March, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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like the two above may have a chance lo 

 vote, and not only stop the exportation of 

 whisky and cigarettes but also of all muni- 

 tions that are niad;^ only to kill people, and 

 that can be used for no other purpose. That 

 family of three nationalities is typical of a 

 large part of our United States, and is a 

 most vivid illustration of the fact that we 

 cannot engage in war. 



" THE BOLD INTRUDER." 



Together with a kind letter from C. C. 

 Crowston, Troutdale, Ore., comes a tract 

 from which 1 clip as below : 



THE EMPIRE BUILDER. 



"The Empire Builder," such is the eloquent and 

 descriptive title given to J. J. Hill, the king of rail- 

 road magnates. But he is pone ! His accumulated 

 wealth of $250,000,000 could not buy off the 

 " king of terrors." Nor could his fame and notori- 

 ety abash the bold intruder. His death-chamber 

 called together skilled and celebrated physicians, 

 but they could not cope with the antagonist of life, 

 nor wrest their patient from the tyrant's grasp. 



As a poor boy he started out in life's fair morning. 

 Whea he soared high in the sky of financial success 

 he was envied, counted wise, shrewd, and far-seeing 

 by those who estimate a man according to what he 



amasses. He passed O"' of time — hoary with age, 

 burdened with the \\uiglit of years, and enriched 

 with vast and varied experience; but the place that 

 knew him once shall know him no more forever. 

 If his absence is eternal here, his presence over 

 there is for ever. 



Man's existence does not end with time, neither 

 does it end with eternity. Here he appears, then 

 disappears ; there he appears, but never disappears. 



Reader, how is it with you ? Are you so en- 

 grossed with the many affairs of time that you are 

 giving no thought to the overwhelming and weighty 

 matters of eternity? If so, you are a thousand 

 times more foolish than the poor Indian that 

 traded off a fortune in nuggets of gold for a few 

 brass buttons. C. C. Crowston. 



FRIEND SHUMARD GONE TO REST. 



About ten years ago, when on the island 

 oiDposite Osprey, I had considerable to say 

 about Mr. Shumard, who then wned a large 

 part of the island. We have the sad news 

 that he died Nov. 2, age 74. We quote as 

 follows from the Sarasota Times : 



" The high regard in which he was held was evi- 

 denced by the great number of those who gathered 

 at the Baptist church at Osprey, where the last lov- 

 ing rites were held, and where he was laid at rest 

 ' Till Jesus comes.' He did not die. He just 

 quietly fell asleep." 



HIGH - PRESSURE GARDENING 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING WITH IRISH PO- 

 TATOES. 



The plan given on p. 145, February issue, 

 promises at this date, Feb. 10, even more 

 than I hoped. If you have no hot-bed, cold- 

 frame, or gTeenhous?, find a sheltered spot 

 where the sun strikes as many hours of the 

 day as possible, and where north and west 

 winds are kept off. Work the soil up fine 

 and then make it exceedingly rich with 

 stable manure, poultry droppings, or com- 

 mercial fertilizer. Potatoes will stand 

 heavy fertilizing. Level it off and sj^read 

 your potatoes out one deep, not quite touch- 

 ing each other, say Yz inch or more between 

 them. Cover with this same rich fine soil. 

 Now let the sun warm it up as much as pos- 

 sible ; but before the sun is shut off, cover 

 the whole bed with burlap sacks, old blan- 

 kets, or something similar, so as to hold in 

 the heat the sun gave it during the day. Be 

 sure your blankets are off when it rains ; and 

 if it does not rain, water when needed. You 

 should manage so as to have green leaves 

 and good strong roots by the time the pota- 

 toes can be cut and put out in the field. I 

 am hoeing my potatoes today that were set 

 out two daj's ago. We had a warm rain 

 just after setting them out. By fliis plan 



you can get good strong plants from even 

 small potatoes; and potatoes that are decay- 

 ed or partly decayed at one end, will often 

 give the very best plants. The new shoots 

 on some of them, because of our very rich 

 soil on the cold-frame, looked more like as- 

 paragus-shoots than like potatoes, and, in 

 fact, some were about as large around as 

 asparagus-shoots. Such potato-plants of 

 an early variety will give new potatoes for 

 market, with favorable weather, in four or 

 five weeks. We are now digging, and sell- 

 ing every day, in half-peck baskets, at 40 

 cts. a basket ($3.20 per bushel), or about 

 the price of Bermuda potatoes. This short 

 cut for new potatoes should bring the Unit- 

 ed States a million dollars, especially while 

 the price is away up, if tliose who like such 

 work would get right at it. Where are the 

 boys and girls of the potato clubs right in 

 this crisis'? This work should all be doi^e 

 wdiile the ground is being made ready lo 

 plant. 



KIND WORD FROM A 30-YEAB SUBSCRIBER. 



I have taken your magazine most of the time for 

 30 y(;ars, and want to take it as long as I live if 

 Uncle .Vmos and Gleanings outlive me. 



Ozark, Mo., Sep. 6. S. S. Lawing. 



