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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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who are like the fathers. She tried to e.\- 

 plain that it was her boy; that they were peo- 

 ple of respectability and influence, and lal- 

 thoufi'h she did not say iti wealth. It would 

 be a disirrace to her family, and the matter 

 must not be made public. It must be kept 

 out of the papers. Just this moniino- 1 heard 

 a bit of c)-ossip. As a rule I do not listen to 

 gossip; but there is a moral about this piece 

 of gossip that fits right in here. I may not 

 have got it right, but it does not matter 

 whether it is right or wrong. Perhaps you 

 have such things in your owh neighborhood. 

 Some young people went out to a dance or 

 something of the kind. They were out late 

 at night; and, even though this has been a 

 prohibition county for years past, they car- 

 ried along some beer. Some time during the 

 nitrht (or early in the morning) the horse ran 

 off a bridge and broke the buggy; but when 

 some of the friends who knew about it were 

 watching the county papers to see what they 

 had to say, we were gravely informed that 

 the editors of our different county papers 

 had all been persuaded to keep the wnole 

 transaction out of print. Now, as I have said 

 before, this special occurrence I have men- 

 tioned may not have happened; but things of 

 a like nature are happening, and the safety 

 of our boys and girls — yes, the safety of our 

 nation — actually rests on our turning the 

 searchlight of the daily papers on just such 

 things as these, and letting the law be en- 

 forced. 



In our own town one of our prominent 

 physicians gave a man a prescription to get 

 some liquor. He said he wanted it for his 

 wife, but he drank it himself as soon as he 

 got out of the store, and came very near los- 

 ing his life as a consequence. In fact, it was 

 reported at one time that he was dead. The 

 matter, after considerable discussion, was 

 submitted to the Ohio State Attorney, and 

 his decision was plain and clear that this doc- 

 tor who wrote his prescription and the drug- 

 gist who filled it were both violating our 

 temperance laws. Not only that, our county 

 paper tells us that all our doctors, or nearly 

 all of them, have been violating the law right 

 along. What shall we do about it? I shall 

 have to confess that it is a pretty hard thing 

 to send a boy to prison or even to the reform 

 farm; but I agree with the writer of the above 

 article that it is oftentimes the kindest thing 

 that can be done /or the boy, to. send him 

 there. 



When I read the above article in the pray- 

 er-meeting the probate judge of our county 

 was present, and he said his court was famil- 

 iar with these things. He told us that in 

 Norwalk, Ohio, his former place of residence, 

 he knew of several bovs who had been re- 

 formed, and made goocf men by simply send- 

 ing them to the reform farm; and I distinctly 

 remember one boy here in Medina who was 

 in my employ. I always felt, however, that 

 his parents and his home were more to blame 

 than himself for his frequent transgressions. 

 He was sent to the reform farm at Lancaster, 

 0., and came back several years afterward. 

 When he returned he showed me his hymn- 



book, and came to prayer-meeting, and let 

 us know that he had learned to sing Gospel 

 Hymns. If I am correct he is now a married 

 man with children of his own, and a respect- 

 able member of society. 



A few days ago I was asked to sign a peti- 

 tion; and although pretty nearly all the busi- 

 ness men of our town had put down their 

 names I felt obliged to decline, and I said to 

 the one who presented it, "I know, my friend, 

 this seems hard; but if it were my own son 

 who had transgressed in a like manner, God 

 helping me, I would say that he should go to 

 prison that the majesty of the law might be 

 sustained." This case was a little peculiar, 

 for the young man and his relatives nad paid 

 up every copper of the money that was un- 

 lawfully appropriated. 



Poultry 

 Department 



By a. I. Root. 



THE "ROOT" INCUBATORS AND BROODERS. 



On page 297, March 1, 1908, I mentioned 

 and described the Root brooder, and I also 

 told you that the inventor, although his name 

 is Root, is no relative of the members of our 

 company; but as we are a wood-working es- 

 tablishment, and also have a factory for work- 

 ing metals, we had undertaken to make his 

 ' ' heat-by-contact ' ' brooder. Let me explain 

 briefly that he has, up to date, sold about 

 1000 of these brooders all together, during 

 the past three years. Only a part of them 

 were made at our establishment. Well, there 

 has never been a complaint of the brooder 

 so far as I know. It has met with such suc- 

 cess that some who first bought one brood- 

 er, later bought a second and even a third 

 one, and perhaps more. In our Florida 

 climate, as I have told you, I prefer a lamp- 

 less or fireless brooder. There are times, 

 however, when the chickens are first hatch- 

 ed, say during the first week, when a little 

 heat is quite desirable, and I think it is bet- 

 ter for the chicks. A jug of hot water or a 

 hot brick does very well. After the sun gets 

 up, a glass sash over the brooder, instead of 

 the regular cover, gives heat enough. But 

 there are circumstances, even in Florida, say 

 during a cool cloudy day, when the sun does 

 not shine, and when most of the chickens 

 are out running around, when the weaker 

 ones suffer for some kind of heat to warm up 

 their toes and the rest of their little selves, 

 for even under a hen the chicks sometimes 

 have cold feet. Of course, a mother hen 

 does this to perfection, for she broods them 

 when they begin to peep, complaining that 

 they are cold. A hot brick or a jug of hot 

 water will do just as well; but if you had, 

 say, a dozen fireless brooders it would be 

 nice, even down in Florida, to have at least 

 one Root brooder. Of course, there are 

 many different opinions in regard to brood- 

 ers. 



