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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 15. 



Qleanings in Bee Culture 



[Established in 1873.] 



Devoted to Bees,> Honey, and Home interests. 



Published Semi-monthly by 



The A. I. Root Co., ■> = Medina, Ohio. 



A. I. ROOT, Editor of Home and Gardening Dep'ts. 



E. R. ROOT, Editor of Apicultural Dept. 



J. T. CAlvVERT, Bus. Mgr. 



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Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



We still have a pretty good supply of Davis wax 

 beans, at prices away down below those of any other 

 seedsman. lyook over your catalogs, and see if I am 

 not right. 



GRAND RAPIDS LETTLTCE. 



We are just now cutting single plants in that green- 

 house, that weigh ^ lb., and retail readily for 15 cts. 

 The plants are grown 7 inches apart from center to 

 center. Do you watit any better business than that ? 



KILLING INSECTS ON PLANTS WITH HOT WATER. 



Water at 120 degrees will kill insects, even ants, 

 when the plant is immersed in it for half a minute. 

 One of the flower periodicals said 150 degrees would 

 not kill the plants. We tried two roses at 140, and it 

 spoiled the buds and killed the young shoots. It 

 makes me think of what Josh Billings said— " Egg- 

 speriens leeches a good skule, but the tuishun comes 

 rather hi." 



CRIMSON CLOVER. 



Once more our crimson clover has passed the winter 

 almost without damage in any way ; and notwith- 

 standing other adverse reports, I think we can call it 

 settled that, on our rich underdrained ground, crimson 

 clover, when put in in July and August, is pretty near- 

 ly if not quite a sure crop. On our creek-bottom 

 ground it is a perfect mat, and it would take a tremen- 

 dous freeze indeed to do it any damage now. 



ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF CLOVER SEEDS. 



As we go to press, both alsike and alfalfa, first 

 grade, are worth S8.00 per bushel. For prices in small- 

 er quantities, see our new seed-list, mailed on applica-: 

 tiou. The above prices make it a little hard for the 

 friends who want to buy, but it is a tremendousl v good 

 thing for farmers who grow it for sale. Now let us 

 see if we can not furnish the world with enough nice 

 clover seed at the same time we supply it with an 

 abundance of the best honey there ever was. 



POTATOES AT THE PRESENT DATE. 



The principal call so far is for the Triumph, Bovee, 

 and Early Ohio. We have sold out of all three several 

 times, but have been able to buy some excellent stock 

 of tliose who make it a business to grow nice seed po- 

 tatoes. For a late potato. Carman N . 3 seems to be 

 called for more than any thing eke; but we still have 

 a good supply. In fact, we can furnish you any thing 

 we have listed at present writing, March 15, except 

 Burpee's Extra Early. Better get in your orders 

 quick, however, for a good many kinds will probably 

 run short very soon. 



TOBACCO DUST AS AN INGREDIENT IN POTTING SOIL. 



If, when preparing your jadoo and sand for plants, 

 you put in a generous admixture of tobacco dust, you 

 c^n ni t only keep out angleworms from your pots, but 

 all other worms and insects. The tobacco dust is an 

 excellent fertilizer (about the .same thing as woods 

 dirt when decayed), and costs really less than the ja- 

 doo ; for the dry du-^t is only I J4 cts. per lb. when pur- 

 chased in quantities. Whenever we plant out Grand 

 Kapids lettuce in the greenhouse we always cover the 

 surface if the ground with tobacco dust, and this 

 keeps off the green fly and every thing else until the 

 crop is fully half grown. .Sometimes another applica- 

 tion has to be made under and over the plants when 

 the crop approaches maturity. 



BASSWOOD-TREES FOR SPRING PLANTING. 



Now is the time to put them out. Seedlings grown 

 in our plant-beds, one foot and under, 5 cts. each ; 10, 

 30 cts.; 100. S2.00. The same postpaid by mail, 8 cts. 

 each ; a5 cts. for 10 ; 100, 82 25. Trees 1 to 5 feet, lOcts. 

 each; 10, 75 ct.s,; 100, 85 00. The latter size can not 

 well go by inail. We can not furnish any thing larger 

 than 1 to 5 feet at present ; but we are growing some 

 larger ones as fa.'it as we can. The above trees are all 

 grown in our rich plant-beds. We can furnish you 

 s-tedlings, right from the forest, for half the above 

 prices. These latter are all one foot and under. Bass- 

 wood-trees will grow anywhere, and almost as easily 

 as vcillow; but they must have moist ground — mulched 

 ground is best — and the small trees should be shaded 

 until they get well started. The bi.sswood-tree is now 

 g tting to be .so valuable that it will pay to grow the 

 trees aside from the value of the honey; and I believe 

 an acre of hasswoods will furni.'-h more honey than 

 any other plant on the face of the earth, and in quali- 

 ty it stands next to clover. 



THERMOMETERS AND BAROMETERS FOR GREEN- 

 HOUSE MEN, GARDENERS, FARMERS, ETC. 



We had decided on giving up thermometers with the 

 rest of the counter store ; but so tnany calls came for 

 them, and as nobody else seems willing to furnish 

 them, especially by mail, at a small price, we have 

 ordered another stock. We can furnish you a very 

 pretty and accurate thermometer, plain scale, easy to 

 read, for 15 cents ; postpaid by mail, 20. Now, ther- 

 mometers are in ever\ day use. like clocks and watches; 

 but yet few people, in my estimation, are aware of the 

 value of a barometer intelligently consulted every day 

 or three or four times a day. Our barometer in our 

 business has .saved me hundreds of dollars — in fact, 

 more than the value of the instument, a good many 

 times, in jut one day. We have a very pretty small- 

 sized aneroid barometer that we can furnish for $2.50 ; 

 prstpaid by mail, 15 centsadditional. Those who han- 

 dle glass .sashes can not afford to put them away safe 

 from wind every time they are taken off or put on a 

 bed But when the barometer indicates a big blow 

 (and I never yet knew a high wind unless the barom- 

 eter gave warning beforehand) everybody who owns 

 sashes should fix them so no ordinary wind will blow 

 them about. On one occasion the barometer dropped 

 very rapidly just before bedtime. A lot of sashes were 

 left in very bad condition the night before. I fixed 

 them in half an hour so not a s.tsh was moved. Had 

 I not done this, the broken glass would have amount- 

 ed to a good many dollars ; for before morning we had 

 a wind that blew down trees and unroofed buildings. 



