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and succeeded in finding the name. As a general 

 rule we can not afford to do this, and consequently 

 have to wait until the careless individual com- 

 plains. A very little care on your part saves us a 

 large amount of trouble. 



FALSE STATEMENT IN REGARD TO THE ADULTERA- 

 TION OF HONEY. SEE PAGE 163. 



The clipping, entitled "Bogus Honey," has been 

 sent us again. It was taken out of the Albia ila.i 

 Union, and they credit it to the Oskaloosa Herald. 

 If any of our readers live near these papers, or 

 take them, will they help us by writing to the ed- 

 itors and inclose this number marked? We will 

 furnish them just as many copies as they need. 



THE PREMIUM BUSH LIMA BEAN FOR SUBSCRIBING 

 AHEAD. 



Any one who pays up his subscription to the 

 present date, or ahead of the present date, and 

 then sends us another dollar for another year 

 ahead, can have a package of Henderson's new 

 Bush lima beans ; and any one who takes Gleanings, 

 no matter how or under what circumstances, can 

 have a package of the Ignotum tomato seed on ap- 

 plication. We give the above in answer to many 

 inquiries. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL AND ITS BIOGRAPHY 

 OF A. I. ROOT. 



In the American Bee Journal for Feb. 23, page 117, 

 appears a fine Ives engraving of the editor of 

 Gleanings, together with a biographical sketch. 

 We extend our hearty thanks to Bro. Newman, not 

 only for the excellent engraving, but for the very, 

 very kind words said of us at the end of the sketch, 

 by himself. In speaking of our relations in the 

 past, he says: "Mistakes have been made; but 

 with both parties anxious only to be right, they have 

 been readily adjusted." The italics are ours. We 

 most heartily indorse these sentiments. 



HOW TO MAKE HENS LAY. 



For two winters past we have been starting our 

 Brahmas to laying by feeding them cooked beans— 

 the beans being the culls from those picked over 

 for our market-wagon. There is no doubt about it. 

 They will start them to laying within 48 hours. Well, 

 a few days ago we had a surplus of hulled corn (boil- 

 ed corn), and quite a lot of it was given to the 

 Brahmas. We had been getting three eggs a day; 

 but the day after they had the boiled corn we re. 

 ceived seven eggs. Now, then, shall we say that 

 cooked corn is as good as cooked beans, or even 

 better? I think not. Shall we say, then, that 

 cooked grain starts them to laying? Not necessari- 

 ly. I think it is just this: A change of diet at just 

 the right time. A good feed of raw cabbage, when 

 they have not had any for some time, will at once 

 set several hens to laying that had not been laying. 

 Lettuce produces the same result; and for hot 

 weather I think it is even better than cabbage. 



APICULTURE IN SPAIN. 



With the beginning of the year, friend Andreu, 

 editor of the Revista Apicola, published in Mahon, 

 a city in the Balearic Islands, off the east coast of 

 Spain, has enlarged his neat little journal from 8 

 pages to 16, and prints it on nice calendered paper, 

 and also puts on a cover. Friend Andreu is fully 

 abreast with the spirit of the age, which seems in 

 strange contrast with the conservative spirit of the 

 Spaniards in general. Being free from such win- 

 ters as we have here, although in the same latitude, 



the question of wintering seems to cut no figure 

 with them. The kindly editor not only writes 

 Spanish, of course, but his letters in English show 

 him to be even more familiar with our language 

 than the majority of those who have always used it 

 —see p. 516, 1888. The advent of his paper is al- 

 ways a source of pleasure, for it indicates the rapid 

 spread of modern ideas of apiculture in that land of 

 romance and song. By the way, it was here that, 

 in 1796, 



Old Ironsides at anchor lay. 



In the harbor of Mahon: 

 A dead calm rested on the bay, 



And the winds to sleep had gone. 

 When little Jack, the captain's son. 



With gallant hardihood. 

 Climbed shroud and spar, 

 And then upon the main-truck rose and stood. 



SHALL WE FOLLOW OUR SPIRITUAL LEADERS? 



Several of the good friends of Gleanings have 

 entered a mild protest to the position I take on 

 page 101, Feb. 1. Now^ there is not room, even if it 

 were advisable, to discuss doctrinal points in the- 

 ology in the pages of Gleanings. Such matters 

 had'much better be left, in my opinion, to the pas- 

 tors of our respective churches, who have had a 

 theological training and a theological education. 

 Shall a member of a church confer with his pastor 

 and get his advice on these points, or shall he go 

 off on his own hook? It seems to me, dear friends, 

 the man who leaves his church and pastor because 

 they can not agree or think alike on all points is 

 much like the man who leaves his wife because of 

 little differences. If he gets a divorce and takes 

 another wife, he has ten times more trouble than 

 with his first one. If you think I am mistaken 

 in the matter, see how such things turn out in your 

 own neighborhood. By their fruits ye shall know 

 them. First and foremost, and above all things, 

 read your Bible carefully and prayerfully, then 

 consult your pastor. 



WANTED. 



The principal thing that seems to be wanted just 

 now is some sort of a scheme to induce those who 

 have much money and few wants to hand over some 

 of the surplus to the rest of us who have many 

 wants and " few" money. Now, I am not getting 

 toward anarchy, for you know that is not like me. 

 I am simply looking for plans to bring it about in a 

 legitimate way. Raising lettuce and strawberries 

 in greenhouses for rich folks to adorn their tables 

 in the winter time is one of the ways. Gilt-edged 

 butter comes in the same line. My brother-in-law 

 took me to a restaurant in Cincinnati that is cele- 

 brated for the excellence of its steaks. The waiter 

 gave each of us a great slice that might make a 

 small man feel bashful until he had taken a taste 

 of it. Why, my friends, it was away ahead of roast 

 turkey or any thing in that line. This restaurant 

 always keeps just that kind, and they have a host 

 of customers among people who are not only will- 

 ing but glad to pay an extra price to be sure of get- 

 ting this extra corn-fed beef every time. At 

 Bagg's Hotel, in Utica, N. Y., where each meal costs 

 a dollar, every thing was gilt-edged. If you called 

 for a baked potato it was a great whopper, roasted 

 in the ashes, as in the good old times, and the 

 qualitv of the potato was so choice that all you had 

 to do was to break it in two, rap on the charred out- 

 side, and the smoking contents rattled out dry and 

 fluffy. Twice in my life have I tasted such baked 

 potatoes. The first time was more than forty years 



