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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



PKOF. HOLDEN'S corn TALK, ETC. 



On page 1078, Aug. 15, I made a guess that 

 Prof. Hold en had, at some time, been a pu- 

 pil under Prof. Cook. See what Prof. Hol- 

 den has to say in regard to it: 



Mr. A. I. Boot:— I am greatly pleased with your ar- 

 ticle in Gleanings deseribinjr the corn-day at Chip- 

 pewa Lake Chautauciua. I fear that you have given 

 me too much credit; but you have discovered my real 

 motive back of the entire work, better than anybody 

 else. It is true that I had four years' work under 

 Prof. Cook, and was also associated with him for three 

 years and a half at Michigan Agricultural College. 

 Your kind words were greatly appreciated, and I wi.sh 

 I might be able to carry out in some degree the splen- 

 did spirit of your article. If it is convenient I should 

 like to have a dozen copies of the journal. 



Ames. Iowa, Nov. 5. P. G. Holden. 



And this reminds me that we ought to 

 have a corn-book if there is not one already, 

 that gives not only Prof. Holden"s coru-talk 

 but ever so much other matter that has late- 

 ly been brought to light in regard to this 

 great national cereal. Who can tell us about 

 a corn-book.' If ihere is not one, who will 

 get out one that covers the whole subject? 

 And, by the way. our different States have 

 probably sent ovit bulletins on corn-growing, 

 if any of the friends can mail me copies of 

 such bulletins 1 shall be exceedingly grateful. 



SABBATH-BKEAKING AMONG THE HUNGARI- 

 ANS. 



Mr. A. I. Boot: - Some time ago you wrote about 

 that bov coming one Sunday morning from the lake 

 with a "log-chain, etc. No doubt you felt very badly 

 about it. Now, what about that Hungarian who went 

 fishing on Sunday in Chicago? Were you not a little 

 hard on that Hungarian and that boy too, Mr. Rooty 

 I am one of those Hungarians. I came to this country 

 when I was 18. I am now .55 years aid, but I would say 

 that nobody goes fishing on Sunday in the old country: 

 but some of them, when they come here, leave their 

 religion behind. Mr. Root, about 25 years ago I saw- 

 one of vour advertisements, so I sent for a sample 

 copy and catalog. Well, that gave me the bee fever, 

 and I am not over it yet. Dont feel hard toward me 

 for writing this letter. P. A. Schlagal. 



Howard Lake, Minn., August 23. 



All right, friend S. Your point is a good 

 one; but I did not intend to blame the boy 

 who went fishing on Sunday, much if any. 

 If the father asked him to go it would hard- 

 ly be expected the boy would refuse. I am 

 exceedingly glad to know that people do not 

 go fishing on Sunday over there in the father- 

 land, where you came from; and so far as 

 thinking hard of you for writing this little 

 criticism, it is just the other way. I am ex- 

 ceedingly glad and thankful to get such let- 

 ters as this, and all the more so where they 

 take me to task in the very kind way you 

 have done. It is through such letters as this 

 that my knowledge of things is gained of 

 this great wide world ,so full of people, and, 

 I think I may honestly add, so full of people 

 whom I love. 



THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THEIR FLYING- 

 MACHINE AT THE PRESENT DATE. 



In answer to a lot of inquiries in regard to 

 the progress the Wright Brothers are mak- 

 ing, 1 am permitted to give the following: 



Dear Mr. Root; — If your readers are really anxious 

 to know what we have been working at this year we 

 have no objection to your telling them. We have 

 been engaged in designing and building machines suit- 

 able for actual service rather than mere experiment- 

 ing, and have given special attention to perfecting 

 motors not only light but sufficiently strong and reli- 

 able to run for hours without attention. 



Wright Brothers. 



Dayton, Ohio. 



It would seem from the above that they 

 believe their experiments of last season have 

 sufficiently demonstrated the practicability 

 of their machine, for they made several 

 flights, staying up in the air until the gaso- 

 line was exhausted. Their next work will 

 probably be with a machine for '"actual ser- 

 vice," as they state it. You may rest as- 

 sured, friends, that I am always anxious to 

 report progress fi om the Wright Brothers or 

 anybody else as soon as I know the statements 

 that appear in the papers are fully reliable. 



RATS — MORE ABOUT THE.M. 



After what I said in regard to the rats 

 eating our winter apples, on another page, 

 we had more trouble. They would not eat 

 rat l)iscuit, even when it was soaked in 

 toasted cheese. A rat in some waj^ got into 

 our apple-cellar: and when every thing else 

 failed i closed the room up tight and then 

 "dosed" it with brimstone fumes until I 

 thought every thing must be (.lead. But. 

 even after that, every day we would find a 

 little bit gnawed out of a good many of 

 our finest winter apples. Mrs. Root said if 

 I would get her a good steel trap she would 

 catch that rat. After smoking the ti'ap in 

 the kitchen stove in order to remove any 

 scent that might remain on it from former 

 use, she baited it with a piece of beefsteak 

 secui'ely tied on. Then a piece of cloth with 

 a small hole in it was spread over the trap 

 so that just the meat was visible through the 

 hole in the cloth. Within 24 hours we had 

 two of the "varmints." 



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