1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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and it may not always liappen that early spraying 

 would sliow such striking- results as above men- 

 tioned. It is true, however, tliat the fung:us is pre- 

 vented tiiucli easier than it is killed after once 

 establislied, and to this end early applications of 

 fungioides are far more effective than late; and it 

 may sometimes happen, as in this case, that a crop 

 is saved whicli would otherwise be lost. 



No dates can bt> iiamcd for spiayiiiK; but a good 

 plan is to make the tlrst aiiplication just before the 

 leaves open, and the second soon after the l)lossoms 

 fall, at which time four ounces of Paris green 

 should be added to each fifty gallons of the mix- 

 ture, in order to kill the apple-worm. A tliird 

 spraying with the combined mixture is to be given 

 about ten days later, and still another after the 

 same length of time, in case of continued wet 

 weather. 



Notes of Travel 



FROM A. I. ROOT. 



THE HOKTIC'ULTURAI> INSTITUTE AT JACKSON, 



MISS.. ETC. 



In our issue for March 1,5, of a year ago, I 

 told about my visit to the home of J. W. Day, 

 the author of the tomato book; but I did not 

 tell you (ill about that visit. When I first ar- 

 rived at Crystal Springs, Miss., they told me 

 that friend Day was at Jackson, Miss., attend- 

 ing a horticultural institute; and it did not 

 take me long to get on the train again and push 

 ahead for Jackson, the capital of the State. It 

 is a town of about (iOOO inhabitants. The capi- 

 tal cities of the States in the South are not as 

 yet able to compare very favorably with the 

 capitals of Ohio. Michigan. Wisconsin, New 

 York, and some others that I have seen. Of 

 course, it is not to be expected; for agriculture, 

 manufactures, etc., are not yet developed in 

 the South as they will be a few years later. 

 The people, however, aro getting a good deal 

 of enthusiasm, especially in the Stale of Missis- 

 sippi, and a good work is going on rapidly in 

 adjoining States. The buildings, although 

 tasty, are snuill compared to ours in the North, 

 and built mostly of wood. We should remem- 

 ber that, in these warm climates, it is not worth 

 while, and it would not be in good taste, to 

 make such preparations against the severity of 

 the weather as we are obliged to make here in 

 the North. The hotels of Jackson are very 

 fair, although they were not built with the 

 view of accommodating any such amount of 

 custotn as we often have here at the North. 



The horticultural institute occupied the 

 greater part of two days. In order to get the 

 people out. and give the meeting enthusiasm, 

 some noted speakers were invited from the 

 North. In fact. Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, 

 acted as chairman, and J. M. Smith, of Green 

 Bay, Wis., was one of the principal speakers. 

 The meeting was much like one of our real live 

 farmers' institutes here at the North. Some 

 colored stud<'nts from one of the neighboring 

 colleges gave us beautiful music: and Gov. 

 Hoard was more than bubbling over with his 

 many odd incidents, jokes, and funny stories. 

 Every little while he would get up and say. 

 "The remarks of the last speaker remind the 

 chair of a little incident;"' and pretty soon this 

 preface to his story got to be so well recognized 

 by the young Mississipians that they cheered 

 him beforehand. In fact, there would be such 

 applause before he began his story that it was 

 hard to get them quiet so that he could tell it. 



In the South, everybody raises cotton, very 

 much as everybody raises wheat here in the 

 North. They have fallen into a kind of rut. 

 They know how to raise cotton, and don't know 

 how to raise any thing else, and so they keep 



going through the motions, year after year, in 

 a sort of automatic way. It does not matter at 

 all whether the streets of New Orleans, or the 

 public squares, are so filled up with cotton bales 

 {as they were when we were there) that in 

 many places one can hardly get through, or 

 not. They just keep riglit on raising cotton. 

 Our Northern friends. Smith and Hoard, and 

 others, of course protested against this sort of 

 farming. Friend Day is a bright example of 

 intelligent Yankee figuring and planning. I 

 have lold you how he engaged in the great 

 tomato industry. I did not tell very much,^ 

 however, about the peach industry that he is 

 so deeply engaged in. If I should tell about the 

 size and lusciousness of the peaches, the im- 

 mense crops they get, and the prices the peaches 

 bring in the North, you might all start on a 

 stampede for Mississippi to raise peaches. 

 Well, one of Gov. Hoard's incidents was some- 

 thing like this. He said that, while in the ser- 

 vice, a colored boy who was waiter for one of 

 the generals was so afraid of the booming of 

 the cannon that he kept his ears stuflfed full of 

 cotton. As a consequence, he could not hear 

 very well. One day the general gave him 

 orders as to what he was to do; but, as usual, 

 he did not do it. Pretty soon he was called up. 



"Look here. Sam; what is the reason you 

 don't do as I tell you? You certainly heard 

 me, for you nodded your head when you spoke, 

 as if you understood." 



"Well, the fact is, 1 did hear you tell me 

 something, but I could not hear very well just 

 what it was. How can a poor nigger tell exact- 

 ly what is said to him when boaf eahs am 

 stuffed full ob cotton?" 



Our Mississippi friends saw the point of the 

 joke, of course, and they almost raised the roof 

 with yells and cheers. The greater part of the 

 friends in the South — colored men and all- 

 have for yeais had their ears so full of cotton 

 that they could not see nor understand any 

 thing about peaches, tomatoes, early garden- 

 stutf. nor any thing else. Most of the incidents 

 that Gov. Hoard mentioned were from the late 

 civil war; and some of his stories cut so close 

 that some of the veterans near me. who once 

 kept slaves, were inclined to double up their 

 fists and show tight. Friend Day. however, 

 exhorted them to be gentlemen, and to take a 

 joke when it is intended as a joke. 



To vary the exercises, some native colored 

 minstrels, who probably had not had an over- 

 amount of schooling, were called up to give us 

 some native melodies, accompanied by the 

 banjo, violin, guitar, tamborine. etc. They did 

 it grandly, but somebody thought it was a good 

 time for " Dixie's Land." Others suggested 

 that, out of respect to their Northern friends, 

 they should not have Dixie's Land just then. 

 But the crowd clamored for Dixie again and 

 again. Then somebody suggested Yankee Doo- 

 dle, to kind o' bring things level. At first, some 

 demurred, as before; but the call for Yankee 

 Doodle was persistent; and even the Southern- 

 ers themselves, one after another, fell into line 

 and demanded that we have Yankee Doodle 

 also, if for nothing else than to let the Northern 

 people see that the Southern folks could be 

 generous. esi)ecially while they were entertain- 

 ing guests; and finally a great hurrah arose 

 from hundreds of voices for Yankee Doodle; 

 and it ended up with a big hand-shaking be- 

 tween the North and th<; South. When it look- 

 ed as if there might be jangling over old-time 

 troubles, I know at least one individual in that 

 big crowd who did some most earnest nraying. 

 May be there were a good many earnest prayers 

 sent up at just this crisis; and the prayer "was 

 answered. 



I do not know that I ever enjoyed any horti- 



