1887 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUUE. 



775 



WHAT TO DO, AND HOW TO BE HAPPY WHILE DOING IT. 



Continued from Sept. lf>. 

 CHAPTER XLI. 



And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, 

 and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over ev- 

 ery living- thing that moveth Upon the earth.— Gen. 1:2H. 



Did you ever think of it. dear reader, that, 

 after God had directed man to replenish the 

 eartli and subdue it, the very first gifts men- 

 tioned are tlie iisli of tlie seaV Now, I liave 

 several times in my life felt a great inclina- 

 tion to experiment in fish culture ; and as I 

 finished the last chapter, wherein I men- 

 tioned to you that, by the assistance of the 

 windmill, a running stream of water was 

 now pouring into our carp-pond almost con- 

 stantly, thoughts of tish culture began to 

 revive. It was some time after dinner, 

 while reading my mail, that my eye glanced 

 at the National Jcmrnal of Carp Culture, 

 which one of the clerks had laid on my table. 

 While looking it over absently, my eye fell 

 right on the following advertisement : 



T W. WH ITE Chatham Center, Medina County, O. 

 ') , 1 will sell Pure Scale and Parti Scale Carp, 

 hatched in the lall of >6. for $1 50 per 100, and those 

 in the spring- of '87 for $1 ^.5. I obtained my stocli 

 from H. C. W. Muth, of Ohio. M.v express office is 

 Spencer, Medina Co., Ohio. 



The reason why it attracted my attention 

 was because J. AV. White is a particular 

 friend of mine, for he has been many years 

 a bee-keeper. As soon as I noticed his 

 name, my mind ran back to the different 

 times I had visited him during the past ten 

 or fifteen years. Friend White is a most 

 genial, cle^■er old gentleman, and, like many 

 of the rest of us, is somewhat eccentric. On 

 my first visit I remember he was greatly 

 taken up with bees, full of ambition and en- 

 ergy, and eager as any boy in his teens. On 

 another visit I found him enthusiastic over 

 crab-apples. He had different kinds on al- 

 most every tree in his orchard. They were 

 of all sorts and sizes and colors, and he 

 seemed to never tire in showing different 

 specimens. He had also a new process for 

 grafting, as he called it. It was really a 

 sort of budding, however, and he taught me 

 how to do it, in a very few minutes, so that 

 I grafted some choice cions in sofne apple- 

 trees at home, and every one grew at the 

 first trial. This kind of grafting can be 

 done at any time when the apples on the 

 tree are ripe. This may, however, refer to 

 early apples. A bud is put in, much as 

 peaches are budded, and the whole is tied 



up with woolen yarn. The yarn stretches 

 and presently rots off, so that no fiu'ther at- 

 tention is needed. Friend White had so 

 many new things to tell us about crab-ai)- 

 ples and grafting, and about apples in gen- 

 eral, that it was hard to get away from him ; 

 and I distinctly remember a remark tliat a 

 neighbor who was with me made. Said he, 

 ''Mr. Root, you would think that neighbor 

 White is just now all absorbed in tliis hol> 

 by of his; but I want to tell you that, no 

 matter when you visit him, you will find 

 him just as full of business projects and ex- 

 periments as now^ He is always enthusias- 

 tic about something new." 



Now, friends, is it not a rather happy 

 state of mind to be always enthusiastic and 

 intensely busy in developing some of these 

 new gifts God has given usV Our text says. 

 " Replenish the earth, and subdue it." Well, 

 if there is anybody who is replenishing the 

 earth, and subduing it, it is this gray-haired 

 friend of ours, John White. When I saw 

 that advertisement in the Can'p Journal, I 

 noticed, too, the very low price at which he 

 offered carp (SI. 25 per 100 for '• little ones ") 

 my mind instantly comprehended the state 

 of affairs. Our old friend has got through 

 with crab-apples, and has struck on carp 

 culture. He has probably got fish all over 

 his farm, about as he had crab-apples all 

 through the orchard when I last saw him, 

 and I suppose you know^ that I myself am 

 much after the fashion of friend White. 

 Said I, mentally, "It is only ten or twelve 

 miles, and I am going to visit him very 

 soon. I declare, I believe I will go this very 

 afternoon.'' And while I laid my plans and 

 hurried around. I felt the blood in my veins 

 start, anew under the influence of my sud- 

 den project. I first asked mamma if Huber 

 could be ready for a ten-mile bugg> -ride in 

 half an hour. She replied in the affirmative, 

 and Huber himself replied with a small war- 

 whoop. Then I went down in the lots to 

 tell the men about their work while I was 

 gone, and then back into the factory and 

 into the office ; but in spite of all I could do, 

 it was twenty minutes after three before the 



