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without any water being found. Sometimes water 

 was found; but if there is .. diviningr-rod of aii\ 

 value, water should always be found when it indi- 

 cates water with any force. AVe cannot \e of any 

 help to you in explaining the divining rod. The 

 rods used were usually green, freshly cut. 



SKLLIKG HONKY; EDUCATING THE PEOTLE ; SOME- 

 THING ABOUT FETERITA. 



In Gleanings for Aug. 15 I see an account of 

 successful honey peddling. I am glad some one has 

 beiMi successful. As honey brings only 4 1/^ cents a 

 pound for the best grade, we thought we would try 

 selling it from house to house. We fixed up an 

 outfit and started out. We certainly learned some 

 lossons. We found that 99 out of 100 families right 

 here in the up-to-date little city of Riverside never 

 taste honey. They hardly know what it is. 



We stopped at one home, and ray husband got out 

 and took a quart jar of fine orange honey with him. 

 He asked the ladies on the lawn if they would like 

 some orange honey, and then went on to explain 

 that we had also some buckwheat honey as well as 

 orange comb honey and buckwheat comb honey. 

 One woman looked up and said, " Have you any 

 bee honey ? " 



My husband gravely informed her that it was all 

 bee honey; and even then she didn't buy any. 



The trouble with the honey business is that people 

 are not educated on the subject. They think it 

 strange that I let my little boy eat all he wants of 

 it, and that it never makes him sick. He used to 

 cry for candy every day until I let him have his fill 

 of honey. He scarcely ever asks for candy now. 



When the new shortening, " crisco," was put on 

 the market, no one knew much about it. Now it is 

 in nearly every house. How was it accomplished ? 

 Ans\x er — advertising. The manufacturers knew 

 they had a good article, but they didn't wait for it 

 to sell itself in the face of keen competition. They 

 didn't set it back in the corner of a grocery and 

 wait to see what would happen. No ; they started 

 out to educate the people as to the peculiar merits 

 of this particular article. They gave valuable rc- 

 ipes in the advertisements, telling how to use this 

 fine new shortening. Now, in the short space of 

 three years, the people have bern educated on this 

 subject. Why can't the same thing Le done with 

 honey ? 



Karo is advertised on every corner, for every 

 piapose the manufacturers can possibly invent. 

 Why ?an't the same be done with honey ? 



My father, W. E. Little, has been a close reader 

 of GIjEANtngs for 20 years. I read it, too. I am 

 much interested in what Mr. Root writes about fe- 

 terita. Milo maize grows well here; but the birds 

 will harvest a five-acre piece with ease with no 

 charge for labor. How do they like fetcrita ? 



Riverside, Cal., Aug. 29. MRS. Maude Thomas. 



My good friend, I guess you are pretty 

 nearly right about educating- the people; 

 and our company are now spending thou- 

 sands of dollars just to let people know 

 what honey is good for. 



In regard to fetcrita, I think you have 

 struck one of the main troubles — it is so 

 handy for the birds. Tlie seed does not 

 come in a hnsk like corn and wheat. It just 

 starrds right out in plain sight, ready to be 

 appropriated. We have had that trouble in 

 Florida already to some extent. If we do 

 not cut it and give it to the chickens just 

 as soon as it is fit to eat, the birds are after 



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 ALLEGHENY CO., PA., FOR SUFFRAGE. 



We clip as follows from the Union Sig- 

 nal: 



Thirty-one of the sixty-seven counties of Penn- 

 sylvania voted " ye.s " for woman suffrage! Chief 

 among these was Allegheny County (with the city 

 of Pittsburg and its population of over half a 

 million) — a county exceeded in population only by 

 California among the suffrage states, and now fa- 

 cetiously called " the state of Allegheny." Alle- 

 gheny County enjoys the distinction of being the 

 first county of a million or more population to give 

 a majority for suffrage. Two of the big anthracite 

 counties, Luzerne and Lackawanna, including the 

 cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, were carried 

 for suffrage. 



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HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 



SWEET CLOVER; SEVEN BUSHELS OF SEED SECURSD 

 FEO.M THE ROADSIDE. 



Sweet clover is taking a large place in the crop- 

 ping of the little land I have to farm. 



Last spring I sowed about twenty acres. Some 

 of it has done well, and other parts not so well. 

 This fall I am sowing eleven or twelve acres. About 

 two acres were sown some ten days ago, and it is 

 coming up nir(.ly, as a rain came on while we were 

 seeding the ground. On Monday of this week we 

 finished sowing the clover, and then made a test of 

 Eome four acres of the Grimm alfalfa. A good rain 

 has just ''oms, one day after seeding, and the 

 prospect seems good for a fine start this fall. 



Many people, our agricultural-college people in- 

 cluded, claim that it will winter-kill. However, I 

 am going to make the experiment, and know for 

 myself. Do you know whether successful fall seed- 

 ing is possible? 



This fall I cut about an acre of roadside sweet 

 clover, and secured seven bushels of seed from the 

 6au\e, which I count a very good yield. 



Emporia, Kan., Sept. 15. Chas. A. Bovle. 



In regard to sowing sweet clover in the 

 fall, we sometimes have succeeded, and then 

 we have failed. It depends a good deal on 

 locality and on the amount of rain in order 

 to have the young plants get root enough to 

 avoid being thrown out bv the frosts. 



HANDLING SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



The following, from Chas. B. Wing, 

 which we clip from the Rural New-Yorker, 

 will, I am sure, be read with much interest 

 by our readers. 



There is no secret at all about the proper method 

 for handling sweet clover for seed. I let mine get 

 pretty ripe — ripe enough so that about three-fourths 

 of the seed-pods have turned somewhat brown. Then 

 I use a self-rake for harvesting, and I harvest only 

 when wet with rain or dew. If it is a dry time 

 this means getting up about two o'clock in the morn- 



