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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



JUT.Y 



disobeys yon, strike liim one good smart cnt 

 with the whip— just one and no more. AVlien 

 he disobeys you again, do the same thing. 

 Show no resentment and no anger, but sim- 

 ply give him to understand by many repeti- 

 tions that disobedience brings pain. By no 

 means let him see that you are angry or mad. 

 Teach him to think you are a machine. In 

 a little time he will learn to obey as a mat- 

 ter of course. The same process, it is said, 

 will cure a kicking cow. Be sure, liowever, 

 that you do not talk loud, or yell at your 

 dumb friends. Now, humanity, in some re- 

 spects, is like a dumb brute ; at least, there 

 is more or less ani))ud about all of us. If 

 community gets prejudiced against you, 

 don't talk, or make a big fuss. By no means 

 get to talking loud, or yelling about it. Go 

 ahead in the course you think is right, as if 

 you were a machine, and teach them that 

 unkind words or prejudice has no more effect 

 upon you than it would have on iron and 

 steel. Endure to the end. Let them know 

 that your endurance is like iron and steel ; 

 that is, a quiet, patient, kindly endurance. 

 By and by they will drop it all and forget it 

 all; and when they discover that you are 

 not going to adapt yourself to their notions, 

 they will, if you doyoiirdutij, adapt themselves 

 to your notions. 



I was a little amused, a few days ago, to 

 hear Mr. Weed say that I had no conception 

 of the feeling that was gro\ving up in favor 

 of our home-grown stuff, compared with 

 that which came from the cities. He said 

 it was getting to be so, that, no matter how 

 nice an article h;' off ere;:!, the question was, 

 " Did you raise this on your grounds, or was 

 it shipped from the cityV" If he told them 

 it came from the city, it was handed back : 

 if it was our own production, it was taken 

 at once, without any further (luestion. 



Yesterday we had a line lot of nice '' Jer- 

 sey Wakelield " cabbages that were purchas- 

 ed from the city, because our supply ran 

 short. We ordered the best that could be 

 found in the market, and got them. When 

 the boys got back they said they had an or- 

 der for two of our host homc-gnncn cabbages. 

 Nothing was said in regard to price ; tliey 

 must have some that grew on our grounds or 

 none at all. Our wagon has not yet been 

 running a year. Probably one thing that 

 has contributed this spring to capture public 

 sentiment is the fact that a great deal of our 

 stuff is gathered in the morning, before six 

 o'clock. Our customers get it fresh with 

 the dew of morning still on it. liaspberrios 

 and strawberries axe often picked, and §ent 



by a boy to catch the wagon ; and the small 

 boy before mentioned, who accompanies the 

 w^agon, comes back almost every day with 

 an order for " half a dozen more lettuce- 

 more kohlrabi— 2o winter-cabbage plants— 6 



quarts of strawberries, to be left at Mr. 's 



at exactly three o'clock," etc. The differ- 

 ence between things absolutely fresh, just 

 gathered, and those that have been standing 

 by the door in front of the grocery store for 

 one or more days is a big point. While 

 strawberries were selling on the street at 6 

 and 8 cts. psr quart, we received 10 cts., for 

 fresh ones right straight through the season. 

 In fact, we have not sold a quart for less 

 than 10 cts., unless it was some that were 

 left over ; the same way with raspberries, 

 and the same way with peas. Inquiry is 

 even made as to whether the neiv potatoes we 

 carry around are raised by us or bought ; 

 and, by the way, I want to say a word in 

 regard to 



NEW' I'OTATOES. 



Some time about the 15th of April my 

 wife informed me that some potatoes in a 

 large pail in the cellar had sprouted to such 

 an extent that they bid fair to make a huge 

 bouquet, only the bouquet was composed of 

 leaves and not flowers. I took them at once 

 to the held to plant. Mr. Bushnell said I 

 might as well pull the sprouts all off, for 

 they would die anyhow. I told him they 

 would not die after I had got them fixed. I 

 chose some mellow sandy loam near where 

 they were sowing parsnip-seed. I pulled the 

 potatoes out of the pail myself, separated 

 the roots, and then cut them, a la Terry, so 

 as to give a good chunk of potixto to every 

 strong sprout: the end of the potato contain- 

 ing a good many small eyes was cut off and 

 thrown away. Then I planted my potatoes 

 as you would put out cabbage-plants in the 

 furrow, putting ground around them with 

 my own hands. A nice shower came soon 

 afterward, and I pointed triumphantly to 

 my potatoes, (i inches high with green leaves 

 on them before any of the rest of the pota- 

 toes were above ground. June LSth I thought 

 I would see what kind of potatoes there were 

 under Iho great branching tops. Well, to 

 my astonishment the potatoes were of good 

 size, and a pretty fair (luuntity in eacli hill. 

 They brought ;>5 cts a peck readily. As 

 nearly as I can make out, they were the 

 Early Ohio. Now, then, my friends, do you 

 want any better business than that— in GI 

 days after planting, a pretty fair crop of 

 potatoes that s?ll readily at $1.-10 a bushel? 

 Jf X ht4 some more sprouted Early Ohios I 



