1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



730 



of g:roiind with pole beans, it is going to come 

 protly near it. They wpre planted with the 

 rows only 30 inches apart, plants about a foot 

 apart in the row. They cover the ground now; 

 and although they were not planted until well 

 along in June, the crop is going to mature nice- 

 ly Ix'fon^ frost. In fact, a good many of the 

 pods are dry now, Sept. >S. The Burpee bush 

 lima is a decided success. There is not a bit of 

 trouble, so far as I can see. in raising them by 

 till' acre, and then we can successfully com- 

 pete with the California limas. The high price 

 of the seed has been the great obstacle hereto- 

 fore. The Kumerle is pretty nearly up to the 

 liurpee in yield, and I should pronounce it quite 

 a little aliead in quality. In fact, it is to me 

 thi^ most delicious of any thing ever known or 

 ever grown, in the bean family. I do not be- 

 lieve we shall ever again fuss with bean-poles. 



TlIK GAUI/r UASPBEKRY UP TO DATE, SKPT. IL 



These plants, you may remember, were set 

 out in our rich creek-bottom ground some time 

 ill April. When the roots were received from 

 friend oault there was not any thing visible 

 above ground, unless it was an inch or two of 

 old wood. Well, at present writing many of 

 till' plants need a space of about ten feet across 

 to accommodate the new growth. If palled out 

 in a straight line, I think there are single 

 branches nearly if not quite as long as a ten- 

 foot pole. Our hundred plants were put in 

 two rows. One row had the ends of the 

 branches nipped oi? when tliey were about two 

 feet along. The other row was allowed to 

 grow. Both rows are at present pretty well 

 covered with fruit, all the way from the blos- 

 som up to the ripe berry. The principal part 

 of the crop will ripen, however, during this 

 month, perhaps just befoie frost. My impres- 

 sion is. I shall not get as much fruit on our 

 very rich grounds as friend Gault does on his 

 clay soil with but little manure. We shall, 

 however, get a great number of young plants. 

 The man who put them down reporti'd that he 

 got '2i tips on one singli^ plant. The friends 

 who hav<' one or mure of these plants will i(v 

 member that just nofv is the time to bury the 

 lips. 



PLANTING ONION-SETS. INSTEAD OF SETTING 

 TUEM. 



People of old, and many of this day, call 

 small onions '• onion-scis." Why so? I sup- 

 pose it is because they have to kneel down, or 

 go stooping along at a very slow rate to plant 

 them, setting them in the irround one at a 

 time, top up and root down. I have done this 

 until I thought my bark would In-ak. and my 

 helpers complained likewise. So I marked off 

 a few furrows and dropped them along about 

 the same distance I would have set them, and 

 covered them slightly: and when u|) 1 treated 

 them just the same as those set in: and when 

 harvest time came, to my astonishment they 

 made just as good a giowth. and were as plump 

 and straight, as those set in the old way; and 

 the time required to plant this way is only 

 about a third the old way. This plan, with me, 

 is original. Have you evei' heard of it? 



Jessup, Md., Aug. 31. (;i;o. \V. (;kasi,kx. 



[Yes, sir, I have heard of it. If you will look 

 in our seed catalog you will tind thai wr have. 

 for many years t)ack. directed that winter (or 

 Egyptian) onion-sets should be " sprinkled in a 

 drill, about as we would peas, say from 3 to.") 

 inches apart:" and others have planted their 

 onion-sets in the same way. There have been, 

 however, some differences of opinion as to 

 whether it would answer just a-^ well: and 

 therefore I am very glad indeed of your testi- 



monial. Let me suggest, that, after covering 

 the sets quite shallow, as you say, when they 

 get nj) through the ground, say two inches 

 high, you throw a little more dirt over them. 

 This will not hurt the little onions, but it will 

 kill all of the small weeds. I am sure this will 

 answer every purpose for onion-.-^ets that are to 

 be put in during this month of September. 

 Make the drills a little deeper, with the idea 

 of doing the last covering after they are pretty 

 well up. If you want to be sure to have a per- 

 fect stand, you can till in the missing ones just 

 before you do this last covering.] 



Tobacco Column. 



CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WK GIVE SMOKERS TO PERSONS WHO 

 STOP USING TOBACCO. 



First, the candidate must be one of those who have given 

 up Dobacco in consequence of what he has seen and read in 

 tliis department. Second, he promises to pay for the smoker 

 should he ever resume the use of tobacco in "any form, after 

 receiving the smolier. Third, he must be a subscriber to 

 Gleanings. Any subscriber may, however, have smokers sent 

 to neighbors or personal acquaintances whom he has labored 

 with on the matter of tobacco-using, providing he give us his 

 pledge that, if the one who receives the smoker ever uses to- 

 bacco again, he (the subscriber) will pay forthe smokpr The 

 one who receives the smoker in this case need not be a sub- 

 scriber to Gleanings, though we greatly prefer that he be one 

 because we think he woutd be str-^ngthened by reading the 

 testimonials from time to time in regard to this matter. The 

 full name and address of every one who makes the promise 

 must be furnished for publicatibn. 



TO CUJJE THE TOBACCO HABIT. 



[A subscriber thinks the following, which he 

 clipped from the Golden Rule, ought to be 

 given in Gleanings, and we think so too; so. 

 here it is:] 



From time to time I have noticed Inquiries in the 

 Giikleii Rule as to liow to overcome tlie tobacco 

 haliit. Tlie remedy that 1 will prescribe is infallible, 

 and costs nothing' liut self-surrender. 



I was an immoderate user of tobacco for more 

 than thirty years, nnd had made many efforts to 

 quit b.T means of so-called antidotes, will power, 

 etc.. but without avail until finally I realized tliat 

 Paul had struck tlie key-note to all success when 

 lie said. "I can do all thing's througrh Clirist which 

 streng-thenetli me." Tliat little word "all," how 

 comprehensive, although small! 



The remedy is very simple: viz., prayer for help. 

 Going' to my room, I told the Lord tliat I was a cap- 

 tive to a sinful and filthy liabit; that I liadmo power 

 of myself to break the chain; that 1 was very an.x- 

 ious to be free fi'oni a habit that was defiling my 

 bt)ciy, which should be a temple of the Holy Ghost. 

 T asked him to take away the terrible appetites but, 

 if he saw tit to lest me by not taking away the crav- 

 ing, thetvto give me the streng'th and grace to re- 

 sist, that t might finally overcome. 



Thanks be to his name for ever, the appetite was 

 instantly and completely taken away, and has never 

 returned. Twenty-two months liave passed since he 

 so marvelously manifested his power to sa"e from 

 evil habits. How true it is th:it Jesus saves from all 

 sin if we will let him I 



If any Endeavorer is enchained by tiiis filthy 

 liabit. I he'^eecli him to try the only remedy that 

 will never fail. We should trust .Tesus to make us 

 every whit clean. If we have clean hearts and right 

 spirits within us. these useless and filthy liabits will 

 never obtain lodgment in us. 



Please s*»nd to me, for Mr. Frank E. Frey. a 

 Clark smoker, as he has promised me he will 

 quit the use of tobacco. If he ever again uses 

 the filthv stuff' I will pay for the smoker. 



Wavirly, i'a. A. D. Fuet.ek. 



D. F. White, a bee-keeper, has used tobacco 

 for over 15 year*. He quit chewing about two 

 years ago. and smoking last fall. He says he 

 is entitled to a smoker. If he ever uses the 

 weed again he will pay you for the smoker. 

 Please send as soon as possible. 



Mechanicstown, <). W. S. Stevens. 



