GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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nio^t potatops that wo grew anywhere on the 

 farm, notwithstanding the dry season. 



Small potatoes answer nicely for this purpose, 

 as thev usually make but one sprout. 



I think the plan of planting potatoes late a 

 good one. and one of the best ways to escape the 

 bli-ht that usually hurts potatoes unless they 

 are very early. Quite often there is a good 

 p ece of rich ground that could be made to yie d 

 good returns when otherwise it would have to 

 lie idle. ^- ^- ^RKEN. 



Wooster, O., Nov. 2:^. 



8TKAWBERRIKS— REPORT OF OUR OHIO AGRI- 

 CUI.TURAL STATION FOR 1094. 



Bulletin 54 is just at hand. It is quite a 

 pamphlet of .52 pages-in fact, the best station 

 report on strawberries I have ever come across 

 It is really a valuable strawberry-book, and at 

 the same time it is a report of the work ot our 

 two friends W. J. and E. C. Green - men who 

 have not only brains, but money furnished by 

 the State at their command. The State also 

 pays them for their intelligence and brains^, and 

 they are entirely disinterested parties Their 

 report is given without fear or favor. Notes on 

 varieties comprise something like ten pages, 

 and they include almost every thing that has 

 been oflfered for sale. In their summary, at the 

 close of the report, thev mention the following 

 list of the most promising of the new varieties: 

 Aroma, Belt's No. 3. Brandywine, Brunette. 

 Cvclone. Granville. Huntsman. Ivanhoe. Lead- 

 er Leviathan. Marshall. Princess Portage, 

 Princeton Chief, Riehl's No. 6, West Lawn, 

 Wool ver ton. , , ^^ , 



The next list they class as doubtful among 

 the new varieties: ^ . t^ i 



Auburn. Beverlv, Banquet, Epping, Ear y 

 Bird Governor Hoard, Jay Gould, Lanah, 

 Mapie Citv, Robinson. Southard, Sm el tzers 

 Early, Swindle, Shuckless, Timbrell, Tucker, 



Williams. ^^ , t ■ a tv,^ 



You will notice that our "dear friend the 

 Timhreli:' that has been so much boomed 

 comes in this latter class. The only fault with 

 it however, is that it is white in spots, like the 

 old Sharpless. even when it is ripe. Next we 

 have a list of poor ones among the new varie- 



^^Eclipse. Gillespie, Michel's Early, Meek's 

 Earlv, Regina. „ , . ,7 • 



It is a little sad to find Michel's Early in this 

 last six, especially since we have decided to 

 give it a place in our own catalog. Well, i 

 shall consider Michel's Early a valuable vari- 

 ety until we ha,ve something equally good, 

 equally early, perfect-flowering, and as fine a 

 berrv If it were more productive. I confess i 

 should think a great deal more of it- Our sta- 

 tion friends mention a new variety which they 

 call "Unnamed No. 1." perfect in bloom ripens 

 about the same time as Michel s Early, and 

 is much more prolific. The only trouble with 

 it is, the berries are rather small. 



Now, then, comes the snmming-up ot tde 

 best varieties among those that have been 

 thoroughly tested— the cream of all the straw- 

 berries well known. 



Bubach, Crescent. Enhance, Greenville. Ha- 

 verland. Lovett, Muskingum, Parker Larie, 



Is it not a little refreshing to find that, out of 

 nine given in the above list, four of them are al- 

 ready in our own catalog ? The other five have 



all been te Mcd on our g rounds^ ^— -, 



""ThirTtrawberrv bulletin is furnished free of 

 charge to every resident of the State of Uhio. 

 I snppo'Je friends in other States can get it it 

 they apply before th^ edition is exhausted. 1 

 believe I can heartily indorse almost every 



point made by it unless it is the matter of fall 

 planting. With our grounds so heavily manur- 

 ed and with water conveniciut, we make as 

 much of a success of fall planting as we do m 

 the spring; and, in fact, we get /setter results 

 when wo make it a point to put in strawberries 

 wherever a piece of ground is vacated, and we 

 do this all through the season, from July till 

 November. 



OUR NEW ELEVATOR, AND SOMETHING ABOUT 

 ELEVATORS OF OTHER KINDS. 

 And thev come . . . and see him that was pos- 

 seted of tUd.^il, . . . sitting, and clothed, and 

 in his right mind. -MARK 'y.h>. 



Yes, dear friends, the machine is giving us 

 just as much satisfaction and pleasure as it did 

 when 1 wrote it up last April. The matter of 

 elevators, however, was brought to mind by 

 reading something in regard to General Booth 

 and his work. He too has been making a hob- 

 by of elevators, and hi- elevators are likewise 

 made to elevate hum.m beings. Perhaps the 

 word " humanity " might express it better. In 

 that great industrial work of his in London 

 there is a special department of the work that 

 is called the Elevator Department. Men are 

 taken from the slums of London, from their 

 drink and filth, and elevated through Christ 

 Jesus until they become men of sense and wis- 

 dom. Well, this little band, or army of men, 

 who have been thus elevated have begun al- 

 ready to take pride in being called " Elevators." 

 Not long since, the Salvation Army gathered 

 up some new recruits, and I judge they were 

 pretty hard-looking customers. When they 

 were brought to the Industrial Home, and prep- 

 arations were being made to put them in with 

 the rest, some of the older ones began to object. 

 As nearly as I can remember, they worded it 

 something in this way: ^ 



" Why, do they expect to take these ' dossers 

 and put them right among us elevator folks?" 



The contrast was too great, you see; and yet 

 these very people who rejoiced in the name of 

 Elevators were not a whit better a few months 

 before that than the little band of " dossers " 

 with their dirty bodies, poor clothing, and be- 

 nighted intellects. May God be praised .hat 

 there are elevators to lift undying souls, as well 

 as to raise these poor mortal bodies of ours; 

 and may the whole world be moved with a 

 heavenly impulse to spring forward and take 

 these friends of the Salvation Army by the 

 hand; and not only that, may the impulse be 

 world-wide that has already been started in 

 such a grand undertaking as elevatiwi both 

 men and women who have got " away down." 

 Elevators 'jndeed ! Who but General Booth 

 would ever have grasped such a thought ? and 

 not only that, but proceeded at once to make it 

 one of the real working and prospering institu- 

 tions of the age? Shall General Booth be the 

 only one in this world of ours who is in the ele- 

 vator business? God forbid ! A. I. R. 



