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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1 



when next you propose calling, so I won't be "away 

 with friends." Sincerely, 



Oneco, Fla.. Sept. 7. Reasoner Brothers. 



Although they do not say so, I presume 

 they will have cuttings and small trees for 

 sale I think I mentioned before, that in 

 many places in Florida they grow mulberries 

 especially for poultry. If grown in the poul- 

 try-yard the fowls give them cultivation and 

 fertilization free of charge, and they harvest 

 the crop free of charge^that is, when it falls 

 on the ground. All of the feathered tribe 

 seem to be especially fond of mulberries. 

 Here in our Medina home we have a Down- 

 ing Everbearing that is now larger than a 

 very large apple-tree, and this last spring it 

 was a perfect mass of bloom. It seemed as 

 if the tree could not possibly hold and ripen 

 so much fruit; but just as soon as the first 

 ones began to turn red, long before they were 

 dead ripe, the robins and other birds saved 

 us the trouble of harvesting the crop. What 

 they did not pick off and swallow they drop- 

 ped on the ground for the Indian Runner 

 ducks; and although the tree bore fruit for 

 weeks and months we never got a ripe ber- 

 ry. My son Ernest has a new and improved 

 variety, I do not know the name, that bore 

 berries a year ago almost equal to the large 

 luscious ones I found in Florida, and we were 

 look'ng forward this season with much an- 

 ticipation to this delicious fruit; but, alas! 

 the birds found the trees this year, even if 

 they did fail to notice it a year ago, but no 

 fruit was allowed to ripen. It has been just 

 the same during the past season with cher- 

 ries. We shall either have to plant cherry- 

 trees enough to supply the birds, and more 

 too, or else we shall have to curtail by some 

 means the "supply" of birds. 



Before closing I wish to call attention to 

 the fact that the mulberry in Florida makes 

 a most wonderful growth. A cutting in a 

 single year will grow away above your head; 

 and the next year, with every thing favor- 

 able, it may make quite a good-sized tree 

 and bear a good lot of fruit. 



Temperance. 



DOES A GREAT CITY NEED A SALOON TO 

 HELP PAY ITS TAXES ? 



Let those who think so, read the follow- 

 ing from the Christian Herald: 



Knoxville, Tenn., is a prohibition city. In the days 

 of the saloon it had a papulation of 35 000, and its 

 criminal costs were $50,074 76. Now it has a popula- 

 tion of ."50,000, and the criminal costs have gone down 

 to $2,076,21— a sufficient answer to those who put for- 

 ward the absurd claim that a city needs the saloon to 

 help pay taxes and make it prosperous. 



mothers are obliged to stand and see their boys 

 caught and dragged off into dens of iniquity, but still 

 can do nothing? They are cooped. They are women. 

 They have no voice in making the laws. I do trust 

 that you will raise your voice like a trumpet, for it al- 

 ways has the right ring. 



My daughter Nellie and T expect to spend this win- 

 ter in St. Petersburg, Fla. We have some friends 

 there. We expect to rent a small house one mile out 

 of the city, on a trolley line. We don't expect to live 

 very grand, but hope to avf>id the cold winter. 



I once taught school in Medina Co., and Mr. Barnard 

 was the man who examined me and gave me a certifi- 

 cate. W. C. QAULT. 



Savannah, O., Sept. 21. 



My dear old friend, your suggestion is a 

 good one. Yes, you are right. The mothers 

 of our boys and girls here in our United 

 States of America are at present, at least to 

 a certain extent, cooped up. To our shame 

 we must acknowledge that it is true that, 

 while the saloon-keepers are laying their 

 snares and traps for the mothers' boys — yes, 

 and girls too — when they can, these mothers 

 are, to a certain extent, helpless. While I 

 write they are not permitted to have a vote 

 as to whether saloons shall be located near 

 their doors or not; but, God helping, this thing 

 shall not continue long. I am expecting to 

 hear every day the good news that our moth- 

 ers, sisters, and daughters shall have a voice 

 in saying whether or not our land shall be 

 cursed with these devil traps or not. Thanks 

 for your suggestion; and it may happen in 

 God's providence that I may make you a 

 brief call in your Florida home, and then we 

 will talk about the time when we went to 

 school to S. G. Barnard. 



"FIGHTING MOTHERS," ETC. 



Mr. Boot:— Siome time last spring you told us how 

 heroically one of your hens On the island defended her 

 chicks. We have a neighbor across the way who 

 raises a good many chickens. He also owned a huge 

 Maltese cat. One day we heard a great outcry, and 

 noticed that the cat was catching and killing those 

 little chicks right before their mother's eyes, and she 

 rendered them no assistance, and why? She was in a 

 coop. I thought, " Poor mother 1 " But how many 



GOOD WHISKY AND BAD WHISKY. 



We copy the following from the Maine 

 Farmer for July 4: 



Of the 8000 places in New York dealing in liquor, 

 all but 700 are said to sell adulterated whisky which 

 costs only 40 cents per gallon to manufacture. This 

 goes over the bars at 15 cents a drink. In the face of 

 such profits, and the pressing need of this class of 

 people for money, is it any wonder that the saloon 

 evil is a difficult proposition to handle ? 



Why, what is the matter with the York 

 State people, any way ? Why don't they get 

 a move on them as they do here in Ohio, 

 and enforce the pure-food laws, even if they 

 are unable to enforce the laws for temper- 

 ance ? 



INTEMPERANCE IN THE BARBADOS. 



Mr. i?oo<.*— Gleanings for March 1 came to hand a 

 short time ago. I notice your inference from my let- 

 ter on n. 344 and must hasten to remove a misconcep- 

 tion. The government taxes liquor here very heavily, 

 along with all luxuries. It has no favor to pay to the 

 drink-traffic, however. Public opinion is dead against 

 intemperance, and a large section regard even moder- 

 ate drin ing as injurious. In my district of nearly 

 3000 people there are only two men selling drink, and 

 they sell it as an adjunct to their provision business. 

 There is not sufficient drink business done to provide 

 a living for even one man. 



Wages in the island are low ; and the man who 

 would waste his money in drink when there is so 

 much otherwise that he ought to do with it would be 

 rebuked severely by the neighborhood. This is the 

 feeling here, and f believe it is the same to a greater 

 or less extent all through the islan^^l. So it happened 

 that, not long ago, I noticed the official returns for a 

 quarter for drunkenness showed 3 cases, while the 

 largest number I have noticed in any quarter has 

 been 22. W. Q. Hutchinson. 



Boscobel, Barbados, March 19. 



