1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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pecially if made from Tompkins County King ap- 

 ple, wliioh we are using-. Unless apples are mellow 

 they are not good when used in this way. 



INDIGESTION. 



I think from experience that more can be accom- 

 plished to aid digestion and cure dj speiisia by never 

 over eating, and cliewing the food a long time, than 

 by taking medicine. More hnrm is done by over 

 eatiag than by any thing else. Because a thing 

 tastes good we are apt to think, at tlie time of eat- 

 ing, it will not hurt us. It is wonderful how long 

 the stomacli will hear overloading; but the break- 

 down will surely cume earlier or later. 



There are some articles of food that never ought 

 to be made or used, such as cucumber pickles, pick- 

 lelily, and such foods; also lard piecrusts. ( -liil- 

 dren are made dyspeptics befon; they are grown, by 

 the use of such foods. 



MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY; HOW TO MAKE FARM- 

 ING PAY. 



A little farm that is well fitted 



In every nook and corner 

 With choice fruit-trees and grain, will yield 



Ample support to its owner. 



With a little apiary of a hundred liives 

 To save the nectar from tlower and tree 



That otherwise would go to waste 

 If not gathered by the Dee. 



A little flock of fifty hens 



(The pure bloods pay the best). 

 If fed oats, wheat, and a little meat. 



With eggs will fill their nest. 



One cow or more that gives rich store. 

 If never kicked and cuffed bv men. 



Will fill his bucket brimn ing full. 

 If given all to eat she can. 



But a costly house that's built for eyes, 

 Wliether of free stone, brick, or wood. 



Is seldom best for the owner's purse, 

 Or for his loved ones' highest good. 



One dog, one cat, that is enough 

 To chHsetlie minks and catcli the rats 



That kill our chicks and eat our grain. 

 And other foods both this and that. 



Of the little leaks that make us poor, 



If to succeed we must beware; 

 To build or buy just what we need. 



We should be wise, and act with care. 



Whatever stock on llie farm is kept. 

 It always paj's to feed well and shelter; 



And all farm-tools have a place. 

 And not left outdoors helter-skelter. 



With love and work within our homes. 



And to all evil close our doors. 

 No need of poverty or want; 



God's promise is, "All things are yours." 



Koseville, III., Feb. 17. 



Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



Tobacco Column. 



A BIT OF PLEASANTRY AND A WONDERFUL, 

 TRUTH ALL TOGETHER. 



But I am getting into trouble in another direction. 

 I weigh 180 lbs. In other words, I am getting fat 

 and lazy. I used tobacco when I was younger. On 

 January 7. 1884, I quit it; but I never sent for a 

 smoker. I did not use any tobacco for eight years. 

 I kept getting heavier. Then my friends told me to 

 use tobacco and I would get lighter. So I went to 

 smoking. At first I would smoke only a cigar a day; 

 or two or tliree at most. I still kept getting heav- 

 ier. Then I started to smoking a pipe. I got then 

 so that I smoked only once a day. With the excep- 

 tion of the time I was eating, I smoked from the 

 time I got up till I went to bed. Still I kept getting 

 heavier and lazier. A couple of weeks ago I started 

 to chewing tobacco too, and I am still getting heav- 

 ier. But I forgot to say that, during the time I 

 didn't use any tobacco at all, I got married, and 

 we have four little girls. The oldest is a little over 

 six, and is going to school. 



I want to give the tobacco a thorough test while I 



am about it. But the trouble now is, my wife is go- 

 ing to send and get chewing gum, and chew, and 

 set the four little girls at it too. I ottered to quit if 

 she would put me on the lean-meat and hot-water 

 diet; but she won't do that, for she says if she lets 

 me start that I would starve to death before I would 

 let up on it. Please let me know what to do under 

 the circumstances. A. N. Draper. 



Over and over again I have been assured by 

 tobacco-users that it was prescribed by the doc- 

 tor to keep them from being too fat. In other 

 words, they are too healthy, and the doctor said 

 they ought to have a little poison to mix in to 

 keep Dame Nature from putting on too much 

 flesh. I have always been slow to admit that 

 tobacco was a good thing, even in such a case; 

 and 1 have been greatly pleased to find that rid- 

 ing a wheel will almost invariably dispose of 

 surplus weight; and more recently I have dis- 

 covered, too, that an exclusive lean-meat diet 

 would do it, so far as I am informed, without a 

 failure. And now friend Draper tells us that 

 tobacco, even when given a " thorough test," as 

 he terms it. is not a cure— at least not in his 

 case. By the way. friend D. , is it hardly fair to 

 your wife to persist in using tobacco now when 

 yon did not use it at all when you were married ? 

 Are you not aware that the nicotine may be 

 poisoning her as well as yourself? Of course, 

 my advice would be to try the lean meat and 

 hot water. You will not starve, for it will be 

 a far easier matter to break ofl" than to have to 

 burst the chains of the tobacco habit. By the 

 way, old friend, you may find this tobacco busi- 

 ness is something more than a joke if you keep 

 on much longer. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, Etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



printed labels on white basswood. 



These are for potatoes, strawberries, gardens, 

 greenhouse slock, fruit-trees, etc. They are made 

 of remnants of our white basswood, such as is 

 used for our No. 1 sections, and are sandpapered 

 with the same macliinery. More than one of the 

 friends liave probably been pleased and astonished 

 at the beauty and plainness of these labels, the jet- 

 black ink contrasting so prettily with the almost 

 snow-white basswood. The sticks they are printed 

 on are 7'4 inches long, Vs thick, and 1 inch wide. 

 They are made large so that the gardener can readi- 

 ly reed tlie name on the stake at the end of the 

 row without traveling clear over to the stake, and 

 without putting on his spectacles. I'rices: 35 cents 

 per 100; |;l..50 per 1000. We can not make up 100 of 

 different kiu<l!< for 2.5 cts., for the cost of setting up 

 tlie type would be too much, especially where there 

 is something to be added besides the name of the 

 potato or plant. The plain basswood sticks, without 

 any printing on them at all. will be 1.5 cts. per 100; 

 75 cts. per 1000. Samples will be mailed free on 

 application. A liberal discount will he made to 

 nurserymen or florists who make large orders. 



SEED POTATOES TO BE GIVEN AWAY TO OUR SUB- 

 SCRIBERS; one dollar pays for GLEANINGS 

 ONE YEAR, AND A BARREL OF POTATOES 

 (STATE OF MAINE OR BEAUTY OF 

 HEBRON) THROWN IN. 



As the planting season is now upon us, and we 

 have quite a stock of a good many kinds of potatoes 

 left, and as some of them will probably have to be 

 given away, we prefer to give them to our sub- 

 scribers rather than to anybody else. Therefore, 

 whoever sends us $1.00 for Gleanings, whether it 

 is to pay up arrearages or subscribe for the future, 

 may select 11.00 worth of potatoes from our list for 

 every dollar that is sent us for Gleanings, as long 

 as the supply holds out, you prepaying all postage, 

 express, or freight. This includes Maule's Early 

 Thdroiighhred with the rest, for we have now a crop 

 almost ready to dig, in the greenhouse, and lots 

 more coming on all the time in cold-frames out- 



