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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



.June 1 



am nol mistaken, that wliole recipe was 

 copied from some i)riiite<l booic. And this 

 is only f^/n>///</' illustration that the largest 

 part of the i)eddled secrets are copied from 

 some book or iieriodical. As nearly as I can 

 remember, 1 saw the same thing given in 

 some poultry-book; but I can iiot just now- 

 lay my hand on it. .lust one thing more: 



How many of the fifty or sixty i)oultry- 

 journals published in the United States are 

 heli)ing Gleanings to ferret out and expose 

 these frauds? There may be half a dozen 

 all together that have put in an encourag- 

 ing word; but none of them seem to have 

 the "nerve" (if that is the word) to pub- 

 lish these so-called secrets and give the full 

 name and address. 



SKUNKS KILLING MATURE FOWLS, ETC. 



I am busy running an incubator now, and am in-' 

 terested in A. I. Root's chicken talks, as I have 

 been raising chicks for ten years. I sell from 100 to 

 HOO every spring by hatching in an incubator and 

 putting with sitting hens and selling the whole— 

 sometimes as many as :-iO chicks with one large 

 hen. 1 never had quite the troubles Mr. Root had: 

 but last fall skunks ate up all my best pullets just 

 about as they were about to begin laying. 



Barre I'lains, Mass. Mrs. G. 1.. Kdson. 



GOING TO FLORIDA TO GKT RICH, KTC. 



We clip the following from a full-page ad- 

 vertisement in the Up-tr}-date Farmer: 



We can prove to your entire satisfaction that 

 sweet ijotatoes retail in the large cities for $1.2') to 

 $1.50, and that you can raise a crop of sweet potatoes 

 and two other valuable crops on the same land dur- 

 ing the same 12 months. We can prove that you 

 can raise 400 to 500 bushels of sweet potatoes per acre. 



650 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 



Mr. A. .1. Ilinson states that his "average yield of 

 sweet potatoes is 450 to 500 bushels per acre, but that 

 he has raised as high as 650 bushels." We have this 

 statement over his signature. Now, it's easier to 

 raise sweet ijotatoes than corn; but, granted it costs 

 the same, this is eciuivalent to thirteen hundred 

 bushels of corn to the acre, figuring at 50 cts. per 

 bushel, and potatoes at .*1.00 per bushel. Then you 

 can raise two other crops of other truck on the same 

 land during the same 12 months. 



The chief objection to frviit-raising is, it takes so 

 long. We are after providing homes for deserving 

 people who haven't money enough ahead to wait 

 several years for fruit-trees to grow. 



POULTRY. 



Five years ago a Northern settler, with very little 

 money, located near (ireen ("ove Springs, Fla., and 

 started in the jjoultry business. To-day he has about 

 3000 chickens and recei\es si:',,50() annually for eggs 

 alone. The tourist luilels of Florida furnish a great 

 demand for eggs and |)Oultry. Not so much capital 

 is required for this l)usiness, as llie winters, being 

 so mild, very little housing is reciuired. 



It certainly is very commendable for that 

 Floritla land com]«iny that they are so en- 

 ergetic in "providing homes for deserving 

 people;" but I am really afraid they are after 

 something besides pure philanthropy. As 

 usual, a part of their statements are true or 

 sometimes true. Sweet potatoes do sell in 

 some i)laces at from $1.'25 to $1.50 i)er bushel; 

 but how about getting them to market? 

 They say, " We can i)rove that,yo«," Now, 

 it may be true that an exjiert, during a very 

 favorable season, may raise from 500 to (500 

 bushels to the acre; but the average man 

 from the North would not do any thing of 

 the kind. Again, in regard to jjoultry, if 



the IJOOO chickens were all laying hens, 

 $i;>,500 would be a tnmrndoiis success. 

 These people are careful not to give the 

 na)7its and a(((lr(.s.s(s of the successful men. 

 They end up with a grain of truth. The 

 Florida hotels do furnish a demand for eggs 

 and poultry at good prices, and little or no 

 housing is required to keep chickens in 

 Florida. lUit I tell you there are some other 

 things that arc required. Go and try it on 

 a small scale if you wish; and also go and 

 talk with the average man who raises sweet 

 potatoes or keeps chickens. If such chances 

 are "lying around loose," how is it that my 

 farm, right in neighborhood of (Sreen Cove 

 Springs, would not sell for more than $5.00 

 or S().()0 an acre? There has been no better 

 l)rice offered for the last dozen years. 



NO BUSINESS FOR THE GRAND JURY AS 



THE RESULT OF MAKING A COUNTY 



DRY. 



In May^ 1st issue, p. ;>04, I asked the ques- 

 tion how the people of the counties that 

 have voted wet could look a gootl man or 

 woman in the face, etc. Well, the Cleveland 

 P/Y.s.s for May 5 tells us that Uake Co., G., 

 containing the beautiful city of Painesville, 

 with over TOOO inhabitants, has, for the first 

 time in the history of the county, or mem- 

 ory of the oldest inhabtitant, dismissed the 

 grand jury in J lo^f :i.'> inirndcs. When the 

 county voted wet they had thirty or forty 

 cases, and the jail was full of criminals; btit 

 now there is "nothing doing" there. 

 Further, they have just built a beautiful 

 new jail with all modern conveniences, but 

 there is not a cell occupied, and not an in- 

 mate to make use of the beautiful new fur- 

 niture. The mayor of the city says it is his 

 opinion that voting the county dry accounts 

 for the new order of things. And, by the 

 way, would it not be a good way to go a lit- 

 tle slow in building new jails and i)eniten- 

 tiaries? There is just now a big rumpus 

 going on in the capital of our State because 

 our penitentiary is not only unsanitary, but 

 it is not large enough to hold the inmates, 

 particularly the boyn and young men of 

 Ghio. Now, instead of investing something 

 like a million of dollars in a new jjenitenti- 

 ary (out in the country somewhere), had we 

 not better take half that amount, or less, 

 and go right to work and make the capital 

 of our State a dry city? Why! if the farm- 

 ers and the people inhabiting our small 

 towns were i)ermitted to have a fair chance 

 in the work, we might not only make Co- 

 lumbus dry, but the whole State of Ghio. 

 It was Ghi() that gave birth to the Anti-sa- 

 loon League, and kept it going through 

 years of discouragement. Is it not htting 

 that Ohio should (I can not say /cad, for the 

 Southern States have done that already) fall 

 into line and set an exami)le to the other 

 States here in the North by banishing the 

 entire traffic from our borders, and stop 

 making bigger i)enitentiaries ami asylums? 

 God helj) us. 



