1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



69:i 



Tobacco Column. 



GOOD SENSE CROPPING OUT. 



We copy the following from the Bicycle News 

 of Aug. 28: 



It is said that 10,000 packages of cigarettes were 

 distributed among- the wheelmen at the Louisville 

 meet. Would it not be well to immediately antici- 

 pate the effects that must necessarily ensue, and 

 commence bulldingadditions to the public hospitals 

 for the insane ? 



So far as my experience goes, as a wheelman, 

 it is quite an unusual thing to see a wheelrider 

 smoking either a cigar or cigarette. If he has 

 any ambition to be an expert wheelman he very 

 soon learns that the poisonous things are an- 

 tagonistic to the development of muscle, to say 

 nothing about developing his mental faculties. 



While our church was undergoing repairs we 

 had services in a large public hall. Last Sun- 

 day on moving our chairs up in a circle prepar- 

 atory to our Sunday-school class, I noticed a 

 great filthy spot right near where our class 

 assembles. It looked as if a pailful of filthy 

 slop had been spilled on the floor, and then dried 

 down. One of the boys in my class is assistant 

 janitor of the hall; and when I asked if some- 

 body had spilled some brown paint on the floor 

 he replied, " Why, Mr. Root, that is tobacco- 

 juice. They had a show here the fore part of the 

 week, and some fellows sat here and spit all in 

 one place." The janitor did not get around to 

 slick up the hall until Saturday, and by that 

 time the spittle had dried down on to the 

 boards so they could not very well sweep it off. 

 I sat looking at the spot in wonder. Is it pos- 

 sible that human beings, especially human be- 

 ings who make any claim to respectability, 

 should be guilty (to say nothing of being capa- 

 ble) of exudinsr such a mass of dirty filth from 

 their mouths f I can scarcely imagine any 

 thing more nauseating or disgusting. Another 

 thing is a little singular right here. This hall 

 is often used for religious meetings, for public 

 lectures, and various entertainments; but I do 

 not remember of ever before seeing tobacco- 

 spittle(that is, any considerable amount)on this 

 usually clean and tidy floor. My pupil told me 

 it was done at a "show" Well, our children 

 have criticised me somewhat severely because 

 of my prejudice against shows; and I confess 

 that the word shoiv means something to me 

 that is not really elevating or progressive. I 

 used to be very fond of going to shows when I 

 was a boy; and combinations of circumstances 

 have seemed to make it advisable for me to at- 

 tend shows more or less during the last twenty 

 years; that is, occasio?iait]/ I get into a show, 

 so that I know pretty well what I am talking 

 about. 



Now, I should greatly enjoy a show where 

 there are scientific experiments, or even skillful 

 experiments in mechanics, if you choose. I Mke 

 to see an expert throw balls, spin plates, and 

 perform on a rope, providing the rope is so near 

 the ground the performer does not endanger 

 his life; but the average show that aims simply 

 to entertain, without any effort whatever being 

 made to elevate and instruct, is painful to me. 

 Sometimes it gives me pain just to read over 

 the program, especially in the line of theatrical 

 shows. No doubt the audience was entertain- 

 ed. Perhaps they had a good laugh. But 

 when I go away from such a place — that is, 

 when there is not a single thought that elevates 

 and ennobles humanity — there is left only a 

 dull unsatisfied feeling that I have learned to 

 dread; and I must confess that I can not enjoy 

 any concert or musical entertainment unless 

 there is something for righteousness, purity, 



and godliness somewhere. And, somehow or 

 other, the kind of people who attend shows are 

 a pretty good gauge as to its standard of re- 

 spectability. I do not know any thing about 

 this particular show more than what my pupil 

 told me; but from the fact that there were 

 people in attendance who could spit a gallon of 

 tobacco-juice on the floor during an hour or 

 two, I should say on general principles it was a 

 low-lived affair, and would better have been 

 kept out of the hall. Once more: What must 

 be the effect on the physical health of the 

 person who uses tobacco to this extent, to say 

 nothing of the slate of heart from a moral point 

 of view? 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



THE BOBBINS POTATO PLANTER. 



The potato-planter illustrated on page 690 has, as 

 you will notice, two seats. The upper one is for the 

 driver. The lower one is where my cousin's little 

 girl sat, and her business was to see that there was 

 a piece of potato in each one of the revolving boxes 

 as they came around. If the machine did not put a 

 piece in every box, it was her business to put one in 

 by hand. If a piece is in every one of the revolving 

 boxes as they come around, there will surely be a 

 potato planted wherever there should be a potato- 

 hill; therefore this machine, with somebody to 

 guide and direct it a little, makes no misses. If there 

 is a missing hill in the field, you may know it was 

 because the piece of potato did not send up a sprout. 

 The price of the machine is if .55; with fertilizer at- 

 tachment, $65. All correspondence should be ad- 

 dressed to the Bateman Mfg. Co., Grenloch, N. J. 

 The same machine has attachments so it can be 

 made to sow peas, beans, or corn. 



THE FREEMAN POTATO. 



The following just comes to hand from T. B. 

 Terry : 



F/xend Boot;— The Freemans turned out wonder- 

 fully. We had 100 bushels more than we expected, 

 and they are nice too. Take it all in all, the Free- 

 man is a wonderful potato with us. T. B. Terry. 



It is a little singular that Mr. Terry has such suc- 

 cess with this potato year after year, and so many 

 complain that it is a poor yielder— potatoes small, 

 etc. On our own grounds, if we planted, say, in 

 April, for an early potato, I am afraid I should have 

 a poor opinion of it; but where planted the last of 

 June, 01- from that on till the middle of .luly, we 

 have excellent yields of nice good-sized potatoes. 

 I saw a few hills dug while I was at friend Terry's, 

 and they were surely large enough to please any- 

 body. Please notice we offer Freemans, grown by 

 Terry, lower than ever before, and we have his en- 

 tire crop of seconds this year, at the low price of 

 only $1.00 a barrel. These seconds ai'e well worth 

 the price for a cooking-potato, especially where you 

 want potatoes to bake; and a baked Freeman is 

 about as rich and toothsome as any dish in the po- 

 tato line that can be put upon the table. 



seed-potatoes in general, etc. 



At present writing we are sold out of Carman No. 

 1. We can furnish every thing else in the table, 

 both first and second sizes. Now, if there is any 

 thing particularly you want, you had better order 

 at once before the stock is sold out. By the way, 

 we recentlj had an application from Cleveland for 

 a carload of potatoes, saying that nice table pota- 

 toes were selling at from :)5 to 40 cents a bushel. 

 You will see by the list in our last issue that we 

 offer two valuable kinds of potatoes at the low 

 price of only $1.25 a barrel. They are worth almost 

 if not quite this low price for a table potato in the 

 city of Cleveland. We do not know how long these 

 low prices will continue, but we will agree to fill all 

 orders at these figures until our next Issue comes 

 out, any way. 



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the DAVIS kidney WAX BEAN. 



I mentioned last spring that we had finally suc- 

 ceeded in securing a kidney wax bean that is per- 



