GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



you to try it. In place of your regular 

 supper or third meal, use simply apples 

 and nothing else; and after nature catches 

 on to the fragrant program, see if you do 

 not experience a like benefit with myself. 



After the two early apples I have men- 

 tioned, the Red Astrakhan comes along — 

 one of the most enticing-looking apples 

 with its beautiful streaks and variations of 

 red, then its delightful acid juiciness. A 

 little after the Red Astrakhan comes the 

 Maiden's Blush, so Justly celebrated over 

 all the world; then the Gi-avenstein, that 

 stands almost if not quite at the very top 

 of the list in quality. After this the ram- 

 boes and pippins, too numerous to men- 

 tion. 



Just now our good friend E. C. Green, 

 formerly with the Ohio Experiment Sta- 

 tion, sends me a little basket of Red Junes. 

 The shape is conical, somewhat like the 

 Yellow Transparent ; but • the red is its 

 distingTiishing characteristic. When fully 

 ripe, some specimens are of such a deep 

 dark red that they are almost black. I 

 believe there is an apple called the Black 

 Ben Davis; but I have never seen one so 

 red as this deep dark-red apple, the Red 

 June. The Red June in quality is hardly 

 as acid as the Yellow Transparent; but it 

 is a beautiful apple notwithstanding. 



Now, almost everybody can have at least 

 a few apple trees. If you have room for 

 only one, have that; and when you get it, 

 give it good soil and cultivation. Learn 

 to prune it judiciously, and enjoy the fun 

 of seeing the apples grow from bud to 

 blossom and then to ripe fruit ready to be 

 gathered by your own hand. Unless you 

 have had experience you do not know what 

 a difference there is in fruit grown under 

 cultivation and otherwise. Some years ago 

 1 had a queer neighbor whose great hobby 

 was stable manure; and in the midst of his 

 stable-manure garden was an apple tree. 

 When the apples were just ripe he handed 

 me a good big yellow mellow one. I tasted 

 it with a happy surprise, supposing it was 

 a new variety; Imt he informed me, with a 

 sniile, that it was only the well-known 

 Early Harvest under the stimulus of "high- 

 ])ressure gardening." And this reminds 

 me that you want to study up on spraying 

 so as to avoid getting wormy apples. A 

 great part of the world does not yet know 

 or dream of the possibilities in the line of 

 improved apple culture. I wonder if it 

 will be wrong to paraphrase as follows the 

 old saying usually credited to good old 

 Izaak Walton : "Doubtless God could have 

 made a better fruit than the apple; but 

 doubtless he never did.'' 



DR. WILEY TALKS TO US ABOUT HABIT-FORM- 

 ING DRUGS FOR CHILDREN. 



We clip the following from the Union 

 Signal. It is part of an address given by 

 Dr. Wiley at. the 50th anniversary of the 

 National Educational Association at Chi- 

 cago, July 6 to 12. 



Through the teachers he gave to the fathers and 

 mothers some wise advice: "Don't let the children 

 use stimulants — distilled alcohol, tobacco, tea, or 

 coffee. Those are wise parents who forbid these 

 things ; and yet right under the nose of the parents 

 and of the city fathers in every drugstore in this 

 city the children are permitted to buy at the soda- 

 fountains 'dope' drinks which contain the very alka- 

 loids and stimulants which the parents keep out of 

 their children's mouths. I want the teachers of this 

 country to help me engage in this crusade to put a 

 stop to the sale of medicated drinks at the soda- 

 fountains. You do not now find much cocaine in 

 the drinks, but there are hundreds of so-called soft 

 drinks which contain caffeine in large quantities. 

 Coca Cola is a type of this 'dope' drink sold all over 

 the country to the injury of every man, woman, or 

 child who takes it. 



"Another danger to which our children are ex- 

 posed," declared the doctor, "is the everlasting habit 

 of drugging themselves. The continued use of these 

 medicines and drinks will in time produce a taste 

 and craving for drugs. The school is the proper 

 place in which to create an anti-drug sentiment, so 

 so that the next generation may not be ruined by 

 the habit." 



Directing his remarks for a minute to any editors 

 who might be in the audience, he said: "Editors, do 

 you realize your responsibility for admitting into 

 yoiu' columns every kind of so-called remedies for 

 any kind of disease? By so doing you are threaten- 

 ing the vei'y bulwarks of the country." 



As an illustration of the value he placed upon the 

 ordinary cold remedy, he told the following inci- 

 dent: "My barber came to me last winter, telling 

 me that his children all had colds, and he had pro- 

 cured from the drugstore some remedy guaranteed 

 to cure these troubles. 'But,' he complained, 'I find 

 it contains ten per cent of alcohol, and I don't want 

 to teach my children to become drunkards. What 

 would you do?' I said to him, 'I will give you a 

 prescription if you will take it. Take that bottle to- 

 night, into the room where those children sleep, and 

 open wide every window, then throw out of a win- 

 dow the bottle of stuff, and leave the children to 

 sleep in the room, and I'll warrant your children 

 will get well.' A few days later I met him, and 

 asked the result of his use of my prescription. 

 With a glum look he replied, ' 'Taint no use to tell 

 a woman nothin.' " 



In closing his address, the doctor said: 



"I believe it is the schoolroom, not the national 

 conventions of politicians, that is the hope and safe- 

 ty of this country, and I for one will never despair 

 of the republic if all the teachers will preach to the 

 people sanitation, hygiene, fresh air, and abstinence 

 from 'dopes' of all kinds." 



I have for a long time felt that we were 

 not only wasting money but harming our 

 children, and, for that matter, grown-up 

 people, by patronizing the soft-drink 

 stands at our drugstores. People who talTv 

 about the "liigh cost of living" seem to 

 think it is a small matter to spend a few 

 nickels every day for ice-cream and ice-cold 

 drinks. I feel sure this habit has much to 

 do with the digestive troubles that afflict 

 our people of the present day. And the 

 saddest part of it is that the victims of 

 these troubles imagine they are going to get 

 relief by going back to the same drugstores 

 and buying patent medicines. 



Just a word about sleejiing in a tight 



