1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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like them particularly I was allowed to get 

 both happy and fat on my beautiful crisp 

 white apples. I persuaded Mrs. Root to 

 take half of one occasionally, but she al- 

 ways says she does not care for any thing 

 that suits me to dot, especially if the supply 

 is limited. 



A while ago friend Terry, in his Health 

 Notes in the P7-ac^ico/ Farmer, said a certain 

 young minister had received so much benefit 

 from a special kind of pill, that he thought 

 Terry ought to recommend it, telling where 

 the pills in question could be bought, etc. 

 Terry was laughing at the idea of recom- 

 mending pills of any kind in his Health 

 Notes. This young pastor, however, insist- 

 ed that he had no end of trouble with his di- 

 gestion until he got hold of these particular 

 pills and took them regularly. Terry said if 

 he could get hold of that young minister, 

 and be with him a few days, he could teach 

 him how to have good health without using 

 any kind of pills. Well, now, these Para- 

 dise apples had the same effect on my health 

 that the pills did on that young minister. I 

 beg pardon for the illustration, however, 

 because crisp ripe apples should hardly be 

 named in the same paragraph with pills of 

 any sort. Eating as many apples as I care 

 for just before going to bed proved a whole- 

 some remedy for any tendency toward con- 

 stipation, without any thing unnatural or un- 

 pleasant at all. I beg pardon for being so 

 explicit, but may be there are other people 

 who have the foolish notion in their heads 

 that they can not eat real ripe apples just 

 before going to bed. Very likely there is 

 something in getting your system accustom- 

 ed to fruit at regular hours, something like 

 getting immune to bee-stings, for instance. 



And now I want to say to the Rural New- 

 Yorker people that I am ready to join the 

 ' ' Apple- Consumers' League, ' ' providing they 

 will let me have the Winter Paradise or 

 some other apple that is equally easy of di- 

 gestion. The Paradise apples ai*e just gone. 

 I have tried substituting the Ben Davis and 

 some other sorts; and since nature has be- 

 come so accustomed to the apple diet she 

 manages the other kinds pretty well provid- 

 ing they are quite mellow and the skins are 

 removed. May God be praised that I can 

 score one more substitute for drugs and 

 pills; and what a beautiful substitute a hand- 

 some ripe apple is, anyhow! You will find 

 the Winter Paradise recognized and describ- 

 ed in our standard dictionaries as well as in 

 our fruit- books; but I fear none of them 

 have thought to mention that they are not 

 fit for use until the latter part of winter or 

 early spring. 



SPRAYING FRUIT-TREES WHILE IN BLOOM. 



It would seem as if this matter had been 

 gone over sufficiently in years past; but it 

 may be it is well to remind the world at 

 large that our experiment stations, our ag- 

 ricultural periodicals, and everybody else of 

 authority caution against spraying trees 

 while in bloom. It not only poisons the bees 

 but many times it does harm instead of 



good to the fruit-grower. Spray just before 

 the blossoms open, and then again just as 

 soon as the petals have fallen. We can 

 mail a leaflet in regard to the matter on ap- 

 plication. 



GET-RICH-QUICK ADVERTISING SCHEMES. 



One of our bee-keepers sends us the fol- 

 lowmg, thinking I may be interested in it: 



Do you want money? Thirty to forty dollars a week 

 on the side. An hour a day will work this business, and 

 it will not interlere with any occupation or business 

 that you are at present engaged in. It is a practical, 

 easy, and pleasant business that any man can do. 



Works the year round. There are no dull times with 

 it; your income is sure every day in the year, and with 

 this easy, pleasant work you can make from $30.00 to 

 $40 00 every week, in any county, city, or even in the 

 country; it requires no hard work— a lady can work it. 

 It's guaranteed to succeed or you get your money back, 

 so you are perfectly safe. 



There's no talking. You don't have to get out and 

 hustle; there is no canvassing or mail-order feature 

 about it, neither is it portraits. You are the boss, and 

 have nothing to buy of me; you can purchase every- 

 thing in your own town, and are independent with it. 



No capital required. It requires practically no capital 

 to run it, and the results are immediate. You do not 

 have to employ any help, but can run it any evening if 

 you can spare an hour or so. It is perfectly legitimate, 

 honest, and practical; there's nothing about it that a 

 gentleman would hesitate to do. 



It's guaranteed to work. I stand back of this scheme; 

 and if it doesn't work for you return it and your money 

 comes back on the next mail. The price is one dollar- 

 all complete— everything you need to go right to mak- 

 ing a good income for yourself. Remember, if you don't 

 succeed, return it and get your money back. 



Is not the above a hummer? Just think 

 of fussing with ginseng, strawberries, or 

 even bees, to say nothing about getting a 

 living by working on a farm when such op- 

 portunities as the above are before us! It 

 makes me think, however, of the man who 

 told a small boy he could tame any bird by 

 putting some salt on its tail. There were 

 some birds off on the lawn enjoying them- 

 selves, and the boy's face brightened up at 

 the suggestion. To carry out the joke the 

 man furnished the boy with a handful of 

 salt, and he started off' after the birds, full 

 of enthusiasm. But before he had got many 

 rods he slackened up and finally came back, 

 and, extending his hand containing the salt 

 to his older companion, he exclaimed, "Say! 

 you do it. ' ' And I should like to say to the 

 man who sends out the above circular, in 

 the language of the boy, ' ' You do it. ' ' If 

 our readers could see the sad letters that 

 come to me from people who have lost their 

 hard earnings, it would probably be a use- 

 ful lesson. It is not only dollar invest- 

 ments, but some of our bee-keepers have 

 lost their bees, their farms, and their homes 

 by being persuaded to invest in oil stocks, 

 coal-mines, new colonies in Florida, Cuba, 

 South America, etc. One good friend says 

 he was hypnotized or he never could have 

 gone into such a speculation with his eyes 

 open. He says the fellow who did it hypno- 

 tized a lot of his neighbors in the same way. 

 After he had got their money safe and 

 sound he forgot that he had ever known 

 them or had any thing to do with them. 

 And he was careful enough to have it all 

 fixed so the law could not touch him. 



