope within the n- xt two weeks to 

 catch up. We liave on hand ready for immediate 

 shipnK-nt several liundred regular No 1 Dov. hives, 

 1896 style, with Higginsville cover. If any want 

 hives in a hurry and can use these we will agree 

 while they last to get them off promptly. The price 

 is .5 cts. each less tfian this year's style, and they are 

 packed in crates of five in tiat complete. Our Chi- 

 cago and St. Paul branches can also supply the 

 same kind. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



PACKING WINTER APPLES IN SAWDU.ST, ETC. 



I am reminded that, in my editorial on page .398, 

 last issue, I was a little more severe tlian the cir- 

 cumstances perhaps warranted. I confess I wiis a 

 little bit stirred up to see this man getting .50 cts for 

 telling people how to keep apples in sawdust. I 

 received the recipe just before going to press, and 

 barely had time to get in a note of warning. I had 

 seen the advertisement in the Oliio Farmer only; 

 but I did find a scrap from an agricultural paper, 

 advising everybody to send for this recipe. 8a.\ing 

 they had just received a basket of beautiful apples 

 from Mr. Wright, etc. This scrap of paper was not 

 from the Ohio Farmer; but I am now told the same 



advert isvmnit had been previously aeccjited by three 

 other agricultural. papers, i'erhaps the reason why 

 I saw the a<lvertiseme t- in the Oliiii Fiiniirr and 

 overlooked it in the three other papers i for I hey all 

 come to mv desk regularly) is that I tead the 0?iio 

 Fariiiir with more care, advertisements and all, 

 than almost any other agricultural paper. It is 

 pul)lislieil near my home, and 1 am personally ac- 

 quainted with some of its editors, and I hope and 

 believe they are personal friends ol mine. T have 

 known the /<V(/7/ie;-. and read it, almost all my life, 

 and I humbly beg i ardon of tUv F((///irr people and 

 of all of our readers if by my vehemence 1 seemed to 

 show want of respect to or throw discredit upon 

 that excellent agricultural journal. I do not know 

 of any other agricultural periodical that has more 

 articles fr'om our best piactical farmers— good com- 

 mon-sense articles publislH'd without fear or fa- 

 vor, than the Ohio Funiur: and if it went into more 

 of the homes of our farmers all over the country 

 there would be a " heap" less money wasted on ag- 

 ricultural swindles. 



SELLING RECIPES AND SECRETS FOR DOING SOME- 

 THING. 



One of our readers thinks A. I. R. had better go 

 for the poultry-journals. He says they are full of 

 recipes for making things for killing vermin on 

 poultry, to make hens lay, etc. Now. what in the 

 world is to prevent the editor of each and every 

 poultry-journal, accepting such advertisement, 

 from sending the .50 cts., getting the recipe, and 

 publishing it to all his readers? The recipe often- 

 times takes less space than does the advertisement 

 that proclaims the wonderful virtue of the "great 

 discovery," etc. 



XKi UUSHELS OF POTATOES GIVEN AWAY 

 DT'RiyG THE LAST TWO WEEKS; 1000 



C MORE TO BE GIVEN AWAY DURING THE 

 MONTH OF JUNE. 



At the present date. May 39, we have remaining 

 of Maule's Thoroughbred, 12.5 bushels of firsts, 238 

 seconds; Early Ohio, 20 bushels firsts; Early North- 

 er, 4 bushels; Kurpee's Extra Early, 4 bushels; 

 Freeman. 130 bushels firsts, Terry's own growing; 

 New Queen, 95 bushels firsts, 90 of seconds; Monroe 

 Seedling, 15 bushels; Rural New-Yorker. 5 bushels; 

 Sir William, 185 bushels; Carman No. 1.22 bushels; 

 Koshkonong. 5 bushels; New Craig, 83 bushels of 

 firsts. 12 of secouds. 



Our friends will notice that we have more of 

 Maule's Thoroughbred than of any other variety. 

 I i)resume this is owing to the fact that they gave us 

 such an enormous yield last season. We want 

 every reader of Gleanings to try the.se and have a 

 good stock: therefore we make the following otfer 

 until they are sold out or planted: 



a1bAI{REL of THOROUGHBRED POTAT()ES"FOR EVERY 

 NEW NAME. 



igEvery reader of Gleanings who sends us a new 

 subscriber, and introduces it into some new locality, 

 :is we have heretofore explained, may have a barrel 

 of Thoroughbred firsts far every new name sent: or 

 hi' may have a barrel of an j' other vaiiety named 

 above; or a barrel made up of mixed varieties, as 

 he chooses: a barrel of potatoes for every new sub- 

 scriber, with $1 (10 accompanying. 



A^BARKEL of TH01U)1(!I1BRED SECONDS FOR EVERY 

 DOLLAR RECI'-iVED FOR GLEANINGS. 



.iFor every renewal, or every dollar sent us for 

 Gleanings, ])ast, present, or future, you may have 

 a barrel of Thoroughbred seconds, or a dollar's 

 worth of any other potat<jes mentioned in tlie list. 

 With the (Niol weather we have been liaving through 

 all the month of May. our potatoes are in very fair 

 order for planting, and we think they may all, or 

 nearly all. be planted safely at any time during the 

 month of June, but the sooner you get in your 

 orders the better, as a matter of course. 

 All votatoes go off first train. 



I write to say that potatoes were received in good 

 time, and in the most perfect order. The Rural 

 New Yorker potatoes were the most handsome of 

 the kind that I ever saw. In fact, all were fine. 



Pleasant Valley. Va. C. W. Rice. 



[Friend R., I wonder if it is not somewhat owing 

 to the name of the place of your abode that you are 

 so well satisfied. — A. I. R.] 



