1900 



GlyEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



543 



Parsnips may be sown now, but they will 

 not get to be very large. All the better, 

 though, for table use. All kinds of peas will 

 mature if they get through the hot weather. 

 We sow them all through July, and seldom 

 fail in getting nice peas. Peppers are all 

 right if you can get some good plants. You 

 can plant pumpkin seeds now, and get ripe 

 onfs of the Early Sugar variety. Rhubarb 

 will make good plants this fall that will give 

 stalks for pies next spring. Radishes may be 

 sown all through the summer and fall. Oys- 

 ter-plants will grow small roots, but they are 

 all the nicer if you put them on good soil. 

 Spinach is all right this month and next. 

 Summer squashes do finely, but it is a little 

 late for the Hubbard. You can still grow 

 tomatoes on ground that is vacated if you have 

 some good strong plants to put in ; and it is 

 just the time to sow Breadstone and Yellow 

 Aberdeen turnip seed. The White Egg and 

 Yt How Top and Globe had better be put in 

 later. 



Finally, you can still plant potatoes if you 

 have any old ones left in your cellar or can 

 get them anywhere. It does not make much 

 difference how much they are wilted or sprout- 

 ed. If v/e have rains during the month, the 

 potatoes will just " climb." 



Now, do not let your garden grow to weeds 

 because you have already grown a crop on 

 some parts of it. Spade lender the old pea- 

 vines, lettuce gone to seed, weeds if there are 

 any. Rake it over and get on something else. 

 Do it to-day or to-night, even if you have to 

 work a little by starlight. It is not much 

 work to keep the garden growing something 

 valuable every day and every hour, and just 

 think how much better it looks. 



Somebody asked what kind of honey-plants 

 could be sown now. Why, bless your heart, 

 it is the very nicest time of the year for buck- 

 wheat, crimson clover, and turnips, seven-top 

 or the other kind ; and the buckwheat gives 

 you a honey crop and a crop of grain this fall. 

 Crimson clover gives you a honey crop, and a 

 crop of seed worth at present 85.50 a bushel, 

 next spring ; and the turnips that you do not 

 pull up for table use will come up in the 

 spring, and produce, splendid greens for the 

 table if you want them ; and if you don't, they 

 will give a lot of honey when almost nothing 

 else is in blossom. Now, if you like to see 

 things grow, just "go in and win." We can 

 still furnish seeds of almost everything I have 

 mentioned. 



Oh dear me ! I forgot to say a ^yord about 

 strawberries. There is no nicer time and no 

 nicer month in the year to put out a straw- 

 berry-patch than July. Use potted plants if 

 you are a green hand ; but if you have learned 

 the trade, put out layer plants, and you need 

 not have one plant die in a thousand. If you 

 get your plants out in July you will have a 

 good crop of extra fine berries next spring. 

 Now, please do not say that I have said no- 

 thing about high-pressure gardening in this 

 issue. 



Oh, yes ! one thing more. If you get this 

 July garden started, keep the surface raked 

 over nicely, as I told you about in Glean- 



ings for June 1, page 449— 'level cultivation 

 and dust mulch." We have been doing that 

 same thing in our garden this summer, and it 

 is less trouble than any other plan. The gar- 

 den is always ' ' a thing of beauty and a joy for- 

 ever ;" and, oh my ! how the things do grow \ 



THE LOGAN BERRY IN CALIFORNI.\ ; BELGIAN HARES, 

 ETC. 



I thought you might likt; to know that the I,ogan 

 berry does well here. They are in market much of 

 the time. I have been told that they do best when al- 

 lowed to run over the ground. They seem like a dark- 

 red, rather sour large blackberry. The Belgian hare 

 is raised very commonly here in narrow quarters, and 

 they increase with great rapidity All I have seen 

 were kept in boxes or wire cages. 



Santa Barbara, Cal., June 16. 1,. W. Densmore. 



WATER-WITCHING ; WHAT THE U. S. WEATH- 



^^,_^ ER BUREAU THINKS OE IT. j • :.:., ;^ J 



pWe clip the following from the Monthly 

 Weather Review, issued by the Department of 

 Agriculture, under the direction of the Chief 

 of the Weather Bureau : 



According to the Scientific American for April 7, 

 1900, a commission has been appointed in France to 

 study all apparatus and method ■ employed by sorcer- 

 ers, water-seers, and wizaids, who use the divining- 

 rod, minera'-rod, exploring pendulums, hj'droscopic 

 cjmpasses, and the other instruments which go by a 

 host of other fanciful names. The French engineer, 

 M. B )rthier de RoUiere, is the president of the com- 

 mission. He will procure divining-rods of all kinds, 

 including books, reviews, journals, reports of experi- 

 ments, together with the names and addresses of the 

 inventors of the alleged devices. All the facts and 

 documents may be sent to M. de Rolliere, care of Cos- 

 mos, 8 Rue Francois Premier, Paris, F^rance, It is to 

 be hoped that the findings of this commission will, 

 once tor all, settle the question of the divin ng-rod, 

 not only for the di-covery of water, but also minerals. 

 In England, particularly, the water-diviner plies his 

 lucrative profession without legal interference, and, 

 strange to say, his dupes are otten town authorities. 

 The whole business is akin to that of the fortune-tell- 

 er, the spiritualist, or any other charlatan, and it is 

 strange that the exponents of such systems are allow- 

 ed to pursue their avocations undistur ed by fear of 

 prosecution. At present the victims are the only ones 

 punished. 



THE TRAFFIC IN TOBACCO. 



No, you don't say half enough against tobacco. 

 Nearly all the boys tnke the first step toward rum 

 from using the weed. I tell the grocers they are as bad 

 as a rumseller, only on a more common and easy scale, 

 and some begin to see it. What a sham and shame to 

 partake of the Lord's supper, then go into the store 

 and deal out death and poverty in the different forms 

 of the poison weed ! E. P. Churchill. 



Hallowell, Maine. . 



At the offices of the Anti-cigarette League it was 

 said yesterday, in discussion of Willis Moore's order, 

 that the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad on 

 some of its divisions had forbidden the use of the ci- 

 garette. 



A merchant reported to the Anti-cigarette League 

 that he had in his employ 75 men, of whom S were 

 habitual smokers. He said that if the entire force 

 smoked as the cS did he would have to double the num- 

 ber to get the same amount of work. 



Montgomery Ward & Co. have refused to employ 

 boys addicted to cigarette-smoking, — Chicago Ti ihiinc. 



INDIA RELIEF FUND. 



Eveline Lesh, Eagleville, Mo % 1 00 



Mrs, D. E. Nuckols, Bani.ster, Va 1 00 



D, E Nuckols, Banister, Va 50 



Mrs. D. C, Reyno'ds. Banister, Va 50 



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