1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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true, millionaires have such structures for their 

 collections of high priced exotic plants; but 

 for growing cabbage and tomato plants, or 

 even roses and chrysanthemums, we do not 

 care to go into any thing that costs so much 

 money ; and even if we could afford it there are 

 reasons why it is not what is wanted. First, we 

 want to have the sun in the middle of the day 

 send its rays through the glass at right angles 

 as nearly as possible. Secondly, we want to 

 have the morning and evening sun also send 

 its rays through the east and west ends of the 

 greenhouse, in a like manner, at as nearly 

 right angles as possible. This being true, Fig. 

 2 should be flattened on the south side. Ac- 

 cordingly, we make our greenhouse so that a 

 cross-section through the middle would be 

 more like Fig. 4. 



that greenhouse men have been slow to realize 

 the great advantage of such an arrangement. 

 Continued next issue. 



MORE ABOUT FRIEND MARCH'S " BIG SPRING." 



Friend A. I. Root: — If you will remember, that ditch 

 was about 8 feet deep where we struck that flue stream 

 of water that came boiling up from below. Well, aft- 

 er studying the matter over iorayear I came to the 

 conclusion that, could we get down to where that 

 " boil " came from, we could get more water. So, hir- 

 ing a gang of men, we started fifty feet down the hill 

 and ran in nearly level. We struck four feet of quick- 

 sand, and under the sand a hard clay bottom. We 

 followed this clay bottom up until our ditch was, at 

 the head, 19}/i feet deep. This ditch has drained the 

 whole hill, all springs on the north side have dried up, 

 and the water all comes our way, which gives us a 

 stream of 29,800 gallons [nearly 1000 barrels.— A. I. R.] 

 per day; and the cost of digging, planking, and cov- 

 ering up, was not quite $100. With this stream of 

 water we can more than double our crops of all kinds. 



Fidalgo, Wash., Oct. 28. H. A. March. 



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Cross-section. 



You will notice the longest glass roof is on 

 the south side ; and this is on such a slant 

 that the sun during the greater part of the fall 

 and winter months will shine nearly straight 

 through it — in December, perhaps exactly 

 straight through tke slope on the extreme 

 southern side. I have indicated by the dotted 

 line about the direction of the sun's rays to- 

 ward noon ; and experience has backed up 

 my theory, for the bed right near this sash is 

 the best one in the whole greenhouse. There 

 are two reasons for this. The sun, in the win- 

 ter time, shines straight through it, as I have 

 been saying, and, besides that, the glass is 

 quite near the surface of the bed. Well, such 

 houses are in common use ; but I have never 

 seen one except my own where the east and 

 west ends of the house were also arranged to 

 let the evening and morning sun shine through 

 the glass at right angles.. Fig. 5 will help to 

 make this plain. / \ 



Now, there IS , h Cross-section from east to west \ 

 a very good rea-/ \ 



son why these slopes at the east and west ends 

 of the house should not be squarely north and 

 south ; for during the dark months the sun 

 never rises exactly in the east nor sets exactly 

 in the west. What shall we do to enable the 

 morning rays to come more nearly at right an- 

 gles, and the evening rays in the same way? 

 Why, we must twist the glass sides at the east 

 and west ends so as to have them face the sun 

 in the southeast and southwest. The easiest 

 way to do this is to place the whole structure 

 on a piece of ground that slopes gentty to the 

 south. 



Now, there is still another advantage with 

 such an arrangement. It is down so close to 

 the ground it is not liable to be injured by high 

 winds. In fact, the winds, from whatever di- 

 rection they blow, strike the glass at such an 

 acute angle they shoot up and over it without 

 doing any damage, and without chilling the 

 contents as they would were they to strike an 

 upright wall of glass. I am inclined to think 



TEN PER CENT A WEEK FOR THE USE OF 

 MONEY. 



I suppose most of you know something 

 about the Franklin Syndicate that has just 

 gone to the wall. They offered to pay de- 

 positors ten per cent a week for the use of 

 their money; and to cany on their swindle 

 they did pay ten per cent a week. Then they 

 got their patrons to advertise for them in 

 order to get more customers. This was a 

 very easy thing as long as people would keep 

 bringing their money with which to pay the 

 ten per cent a week to those who had previ- 

 ously given them money. Of course, there 

 were those who had sense enough to inquire 

 why they did not go to the banks and get 

 money at six per cent a year instead of solicit- 

 ing loans in little dribs from poor people here 

 and there and everywhere. Their explanation 

 for this crazy way of doing business was, I am 

 told, that they wanted to help (?) the poor 

 laboring classes. Now, my friends, when you 

 see a man anywhere throwing out dimes and 

 quarters, and advertising far and wide that he 

 does it to help the poor, set him down as a 

 thief and a robber, and keep out of his clutch- 

 es. It is only gambling under a new guise. 

 Many of the victims admitted they knezv the 

 thing was a humbug; but if it held out ten 

 weeks they would get their money all back 

 that they had paid in, even if they never got 

 the principal at all. These people admitted 

 they were guilty of gambling. It seems hard 

 to believe that that Franklin Syndicate robbed 

 poor people (very likely sick people too), to 

 the extent of millions. Since the news has 

 gone out of their success, other thieves and 

 robbers are starting modifications of the same 

 plan. 



Some time ago a young friend told me he 

 had found a place where he could get 14 per 

 cent a year and no mistake. I told hirn no 

 sane man could or would pay 14 per cent a 

 year when he could get plenty of money fo 

 less than half that much unless he were shaky 

 or risky, and advised him to have nothing for 

 do with it. I need not tell you how it turned 

 out. Well, since these fellows have gotten 

 away with such an immense amount of money, 

 this thing will probably be tried with no end 



