GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



coil of i^retty good-sized wire and stapled it 

 spirally around tlie thi'ee stakes. The only 

 mistake I made was that I did not have my 

 stakes driven into the ground far enough, 

 and my wire was not heavy enough. The 

 consequence was, the gi-eat load of tomatoes 

 bent the wire and pulled one stake out of 

 the ground so that it could tip over. Well, 

 now ray good friend Albaugh has just 

 "gone and done" the same thing, except that 

 he u.ses hinder twine instead of wire, which 

 will be cheaper and easier to put on, and 

 probably will last about as long. Well, you 

 know that potatoes have been my hobby, not 

 only up in Michigan and .here in Ohio, but 

 down in Florida. Page 43 of this book 

 contains the following s itence: 



Ti'eated as above described, the author has grown, 

 on a space 6x20 feet, seven measured pecks of 

 choice potatoes. 



You will see from the above he got over 

 a peck of potatoes from a space of ground 

 equal to a 3x6 frame. We do not under- 

 stand that he used any cloth frame, but that 

 the small amount of ground gave over a 

 peck of potatoes. With potatoes $2.00 a 

 bushel, as they are now, just figure up how 

 nmeh could be done on a whole acre on the 

 "sandwich plan." 



I might go on and give accounts of what 

 he has done with various garden stuff, but 

 our space forbids. He has accomplished 

 with flowers also the wonderful I'esults men- 

 tioned in regard to vegetables, and the book 

 is ''chockful" of the finest pictures I ever 

 saw in any book. 



This book, in paper covers, when first put 

 out, contained only 64 pages, and is offered 

 at 60 ets. The large cloth-bound edition 

 contains 138 pages, price $1.25. We can 

 furnish either one. Elsewhere will be 

 found an offer of either book clubbed Avith 

 Gleanings. 



are obliged to buy sugar; to whicli I reply, 

 very seldom unless you have taken away 

 more of theii' honey than was wise or 

 prudent. 



beekeeping, dairying, and some other 

 farm industries contrasted. 

 We clip the following from the Iowa 

 Agricultural : 



The normal cost of beekeeping is exceedingly small 

 in comparison with other farming pursuits. It 

 costs cents for materials and appliances, where 

 dollars are invested in expensive machinery for 

 dairying, and the income from the first investment 

 is the greater. 



Not only is it the " materials and ai^pli- 

 ances," but for poultry, cows, etc., you have 

 got to raise or buy feed. I often think of 

 this down in Florida when purchasing 

 grain at a big price for my chickens. A 

 hive of bees, after it is once established, 

 requires no expense for feed. They feed 

 themselves as a rule, and the owner also. 

 You may suggest that beekeepers sometimes 



GOATS, GOATS MILK, AND GOAT PERIODICALS. 



Mr. Boot: — In your issue of Oct. 15, in regard to 

 goats for milk, as we find it hard to buy milk of any 

 kind here I shall be very much obliged for any word 

 on the matter as to where one can buy a goat, and 

 where the periodicals you speak of can be had. The 

 name of such periodicals will be thankfully received. 



Cha.s. Blake. 



Snow Road, Ont., Canada, Oct. 27. 



We give the above because there have 

 been a number of similar letters in regard 

 to the goat industry. While down in Flori- 

 da last winter we had several numbers of 

 the periodical; but the only thing I can get 

 track of just now is the Angora Journal 

 (monthly, $1.00), published in Portland, 

 Oregon. I j^resume some of our readers 

 can give the address of those having goats 

 for sale ; and I mj'self have been thinking 

 of having a goat to milk on our three acres 

 of wild land in Florida. Would the goat 

 interfere with the chickens or the chickens 

 with the goat? Who can tell? 



"god's KINGDOM COMING." 



Tt is now too early, Nov. 9, to give a full 

 report of what has been accomplished by the 

 recent election ; but v;e can well say, " May 

 the liord be praised " for what the follow- 

 ing gives us, wliich we clip from the Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer of Nov. 9 : 



25 STATES NOW IN DRYS' COLUMN. 



Chicago, Nov. 8. — More than half of the forty- 

 eight states of the Union have been put into the dry 

 column. Those which were added to the election 

 Tuesday, making the total of dry states twenty-five, 

 are Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, 

 Utah, and Florida. The territory of Alaska has also 

 been added to the dry possessions of the states. 



The states which voted on the liquor question in 

 which the dry forces seem to have been defeated, 

 altho the returns are not all in, are California and 

 Missouri. 



F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Illinois 

 Anti-saloon League, thus stated the situation : 



" A number of victories were gained for dry 

 legislation in the defeat of propositions put forward 

 by the wets intended to act as checks on the dry 

 movement. In Colorado an attempt was made to se- 

 cure an amendment favoring the use of beer binder 

 certain restrictions, and in South Dakota and Arkan- 

 sa.s the wets championed local option as against 

 statewide prohibition. 



" In each instance the plans of the wets were de- 

 feated. 



"The victory in Utah and in Florida was in elect- 

 ing a legislature favorable to dry legislation. The 

 legislature is expected to pass promptly statutory pro- 

 hibition. 



" In the four other states which voted dry, the 

 people voted directly on the dry issue. 



" The statewide victories against the saloon were 

 secured thru the Anti-saloon Leagu* in the various 

 states, and give great encouragement to the aim of 

 the league — a saloonle.ss nation by 1920." 



