Pebeuaey, 1921. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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of "In His Steps," is now one of the edi- 

 tors of the Christian Herahl. In their is- 

 sue for July 17 he starts wliat he calls 

 "Helps to Daily Living." I will give you 

 his directions for Monday and Tuesday: 



Mondaj'. — Going to fell the truth and be good- 

 natured all day, and when night comes thank God 

 that I have been able to work and am not a cripple 

 nor an invalid. 



Tuesday. — Planning to skip some of the stuff in 

 the papers that is not worth knowing, and find 

 time to read or learn some good thing that I can 

 quote to a friend. 



A good many years ago the inimitable 

 Josh Billings asked, ""What's the use of 

 knowing so much when so much you know 

 is not true?" I think that will apply most 

 emphatically to what we find in oar Sunday 

 dailies. Some of you may say that I am 

 putting it too strong — that notwithstand- 

 ing the bad which I object to, there is a 

 lot of good in the Sunday daily. But 

 even if this is true, would not the world 

 be better off, all things considered, without 

 any Sunday daily? The clipping I have 

 given from the Record tells us that the 

 Marshall Field Co. is the largest cooimer- 

 cial firm in America. Would this have been 

 the case were it not true in regard to their 

 strict ideas of remembering the Sabbath 

 day to keep it holy? I think it must have 

 been something like 70 years ago when my 

 mother taught me a little verse running 

 something like this: 



A sabbath well spent brings a week of content, 

 With body refreshed for the morrow ; 



But a sabbath profaned, whatever is gained, 

 Is a sure forerunner of sorrow. 



Let US consider this matter of the "fly- 

 ing-machine" a little more fully. Suppose 

 the manager or one of the managers of the 

 great World's Fair should look about him 

 and hunt up somebody with sufficient skill, 

 but utteily devoid of conscience, to under- 

 take what he wanted. He might say to 

 him, "You write this thing all up, and then 

 get up in some way the most plausible pic- 

 ture of a flying-machine, no matter whether 

 any part of it was ever in existence or not. 

 It will pull a crowd to the fair and help 

 sell the daily newspapers." 



Now, I do not know whether the editors 

 of these Sunday i:)apers knew the whole 

 thing was a downright falsehood and fabri- 

 cation or not ; but while thinking the matter 

 over it occurred to me that the grand old 

 prophet Isaiah had something to say some- 

 where of such people as we have been con- 

 sidering. You will find part of it in our 

 third text. With prohibition and other 

 good things that are coming fast and thick, 

 is it not about time that there must be a 

 sharper distinction drawn between truth 

 and falsehood? For almost if not (juite 20 



years I fought, and at times almost single- 

 handed, that humbug toy called "Electro- 

 poise." After thousands of invalids had 

 wasted their hard earnings our Government 

 finally intervened. The inventors claimed 

 that it was an invention that should be 

 placed alongside of the X-ray and the wire- 

 less telegraph. But the whole thing from 

 beginning to end was like the picture of the 

 flying-machine and the potato-pens. 



THE NEW SWEET CLOVER AND STABLE 

 MANURE VERSUS CHEMICALS. 



Last fall I mentioned making a little bed 

 in our Ohio garden with a heavy dressing 

 of old well-rotted stable manure and a 

 heavy application of lime, both well chop- 

 ped and raked into our Medina clay soil. 

 Then I sowed the new clover seed. I want- 

 ed to see if too much lime would do any 

 harm. It did no harm at all; the plants 

 were up in three days, dark green in color, 

 and grew vigorously until cold weather 

 came. Well, a year ago here in Florida I 

 made a little bed 2% x 10 feet, and to get 

 good strong plants for transplanting I 

 raked in one-half pailful of potato fertilizer. 

 We can't get stable manure here; no one 

 has any to sell. It killed almost every seed. 

 This winter I tried again, and as goat ma- 

 nure is much used here, I thought surely 

 that would be O. K.; but, "oh, dear me," 

 it killed all tlie seeds except some at one 

 end of the bed where Wesley probably 

 didn't get so much of the "goat stuff." 

 Not to be bluffed again, I sent Wesley up 

 and down the highway with a great big 

 pail and a little shovel, gathering up the 

 droppings of the mules and horses. It was 

 well pulverized and then raked in a bed of 

 the size mentioned. In 2i/^ days (only 60 

 hours) the beautiful dark green little clover 

 plants were in bright evidence all over the 

 bed. Of course we raked in plenty of lime, 

 as I did in Ohio. Well, now comes the ques- 

 tion, is the goat manure we got in bags 

 ($2.00 for 100 lbs.) all goat manure, or do 

 they put in chemicals or something else 

 (to make it go further"); who can answer? 

 I don't recall ever before having seen seeds 

 of any plant come up in 60 hours. 



BURBANK'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE NEW SWEET 

 CLOVER. 



Mr. A. I. Root, Bradentown, Fla. 



I write to tell you about the annual white clover 

 seed which you sent me. The 45 .seeds which you 

 sent produced 42 plants, most of which stand six to 

 seven feet in height and are full of bloom and pro- 

 ducing seed abundantly. However, these plants offer 

 a great opportunity for a plant improver, as they 

 vary very greatly in size, and one of them has 

 not even shown a bloom yet, tho all the rest have. 



I think you must greatly enjoy your trip over- 

 land by automobile to Florida, and most sincerely 

 hope that you vi'ill arrive in tlie best of health and 

 full of life. Here's a handshake from over the 

 mountains. Luther Burbank. 



Santa Rosa, Calif., Nov. 4, 1920. 



