July, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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five feet. Picture 3 shows the potatoes 

 after they had been phmted about four 

 weeks. I left them longer than I wished to, 

 because the ground was too wet to plant 

 them out. If it had been down in Florida 

 on our light, sandy, mucky soil, it would 

 not have done much harm ; but here in our 

 Medina yellow clay it was a task, I tell 

 you, to get those little potato plants separ- 

 ated. The roots had intertwined themselves 

 so as to make a perfect mat. In picture 

 3 I laid two of the potato jjlants on a board 

 right beside the sjDade; and, by the way, 

 this spade is the implement I used to pry 

 up a sod of potato plants. If your soil 

 is as loose as it should be made with ma- 

 nure and sand and muck, you will find the 

 roots down quite a piece. After the plants 

 are torn apart, saving all the roots possi- 

 ble, and also letting a lot of that rich soil 

 go with them, we load them in half-bushel 

 baskets like the one in the figure. Then 

 they are carried to the field and dropped 

 the right distance in a furrow. Well, down 

 in Florida, and up here in Ohio, potatoes 

 transplant so easily that not a plant in the 

 whole 300 gave any evidence of having been 

 moved. They kept right on growing and a 

 week later they were hoed and cultivated. 

 A week or ten days after they were jjlanted 

 out I went over the patch to see if I could 

 find a missing hill. There were not only no 

 missing hills, but there was not a feeble- 

 looking plant in the whole plot. 



It might occur to you that this is the 

 wrong time of year to talk about planting 

 potatoes in Gleanings for July. Not so, 

 friends. Down in Florida we estimate we 

 got ahead a month by transplanting po- 

 tatoes, and by having great thrifty plants 

 because of the very rich composted soil 

 inside of the plant bed. Well, my good 

 friends, our President and a host of officials 

 under him are urging us to make the most 

 of our gardens. When this reaches you, or 

 a little later, there will be quite a little 

 stuff in your garden matured and gathered 

 — early peas, radishes, lettuce, perhaps 

 early potatoes, etc. Now I will tell you 

 what to do. If you can get some potatoes 

 in good condition to plant (and I think 

 you can), make a little plant bed at once 

 as I have described ; and as fast as your 

 early crops are removed, i3ut in, not cab- 

 bage plants, but potato plants. We have 

 for years got good cro^js of early potatoes 

 by planting them just about July 4; and 

 these potatoes grown late make the very 

 best of seed for planting the following- 

 spring. If you have good plants ready like 

 the ones shown in the picture, and get them 

 into good ground as late as Aug. 1, most of 

 you can grow good potatoes. 



IF I REGARD INIQUITY IN MV HEART THE 

 LORD WILL NOT HEAR ME. 



I clip the following paragraph from The 

 American Issue of Feb. 2: 



Many devout people believe God is withholding 

 ultimate triumph from the allied cause until booze 

 is banished in all lands interested in justice and 

 liberty. Some of the age-long prophecies are being 

 literally fulfilled before our eyes. The intrenched 

 wrongs of centuries are being undermined and up- 

 looted. This is the most solemn hour in the history 

 of humanity. The liberties of humanity ara trem- 

 bling in the balance and God is calling to his people 

 to banish booze and win the war and usher in the 

 millennium. 



Ever since the war started, or even be- 

 fore the war, I have, in my humble way, 

 tried to make it clear that the reason why 

 God does not hear the prayers of the good 

 people of our U. S. or perhaps why God 

 cannot hear and answer, is because of our 

 tolerance of the liquor traffic. And just 

 of late, when the heads of our nation were 

 not only closing industries, but even our 

 schools and churches, not a word was said 

 about the breweries, and the tons and tons 

 of coal they are using day and night, year 

 in and year out. Garfield, Hoover, and 

 our beloved President, for some reason, 

 while racking their brains for a remedy, 

 seem to have overlooked the breweries. In 

 this same copy of The American Issue, testi- 

 monies are given from the presidents of a 

 large number of our American coal com- 

 panies to the effect that drink cuts off the 

 output of coal to an enormous extent,, es- 

 pecially after every pay day. Banish booze 

 and the war will end. Are there no Calebs 

 and Joshuas, nowadays, who are not afraid 

 to come out and stand alone, if need be? 



ANOTHER " EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION " 

 NEEDED. 



We clip the below from the Elyria Tele- 

 gram : 



President Wilson will never rise to the majesty of 

 his high office and his plain duty in these trying 

 times until he prohibits the sale of intoxicating 

 liquors. His proclamation doing so will take its 

 place in history along side that of the immortal Lin- 

 coln emancipating the slaves, and Wilson will stand 

 a heroic character measuring up to Lincoln's height 

 in moral courage and purpose and accomplishment. 



ALL NATIONS DRY. 



According to American Issue Captain Richmond 

 P. Hobson recently said: 



" Out of this war all nations will emerge dry. 

 For the first time we shall have a sober world, and 

 then we shall start all over again upon the building 

 of a new civilization. In that civilization there will 

 be no place for degradation, for wars and strikes. 



" Just as soon as we solve this problem of pro- 

 hibition, we will solve the problems of man-power, 

 of financial power, of productive power — and we 

 will solve the war problem. 



" Under prohibition the United States can main- 

 tain 10,000,000 men in France without effort. Wo 

 can finance America and all her allies on the new 

 wealth created. And that day if drawing near." 



