1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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tions of surprise ; and I wonder now that the 

 tree is not grown more as an ornamental shrub. 

 We tried it years ago here in Medina, but did 

 not succeed in getting it to bloom. From 

 Tavares I went to Oakland, on the shores of 

 Lake Apopka. 



We hear people boast, many times, that 

 this, that, or the other locality is entirely free 

 from grip, and that people never have grip in 

 that region. These statements often come 

 from people who have real estate to sell. I 

 think they have some grip in Florida. When 

 I was waiting for the train at Mount Dora, 

 within about fifteen minutes I began to feel 

 my breathing-apparatus clogging up. I put 

 on my overcoat, and bundled up unpleasantly 

 warm ; but I had such a cold by the time I 

 reached Oakland I was pretty nearly down 

 sick. In studying the matter over I got an 

 idea that plenty of heat applied in the right 

 way to the seat of the mischief would help 

 very much to get rid of the grip, or, if you 

 choose, any sudden severe attack of cold. 

 My cousin's folks had a fireplace, and a good 

 lot of pitch-pine wood to make a nice hot fire. 

 Well, I got the heat from that open fireplace 

 to strike right square on my bald head, and I 

 kept on with the treatment until it ' really 

 seemed as if my brains would get to boiling — 

 that is, if there were any brains down through 

 my thick skull — and I just roasted that cold 

 clear out of my head and throat. I presume 

 it was something on the same principle as the 

 cabinets or vapor baths that are advertised so 

 extensively. It did the business ; and after 

 resting two days I started on to Orlando, com- 

 paratively well. At this place I was nicely en- 

 tertained by Mr. A. E. Woodward, a veteran 

 bee-keeper from York State, who spends his 

 winters in Florida. 



Daytona has often been called the hand- 

 somest town in Florida ; but Orlando is cer- 

 tainly equal to Daytona, and I do not know 

 but it is a little ahead. It is situated in the 

 midst of a group of beautiful pure soft-water 

 lakes. If I am correct, there are four or five 

 around in the suburbs of the town. The fin- 

 est pineapple-shed I saw in the whole State 

 was at Orlando. It was managed by Mr. T. 

 J. Arnold, of the Little Gem Pinery. He has 

 taken from half an acre in two years fruit and 

 slips to the amount of $2600. The slips bring 

 him 12 cents each, and are mostly engaged in 

 advance. He had then an acre and a half un- 

 der shed. In the vicinity of Orlando there 

 are perhaps 200 acres of pineapple-sheds. It 

 costs about $2500 to shed, set, fertilize, gather, 

 and market the first crop, per acre. 



Orlando has five nice churches, a fine bank, 

 very pleasant hotels, and boarding-houses. 

 The latter, where I stopped with Mr. Wood- 

 ward, has rates of only $7.00 a week, and 

 every thing was in excellent trim. There are 

 beautiful stores, orange-groves covered with 

 bloom all around the town. Orlando is said 

 to be on the highest ridge in the State. The 

 land is what is called " pine land " for many 

 miles about the town. Strawberries and all 

 kinds of vegetables are in abundance the year 

 round. Friend Woodward, during the sum- 

 mer time, lives at Grooms, N. Y. 



Tobacco. 



TOBACCO — IS IT A GOOD THING OR A BAD 



THING ? 



The Philadelphia Farm Journal, that bright 

 little sheet that you can get (in clubs) five 

 years for $1.00, hits the spot once in a while. 

 It says : 



There is a clashing of interests in Connecticut quite 

 remarkable. A law of the State provides that the 

 children in the public schools shall be taught that 

 tobacco is a poison which no human being should 

 ever take into his system. While Connecticut is 

 spending money on tobacco culture, she is teaching 

 her children that the growth and use of tobacco is a 

 wicked sort of business. The moral inconsistency of 

 the situation is easily grasped by outsiders at least. 

 The situation is an odd one, but it is not likely that 

 Connecticut will be extricated from it. The State will 

 continue to grow tobacco, and the depravity will 

 probably continue to be taught to the rising genera- 

 tion. 



I would suggest that the teachers and pro- 

 fessors of Connecticut hold a joint convention 

 with the agricultural papers and moneyed 

 men, and discuss the question, and try to have 

 it settled as to who is right and who is wrong. 

 Or they might put it this way : Which is of 

 more importance, the health and moral 

 growth of our boys, or the tobacco business, 

 together with the money invested in the traf- 

 fic ? You know we had some years ago a 

 joint convention of the bee keepers and fruit- 

 growers of Michigan, and good came of it. 

 Now, Connecticut might have a convention 

 in regard to a matter of a thousand times 

 more importance than either fruit or bees, 

 and all the other States and all the rest of the 

 world might look on with profit. 



THE HOME CIRCLE. 



The above is the title of a department in 

 the American Bee Journal, conducted by our 

 good friend Prof. Cook. It rejoices my heart 

 to read friend Cook's exhortations for right- 

 eousness, temperance, and purity ; and it re- 

 joices my heart again to see the bee-journals 

 of our land standing out so boldly and bravely 

 against tobacco and intoxicants. 



In the issue for June 13 we find the follow- 

 ing from Prof. Cook in regard to tobacco : 



Over 100 of our college folks — almost half of us — 

 went to L,os Angeles last Saturday to attend the Inter- 

 collegiate Oratorical Contest, and the second contest 

 of three arranged with one of the colleges to decide 

 who were champions in base-ball. I was proud, as 

 our fellows won the trophies in the ball game, as they 

 had won in the first, with a great score of 15 to 2. I 

 was still more proud as we achieved victory in the 

 oratorical contest. But I was most proud of the gen- 

 tlemanly character of our students. One way this 

 was shown, was in the entire absence of smoking 

 among our fellows. The others smoked. We did not. 

 I rejoice that we have no smoking at our college. I 

 wisli tobacco were eschewed in all our homes. Our 

 friend A. I. Root, in "Our Homes," has done spier- 

 did service in urging against this habit. I wish I 

 could be like happy in these "Home Circle" col- 

 umns. To the hundreds of students that I have 

 taught physiology, I have always spoken, as best I 

 might, against all use of tobacco. 



The worst count that perhaps can be brought 

 against this arch enemy of the well-being of our peo- 

 ple, and especially of our youth, is the tendencv of 

 the habit to make its patrons thoughtless — regardless 

 of the comfort of others, and thus to destroy the gen- 

 tlemanly instinct among us. How often in public 

 places our ladies must endure the poisonous fumes 

 from cigar or pipe! Only a few days ago I was pre- 



