1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



615 



We request all citizens of the township, both men and 

 women, to help us in this work by having any or all 

 persons seen or known to violate any of the provisions 

 of the law arrested and brought before the nearest 

 magistrate. We advise the use of the telephone, when 

 necessary, to warn the neighbors ahead. 

 Signed by: 



We call particular attention to the follow- 

 ing sentence: "We have no- controversy 

 with any automobilist who decently regards 

 the safety of our citizens, and obeys the 

 laws . . . for their protection. ' ' Perhaps 

 I should mention that one of our friends 

 calls my attention to what I said about run- 

 ning my machine over rough roads, on page 

 555. I am glad to tell you that I did not 

 violate any law whatever. In Ohio, auto- 

 mobiles can be run at the rate of 20 miles 

 an hour in the open country. This would be 

 at the rate of a mile in three minutes. Ow- 

 ing to the roughness of the roads I did not 

 come anywhere near that speed. The speed 

 was remarkable only because of the condi- 

 tion of the roads, but no faster than a horse 

 might travel on a good smooth road. Now 

 let us unite in a grand effort for the enforce- 

 ment of law against saloon-keepers, fast 

 drivers of horses or automobiles, or any- 

 body else who transgresses. 



SECRET OF THE SUCCESS OF THE JAPANESE. 



It is an open secret, friends, and very sim- 

 ple. The Japanese are a comparatively tem- 

 perate people, while the Russians are notori- 

 ously intemperate. Now, notwithstanding this 

 great ob j ect- lesson standing out so prominent- 

 ly before the whole wide world, the present 

 Governor of Ohio is more anxious to be 

 "fair" to the saloon-keepers, and to help 

 them plant and hold places of iniquity in the 

 midst of our homes, than he is to be "fair" 

 to the temperance people and to the churches 

 of Ohio. God forbid that he should ever be 

 elected to serve another term! 



THE JAPANESE AND TOBACCO. 



Japan absolutely prohibits and prevents the smoking 

 of tobacco by persons under twenty years of age. That 

 is the sort of regulation much needed in the United 

 States of America, as well as everywhere else.— Hori- 

 Jord Times. 



Perhaps that is another reason why the Japs 

 are beating the Russians. May be some of 

 you will laugh at me; but I think the time 

 is coming when the user of tobacco will 

 have to take a back seat— that is, where 

 thj very best mental, moral, and physical 

 strength are in demand. 



PAYS HIS WAY ON THE RAILROADS. 



We extract the following from one of our 

 home papers, the Medina Gazette: 



President Roosevelt has taken the stand that he can 

 accept no free transportation from railroads, and pays 

 his fare the same as any private citizen. His recent 

 tour of the West was at his own expense. Good enough ! 



Now, then, let everybody follow the exam- 

 ple of our good and wise President. Every 

 member of The A. I. Root Co. pays his way 

 when traveling, and has done so for years. 

 If the railroad company puts an advertise- 



ment in Gleanings it is charged up for it 

 just the same as other people. 



SWEET CLOVER AS A FORERUNNER OF OTHER 

 VEGETATION. 



The following, from the pen of Abner 

 Wilson, of Lenawee Co., Mich., in a recent 

 issue of the Ohio Farmer, suggests that 

 sweet clover may prepare poor or barren 

 ground for the growth of other crops, much 

 in the same way that it sweetens the alkali 

 soils of the far West, and prepares the land 

 for general farming purposes : 



We have sweet clover growing in abundance on our 

 roadsides here, but I have not observed any instance 

 where it is growing to any extent in cultivated fields. 

 When I was a boy our roadsides were covered with 

 many weeds. They were generally pastured down into 

 the ground with sheep and cattle. Later, ragweed grew 

 abundantly. Some 12 or 15 years ago sweet clover com- 

 menced to grow in patches. It was undoubtedly distrib- 

 uted over wide extents of territory by the wheels of 

 vehicles and not by any hand-sowing. Now I notice 

 this: Where the clover has grown thick for a few years 

 it seems to die out and give place to our natural blue- 

 grass. In other words, our friend the sweet clover 

 (melilotus) has performed its mission— that of growing 

 upon and enriching an otherwise barren soil, leaving its 

 legacy, the nitrogen nodules, which are said to be the 

 same as on alfalfa. Who would not rather drive along 

 a road with the perfume of the sweet clover coming to 

 him from both sides than the hay-fever-pi'omoting rag- 

 weed pollen ? 



ALFALFA AND ITS MERITS "BOILED DOWN." 



Although the following is taken from an 

 advertising leaflet of a Western grower of 

 alfalfa, it contains a great deal of valuable 

 information. In my travels during the past 

 season I have been very much pleased to 

 find patches of alfalfa more or less in size, 

 growing almost everywhere. Try a little 

 patch in your garden if you can not do any 

 better. 



alfalfa's merits— it is the best mortgage-lifter 

 ever known. 

 Alfalfa is better than a bank account, for it never 

 fails or goes into the hands of a receiver. It is weather- 

 proof, for cold does not injure, and heat makes it grow 

 all the better. A winter flood will not drown it and a 

 fire will not kill it. As a borer it is e lual to an artesian 

 well; it loves water, and bores to reach it. When grow- 

 ing there is no stopping it. Begin cutting a twenty- 

 acre field; when your last load of hay is handled at one 

 end of the field it is ready to cut again at the other end. 

 For filling a milk-can, an alfalfa-fed cow is equal to a 

 handy pump. Cattle love it, hogs fatten upon it, and a 

 hungry horse wants nothing else. If your land will 

 grow alfalfa you have the drop on dry weather. Once 

 started on your land alfalfa will stay by you like Canada 

 thistles or a first-class mortgage, but only to make you 

 wealthier and happier. Evidences of the profitableness 

 of alfalfa on irrigated land in the semi-arid regions 

 multiply from year to year. Best results are obtained 

 in Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho, by sowing in 

 May or June. 



DIRECTIONS FOR SOWING. 



For dry farms, for raising seed, 6 to 8 lbs.; for hay, 

 8 to 10 lbs. Irrigated land, 10 to 16 lbs. 



Be very careful to have the land well worked and lev- 

 eled. The leveler the land the closer you can cut the 

 hay. If sown with drill, put seed in from one to two 

 inches. If sown broadcast sow evenly over the land, 

 then drag once with light haiTow. Will grow best in 

 gravelly or sandy land. Heavy clay or alkali land does 

 produce good alfalfa. 



