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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Men do not need religion, but they do need drink for 

 the advancement of their plijsieal, intellectual, and 

 moral welfare. 



The Review also volunteers the following remark- 

 able statement: 



" The human being is an alcoholic animal, con- 

 suming food whicli creates a demand on the part of 

 the physical body for alcohol. The fact that all the 

 great thinkers in art, science, and industry were and 

 are alcoholics, may be accepted as an indication that 

 alcoholic liquors have contributed greatly to the 

 intellectual development of men. When it is con- 

 sidered that most of the crimes against virtue are 

 committed by non-alcoholics, it is no more than 

 riglit to conclude that alcohol assists human hehiys 

 to control their lusts. There is no doubt that alcohol 

 assists human beings to hold their greed, vanity, and 

 ambition within bounds. It makes human beings 

 more considerate of their fellows than they otherwise 

 would be. It contributes to the development of 

 human beings morally. All human beings should be 

 educated to use alcoliolic liquors. 



"If the churches will confine themselves to preach- 

 ing the ten commandments, and if they will indace 

 their preachers to keep them, the saloons might then 

 be willing to lend their very valuable assistance to- 

 ward increasing the business of the churches." 



The Review suggests the reason why women op- 

 pose the saloon. 



" The women are also opposed to the saloons for 

 business reasons. The women imagine that the clos- 

 ing of the saloons will help them to more pin money. 

 They e.xpect that the- forced economy of the men will 

 provide for the e.xtravagance of the women." 



I liave taken the liberty to put some italics 

 in the above. It is so extravagant, so much 

 beyond the bounds of reason and common 

 sense, that I think it will do good and not 

 harm. It verifies the old proverb, "Give the 

 Devil rope enough and he will hang him- 

 self." 



Just notice the concluding paragraph. 

 They would have us believe that our women 

 want suffrage simply to get hold of some 

 pin money. I wonder how much " pin 

 money " the wife of the poor wretch whose 

 picture I have shown above has. It prob- 

 ably takes every copper she can rake and 

 scrape for bread for herself and children. 



Notice, too, that expression, "injuring the 

 business of the churches." It has not even 

 entered their besotted brain that .he 

 churches and Sunday-schools are carried on 

 for any other purpose than " business." 

 They would put all our benevolent and 

 Christian societies on a level with their own 

 traffic. It makes one think of the poor 

 deluded souls who talk about the revenue 

 that is going to be lost if state-wide prohi- 

 bition comes to pass. 



MEGM = FMESSUEE GAMDENING 



"from producer TO consumer;" one of 



THE SHORTEST CUTS. 



Quite a little h.is been said r-bout cutting- 

 out the middleman by keeping chickens in 

 the back yard, getting a little mill to grind 

 your own wheat, growing vegetables hi 

 your own garden, especially potatoes, etc. 

 Well, just now in this month of October 

 we are having quite a quantity of the best 

 Country Gentleman sweet corn we have 

 had during the jear. Here in Ohio, by 

 taking a little pains you can have roasting 

 ears by the middle of July. When I was 

 a boy I had early sweet corn ready for the 

 table by the 4th of July, sex oral seasons. 

 Now that we have much earlier sweet corn 

 than we had sixty years ago, it ought to be 

 an easy matter to have Golden Bantam by 

 the first of July. Then with a little pains 

 you can have green corn for 90 days un- 

 interruptedly. If the frost continues to 

 hold oif we can do it here in northern Ohio 

 for 100 days. It was somewhat by accident 

 this season that we have it right along now 

 in October. I think I made my first plant- 

 ing in May; but cold rains and cold weath- 

 er kept it back so that only s part of it 

 grew. As soon as I saw what was not 

 coming I planted more corn in the missing 

 hills, or just a little on one side of them; 



then along in June I planted four or five 

 varieties all the same day, the earliest to 

 the very latest; then whenever any crop 

 was gathered I planted some corn in its 

 place. With one of the good Land planters 

 such as we have nowadays it takes only a 

 few minutes to fill up vacant si?aces. I do 

 not remember the date when I planted the 

 last, but I think it was some time early in 

 August. During the cold weal her of the 

 past two weeks (or jDerhaps I should say 

 cold nights) it has grown verj- slowly; but 

 to-day, Oct. 1, it is just in its prime. Mrs. 

 Root complains that the cracked wheat is 

 more trouble than to go to the grocers and 

 buy cereals in pasteboard boxes, and this 

 is why I want to call your attention to 

 green corn. You can go out into the garden 

 lialf an hour before dinnertime, strip back 

 the husks, break off the ears, and put 

 enough in your pockets for dinner — that is, 

 if your family is small like ours — only Mrs. 

 Root and myself. Leave the husks on the 

 stalks, and toward night cut otf the stalks 

 where the ears have been removed, and give 

 them to the cow, thus cleaning up your 

 garden as you go along. Nov/, on the way 

 to the house you can pick off all the silk so 

 as to save your v;ife's time and keep the 

 litter out of the kitchen. If I am correct, 



