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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. L 



love of the heautiful like strains of sweet mu- 

 sic, like beautiful flowers, or like the hum of 

 the bies. If money is vvasled no more foolish- 

 ly in any part of our vSlate than it is on the 

 University grounds, I say, " May God be 

 praised."' An hones'. Christian boy, educated 

 at our State University, is worth a hundred of 

 the sort that grow up amid the surroundings of 

 the saloon, with the tobacco and whisky ele- 

 ment for accompaniments ; and in time to 

 come I expect them to utterly route the whole 

 whisky ring, not only from business ] laces, 

 but I expect them to fill the important offices 

 of vState and nation. 



GARDENING FOR PI^EASURE ( ? ) 



Some of the friends have thought I present- 

 ed a little too much of the pleasant features of 

 gardening — especially gardening under glass. 

 Well, I will give a little of the other side this 

 time.' The greater part of Januaiyhas been 

 very warm ; in fact, the whole week from the 

 16th to the 23d uas almost without frost. 

 Saturdax night the barometer dropped "way 

 down."" As theWea'htr Bureau said " rain 

 during the night," and clearing off the next 

 day, 1 thought vse should have a '.remendous 

 rain. Instead of that it was a tremendous 

 blou' Before daylight I felt very uneasy about 

 our sashes. I have never fastened them down, 

 as many gardeners do, as I have always claim- 

 ed that the expense of fastening them every 

 time they were handled would cost me more 

 money than to repair th se blown off by an 

 occasional high wind. But this lime the wind 

 came in terrible gusts. It blew ' ' great guns, ' ' 

 as the sailors say. About as soon as I could 

 see, I was out Sunday morning for a survey. 

 Sure enough, two sashes were out of the west 

 side of the greenhouse, and lay away off in 

 the garden, with every glass smashed out. I 

 hustled Huber out of bed, and we two got 

 some sash in, in place of these. By the way, 

 all the sash in the greenhouse are usually fast- 

 ened in with screws. In our special plan of a 

 greenhouse, the glass overhead is permanent ; 

 but on each of the four sides it is removable 

 for convt nience in getting in manure, working 

 crops, etc. These two had been taken out be- 

 cause it was easier to transplant some lettuce 

 in that wav. When they were put back the 

 boys had failed to fasten them. I let Huber 

 go back to the house, thinking I should not 

 need him further ; but I waited, hoping the 

 wind would go down. The barometer, how- 

 ever, gave me no encouragement. I busied 

 myself by placing heavy stones on the sash 

 most like'ly to be moved; but finally a tremen- 

 dous gust came and almost stripped the fifty- 

 foot bed just fronting the roadway. It looked 

 funny to see those :5x6-foot sash flying in the 

 air like a lot of feathers ; and it looked still 

 funnier when three or four of them crashed 

 through the greenhouse. For a time I thought 



said greenhouse and contents were doomed to 

 destruction. The wind let up a little, and I 

 wanted help badly, Vnit I didn't dare to leave 

 to go after any. But it was too early in the 

 morning for anybody to be up. I tried to han- 

 dle our light wooden shutters so as to protect 

 the greenhouse from the blasts which were 

 now coming more from the we.st, and they 

 were also beginning to get freezing cold. 

 Just in the nick < f time our teamster, who 

 weighs something over 21)0 lbs., came along. 

 Winn I umlertook to handle a light shutter it 

 made me think of the flying machines that 

 are now being used successfully to let a man 

 " glide " down a steep hillside. I pretty near- 

 ly glided out among the glass sashes wheie I 

 did not want to go. When the heavy team- 

 ster caught hold of them, however, he han- 

 dled them something as he does the Clydes- 

 d-ile team when they have had rather too many 

 oats. With Mr. Bowman's hel]i we got the 

 greenhcuse covered with sashes, vdtli a big 

 stone on each sash, so our plants were tolera- 

 bly safe. 



By this time Fred and Frank got around to 

 take my place while I went home for a nine- 

 o'clock breakfast on Sunday morning. In 

 fact, I was more tired out than I have been on 

 any week day for some time. I manag.-d to 

 get a nap after breakfast, however, before 

 time for church. We had a grand sermon 

 from Bro. Mattson, as usual; but, unfortunate- 

 ly, my mind seemed to dwell on the spectacle 

 of those flying frames of glass. Again and 

 again I pulled it back to the sermon ; but it 

 was something like carrying a shutter in the 

 wind. Now, I liied not to do any inventing 

 — especially during meeting time ; but the 

 thing 'would "invent" in spite of me — at 

 least I am afraid it invented to some extent on 

 Sunday, and here it is : 



HOW TO KEEP YOUR S.\SHES FROM BKING 



BLOWN OFF BY THE WIND WITHOUT 



THE NECESSITY OF HOOKING THEM 



FAST. 



In our locality our heavy winds are almost 

 all irom the southwest, veering around toward 

 the west. Well, there are at least four long 

 beds out in the garden, where not a sash was 

 moved. Right during the tumult I kept won- 

 dering why none of these sashes caught the 

 wind, and I discovered the reason. Owing to 

 some changes in the make-up of the bed, a 

 strip of wood was left in front that reaches up 

 a little above the sash light down where the 

 eaves come. This absolutely prevented the 

 wind from catching under the eaves to start 

 them up. The arrangement is not a very good 

 one in one respect ; for during a heavy rain 

 the water comes down inside of the bed, 

 where it is not wanted. All surplus rain water 

 should be carried over outside of the bed. 

 But this can be managed by having this front 

 board that comes up on the south side kept 

 away from the plank inclosing the bed, by 

 strips say ^2 inch thick. This will let the rain 

 water go down outside of the bed. The sash 

 may be pushed down so as to come tight 

 against this board. An objection may be made 

 that you can not catch your fingers under the 



