752 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1918 



people in our community, and they cheer- 

 ed at this skeptical talk. But there hap- 

 pened to be in the audience a well-read, up- 

 to-date, minister of the gospel. About this 

 time he rose up and asked to have a word. 

 He asked the German professor with the 

 hig'h-soundino- name a few questions. The 

 professor tried to answer, but got into deep 

 Avater; and finally got mad and used such 

 words that his audience hissed him down. 



Just recently some celebrated German 

 professor gave some lectures in some of our 

 eastern cities and had several prominent 

 articles published in our leading magaines 

 in defense of the use of alcoholic stimu- 

 lants. Many good j^eople were for a time 

 deluded by his sophistry ; but that was 

 before the war time. Nobody now, would 

 take stock in any preacher or a professor 

 recently from Germany. In fact, unless 

 things have the stamp of " Not made in 

 Germany " nobody would think of buying 

 at any piice. 



The Scientific American and some others 

 of our leading journals have been discus- 

 sing the matter of what we shall do Avith 

 Germany when the war is ended. First and 

 foremost, Germany must offer an uncon- 

 ditional surrender. I hope and pray that 

 before these lines are before you such will 

 be the case. In that same 28th chapter of 

 Isaiah there is one more verse Avhich I wish 

 to quote, as follows: 



" Your covenant with death shall be dis- 

 annulled, and your agreement with hell 

 shall not stand ; when the overflowing 

 scourge shall pass thi'u, then ye shall be 

 trodden down by it." 



When we were boys and killed a snake, 

 especially one that we regarded as venom- 

 ous, we used to pound that snake a lon^: 

 time after Ave supposed it Avas dead. Shall 

 we do the same thing Avith Germany in re- 

 venge for her aAvful cruelties and atroci- 

 ties? God forbid. Shall Ave not, rather, 

 remember those Avonderful Avords uttered 

 by our dying Savior — " Father, forgive 

 them, for they know not what they do"? 



COLD GKEENHOUSES, OR GREENHOUSES WITH- 

 OUT ARTIFICIAL HEAT. 



On reaching my Medina home, April 19, 

 T was both pleased and astonished to see 

 the collection of beautiful plants in the 

 little gTeenhouse belonging to one of my 

 daughters. My first expression, almost, 

 was in regard to the Avonderful liealth and 

 vigor that every plant seemed to show — 

 splendid coloi', no trace of Avilting or injury 

 from either cold or frost, and not an un- 

 healthy specimen in the Avhole greenhouse. 



When I asked if it was not a little too cool 

 for tomato jjlants she replied, '" Father, I 

 have found that plants do better by keeping 

 the greenhouse ratlier cool ; and another 

 thing, Ave have no insects of any sort Avhere 

 Ave do not let it get too warm Avhen the sun 

 is aAvay up." And then I observed a large 

 door that Avas kept Avide open into the 

 spacious basement or cellar. The result 

 Avas that the plants did not g-et eliilled dur- 

 ing frosty nights, and also that the gTeen- 

 house seldom became too Avarm in the mid- 

 dle of the day, -because the air from that 

 large basement was constantly changing 

 place Avith the air in the greenhouse. Of 

 course, during a large part of the day the 

 ventilators Avere doAvn ; but her success Avas 

 mainly due to keeping the greenhouse 

 rather cool all the time. Then I remember- 

 ed that Eugene Davis told m.e years ago 

 that he had the best success Avith lettuce in 

 greenhouses Avhen he kept the temjjerature 

 just about right for Avorking in his shirt- 

 sleeves. And then I also recalled that Peter 

 Henderson, years ago, suggested building 

 a greenhouse Avith slatted floor, and a large 

 deep cellar under it. Such a greenhouse 

 in a locality Avhere it is not too cold in Avin- 

 ter, or in almost any locality, along during 

 the spring can be made to give splendid 

 results Avithout anv heating arrangements 

 at all. 



SWEET CLOVER ONCE MORE; SOMETHING STILL 

 MORE ENCOURAGING. 



We clip the following from a recent issue 

 of the Bural New-Yorker: 



SWPJET CLOVER FOE PASTITRE. 



T am interested in sweet clover for pasture. How 

 long- ran it be counted on for permanent pasture if 

 kept fed. off? and will it do well on clay soil that is 

 not well drained? U. S. 



Elmira, N. Y. 



Sweet clover is a biennial, and the roots" rot in 

 the soil at the end of two years. As a pasture it 

 will be a perennial if allowed to go to seed each 

 year, which ii naturally will do in a pasture lot, 

 and in that case you will have good grazing every 

 year. A sweet-clover pastiire will take care of two 

 animals per acre if the soil is good, while no other 

 grass will support more than one to every two acres. 

 Your soil is .iust like mine, and I think clay is the 

 ideal soil for sweet clover. After years of experience 

 I claim that neither alfalfa, the clovers, soy beans, 

 vetch, or any other legume, is in the .same class with 

 sweet clover, either as jiasture, hay, or as a soil ren- 

 ovator. If the following rules are followed you will 

 make a grand success of sweet clover, and if not, 

 in nine cases out of ten you will fail. 



Sow only unhulled seed at the rate of 20 or 2.5 

 lbs. per acre. Sow on disked land, preferably land 

 that was previously in a hoed crop, or grain stubble, 

 between Nov. 1 and March 1, without a nurse crop, 

 and the next Septemher you will get as good a crop 

 of the best hay in the world as you ever raised on 

 that li'.nd. If for pasture the new seeding should 

 not be grazed until it is six inches high, about June 

 1. If you sow on sod, plow it before Nov. 1, and 

 then disk and sow in November, rolling it in. Hull- 



