. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 87 fit for the delicious bread that his thrifty wife bakes every other day ? Does his front yard look like it? The house is surrounded with "plauten," quack-grass and burdock, except here and there a big bare spot that the dog lies in to cool. Where a beautiful lawn ought to be, "pussley"and weeds abound. Where white clover and melilot should make the air redolent with sweetest perfume, the stench of decaying vegetation would paralyze a Chinaman ! Where roses, honey-suckles and hollyhocks should be in abundanc
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 87 fit for the delicious bread that his thrifty wife bakes every other day ? Does his front yard look like it? The house is surrounded with "plauten," quack-grass and burdock, except here and there a big bare spot that the dog lies in to cool. Where a beautiful lawn ought to be, "pussley"and weeds abound. Where white clover and melilot should make the air redolent with sweetest perfume, the stench of decaying vegetation would paralyze a Chinaman ! Where roses, honey-suckles and hollyhocks should be in abundance to beautify and cheer the home that the "women folks" work to hard to improve, there the festive mul- len raises its head toward the eves, and the wild buckwheat clings and thrives for next year's ample seeding. Go just beyond, into what the leige calls his orchard, and what conditions do you observe ? Apple trees big enough to bear bushels, and feed colonies on their fragrant blooms, dying from suck- ers and borers ! Dead limbs left as skeletons to bleach with the suns of years. The ground in which the trees stand is covered with briars and bram- bles that a goat would not deign to tramp through. Is it any wonder that a place so bereft of flowers, shade and fruit, should afford little substance for honey ? Why, if it were not that the busy bees steal substance from his neigh- bors, they would themselves starve to death ! And what is the remedy ? Common- sense and earnest work ! Root out your weeds; manure plentifully ; let the plow in deep ; harrow well,and sow on enough white clover seed on both orchard and lawn. Let the children sprinkle all the soap-suds to make fast growth ; borrow a knitting-needle, look up the borers' holes, and push the needle in—it will do its work. Carefully cut off all the suckers and dead limbs; lay bare the neck of the trees, and put around each a good, big shovel full of those ashes you have near the house—they will manure and add
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