1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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POTATOES AND GARDEN SEEDS TO BE OIVEN AWAY. 



Everybody who sends $1.00 for Gleanings (asking 

 for no other premium), may have 25 cents' worth of 

 potatoes, seeds, etc., providing he mentions it at the 

 time he sends in the nionev; and every subscriber 

 who sends us $1.00 for a new subscriber so that Glean 

 INGS may go into some neighborhood or family where 

 it has not been before, may have 50 cents' worth of po- 

 tatoes, seeds, etc. 



You can have j'our premium potatoes sent by mail, 

 express, or freight; but if you want them by mail, 

 you must send the money for postage. For 25 cents 

 you can have 5 lbs of potatoes; bvit the postage and 

 packing amounts to ten cents for each pound; and I 

 do not believe you want to pay .50 c nts in postage for 

 25 cents' worth of potatoes. Asa rule, potatoes sho-ld 

 go only by freight; 25 cents' worth is hardly enough 

 tor a freight shipment; so by far the better way would 

 be to have them shipped by freight with other goods. 

 The express charges on only 25 cents' worth are very 

 often as much as the postage, and sometimes more. 



MY PLUM STORY— A CORRECTION. 



Friend Berg tells me I made two mistakes when I 

 wrote up his plum-orchard. The first is that his crop 

 was not produced on trees four years from the nur- 

 sery, as I had it. He .says he told me they commenced 

 bearing in four years, and had given him a crop every 

 year for four years, so the trees were now eight years 

 old from the nursery. 



Second, I said a fruit-grower should have a wife and 

 a lot of children. He says if a fruit-grower lives near 

 enough to a town of large size, as he does (only three 

 miles from Traverse City), neither wife nor children 

 are ''absolutely" necessary to .success; for when he has 

 fruit to pick— strawberries, plums, or any thing else — 

 boys and girls will come from the city on their wheels, 

 bring their dinner, and do all such work by the quart 

 or bushel. He has no help to board, and nothing to 

 do but to look after them and see that they do it right. 



THE GIANT GIBRALTAR ONION. 



Many of you will remember how I boomed this new 

 onion a year ago and last spring. Well, this year we 

 planted several thousand on our place in Michigan 

 where I grew large onions last year; but I am sorry 

 to relate that not one in ten made a big onion. They 

 went to " s-cullions, " or, as they call them in that re- 

 gion, " suckers." That means a great big neck and 

 top, and no bottom. .Some of them are now as thick 

 as my wrist, and almost as long as my arm. I had a 

 few such last year that I left in the ground over win- 

 ter; and this season, by cutting off the seed-tops, they 

 made fair-sized onions; so I am going to let them 

 stand in the ground. Now, I do not know whether 

 this was because the seed was not as good as it was 

 the year before, or whether it was because the season 

 was so wet. We had a hard time in getting seed to 

 fill orders, as you may remember, and I bought every 

 ounce of seed in the "market. I should think it was 

 the fault of the seed, at least to some extent, were it 

 not that friend Greiner, who had seed from the same 

 source as mine, reports an unu.sually good crop. I 

 wish the friends whom we sent seed would report to 

 me on a postal card what their success was. I will 

 now tell you what I did. I gathered all my nice 

 onions and planted them out the right distance apart 

 to grow onion seed next year. The one big onion I 

 spoke about keeping so long on my table last winter 

 was planted, and we now have from it a few seeds. 

 I shall give them a careful test. I want to know how 

 much better is home-grown seed of the Giant Gibral- 

 tar than that which is imported from abroad. We 

 will see if we can not get a strain of American-grown 

 seed that will grow big onions every time, and not 

 scullions. 



THE OHIO STATE ANTI-SALOON C0NGRK:SS. 



Every one who loves righteousness and hates in- 

 iquity especially every one who lives in Ohio, should 

 make an effort to be present at the Anti-saloon Con- 

 gress, to be held in Columbus, Dec. 1, 2, ;i. I.,et me 

 give you a little clipping from the program: 



1. The Initial Effort.— Bv Hon. J. T. Haskell, 



author of the Ha.skell Bill. 



2. The .Second Attempt.— By Hon. W. .S. Harris, 



author of the Harris Bill. 



3. Almost— but Lost.— By Hon. T. H. Clark, author 



of the Clark Bill. 



4. Victory! — By Hon. J. H. Beal, author of the Beal 



I,aw. 



The League Before Congre.ss — By Rev. ]■',. C. Din- 

 widdle, .Supt. of the I^egislative Department of 

 the American Anti-saloon League. 



The rest of the program for the three days will 

 probably be equally interesting, but we have not space 

 to give it here. I notice a great part of the addresses 

 are to be reports of victories over the .saloon in the 

 cities and towns of Ohio. Here are two for example: 



How We Won at Xenia.— By Rev. A. C. Turrell, 

 Pastor First M. E. Church, Xenia, Ohio. 



How We Did Not Win at Ironton.— Rev. Homer J. 

 Smith, Ironton, Ohio. 



Come and meet with us and learn how. 



Kind Words from our Customers. 



THE NEW RUSSET POTATOES. 



From the 7 pecks of New Russet .seed potatoes pur- 

 chased of you last spring I have harvested 2ti bushels 

 of selects. 2]^ of baking size and sports, and 3 of small 

 ones, besides using from them since they were large 

 enough to eat. Think I shall dispose of most of them 

 for seed, as they are mostly uniform and of even size. 

 I am well satisfied with the investment. 



Nessen, Mich. Clinton F. Pulsifkr. 



SOMETHING IN REGARD TO OUR HOMES FOR OCT. 1. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — Owing to a press of other mntters 

 I did not get an opportunity to skim through Gi.ic.an- 

 INGS until yesterday evening. I was deeply impressed 

 with the letter printed at the head of the department 

 on " Our Homes " in the Oct. 1st issue. It is my opin- 

 ion that you have shown unusual courage in your treat- 

 ment of the same. That Sunday (or the sabbath) was 

 made for man, and not man for the sabbath, is not 

 commonly accepted by our more stright-laced breth- 

 ren. In using this word "straight-laced"' I dn not 

 mean to be in any .sense sarcastic or discourteous, for 

 no one has a greater respect for exactness than my- 

 self ; but I do try to cultivate a broad catholic spirit, 

 and not condemn my brother who uses the sabbath 

 day for purposes that I do not ; neither am I to sit in 

 judgment on him as to whether his way is better than 

 mine or mine better than his. I am, however, to dis- 

 criminate between the pairs of opposites which we 

 speak of as good and evil. If my brother's methods 

 are productive of good it would be sufficient warrant 

 for his continuing them. If mine were also produc- 

 tive of good it would be sufficient warrant for me to 

 continue ; in other words, it would depend upon the 

 stage of evolution obtained by each. The Savior, re- 

 proving the Pharisees for their notions in regard to 

 the observance of the sabbath, ought to be to us a "^ea- 

 con light and I am sure it is to many ; then his rebuk- 

 ing the critic corroborates the position you take. 



Yes, the cattle should be turned out of the field into 

 which they have broken, even though it is the sabbath 

 day ; therefore the husbandman refraining from all 

 unnecessary work on the sabbath must be watchful 

 that no so called accidents occur. 



One of the strongest sentences in your article I here 

 quote : " May God help us to use enlightened common 

 sense in our religion as well as in otheraffairs of life." 

 Yes, what we ordinarily understand by common sense 

 is about the most uncommon thing in our every-day 

 life. He who is richly endowed with this is walking a 

 little closer to the unperishing law of the Eternal. 

 Would it not be well if people lived, not for to-day nor 

 to-morrow, liut for the Eternal? 



Your quotation from Paul \s mo?X apropos ; but men 

 construe it differently. I, however, agree with the 

 construction you now put upon it, for I too am sure 

 " that God means me to be ready to lend a helping 

 hand." Truly there is a higher duty imposed upon us 

 than what is considered to be the orthodox way of ot>- 

 serving Sunday. R. A. BuRNi-;Tr. 



Chicago, 111., Oct. 18. 



P. S. — If you wish to use the letter inclosed for 

 Glk.vnings you may. My purpose in writing it was 

 to help. R. A. B. 



To make cows pay, use Sharpies Cream Separators, 

 book ■ Business DalrTing " & cat. 2K8 free. W. Chester. Pa. 



