January 1918 



GLEANINGS' IN BEE CUIiTURE 



51 



and a good long seasoin ; but you will get a 

 iii'oat deal quicker insult by the plan I 

 gaxc last winter. Instead of letting your 

 aO'od-sized potatoes sprout in the cellar or 

 soraewliere else, put them in a g'reenbouse ; 

 or, if you cannot do any better, in a box in 

 the window in the very best of ricli eompost. 

 When th'e sprouts get to be two or tliree 

 inches long- (and perhaps have sovie little 

 green leaves) instead of pulling off the 

 sprouts, cut a little piece of potato with it, 

 with the bushy roots adhering, and some 

 of the rich soil also ; and I would put just 

 one of these in the strawberiy-box until 

 the weatlier would permit of putting them 

 outdooi-s. AVhen you cut out this little 

 potato-plant you can j^ut the big potato 

 back again, and (later on) get more pota- 

 to-plants; or you can usi? the big potatoes 

 for table use and still have the seed for 

 planting. In tliis way I have made one 

 large potato give a dozen g|oocl strong 

 thi'iftj' plants, and in due timet I had a 

 dozen good lulls of potatoes, and these were 

 all or nearly all larg^ because tliey weris 

 grown on Terry's single-eye system. Po- 

 tatoes are alreiady worth $1.75 a bushel here 

 in Ohio on this first day of November. I 



think they retail for about fiO cents a peck, 

 and the probability is it will pay big "to 

 start potatoes next spnng in the green- 

 house, hotbed, or cold-frame, or in a box 

 in the window if you cannot do any better. 



THE AI,GAROBA-TREE OP THE HAV^AIIAN 

 ISLANDS. 



When I saw that Avonderful story of 

 algarobas giving 200 tons of honey, 

 (Gleanings for January, 1917) 1 at once 

 applied to the Reason er Brothers, of Oneca, 

 Fla., and to my happy surprise found they 

 had tlie very trees in stock. Half a dozen 

 were at once installed in my Florida garden, 

 but the great frost the first week in Febru- 

 ary used them up. I have been planning to 

 try it again this winter as soon as I get 

 back. The matter was brought to mind by 

 the following letter just received : 



T should like to state that I nave some Hawaiian 

 algarobas growing. I have 7, and the largest is 

 about 4 feet high. I got the information about 

 the algaroba from Gleanings, January, 1917, and 

 cot my seed from Mr. Oswald St. John Gilbert, 

 Honolulu, H. I. I will let you know how they stand 

 the winter and how much they have grown by ne.xt 

 spring. 



Tampa, Fla., Sept. 5. P. W. Hays. 



TEMPERANCE 



PRAISE GOD FOR ANOTHER VICTORY. 



The letter below illustrates the stutf that 

 beekeepers the woi'ld over are made of: 



Brother Root: — Note the great victory which we 

 achieved in the election for our fair city. We had 

 a pretty hard siege of it, in face of all the opposi- 

 tion ; but united effort all along the line gained the 

 point, which was lost at a recent election about a 

 year ago. 



Glendale, Cal., Nov. 21. Geo. W. Bercaw. 



Below is the headline of the Los Angeles 

 Examiner of Nov. 21 : 



VOTES OUT SALOONS BY NEARLY 20,000. 



And here is something more tliat is en- 

 couraging from the Tampa Times : 



BIRMINGHAM'S PROHIBITION EXPERIENCE 

 Just a few years ago Birmingham, the great 

 rolling-mill center, was one of the " toughest " cities 

 in this country, and none had a worse murder rec- 

 ord. The wonderful strides of the city in an in- 

 dustrial way were offset by the unlawful conditions 

 that prevailed. 



But when prohibition became effective in Alabama, 

 Birmingham began to reform, and today it doesn't 

 " know itself." The changed condition-s are shown 

 by the police records and by the fact that Birming- 

 ham has recently offered a magnificent new jail to 

 the government a.s a war hospital. Birmingham 

 doesn't need the jail for the housing of wrong-doers, 

 so it offers it to Uncle Sam for the housing of pa- 

 triotic soldiers. 



With such examples before them it is difficult to 



nnderptnnd why any people object to the drubbing 

 that John Barleycorn has been given in recent 

 years. Instead of objecting, It seems that they 

 should adopt the motto, " Lay on, McDuff!" 



"we HAVE THE SAME BREED OVER HERE. 



We clip the following from The National 

 Enquirer. 



BRYAN USES A SLEPGE IN ATTACK IN CITY OF 

 KROTHERLY LOVE. 



Among other things, Mr. Bryan said: 



" We cannot afford to take bread from the tables 

 of the world to make men drunk at a time when 

 we dare not allow the impairment of our men." 



" LTncle Sam has decreed that soldiers who are 

 to fight for him must be sober. If it is good to 

 save the strength of the soldier at the front by keep- 

 ing from him the poison of alcohol, why is it not 

 good to keep at a maximum the strength of the men 

 behind him, the man who is prodfiicing food, mak- 

 ing munitions and war supplies for the soldier? 



" We have a million men in arms^ today," he con- 

 tinued, and then changing quickly he asked: " Do 

 you want to know who the disloyal men of this na- 

 tion are? I'll tell you. 



" If the brewers, distillers, and saloon-keepers of 

 this country had their way they would make drunk- 

 ards of all those million men in arms and leave us 

 defenseless before a foreign foe." 



He was greeted with thundering applause as he 

 drove this home by telling of the experience in 

 Great Britain when Lloyd George tried to close the 

 saloons there. 



