18 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Mar. 1 



AS THE ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT SEES IT 



When so much is being said now-a-days about keeping the boy on the farm, did it 

 ever occur to you just why it is so hard to keep the children on the old place, and why 

 hardships in the city are endured rather than stay at home in security and comfort ?] 



A great deal of this restlessness is because, to the average boy or girl on the farm, 

 life offers no variety or personal interest. A boy works hard all day, and what does he 

 have to show for it } A tired body, perhaps, but nothing more. His father feeds and 

 clothes him, and allows him to go to school a few months in the year, and what more 

 can he ask .? Did it ever occur to you that the boy might like some money of his own 

 to spend .? He doesn't care half so much for the occasional half-dollar you give him as 

 he would for the quarters he could earn by his own effort. Nothing gives a boy (or a 

 girl either, for that matter) so much strength of character or purpose in life as to learn 

 early the value of money, and that he must depend upon himself for some of the little 

 things he wants most. 



Suppose you start your small boy right this spring by buying him a set of garden- 

 tools, some choice seeds, and let him have a patch of his own to do with as he will. 

 Make a businesslike contract with him that you^will furnish the tools and land for the 

 work he is to do for you, and then let him harvest and market his own crops, advising 

 him, of course, if necessary. 



Mr. A. I. Root, ourTsenior editor, says: " For years past, well-known tool manu- 

 facturers have been making improved garden-tools. Their hand wheel-hoes, seed-drills, 

 etc., have done as much or more to make gardening attractive to children as almost any 

 thing else. My good friend Shumatd had one that his little girls were running all over 

 the dooryard just for play, and in our beautiful Florida soil it is almost ' child's play' to 

 do nice and effective work with these new and improved tools Good up-to-date tools 

 with up-to-date books and periodicals may do more than any other one thing to keep 

 the boys and girls on the farm." 



If your boy is too old to care for a garden, let him take charge of the orchard or 

 some special crop. You will be surprised to see how interested his responsibility will 

 make him. Suggest that he send for catalogs of machinery and appliances that would 

 help him in his woik; and when you see that he is interested in some special line, order 

 a new and up-to date machine. Nothing makes one take so keen an interest in his 

 work as to.have new machinery of the very latest pattern. Your boy will know that 

 he can get the best results possible out of the.land, and unconsciously it'will bring^out 

 the best there is in him. The farmers of to day are better off and more independent 

 than any^other class of men, and you can keep your boy at home and contented i f you 

 will make the effort to get him'really interested in his work. '^ Mere drudgery will.not 

 bring success in any line. 



Mr. Bee-keeper, do you realize that it is almost time for another season of activity 

 among your bees.? The warm spring days will be upon us now almost before we know 

 it; and if you haven't sent in your order for what supplies you are likely to need this 

 season, we advise you to do so at once. If you have your supplies shipped now, you can get 

 them all put up ready for use before the spring rush of other work comes on. It is easy 

 to get every thing ready beforehand. You know, of course, what a help it will be to 

 have those extra supers ready to put on in June, when you really haven't time to stop 

 and put them up, and the honey crop will be lost if you don't have them on just the 

 very day you want them. There is so much to be gained in every way in bee-keeping 



