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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



July 



need capital we take this and pay them in- 

 terest. 



Now, tliere is a double reason why I love 

 to pay these friends the interest money. 

 I know that they have learned to economize 

 and get something ahead for a rainy day, 

 and I feel that their interest money is just as 

 fairly earned, and just as much their due, as 

 the wages I pay them every Saturday night. 

 By the way, dear friends, when you are ow- 

 ing people money, and you ask them to wait 

 on you a little while, or when they good- 

 naturedly tell you they would just as soon 

 you would keep it a little while, do you al- 

 ways pay them interest? If you do not, you 

 have missed another source of real happiness 

 and enjoyment. If you want to be a Jiappy 

 Christian, pay a, just and fair equivalent for 

 all you receive at the hands of your fellow- 

 man. Why, there is a great unexplored re- 

 gion in this direction— not only a chance of 

 getting happiness, but a chance of getting 

 property and the comforts of life, that a 

 great part of .the world know nothing about. 

 1)0 you think this a stiange doctrine? Why, 

 my dear friends, how many Bible passages 

 are there to back me up in the position I 

 have taken in these pages? Why, it is only 

 living out the golden rule, of doing unto 

 others as we would that they should do unto 

 us. It is only living out the command to 

 love thy neighbor as thyself. The Bible is 

 thronged with promises to those who catch 

 the spirit. " With what measure ye mete, 

 it shall be measured to you again." "Do 

 good, and lend, hoping for nothing again." 

 And in the chapter from which I have taken 

 my opening text to-day, read some of the 

 promises: '' For length of days, and life and 

 peace, shall they add to thee." " So shalt 

 thou find favor and good understanding in 

 the sight of God and in the sight of man." 

 " So shalt thy barns be filled with plenty." 

 " Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and 

 all her paths are peace." " When thou liest 

 down thou shalt not be afraid ; for the Lord 

 shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy 

 foot from being taken." " Withhold not 

 good from those to whom it is due, when it is 

 in the power of thy hand to do it." And 

 right after this last promise, comes the text 

 from which I caught the inspiration for my 

 talk to-day: 



Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, 

 and to-morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee. 



SPRAYING FRUIT-TREES TO DESTROY 

 INSECT-ENEMIES. 



THE USE OF ARSENICAL POISONS FOR SPRAYING 

 FRUIT AND OTHER TREES. 



R. ROOT:— Will you please inform us how the 

 fruit is on your trees that were sprayed, in 

 comparison with those not sprayed? Does 

 it save plums all right? How expensive 

 would it be to spray 100 good-sized apple- 

 trees? What is the expense of machines? Do you 

 keep them for sale? E.Z.Green. 



Montague, Mich., July 0, 1888. 



Friend G., the fruit on the sprayed trees 

 seems to be perfect— almost without spot or 

 blemish, but a good many apples have fallen 

 off notwithstanding. The fallen apples 



seem to be sound, and I find no worms in 

 them, therefore 1 do not see why they 

 should drop off. We did not have plums 

 enough to test it for the curculio. The tree 

 that had most on, the boys forgot to spray, 

 and of course the plums were slung. The 

 solution as we had it was certainly too 

 strong; namely, half a pound of London 

 purple to rM gallons of water. The foliage 

 of the trees was in some places injured. 

 One of our neighbors suggests that he 

 thinks it caused the fruit to drop oft" on ac- 

 count of its being too strong. We do not 

 keep the machines for sale. They can be 

 purchased of the Nixon Nozzle Co., Dayton, 

 O. We have had such an abundance of rain 

 that the machine has not been tested as 

 much as we expected to test it. Potato- 

 bugs and cabl)age-worms liave, in fact, been 

 almost a failure (?); that is, we have not 

 found it necessary to do any thing with 

 them of any account. I'^sually, during the 

 fall months our l)asswoods by the roadsides 

 are infested by different kinds of worms 

 that sometimes almost denude them of foli- 

 age. 1 have been watching anxiously to see 

 them commence operations this year, that I 

 might test the spraying-machine on them ; 

 but they have not come yet. The Ijass- 

 woods are still clothed with beautiful clean 

 perfect foliage. In fact, there is no tree on 

 our grounds that has yet been troubled with 

 leaf-eating insects of any sort. Very likely 

 this is owing to the abundance of rain, as I 

 have remarked before. I will report further 

 as I have opportunity to use it. 



Bee Bew^NY, 



OR, HONEY - PLANTS TO BE NAMED. 



fROF. COOK:— I find the two inclosed plants 

 to be constantly frequented by the bees for 

 pollen, and perhaps for honey. They are 

 everywhere abundant on the top of old Look- 

 out Mountain, where I am located. I find no 

 description of them in your book. Please give the 

 botanical names in Gleanings. The one with the 

 ball-shaped flower seems to be a sensitive - plant, 

 and is a running vine; the other is a bushy plant 

 growing about 18 inches tall. C. F. Parker. 



Valley Head, Ala., July 1, 1888. 



Prof. Cook says of this plant : 



The shrub which grows from one to two feet high 

 Is Ceanothus AmcHc.anus, or New-Jersey tea or red- 

 root. It belongs to the Buckthorn family, and grows 

 abundantly in Michigan. We have never regarded 

 it as important in this vicinity. It may be that oth- 

 er honey-plants take precedence. 



The other plant— and a delicate, beautiful thing it 

 is— is found only south. It is Sensitive-brier, or 

 Schrankia anyustata. As one would suppose from 

 its appearance and sensitive habit, it is a near rela- 

 tive of the real sensitive-plant. Mimosa pudica, and 

 also of the honey-locust. Like many of the Pulse 

 family, it secretes nectar, it seems. There is anoth- 

 er species of the same genus, S. uncinata, though it 

 is not always easy to separate them. This last one 

 is evidently named from the hooked spines which 

 thickly beset the peduncles, petioles, and pods. 



Agricultural College, Mich. A. J. Cook. 



