Gleanings in bee culture . the season. As amatter of course, everybody does not succeedas my good neighbor Rood does; and someare so unkind as to intimate that his beau-tifully kept gardens are more to help himsell real estate than to make a profit on hiscrops; but as he is located just across thestreet from my own five acres, I think Ihave an opportunity to know somethingabout what it costs him to keep his place insuch beautiful trim and what he gets forthe stuti he sells. And, by the way, it just now occurs to me that this is the biggestkind of a chance for any of you to sellyour real estate
Gleanings in bee culture . the season. As amatter of course, everybody does not succeedas my good neighbor Rood does; and someare so unkind as to intimate that his beau-tifully kept gardens are more to help himsell real estate than to make a profit on hiscrops; but as he is located just across thestreet from my own five acres, I think Ihave an opportunity to know somethingabout what it costs him to keep his place insuch beautiful trim and what he gets forthe stuti he sells. And, by the way, it just now occurs to me that this is the biggestkind of a chance for any of you to sellyour real estate, if you happen to havemoie than you need, or are getting too oldto take care of a farm. The best advertise-ment that can possibly be gotten up for aI)iece of land is to put on it a few acies, asingle acre, or even a part of an acre, inliigh-ijressure up-to-date gardening. Thebooks and periodicals now devoted to ruralindustries will keep you posted as to thewonderful things being done along theselines in this year of Fig. 3.—A glimpse at short range of the trimmedbunches ready to be packed in cases. Fig. 4.—A glimpse of the celery rows and thestalks after cutting. SEPTEMBER 15, 1912 THE WRIGHT BROTHERS FLYING MACHINEIN THE YEAR 1912. SEE P. 589 BY A. I. ROOT Some time ago a few of the leading busi-ness men of Medina became enthusiasticover the idea of having a flying-machineexhibition on our fairground on theFourth. Correspondence with the peoplewho send out flying-machines brought outthe fact that it would cost a good dealmore money on the Fourth than later dur-ing fairtime. Indeed, the demand was sogreat for machines on that special daythat the best arrangement our people couldmake would be $1000 for a man and ma-chine to make three trips—the man to re-main in the air not less than 45 minutesall together. The question was whetherour county of Medina would turn out insufficient numbers at 25 cts. admission tomake up the thousand dollars. But ittranspired that some
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