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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Skpt. 1. 



Bpfnre I left tho town of Grefn Spring*, how- 

 ever. T was lold that, almost on my routp, was 

 a similar spring not more than a mile or two 

 away from the one I had visited. I found it, 

 out "in the fields, beneath the branches of a 

 spreading white-oak. One could scarcely be- 

 lieve that such a beautiful spring was to be 

 found in that fiild; but just as you pass the 

 oak-tree the ground dips down suddenly, and a 

 dark-green pool with a swift-running stream 

 meets your gaze. I knelt down on some rails 

 placed over the spring, and dipped the water 

 up with mv hand, and drank again and again. 

 I am afraid T drank still another " again," come 

 to think of it. Then I hustled off for my sta- 

 tion. I passed through the towns of Republic 

 and Bloomville. Seneca Co., and reached Lykens 

 just at the time the local freight was due. I 

 "had ridden fullv .50 miles without having had a 

 particle of lunch of any sort, unless you mifiht 

 call the water of Green Springs a lunch. Some 

 wav I did not feel very hungry, neither did I 

 feel tired. I had enjoved every mile of the 

 whole fiftv— yes, even the worst sandy mile-i. 

 1 arranged to have some dinner at a house 

 near bv the station, the agent kindly agreeing 

 to notify me when the train was heard coming. 

 Well. I not onlv got mv dinner, but I sat on the 

 platform and waited three hours because the 

 local freight wa« behind ume. It \va« 65 miles 

 to mv home. While sitting on the platform I 

 could have made fully half the distance on the 

 wheel: hut I expected to get home that night, 

 providing the train was on time. Fifty miles 

 and 65 miles make 115. I calculated that, if the 

 railroad company would give me a lift of about 

 35 mil"'< in the middle of my ride, I should 

 make if easily. I did not get home, however, 

 until the forenoon of the next day. and then I 

 lay ahed a part of two days as a result of hav- 

 ing drank too deeplv of the waters of— not 

 Lethe, but from the matter-of-fact Gr^en 

 Springs. Mav be T am blaming Green Springs 

 morf than thev deserve. Perhaps it was the 



imestone water T drank while so very thir«tv. 

 and mav be it was the consequence of riding .50 

 miles without food. Still again, it might have 

 beon eating too many luscious pears that a good 

 lady was kind enough to offer me when I could 

 not drink the well water because it was so 

 hard, nor the cistern water because it was so 

 bad-tasting. N^ver mind. Could I have had 

 an abundance of ^joft spring water all along my 

 route. T think I should not have been sick at 

 all. By the wav. the clerk at Green Springs 

 told me theirs was not the largest spring in the 

 State of Ohio: for he said that, at CaMalia, 

 Erie Co., the verv town I had passed through, 

 there was an immense spring of remarkably 

 pure soft water— so fine, in fact, that a large 

 company is utilizing its cool pure waters for 

 raising trout, and for carrying on extensive 

 trout-fisheries, and yet I did not know any thing 

 about it. 



Is there not a wonderful chance to do temper- 

 ance work along the line of ptire water and 

 drinking-nlaces. and utilizing to the fullest ex- 

 tent God's gifrs along that line? Surely nil 

 temperance organizations can unite in this. 

 See the following from a recent Cleveland daily: 



Tlie drinkin^-fountaln placed at the corner of 

 AVilson and Euclid Avenues liy Miss Anna Edwards, 

 is d:iil\ proving its usefulness during: the warm 

 weather. It is doing: very good work, and, from 

 figures furnished by the police, it appears that at 

 least lOOfl persons drink from it during- every warm 

 day. The remark is frequently lieard from the men 

 wlio stop to drink, and who are largely working- 

 men, tliat they have saved five cents which would 

 otliciwise luive gone to the saloon, and which they 

 can take home to tlieir families. 



tii.laor: can wr overdo the matt^-r of 



WORKING 0T:R GKOUNt) THOROUGH IA- 

 IN DRY WEATHER. BEFORE PUT- 

 TING IN THE CROP? 



Our readers may remember that, about a vear 

 ago, I spoke of the very thorough preparation 

 friend Terry was giving his wheat-ground. 

 In fact, when the ground seemed to me almost 

 perfectly pulverized and firmed, he was still 

 going over it with the teams, making it finer j 

 and smoother. I ventured the suggestion that 

 he was overdoing the matter, especially as a 

 farmir in our county said he got better wheat 

 with ordinary preparation than where he made 

 tho ground so excpcdingly fine and soft. Well, 

 I have been watchinT that wheat ever since, 

 and just now friend Terry gives me his report 

 after thrashing. 



That wiieat yon looked at yiolrled an even .50 bush- 

 els per acre. Nortli lot. onr poorest land, over 44r 

 Mveraffe over 47. possibly near 4S. when wp get 

 cleaned up. Did T "overdo the tillage" ?^9 or 10 

 bushels more than I ever raised before! 



Hudson, O., Aug. 14. T. B. Terry. 



The above is an important fact, and has a 

 special bearing on this matter of preparing the 

 ground for crops even now. In fact, we are 

 just now preparing the ground for strawberries, 

 pearl and multiplier onion-sets, spinach, winter 

 radishes, etc. How much shall we work the 

 ground during this dry weather? My opinion 

 is that, where teams have nothing else to do. it 

 will pay us to keep them going until their feet 

 have been set on almost everv inch of the soil.^ 

 The ground will show the advantage of it next 

 season. I know from experience. When everj 

 himp has been mash-^d up. then the little roots 

 can thoroughly explore every bit of the soil 

 and appropriate all the food they need that ii 

 in the soil. Besides, what a pleasure it is tc 

 put out plants or put seeds into ground that ii 

 fine, soft, smooth, level, and firm! 



RAISING AND PROPAGATING RASPBERRIES. 



The soil should be a rich light loam; bu 

 raspberries seem to do well on well-drainec 

 clay. Plow and drag as for corn or potatoes 

 Mark out 7 ft. one wav and 3 the other. Fur 

 row out with a big plow so as to give a leve 

 place for the roots. If you u«e a shovel-plow o 

 marker onlv. the ends of the roots are apt t( 

 stick up. Make the mark from 4 to 6 in. deep 

 S >t the plants in the check row. and cove 

 about one inch deep. The plants are easil: 

 smothered at first. I have lost many by greet 

 hands covering too deep. When tie plant 

 come up you can cultivate the mellow earth ii 

 and around them until the furrows are full 

 This will make the plants «tand un. If the: 

 are set too shallow you will be continually an 

 noyed bv their falling down, especially whei 

 loaded with fruit. We put beans or potatoe 

 between the ro« s the fir-^t year. Keep thi 

 ground clean and mellow all summer, as thi 

 plants do mo«t of their growing in August anc 

 September. If you are anxious to grow sets 

 pull out the crown when about a foot high 

 also pull off the ends of the strongest lateral 

 when about a foot long: these in turn wil 

 branch and make many tips. Last week wi 



*Of course, this won't do at all where the gronm 

 is the least bit wet. In the sprinar of the year I liav 

 done harm by this very e.xcessive tramping whei 

 the ground was not suflBciently dry to bear it. 



