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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



(during a warm rain) in 24 hours. So far it 

 looks almost exactly like our Trinidad dash- 

 eens. Of course I have not as yet tested 

 them for food. 



THE DASHEEN MAY YET StrPPLANT THE POTATO ; 



NEW VEGETABLE MAY REVOLUTIONISE OUR BiLI. 



OF FARE IN TIME. 



I clip ihe following from the Jacksonville 

 Times-Union : 



A recent issue of the New York Sun had the fol- 

 lowing: 



From Florida comes the report that the dasheen is 

 finding much favor among the farmers of that State, 

 and that it is becoming popular as table food, thanks 

 to the experiments of the State Agricultural Depart- 

 ment and to the government farmers at the Brooks- 

 ville, Fla., plant-introduction field station and else- 

 where. 



The government's interest in the cultivation of the 

 dasheen is due to its anxiety over the Irish or white 

 potato, which has developed a tendency to contract 

 various diseases, and which is admittedly becoming 

 more uncertain in quality and quantity as the har- 

 vests go on. 



In a recent number of the Fruitman's Guide a 

 Floi'ida correspondent writes that the successes of 

 the Florida farmer in cultivating dasheen will make 

 the Northern farmers sit up and take notice. He 

 points with pride to the crop of a former Jerseyman 

 named Porteus, who planted five acres to dasheen 

 near Tampa and raised 35,000 pounds, or nearly 

 700 bushels, of the vegetable to the acre. Purtite, 

 he says, expects to clear the snug sum of $5000 for 

 his season's work, or a cash return of $1000 to tlie 

 acre. 



The correspondent admits that the price of dash- 

 een (5 cents per pound) is high; but insists th:n 

 its general cultivation will reduce prices. 



Florida, he says, is particularly adapted to the 

 raising of dasheen, as it will grow in the summer 

 months on land that is not generally used for any 

 other purpose. The land where the ex-Jerseyman's 

 crop was raised was planted to celery on November 

 1 of last year, and produced $1400 to the acre; and 

 on February 1 he planted Irish potatoes, realizing 

 $500 to the acre. On June 1 he put in dasheen, 

 which at $1000 per acre will give him a grand total 

 of $2900 per acre for his year's work. 



According to Robert A. Young, scientific assistant 

 in Unclj Sam's office of foreign seeds and plants of 

 the Agricultural Department, the dasheen is closely 

 allied to the taros of Hawaii, China, and Polynesia, 

 and is well adapted for culture in iBost lands of the 

 South. 



Each hill of dasheens contains one or two large 

 spherical corms, growing to five pounds in weight, 

 around which are developed numerous tubers. Both 

 corms and tubers are similar to the potato in compo- 

 sition, but contain less water. 



One plant will produce from four to ten pounds 

 of tubers in good rich soil. Both corms and tubers 

 have an agreeable nutty flavor and are easily digest- 

 ed. 



Government analyses show that dasheen contains 

 27 2-3 per cent of carbohydrates (starches and su- 

 gar), and 3 per cent of protein, as against 18 per 

 cent carbohydi-ates for the whito potato and 2.2 per 

 cent of protein. 



The dasheen requires rich sandy soil, very moist, 

 but well drained. It is not injured by an occasional 

 flooding, and the hammock lands of Florida are 

 therefore especially adapted to it. 



The corms do not keep as well as t.c^ lubers, and 

 it is considered advisable to utilize them first. The 

 first-grade tubers weigh from four to five ounces, and 

 are thought by many to be superior to the Irish 

 potato. 



It is believed that the dasheen will be a familiar 

 vegetable in our markets before long. 



Temperance 



god's KINGDOM COMING. 



We clip the following from the Farmer's 

 Wife: 



SUFFRAGE IN ILLINOIS. 



The advocacy that Illinois is going to the bad, and 

 that women vote for politics instead of principle, 

 was smashed to smithereens on November 4, when 

 tlie women of that State got out and voted four to 

 one in favor of no license in 25 different munici- 

 palities. In Jacksonville the total vote showed an 

 excess of women's votes over those cast by men to 

 the number of 39. In many of the towns the vote 

 of women was almost equal to that of men. 



Illinois is a crucial field, a field wherein womel 

 fiave nor been wholly united in the desire for suf- 

 frage, but where it has been granted to them. The 

 results of this election prove that when women have 

 a duty to perform they measure well their moral 

 responsibility, and go out and perform that duty 

 to the best of their ability. 



And now read this from the Wheeling 

 Advance: 



Oklahoma City, Sept. 25. — Not a newspaper in 

 this State will carry a liquor advertisement in any 

 form — it is the only State in the country with such 

 a reputation. 



Can any other State come up to this 

 '.' high-water mark " ? 



god's kingdom coming down IN TEXAS. 



We clip the following from the American 

 Advance. Please notice concluding sen- 

 tence. 



Texas' new anti-liquor shipment law, which has 

 just gone into effect, prohibits the shipment of intox- 

 icating liquors into any dry county, dry town, or 

 even dry precinct, from any State, wet county, or 

 wet precinct; and every man participating in the 

 transportation of liquors, even from a wet portion of 

 a city to a dry section of the same — -shipper, carrier, 

 agent, receiver — is made liable to prosecution under 

 a penalty clause providing from one to three years 

 in the penitentiary as a persuader against violation. 

 No firm, corporation, or person is allowed to solicit 

 or accept orders in or from dry territory by letter, 

 circular, or other printed matter. 



Now read the following from the Union 



Signal : 



The attorney-general's department of Texas is re 

 ported to have handed down an opinion that news 

 papers are prohibited from carrying liquor advertise 

 nients in papers circulating in dry territory. 



Our big city dailies will begin to thinl 

 things look serious when told they can't senc 

 copies containing liquor advertisements int( 

 Texas. 



