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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



true, why in the world do we want any cheaper 

 material for poultry-houses than cloth ? and we 

 certainly can not get any thing lighter to move 

 about than a cloth tent. Why, I wa^ so much 

 taken up with the result of the above experiment 

 that I felt a strong inclination to start tight off 

 on a trip to York State just to see that successful 

 poultry-house made of cloth alone. Who can 

 tell me more about it .? 



ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET. 



We clip the following advertisement from the 

 Womafi's National Daily: 



EGGS! EGGS!! EGGS!!! Do you want plenty of eggs all win- 

 ter when prices are high; Then get the Great Russian Method 

 of feeding hens. Feed costs only 10 cents a bushel. The great- 

 est egg-producer in the world. Send 25 cents for secret informa- 

 tion how to make it yourself. The Russian Egg-Food Co. Agen- 

 cy, Box 147, New Berlin, Pa. 



Who does not want eggs just as winter is com- 

 ing on.? Well, here goes another venture for the 

 wonderful secret, and below is what I got for my 

 25 cents: 



THE RUSSIAN METHOD OF FEEDING FOR EGGS. 



Take one quart of oats; ^ pint each of wheat and corn; mix in 

 in a bucket; cover with cold water for 24 hours. Then pour ofT 

 the water, put the grain in a wooden box, three or four inches 

 high, with loose bottom, to drain of? superfluous water, Put 

 grain about one inch deep in the box. Wet it every day. In a 

 few days it will begin to sprout, and in eight days it will be 

 ready to feed, tops being about six inches high, and the sod two 

 or three inc* es thick. 



Cut a piece of sod about six inches square for every twelve 

 hens. Feed green tops and all. This furnishes green food all 

 winter for hens, and they devour it greedily, while the grains, 

 being soaked soft, are an excellent grain food. Place a fresh 

 supply of grain to soak every second day. 



This method makes five or six times the original amount of 

 grain, and is the cheapest and greatest egg-producer ever tried. 

 The Russian Egg-food Agency, 



New Berlin, Pa. 



Very likely the above may be worth 25 cts. to 

 a good many people who do not know any thing 

 about sprouted grains, especially in winter, when 

 there is a lack of green food; but after working 

 it quite a spell I think you will find it is quite a 

 little trouble to give it attention every day. I 

 think the Rural Neuu -Yorker (or some other pe- 

 riodical) says when a busy man counts his time 

 he will find it costs about as much as to raise a 

 crop of oats in the ordinary way. Yes, you ivill 

 have five or six times the amount of coarse food; 

 but how much more is it worth, to keep fowls 

 from starving, than the grain was before it 

 sprouted } 



hanley will part company with republicans if they 

 JOIN brewing interests. 



MuNciE, Ind., Sept. 16. — In a speech made at Albany, Ind., 

 yesterday. Governor Hanley made the solemn declaration that if 

 his party joins interests with the brewing companies and saloons 

 he will part company with it. The declaration was made before 

 a crowd estimated at 2000, and it was vigorously applauded. 

 Lifting his right hand, Governor Hanley said : 



" So help me God, if my party comes to Indianapolis and joins 

 hands with the brewing inrerests, the saloon-keepers, and the 

 distillers, on that day I want out of it; and if your party jo ns 

 hands with these same interests, you ought to walk out of it." 



There! can either Taft or Bryan say as much.? 

 If not, they are not fit for the sacred office of 

 chief magistrate of this great republic; and I am 

 confident that the majority of the voters of this 

 country will stand by me if they have only a fair 

 chance. What do you think about it } 



On page 1086, Sept. 1, we said that President 

 Roosevelt, at least some time in his life, gave ut- 

 terance to a sentiment that comes pretty near 

 Hanley's present declaration. The question is, 

 " Can President Roosevelt right now in the pres- 

 ent crisis indorse and subscribe to the quotation 

 on the page referred to above } " 



UNCLE JOE CANNON; HIS PROFANITY, OPPOSITION 

 TO TEMPERANCE REFORMS, ETC. 



A year ago or more, in talking with Superin- 

 tendent Baker, of the Anti-saloon League, I told 

 him I thought it was a burning shame that such 

 a man as Cannon should be permitted any long- 

 er to occupy so important a position so near the 

 head of our government. Baker replied that, 

 while he agreed with me, we should bear in mind 

 th^t, just at present, the Anti-saloon League was 

 fighting the saloon, and not blasphemy in partic- 

 ular. Since then we have had proof again and 

 again of the way in which " Uncle Joe " has side- 

 tracked our temperance laws, to say nothing of 

 parcels post a"d postal savings banks. Mean- 

 while the Mpthodist Church has come to our aid. 

 Seethe following, which I clip from the Woman's 

 National Daily: 



DENOUNCE cannon's PROFANITY'. 



At the closing session of the Rock River Methodist conference 

 Speaker Joe Cannon was roundly denounced for using " unequal- 

 ed profanifty " and opposing temperance legislation. Rev. J. K. 

 Shields, superintendent of the Anti-saloon League, said: " What 

 is Joe Cannon? Just a few dsys ago I met a young lawyer whom 

 we had sent down into the Stale to talk temperance. He told 

 me that he had met Uncle Joe in a car, and had ridden with him 

 for quite a while; and when I asked him for the impression that 

 Uncle Joe had made, he said: ' Shielos, I have heard vileness 

 from the mouths of many men; but the profanity that streamed 

 from the lips of Joe Cannon I never heard equaled.' " 



TEMPERANCE 



THE UNITED STATES GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture was the first pe- 

 riodical on the face of the earth to announce that 

 men can fly, and to give full proof and particu- 

 lars, notwithstanding the Scientific American now 

 comes out declaring they^xsX announced it to the 

 world, etc. Well, Gleanings was one of the 

 first to suggest that Governor Hanley, of Indi- 

 ana, should be our coming President; and every 

 time I have heard him speak I have been more 

 and more impressed that he is the man chosen of 

 God, if noi just yet chosen by the American peo- 

 ple. In the Indianapolis Neivs for Sept. 16 we 

 find the following : 



SHALL OUR BOYS BE ENCOURAGED IN THE USE OF 



GUNS.? 



We clip the following from Our Dumb Ani- 

 mals; and we will only add that we are in hearty 

 agreement with the sentiment of the clipping: 



boys' brigades. 

 A friend, calling on us the other evening, said he met a Sun- 

 day-school boy belonging to one of the Boys' Brigades, holding 

 a gun. He remonstrated with the boy in regard to the shooting 

 of birds: but the boy at once replied, " President Roosevelt does 

 it," as though that were conclusive on the subject. Now, we 

 have thought that President Roosevelt's proposed visit to Africa 

 to shoot, wound, and kill animals he may find there would be 

 less harmful than some other things. But the newspapers are now 

 staring that he is to receive an enormous price from some publish- 

 ing firm for writing an account of all his shootings, which may 

 get a circulation of millions among American schoolboys, and 

 stimulate in them all an ambition to use army rifles and follow 

 the example of their distinguished adviser. We have no doubl 

 if Roosevelt does this it will bring to him personally a large 

 amount of money; but what the effect will be on millions of 

 schoolboys in America is another and far more important consid- 

 eration. 



