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Mr. Work: Do you have trouble with them? 



Mr. Zuck: Yes, we do. The conditions under which the 

 bees work are very poor, and generally when they get through, 

 they are pretty weak, because the bees going into the house 

 are persistent fellows and keep bumping against the glass 

 and kill themselves. It is very discouraging. We quite of- 

 ten have to buy new hives entirely. If the spring is cold, we 

 have to set the hives right inside, where it is warm, to get the 

 bees to work. If it is warm, we take out a light of glass and 

 set the hive against the opening. 



Mr. Work: Can you set a hive in the end of the house 

 and have openings each way, requiring them to go into the 

 house in the morning and later letting them loose? 



Mr. Zuck: I do not know about that. 



Mr. Wrigley : I grow my vines very close together and 

 get sometimes on an average as high as three dozen per vine, 

 but they are not all first grade cukes. 



Mr. Work: Mr. Reed is a thoroughly successful grower 

 of late cabbage. He grew twenty tons per acre during the 

 past dry season, and he has been averaging very high year 

 after year. I am sure you will be glad to hear how he does it. 



LATE CABBAGE. 



E. N. Reed, Cortland, New York. 



While it gives me great pleasure to come here and talk on 

 "Late Cabbage," at the same time, I would feel a great deal 

 more at home if I were back in the field taking care of a cab- 

 bage crop. My chosen business is farming and not telling 

 how to do it. The vegetable growers asked me to talk about 

 twenty minutes on the cabbage subject. It was evident they 

 thought I could tell all I knew in that length of time. But 

 when I sat down to outline my talk, I found I could tell all I 

 knew in less than twenty minutes. 



In 1906 I entered the freshman class in cabbage growing, 

 and after eight years of experience added to all my father 

 handed down to me, I have not yet graduated, and what is 



