1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ness and righteousness and temperance. Why, 

 dear friends, just think of it. Suppose a 

 physician who treated you and won your grat- 

 itude by giving you relief from pain should 

 say there was a good deal of prejudice against 

 whisky. Suppose he should add, "I get 

 drunk when I feel like it ; I thank God for 

 whisky ; it has been my true and fai'hful 

 friend for twenty years." If you had faith in 

 him you would begin to try a little whisky 

 yourself ; and I hardly need add you would 

 stop going to church, and quit reading your 

 Bible. Let me ask our nameless friend who 

 wrote me that kind letter how he reconciles 

 the above expressions from T. J. Shelton — 

 expressions that are right out in open print — 

 with the kind words he has been saying about 

 him ; and > et this Shelton has been working 

 hard to make it appear he is a good man. 

 Why, what are we coming to when the prince 

 of darkness walks right out in broad daylight, 

 and tries to make it appear that he is spread- 

 ing the gospel of Jesus Christ ? 



I do not find Electropoise or Oxydonor ad- 

 vertised now in any religious periodical. We 

 find it, however, right along in many of cur 

 popular magazines. When I undertake to 

 remonstrate with these magazines, the editors 

 or the managers of the advertising depart- 

 ments seem astonished. If they do not say 

 so in word they do in action, "Why, these 

 men pay spot cash for their advertising space. 

 Why should we reject their advertising, or 

 why are we under any obligation to inquire 

 whether the machine is scientific or not?" 

 We have, however, quite a number of periodi- 

 cals that refuse to receive medical advertise- 

 ments of any kind. Furthermore, quite a few 

 absolutely refuse to receive any advertise- 

 ment if they have any reason to think there 

 is any thing wrong or injurious about it in 

 any shape or manner. Quite often my friends 

 say to me, "Mr. Root, why do you concern 

 yourself so much about these things ? If peo- 

 ple wish to be humbugged and swindled they 

 will be in spite of you." But I tell you I can 

 not be quiet, or rest easy, while this craze for 

 robbing s : ck people continues to go on and 

 flourish. If there is anybody in the world 

 who should have careful, considerate, and 

 honest treatment, it is the sick and suffering. 

 If these land pirates wish to rob people who 

 are strong and well, and have the money to 

 spare, all right — let them go on. It makes 

 my blood boil to see these swindles pushed 

 among people who have been unfortunate, 

 and who, perhaps, through the force of cir- 

 cumstances, have been kept in ignorance of 

 the wiles and schemes of unprincipled men. 

 Just a few days ago something that looked 

 like a catalog was placed among our mail, 

 addressed to Huber Root, our fifteen-year-old 

 boy. He is a great reader, but his father 

 almost always knows what the boy reads. 

 This pamphlet was marked on the wrapper, 

 " X-Rays " As Huber is reading every thing 

 on electricity, I thought it was probably some- 

 thing relating to some new apparatus ; but 

 notwithstanding, I concluded I woul 1 slip it 

 out of the wrapper. What do you think I 

 found under that innocent-looking guise, X- 



Rays? Why, it was one of the vilest medical 

 advertisements that I ever got hold of. I am 

 going to put in a plea to have the department 

 exclude it from the mails. It was about as 

 bad a thing as I can imagine, and yet they 

 called themselves "great doctors," and tried 

 to make it appear they were protecting the 

 young. Now, these villains are getting the 

 names of schoolboys, and mailing them these 

 pamphlets. Dear parents, are you in the habit 

 of looking after what is sent to your children 

 through the mails? and have your children 

 been so brought up that they are willing (and 

 glad ) to have papa or mamma either look over 

 the books and papers they read ? Our prisons, 

 our infirmaries, our lunatic and idiotic asylums, 

 are already sufficiently populous, if you 

 wish to make sure that no inmate of your 

 own home shall ever get into these places, 

 lo k after this matter. Look out for the 

 medicine-venders, and be sure you are not 

 deceived by some zvolf that manages to get 

 into your homes under the guise of sheep's 

 clothing. 



REPORT OF THE OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION 

 ON NEW VARIETIES OF POTATOES DUR- 

 ING 1898. 



We take the following from a recent bulle- 

 tin: 



In 181)7 the yield was uncommonly good, because 

 both the weather and the soil were favorable, while in 

 1898 the conditions were quite the opposite, and in 

 consequence the crop was only about one-third that of 

 the previous year, and in some cases the difference 

 was still greater. 



Bovee. — One of the best early white sorts that have 

 been grown here for three years or more. The yield 

 in 1897 was 350 bushels per acre, and the average for 

 the two seasons was 236 bushels Its record has been 

 good in previous seasons. It is about as early as Early 

 Ohio, and far more prolific. 



Early Trumbull. — An excellent early white variety, 

 which has been on trial two seasons. It has the dis- 

 tinction of standing first in point of yield of any early 

 variety, and falls but little below the best of the late 

 sorts, on an average for two seasons. In 1897 the 

 yield was -162 bushels per acre, and the average for 

 two years was 293 bushels. It is fairly a rival of Bovee. 



Enormous. — This ranks first in prolificacv of all va- 

 rieties tested in the last two years. In 1897 the yield 

 was at the rate of 508 bushels per acre, and the aver- 

 age for two seasons was 319 bushels The tubers are 

 white, of medium length, and not inclined to grow 

 prongy. Season medium to late. 



The same bulletin sajs further: 



SEED POTATOES : WHERE TO GET THEM, HOW TO 



CARE FOR THEM UNTIL PLANTING-TIME, AP.D 



WHEN TO PLANT. 



The importance of good, sound, nnsprouted potatoes 

 for seed is a matter concerning which there is no dif- 

 ference of opinion ; but how to secure such seed is a 

 question upon which all are not agreed. 



Some would send north each year for new stock, 

 while others believe that the southern second-crop po- 

 tatoes are superior to other seed, because of the fact 

 that thev do not f-prout so quickly in the spring. 



It is sufficient to say. without going into details, that 

 the Ohio Experiment Station has found that the local- 

 ity where the seed was grown is a matter of, less im- 

 portance than the manner in which the seed is kept, 

 which is equivalent to saying that the condition of the 

 seed before planting determines what the crop is to be. 

 far more than does the latitude where the seed was 



