1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Peavine, or Mammoth Red clover, same as medium. 



Alfalfa, same as medium. 



Crim.sou, or scarlet clover, bu., $1.50; ^ bu , 2 40; 

 peck, $1 25; 1 lb . 10c, by mail 20c; 3 lbs., by mail, 50c. 



.Sweet clover. 100 lbs., 10c per lb.; 10 lbs. a't I2c: 1 lb.. 

 15c; by luail, 25c per lb. Yellow sweet clover, Gc per 

 lb. addiliotial. I-"or sweet clover with hulls off, 5c per 

 lb. ill addition to the above prices. 



SEED POTATOES— ORDER EARLY. 



If vou serd in your order now you ran get them 

 without being sprouted a particle You can get exact- 

 ly what j-ou want, for our .--tockof firsts is all complete; 

 and. tnost of all you can save disastrous delays by not 

 getting them when you are ready to plant. Preightof 

 all kinds, as you may know, is more or le«s delayed by 

 the overcrowded condition of the railroads generally; 

 therefore it will be better all around to get yourordtrs 

 in at once. 



TABLE OF PRICES. 



NAME. 



Varieties are in order 

 as resards time of ma- 

 turing ; earliest first, 

 next earliest second, 

 and so on. 



Red Bliss Triumph 



Six Weeks 



Early Ohio 



Early Michigan 



Early Trumbull 



Bovee 



New Queen 



Freeman 



Lee's Favorite 



Twent iet h Century 



State of Maine 



Maule"s Commercial . . . . 



Carman No. 3 



Sir Waher Raleigh 



Kinc of Michigan 



California Russet 



New Craig 



Seconds, while we have them, will be half price (for 

 description of .seconds see page 828), but at the present 

 writing, Jan. 1, we are sold out of seconds except 

 the following four kinds : Early Michigan, I^ee's Fa- 

 vorite, New Queen, and Maule's Commercial. 



A barrel can be made up of as many varieties as you 

 choose, and they will be at barrel prices if you have a 

 whole barrel or more. 



POT.-\TOES AND GARDEN SEEDS TO BE GIVEN AWAY. 



Everybody who sends $1.00 for Gleanings (asking 

 for no other premium), may have '25 cents' worth of 

 potatoes, seeds, etc.. providing he mentions it at the 

 time he .sends in the money; and every .subscriber 

 who sends us SI. 00 for a new subscriber so that Gle.'^n 

 INGS may go into some neighborhood or family where 

 it has not been before, may have 50 cents' worth of po- 

 tatoes;, seeds, etc. 



You can have your premium potatoes sent by mail. 

 express, or freight; but if you want them by mail, 

 you must .send the money for postage. F'or '25 cents 

 you can have 5 lbs. of potatoes; but the postage and 

 packing amounts to ten cents for each pound; and I 

 do not believe you want to pay .50 c nts in postage for 

 25 cents' worth of potatoes. As a rule, potatoes sho-.ld 

 go only by freight; 25 cents' worth is hardly enough 

 for a freight shipment; so by far the better way would 

 be to have them shipped by freight with other goods. 

 The expre.ss charges on only "25 cents' worth are very 

 often as much as the postage, and sometimes more. 



OfR NORTHERN-GROWN SEED POTATOES. 



The Red Triumph is perhaps the earliest potato 

 known, but it is very apt to blight in many localities. 

 Six weeks is a select extra early strain of Early Ohio. 

 The Early Ohio is the standard early potato almost the 

 ■world over; but as a rule it is not a large yielder. Earl\- 

 Michigan is one of the very earliest potatoes, and is 

 almost without a fault as to quality, quantity, etc. 

 Early Trumbull is not (juite as early as the foregoing, 

 but it is a tremendous yielder. The Bovee has made 

 quite a sensation since its advent fouror five years ago. 

 New Queen, in many localities, seems to be the "queen" 

 of the lot, a little Inter than the foregoing, but a 

 tremendous yielder. The Freeman is the first really 

 handsome potato among the extra earlies. Lee's Fa- 

 vorite looks almost exactly like the New Queen, but it 

 is a little later. Twentieth Century. .State of Maine, 

 Carman No. 3, and bir Walter Raleigh, are all tre- 



mendous yielders; and on our ranch last year in North- 

 ern Michigan they looked so much alike' the bovs said 

 there was hardly a choice in the lot. MauU '.s Com- 

 mercial stands well with the lot just enumerated, and 

 perhaps it will outyicld aii)' of them; but it is a red- 

 dish potato. Whitteii's White Mammoth is one of the 

 largest yielders, and is a potato of excellent quality; 

 but it is not as handsome in shape as the Carman No. 

 3 and some others.- The California Russet is equal in 

 quality, probably, to any in the list, and stands out 

 sharp and clear above all, as the potato having no 

 scab. It may not yield as well as some others, and the 

 tubers are not quite as handsome, although they are 

 of good shape; but there are never any scabby "ones. 

 The New Craig is certainly the latest of all po"tatoes, 

 giving some of the largest crops, providing vou can 

 give it the whole sea.son to grow in. Plant them early, 

 and they will keep growing till frost. 



COLD-FRAME OR HOT-BED SASH OF CYPRESS. 



We are now prepared to furnish .sash of cypress, 

 having secured a supply of this lumber for the pur- 

 pose. It is one of the most durable of wo^ds for out- 

 side use, and is largely used for greenhouse bars and 

 sash. It is light and strong, as well as durable. We 

 are changing the dimensions of the bars so that they 

 will shut off less light from the seed-bed. The thick- 

 ness will be i''2 inches instead of i^s, as formerly, 

 with tenons ■< inch thick instead of % inch. The out- 

 side bars are 2V2 inches wide instead of 31^. The sash 

 will still be 6 feet long, but 3 ft. 3 inches wide instead 

 of 3 ft. 4 inches, and, as regularly furnished, will take 

 fc)ur rows of 8x10 glass. We can'also supply them for 

 3 rows of ii-inch glass. The price shipped, knocked 

 down, will be 80 cents each; $3.75 for 5. or $7.00 for 10. 



We still have the old-style pine sash, 3 ft. 4 by 6 ft., 

 which we will <;ell at the same price if any prefer 

 them. At the present price of pine lumber they are 

 worth more money, but we will close them out at this 

 price to anj' who may want them. Glass, Sxio, for 

 sash at $3.00 per box; 5 boxes at $2.85; 10 boxes at $2.70 



A NEW TESTAMENT IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH. 



We have just received from the American Bible So- 

 ciety a lot of Testaments, one column printed in Span- 

 ish and the other in Engli,sh — that is, the two are side 

 by side. I can hearti y recommend this Testament as 

 a method of learning Spanish. If you read your Bible 

 every day— and I hope there are many of our readers 

 who do this — with one of these English-Spanish Testa- 

 ments yon can also read a little Spanish every day; 

 and you will be surprised to learn how soon the Span- 

 ish words will become familiar to you Of course, few 

 will undertake this unless they are in localities where 

 Spanish is largely spoken. I hope the bee-keepers of 

 Cuba will all provide themselves with such a Testa- 

 ment; and I know by experietice that in California, 

 Arizona. Mexico, and many other parts of the great 

 West, a little .Spanish is a great benefit; and I know, 

 too, from experience, that it is a wonderful privilege 

 to anybody who loves God's holy word to be able to 

 get it in another language than his own. The mental 

 exercise, and the real honest enjoyment that I get out 

 of my Spanish-English Testament, have been worth to 

 me a hundred times what it cost. The books are bill- 

 ed to us hy the American Bible .Society at just '25 cents 

 each, which we sell them for. If wanted by mail, add 

 9 cents for postage. As an incentive to young people 

 to take up the study of Spanish, permit me to mention 

 that a shorthand writer who can read, write, and 

 speak English and Spanish, can command in Havana 

 from $125 to $150 per month. A book-keeper who is 

 conversent with both English and Spanish can com- 

 mand from $75 to $100 per month. I hardly need men- 

 tion that this book will be equally valuable to Spanish 

 people who are learning F^nglish; and I wish our Amer- 

 ican friends would present the matter to their Span- 

 ish neighbors. Just think of it dear friends — at the 

 same time they are learning our lanp-uage they will be 

 getting a knowledge of the word of God that will raise 

 men out of darkness and into the light. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Northern Michigan bee-keepers will hold a con- 

 vention, March 25 and 2fi, in the town hall, at Bellaire, 

 Antrim County. Special rates have been secured for 

 entertainment at the Ellis House and the Bellaire 

 House, at $1 00 per day. A. I. Root expects to be pres- 

 ent, and give a talk on Cuba. 



