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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



water kept me sick a good part of the time. 

 The others laughed at me, and said it would 

 be all right when I got used to it. But I 

 soon discovered that, by drinking rain water 

 entirely, I got along very well. Perhaps if 

 I had used boiled water from the well it 

 might have answered; but we did not know 

 about boiled water at that time. For a year 

 or two we had no cistern, so 1 used to keep 

 my drinking-water in large stone crocks; 

 and every little while there was a row in the 

 camp because somebody used up my soft 

 water through carelessness or because it was 

 considered one of my notions. You can imag- 

 ine, therefore, that I feel considerably grati- 

 fied to find the great State of Ohio has decid- 

 ed as I did when a boy, that the foundation 

 of good health is in having pure wholesome 

 water to drink, and a water that does not 

 contain an objectionable amount of un- 

 wholesome chemicals. 



CATCHING SWARMS OF RUNAWAY BEES, ETC. 



Mr. Root:— Is this one of the humbugs? If there is 

 any thing in attracting swarms of bees I think it would 

 be in your ABC of Bee Culture, because you have every 

 thing that is good. I think Gleanings is one of the 

 best papers in the country for exposing humbugs and 

 fakes. 1 know of one poultry paper that a whisky com- 

 pany offered $1600 for a year's advertisement, but they 

 would not accept it. That is the kind of editors we 

 want now. C. O. Kelley. 



Friend K., if you will turn to page 627, 

 June l,you will see something about a dollar 

 book on catching swarms of bees. It seems 

 Mr. Bryan does not want to send it to us; 

 but as he keeps advertising it in various pa- 

 pers I think we shall have to keep after him. 

 Now, my good friend Kelley, I think we shall 

 have to get you to help us. You send a dol- 

 lar, and get the book ; and after you have 

 looked it over send it to us and we will pay 

 the dollar back; then I can write the book 

 up. We will say to our readers that the ad- 

 vertisement mentioned in the above is as fol- 

 lows: 



THE ART OF ATTRACTING AND CATCHING 



SWARMS OF B^EES. 

 Copyrighted June 6, 1904. Price $1.00. 



T. W. Bryan, - Ficklin, III. 



Let me repeat: If the above is a book 

 fairly worth a dollar in telling something 

 not generally known about catching run- 

 away swarms, we shall be glad to give it 

 a free advertisement. From the clippings 

 we have received from our readers we no- 

 tice he is writing extensively for a certain 

 kind of agricultural papers, and advertising 

 his secret in the reading-columns. Here is 

 a sample, clipped from the close of an arti- 

 cle a column in length: 



ATTRACTING HOMESEEKERS. 



1 soon became satisfied that, if I could hit upon some 

 plan to attract these " homeseekers " to an empty hive 

 already fitted up for them, 1 was certain to catch the 

 queen and her entire swarm. To-day I am master of 

 the situation, and can teach any one the art of fitting 

 up empty hives so as to attract for miles the homeseek- 

 ers from all points of the compass and thus catch all 

 the swarms you may want, year after year. You will 

 not even have to watch your hive, but some bright day 

 you will wake up to the fact that a large swarm is 



hovering overhead and already settling on your hive, 

 and that on the morrow they will send out thousands of 

 workers to gather pollen and honey for jou. 



No such method of advertising would be 

 permitted in any respectable agricultural 

 paper. 



JAPAN, AND SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS IN RE- 

 GARD TO WHY THEY SEEM DESTIN- 

 ED TO CONQUER THE REST OF 

 THE WORLD 



We now learn from undeniable authority 

 that Japan has had this conflict with Russia 

 in mind for years past; that she has been 

 educating her people in developing muscle, 

 and leaving no stone unturned to commence 

 and carry successfully to the end one of the 

 biggest fights of a little nation against a 

 great one that history chronicles. The whole 

 world is now on the qui vive to discover how 

 she accomplished this tremendous undertak- 

 ing. The following clipping from the Chi- 

 cago Advance hits the spot. Read it: 



The hearts of the anti-tobacco crusaders will be filled 

 with joy when they learn that the Japanese police con- 

 fiscate the smoking utensils of any youth under twenty, 

 as well as his supply of the weed. Parents and guard- 

 ians who knowingly permit the offense are liable to a 

 fine, and dealers who furnish tobacco to the youth are 

 also fined. This law was passed in 1900. 



Now then, friends, with the above right 

 squarely before your eyes, right here in the 

 United States of America, will you permit 

 your boys to take up the senseless, vulgar 

 habit? and you who are older, even if you 

 have already contracted the habit, are you 

 going to persist in crippling yourself, mind 

 and body, by outraging nature and nature's 

 law? Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall 

 he also reap. 



AUTOMOBILES ON COUNTRY ROADS. 



Of course, this is a matter that comes up 

 more or less in our agricultural periodicals, 

 and, as a natural consequence, these rural 

 papers consider mostly one side of the ques- 

 tion — that of the people who use horse- 

 drawn vehicles. The Ohio Farmer, how- 

 ever, has seemed to be remarkably fair in 

 the matter, and its editors are wisely look- 

 ing ahead, taking a broad view of the mat- 

 ter. In the last issue of that paper a wo- 

 man asks what can be done with the auto- 

 mobiles. After giving the Ohio laws in re- 

 gard to the right of way. Prof. W. I. Cham- 

 berlain closes up with the following: 



In my own experience and observation the owners and 

 operators of automobiles touring in the country have 

 acted like gentlemen, stopping both car and engine, giv- 

 ing fully two-thirds of the road, and even getting out 

 and leading frightened horses driven by ladies. In 

 time I certainly hope that care, courtesy, and forbear- 

 ance on both sides will accustom country horses to the 

 new and strange vehicles. At present it is pretty hard 

 on country dwellers. 



The above accords with my experience 

 and observation; and let me say to the Ohio 

 Farmer people that the farmers are no 

 more anxious than the owners of autos 

 themselves to have all reckless, heartless 

 drivers promptly fined and put in jail until 

 they learn to respect the laws of our land. 



