556 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jui,y 15. 



^mMr businessman; 



See our special offers on Gleanings on page .VST. 



HONEY WANTED. 



We have received only a few responses to our call 

 for honey. If the past season's experiences are re- 

 peated this year the honey marketed early will bring 

 the best prices. L,et us hear from you with descrip- 

 tion of honey you have to offer. 



WANTED. 



We desire to complete a few more volumes of 

 Gleanings,, and lack the following issues: Jan., Mar., 

 and May, 1875, and Jan., Feb., April, May, Sept., Oct., 

 and Dec, 1881. If any one has any of these to spare 

 we shall be pleased to hear from you. Will give 

 Gleanings three months each for a limited number 

 of copies. Write us before sending. 



SECOND-HAND FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



We have at this writing the following second-hand 

 foundation mills which we offer at the following 

 prices: 



One 6-inch Root, No. 1858. This will make fair thin 

 or extia thin; in good order; several cells slightly 

 damaged; price $12. 00. 



One 6-inch Root, No. 05; one bad cell-point slightly 

 flattened; extra thin; price $15.00. 



One 10 inch Root, No. 1949; hexagonal cell; this has 

 2^-inch rolls, and has been in use in our wax-room; in 

 first-class condition for thin super. A new mill of 

 this style is worth $30.00; will furnish this one for 

 $20.00. 



One 10-inch hexagonal No. 1959 for thin super. This 

 has also been used in our wax-room, and has one bad 

 cell; price $18.00. 



One 2^x6 inch. No. 06. Price of new mill with 

 these large rolls, $24.00. Price of this, $15.00. 



One 2 I 2x6-inch, No. 07. Would make light brood. 

 Price $15.00. 



Send for samples of the mills you are interested in, 

 provided you intend to purchase, and state which 

 ones you wish to see samples of, and we will forward 

 them promptly. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



WANTED, SEED OF THE FIGWORT OR SIMPSON HONEY- 

 PLANT.' 



If any of our readers are prepared to gather us some 

 fresh seed during the coming fall we shall be glad in- 

 deed to hear from them. 



STRAWBERRY-PLANTS IN AUGUST. 



We shall be prepared to furnish any quantity of 

 plants potted in jadoo fiber, postpaid by mail, at 4 cts. 

 each, with the exception of Nick Ohmer. These will 

 be 8 cts. each. At present writing, unless we have 

 very much more rain than we have been having, layer 

 plants will not be ready before Aug. 15. There is al- 

 most no ribk at all with "the above potted plants, while 

 there is always a great deal of risk with layer plants, 

 say any time before Sept. 1. 



WHAT TO PLANT DURING THE MONTH OF JULY' 

 WHERE EARLY CROPS HAVE BEEN HARVESTED. 



There is certainly no reason why a garden should 

 not be a thing of beauty and a joy for ever all along 

 through the fall as well as in the months of April, 

 May, and June. But to make this thing of beauty, 

 every bit of ground must be promptly cleared up and 

 planted with the " something else ' as toon as the last 

 crop is gathered. We picked our last strawberries 

 about June 20; and on that same day every thing was 

 turned under, the ground was nicely pulverized, and 

 potatoes planted. To-day, July 11, the potatoes are 

 up, making a full and complete stand, and growing 

 with great vigor. Now, then, where you dig vour 

 early potatoes, or where early peas have been "har- 

 vested — in fact, when any other crop has ceased to 

 need to occupy the ground longer, something else 

 should go light in promptly. What shall that " some- 



thing else " be ? Strawberries, if you can afford potted 

 plants, or if you have a transplanter and can take 

 them up on your own grounds. Put out now either of 

 the above ways, with thorough culture and plenty of 

 manure, they will bear a big crop next year. If you 

 want some winter onions, now is just the best time to 

 put them out. We have plenty of sets ready to ship 

 at 10 cts. a quart ; 50 cts. a peck : $1.50 per bushel. 

 Still cheaper for larger lots. These onions will hold 

 their own right on the same ground, absolutely with- 

 out cultivation, year after year, although you will get 

 much nicer onions, and sets too, if you give them 

 cultivation and manure. 



Wax beans, early sweet corn, carrots, cucumbers, 

 peas, radishes, and turnips may be put out now. You 

 can set cabbage-plants, cauliflower, celery, and toma- 

 toes, and almost any other kind of plant, if you are 

 where you can get them ; and it is exactly the right 

 time to put out all kinds of turnips, spinach, and 

 radishes; in fact, you can get nice radishes if put out 

 at this time, that would fail at almost any other sea- 

 son. Of course, the ground should be rich; and if it is 

 not rich, you want to make it so before you can make 

 any claim to being a hieh-pressure gardener. If you 

 have vacant land that you want to enrich, and can not 

 afford to buy the manure, sow any of the clovers — 

 alsike, red, peavine, alfalfa, crimson, or sweet. If you 

 wish the crimson clover to winter over without the 

 possibility of failure, get it in during the last of this 

 month. 



The last of July is just the best time, ordinarily, to 

 sow buckwheat ; and unless you have frost unusually 

 early you will get a crop of honey and a crop of grain 

 too. Cow peas and soja beans are just the thing to 

 put in now to turn under just as soon as they are 

 killed by frost. Of course, it is too late to stand much 

 of a chance for ripening the seeds unless it is some of 

 the extra early varieties. The American coffee-berry 

 would probably ripen seeds if planted now. For 

 prices of any of the above seeds, write for our seed 

 catalog. 



At this date, July 12, Japanese buckwheat for seed is 

 worth $1.10 per bushel; two-bushel bag. $2 00. At any 

 thing like this price it will pa^ bee-keepers to grow it. 

 I myself have grown as much as 50 bushels to the 

 acre ; but no one can tell what the price will be in the 

 future. We are going to put in buckwheat just as fast 

 as we can vacate a piece of ground. If it should be 

 killed by the frost we shall have some honey for the 

 bees, and a crop to plow under that is worth all it 

 costs to grow it. 



THE BLISTER POTATO-BEETLE. 



In another place I said that our ten acres of pota- 

 toes had been thus far but little troubled by bugs. 

 To-day, July 15, I shall have to take that back; for up 

 in our swamp, and on the hill, the very place where 

 the blister beetles were so bad last year, they came 

 pretty near eating our potatoes up, and that, too, in 

 but little more than 24 hours. In fact, we had four 

 men at work all day yesterday, killing beetles. We 

 ran a furrow between the potatoes, then shook them 

 off the vines in the furrow. The ground is so dry 

 they could not climb up the sides, and then we tram- 

 pled them and pounded them with clubs until they 

 were dead, dead, dead. This is expensive work, but we 

 could not well manage to do any better. This morn- 

 ing, however, we gave the men some large dish-pans 

 with a little coal oil in the bottom. Thev got at the 

 beetles quite early, when they were mostly clustered 

 on the potato-tops. By getting up to them carefully, 

 and bending the vines over the pan, we managed to 

 shake the greater part of the enemy into the oil. One 

 thing is certain: They must be fought to the bitter 

 end or your potatoes are ruined. 



Better than Ever 



Am I prepared to furnish every thing need- 

 ed by the up-to-date bee-keeper, all goods 

 manufactured by The A. I. Root Co., ship- 

 ped to me in car-lots, and sold at their 

 prices. Send for illustrated 36-page cata- 

 log FREE. Address 



GEO. E. HILTON, Fremont, Newaygo Co., nich. 



\X/ARRANTED QUEENS from imported mother, 

 *~ 50 cts. Hybrid queens, 25 cts. 



J. B. Hains, Bedford, Ohio. 



