GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



CASSAVA AND THE MANIOCA OF SOUTH 

 AFRICA 



On page 471, June 1, and page 559, July 

 1, you will see that our good friend Thomp- 

 son sent me some eaues or cuttings which 

 were planted here about May 1. I have 

 before mentioned the wonderful growth of 



cassava; but this manioca, while it looks 

 exactly like our cassava, has a much larger 

 leaf, a brighter green, and seems in every 

 way a more hardy and thrifty plant than 

 our Florida cassava. We have not yet test- 

 ed it for table use; but it looks now as if it 

 might prove an acquisition. 



TEMPERANCE 



" KANSAS HAS MORE INSANE IN ' STATE ' 

 HOSPITALS THAN WISCONSIN." 



We clip the following from the Christian 

 Observer: 



Thirty-two counties in Kansas have abandoned 

 their public farms. According to the latest report 

 of the State Board of Control, 898 paupers were 

 being eared for at county institutions. 



The prison rate for the entire country is 121.4 

 per 100,000 of the population. In Kansas it is 

 91.1. North Dakota, another prohibition state, does 

 better than that, with 63 per 100,000 inhabitants. 



The per-capita liquor consumption in the whole 

 country is |21. In Kansas it is $3.04. Kansas 

 thus saves forty million dollars every year directly. 

 The indirect gain is not subject to computation, but 

 is certainly gi'eater still. 



UlitQracy is the lowest in the country except in 

 one other state. 



Forty-eight counties out of 105 did not send a 

 prisoner to the penitentiary last year. 



LIBERTY IN LYING. 



It is well known to those who have looked into 

 the matter that no dependence can be placed upon 

 figures and illustrations used by the liquor people. 

 Their literary methods well illustrate the truth of 

 the familiar saying that figures do not lie, but liars 

 will figure. 



A sample of its method may be seen in the use 

 made of statistics. The liquor interests have claim- 

 ed that Kansas has more insane patients in its 

 state hospitals than Wisconsin in proportion to pop- 

 ulation. That is true; but they omit to say that 

 Wisconsin has, especially in its more populous coun- 

 ties, a system of county hospitals for the insane. 



Do the liquor interests really believe that the 

 open saloon would be a good thing for Kansas ? Most 

 emphatically they do not. I saw a liquor advertise- 

 ment recently which claimed that the whisky adver- 

 tised brings " health, wealth, and happiness." Does 

 any one believe that? Do the distillers of that whis- 

 ky themselves believe it ? 



When those opposed to prohibition point to the 

 fact that, in the matter of laws protecting working 

 women, Kansas is behind some other states, do 

 they mean we should infer that the best way to pro- 

 tect the working women of Kansas is to go back to 

 the open saloon ? 



When they seek, unsuccessfully, to prove thaf 

 Kansas suffers by comparison with Wisconsin in^the 

 number of insane, do they seriously propose the 

 open saloon as a cure for insanity ? 



" FROM BOOZE TO BUTTER " — " COWS OFFER 

 CONSOLATION." 



KimhdlVs Dairy Farmer for Nov. 1 eon- 

 tains a splendid article headed " From 



Booze to Butter in Washington," from 

 which we clip the closing paragraphs: 



It is a well-known fact that the Bellingham brew- 

 ery has specialized on pasteurizing and bottling milk, 

 making cheese and ice cream since the town went 

 dry. That the plant has been doing this on a losing 

 scale is absurd to contemplate. Capital does not 

 engage in turning out food products for fun, any 

 more than it turns out beer for the humor there may 

 be in it. 



In founding a creamery establishment, buildings 

 are the first essential. Steam-generating plants and 

 refrigerating apparatus are necessary. An office 

 equipment must be had. Teams and wagons and 

 automobile trucks are needed. All these things are 

 to be had in the brewery rendered useless through 

 temperance legislation. The items represent the 

 bulk of the cost in creamery construction. There- 

 fore it is not plain why breweries cannot be prof- 

 itably converted into creameries, especially when 

 the surrounding country gives a portion, or all, of 

 its attention to dairying. By diverting the money 

 usually spent to advertise beer into channels that 

 will develop dairying, the ultimate profit for the 

 creamery should equal or exceed the profit derived 

 from liquors. All that is needed is to get the milk- 

 cans moving as fast as the beer-kegs moved under 

 the old order of things. 



Cows offer consolation to those few farmers who 

 are displeased because of the dryness of their local- 

 ities because of temperance legislation. Hop and 

 barley growers can depend on cows and other live 

 stock to consume all they raise, and a market via 

 the brewery need not worry them. No people on 

 earth is going to legislate creameries and dairies 

 out of business. Therefore, to feel safe and secure, 

 why not go in for something that will last, and not 

 depend on the whims of humanity ? Cows have 

 saved many a farm from mortgage proceedings. 

 They will save the breweries from the scrap-pile 

 when the time comes, and that time is rapidly ap- 

 proaching. That's why the Bellingham Bay and 

 Olympia brewing plants are meeting the situation 

 now, before it is fully upon them, by getting into 

 the milk, cheese, and butter business. 



Dear friends of temperance, some of us 

 have wondered why our earnest prayers 

 have not been answered ; but is it not a 

 greater miracle to see breweries furnishing 

 milk, butter, and cheese than to see "swords 

 beaten into ploughshares, and spears into 

 pruning-hooks " ? 



" god's kingdom coming." 

 No doubt you will be glad to know our county 

 (Bell) went dry Nov. 13, 1915, by a majority of 

 505. I know A. I. Root will rejoice with us. 

 Belton, Tex. John Morgan. 



