1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



25 



■" What is it that I was feeling so bright and 

 happy about? " And then I would remember. 

 Now, boys, unless you have a pretty good 

 opinion of me you may think that my next 

 statement is a little stretch of the truth ; but 

 I assure you it is not. After I had shaken 

 liands with John, and he had started to go 

 away, I remembered something. I said, 

 " Look here, John. I have some pleasant 

 news for you that I almost forgot when I was 

 shaking hands. The foreman of your room 

 says you are worth more money than you have 

 been getting. " Now, I rather think he had 

 something to think about that made him feel 

 happy all day. Now, mind you, boys, I did 

 not raise his wages because he had never used 

 tobacco. That is not the way we do business. 

 We try to pay each boy and man what he is 

 actually worth, without respect to his notions 

 and likes or dislikes. If he is loyal and true 

 to the interests of our company, that adds to 

 his value. It can not help adding to it. Bu^ 

 whenever I have tried the experiment of pay- 

 ing somebody for " being good " it has always 

 been a flat failure. I am entirely disgusted 

 with the whole business from beginning to 

 end, of hiring people to do right. After they 

 have done right of their own accord, and have 

 built up a reputation and character, then it is 

 right and proper to pay them their money val- 

 ue. So please remember we are not going to 

 Jiire any of you to give up tobacco. You must 

 do as you see fit and take the consequences, as 

 in the language of our text. May God help 

 you to do right in his sight — not because there 

 is more money \n it, but because it is right and 

 manly to be pure in heart, and clean and up- 

 right in conduct. 



Humbugs and Swindles. 



SELLING RECIPES, ETC. 

 In a recent number of one of our agricultural 

 papers we find the following : 



CIDER WITHOUT APPLES. '' ^°^p^.nk. 



Send 25 cents for recipe. This is a money-maker. 

 THOMAS & CO.. Box 40U, New Brighton, Pa. 



I would suggest, when somebody wants to 

 advertise a recipe like this, letting the editor 

 pay the 2-5 cents, and then print the valuable 

 information (?) free for the whole of his sub- 

 scribers. The recipe for making cider without 

 apples does not occupy any more space than 

 the advertisement. Here it is : 



To cold water, one gallon, put dark-brown sugar 1 

 lb.; tartaric acid, jounce; yeast, three tablespoon- 

 fuls. .Shake well together. If made in the evening it 

 will be ready for use the next day. Thomas & Co. 



It was not printed ; and, for that matter, it 

 was not very well written either. A quarter 

 should pay for a nice little book on making 

 cider from apples, including all substitutes ; 

 and, finally, there is not any thing new or 

 novel aboui the recipe. You will find it in al- 

 most any recipe-book, and no doubt Thomas 

 & Co. copied it. May be the above concoction 

 will "set well" with your digestion, but it 

 certainly does not with mine, for I have 

 tried it. 



In our last I said the greenhouse I was 

 talking about should be placed on a piece of 

 ground sloping gently to the south. Then 

 we should have something very much like 

 the large picture we j.ive on p. 27. In fact, a 

 plan of this same building was submitted to 

 the readers of Gleanings in 1893, p. 27 ; and 

 it is working so well, and so very little change 

 has been made in its construction, that I have 

 thought it worth while to reproduce it. This 

 house was originally all made of loose sashes ; 

 and, in fact, the sashes on both the east and 

 west ends are movable now, and we lay them 

 off along in March and April when it gets to 

 be pretty warm inside. The whole south front 

 is also raised and lowered by machinery, the 

 sash being hinged at the eaves — see smaller 

 cut in the upper right-hand corner. Now, this 

 way of placing the glass, you see, covers more 

 ground than any other method of making a 

 greenhou.se. It also has the advantage of let- 

 ting the morning and evening sun go straight 

 through the ends, as I have explained, and in 

 the middle of the day the winter sun goes di- 

 rectly through at right angles to the glass in 

 the movable sash right along the south side. 



Perhaps you have already wondered how the 

 proprietor was going to get around inside when 

 the whole structure is not anywhere more than 

 four or five feet above the level of the ground. 

 Well, this is another of the advantages of the 

 arrangement. The walks are made by cutting 

 down below the natural surface of the ground. 

 The sides of the beds are held up by boards 

 nailed to stout oak stakes ; and in order to 

 economize room the paths are only 16 to 20 in. 

 wide. On the south side of the house we have, 

 of course, to dig deeper than on the north 

 side ; and we go only deep enough anywhere 

 to let the head of the workman clear the glass 

 and hot-water pipes overhead. The sash-bars 

 are supported by strips of timber 2x6. These 

 joists rest on one-inch gas-pipe driven into the 

 ground sufficiently so that the weight of a 

 heavy fall of snow on the roof will never sink 

 them in any further. 



In order to secure perfect drainage at all 

 times it may be well to have a terrace as shown 

 in the cut, or something equivalent, to make 

 the water run away from the greenhouse on 

 every side, instead of soaking down around 

 the walls, to their detriment. First, we have 

 not, as yet, ours arranged — that is, so far as 

 surroundings are concerned — just like the 

 large picture ; but as we are planning some- 

 thing of the kind, I told the artist to make an 

 ideal picture rather than one showing things 

 as they really are. We have once or twice 

 been bothered by water getting into the paths, 

 and at one time the drain tiles got stopped up, 

 so we had a muddy mess of it. Since we have 

 made deep ditches all around the house we 

 have had no trouble of this kind. The north 

 side and both ends are banked up with coarse 

 stable manure, clear up to the glass in winter 



