GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



WINTERING IN FLORIDA, ETC. 



As SO many are asking what it costs to 

 go down to Florida and back, we have asked 

 the Seaboard Air Line to give us present 

 rates for the fall and coming winter. Be- 

 low is their reiily : 



I beg to advise you that the winter tourist fares 

 from Cincinnati are as follows : To Jacksonville, 

 $33.55; to Tampa, $45.15; to Bradentown, $46.65. 



Tickets will be on sale October 15 to April 30, 

 good returning until May 31. If rates are desired 

 to additional points we will take pleasure in quot- 

 ing the same. C. B. Ryan, 



General Passenger Agent Seaboard Air Line 

 Railway. 



Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 2. 



You will notice in the above that they 

 give rates from Cincinnati to three points 

 in Floi'ida — Jacksonville, Tampa, and Bra- 

 dentown, the latter being our winter home. 

 If you wish to take a slee]ier, the lower 

 berth will be $6.25, and the upper berth 

 $5.00 one way. If you leave Cincinnati in 

 the evening you will be out two nights and 

 a day, reaching Jacksonville in the morn- 

 ing. Now, if your train is reasonably on 

 time you will catch the morning train from 

 Jacksonville to Tampa, landing you at 

 Tampa in the evening, thus making 48 

 hours from Cincinnati to Tampa or Bra- 

 dentown. The fare from Cleveland, Ohio, 

 to Bradentown, winter tourist, round trip, 

 is $57.15 ; but for a "25-day-trip," it is only 

 $35.50. 



Let me repeat briefly what I have said 

 many times for several years : You can 

 rent rooms, furnished or not, good board 

 and lodging, or board yourself, almost as 

 cheaply in Florida as you can here in the 

 North; and some things, especially the stuff 

 grown in the South, is much cheaper than 

 in our northern markets. Y^ou can rent 

 places where one can stay for almost noth- 

 ing up. In fact, quite a few ]ieople live 

 in tents all winter in the neighborhood of 

 Bradentown. Others jiut up some cheap 

 little edifice that may be afterward used 

 for a barn or stable; and so far as getting 

 employment is concerned, any one who is 

 industrious and skillful may be very sure 

 of getting work. Noav, I am sorry to re- 

 fleet on infirm humanity; but there are 

 always in the South more or less invalids 

 who do not seem to recognize that they are 

 unfit for work of many kinds; and some 

 of these ]ioor unfortunate people have an 

 exalted idea of Avhat they are able to do. 

 Let me give you an illustration : 



Just now here in the North there is the 

 biggest kind of a demand for help of all 

 sorts. Men, women, and children are want- 

 ed everywhere ; and a good many times they 

 get almost twice what they actually earn, 

 because people are so rushed, and there is 

 such a scarcity of lieli). Notwithstanding 



this, just yesterday a big able-bodied man 

 was around begging, saying he had applied 

 everywhere, and could not get any thing 

 to do. Now, may be I am a little severe, 

 but it seems to me it is absolutely stealing 

 to pretend you are working and taking a 

 good man's money for work, and then make 

 only a pretense when you are doing almost 

 nothing. The point is, anybody who has 

 all the time plenty to do, and more too, 

 here in the North, will find exactly the 

 same condition in Florida. A dozen peo- 

 ple will be wanting him all at once. 



In conclusion, I do not believe I would 

 advise the young and middle-aged who have 

 good places and fair health to go to Flor- 

 ida. But it certainly is a splendid place 

 for elderly people and others who really 

 can not stand the zero temperatures of the 

 North. 



Mrs. Root and I expect to start for our 

 southern home on the evening of November 

 5, after I have cast my vote. We will take 

 a through train that leaves Cleveland at 

 9 P.M. for Jacksonville, without change. 



FLORIDA IN OCTOBER — A LITTTLE GLIMPSE OF 

 THINGS. 



Perhaps I should explain, before giving 

 the letter that follows, that our town of 

 Bradentown has recently arranged for an 

 electric current during the whole 24 hours, 

 instead of only in the evening, and ac- 

 cordingly I have ordered an electric in- 

 cubator, of the Cyphers people, so as to 

 be on hand by the first week in November, 

 in order to get it going at once. I wrote 

 my good friend Abbott, who has charge of 

 my ''cross-bred" Buttercups, to have a set- 

 ting of 60 eggs ready for the new incu- 

 bator. I suppose I can hardly expect a 

 good per cent of fertile eggs or strong- 

 fertile eggs just when the biddies are moult- 

 ing. Here is his reply: 



Mr. A. I. Boot: — I can save you what eggs 

 you want. The old rooster is all right, and with 

 your hens ; but they are moulting, and I am afraid 

 you will not get many chickens. It is taking about 

 11 hens to get one egg now — that is, the bunch 

 average about 9 per cent. If you are having 

 "cold feet," live in hope. It was 95 at 5 o'clock 

 P. M. to-day in our north room, with both ends 

 and three doors open, and tio fire. It is 89 now 

 at 7:30. Doesn't that give you a "glow"? Mr. 

 Rappleye came here from southern Michigan, where 

 he went the middle of July. He said there were 

 only six days during his stay there that he did 

 not wish himself in Bradentown. He has become 

 a "cracker," don't you think? 



Bradentown, Fla., Oct. 15. D. W. Abbott. 



"regulating" the saloon. 



We like the Home, temperance, poultry talks, 

 etc. In answer to the plea, "regulate the saloon," 

 some one hit it about right when he said, "You 

 might as well talk about regulating a powder- 

 mill located in Hades." 



Belleville, Kan., Sept. 12. O. B. Havkn. 



