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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Aug. 15 



the pi'eseiit date ))ee-keepers have done little 

 or iiothiug about the scvu\)fa(/ic >•.'<. Yes. the 

 drone-traps are all right: Imt how many use 

 theui? How many of us have got rid of ev- 

 ery l)it of drone-eomb exeept in the hives 

 where we want some drones reared? 



A part of that wontlerful prayer reads, 

 '•Give us this day our daily bread.'" I hope 

 the friends realize what this little man with 

 his zeal and enthusiasm has been doing to 

 make the daily l)read of the average farmer 

 throughout the United States, and perhaps I 

 might say throughout the world, a little 

 ta-Kier to get hold of: and even if it be only 

 "eoru liread," instead of bread made from 

 wheat, may we not thank God for the corn 

 birad, and more still that he in his intinite 

 goodness and loving wisdom permits such a 

 man as Prof. Holden to live and teach 

 throughout our land as he is doing now al- 

 ]nost every day of his life. I have heard it 

 rtimored that Prof. Holdeu commenced as a 

 poor schoolteacher in Northern Michigan. 

 He thirsted for an education, and he was 

 really obliged to teach school to get the nec- 

 essary means to go on with that edtication. 

 Nobody has said so, Init I should not wonder 

 if he has been at some time a pupil vmder 

 Prof. Cook at the Michigan Agricultural C'ol- 

 ege. I wonder if the rest of the world has 

 given dear old Michigan credit for all she 

 has done witli that beautiful agricultural col- 

 lege, one of the first to help us out of dark- 

 ness and into the Uyld, and put us on "higher 

 ground." 



After pa,ge 1076 was printed I noticed 

 that I gave the value of the corn crop for 

 Ohio at $135,000,000: Imt I have just come 

 across the following clipping from the Me- 

 dina Henlinc/. the etlitor of which was pres- 

 ent, and heard the corn-talk. You will no- 

 tice there is a trifling ('.') difference in our 

 figures: 



"Prof. Holden commenced his talk by declaring 

 that, in Ohio, corn is king-, .iust as much as it is in 

 Iowa. The value of the crops of the State, distribut- 

 ed, is as follows: Corn, $3.5,892,000; wheat, $19,319,000; 

 oats, $1.5,914, (KK1; potatoes, $7,.533,OO0; tobacco, $1,063,0W; 

 barley, $408,000, These figures give the corn crop a 

 big lead, and a little figuring will show that even a 

 ten-per-cent improvement in the handling of the 

 crop and increase of the yield would add over 

 $3,500,000 to the pocket change of the farmers of the 

 State." 



SWEET CLOVER — IS IT A NOXIOUS WEED? 



A notice appeared in one of our Medina 

 ])a])ers recently in regard to the law or town 

 ordinance re(|uiring noxious weeds to be cut 

 down along the roadside, and in the list of 

 noxious weeds was included sweet clover. 



We hear from other States that town and 

 county officers are cutting down sweet clo- 

 ver, with the understanding that it is a noxious 

 weed. I have suljmitteil the matter to the 

 tlirector of our Ohio Experiment Station, 

 and below is what Prof. Thorne savs about 

 it: 



Dear Sir: — Replying to yours of yesterday I would 

 say that Section 4":W of the Ji'erii<ef/ Stiitntes of Ohio re- 

 quires the destruction along roadsides of briers, burrs, 

 vines, Russian, Canada, and common thistle, and oth- 

 er noxious weeds. Section 4732 requests the destruc- 

 tion in fields of the Canada or Russian thistle, let- 

 tuce, or wild mustard. I find no reference anywhere 

 to sweet clover as being a noxious weed; and the only 

 way it could be included in that category would be by 

 a judicial decision placing it under the general term, 

 as mentioned in Section 4730, although 1 am not law- 

 yer enough to warrant my opinion being taken as 

 final. Chas. E. Thorne, Director. 



Wooster, O. 



Our Ohio Expei'iment Station, and I think 

 the stations belonging to other States, have 

 several times declared that none of the clo- 

 vers should ever l)e classed as noxious weeds; 

 that they may be out of place in a strawber- 

 ry-bed, like red clover, etc., but this does not 

 warrant their lieiug called noxious weeds. 

 It wottld l)e simply a "plant out of place." 



The following is copied from Bulletin 103, 

 of our Ohio Exjjeriment Station: 



WARNING AGAINST FRAUD (BY C. E. THOHNE, DI- 

 RECTOR). 



The Ohio Experiment Station is in receipt of the fol- 

 lowing letters from Greene County: 1. "A man is trav- 

 eling about this community claiming to represent the 

 forestry department of the Ohio Experiment Station. 

 After visiting and talking awhile with a farmer, he 

 turns out to be a regular tree-agent, hailing from the 

 nursery of J. K. Denby, Greenville, Indiana. He calls 

 himself W. O. Walton, and offers trees for sale at $20 

 l)er thousand for catalpa speciosa and ' North Dakota 

 black locust.' He claims they raise all the trees 

 which the Ohio Experiment Station sends out. Is this 

 truer I No. I Is such a man connected with the Sta- 

 tion? ]No.l Is not $20 per thousand an exorbitant 

 price: [Two or three times their value.] Is it free 

 from the borer, as he claims? "" LNo.] 



2. "Has the State Forestry Commission, if there is 

 such a commission, a contract or agreement with J, 

 K. Denby & Sons, of Greenville, Indiana, to pay for 

 200 in every UXR) trees sold by said firm? Their sales- 

 man, W. O. Walton, has been canvassing this vicinity 

 and making such claim." 



Replying to the above we have to say that Ohio has 

 no " State Forestry Commission," and that the Ohio 

 Experiment Station once again recommends that any 

 person who claims to represent this station in the 

 selling of nursery stock be arrested and prosecuted 

 for obtaining money under false pretenses. 



V\e give place to the above because quite a 

 number of our friends have Avritten, asking 

 us if the Experiment Station really indorsetl 

 this, that, and the other, mentioned in the 

 above clipping. We heartily recommend the 

 concluding sentence — not only have nothing 

 to do with these swindlers, l)Ut take steps to 

 have them arrested and punished according 

 to law, in order that you may protect your 

 fellow-farmers from l)eing swindled. 



"THE VINELESS-POTATO MAN. 



We clip the following from a recent issue 

 of the Rural New-Yorker: 



A few of the farm papers denounced the humbug. 

 until the Post-ottlce Department took it up. After 

 consulting with the Agricultural Department, a fraud 

 order was issued and the vineless-potato man is de- 

 barred from the malls. That serves him right; but 



