SEPTEMBER 1, 1913 



set foot on his premises. I suppose that 

 when such things occur Satan gets into 

 the heart of both parents and children; but, 

 oh how we ought to work and pray, and 

 bear and forbear, rather than that our dy- 

 ing hours may be disturbed by any such 

 memory of family differences! Now, then, 

 making a nice garden, and getting things 

 a little ahead of anybody else, so that you 

 may sell your stuff for a good big price, 

 is'" laying ujd treasures on earth;" but hav- 

 ing a beautiful garden, and carrying it for- 

 ward in such a way that j'ou may in your 

 declining years enjoy the privilege of giv- 

 ing away what God has given you in the 

 way of extra-nice fruits and vegetables, is 

 " laying up treasures in heaven where moth 

 and rust doth not corrupt, and where thieves 

 do not break through nor steal." 



In speaking of underdraining, heavy 

 manuring, and careful and thorough culti- 

 vation, I failed to mention one other factor. 

 Just now we have an abundance of water 

 from the city waterworks that costs only 

 25 cents per 1000 gallons. Just lately/ while 

 we have been having a severe drouth, I have 

 been letting water run down tlie furrows 

 between the dasheen i^lants; and in order 

 to get it thei'e, I had to run between the 

 corn and potatoes; and once when I forgot 

 to turn it off it went down through my to- 

 matoes, cantaloujDes, and Hubbard squash- 

 es; and it was a magnificent object-lesson 

 for me to see the stuff that had just begun 

 to suffer from our severe drouth (right now 

 in the middle of August) just start up and 

 jump. Of course I used my hoe when the 

 ground had dried off sufficiently; and I was 

 surprised to find that the water had got 

 over, by capillary attraction, five to ten 

 feet on each side of the furrow where I 

 soaked up the ground for t^vo or three 

 hours. We have the finest lot of cantaloupes 

 I ever gi-ew^ in spite of the drouth, and 

 the biggest Hubbard squashes (and a good 

 lot of them also), from just a few hills we 

 planted. The whole product of this quar- 

 ter-acre we are planning to give away to 

 our neiehbors right and left. 



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IHE SOLOMON ISLANDS GOURD, OR GUADO BEANS, 

 AGAIN SEE PAGE 17, JULY 15. 



This gourd, or bean, has now climbed a trellis 

 six or seven feet high, and it has gone a yard above 

 the trellis, and lopped over. In fact, just after one 

 summer shower it grew 8 inches in 24 hours. It has 

 started quite a number of the so-called gourd Leans 

 One of these is just in bloom this morning, Aug. 25. 

 It is a queer-looking plant, any way. There is a 

 cluster of blossoms, and then on a separate stem is 

 the fruit. The fruit blossom sends out filaments much 

 like corn silk on a small scale. Our good friend 

 Henry Borchers, of Laredo, Texas, will probably have 

 some edible fruit before ours, for his seed was gotten 

 in earlier than ours, and he is so much further south. 

 If the frost will now be so accommodating this sea- 

 son as to hold oif till about November 1, I hope to 

 have edible dasheens and guado beans raised here 

 in Ohio, and we will give you a picture of the latter 

 at a later date if possible. 



SPECIAL^NOTICES 



By Our Business Manager. 



rKICES FOR THE COMING YEAR AND EARLY-ORDER 

 DISCOUNTS. 



It is five years since there has been any material 

 change in prices of hives and frames and other ar- 

 ticles made from lumber. The upward movement of 

 prices of most commodities has continued, largely 

 because gold, the standard of values, has become 

 cheaper through increased production. We are pay- 

 ing more for lumber and labor, and are compelled 

 to make an advance in prices. We are working on 

 a revised list which will be issued soon. Until this 

 is out we v.ill fill such orders as come in at present 

 list without any early-order discount. 



The new prices on hives, frames, etc., will be about 

 10 per cent higher. Sections are advanced 25 cts. 

 per thousand; comb foundation, .3 cts. per pound. 



The early-order discount, which will apply to the 

 new list, not to the old, will be the same as" former- 

 ly — 7 per cent for cash orders in September, with 

 one per cent less each month as the season advances. 

 The usual exceptions are made in the application of 

 the discount to certain goods. Full particulars on 

 application. 



Convention Notices 



Oklahoma beekeepers came very near securing one 

 of the best bee laws of any State in the Union at 

 the last session of the legislature. If you want to 

 know why we failed, come to the meeting at the 

 apiary building. State Fairgrounds, Thursday eve- 

 ning, Oct. 2, 1913. "We want to discuss such other 

 topics as will be of general interest to Oklahoma 

 beekeepers, and I shall appreciate it if every bee- 

 keeper in Oklahoma will drop me a card naming 

 some subject that he would like discussed at that 

 meeting. N. Fred Gardiner. 



Pres. Oklahoma Beekeepers' Association. 



The annual convention of the Ontario Beekeepers' 

 .Vssociation will be held on Nov. 18, 19, 20, 21. The 

 following is the program, beginning 



TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 18: 



7:30. Meeting of officers and directors. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOV. 19. 



9:30. Minutes, Morley Pettit, Guelph, Secretary. 



President's Address, Denis Nolan, Newton 



Robinson. 

 First Vice-president's Replv, J. L. Bver, Mt. 



Joy. 

 Second Vice-president's Reply, Miss Ethel 



Robson, Ilderton. 

 Co-operative work in the Counties. 



-Vlex Dickson, Lancaster, Sec. Glengarry 

 -Association. 



Blake Miller, Aylmer, Sec. Elgin Ass'n. 

 R. C. Fretz, Forest, Sec. Lambton Ass'n. 

 All other county secretaries are expected to 

 join in discussion. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 



2:00. The Office of Director, What does it Mean? 

 R. E. L. Harkness, Irena. 

 The Swarming Problem, 



H. G. Sibbald, Claude, Ont. 

 Question-box, D. Donaldson, Carleton Place. 



THURSDAY MORNING. NOV. 20. 



9:30. Queen-rearing, John A. McKinnon, St. Eugene. 

 Tlie Association Organ, H. B. Cowan, Editor 

 The Beekeeper, Peterboro. 

 Question-box, Jas. Armstrong, Cheapside. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 



2:00. Address, E. R. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



Address, Dr. G. C. Creelman, LL.D., President 



O. A. College, Guelph. 



Election of Officers. 



Reports. — Secretary, Treasurer, Directors, 



Committees, Representative to Exhibitions, 



•Judges of Honey. 



FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 21. 



9:30. The Question of Transportation, 



Geo. F. Kingsmill, O. A. C, Guelph. 

 Notes from the Year's Woi'k, 



Morley Pettit, Provincial Apiarist. 

 Question-box, Chas. Blake, Snow Road. 



FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 



2:00. Comb-honey Production, D. Anguish, Lambeth. 

 Extracted-iioney Production, 



John X. Lunn, Fingal. 

 Unfinished business. 



