April, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



hut tlii'v arc -s-fnr to codic, sooner or later. I 

 may not have got it correctly, but I think 

 the chief of police who ])layed cards, while 

 the mob ruled the town, was one of the of- 

 ficials who committed suicide. Is there any 

 lesson, right here, for other towns besides 

 Newark in our State of Ohio? 



Just recently a prominent jiith/r in the 

 great city of Cleveland, Ohio, admitted in 

 court he visited saloons after midnight, and 

 drank tiraixJij. This in our Ohio where j)ro- 

 hibition is supposed to rule! 



Just think of it! A judge, who holds the 

 destiny, the happiness, and even tliv lirr.s of 

 good people in the "hollow of his hand!" 



Now for something a little pleasanter. Mr. 

 Miller, as soon as he learned we were in his 

 city, took us to his church and his Sunday 

 school. On the way he explained he found 

 in the suburbs a residence which they had 

 changed over into a church. Of course, the 

 ground and building were paid for by sub- 

 scription, but Miller was "prime mover." 



He explained before and after services how 

 the changes were made. He took us into tli(> 

 basement, showed us the up-to-date furnace, 

 and what greatly interested me was com- 

 fortable toilet rooms for both sexes. When 

 you get to be 80 years old or more, you will 

 surely appreciate things of this kind if you 

 never have before. Ernest and I were both 

 called upon to talk to one of the brightest 

 big Bible classes it was ever my fortune to 

 see. I wrote home to Mrs. Root my right 

 hand was sore yet from the man.y "hand- 

 shakes" and hand "squeezes," the latter 

 mostly from the women folks. 



This man Miller was a hnri/er. How many 

 lawyers have we that are even folloioers of 

 the Lord Jesus Christ? Is there not a new 

 order of things coming, along this line? 



Was I not right in quoting in regard to 

 friend Miller, 



"For he loveth our nation and he hath 

 built us a synagogue"? 



HIGH - PRESSURE GARDENING 



FLORIDA NEW POTATOES, $4.80 PER 

 BUSHEL. 



I see by the Cleveland Plain Dealer that 

 l^otatoes are "away down" up North; but, 

 in the same daily, I see, also, that Bermuda 

 ■iinii potatoes^ are (as usual at this season) 

 $12.50 to $1-1.00 a barrel. Why this great 

 price wdien old potatoes in some places arc 

 almost "a drug on the market?" Several 

 years ago I went over to Bermuda to study 

 their potato business. They get this price 

 because of their extra-nice new potatoest. For 

 10 years or more I have been doing the same 

 here in our Florida home. About the middle 

 of February a grocer came to me and want- 

 ed some new potatoes. Altho they were not 

 as yet fit to dig I gave him a few at about 

 $5 a bushel, and every day until now (Mar. 

 10) he comes right out to our garden and 

 takes all we can scrape up, big and little, 

 at the same price. Just now we are giving 

 him two bushels a day, and they are sold at 

 60c a % peck almost before he can unload 

 them. I have told you with pictures, etc., 

 how we raise them every spring; so it seems 

 hardly necessary to go over it again; but, as 

 I have worked out some improvements, I 

 will try once more to show you good people 

 up North a little "gold mrne" you can 

 "dig out," right in your own "back yard." 

 Right now, as your eye rests on these pages, 

 is the time to "get busy," and to get health 

 and "gold dollars," at one and the same 

 time. T am testing new kinds of potatoes 

 every winter, but so far I have found none 

 so good as the Red Bliss Triumph. Buy 

 uortheru-grown seed and cut to one eye or 

 two eyes. Now place these pieces in a box 

 indoors, or in a protected bed outside spaced 

 about 4 inches a]>art like the cells in a honey- 

 comb, say one in the center and six all 

 around it. Why this bother instead of plant- 

 ing where they are to grow? For many 



reasons; mainly, instead of planting a 

 potato at the proper time you plant a ' 'potato 

 lilaxt." Again, this group of plants gener- 

 ates heat, so as to stand frost, and assists 

 rapid growth. To tost it, plant some in the 

 usual way, and compare with those in the 

 bed when leaves first begin to show. You 

 also get ahead of weeds. If you have only 

 a little ground, during the first two or three 

 weeks your crop needs but little room. We 

 grow tiro crops every winter on the same 

 ('•round inside of the six months we stay 

 here in Florida. Keep the little bed of plants 

 well watered, but not too icet. Whatever you 

 do, find some clean rich soil so soft and 

 loose your potatoes will never be crowded 

 out of their natural shape by clods or sticks 

 and stones. In Bermuda the w^orkman claims 

 the ground isn't in proper shape, unless he 

 can push his naked arm down into the soil 

 up to his ^Ibow. We are digging potatoes 

 now as smooth and round as an apple, some 

 of them weighing a pound or more. Girls 

 and women can grow Bermuda potatoes just 

 as well as men and boys. Wesley digs and 

 washes the potatoes, and the grocer delivers 

 them in clean, new baskets to the good 

 wives in such condition that all they have to 

 do, is to dump them into boiling water. If 

 you are cooking green peas, sort the small 

 potatoes* and cook them witli the peas. These 

 new potatoes, especially if not really mature, 

 should be cooked at once — the same day_ as 

 dug, if it can be managed — to avoid having 

 them lose their attractive ai)i)earance by 

 being exj)0sed too long to the light. There- 

 fore, the grower should be careful about 

 rushing on to the grocer more than what he 

 will probably sell each day. More about it, 

 with pictures, in next issue. 



'Vcii-y .siiKill potatoes, boilpcl and mashed \\\\h 

 wheat iiiiddliiws. compose the best feed to make 

 liens l;i\-, that I know of. 



