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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July, 1917 



by, and make another and perhaps a far 

 more important " short cut from producer 

 to consumer." Very likely alfalfa and 



sweet clover will require that we select the 

 tender shoots when the plant makes its first 

 start in the spring. 



TEMPERANCE 



NOT ONLY BOOZE BUT CIGARETTES. 



It affords me great pleasure to find the 

 clipping below in the Country Gentleman, 

 particularly because they not only recom- 

 mend using our ground for good and useful 

 purposes, but for using the ground also 

 where we have been growing tobacco for 

 something that builds up humanity instead 

 of tearing it down. 



EXIT J. BARLEYCORN AND L. NICOTINE. 



The movement to increase food crops may appear 

 to be inconsistent with the policy of maintaining 

 fertility by keeping down io the minimum the sales 

 of grain from the farm. We have been urging 

 farmers not to sell grain, but to conserve the fertility 

 in it by feeding it to livestock as far as possible. In 

 this year of unusual need, however, it would seem 

 wise to draw upon our savings fund, and, for one 

 year at least, grow grains principally for market. 

 The shortage in the number of hogs and beef cattle 

 will make more grain available for market. The pro- 

 posal to close the breweries in order to conserve for 

 a food reserve the grain that they would use is also 

 timely. In wartime John Barleycorn is a poor ally. 



Farmers in the Southern States are being advised 

 to plant food crops in addition to cotton. Tho we 

 must supply the world's needs for cotton goods. 

 Southern farms should not overlook the Feed- Your- 

 self idea. 



It wouldn't be a bad idea if more tobacco-growers 

 agreed with the Wisconsin farmer who wrote to his 

 experiment station that he was going to put his to- 

 bacco lands into grain because he felt it his duty to 

 grow crops for food. 



In an emergency like this it is worth while to seat 

 John Barleycorn on the toboggan with My Lady 

 Nicotine and give them a good swift push I 



" ONE OP THE BLACKEST SPOTS ON OUR AMER- 

 ICAN GOVERNMENT." 



The cliiDijing below is from the Cleve- 

 land Plain Dealer in regard to a sermon 

 preached by Billy Sunday in New York : 



" I'll live, I hope, to preach the funeral oration 

 over booze in the United States. But if I die before 

 that time I guess the brewers and distillers will run 

 special excursion trains to my funeral — they'll be 

 so glad I'm out of their way." 



The evangelist quoted statistics to prove the 

 superiority of conditions in the states which have 

 prohibitiou. For instance : 



" Seventy-five per cent of our idiots came from 

 intemperate parents. There are more insane people 

 in the United States than students in the univer- 

 sities and colleges. In Kansas there are eighty-one 

 counties without an insane man or woman. 



" There are fifty-four counties that have no 

 feeble-minded. Eighty per cent of the paupers are 

 whisky-made paupers. In Kansas there is only one 

 pauper to every 3000 of the population. There are 

 thirty-eight counties without a pauper; there are 



eighteen counties which do not even own a farm for 

 the poor; there are only 600 paupers in the state. 



" Ninety per cent of our adult criminals are drink- 

 ing men, and committed their crimes while under 

 the influence of booze. 



" In 1914 there were si.xty-five counties in Kansas 

 with no prisoners in their jails. In some counties 

 they have not called a grand jury to try a charge 

 in ten years. 



" Tlie people have over $200,000,000 on deposit in 

 the banks. The death rate is the smallest in the 

 world, seven out of every 1000 of the population. 



" In Massachusetts in ten years the yearly average 

 of crime has been 32,639 cases, and 31,978 have 

 been caused by drink. The Chicago Tribune kept 

 track of the number of murders committed in the 

 saloons in ten years. The number was 53,436. 



" The saloon is the appalling source of misery, 

 pauperism, and crime. It is the source of three- 

 fourths of all the crime, thus it is the source of 

 three-fourths of all the taxation necessary to prose- 

 cute the criminals and care for them after they are 

 in prison. To license such an incarnate fiend of 

 hell is one of the blackest spots on the American 

 government." 



I wish to call particular attention to the 

 closing sentence in the clipping above. It 

 has been my opinion for a long while that 

 one of the main reasons, if not the reason, 

 that God does not hear the prayers of his 

 people and give us peace is because of the. 

 awful inconsistency of having our nation in 

 partnership with this " incarnate fiend of 

 hell," as Billy Sunday terms the traffic. 



GIVING GRAIN TO THE CHICKENS INSTEAD OF 

 LETTING THE BREWERS HAVE IT. 



The booze business seems to be getting 

 it from all directions just now. The clip- 

 ping below comes from the American Poul- 

 try Journal: 



The grain now used annually in the United States 

 for the manufacture of " booze," if used in poultry 

 husbandry, could, in six months, be made to pro- 

 duce not less than five hundred million pounds of 

 wholesome poultry meat or seven billion two hundred 

 million eggs. Think that over next time you are 

 sopping up beer or sipping cocktails, while dis- 

 cussing the food situation. Also, consider the im- 

 provement in our poultry shows if the " booze an- 

 nex " were cut out. 



I hope the government will stop the making of 

 beer and whisky, at least during the war. What 

 folly it is to use millions of bushels of grain in the 

 making of stuflE which brings nothing but misery 

 and sorrow and suffering into the world 1 It looks 

 mightly inconsistent to urge us to raise more grain 

 and at the same time allow it to be used in the 

 manufacture of intoxicating liquors. 



