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GLEANINGS TN BEE CULTURE 



BOOKS FOR BEEKEEPERS AND OTHERS 



Any of these books on which postage is not given 

 will be forwarded by mail, postpaid, on receipt of 

 price 



PRACTICAL WORKS ON BEE CULTURE. 



A B C of Bee Culture, cloth $2.00 



half leather 2.75 



" " " German, paper 2.00 



" German, cloth 2.50 



Spanish, cloth 2.50 



Advanced Bee Cultiu-e 1 . 00 



Fifty Years Among the Bees. New edition . . 1 . 00 



By Dr. C. C. Miller. Dr. Miller is too well known 

 among the beekeeping fraternity to need any intro- 

 duction. His book is charmingly written and cov- 

 ers his experience in detail. 



Cook's Manual, cloth $1.15 



Doolittle on Queen-rearing 1.00 



Langstroth on the Honeybee, revised by Dadant 1 . 25 



Quinby's New Beekeeping 1 . 00 



British Beekeepers' Guide-book, by Thomas 



William Cowan, England 1.00 



The Honeybee, by Thos. Wm. Cowan 1 .00 



How to Keep Bees 1 . (lO 



Modern Bee-farm. By S. Simmins (cloth bound) 2 . 00 

 Wax Craft. Cowan 1.00 



POPULAR BOOKS ON BEE CULTURE. 



The Bee People, Margaret W. Morley 1.50 



The Honey-makers, Margaret W. Morley. ... 1.50 



Life of the Honeybee, Maeterlinck 1 . 40 



The Swarm, Maeterlinck 1 . 40 



The Bee-master of Warrilow, Edwards 57 



Lore of the Honeybee 2.00 



Alexander's Writings on Practical Bee Culture. 

 By the late E. W. Alexander, who conducted the 

 largest apiary in the United States. A wonderfully 

 interesting discussion of beekeeping in its broadest 

 phases. Any one can understand it; 35 chapters, 

 95 pages. Paper bound, 50 cts. postpaid. 



The Management of Out-apiaries. By G. M. 

 Doolittle. Packed full' of most valuable inforMalion 

 ever given to beekeepers. A practical and interest- 

 ing book by a very successful apiarist. Sale has 

 reached nearly 5000 copies; 60 pages, paper bound, 

 50 cts. postpaid. 



MISCELLANEOUS HAND-BOOKS. 



A B C of Carp Culture, by Geo. Finley (post- 

 age 5 cts.) 25 



A B C of Potato Culture, by Terry. New edition, 

 revised and enlarged; paper, 50c; cloth, 75c; mail, 

 85 cts. (postage, 7 cts.). 



This is T. B. Terry's first and most masterly 

 work. It has really made a revolution in potato- 

 growing, and has been reprinted in several foreign 

 languages. By getting the ground in proper condi- 

 tion to grow great crops of clover, and turning this 

 under, Terry succeeded not only in getting more 

 potatoes, but even letter ones, and in producing 

 them at less expense also, than by any plan or sys- 

 tem before the time he began his experiments in 

 1885. This book has already passed thru three 

 editions of many thousands. It not only includes 

 potato-growing in the United States, but in Bermu- 

 da, the Island of Jersey, and other warmer parts 

 of the world where " new potatoes " are raised for 

 the express purpose of getting the high prices in the 

 cities during January, February, and March. The 

 book also gives special attention to the different and 

 best methods for preserving and keeping seed pota- 

 toes in the very best condition to plant in all these 

 different localities. 



A B C of Strawberry Culture, by T. B. Terry. 

 New edition, revised and enlarged; paper, 45c; 

 cloth, 68 cts.; by mail, 75 cts. 



After Terry's potato-book had obtained such a 

 kind reception from farmers, market-gardeners, and 

 others, he was induced to give his plan of growing 

 strawberries, as he did potatoes, by plowing under 

 great crops of clover, and, like the potato-book, his 

 writings gave a new impetiis to strawberry grow- 

 ing; in fact, some of his pupils declare that, aside 

 from the picking, they can gi-ow strawberries almost 

 as cheaply per bushel as potatoes. By following 

 Terry's teachings thousands of people have not only 

 been able to give their families but the whole wide 



world better strawberries, and more of them, than 

 they ever saw before. 



Asparagus Culture (postage 6 cts.) 40 



Alfalfa Culture (postage 6 cts.) 40 



Barn Plans and Out-buildings 90 



Fruit Harvesting, Storing, Marketing, etc. (post- 

 age 10 cts.) 75 



It has been well said that it is an easier matter 

 to grow stuff than to sell it at a proper price after 

 it is grown ; and many men fail, not because they 

 are inexpert in getting a crop, but because they do 

 not know how to sell their crops to the best advan- 

 tage. This is the first book of the kind we have had 

 as an aid in selling. It not only tells all about 

 picking, sorting, and packing, and gives all the best 

 methods for storing for one or two days or a longer 

 time. It also tells about evaporating and canning 

 when there is a glut in the market. It discusses 

 fruit packages and commission dealers, and even 

 takes in cold storage. It is a new book of 250 

 pages, full of illustrations. Publisher's price, $1.00. 



The Lure of the Land; Farming after Fifty. .$1.50 

 A most valuable book, just out, by Dr. H. W. 

 Wiley, formerly Chief Chemist of the United States. 

 You want this book in order to be able to distin- 

 guish real science from popular humbugs if for 

 nothing else. No man at the present day is better 

 prepared, in my opinion, to give us facts than Dr. 

 Wiley, who for so many years held his important 

 office. Price $1.50 postpaid; or the book and 

 Gleanings one year for $2.00. 



Farming with Green Manures, postpaid 90 



This book was written several years ago; but 

 since competent labor has got to be so expensive and 

 hard to get, many farmei's are beginning to find 

 they can turn under various green crops much 

 cheaper than to buy stable manure and haul and 

 spread it — cheaper, in fact, than they can buy 

 fertilizers. This book mentions almost all plants 

 used for plowing under, and gives the value com- 

 pared with stable manure. Some of the claims seem 

 extravagant, but we are at present getting good 

 crops and keeping up the fertility by a similar 

 treatment, on our ten-acre farm. 



Farm, Gardening, and Seed-growing; postage 7c .90 



Fuller's Grape Culturist (postage 10c) $1.15 



Garden and Farm Topics, Henderson, postage 5c . 60 

 Gardening for Pleasure, Henderson, post. 12c 1.10 



While "Gardening for Proiit " is written with a 

 view of making gardening pay, it touches a good 

 deal on the pleasure part, and " Gardening for 

 Pleasure " takes up this matter of beautifying your 

 homes and improving your grounds, without the 

 special point in view of making money out of it. 

 I think most of you will need this if you get " Gar- 

 dening for Profit." This work has 246 pages and 

 134 illustrations. (Retail price $2.00.) 

 Gardening for Profit (postage 12c) $1.10 



This is a late revision of Peter Henderson's cele- 

 brated work. Nothing that has ever before been 

 put in print has done so much toward making mar- 

 ket-gardening a science and a fascinating industry. 

 Peter Henderson stands at the head, without ques- 

 tion, altho we have many other books on these rural 

 employments. If you can get but one book, let it 

 be the above. It has 376 pages and 138 cuts. 

 (Retail price $2.00.) 

 Gardening for Young and Old, Harris, postage 8c . 90 



This is Joseph Harris' best and happiest effort. 

 .Mtho it goes over the same ground occupied by 

 Peter Henderson, it particularly emphasizes thoro 

 cultivation of the soil in preparing your ground, and 

 this matter of adapting it to young people as well as 

 old is brought out in a most happy vein. If your 

 children have any sort of fancy for gardening itwiil 

 pay you to make them a present of this book. It 

 has 187 pages and 46 engravings. 

 Grasses and Clovers, with Notes on Forage 



Plants (postage 3c) 20 



This is by Henry A. Dreer, author of the book 

 " Vegetables under Glass " that has had such a large 

 sale of late. This little book tells how six tons of 

 grass has been grown to the acre, u;iJ givco ..i..^ii 

 other valuable matter. 



