1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



585 



not a Christian ; that is, one ought to do 

 this, even if he does not profess to be a 

 Christian. Tiien branch out a little aud try 

 to give a friendly hand to your neighbors in 

 general. Learn to enjoy'loving the world, 

 or humanity, and in doing kind .lets for 

 them, and by so doing you will have found 

 the pearl of great price. 



Let me add, in conclusion, that a nap in 

 the middle of the day. when my nervous 

 force seems to be used up, I have discovered 

 to be worth more to me than any kind of 

 medicine that was ever put into bottles. 

 Some of you may smile, aud say, ''Oh. yes ! 

 it is very well for one to talk about sleeping 

 in the middle of the day, when he can take 

 the time for it.'" To which 1 add, 1 accom- 

 plish nioic by so doing. I enjoy getting up 

 with the sun, or a little af ter ; and then 

 when 1 work myself thoroughly out, I en- 

 joy a good sound sleep between nine and 

 ten. After ray nap I can come into the office, 

 right into the midst of tlie great rush of bus- 

 iness, and do lots of good work in a very lit- 

 tle while, because, you see, 1 love everybody 

 then ; yes, all the icorld, even as (Jod the 

 Father himself '• so lovkd the wokld." 



MRS. HARRISONS LETTER 

 JUVENILES. 



TO THE 



SOMKTllING ABOUT CAKP AND OTHER FISH. 



jf^l URTNG the busiest season of the year in the 

 ll c|l npiary, T am compelled to be a patient at an 

 'jl^ institute where electricity and baths are the 

 ■^^ remedies used. I've been vei-y much inter- 

 ested in the papers in Gleanings, " In hav- 

 ing something to do, and being happy while doing 

 it." There are ten ponds here that are utilized I'or 

 the rearing of fish, and I thought that perhaps some 

 of the juveniles might like to know something 

 about them. 



There arc several springs that issue from the 

 bluffs, and these tiow into four ponds. The first 

 reservoir is rather deep, and in it is a school of 

 Rocky-Mountain trout. Two others have fish from 

 the Illinois River; and the fourth, brook trout. In 

 the last-mentioned, cress is raised, as the clear cold 

 water is its native element. I've often wondered 

 whether Mr. Root raised this plant in his ponds, as 

 it has a commercial value in our large cities, equal 

 to lettuce, as a salad. 



The other ponds are fed bj' water from an arte- 

 sian well, and are used prineipallj- for the rearing 

 of carp. The doctor claims that carp grow faster in 

 these mineral waters, as it is warmer in winter. 



I watched the old fish spawning one morning; and 

 as they swam in couples around the ponds, throw- 

 ing the spawn upon the cedar boughs and grass, 

 they appeared to stir up the water like geese or 

 ducks. I examined the eggs through a magnifying 

 glass, and it seemed like a tiny hen's egg, with 

 white and yolk; but the living embryo within was 

 not a chick but a tlsh. Plenty of tiny carp were 

 swimming around, as no other fish are allowed in 

 the pond, to cat them up. The good dog Major 

 catches the frogs around the border of the pond 

 whenever he gets a chance. 



In one pond there are about 1530 yearling carp, 

 and the doctor bated a hook for me to catch some, 

 so I could examine them. I didn't have to wait 



long before I had a scale carp weighing about a 

 pound, swing around upon the hook. I took out 

 the hook carefully, and, after rubbing its pretty 

 sides, lot it glide .'Mvay into the water, to tell its com- 

 panions of its adventures. The doctor says, "Now 

 you must try to catch a mirror carp; that one was 

 a scale." The scale seem to bite the best, as I 

 caught a numberof them before I caught a mirror; 

 but, oh joy! what a beauty! It had rows that look- 

 ed like scales as 1 irge as nickels, and such prettj- 

 colors! I caught one that was leather-colored, and 

 had no scales that I could discover. There were 

 al^o some fish that they call hyl)rids. Their father 

 and mother were carp and goldllsh. They are very 

 pretty. I infer that carp and goldfish belong to the 

 same family. 



It takes work and care to raise fish, as well as 

 bees. The trout are fed chopped beef twice a week; 

 and when they were eating, it made me think of 

 happy boys and girls at plaj'. The carp ar3 fed 

 twice a weel\, too, on chop— corn and oats ground 

 together. 



The iron pipes conveying the water from one 

 pond to another became clogged up, and a pump 

 was screwed on, and water poured in ; and by work- 

 ing the handle, soon a stream of muddy water 

 poured out, and in a littte \vhile the water ran out, 

 clear and pure, and the pump was taken off. The 

 fish, in their gambols while spawning, had stirred 

 up the mud in the bottom of the water. Moss grows 

 on top of the water in these ponds, and is taken off 

 occasionally. They had a laugh at my e.xpense, 

 when I asked why they put "wool " in the ponds. 

 When the moss has dried in the sun it looks like 

 coarse white wool, but soon decays. A man with 

 long rubber boots on rul s the pipes occasionallj', to 

 keep the sulphur or other minerals from clog- 

 ging up the holes in the pipes. Carp raised in these 

 mineral waters have been eaten, and are of fine 

 flavor. Mks. L. Hahrison. 



Peoria, 111., June, 1880. 



THE FLORA OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. 



ARE THOSE WHO HAVE APIARIES UPON A MOUN- 

 TAIN F.WORABLY SITU.\TED ? 



fATHER had 6 stands of Italian bees last fall, 

 and they increased to 11 this spring. The 

 weather has been too wet for them to gather 

 much honey and pollen; and owing to that, 

 we haven't taken much honey from them. 

 The azaleas, laurels, and purple rhododendrons, 

 which grow wild on this mountain, have ceased 

 blooming. The chestnut and sourwood trees are 

 in bloom. The bees seem to be working very well 

 on the red-root, which grows on the mountain-sides. 

 The huckleberries, raspberries, dewberries, black- 

 berries, and June, or service berries, are ripening. 

 George Lawson, age 13. 

 Lookout Mountain, Hamilton Co., Tenn. 



So you are located at Lookout Moiuitain, 

 celebrated as the place where a battle was 

 fought above the clouds in the late war. 

 As you have represented near you several 

 different elevations, each of which has its 

 own temperature, I should like to ask you 

 if your honey season is not prolonged" in 

 consequence of it ; that is, doesn't clover be- 

 gin to bloom first at the foot of the mount- 

 ain, and, as tiie season continues to advance, 



