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ing, harvesting until half an hour after sunrise, and 

 then quitting. Handled in this way there need not 

 be any loss from shattering, or at least not enough 

 to amount to anything. If you have a very large 

 acreage it would pay you to rig up some form of 

 automobile lamp, and to cut all night. 



I drop the bunches off just moderate sized, and 

 do not touch them at all until just before time to 

 thrash. I like to have at least one shower on them 

 before thrashing, and count on the plants lying from 

 three to six weeks before attempting to hull. The 

 day before hulling, if the bunches seem tough under- 

 neath, we get out before daybreak and just tip them 

 over, being careful while doing so not to jar, thereby 

 preventing shattering. 



This seed must be handled with extreme care from 

 beginning to end, or else it will all be wasted. When 

 ready to thrash I use tight-bottomed wagonbeds or 

 sleds, and usually spread a canvas over these beds. 

 We load on just what will ride comfortably, without 

 having a man on the load at all, simply piling up 

 what we can from the ground without any loading 

 or tramping, and we hull with a clover-huller. 



SWEET CLOVER AND MILK. 



It is reported that the plant will sometimes taint 

 cows' milk. It may be that it will; but I have fed 

 this crop for several years, and am as particular 

 about the milk as I very well could be, and have 

 never as yet noticed any such result. 



Ohio. Charles B. Wing. 



OUR FLORIDA ALLIGATORS ; A GLIMPSE OF THE 

 " VARMINT." 



The pictures below are from a " gator " 

 that our good friend A. E. Ault and his 

 boys captured near bis place. On one occa- 

 sion when the animal had sunk his teeth in 

 a heavy stick Mr. Ault had in his hands, he 

 commenced to roll over so rapidly the stick 

 was either broken or twisted out of Mr. 

 Ault's hands; and this reminds me that 

 years ago Mr. Irving Keck told me of a 

 couple of darkies who planned to capture a 

 'gator almost as big as a horse. They threw 

 a rope over his head, and for safety (?) one 

 of them tied the other end about his waist. 

 As soon as the great reptile saw he was 

 caught he commenced, like this one, to roll 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



over and over toward the lake. Had it not 

 been for a sharp knife in the hands of liis 

 comrade the captor would soon have been 

 drowned in the lake, and tliis is probably 

 one of tlieir regular " stunts " when in 

 trouble. 



"GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS^ THAT NO- 

 THING BE LOST." 



As there may be other localities like Flor- 

 ida, we give place to the below, clipped 

 from the Bradentown Evening Journal: 



SAVE THE WASTE PAPERS. 



For the past seven or eight years that we have 

 been spending our winters in Bradentown, it has 

 pained me to see waste papers, magazines, paper 

 boxes, etc., burned up as if they were of no value, 

 while in the North every scrap of paper and straw- 

 board is bought up and worked over by the paper- 

 mills. Altho I have been unable to find a market 

 down here, I have been saving up our papers until 

 Mrs. Root declares I shall have to build a barn to 

 hold them, but finally relief is in sight. See the 

 following item, just clipped from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



" Shortage of paper stock in the United States was 

 discussed at a conference today (March 18) between 

 Secretary Redfield and Charles A. Holder of the 

 foreign trade adviser's office. France's embargo on 

 the export of rags has caused many American man- 

 ufacturers to fear that they may have to curtail 

 production of their mills. 



" The Department of Commerce recently appealed 

 to housewives to save old papers and rags. Today 

 the department began sending out 1,000,000 circu- 

 lars to be posted in postoffioes and elsewhere thruout 

 the country, urging that papers and rags be saved. 

 The commerce department promises to put those who 

 save papers and rags in touch with manufacturers. 

 Chambers of Commerce and trade associations have 

 been asked to cooperate." 



In Ohio the W. C. T. U. has for some time been 

 gathering waste ^ooks and papers, and shipping 

 them to the paper-mills, and some time ago I was 

 told a similar movement was on foot in Florida. 

 WTien I first came here I was also told there was no 

 market for empty grain-sacks; but I kept on saving 

 them up, and just recently I received several dollars 

 for them from the Tampa Bay Company ; but they said 

 they then knew of no market for books and papers. 

 " Waste not, want not." A. I. Root. 



The animal stretched out on the smooth stone road in front of Mr. .Vult's house. 



