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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUIjTURE 



June, 1917 



SO fond of those little potatoes that they 

 would chase each other all over the yard for 

 them. In fact, they acted very much with 

 the potatoes as they would with angle- 

 worms or fresh meat ground in a bone mill. 

 And this reminds me that I have something 

 to tell you about the 80 chickens I mention- 

 ed in our last issue. Up to the age of 

 eight weeks I have not lost a chicken out 

 of the 48 that came from the incubator, and 

 the 32 that came from three sitting hens. 

 When they were just about eight weeks old 

 I found one eliick one morning on the 

 ground under the roost dead. When I 

 left Florida the 79 were 12 weeks old, and 



not a chick had been lost. I mention this 

 because there have been reports going 

 around, to the effect that one cannot raise 

 chickens in Florida; or that if you ship 

 chickens from Ohio down to Florida they 

 would die because they were not used to 

 the climate. Well, the fact is I have been 

 shipping chickens more or less, and ducks 

 too, from Ohio to Florida, and vice versa, 

 and have never had a bit of trouble. The 

 chickens are happy and well in either 

 place if you love them and give them care; 

 and my experience is that Florida, certainly 

 in the winter time, is a better place to grow 

 chickens and get egg"s than here in Ohio. 



TEMPERANCE 



KEEPING OUR SOLDIERS AWAY FROM DRINK, 

 AND DRINK AWAY FROM OUR SOLDIERS. 



Below I make three clippings from the 

 second page of the Oliio Messenger, from 

 a letter by my long-time friend Mrs. Flor- 

 ence D. Richard. Here is the first clipping : 



Our grain must not be used to destroy but to 

 build up; and our soldiers must be kept from Rum's 

 destructive influence. 



Here is No. 2 : 



" A drop of ink makes millions think." 



And here is the last : 



Send a message worded something like this to — 

 Woodrow Wilson, 



President of the United States: 



For God's sake, for humanity's sake, for the 

 nation's welfare, I earnestly and urgently appeal 

 to you to us© your influence to prohibit, during the 

 war at least, the manufacture and sale of intoxicat- 

 ing liquors thruout this nation, which traffic causes 

 waste of more than two billion dollars yearly, and 

 is destroying soul, mind, and body of drinker. 



If the capital dry, why not the nation ? 



GOOD NEWS FROM THE GREAT CITY OF CHICAGO 



We clip the following from the Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer of May 9 : 



CHICAGO SALOONS CLOSE; TWO HUNDRED LICENSES 

 LAPSE WITH PROHIBITION TROSPECT. 



Two hundred Chicago saloonkeepers are volun- 

 tarily preparing to allow their license to lapse and 

 withdraw from the business because of the pros- 

 pects of a dry nation during the war, according to 

 a report today to the city council finance committee 

 from the controller's office. These licenses, once al- 

 lowed to lap.se, may not be renewed. 



The annual loss of revenue to the city will be 

 $200,000. 



I do not know who took the responsibili- 

 ty, of adding the concluding paragraph, nor 

 who took the responsibility of suggesting 



that it would be no loss at all to the great 

 city to dispense with its 200 saloons. May 

 God help him to open his blind eyes to what 

 is going on in the gi'eat cities of the West in 

 spite of the little loss of the saloon revenue. 



SHALL WHISKY OR BEER HELP TO PRESERVE 

 THE INTEGRITY OF OUR NATION? 



We clip the following from the Sunday- 

 School Times for May 5 : 



If our national life is at stake, our soldiers and 

 sailors axe the prop upon which such a life rests, 

 and every drunken or drinking member of our 

 armed forces weakens to that extent our national 

 prop. The statement seems to me to be axiomatic. 

 If so, then it is unthinkable that our great country, 

 while in a life-and-death struggle, should permit one 

 drop of whisky to go into the hands or mouths of its 

 fighting forces. We should, therefore, have by all 

 means a law prohibiting, under severe penalties, sell- 

 ing or giving intoxicants to any soldier or sailor of 

 the United States. 



But a sober army cannot long endure if it is de- 

 pendent upon a drinking or drunken population. 



BOOZE AND PROSTITUTES. 



The Methodist Temperance Sheet for May 

 14 contains the following: 



By advice of the General Medical Board, the 

 Government is planning to estabish a restricted zone 

 about all military commands in order to keep pros- 

 titutes and alcoholic beverages from soldiers. 



Our readers have noticed, jDcrhaps, the 

 reference made to the above in our Homes 

 for this issue. I was not only surprised but 

 I^leased to see that the Medical Board has 

 put the two together as twin evils following 

 the army. May God grant that the above 

 restriction may be earned out to the very 

 letter. 



