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These same working people are fast realizing 

 the fact that the laws of our land permit iis 

 to decide who shall fill our ])ublic offices. In 

 some States (thank (iod again), even the 

 poor hard-working women, such as I have 

 described, can liave a voice in deciding 

 whether saloons shall be permitted to go on, 

 and trip up their children or not; and I shall 

 rejoice and praise C«od when our own State 

 of Ohio will i^ermit our wives and mothers, 

 and women such as I have described, to 

 have a voice in deciding who shall handle 

 our public funds and enact our laws. And, 

 finally, I believe there /.s just now a ?/'or/d- 

 wide' tendency to "beat our swords into 

 plowshares, and our spears into pruning- 

 hooks," and declare that war, carnage, and 

 bloodshed shall be no more resorted to, to 

 settle differences between nations. Our own 

 President, if I am rightly informed, is using 

 the great weight of his influence to settle 

 peaceably all misunderstandings, and espe- 

 cially troubles between nations, by the 

 agency of tvorld-ivide arbitration instead of 

 ivar. 



OUR "crop" of boys and girls. 

 In a recent issue I spoke of the state of af- 

 fairs in Newark, ()., and the effects on the 

 school boys and girls of that city. Then, by 

 way of contrast, I spoke of what our gov- 

 ernment is doing to educate our boys and to 

 give them a taste for rural pursuits, espe- 

 cially in the line of growing corn. Well, 

 while keeping the above in your mind 1 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



want to call your attention to a recent state- 

 ment going through the papers, to the ef- 

 fect that Adoli)h Busch, the man who gave 

 his wife a crown valued at 1200,000, has been 

 recently going through Kansas (prohibition 

 Kansas, bear in mind), and carrying a sup- 

 ply of his famous (or infamous) beer, and 

 giving it out free of charge to all the boys 

 and girls he could call together at every sta- 

 tion where his car stopped. I have tried to 

 find the periodical that published this in- 

 formation, but I did not succeed in getting 

 hold of it. But this periodical seemed to 

 carry the idea that there was no helj) nor 

 redress through law for this kind of work. 

 This multi-millionaire brewer could go 

 ahead in "cultivating the appetite" among 

 the boys and men at every little town in 

 Kansas if he chose to do so, and no United 

 States law nor any State law of Kansas 

 could prevent his doing so. Rotten eggs, as 

 I have told you in another place, have been 

 tabooed by laiv because they might injure 

 the health of the American people. But 

 Adolph Busch's beer, that damns both body 

 and sold, can be given out freely to children 

 of any age, and we are helpless just because 

 it seems to be an "unwritten law " that our 

 President, our governors — at least the great- 

 er i)art of them — and our mayors and po- 

 licemen must "keep hands off" (at least to 

 a certain extent) , whenever the liquor-traffic 

 is likely to be interfered with. The time is 

 coming when our peoi)le will be permitted 

 to put good men in office by direct legisla- 

 tion, and may Gtod hasten the day. 



[FCDMLT^^f HP^^TRfflEMT 



A. I. Root. 



EGG TONIC FOR POULTRY, AND DRUGS FOR 



CHICKENS generally; ALSO SOME 



OTHER MATTERS. 



Mr. A. I. Root.— J had intended to write you some 

 time ago, advising you to keep your chickens pure. 

 We have experimented quite a little along this line, 

 and find that, all in all, the piu-e-bred do much bet- 

 ter than the crosses. Again, in your March poul- 

 try talks you refer to the Conkey remedies. Now, 

 you have a big influence, and 1 wish you would re- 

 tract that statement concerning feeding for eggs. I 

 admit that all of these so-called egg-foods are readi- 

 ly eaten by the hens, and will increase the egg- 

 yield. But stop feeding these prepared foods, and 

 your chickens will lay less than they did before. 

 Again, for the best results you must feed it to the 

 young or growing stock. It seems to me that it 

 acts something like the nature of a drug, which. If 

 once used to it, one must continue its use or results 

 will not be satisfactory. We tried this four years 

 ago, and the next year we did not use any kind of 

 egg-forcing food: but the results were far from sat- 

 isfactory. So we decided to stop its use entirely. 

 Some time ago we sent in a record to a poultry- 

 journal of eggs found from ten pullets before 1% 

 months old, by one of our patrons. On referring to 

 the record the editors said the most remarkable 

 part of it was that the party didn't use any kind of 

 stimulants or egg-food preparations. Said editor is 

 in a company manufacturing and selling such an 

 article. At present we are getting 5, 6, 7, and 8 eggs 

 per pen of 9 females, and no stock food of any kind 

 is used. Wheat, corn, oats, mangles, a little buck- 

 wheat and sunflower seed, and a wet mash with a 

 little beef scrap once a week is fed. This, with bred- 

 to-lay hens housed in curtain-front houses, and good 

 care, does it. 



Excuse my referring to ourselves In this letter, 

 but it was the only way to tell of my experience 



with this stuff. If I am not mistaken, Mr. Philo 

 and others also claim that, if good care and feed are 

 given, no condition or egg-food of any kind is need- 

 ed. While it may not do much harm with hens for 

 market eggs, I urge you to do all against its use in 

 the breeding-pens. Even in the former case I am 

 confident that, with common-sense care, they will 

 do every bit as well without. 



I am glad you still use and recommend the tire- 

 less brooder. Many people seem to make a failure 

 with it. At present we have 300 chicks in them, 

 and will have a few hundred more in a few days. 



Lititz, Pa., April 27. A. B. SnaveiA'. 



Friend S., we are exceedingly glad to get 

 a report from practical experience; and I 

 thoroughly indorse the stand you take in 

 regard to medicines, especially stimulants 

 for poultry or any other farm stock. Per- 

 haps I had better explain to our readers that, 

 in response to what I considered an extrav- 

 agant claim for egg-foods, I sent for a 25- 

 cent package, and the surprise on my part 

 was to see the chickens, big and little, so 

 crazy for it. It was so pungent with Cay- 

 enne pepper or something else that I could 

 not mix uj) a mash without coughing or 

 sneezing. It was sold with the usual un- 

 derstanding — "money back if it does not 

 increase the egg-yieki." As the egg-yield 

 seemed to increase immediately, I ascribed 

 it to the virtues of the tonic." But I feel 

 pretty well satisfied now that the increase 

 was largely due to the mixture of bran and 



