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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



In tcacliiiiK pcopli' how to work. I often mal<<' 

 a n-niaik soiiictliinjr liUo tliis: "My friend. llu> 

 iiood liooU says ilial wt" must love our neighbors 

 as ourselves. Now, if you would ^et |)n'tty 

 mad. or wouldn't like it \ ery mucli if somi'hody 

 were to sell you sui'h peas or sui-li corn or sueli 

 snap lieans. you tmist adiuil that you are not 

 doing as you would be dt)ue by.* You say you 

 did not think ov did not inc<i)i to liarm anybody, 

 and yei you have wroufjed mo: and you iiunihJ 

 have wronired my (.'ustomers fwliieh would ha\-e 

 been worse yet. so far as 1 am eont-ernedi. had 1 

 not 'lappened around just in time to stop vou." 

 .•>ueh teaehiiiK and sueli exhortation help nial- 

 teis very mui'h; but it must be done over and 

 uiTr. If you do not keep constantly in mind 

 that .lohn i> olf across the creek at work on the 

 strawberries, and lliury is ovei- the hill picking 

 peas, and William in aiioiher direction .-owing 

 some seeds, and get around to all of them pretty 

 quickly, you will have tiouble and disaster.+ 

 If liie person who is sowing the seed puts in too 

 much you iiiinj have a joi) of thinning out that 

 will cost alnu>si u hat the cidp is worth. If ho 

 does not put in enough x-ed. yon must either 

 transplant to till u]) the vacant room, or you 

 must let your lich. expi'iisively fertilized ground 

 lie idle — ajiartofii — through the heightofthe 

 season. Our good friend . I. W. Smith, of Green 

 Bay. Wis., has about 40 acies in truu'ket-garden: 

 and he. with tJie help of his boys, keeps busy 

 from 50 to T.'i hands, including women and chil- 

 dren, in thi' height of the season. But he does 

 not manage s-o as to have no waste or disa-ier 

 eithi-r. Even during the brief hour that I went 

 over his grounds. I saw several things that weie 

 going to ruin though negli'ct. In fact, one part 

 of his wonderful plantation of currants came 

 very near being eaten up by the swift-moving 

 currant-worm. I wonder that his work does 

 not wear him out more than it does. 



■■ Well. Bro. Root, you are certainly going to 

 give us a remedy for this state of affairs. You 

 .surely do not mean here in these Home talks to 

 tell us of troubles and discouragements, and 

 not suggest a way out." My dear friend, I 

 should be very glad indeed to give you some 

 encouragement. You know our country is just 

 now having much troubh? in discussing this 

 very problem. The people who tvorh think 

 they do not have as much as they should have: 

 and those who hire them — (^specially farmers — 

 think they can not stdnd it to go on fanning 

 and pay as much as they have iDeen paying. I 

 wish it weri' possible f(jr a poor weak faulty 

 human being like myself to suggest a remedy 

 that would be agreeable to all parties.^ I have 



*The mail and tiny who sell siiitt' uii thewag^on will 

 never make a hhiiifler of this kind, you may be sure. 

 'I'liey have seen customers s(i main times refuse to 

 take iliem l)ecause Ihey vvejc uiuipe or overripe, 

 that tliey have learned' tlieii- lesson well; Vmt it is 

 not always j)ossil)le or convenient to have the men 

 who XI II the St nil clo the fraihcriiifr. 



+ My wheel is proving a }rrcat help right liore. I 

 now jfo across the creek, or np l)y the windniiil, and 

 aloiifr tlie roads and paths wherever the men and 

 hoys are at work, with no lalioiious fatigue, and in 

 a twinkiiiif^ of time. It makes exhilarating iiastime 

 of wliat has been wearing me out — that is, when tlie 

 jrround is not too wet. 



$Oni- sure way of meeting tlie.se trials and difficul- 

 ties forces itself almost constantly uiion me. The 

 fat hei-. with liis own t)oys and girls, can meet the 

 demands of the case— that is, if the f;iniily relations 

 are such as tliey shtjuld t)e. Tlie hoys can be taught 

 how to care for machinery, and they will have an 

 interest in t;iking i-are of it that hired help seldmri 

 has or can have. I believe God intended tliat the 

 family circle should be a partnershiii; and when we 

 i-aii see the l)o\s, after they are married and Unvc 

 families (»f their own, still working side Ijy side with 

 the father, we get a glimpse of a happy soluti<m of 

 a gi-eat part of these troubles. 



studied over the matter a good deal, and it has 

 seemed to me tliat the remedy must come along 

 t'tie line of our te.\t. Wo must all be w illing to 

 " sweat " harder, or, in other words, keep our 

 minds more on our work; tlien we from the 

 opposite exlrenu's shall lie able to meet each 

 other — yi^s, nn-et and clasp hands as friends and 

 neiglibors, even though one of us does the /;o,s.s- 

 //!(/ and th(! other the ivorh. I'ossibly we may 

 soon exchange places. In this busy world of 

 ours we are. in reality, almost constantly 

 changing places: but if we want to b(^ happy, 

 if we want to enjoy our work and receive (Jod's 

 full measure of blessing, let us work thankfully 

 and uncomplainingly. Let us be good-nalureil 

 and patient, even if the sweat should drop from 

 the end of our noses and run down the face into 

 the eyes, as I suggested to you in the last iium- 

 lier. And as we work together in gathering 

 the crops, may God the Fathei- give us grace; to 

 say in our hearts as well as in our words, 

 "Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks- 

 giving and honor and power and might be unto 

 our Ond for ever and ever.'" 



High-pressure Gardening. 



THE NEW CEIvERY CULTURE. 



This is the title of a little book published by 

 the Rural Publishing Co.: and, in fact, most of 

 it has already been given through the columns 

 oi thi' Rnvtd New-Y(jrker. The principal idea 

 in this new celery culture is, in dispensing en- 

 tirely with all banking up. The plants are 

 placed so close together that, wlien they are 

 fully grown, they cover the ground so as to do 

 their own bleaching. Like the new- onion cul- 

 ture and a good many other new things, it is 

 not quite new after all. Peter Henderson, 

 years ago. recommended planting celery a foot 

 apart each way, with this very purpose in view. 

 Robert Niven, however, the principal exponent 

 of this plan, puts the plants only 7 inches apart 

 each way. \"ou see. it is an important point to 

 get just the right distance. If the plants are 

 too close they will crowd each other, and you 

 will get only a spindling growth: but if too 

 far apart they will not be sufficiently bleached. 

 Of course, the ground must be tremendously 

 rich and strong, and there must be no stint of 

 water, if you would have good strong stalks of 

 celery only 7 inches apart. My plan would be, 

 and is, to use stable manure: but Mr. Niven, 

 however, uses the Bowker celery - fertilizer. 

 Now, I have never hecMi able to get any beneht 

 frotn chemical manures on celery. I am. how- 

 ever, at present, testing the matter. My celery- 

 bed is oblong, and made as rich as it can well 

 b(; made, with barnyard manure. After doing 

 this I have used lli<' celery-fertilizer on alter- 

 nate sqiuires. At present I can discover no etlect 

 whatever from it, but perhaps it is not yet 

 time. Mr. Niven uses two tons of fertilizer per 

 acre, and he lias already succiseded in raising a 

 crop of celeiy on a single acre that sold at the 

 vdte of $l').<ii)0 per acre — at least, so the liiiral 

 JVcw-i'orfcer says. Perhaps I may state that we 

 have been growing celery somciwhat on this 

 plan for years: that is, aftcu- the plants are 

 taken from our seed IxmIs we hav<' let the re- 

 maining ones grow, banking them uji otitside; 

 and in jilaces wln-re the plants were thick 

 enough there would be no banking at all. The 

 celery, however, was never quite as white and 

 crisp as that bleaclied with earth. A relative 

 of mine, however, informs me that he has now 

 five or six thousand White Plume raised on the 



