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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



this extract from that journal. So far as irr 

 are coneernetl. if it hurts us, let it hurt. It 

 will do lis good in the end. But I fear it 

 will hurt and damage the journal that gives 

 it place. Ask the business men whom you 

 know if they have ever seen a business l)uilt 

 up by unkind flings at their rivals or those 

 in the same kiiul of business. Is a Iwsiness 

 ever built up by tearing your neighl)or 

 tlown? I think the general verdict will lie 

 that the spirit of our text, to love even our 

 Olenites, if we have such, is by far the best 

 policy: ami those of us who have lived to see 

 quite a number of bee-journals started, most 

 of them to go down after a short existence. 

 can well remember that unkind tlings at the 

 older journals have never seemed to recom- 

 mend themselves to the bee-keepers who 

 patronize pei'iodicals devoted to our industry. 

 May God he praised for the brotherly love, 

 for the kintl Christian courtesy, and for the 

 good fellowship that seems to exist among 

 the bee-keepers of our land, large and small, 

 high or low. rich or poor: and may God help 

 us in our efforts to have the journals repre- 

 senting our imlustry maintain this same 

 Christian courtesy hi peace and good will, 

 that we may set the example l)efoi-e the 

 younger ones, to love even our enemies, and 

 to try to do good to those who hate i;s and 

 despitefully use and perseciite us. 



Just as I finished dictating this Home pa- 

 per the following came to hand from our 

 good friend Frank ]McGlade. It seems to 

 me it is very appropriate for any of us when 

 we feel like criticising and finding fault with 

 other people. If we could only have the 

 grace to put ourselves right side by side with 

 the sinner, it might be a little more hopeful 

 for •■earth" as well as "heaven." Friend 

 McGlade says it came from the pen of Will 

 Carletou originally. 



Ah. me: it makes a sinner wondrous blue 



To see so many other sinners too; 



When I rake oer i/n/ faults, and then 



.See just the same in other men. 



It makes me much surprised and sad 



That heaven should see earth turniny out so bad. 



TILE DRAINAGE — A NEW KINK. 



The kink may not be new to all of you. 

 ]>ut it is new to me, and new so far as I 

 know. The water had a fashion of getting 

 into one corner of our cellar after severe 

 rainstorms. After trying in vain to keep it 

 out. and not succeed"ing. I decided that the 

 corner of the cellar should have a special tile 

 drain that would li-t the water out and keep 

 it out: and as this drain had to be cut right 



through our lawn. Mrs. Root and I greatly 

 disliked to have a lot of clay mud thrown out 

 and an unsightly disfigurement made in the 

 lawn that would be visible even after the 

 ditch was finished. We had had some ex- 

 perience of that kind before, and the memo- 

 ry of it was not pleasant. So I figured out a 

 plan that has suceeetled so well I want to tell 

 you about it. I got one of our best men. an 

 expei't in handling a spade, especially under- 

 tlraining-tools. He first stretched a line, 

 and then with a very thin flat spade cut out 

 squares of sod. say a foot long and 8 inches 

 wide. After cutting all around the sod with 

 his thin spade he took a tool that is used for 

 cleaning out the bottom of ditches in laying 

 tiles. This is bent so while standing up the 

 blade lies pretty nearly fiat or level on the 

 ground. With this he cut into the squares 

 of sod so as to lift them up and put them in 

 regular order at one side of the ditch. This 

 was all done with very little damage to the 

 lawn. Then he commenced up near the cel- 

 lar wall and dug down deep enough to^et a 

 four-inch tile under the wall and under the 

 bottom of the cellar. To ilo this, of course 

 quite a lot of dirt had to be piled up by the 

 side of the ditch against the wall. Then aft- 

 er carefully grading the bottom of the ditch 

 be put in two one-foot tiles besides the one 

 that went under the wall. Now, when he 

 came to dig out the dirt for the next two 

 lengths of tile, instead of throwing it upon 

 the bank as is usually done in draining, he 

 threw it on top of the two lengths of tile. 

 These had been carefully leveled with a spir- 

 it-level, using a level long enough to cover 

 partly three lengths of tile. The dirt was 

 tramped and pounded down on these tiles 

 clear up to the surface: and then one of the 

 squares of sod was put on top of the dirt, 

 letting the sod stand an inch or two above 

 the line to allow for settling. You see this 

 saves handling the dirt twTce. Instead of 

 throwing it on the side of the ditch it is thrown 

 on the tiles already laid: then two more 

 lengths are put in. carefully leveled with a 

 slight down grade, and dirt thrown over 

 them as l)efore. 



The thing that was one of my happy sur- 

 prises in this transaction, and the one that 

 decided me to have it put in print, is that he 

 dug the ditch and laitl the tiles faster than I 

 ever had anybody do it who thi'ew the dirt 

 outside of the ditch and then shoveled it back 

 again. The diagram below will make it a 

 little plainer. 



A 



/" 



h/ 



/ 



Let the upper lines A A I'epresent the sur- 

 face of the ground. B is a shelf to stand on. 

 made by slicing down one length of the tile- 

 spade. C is the l)ottom of the ditch, part of 

 it being covered with dirt. When shoveling 

 on the dirt you always want to leave one end 

 of the tile exposed: ami when you put in 



