. Gleanings in bee culture. ita trial. I can only say this : We will talk itover among ourselves ; and if the other mem-bers of our company feel that there is anyhope of success we will put up such a tent. It hardly needs to be said that the greatestbar to the breeding of long-tongued bees,hitherto, has been in the fact that we havebeen unable to control the fertilization of se-lect stock. If fertilization of queens can becontroled, great possibilities are before us. To-day, March 12, I am home again in Me-dina, and will answer the great pile of lettersawaiting me, as speedily as possible. I s
. Gleanings in bee culture. ita trial. I can only say this : We will talk itover among ourselves ; and if the other mem-bers of our company feel that there is anyhope of success we will put up such a tent. It hardly needs to be said that the greatestbar to the breeding of long-tongued bees,hitherto, has been in the fact that we havebeen unable to control the fertilization of se-lect stock. If fertilization of queens can becontroled, great possibilities are before us. To-day, March 12, I am home again in Me-dina, and will answer the great pile of lettersawaiting me, as speedily as possible. I shallhave some wonderful things to tell you in ournext, in the line of high-pressure gardening ;and to be ready to take advantage of it thisseason you had better sow at once some seedof self-blanching celery, or make sure in someway you can have some good nice plants readyas soon as the weather will permit of settingthem out. I will tell you what to do andhow to do it, later.—A. I. R. 243 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Mar. 15. And ihey tome to Jesus, and see him that was pos-sesi-ed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, andclothed, and in his right mind ; and they were alraid.—Mark 5 : 15. In closing my talk Sunday evening at We-wahitchka I said something like this : Dear friends, inasmuch as you are allentire strangers to me I may be able to saysome things to you that your respective pas-tors would hesitate to say, even if they entire-ly agree with me. For instance, I can speakvery plainly in regard to the use of cigarettes,for I do not know whether this boy or thatone uses them or not ; but your pastor proba-bly knows all about it. You might thinkhim personal, and be offended ; but you willnot be offended with me, I am sure. Then I pleaded with the young boys whohave not commenced it, and told them what avery simple thing it is to let them alone, com-pared with breaking off after the habit is onceformed. I had heard of a boy in that very lo-cality, who absolutely could
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