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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 15 



helpless women and children of other lands in the 

 same way we protect those of our own domain. 

 There is practically no suffering from starvation 

 anywhere in the United States or wherever this 

 nation has sway; but in China and other foreign 

 lands starvation is continually going on, and 

 particularly among helpless women and children. 

 If the United States, in connection with the oth- 

 er powers, could take cognizance of these out- 

 lages, and protect the suffering and innocent 

 ones, it would certainly be a magnificent mis- 

 sionary enterprise; and if nothing else will give us 

 the ability to do this, let us have a fleet of war- 

 ships. Our good President is a pusher, and we 

 have abundant reason to thank God for it. He 

 would have to be more than human if he did not, 

 in his pushing, once in a while make a mistake. 

 We rejoice to have a man at the head of our na- 

 tion who insists on having our laws enforced, 

 even if it be huge corporations that try to tram- 

 ple law under foot. 



Let me close this little talk by calling your 

 attention to the importance of attending the 

 weekly prayer-meeting; for this meeting is, in 

 my opinion, the place above all others where 

 questions like the above should be discussed in a 

 kindly and Christian spirit. Somebody said in 

 the same meeting that as good a man as Oliver 

 Cromwell, many years ago, suggested that, 

 while we trust in God, we should at the same 

 time " keep our powder dry." 



The huiependeni for July 30 suggests the Presi- 

 dent is going to extremes in the matter of battle- 

 ships. It says: 



Let President Roosevelt initiate a movement that will make 

 the United States the first of the world powers to disarm. That 

 would be an achievement worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. 



USE OF SWEET CLOVER. 



The following, by Prof. H. J. Waters, of the 

 Missouri Experiment Station, is a very clear 

 presentation of the case for sweet clover. The 

 writer must be a native of Missouri, because he 

 intends to convince the farmers of the value of 

 this clover by actual demonstration. The article 

 originally appeared in Hoard's Dairyman of July 

 24, which of itself is quite an endorsment, for 

 that journal prints nothing but up-to-date, reli- 

 able, and scientific information; moreover, it is 

 read by a great army of scientific dairymen. 



We have had some experience with sweet or Bokhara clover. 

 Stock are not fond of it, but will eat it when very anxious for 

 something green. Some have tried to brand this weed as injuri- 

 ous, and say its cultivation on that account should not be encour- 

 aged. About that I think this way: Missouri is the banner weed 

 State of the Union, I think. There is no idle land, no vacant 

 places in Missouri, during the growing season. It is all occupied 

 either by crops or weeds. Now, this clover is one of the best 

 soil-builders we have. It will grow on land too poor for cow 

 peas. It will actually grow on land too poor for ragweed. The 

 question is simply this: Shall we have Bokhara clover or ragweed 

 or horseweed on our poor lands — a weed that will build them up 

 or those that will not? In addition to that, ragweed, ironweed, 

 and other weeds do not furnish any thing valuable whatever; 

 whereas this sweet or Bokhara clover is one of the best bee-plants 

 there is; therefore we could increase our honey crop with it. 



We are making this experiment at our station. There are por- 

 tions of land in this Slate, hills so poor that we do not deem them 

 worthy of putting in cultivation. We have been trying a number 

 of plants to see if we can find some valuable plants that will 

 grow on that sort of land. We have tried alsike, red, and Bok- 

 hara clover. This is the third year we have tried Bokhara clover 

 on that sort of land. Although it lives two years and dies, it 

 comes from the seed almost every year; and on that land now 

 there is a growth of Bokhara clover four feet high. This clover 

 is gathering nitrogen, and adding to that soil and building it up; 

 and in a few years blue grass will grow on it. Land can be 



made in that way, and animals can be supported on land of that 

 sort. On this same land, a little later, red clover will grow, and 

 other clovers. We must do something to utilize our poor lands, 

 and the Bokhara clover, in my judgment, will be the clover thai 

 will do that. You will see it growing on the sides of the rail- 

 road where cuts have been made, and on the roadside where 

 nothing else grows. I would say that the Bokhara clover is 

 much easier to kill than other weeds. We let it grow two sea- 

 sons, and the third year there was none left. — Prof. H. J. W.\- 



TERS. 



TEMPERANCE 



HURRAH FOR FLORIDA! 



We clip the following from the American Issue 

 for August 1: 



On July 1, Lee County Fla., joined the list of dry counties by 

 a majority of about 150 votes in a total of 70U votes cast. Four 

 years ago the wets carried the county by about 80 votes; two 

 years ago they won by 3 votes. The gradual change in senti- 

 ment is typical ol the progress being made in Florida. 



The voting of this county dry leaves but nine counties in 

 Florida where liquor can be sold at any point; and there are 

 less than twenty saloon towns and cities in the State. Thirty- 

 seven counties are entirely dry. 



I wonder if it is really true that there are less 

 than twenty saloon towns in the whole State of 

 Florida. I call attention to this because the 

 Sunday School Times some little time ago ga\e 

 Florida more credit than she honestly deserves. 

 If the above statement is all true I think we can 

 all join in saying, "May the Lord be praised." 



THE ORPHAN "PROHIBITION BABY." 



I was very much pleased to find the following 

 in the Chicago Adojance: 



THE ONLY PLATFORM. 



" The Columbus convention has given the country the only 

 political platform this year in which a majority of the people be- 

 lieve. We have presented the only platform that one voter in a 

 thousand will read. The Democrats and Republicans have held 

 their conventions, and the average voter is not able at this mo- 

 ment to understand what the issue is. It will take speeches of 

 acceptance by Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan to make up some issues, 

 and when they are made up we are certain they will be factitious 

 issues. Prohibition is an orphan baby. The Republican party 

 looks at it and says, " I"m not its father;' the Democratic party 

 says, 'I'm not its mother.' They try to raise it on the bottle, 

 and the kid dies. What it needs is a party to take care of it." — 

 Eugene II'. Chapin. 



Of course, the Advance put it in quotation- 

 marks, as you will notice, as they are the words 

 of the candidate of the Prohibition party for the 

 presidential chair; but. the heading, I take it, is 

 one furnished by the Ad-i-'ance. The cjuestion 

 now is, "What d^o you think of it.?" 



OHIO THE CENTER OF WAR ON LlyUOK. 



Developments of the present week make it certain that nothing 

 can slop the fiercest and most far-reaching fight on the liquor 

 question that Ohio has ever experienced. State and national 

 questions and the election of a United States Senator ate, to an 

 extraordinary degree, being lost sight of in the controversy over 

 control of the saloon. 



The Anti-saloon League has accepted the challenge. From 

 their headquarters the announcement is made that the fight is to 

 be every bit as hot as that waged in the Pattison-Herrick con- 

 test of three years ago. " It is the same fight, only more gene- 

 ral, and with the shoe on the other foot,'' says Wayne B. Wheel- 

 er, State Superintendent of the Anti-saloon League. 



Three years ago the League supported John M. Pattison, Dem- 

 ocratic candidate, with all its strength. Pattison was elected, 

 the only man on the Democratic .tate ticket, by more than 

 40,000, overturning a majority secured by Myron T. Merrick, but 

 two years before, of more than 110.000. In the present contest, 

 which is already sizzling in every part of the State, the League 

 is behind -Andrew L. Harris, Republican candidate, and is fight- 

 ing Judson Harmon, Democratic nominee, at every turn. — Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer. 



Ernest remarks (in regard to the above) that 

 the only thing we have to fear is the half-lieart- 

 edness and indifference of professing Cliiistians. 



