GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15. 



got back about half-past three; so I " took in " 

 the highest temperature of the torrid wave. 



Well, the hot sun and hot wind did not hurt 

 meat all(oh! I forgot; I do not know but it 

 did make my nose a little redder than u^ual), 

 but it cooked our great big Columbus goose- 

 berries, and almost spoiled our crop; but some 

 of the berries of smaller size, such as the Down- 

 ing and Houghtons were harmed but little or 

 none at all. Our new friend Eleagmts longipes 

 was also roasted more or less by the heat. 

 Strawberries, unless they had some sort of pro- 

 tection, were more or less cooked. And this 

 reminds me that it is an excellent thing to have 

 at least a part of your strawberries grow in the 

 shade. The shade of a large tree is just what 

 is wanted, providing you do not let the roots of 

 the large Tree take all the moisture from the 

 strawberries. A sub-irrigating bed under the 

 shade of a tree, with the bottom of the bed 

 cemented so it will hold water, would fix it to 

 a dot. I am inclined to think some growing 

 corn on the south side of the strawberries would 

 answer a very good purpose. I studied the 

 matter in several localities on our grounds 

 enough to be certain that, with a season like 

 this, shade of some kind would be a prnfifible in- 

 vestment to the strawberry-grower. I have not 

 had a chance to test plants on the north side 

 of a building or a high board fence, but I think 

 it would be just the thing. Of course, this is 

 only for late strawberries. For early ones you 

 want the sun at least the fore part of the sea- 

 son; but for raising plants during the month 

 of July, even if you have plenty of water, some 

 shade during the heat of the day would help 

 matters along very materially. 



GABDENING FOR JULY l'^ 

 PLANT ? 



WHAT CAN WE 



You can plant almost all kinds of beans (ex- 

 cept the large limas), and they will usually 

 escape frost. Henderson's bush lima included. 

 Beets will do nicely if you have a market for 

 table beets, or beets tied up in bunches. You 

 can put out carrots, cauliflower, and celery- 

 plants. Ford's Early sweet corn will do nicely 

 if planted on good ground. Cucumbers are 

 just in their element this hot July weather. 

 Give them good rich ground; and if you have 

 plenty of rain, and keep the bugs ofif, yon will 

 have a crop. Grand Ripids lettuce will do 

 nicely, and will sell in almost any locality if 

 you shade it from the bot sun. Have it, in rich 

 ground, and make it crisp and white. Ynu can 

 sow all sorts of onion seeds for sets; and the 

 American Pearl may be sown now, not too 

 closely, and left to stand over winter. The only 

 trouble is its inclination to send up a seed- 

 stalk in spring. But you can fix this by pulling 

 out every one as soon as it begins to show a 

 seed-stalk, and sellinar it as bunch onions— see 

 our bunch-onion circular. If you want to make 

 a plantation of the winter onions, now is just 

 the time to do it. Gather the sets, and plant 

 at once. Any of the early peas will make a 

 crop if planted now; and in our locality we 

 generally get large peas, like Champion of 

 England, when sown before July 1,5. We are 

 going to put in a lot of them right away. 

 Radishes you may plant every day for the next 

 60 days: the same with spinach. If yon have 

 great big strong plant* reaiy to blossom you 

 can put out tomatoes now. All kinds of turnips 

 can be sown now. but T would not put in a 

 great many if you ■• !int thorn for table use, 

 because they get too old in just a few days 

 after they are just right; and, while I think of 

 it, get in plenty of wax beans so you can supply 

 the market until the time frost spoils them. 

 Bunch yams and vineless sweet potatoes will 



usually make a crop if put out now with suffi- 

 cient care so they commence to grow right 

 away. You can also plant potatoes at this late 

 date if you have some god seed already sprout- 

 ed, having the sprouts not too long. Jersey 

 Wakefield ana Henderson's Early Summer 

 cabbage-plants will do nicely if put out now. 

 Late kinds will head up if the fall is favorable; 

 and we consider it the very best time to grow 

 cauliflower by putting out your plants by the 

 middle of July. 



Last, but not least by considerable, we con- 

 sider July the finest month in the whole year 

 to put out strawberry -plants if you have learn- 

 ed the knack of making them grow in hot 

 weather. PoUed plants, or plants taken up 

 with our transplanting-machine recently illus- 

 trated, will go right along all right unless you 

 have a tremf-ndous drouth. I think it will pay 

 every strawberry-grower to learn how to in- 

 crease his stock of choice high-priced plants by 

 planting in July. If the weather is very hot 

 and dy, keep things moving by the use of 

 plenty of water, and shading them with cotton 

 cloth. 



-JADOO FIBER. 



Doubtless many of you have read of this new 

 material for florists and gardeners. We are 

 using it for potted strawberries; and it is so 

 much lighter than soil I have hoped that we 

 might be able to send the new strawberries out 

 in the shape of potted plants hy mail. Of 

 course, the postage will be more; but you will 

 have a plant that will put out runners, and 

 push ahead the very day you get it in the 

 ground. When I have samples ready to mail 1 

 will b't you know, and I will also report in re- 

 gard to this new material, jadoo. We are also 

 testing concentrated jadoo liquid. Permit me 

 to add that jadoo itself looks very much like 

 nice swamp muck. It costs at present about 

 $30.00 a ton. 



IS SWEET CLOVER A NOXIOUS WEED? 



How to exterminate sweet clover after it has got 

 a g-ood .start is something- that I am very much in- 

 terested in just now. It' you or any one else knows 

 of any practical method by which one can kill it 

 out, almost everybody here, and especially myself, 

 would be very thankful for the information. 



Eig-ht or nine years ago I bought some sweet-clo- 

 ver seed of you and sowed it on my own premises, 

 and also along the public highway A friend of 

 mine got some seed soon after, and he too sowed it 

 along the roadside. Now the clover is pretty well 

 set over perhaps five or six miles of the public high- 

 way. At first but little attention was paid to It, no 

 one seeming to know what It was: neither had I the 

 least idea what I was getting itito when I sowed it. 

 Now it is growing up ali'i'tr the road higher than 

 the fences, and the farmers uie becoming alarmed, 

 and we are being cursed, criticised, and abused, 

 some saying that we ought to be prosecuted. 



There are scattering plants of the clover over a 

 great deal more territory than that which I have 

 spoken of as being well set; but that we have cut 

 out mostly with hoes; some of the more thickly set 

 places I have mowed, and then broken the ground 

 with the plow. Whether that will kill it is a ques- 

 tion. Some say the seed will lie in the ground for 

 years, and then come up. 



I am very sorry that I was instrumental in intro- 

 ducing something that is so unwelcome as sweet 

 clover seems to be to the farmers here. I also own 

 and manage a farm myself; but I do not care so 

 much on my own account as I do for the ill feeling 

 which it has caused amo g my neighbors. 



Any information on this subject as to what ex- 

 tent I am responsible, or what I should do to kill it 

 out, is what 1 wisl.. Geo. W. Fair. 



Chrisman, III., June 28. 



My good friend, you and your neighbors are 

 certainly making a big mistake. 1 have stud- 

 ied sweet clover all over the State of Ohio and 

 in other States, but I have never yet found it in 

 pasture lots, in meadows, or in cultivated fields. 



