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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15. 



nity about you. The last day of our county fair, 

 the horses and people drank, probably, a hun- 

 dred barrels of water from our stone trough in 

 front of the store. There was a brisk wind, 

 and the big windmil did its best all day long In 

 bringing water right from the bottom of the 

 well. But the people took it so fast it made 

 almost a constant stream. The well out in the 

 apiarv, that terates the water, was also kept 

 going" pretty nearly to its fullest extent. 

 Neither of the wells, however, gave out. 



Now let me close with a little text which it 

 seems to me may be taken in a temporal sense 

 also, as well as spiritual: 



And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of 

 these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the 

 name of a disciple, verily I say unto you. lie shall in 

 no wise lose his reward. 



High-pressure Gardening. 



BY A. I. ROOT. 



SEEDS THAT MAY BE SOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF 

 SEPTEMBER. 



In most northern localities it is .iust about the 

 time you want to sow your seeds for cold-frame 

 cabbage-plants. Go to work just as you would 

 to get cabbage-plants in the spring. When 

 they are of just a nice size to transplant, put 

 them into beds that can be covered with sash. 

 Plant them down much deeper than usual— in 

 fact, clear down to the first leaf, or a little 

 more. Give them room enough so they can 

 make good strong stocky plants, say two inches 

 apart in the row, and the rows three inches 

 from each other. Have the ground rich, then 

 use your sash in such a way as to harden them 

 gradually, but protecting them with sash when 

 the weather is most severe. Onions, spinach, 

 cauliflower, and many other hardy plants and 

 vegetables, may be kept over in cold-frames in 

 just this way ; and my opinion is just now, 

 especially after the experience of last spring, 

 that sucli cold-frame plants are worth more — 

 at least generally speaking— than any plants 

 you can possibly raise in the greenhouse or 

 hot-bed. Now is the time, also, to sow spinach. 

 Get it large enough to use before severe weath- 

 er comes, if you can. The larger it is without 

 going to seed, the better, and it will frequently 

 winter away into February or March without 

 any protection at all. Of course, much depends 

 upon the quantity of snow on the ground when 

 we have our most severe freezes. A little help 

 from sashes will make your spinach much nicer 

 and safer. Last year we got 10 cts. per lb. for 

 outdoor spinach, and ;iO for that rai.sed under 

 glass; the same with winter kale. You want 

 the ground exceedingly rich for all these win- 

 ter plants. Grand Rapids lettuce should be 

 sown now so as to get nice plants to transplant 

 into the greenhouse or into cold-frames or hot- 

 beds. It is managed very much as we manage 

 cold-frame cabbage-plants, only you want some 

 bottom heat if you want to make it mature in 

 the winter time. The best lettuce we raised last 

 spring was wintered over in a cold-frame with- 

 out any bottom heat at all. It looked as though 

 the life was frozen out of it along in March: but 

 after the sun had warmed the ground up 

 enough to give it a start, it took hold and grew 

 amazingly. It takes but very little time or 

 ground to grow the seed; and if you should 

 raise more plants than you need, it will not be 

 a very big loss. If, however, you and every- 

 body else happen to be short of plants, as it 

 was last spring, it will be a very big gain, and 

 a nice speculation, to have a lot of nice ones. 

 If you already own the sashes why not make 



them earn something in the latter part of the 

 winter as well as in the fore part? Ours are 

 now nicely covered up by cases or boxes, and 

 have been so all summer long; but as soon as 

 the first severe frosts come, we expect to have 

 them newly painted and utilized, every one of 

 the 300, by having them covering cabbage- 

 plants, cauliflower-plants, onion-plants, kale- 

 plants, little beets that started to grow before 

 the warm weather was quite gone. etc. Nice 

 vegetables out of season will almost always 

 find a purchaser, especially when it gets to be 

 understood that there is something nice and 

 good to be seen and purchased at your garden 

 every month in the year. 



SOMETHING ABOUT LOOSE WAGON-TIRES. 



During every dry time, like the season we 

 have just been passing through, for instance, 

 there is always more or less trouble about wag- 

 on-tires getting loose ; and. with a careless 

 driver, tires have been run oft', and expensive 

 breakdowns are the result. Where one watches 

 his tires, however, he will notice quickly when 

 they are getting out of place. The usual meth- 

 od of getting them back again is to get a ham- 

 mer or a stone, and pound the felly or the tire. 

 If you have tried it, you know it is very unsat- 

 isfactory, besides bruising up your wheel. An 

 hour or two ago a man showed me a neat trick. 

 It was this: When your tire gets to slipping oft' 

 the felly, get a common adjustable wrench — a 

 pretty good-sized one. Open it so while one 

 jaw rests on the edge of the tire the other is 

 against the felly. Now bear down on the han- 

 dle, or raise up,"as the case may be. and one jaw 

 will crowd the tire forward while the other 

 pushes the felly back under it. In a few min- 

 utes you can get all of the tires exactlyover the 

 felly, where they should be. Now wet your 

 wheel, and the tires will stay in place until the 

 wood becomes very dry again. A few years ago 

 I was greatly taken up with the idea of soaking 

 the wood with linseed oil — boiling hot. I bought 

 the machine, and carefully went over every 

 wheeled vehicle on the premises. Perhaps it 

 did some good; but my opinion is, that, had I 

 expended the same amount of money by send- 

 ing the wheels to a skillful wagon-maker, I 

 should have been better oft'. Later yet. some- 

 body talked about putting a washer of leather 

 between the end of the spoke and the felly. I 

 spent some more money in having a man go 

 over the wheels in this way; but my decision is 

 as above, "Every man to his trade." A good 

 wagon-maker or wagon-repairer who has care- 

 fully watched all of these things for years, and 

 made it his study to see how he can do his cus- 

 tomers the most good for the smallest amount 

 of money, would be cheaper in the end than the 

 plans I have mentioned. If, however, you have 

 leisure time at odd spells, or during bad weath- 

 er, it may make a difference. Whenever I wish 

 to do such work I have to hire a man at !fl.25 or 

 .$1.50 a day, and we usually have plenty of in- 

 door work "for all of our help during bad weath- 

 er. Whatever you do. don't let your wheels go 

 without having the tires properly set. being 

 properly painted as often as they need it. etc. 

 A stitch in time certainly saves nine in the care 

 of wheels of vehicles. 



ONLY 44 CENTS FOR WHEAT, AFTER HAULING IT 



17 MILES. 



Friend Root: — Find inclosed one dollar at 

 last. They are hard to get now, with wheat at 

 44 cts. a bushel, and 17 miles to haul it. A tre- 

 mendous drouth has cut all other crops short, 

 honey included: but I don't see how I can get 

 along without Gleanings. I have read it for 

 16 years, and should be lost without it. Give 



