1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



GARDEN SEEDS, ETC., FOR 1890. 



Our list of seeds and prices will probably appear in 

 our next issue. For many years I have been raising 

 our own seed beans; but until the present year the 

 price has been so low that it did not really pay, and I 

 suppose others must have felt just as I did; but now 

 Wardwell's kidney wax beans, and, in fact, almost all 

 kinds of wax beans or green snap beans, are worth 

 from $5.00 to 88 00 a bushel. What a nice little "spec" 

 it would have been had somebody raised a great lot of 

 beans for seed for 1898 ! One Florida friend sent us 

 $19 for kidney wax beans, stipulating thev must be 

 "crop of 1898 " So far I have not been able to find 

 them, even at any price. Every seed, man I have cor 

 responded with has been sold out. I found several 

 lots of the crop of 1890 and 1897, and these were recom- 

 mended, saying they would germinate fairly. But our 

 Florida friends, knowing how much depends on the 

 quality of the setd, are afraid to try beans more than 

 a year old. 



Until further notice, Ku merle bush lima beans will 

 be: Quart, 25c; % peck. 85c; peck, $1.50. 



Biff pee's bush lima: Quart, 35c; y 2 peck, $1.10; peck, 

 $2 00; bushel, $7.00. 



Davis wax or Wardwell's kidney wax: Quart, 20c; 

 peck, $1.50; bushel, $5.00. 



Pole lima beans, extra eailv lima and King of the 

 Garden lima will be: Quart, 25c; peck, $1.50. 



All kinds of sweet corn will be: Ouart, 15c; peck, 

 75c; bushel, $2.50. 



On onion seeds, the best price we can quote at pres- 

 ent is, Yellow Globe Danvers, Large Red Wethers- 

 field, and Extra Early Red, each. $1.00 per lb.; Prize- 

 taker, $1.75 per lb. All other seeds will be as in our 

 catalog. 



Potatoes are lower, as you see by the following 

 table: 



Name. 



Varieties are In order ap 

 regards time of matur 

 ing; earliest first, nexl 

 earliest second, and so on. 



White or Red Triumph. 



Bovee 



E Thoro'bred, Maule's 



Early Oliio 



Early Prize 



Burpee's Extra Early. . 



Freeman 



New yueen 



Monroe Seedling 



Rural New-Yorker No. 2 



Mill's Prize 



Carman No. 1 



Carman No. 3 



State of Maine , 



Manum's Enormous 



New Craig 



2 5) 



3 0) 

 2 00 

 8 00 

 2 50 

 2 53 

 2 00 

 2 00 

 2 00 

 2 50 

 2 50 



2 00 



3 50 

 3 00 



OUR ROLL OF HONOR. 



Since the list of veterans was put in type a great 

 many more letters have come in. In fact, it begins to 

 look as though a great part of those who started with 

 Gleanings in its first vear had kept right on. I am 

 afraid Ernest will scold when he sees how much space 

 I am planning to use, for letters from the veterans; 

 and I have been trying to boil them down somewhat; 

 but each reminder of olden times sounds so good (to 

 me at least) that it almost seems wicked to draw my 

 pencil through a single sentence. May I ask the 

 younger ones to be patient with us a little while? for 

 a good many of us are writing pretty nearly our last 

 letters, and then we will soon give you the whole 

 field These communications will run through our 

 next issue, and may be two or three issues more, if 

 they should keep showing up as they have done for 

 the past few days. May God bless you all, friends. 

 Your names are all familiar, and it has been one of 

 mv happy surprises to see that so many of you are 

 still lakins: Gleanings. 



In addition to Gleanings free to the veterans, we 

 are going to send by mail a glass paper-weight ex- 

 plaining the mathematics of the honev-comb. This 

 was one of my hobbies about twenty years ago, and I 

 spent a good deil of time in making this geometrical 

 figure out of beeswax, sugar candy, etc. But those of 

 flint glass are ever so much the nicest. You can put 

 one on the center-table as a little reminder of your old 

 friend Novice, and of the high regard in which he 

 holds all of those who started with him a'nd have 

 stood by him for a quarter of a century. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The California State Bee keepers' Association will 

 hold its annual convention at the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, Los Angeles, on the 11th and 12th of January, 

 1899. J. F. McIntyre. Sec. 



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Wants and Exchange. 



ANTED. — To exchange a Mann green-bone cut- 

 ter, No. 6, for honey, bee-fixtures, or offers. 



A. W. Carson, Joplin, Mo. 



\VANTED. — To do gunsmith work in exchange for 

 " bee-supplies or cash. My specialty is making 

 new muzzle-loading rifles, and restocking all kinds of 

 gun's. Broken parts can be sent cheaply by mail. 

 Correspondence answered. S. B. Post, 



R. D. No. 2, Washington, Pa. 



YVANTED. — No. 1 white comb honey in 4x5 inch sec- 

 " tions; also to furnish my hives and 4x5 sections 

 for a share of the next honey crop, to parties within 

 100 miles of this city. Address at once 



F. Danzenbaker, Washington, D. C. 



YV ANTED. — Young man who does not use liquors or 

 " * tobacco to work the coming season on farm where 

 honey, fruits, and general farm crops are i aised. Give 

 references. C. J. Baldridge, Kendaia, N. Y. 



1VANTED. — Your address for a free copy of my 

 ' ' book on queen rearing. 



Henry Alley, Wenham, Mass. 



VVANTED. — Bees on shares or position in apiary. 

 '" Lifetime of experience. Reference given and 

 required. F. M. Munso. v , 



801 Church St., Elmira, N. Y. 



ANTED. — To exchange supplies for bees on Da- 

 dant's frames. I. J. Stringham, 



105 Park Place, New York. 



VMANTED. — To exchange a Novice honey-extractor 

 "" and a 200 egg- size Excelsior incubator, both in 

 good running order, for beeswax or offers; also a few 

 S. C. White Leghorn cockrels. 



Pine Grove Bee & Poultry Farm, Richford, N. Y. 



1VANTED. — To exchange two small printing presses 

 »* and printing outfit for bloodhounds, feirets, fan- 

 cy poultry, bicycles, or something I can u c e. 



James M. Denham, Valley, Ky. 



ll/ANTED. — To know what you have to exchange 

 " for new varieties of raspberry- plants; also Camp- 

 bell and Alice grapevines. 



Mrs. Lizzie McQueen, Baltic, Ohio. 



U/ANTED. — To sell or exchange one female blood- 

 ** hound, 4 years' old, fully trained, with good rec- 

 ord. Also one dog pup 5 months old. Address at once 

 R. Golling, Lenoir City, Loudon Co , Tenn 



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Kerosene Sprayers 1 



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 Nozzles, the "World's Best." 



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Western Agents, Hennion & Hubbell. 

 Chicago. Catalogue and formulas free. 



In writing, mention Gleanings. 



FREE ! FREE ! 



A beautiful present with every order. 

 Cheapest place in Michigan to buy your 

 Supplies. Send for a price list explaining. 

 W. D. SOPER, Box 565, Jackson, Hich. 



for decorative purposes. Very 

 handsome long, tapering, 

 bright colored — not like the flat brown ones of the 

 North. Let me send you a dozen samples for 15c, or 

 2 dozen for 25. Mrs. S. A. Dyke, Wald>, W. Va. 



PINE CONES 



