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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



tisements in so many poultry journals of a 

 long list of medicines at " 50 cts. a box," 

 when our different experiment stations have 

 told us repeatedly that only two or three 

 cents' worth of real medicine is contained in 

 these little boxes. I hope the time is close 

 at hand when the business of " robbing sick 

 folks " by humbug testimonials (as well as 

 sick chickens) is near an end. Precautions 

 to keep out vermin are, of course, all right ; 

 but see you don't pay a great price for 

 " insect powder." 



When we arrived here Wesley assured me 

 there was no vermin of any kind on the 

 chickens or in the houses; but to be oti the 

 safe side I ordered a gallon can of zeno- 



leum. Along with it I sent for a 25-ceDt 

 box of insect powder, supposing I would 

 get perhaps half a teacupfnl. I was pleas- 

 antly surprised to get a can with a pepper- 

 box top, holding over a quart, and the di- 

 rections on the can tell us to sift it freely 

 where they wallow, and dust themselves 

 under shelter. I did this, and the whole 

 tribe, roosters and all, did the business of 

 getting it most effectually all through their 

 feathers. 1 didn't notice any " sneezing " 

 among the chickens; in fact, it seemed just 

 to suit them; but I did quite a little sneez- 

 ing myself by the time I had sifted it into 

 all their nests and around the roosts. 



TEMPERANCE 



PROHIBITION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND 

 THE VTAY IN WHICH IT IS PROGRESSING. 



When you feel like saying, or hear some 

 one else say, prohibition isn't making prog- 

 ress, just submit the following, which we 

 copy from the San Francisco Daily News: 



POUB-FIFTHS OF U. S. IS "DEY;" NOT A SINGLE 

 STATE ALL " WET." 



Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 10. — Four out of every five 

 square feet of the United States is " dry " territory 1 

 More than half of the people of the nation live under 

 prohibition 1 



Such were the astounding facts submitted in 

 reports to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 

 in convention here. To the layman who has viewed 

 the white-ribboners' fight without interest the sta- 

 tistics are astonishing, and sufficient to convince the 

 impassive voter that nation-wide prohibition is far 

 more imminent than imagined. 



Eighty per cent of the territory of the United 

 States is "dry." Of the 2,973,890 square miles that 

 go to make up continental United States only, 737,- 

 828 miles are "wet." The remaining 2,236,062 are 

 without saloons. 



The last census gives the population of the United 

 States as 91,972,266 persons. Of these, 54 per cent, 

 or 48,118,394 reside in territory in which the sale 

 of liquor is prohibited. 



The winning of five States in recent elections gives 

 the anti-saloon forces the majority. In September, 

 Virginia adopted prohibition, and on Nov. 3 Arizona, 

 Colorado, Oregon, and Washington were added to 

 the list. 



Now 14 States are totally " dry," and no States 

 are totally " wet." 



Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Montana, and Nevada, 

 all mining and lumber sections, are the only States 

 which have only minor prohibition areas. 



In every other State the " drys " hold a territorial 

 advantage. 



In 1S6S there were 3,500,000 pfrxons residing in 

 territory in which the sale of liquar was prthibited. 

 In 1900 the number had increased to 18,000,000 

 In 1908 the number had doubled, reaching 36,000,- 

 000, and to day it is more than 48.000,000. 



The South has for many years been in the lead in 

 the fight for prohibition. In 1907 Georgia passed 

 a prohibition law, though not statewide. Within a 

 year Oklahoma was admitted to the Union with a 



constitutional prohibition against liquor. Alabama 

 and Mississippi soon followed. 



In 1908 prohibition was voted into the constitu- 

 tion of North Carolina. Tennessee followed in 1909. 

 Alabama is the only Southern State which has 

 dropped out of the prohibition column, doing so in 

 1911, by repealing the prohibition law and adopting 

 a local-option measure. In 1913 West Virginia voted 

 out saloons. 



The prohibitory law had a close call in 1911 in 

 Maine, where it had been in effect for 55 years. It 

 was resubmitted, and was carried by a bare majority 

 of 758. 



The prohibition forces have met with reverses. 

 They failed to win in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Mis- 

 souri, Colorado, and Oregon within the last four 

 years, though two of these States accepted prohibi- 

 tion this year. 



In two States which voted on the question this 

 year, the proposition failed to carry. They were 

 Ohio and California. The Ohio election was close, 

 but prohibition was overwhelmingly defeated in 

 California, probably due to the extensive wine in- 

 dustry in the State. 



The following are the States in which the sale of 

 liquor is prohibited: Maine, Kansas, North Dakota, 

 North Carolina, Oeorgia, Oklahoma, Mijisl<i.sippi, 

 Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Arizona, Wash- 

 ington, Oregon, Colorado. 



In the following States from 50 to 85 per cent of 

 the population live in no-license territory: .\labama, 

 Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, 

 Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, 

 South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont. 



WHY ARIZONA WENT DRY. 



Among the manifold reasons which led the citizens 

 of Arizona to cast their ballots for a dry State were 

 the following which appeared in a column display 

 advertisement published in the Southwestern Stock- 

 man Farmer, contrasting conditions in wet Arizona 

 and dry Kansas: 



" Last year," says this advertisement, " .\rizi>na 

 sent to the penitentiary at Florence 140 prisoners 

 to each 100,000 population. Kansas sent but 16. 

 Arizona's tax levy was $4.95; Kansas' but $1.20. 

 ArizonA had 1000 government tax receipts, while 

 Kansas had but 104. If these represented saloons, 

 .Arizona had one for every 231 people, while Kansas 

 had one for every 9050 people." — Union Signal. 



