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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



January, 1918 



or Christ, either self or the Saviour. You will find 

 sin, self, Satan, and the world to be hai d mas e-i; 

 but if you wear the livery of Christ you will find 

 liim so meek and lowly of heart that you will find 

 rest unto your souls. He is the most magnanimous 

 of captains. There never was his like among the 

 choicest of princes. He is always to be found in 

 the thickest part of the battle. When the wind 

 blows cold he always takes the bleak side of the hill. 

 The heaviest end of the cro.ss lies ever on his shoul- 

 ders. These forty years and more have I served 

 him, blessed he his name! and I have had nothing 

 but love from him. I should be glad to continue yet 

 another forty ye.irs in the same dear service here 

 below, if so it pleased him. His service is life, peace, 

 joy. Oh that you would enter on it at once! God 

 help you to enlist under the banner of Jesus, even 

 this day. Amen." 



I wish especially to emphasize the words, 

 "You will find sin, self, Satan, and the 

 world to be hard masters; but if you wear 

 the liveiry of Christ . . . you will 

 find rest for your souls." Spurgeon says he 

 gives the above after an experience of over 

 forty years or more. Well, dear friends, 

 it is just about foiiy years since I enlisted 

 under the banner of the meek and lowly 

 Nazarene; and ] can give a loud amien to 

 what Spurgeon says in the above. It has 

 been just my experience. Let me repeat 

 again what he says in closing: " God belp 

 you," my friend, " to enlist under the ban- 

 ner of Jesus, even this day." 



Since we have been sending out so maiiy 

 thousand of the little tract,"" How to Be 

 Happy," etc., tracts have bean coming in 

 return from the various tract societies thru- 

 OLit our land. Of course I did not have any 

 idea there were so many. Such a great 

 number of tracts have been submitted that I 



can hardly take time to glauo'^ o'-«r all cf 

 them; but my conse.ence troubles me if I 

 do not take at least a brief look at the vari- 

 ous ones submitted. I have just now run on 

 to a gem. Please notice the 11th and 12th 

 lines how wonderfully it comes in with my 

 tract, " Plow to be Happy when People 

 Abuse You." Here is the tract. The 

 italics are my own. May God bless this 

 message. 



THE HOUSE INSIDE 



I have a house inside of me — 

 A house that people never see; 

 It has a door thru which none pass, 

 And -windows, but they're not of glass. 

 " Where do you live?" ask folks I meet; 

 And then I say, "On such a street;" 

 But still I know what's really me 

 Lives in a house folks never see. 

 Sometimes I like to go inside. 

 And hide and hide and hide and hide, 

 And " doctor up " my wounded pride 

 When I've been " treated rough " outside. 

 And sometimes, when I've been to blame 

 I go indoors and blu.sli for shame. 

 And get my mind in better frame. 

 And get my tongue and temper tame. 

 I meet my heavenly Father there ; 

 For he stoops down to hear my prayer, 

 To smooth my brow and cure my care. 

 And make me brave to do and dare. 

 Then, after I have been made strong. 

 And have things right that were all wrong, 

 I come outside, where I belong. 

 To sing a new and happy song. 

 Then I can hear the people say, 

 " You're bright and bonnie, good and gay," 

 And it's because I feel that way; 

 But they don't know the price I pay. 

 You have a house inside of you. 

 Where Christ will fight your battles too. 

 God's word will tell you what to do. 

 And make your heart clean, kind, and true. 

 ^S. W. Grafflin. 



HIGH - PRESSURE GARDENING 



ITIGH-PRESSURE POTATO-GROWING. 



Dear Sir: — Enclosed you will find a clipping 

 taken from the Kingsville Reporter, of which staff I 

 am pressman. I live on the lot adjoining that on 

 which these potato sprouts were planted and grovsm ; 

 and if I had been told that potato sprouts would 

 stand the amount of rain these got, and then yield 

 as fine a crop as was dug from them I could have 

 hardly believed it. Now just a few lines to those 

 who want to make their potatoes go a long way. 

 Why not take berry-boxes and plant the sprouts in 

 them, say four in each box; and then when the 

 weather permits plant them in the open ground? 

 By so doing one could have early potatoes and still 

 have the original &eed for late planting. 



E. M. Anson. 



Kingsville, Ont., Canada, Oct. 29, 1917. 



Polow is the clipping referred to: 



POTATOES FROM SPROUTS. 



In our boyhood days we were always given to 

 understand that potatoes would not grow from 

 sprouts detached from a potato, as the potato fur- 

 nishes nourishment for the sprout and is necessary 



for its grovrth, and that the larger the potatoes the 

 better would be the new crop. This idea, like a 

 great many other things that are being thrown aside 

 today as erroneous, has been disproven by Mr. Colin 

 Quick, of this town. Last spring he broke sprouts 

 from his potatoes and planted a lot; and when he 

 dug his crop this fall, he found that the sprouts had 

 produced fully as fine tubers as thoset grown from 

 potatoes. Samples of the sprout-grown article may 

 be seen on our office table. The potatoes from 

 which the sprouts were taken were then cooked and 

 used in the usual way. Mr, Quick says that seed 

 can be multiplied three times by taking oflf first 

 sprouts, letting a second lot come out, taking them 

 off, and then cutting and planting the original po- 

 tato. 



My good friend, what you advise is ex- 

 actly what I was d'oing last winter in my 

 Florida garden when I grew two good crops 

 of i^otatoes on the same ground in one win- 

 tei'. Yeis, you can gTow good potatoes from 

 sproutiS, pi'O'viding you have very rich soil 



