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go GLEANJNGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



effect that we sliould consider our neigh- 

 bor's own good or liis best good, just as roucli 

 us we should consider our own good. But 

 when it comes to choosing who should be 

 Hccommodated, j^ourself or neighbor, when 

 the accommodation is due him, and is not 

 due you, theobligation on your part becomes 

 a veiy sacred one. If I owed a neighbor 

 some money, and he needed it, and wanted 

 it, I think I'would do Avithouta bee-journal, 

 and, in fact, almost every thing else, until 

 lie willingly granted me permission to delay 

 payment. 



I do not by any means think it wrong for 

 people to borrow money, or to borrow things. 

 We confer great favors on our neighbors by 

 borrowing things they want to lend, and 

 many of us have money that we are very 

 glad to loan to somebody who can make use 

 of it so that it will be a mutual accommoda- 

 tion. Such transactions are right and prop- 

 er. But the great important thing for a 

 Christian to do is to keep on safe ground, so 

 that he can not only pay the interest prompt- 

 ly, but pay the principal, say twice over, any 

 time it may be asked for, and that, too, 

 without any great sacrifice. I have some- 

 times invoiced myself something like this: 

 '•' I am owing, say, one thousand dollars, or 

 paying interest on one thousand dollars, 

 borrowed money ; but I own property that 

 would sell readily right here at home, witli- 

 out much effort or time, for ten thousand 

 dollars ; therefore I can not in any case be 

 very badly cramped."' But suppose the cir- 

 cumstances should show like this : '' I am 

 owing one thousand dollars, but my whole 

 effects would not probably sell for moret han 

 four thousand, if I were obliged to sell." 

 Now, the above is not so bad ; but still not 

 what I should call really safe ground. I do 

 not like to be in that predicament ; and when 

 our personal effects are not all together 

 worth more than twice what we are owing, 

 we are in great danger. Sickness, decline 

 in values, tires, robbery, or things of that 

 sort, are liable at times to place us where we 

 can not show such a record before the world 

 as every follower of Christ ought to show. 



Now, why can we not be happy and satis- 

 lied and contented with the things we are 

 able to buy, without running deeply into 

 debt V Why, almost anybody will tell you 

 that the satisfaction and real» enjoyment is 

 in being out of debt — or, at least, in owing 

 so little that you shall never be distressed in 

 paying it, should it be suddenly wanted. 

 J las it ever been proven to you that happi- 

 ness necessarily follows good speculations, 

 or doing a large amount of business V 



Now, friends, what is to be gained, after 

 all, by running risks, and even succeeding 

 in making good speculations? Is the good to 

 be secured m any measure to be compared 

 to the danger? What shall it proht a man if 

 he gain the whole world, and lose his own 

 soul? May God in his great and loving mer- 

 cy watch over you, friend X. Y. Z., and give 

 you wisdom ; and may he bless these words 

 that have come from one who is but a weak 

 brother after all, not only for vour use, but 

 to the multitude of others like you whose 

 eyes may fall upon this Home Paper. May 

 he teach you the way to that only real enjoy- 



ment and peace ; and may he in the end 

 lead us all to the golden gates of eternal life, 

 where we shall comprehend and understand 

 the very, very great importance of trying, at 

 all times to love these neighbors all round 

 about us as we love ourselves. 



Gleanincs in Bee Cdltdre. 



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PEAT INSTEAD OF MOSS FOR COVERING SEEDS. 



Since writing " What to Do, etc.," for this issue, 

 our g-ardener tells us that dried and sifted peat will 

 answer nearly or quite as well as the dried and 

 sifted moss that Peter Henderson recommends. 



naming the seeds. 

 The Rural New-Yorker sends out a kind of field 

 corn which they have labeled " Angel of Midnight." 

 Ti'uly, the Rural folks are booming with enter- 

 prise and " go ahead." They send all their patrons 

 a good lot of nice seeds, any way. 



the heat of old mother earth, vs. steam 



HEAT. 



Our poultry-house, warmed by steam, gives us. 

 during this zero weather, one egg a day— perhaps a 

 dozen hens. A neighbor gets nine or ten a day 

 from thirty or forty fowls. When I asked him how 

 it came that they laid in the depth of winter, he 

 said they were in a cellar under his barn, built on a 

 side-hill. The heat of old Mother Earth keeps them 

 warm. Are we all of us making the best of such 

 natural facilities for warm underground quarters 

 for our stock? The heat of the earth, when we 

 once get fixed so as to utilize it, is cheaper than 

 fuel. 



A NEW SILVERHULL BUCKWHEAT. 



Peter Henderson mentions, among his novel- 

 ties for 1886, European silverhull buckwheat. We 

 wrote him for particulars in regard to it. Even if it 

 has but a little advantage over the old kind, we 

 bee-keepers must have the benefit of it. Here is 

 what he has to say in reference to it: 



This is a most desirable acquisition fortius country, and it 

 liax done remarkably well the past two seasons as far north 

 as Northern Vermont, where the seed we now offer has been 

 prown expiessly for us. It may be depended upon to ripen in 

 any thinpr like a favorable season from ten days to two weeks 

 earlier tlian the native American silverhiill or eomnioii 

 IniokwlieiU. Berrj' is small, with rounded corners, and of :i 

 beautiful silvei-grny color; Krow.s to the iiniJoini height of 

 three feet, staTidintr up well and branchinfc luxuriantly. 

 Straw, a dcip rich wine color when ripe, It is a heavy yield- 

 er and thvis fur is not so easily alfected by drought and' fro>t 

 as other buckwheat. 



We can furnish the seed in five-cent packages, or 

 in larger quantities, at about three times the price 

 of the old silverhull. We shall give it. a thorough 

 test this coming yejir on our hopcy-fariu, and re- 

 port. 



