1897 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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whatever yon nsc. hy that timo Btlcks to tho tiark 

 tightly, ami will hl>t for several years if properly 

 done ' Willi nie ii has lieen ;i eompleto siieeess. 

 Swissvale. I'a., Mav 10. Uoirr. C. Smith. 



SWKKT CLOVER IN NEW MKXICO. 



Please tell Bro. A. I. that my sweet clover begiin 

 blooanng 10 clays ago; Is now 6 to 7 ft. high (one 

 aere). 1 dug one plant to bring to town on the .")th 

 in.st. It nieasui-ed. asitstotd in tleld (alone), 8 ft. 

 across and si.\- feet high, and weighed, when i\»g, 

 with root, li'^ lbs. My cow won't eat it. but the 

 Ijorses are bcgioning to taste it occasi(<nally. 



Eddy, New Mexico, June 10. J. Singleton. 



Sweet clover grows here in abundance, mostly 

 white bloss ins; but there is quite a good deal of 

 the yellow blossoms. Williamson & Newell. 



Trumansburg, N. Y., Afay 8. 



the whittaker onion. 



I have known these Whittaker onions very well 

 for more tlian 30 years, in Franklin Co., Pa. ; and if 

 these you have are the same kind I shall be pleased 

 to use them again as an onion to be plantea in the 

 fall. C. T. Reed. 



Greensburg, Pa. 



1 sent one new subscriber, and received two 

 Maule's Early, about equal size. I gave one to the 

 subscriber. The other one made 18 hills, one eye to 

 the hill; it was planted March 31, 1896, in good gar- 

 den soil. I cultivated them with the hoe, and dug 

 27^ pounds of potatoes. Miss Mary C. Sharp. 



Montreal, Mo.. Apr. 19. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



vegetable-plants ready to send out. 

 Cabbage-plants, all kinds; cauliflower; onion- 

 plants; tomato - plants; celery - plants; pepper - 

 plants; sweet-pot atq plants. No strawberry-plants 

 until a month later, or toward the first of August. 



CRIMSON clover. 



We have already secured the following low prices 

 on crimson clover for the coming season: Sack, 3 

 bushels, 55..50; bushel, $3.00; 'i bushel, $1.60; peck, 

 85cts.; lib.. Sets. If wanted by mail, add 10 cts. 

 per lb. for postage and packing. We will send 3 

 lbs. bj' mail, postpaid, for aO cts. From 8 to 1.5 lbs. 

 of seed per acre is needed. Sow it on ground where 

 a crop has been removed, in July or August; or sow 

 it the last time of hoeing and cultivating among 

 growing corn, melons, or any sort of garden stuff, 

 where the ground is but little disturbed in harvest- 

 ing the crop. 



seeds that may be sown in the .middle of JUNE. 



First, all kinds of beans, beets fand cab>)age if 

 you have good plants), and carrots. This is just the 

 time to sow cauliliower seed in order to have the 

 heads form in cool weather. It is also just the 

 time for celery if you have good plants: all kinds of 

 sweet corn; the very best time for cucumbers; just 

 right for lettuce if "you have a market for it in the 

 fall. But you must keep it out of the hot sun by 

 means of cotton cloth, as I have explained. There 

 is aLso time for all kinds of melons if the fall is 

 favorable. You may sow onion seed for sets, and 

 you may put out plants if you have them, providing 

 the weather is fa orable. Sow now all kinds of 

 peas; peppers if you have the plants; Early Sugar 

 pumpkin. By the way, we can furnish you regular 

 fleld-pumpkin seed, just such as is used by the 

 Lakeshore Canning Factory, lor 1.5 cts. per lb., or 25 

 cts. if sent by mail postpaid. Now is also the time 

 for tomatoes if you havejilants; all kinds of tiir- 

 nips, if they don't get spr)iled by the hot weather. 

 This is just the time for the coffee-berry and soja 

 beans; just the time for bucliwhoat, or a month 

 later if you choose; a good time for rape, either for 

 bees or forage; also for cow peas. 



the Hotchkiss machitie advertised In our last issut;. 

 We are using, for almost e\i'i-\- thing, pure I'aiis 

 greeit. I'ut on in the form ol a dry jxiwdcr ii re- 

 quires ever so much less labor tas you art; not oblig- 

 ed to carry around a greal (|uantity of wateri, so 

 that we are using it lor .ilniosi ('very t liing. When 

 gooseberries, cnrrimts, and siuiilar fruits get to be 

 so large that you do not want to use Paris green, 

 use pyrethrum or hellebcjre. We have the best suc- 

 cess with the pyrethrum. We use tobacco dust for 

 melon, sijuash, and ail other vines. Since the dust 

 has become so cheap we just put a little heap of it 

 right over the plants as soon as the bu^s begin to be 

 troublesome. It will not hurt the melons or 

 squashes if you cover them ail ii|) with it: and you 

 may be sure the most i)ertinacious bugs will never 

 dig into the tobacco dust to get at the plant. See 

 prices of all these things in our new seed catalog. 

 If you haven't one, it will pay you to ask for one by 

 postal card, even if you don't buy a cent's worth. 

 The information it contains is very valuable to have 

 at band. 



the pot.\to premiums. 

 After our exceedingly liberal offer in our last is- 

 sue, the Thoroughbreds went off very quickly — in 

 fact, very much quicker than I supposed they 

 would, for I rather expected they would last clear 

 through the month of June. The sudden taking-up 

 of our offer was, I presume, a good deal owing to 

 the fact that old potatoes began to get scarce, and 

 new ones are high-priced on account of the cold, 

 wet, and backward spring We have at present 

 nothing to give away except about 60 bushels of 

 New Queen seconds, and we will hold to our offer as 

 long as they last--a barrel of potatoes tor every one 

 who sends a dollar for Gleanings. To those who 

 send us a new subseriber. and find the potatoes 

 gone, we will give them any of the premiums we 

 offered to you last year for a new subscriber. If 

 this is not satisfactory we will return the money. 

 This latter course, however, might be a little rough 

 on the new subscriber; but we will try to make it 

 satisfactory all around if it is not already so. Those 

 who have paid up away ahead, with the view of 

 getting a barrel of potatoes, may have their money 

 back again if they prefer it; or they may avail 

 themselves of any offer we have made during the 

 past year for renewing ahead. We sincerely hope 

 that the potatoes that have been distributed so 

 lavisbly will be the means of doing good in the way 

 of giving our friends better varieties than they had 

 before. Those who received the Thoroughbreds 

 will, I am sure, find it a profitable transaction. 



insecticides and powder-bellows. 



The fl.OO bellows pictured in our price list answers 



our purpose splendidly; but if you have several 



acres of potatoes to go over I think I would have 



the gleanings contribution for the starv- 

 ing people in INDIA. 



Since our last we have received the following re- 

 ceipt: 



Boston, June 8, 1897. 



The American Board of Commissioners for For- 

 eign Missions acknowledges the receipt of thirty- 

 nine dollars, from A. I. Root, Pres ; contributed by 

 The A. I. Root Co.. $2.5; Geo. M. Kellogg, $5; W. C. 

 Gault, $5: Lydia Wagner, $3; A. W. Harman, $1; 

 Mrs. C. E. Hatch, $1. for famine relief in India. 



Frank H. Wiggin, Treasurer. 



Also the following since then: Mrs. G. J. Size, 

 Scarboro Junction, Ont., .fl.CO; G. R. Noren, Waver- 

 ly, Neb., $2. 



".TESUS MY ALL." 



The Home talks in this issue were closed with the 

 last verse of hymn 103, Christian Endeavor Edition 

 of Gospel Hymns No. (>. If our friends will hunt up 

 this hymn and sing it in tho family circle, they will 

 get the iaea that filled the heart of the writer. I 

 wish especially you would sing it to the music in 

 the book. I heard it at prayer-meeting just after I 

 had finished my Home Paper, and it seemed to me 

 that never before did praise and trust in God blend 

 together so beautifully as on that Saturday after- 

 noon. 



THE WAY THINGS ARE WORKING AROUND. 



At the present time you might almost as well 

 expect to find a duck that does not know how 

 to swim as to find a boy who cap not carry a 

 bundle and ride a wheel. 



