1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



535 



bringing back pleasant recollections by the 

 resemblance they bore to their parents. As I 

 turned into onr own dooryard there was still 

 sufficient light from the bright sky off in the 

 northeast; and I might almost say that I rode 

 ten miles after sundown, and reached home 

 before dark— that is, before it was real dark. 



With the years of experience I have had in 

 wheeling. I believe I can give some good advice. 

 While this "second wind " is a wonderful and 

 most priceless gift, like other blessings we 

 should try toit.se it and not abuse it. In ray 

 trip through Missouri, especially on the ride I 

 finished that Saturday night, I overtasked my- 

 self. In fact, I am not sui-e I am completely 

 over it even now. In a recent number of the L. 

 A. W. Bulletin, a writer made the remark that, 

 whenever a wheelman finds he is unable to 

 sleep nights, he has been overdoing, and I be- 

 lieve this is a pretty good rule. If you ride 

 moderately the use of the wheel is conducive 

 to sleep. If. however, under the influence of 

 this new and may be heretofore unrecognized 

 source of strength, the second wind, you keep 

 on until the wheel seems almost as if it went of 

 itself without any effort of your own, you may 

 find that, when you try to go to sleep, sleep 

 will not come. Another thing, very little 

 strength is required on good roads, and roads 

 that are not very much up hill: but climbing 

 hills, especially if they are very long and steep, 

 is hard on the muscular energy. You get along 

 much easier, and enjoy the trip much more, if 

 you get off and walk when the hill is so steep 

 that it requires much effort, and accustom 

 yourself gradually to long trips. When I com- 

 menced this spring, five or ten miles at first 

 seemed to be enough. After vou have ridden 

 ten miles a day, however, for three or four days, 

 you can make twice that or more, without 

 much fatigue. Keep increasing the distance 

 carefullv and cautiously, and look out for ex- 

 cessive fatigue when undertaking to ride when 

 the roads are in bad order. Be careful, how- 

 ever, about undertaking more than you can 

 manage and do it easily. During extremely 

 hot weather it is better to ride early in the 

 morning, or during the twilight, as I have de- 

 scribed. If you are not an expert in handling 

 wheels, let some experienced person examine 

 your wheel occasionally, and see that it is in 

 nice order. 



LATHYRUS SILVESTEIS IN BLOSSOM. 



In passing a mass of plants this morning, 

 June 2 1st, after a beautiful rain. I stopped and 

 said, " Well, how in the world did sweet peas 

 get among our lathyrus?" Looking a little 

 closer I discovered that the beautifully colored 

 diminutive sweet-pea blossoms were actually 

 growing on the lathyrus. Why, a field of the 

 plants would be literally gorgeous. Who was 

 it that said it would not bear seed in this coun- 

 try? Well, we have not got the seed yet; but 

 we have the blossoms. Stock seem to eat it 

 about as readily as any of the clovers ; and 

 with its tremendous roots I can readily believe 

 it will stand when once it gets root. And not- 

 withstanding this. I should think it would not 

 be a very big job to plow it under after it has 

 been cut or pastured down pretty well. 



BUGS ON SQUASHES, CUCUMBERS, MELONS, ETC. 



Will you please give a remedy or preventive 

 for the bugs that destroy cucumber, melon, 

 squash, and other plants? If you know of any 

 thing that will destroy these pests, or prevent 

 their ravages, please let us have the benefit of 

 that knowledge at once. J. F. Welton. 



Amboy, Ind., June 24. 



Friend W., our mode of warfare is as follows: 

 The minute the plants are up they are watched 



morning and evening, and sometimes between 

 times. Just as soon as a bug is found, the vines 

 are treated to tobacco dust. If they still per- 

 sist, tobacco dust is piled clear over the plants. 

 Sometimes the plants grow up through the 

 tobacco dust sprinkled over the hills. This 

 usually suffices. However, when the bugs 

 come in great numbers, and are very ravenous, 

 or when the black squash-bug comes in great 

 numbers, we try pyrethrum along with the 

 tobacco dust. If they still are doing injury to 

 the plants, then we get the wire-cloth screens, 

 shown in our seed catalog, and fence them out. 

 There are times when the latter seems to be the 

 only real sure remedy; and even these must 

 sometimes be watched to be sure that bugs do 

 not come out of the soil under the wire-cloth 

 screens. Many substitutes are recommended 

 for these latter, such as boxes covered with 

 cotton cloth or mosquito-netting. Striped bugs, 

 however, often manage to get through the net- 

 ting. If you fight them determinedly, both 

 morning and evening, and show them you 

 mean business, they will very soon give it up. 

 This year we have not had a bug on cucumbers, 

 melons, or squashes; if, however, you have so 

 many things to look after, and they are neg- 

 lected until they get under big headway, yo\i 

 may be the vanquished one instead of the bugs. 

 Slugshot. and other preparations of Paris green, 

 have been recommended; but they have never 

 been as satisfactory with us. 



STO well's EVERGREEN SWEET CORN; IMPOR- 

 TANCE OF GETTING THE SEED OF 

 THE GENUINE. 



My dear Friend:— I noticed in Gleanings 

 last year, and also in this, what you say about 

 Stowell's Evergreen corn. Your attention seems 

 to have been directed to it last year for the 

 first. T have had it from the time Mr. Stowell 

 first put it on the market— twenty years and 

 more ago. I consider the geyiuine the best 

 sugar corn grown. I lost my seed several yaars 

 ago. and have been trying in vain to get the 

 true Stowell's Evergreen. There is a great 

 deal sold for Evergreen that is not true. 



This spring I obtained what I believe to be 

 genuine. I have planted it, and it comes up 

 nicely. I intend making my last planting 

 about the close of this week or beginning of 

 next, which will give table corn into the middle 

 of October, unless a frost cuts it off. I gener- 

 ally have it that long when I have the genuine, 

 as it remains fit for table use a long time after 

 it begins to ripen. Knowing how hard it is to 

 get the genuine, I send you some. The party I 

 got it from told me they got it years ago from 

 Mr. Stowell. Try it; and if it is genuine you 

 will say you never ate better corn. 



Rkv. Jno. L. Janeway. 



Pawling, Pa., June 35. 



Thank you. friend J., for the trouble you 

 have taken to start me with some of the best 

 seed. I shall plant it at once, and I hope we 

 may be able to get mature seed from it. 



currants— THE STEM BORER. 



Now is the time to look over the bushes for 

 the stem-borer. We have just finished an acre, 

 and have found from one to fifteen stems cut 

 off in one hill. A moth cuts them off and de- 

 posits an egg in the center of the stem, which, 

 if allowed to hatch, will work its way down- 

 ward through the heart, destroying the branch. 

 We use a sharp knife and cut off about an inch; 

 but in a month from now the worms may have 

 worked down two or three inches. The moth 

 cuts the new growth square off every time, so 

 we cut on a slant. If we go over again, our 

 work can be told at a glance from the work of 



