1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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bles that 1 have begun to think that curtain- 

 front bedrooms for extremely cold weather 

 would soon be coming. When zero weather 

 with tierce storms comes, it is rather tough 

 on most elderly people to have the windows 

 open very much. Now, why not take out 

 the sash and put in a frame of sash covered 

 with cloth'.' A thing that has proved to be 

 of such wonderful benefit to chickens and 

 cattle must be good for human beings also. 

 Sleeping in a tent, that has been quite the 

 fashion during the past summer, is along in 

 the same line; and, by the way, a young 

 man who is in the Y. M. C. A. work here 

 has had a tent sleeping-room in our orchard 

 for several weeks the past summer. It is 

 not only occupied by himself and wife, but 

 in very warm weather some of the nearby 

 neighbors have accepted their invitation and 

 slept in the same spacious tent in place of a 

 hot and compai'atively poorly ventilated 

 bedroom indoors. Down in Florida you can 

 live in a tent quite comfortably winter and 

 summer if you choose. 



Here is something more from friend T. B. 

 Terry, which 1 clip from the Practical Farvi- 

 er: 



You will not be able to get one of our greatest phy- 

 sicians now to say that any thing is incurable. There 

 have been too many times when doctors have so con- 

 cluded, only to have the patient get well in spite of 

 them. For examxile, there is a case on record where 

 the doctor gave up a pneumonia patient — said it was 

 no use for him to come any more ; nothing could be 

 done; the man would die. The patient then said to 

 his wife, " I must die any way. Op n the door and 

 windows, and at least let me die in fresh air." She 

 did so, and he got well. I have used this illustration 

 for a purpose. Nature could not save that man with- 

 out fresh air. With it she was able to and did Sim- 

 ilar results can be given in almost any line of disease. 



May God he praised that we are finally 

 having a crusade that pi'omises to be world- 

 wide for fresh air, and plenty of it, for all 

 animated creation. 



PURE AIR AND TEMPERATE LIVING — THE IMPOR- 

 TANCE OF THEM AWAY OVER IN TA.SMANIA. 



Somewhere, years ago, I read in your notes about 

 the value of God's pure air. It is about this that I 

 wish to write in particular. Since that I have proven 

 to my entire satisfaction that you were absolutely cor- 

 rect, and I should like to give you my experience. 



Once I was as subject to colds as any one; but since 

 I have slept with my bedroom window open and the 

 door wide open I have had only two colds in about ten 

 years, and that was while away from home both times, 

 when I slept in bedrooms that were not sufficiently 

 ventilated 



My mother is now nearly eighty years old, and has 

 not had a cold for years. She, too. sleeps with her 

 window open a little at the bottom, winter and sum- 

 mer. 



I sleep with my window up four inches, and lie so 

 the wind can blow over my face, and that in the win- 

 ter. Be temperate in all things, and get all the fresh 

 air you can. and you need never fear colds. Overeat- 

 ing and badly ventilated rooms are two things to 

 avoid if you would be healthy. 



One has only to look around here in this island 

 state, which is a very healthy one, and we see people 

 with colds which hang on them for weeks, and they 

 wonder why. We do not wonder, because we have 

 the light. 



Yes, dear friend, hammer away on those lines, for 

 you are on the right track. I thank God it has been 

 my privilege to become a subscriber to Gleanings, 

 and thus enjoy the benefits of its teachings. 



Ramsgate, Tasmania, Aug. 11. G. H. Smith. 



HIGH PRESSURE 



GARDENING 



A.LI^OT 



SWEET CLOVEK— IS IT A NOXIOUS WEED? 



A. I. Root:—l enjoy reading your notes in Glean- 

 ings, Our Homes, travel, camping, health notes, poul- 

 try, gardening, temperence, right living, bee-keeping, 

 and the whole outfit, until you begin to sing the 

 praises of sweet clover. Then I get very tired, as I 

 have many a time in trying to destroy the pest, as a 

 pest it is for us. It gets in waste places, along roads, 

 in water-courses. I would just about as soon have 

 rattlesnakes or Satan. Talk about its winter-kill- 

 ing! You must have different winters from ours, and 

 we have some hard winters here. If I had to choose 

 between bees and sweet clover I would cut out the 

 bees and then kill the sweet clover— »/ / can. About 

 the only way to exterminate the stuff is to pull it 

 and keep at it, and that is some work. I am getting 

 too old. Now, likely you catch on to what I think of 

 sweet clover. Yours for the good things of life, but 

 down with the mean things. W. F. Dblinb. 



Cannon Falls, Minn., Sept. 9. 



Why, friend D., I am surprised at you, es- 

 pecially if you have been reading what we 

 have had to say about sweet clover. Do you 

 consider and take notice that sweet clover 

 is a legume — that it is a clovei", and, as our 

 experiment station puts it, none of the clo- 

 vers can be consistently called noxious 

 weeds? Yes, it does grow in waste places 

 and along the roadsides, for it is the most 

 hardy clover known; but if the ground is 

 leveled off, and it is cut down and given to 

 stock — that is, if it is cut down often enough, 

 it makes about as handsome a roadside as 

 any thing I can think of. If it comes on to 

 your fenced fields, turn in the horses and 

 cattle, pigs and sheep. Haven't you seen in 

 our past numbers abundant evidence that all 

 kinds of farm stock can be taught to eat it 

 with great avidity? Besides its value for 

 stock, it has been recently demonstrated that 

 it is probably the most valuable plant known 

 to turn under for enriching the soil. It is 

 the very easiest and readiest means of inocu- 

 lating soil with the nitrogen nodules; and 

 the very best and quickest way to fit a piece 

 of ground for alfalfa is first to get it to grow- 

 ing sweet clover. 



I thank you for your kind words in clos- 

 ing; but I wish you would write us again 

 and tell us frankly just why you do not util- 

 ize the sweet clover, that grows so rank and 

 strong, for feeding stock or for fitting your 

 ground for tremendous crops of any thing 

 you wish to grow. We are glad to know 

 you have talked out thus plainly, because we 

 want to know every good reason against the 

 general dissemination of this exceedingly 

 valuable legume. See the following; 



more about sweet CLOVER; ITS VALUE TO FARM- 

 ERS, ETC. 



About 20 years ago I became interested in bees 

 through an advertisement of A, I. Root in the Farm 

 Journal. I got the A B C of Bee Culture, and that is 

 the first I knew of sweet clover. I found at that time 

 in an orchard on our own farm, about 80 rods from 



