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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUETUKE 



July 1 



drive off the stick-tight fleas. You have 

 got to catch the chickens and put some sort 

 of grease on the comb, on top of the head, 

 an(l on the throat under the bill. My opin- 

 ion is that any sort of grease or oil will do 

 the business. Carbolated vaseline has been 

 recommended, and one of our readers recent- 

 ly wrote me that just common "chicken 

 oil " is the best thing in the world. We all 

 know this would not hurt chickens, old or 

 young: and when you are killing fat hens 

 occasionally, chicken oil will probably be 

 the cheapest thing in the world. 



JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT — A PROTEST. 



I got % lb. of Japanese buckwheat of you when 

 first out. and increased from it, but was disappoint- 

 ed. Old sorts will beat it over and over. It's all 

 nonsense to plant late — the earlier the better so as 

 to hit cool weather in the spring, like oats seeding, 

 and thus avoid late frost. Old gray Indian wheat, 

 so called, is one of the most productive, is a fine 

 grower, etc, Jap. is apt to blight badly, or did with 

 me on the Hallowell farm. Better leave it alone. 



Mechanic Falls, Elaine. E. P. Churchill. 



Friend C, no doubt the old gray buck- 

 wheat is better for you away up in Maine 

 than the .Japanese; and it is trfie that there 

 are quite a few localities where the old-fash- 

 ioned gray or silverhull is better than the 

 Japanese. But there are other places where 

 the Japanese has given a much larger yield 

 and i)lumi)er grains than the old sorts. " We 

 should be glad to get reports from others in 

 regard to the different varieties of buck- 

 wheat, both for honey and for grain. 



then we may begin to "sit up and take no- 

 tice," particularly as to what may be going 

 on in the air over our heads. 



Temperance 



EARLY APPLES IN JUNE AND JULY. 



Dear Sir: — If you want early apples, and Califor- 

 nia is not too far for you, you may write to Jacobs 

 Brothers. \'isalia, Cal. They have a few acres of 

 Red Astrakhan which ripen here in early June. 

 The quality is generally fine, and of large size. 

 They are good people. Otto Luhdokff. 



Visalia, Cal., June 8, 



Many thanks, friend L.; but the last time 

 I was in California Early Astrakhans were 

 selling at a nickel apiece, and by the time 

 we paid express charges on a small lot here 

 to Ohio they would be rather expensive 

 *' medicine." And that reminds me that I 

 found about the finest Red Astrakhans 1 

 ever saw in my life up in the Black Hills 

 region of South Dakota; but they were iho-e 

 worth a nickel apiece. 



PASSENGERS DINE ON A SKY-LINER. 



The pai)ers inform us that the monstrous 

 dirigible balloon Deutschland now carries 

 passengers on a hundred-mile trip for an 

 even SoO.OO, ''meals included.''' As she 

 made her first trij) and got back again in- 

 side of three hours (ready for another trip) 

 it looks as if it might be a paijinei invest- 

 ment. But notwithstanding the price, you 

 have got to buy your ticket two weeks ahead 

 to be sure to engage a passage, as this sky- 

 liner carries only twenty passengers. Of 

 course, this is not a real flying-machine. 

 It is a big balloon with proi^ellers. When 

 they get to carrying passengers in an aero- 

 plane without any gas or gas-bag about it, 



THE TEMPERANCE WAVE AND WHAT IT 

 HAS ACCOMPLISHED. 



We clip the following from the Womaii's 

 National Dailij of June. 18: 



Figures issued recently by government statisti- 

 cians show that within the last two years the peo- 

 ple of the United States have lessened their expen- 

 diture for alcoholic beverages by an amount esti- 

 mated at .*110,185,(i00. When one stops to remember 

 that this enormous decrease is shown despite the 

 great inflow of foreigners, most of whom are habit- 

 ual users of alcohol in some form, the figures are 

 pregnant with hopeful possibilities. 



Now, it probably is not worth while to in- 

 quire as to whom the credit belongs for sav- 

 ing the nation over 110 million dollars; but 

 I think the great wide world will agree that 

 the Anti-saloon League, with its jiersistent 

 and aggressive pushing, has had much to do 

 with it. Of course, there is still a big job 

 ahead of us; and the liquor forces, with 

 their millions, are working hard to undo 

 what we have already accomplished. But 

 God is on our side, and we shall surely 

 triumph. 



A " STRAW " THAT SHOWS WHICH WAY THE 

 WIND IS BLOWING. 



The following sentences come at the close 

 of a business letter: 



Mr. Root: — I understand that you are a dry man. 

 I am that way myself. What we want next is State- 

 wide prohibition. We are bothered by Parkers- 

 burg: but I think the irhole State of West Virginia 

 will be dry after next winter. 



Marietta, O., June 18. B. S. Sprague. 



"two kings dead, SUICIDES BY THEIR 

 OWN HANDS." 



Among the other good things in Good 

 Health for July is an article with the above 

 heading; and below are two brief extracts 

 from that excellent journal. Here is the 

 first one: 



Edward, king of England, is dead, and Mark 

 Twain, king of letters in America, is dead, and both 

 have ended their earthly careers without good jus- 

 tification for thus abruptly abandoning their stew- 

 ardships. 



E;dward died of smoker's throat, and Twain died 

 of smoker's heart. In other words, both these dis- 

 tinguished persons smoked themselves to death. 



And here is the other one. 



Trust in this foolish doctrine of immunity led 

 Mark Twain, the recognized kine of American lit- 

 erature, to cultivate death most assiduously, smok- 

 ing, according to report twenty strong cigars a day, 

 and a pipe between time.s. His physician is report- 

 ed to have said that smoking had nothing to do 

 with his death: but he died of angina pectoris, a 

 disease of the heart which is one of the best recog- 

 nized consequences of chronic nicotin poisoning. 



If you want proof of the two statements 

 above, read the whole article. While I, 

 with the rest of the world, admired Mark 

 Twain it always gave me pain to see him 

 pictured with a cigar in his mouth. No 

 doubt the example he set before the world 

 has been the means of starting hundreds 

 and perhaps thousands of boys into the 

 habit of using tobacco. 



