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I'omlitidll. lull I I'illi'l sec w li\ I 111' (i\\ iifis slmiild 

 l<>uv«> them iliiis w lien iliry luiii^r sin-li uomi 

 pricos liiTr. Till' sriMUTv is hi'iiulifiil. rvrii at 

 tills si'ason of lln' yrar. and tiir liciirht colnrs of 

 the many sliadrs of jri'i'i'ii tlial aiioiii I iir 

 spnuM's, liriiilorUs. ami vaiioiis i-nlais tliat 

 covrr till' hills, an- liai'd t()dt'sciil)i'. Tin- land is 

 iirctty mm-li all fiMu-cd and under ciiltlvatloii. 

 \VintiM' ulicat st'cms to hi' a Ki'i'iit staph' in tin- 

 vicinity of Sali'in: ami as tlir sun striki's it.il 

 adds not a littlr to the l)rauty of ihi' iandscaiu'. 

 Wlirn 1 susfft'sti'd to a passi'n^cr that this mild 

 moist wcatlun" would make t,h»> whoat giow too 

 fast for ♦he srason. he told mo it would: but 

 tliey pastiui' it down, and I ai-tiially saw sheep 

 turiii'd on till- wheat to-day. wIutc the <iround 

 is just saturated with rain water. I wonder 

 what Terry would say tosueh farming. 1 saw a 

 jrreat many tools out in the tields, and. as a rule, 

 farmers liere do not have any sueh barns or 

 tool -houses as we do east. They say the stock 

 does not need such shelter as we give: and as 

 no shelter is provided, there is no i)lace to put 

 the tools under shelter. I am sure this is 

 very bad policy, for it rains here for weeks to- 

 gether, and every thing is saturated with wet, 

 if it is possible to (jd it saturated. 



I was greatly interested in the falls at Oregon 

 City — the more so as there is a little building. 

 clear out in the stream, that utilizes the fall to 

 run dynamos that send electricity fourteen 

 miles to the city of Portland. About 30 wires on 

 telegraph-poles carry the current which now 

 lights the city, and they have power to let. 

 These falls on the Willamette River would fur- 

 nish power and light enough for the whole city. 

 and. very likely, some to spare. It seems to me 

 this is one of the initiatory steps toward a great 

 revolution in power and light, and. probably, 

 Iteat loo. River steamboats i uii up the rivcsr as 

 far as Salem, and some, of light draft, as 

 far as Albany. Moss not only covers the rock? 

 and ground, but a species somewhat like the 

 Spanish moss of the South covers almost all the 

 trees. The apple-orchards, when the trees get 

 to be of any size, are so loaded down with it one 

 might almost think they were all killed: but 

 the people say it does not hurt them. In proof 

 of this they point to the great crops of apples 

 lliat the trees are loaded with. No doubt the 

 moss sets tiie trees to bedrlng. but it does seem 

 to me it shortens in the tips. and. may be. acts 

 .something like pruning. For some reason it 

 seldom if ever attaches itself to the evergreens. 



THK 0HKf40X EVEIiBEAKING STR.\WHEHRY. 



I saw this on Mt. Tabor, near Portland, where 

 it is raised by the acre. It is certainly no hum- 

 bug, as has been intimated, for it has for years 

 given considerable crops of berries, all along in 

 the fall, and sometimes almost up to the holi- 

 days. •'In fact. I saw ijuite a field of them cov- 

 ered with blossoms and green berries, the latter 

 having been injured by an unusually heavy 

 frost in the early part of December. 



•' Now. th(! point is right here." said I to the 

 owner of the grounds: •• is it youi' clintate, with 

 its warm weather and abundance of rain, or is 

 it the plant? You have the common varieties 

 of strawberries here in your grounds, have you 

 not?" 



"Oh, yesi " replied he: and he pointed to sev- 

 eral popular kinds. 



" Well, do they produce blossoms and fruit, in 

 the fall, like the" Everbearing? " 



" I have never sei^n any: at least, nothing like 

 the Everbearing. Let us look." 



We examined a patch of Cumberlands, near 

 by, but not a bloom or green berry was found. 

 He told me the Everbearing did not succ(>ed as 

 it did on his grounds, in some places right in the 

 immediate vicinity. He has tor several years 



sold these lierries from .August, to Decemher. and 

 made a nice thing with them. Me sells only 

 the fruit and not t he plants. 



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.^;^^i^^^-^l°° VERYEARj 



In the multitude of cuunselors there i.s safety.— Pr. U: U. 



A nouNTV or no bounty »n honey— that's the 

 question. 



Dk. Mii,i.ki{ says somebody did not report 

 him correctly at Albany. We suppose he means 

 us. Well, doctor, we accept your correction. 



The old Missoiiri Bee-heeper, as per previous 

 announceTuent, comes out under a new name — 

 Tlie PnxjresHive Bee-keeper. The paper is\<'e]l 

 edited, as usual, and well deservi^s patronage, 

 not only for the State of Missouri, but for all 

 the States. 



We are glad to renew our regular installment 

 of Stray Straws, and we hope no other unlucky 

 accident will prevent their regular appearance. 

 The sii'aws in this issue are unusually fresh, 

 and sparkling with good nature. The doctor 

 tits the place well. 



FoK the last month we have been having 

 quite severe weather. If it should continue 

 thus it might go hard with bees throughout the 

 country. For our locality, however, we are 

 glad of it, as it puts our winter cases to a .se- 

 vere test. Our self - registering thermometer 

 showed that the temperature went down as low 

 as 11>^ degrees below zero on the night of the 

 19th. Since then we have had some cold snaps, 

 but not so low. 



Cement or grout cellar-bottoms are not rec- 

 oraiuended in this issue by such good authori- 

 ties as Dr. C. C. Miller and Julius Hoffman. 

 As many, possibly, may be proposing to put in 

 such bottoms, perhaps they had better wait and 

 investigate a little before going to any great 

 expense for something that luight be useless or 

 even wor.se than useless. We should like to 

 have reports fi'om those who are in position to 

 give us facts in this matter. 



If you discover any lack of editorial sifting in 

 this issue, please lay it to that old fiend La 

 (Jrippe. It did not get hold of us this time, but 

 it laid low the business manager. .7. T. Calvert: 

 and the consequence was. we were obliged to 

 take up his work for a week, and part of the 

 time work nights on (ii>EANiNGs. Mr. Calvert 

 is now back at his post as usual, but little if 

 any worse for his siege of grip, and things are 

 going on as usual again. We i)resume Pro. 

 Newnuui. of the ^liiicricdii Bee Joitnidl. knows 

 how to ai)pr<'ciate the position we were in a 

 few days ago. 



■ It has been rumored that there is another 

 chap who is about to place on the market arti- 

 ficial honey-comb, filled with glucose, deftly 

 capped over by ap|)i-opiiate machinery. As 

 .M. II. Hiuitsaid in his paper at the convention 

 of the Michigan .State Pee-keepers" Association, 

 the prospective luaiuifacturers of honey-comb 

 jiever get any furtlnsr than they are "going to," 

 or "are about to do so." Bee-keepers need 

 not worry. The newspaper canards have made 

 some fools believe that it could actually be 

 done, and that there was a mint of monev in it. 



