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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15. 



that I liken to lomons. with large berries fully 

 ripe, is not an oV^jeclion. with plenty of sugar 

 and cream. I ate so many that I was ashamed 

 to eat any more. One tiling more: The heavy 

 manuring we hav<' lieen in the habit of giving 

 our strawberri<'s foi- some years past tends to 

 make them awkward in shape, and, especially 

 where there is abundance of rain, watery in 

 flavor. Preparing the ground with clover, 

 without using manui-e, gives us berries of bet- 

 ter shape, and, I am pretty sure, berries of bet- 

 ter liavor. By the way, I examiijed the soil 

 critically around the shrubs in the dooryard. 

 Mr. Terry got it out of his old clover-tields. 

 Perhaps where the ground is good already, and 

 where clover has been turned under for a good 

 many years, such ground as that is certainly a 

 splendid soil for any plant or fruit. I am plan- 

 ning now to grow some clover just on purpose 

 to tit the gi'ound for some crops that I do not 

 succeed with to my satisfaction. I asked friend 

 Terry how to manage, and he suggested cutting 

 off the top of the clover often enough to keep it 

 down where it would plow under nicely. A 

 neighbor of mine wanted our big team a few 

 days ago to turn a piece of clover under. The 

 clover was so rank and long, that, after they 

 tried it half a day, they had to give it up. So 

 you see if we wish to turn under all the clover 

 the land will produce, you have got to work 

 and watch carefully. 



In my next I want to tell you of another visit 

 made to one of the most progressive and piomi- 

 nent farmers in the State of Ohio. It will be 

 interesting, because this latter friend arrives at 

 much the same conclusions that friend Terry 

 does, but by quite a diffei-ent method of work- 

 ing. 



T0B^CC6 OQiiWMN. 



CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WE GIVE SMOKERS TO PERSONS WHO 

 STOP USING TOBACCO. 



First, the candidate must be one of those who have siven up 

 tobacco in consequence of what he has seen and read in this 

 department. Second, he promises to pay for the smoker 

 should he ever resume the use of tobacco in any form, after 

 receiving the smoker. Third, he must be a subscriber to 

 GLEANINGS. Any subscriber may, however, have smokers sent 

 to neighbors or personal acquaintances whom he has labored 

 with on the matter of tobacco-using, providing he give us his 

 pledge that, if the one who receives the smoker ever uses to- 

 bacco again, he (the subscriber) will pay for the smoker. The 

 one who receives the smoker in this case need not be a sub- 

 scriber to GLEANINGS, though we greatly prefer that he be one, 

 because we think he would be strengthened by reading the 

 testimonials from time to time in regard to this matter. The 

 full name and address of every one who makes the promise 

 must be furnished for publication. 



I have persuaded Mr. Jonas Yutzy, of this 

 place, to quit using tobacco, and you will please 

 send me a smoker for him; and if he ever uses 

 it again he says he will pay you for the smokei". 



Sunny Side, Md.. May K). M. H. DeWitt. 



THE FUND FOR HELEN KELLER. 



SOME GOOD NEWS FOR TOMMY STKINGEK. 



You may send a smoker to V. B. Fulkereth. 

 as he has been induced through Gleanings to 

 give up the use of tobacco. I have had him on 

 probation for a year, and think he is worthy of 

 the gift. I am his security in case the pledge is 



gift, 

 broken. 

 Lebanon, O., May IS. 



J. Q. MULFOKD. 



Through the Tobacco Column in Gleanings 

 I have quit the use of tobacco. I have used it 

 for ten years. I never tried to quit before. If 

 you will send a smoker I will never u.se the 

 weed again. If I fail to keep my promise I will 

 pay you for the smoker. L. W. Franks. 



Betzer, Mich., May U. 



W. S. Hurt, Huwk's Park, Fla $1 



W. F. Nelirinfj, Sirashurg. Ills 1 



MoUie O. Large, Millersville, Ills 1 



Kittle Bickford, EUenton, Fla 



A. A. Duncanson, Suiierlor, Neb 1 



T. H. Strickler. Solomon City, Kan 



Stebbins' children, ('liurehland, Va 



C. C. Phelps, B. Windsor Hill. Conn 



" For Tonmiy," from Hanover, N.,H 1 



Sunday-school, Harmon, 111 4 



H. L. Wells, Rockville, Md... 



Mrs. Jackson, Sigourney, Iowa 1 



Lewis' cliildren, Peru, Ind 



W. W. Case. Baptistowu, N. J 1 



J. N. Cairol, Jr., Owing's Mills, Md 1 



John Short, Moline, Mich 1 



W. W. Kulp, Pottstown, Pa 



Mr. and Mrs. Root, Assumption, 111 1 



E. Lee, Fliutstoiie, Md 1 



E. J . Hulse, Washington, D. C 1 



George, Jessie, and Clara Easterday, Dexter, O. 1 



A Reader. Washing-ton, Kan 2 



E. C. Babcock, Elioy. Wis 1 



Sallie Kulp and friends, Danboro, Pa 5 



B. D. Sidwell and children. Flushing-, 2 



W. E. Cunningham and friends. Kent's Store, Va 1 



A subsciiber. Crescent Hill, Ky 1 



Mrs. Mary Hunter, Vicksburg, Mich I 



Cash, New Hampton, N. Y 1 



Total, $33 70 



Mr. Charles J. Quinby, of White Plains, N. 

 Y., sends us $14, subscribed by the following 

 persons : 



Robert Sherwood $5 00 



Robert Sherwood, J r 100 



Mrs. B. M. Gary 1 00 



Miss M. E. Gary 100 



Miss Bessie Gary 1 00 



Mrs. W. H. Bowers 1 00 



Mrs. A. E. Stewart 100 



Miss Jennie Horton 100 



Mrs. I. A. Soroby .... 1 0(> 



Miss M. J. Haminond.. 100 



Total 



$14 00 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



THE WAY WE FILL ORDERS FOR BEES. 



Your bees came to hand, and I must say in verj- 

 good order, last Friday. I don't believe they were 

 in their hive over an hour Ijefore they were at work 

 as though they had always been there. I thank you 

 very much for being so prompt, and sending me 

 sucii a g-ood lot; and though T did not see the queen, 

 stiil the bees are looking all right. 



Moiiticello, 111., June 10. William Worsley. 



I do not know how any one interested in bee cui 

 ture can get along without Gleanings. It is a ver.v 

 welcome journal, asit contains so many good things. 

 The prospects for a good honey crop this season are 

 assured. All kinds of flowers appear to contain a 

 secretion of honey. White and red clover are better 

 and more plentiful than for many years. 



Muncv Station, Pa., June 33. R. I. Cromley. 



OUR method of putting up BEES. 



I received the bees fi-om you a tew da.-^s ago, and I 

 woidd say that I think it is the very best way they 

 C(mld lie .sent. J. Rouse and S. Vanalsti"c, two bee- 

 keepers, looked into tlie frames, and are very cer- 

 tain that there were not one dozen dead bees in all 

 three boxes. We saw two of the queens. They were 

 very nice ones. One had her wing clipped. What 

 do you think caused that V Did you do it ? If so, 

 why ? Z. O. Titus. 



Lynd, Minn., June 15. 



" IS NOT EASILY PROVOKED, THINKETH NO EVIL." 



On page 483 you will find these passages applied to 

 my case, because in an article in the Bee-keepers' 



