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GLEANINGS IN BEE (ULTUKE. 



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Temperance. 



PKOHIBITIOX KANSAS. 



I take pleasure iu giving the followiug. 

 wliich I flipped from tlie Medina Gazette: 



How is that in prohibition Kansas there are 33 

 founties without a poorhouse, and almost as many 

 without a man in jail? In Ohio you can not name a 

 county that has not a poorhouse and whose jails are 

 empty. It is up to the yountr men of to-day. Stay 

 away from liquor as you would from a deadly snake; 

 and when you have trrown up. fijfht it as hard as you 

 can that our country may become clean. I hope to 

 live to see that day. — Conaresginan Webber. 



A good deal of fun has for years past been 

 poked at prohibition Kansas: but may God 

 speed the day when we shall have more 

 States that can give us sut-h a record as the 

 al)0ve. 



THE OUTLOOK FOR TEMPERANCE FROM THE 

 STANDPOINT OF THE ENEMY. 



We clip the following from the American 

 Issue: 



THE LIQUOK TRAFFIC SEES THE HANDWRITING ON 

 THE WALL. 



To be honest and not deceive ourselves, if we glance 

 over this yreat country we find that prohibition, local 

 option, hitfh license, and unjust liquor restrictions are 

 in the ascendency, and yrowing- more popular in the 

 different States at the present time than ever before. 

 Peer into every city, town, and hamlet; then read the 

 city ordinances; visit the council chambers in the vari- 

 ous cities; visit the different lejiislatures and halls of 

 Congress of the United States; consult with your law- 

 makers, and you will be astonished at the combina- 

 tions arrayed against the traffic that we represent. 

 The truth is, the enemy is jfaining ground rapidly up- 

 on us. and we are being overpowered by the tremen- 

 dous forces battling against us; and just as rapidly as 

 they are gaining ground, just that rapidly we are go- 

 ing into decline, and being surrounded and hemmed 

 in by these adverse forces. — Recent address of Presi- 

 dent of Sational Liquor Dealers' Association at Pitts- 

 burg. 



Perhaps the speaker did not expect that 

 we would give him so much puljlicity: but 

 truth is mighty and will prevail, no matter 

 where it comes from. 



WHAT WHISKY DID FOR ONE OF THE BEE- 

 KEEPERS. 



The story below i-arries such a moral with 

 it that it needs to be given publicity; but yet I 

 out of respect to the bereaved friends I omit 

 names and address. 



I have read several of A. I. Roofs letters on temper- 

 ance and will relate how my neighbor bee-keeper 

 came to his death. He went to a certain man to bor- 

 row $2.5 to send to Mr. Jenkins for bee-supplies. He 

 was drunk while the money lasted. Then he met 

 another man and asked him to lend him .50 cents to 

 pay his fare home. The man told him to go to a cer- 

 tain place and get the .50 cents, and have it charged 

 to him. He went and procured ii;3..50 (instead of 50 cts. ) 

 and spent it for whisky. Then he walked home and 

 got a lot of honey ready, took it to a neighboring city, 

 and was drunk there three or four days. Then he 

 took a boat for home, and by mistake landed at the 

 wrong place with a quart bottle of whisky. On the 

 road home he fell and struck his head on the stub of a 

 pine log, and died right there. His body lay in the 

 road about 24 hours before he was found. He had 

 over 100 colonies of bees and plenty of honey. Whis- 

 ky is the root of evil, / think. Mr. Root's letters 

 are such as I enjoy reading. 



Caswell, Ala. 



With a fervent prayer that the above ,true 

 story will prove to l)e a warning to other 

 bee-keepers, even though they drink just a 

 little, we send it out. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



MODERN METHODS OF TESTING MILK AND MILK 

 PRODUCTS. 



The above is the title of a new book just published 

 by the O. Judd Co. It contains over 200 pages fairly 

 well illustrated, bound in cloth; price T5 cents post- 

 paid. I looked it all through in hopes I should find 

 something in regard to methods of preserving and 

 caring for milk in the average home; but the purpose 

 of the book seems to be mainly to head off all sorts of 

 adulteration and swindling in the milk business. 

 When we take into consideration the fact that the 

 very lives of the little babes in our land depend on 

 giving them pure unadulterated milk, you can see 

 that the matter is one of vast importance, especially 

 to those who live in cities, and are liable to be vic- 

 tims of these fiends in human shape who would rob 

 these little ones of their lives in order to make a few 

 more pennies. 



The book not only treats of methods of detecting 

 adulteration in milk, but considers also testing and 

 detecting fraud in butter and cheese. It considers e.s- 

 pecially methods of deciding which is real butter and 

 which is oleomargarine or any of the adulterants of 

 dairy products. We can mail the book from this 

 office. 



.\LL ABOUT CUCUMBERS. 



Bulletin 2-54, from Washington, D. C, is all devoted 

 to cucumbers, I was especially interested in the de- 

 scription of growing cucumbers for early market in 

 cold-frames. The illustrations make me think of my 

 chapter in the tomato-book on how to support a fam- 

 ily on a quarter of an acre, and some of the sugges- 

 tions I judge to be quite valuable. Forcing cucum- 

 bers in greenhouses is also considered and well illus- 

 trated. Under the directions for pollination by hand 

 they state that " in large establishments where hand 

 pollinating is out of the question, a colony of bees is 

 put in the house to accomplish the work." And this 

 reminds me that I saw a very successful cucumber 

 greenhouse at our Ohio Experiment Station a few 

 days ago. A colony of bees was placed up under the 

 ridge, and they seemed to do the work very effectual- 

 ly in poUenizing the blossoms. When the weather 

 got to be warm enough they lost a good many bees by 

 their going out of the ventilators. Of course, they 

 would get back into their hive all right if the venti- 

 lators were open; but when they happened to be clos- 

 ed toward night some of the bees were lost. Every- 

 body interested in the growing of cucumbers should 

 have this cucumber bulletin. Address Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



BATTERY-TESTERS. 



Some time ago I mentioned a little instrument for 

 testing the power of a dry battery, such as is used in 

 automobiles, gasoline-boats, or gasoline-engines in 

 general. The manufacturers told me they have re- 

 ceived quite a good many orders for the little instru- 

 ments, especially from the South, to be used on gas- 

 oline-launches. Well, there has been so much inquiry 

 we have decided to keep them in stock. No two dry 

 batteries hold out exactly alike. One may fail in a 

 few weeks, and another may hold out for almost a 

 year. Without a battery-tester you have no means of 

 telling which are the weak ones; and a good many 

 throw out the whole set and put in a new battery when 

 the most of them may be still capable of doing a lot 

 of work. I am well aware that ammeters costing four 

 or five dollars are generally used for this purpose; but 

 after carefully testing a good ammeter by the side of 

 one of these cheap battery-testers, I very much prefer 

 the latter, which cost only 11.00 postpaid. It requires 

 no instructions whatever. It can be carried in the 

 vest pocket; and all that is necessary to test a weak 

 battery is to make connection with the two poles, A 

 good battery will make the little coil of platina wire 

 quite bright, like a little electric lamp. If the battery 

 is weak, the wire will show just a little red; and if it 

 does not get redhot at all, you can throw the battery 

 out. A cheap electric alarm-bell, costing only 35 

 cents, will answer somewhat the same purpose; but it 

 is a good deal more cumber.some to carry about, and 

 does not indicate the exact strength of the partially 

 played-out battery. All who use dry batteries for 

 running a gasoline-engine, or for any other purpose, 

 for that matter, will save money by having one of 

 these little testers. You see one battery with a tester 

 is all you need to -arry on a trip, in place of carrying 

 a whole set. 



