I
ARRANGE FOR WINTER
TASK SHOULD BE PERFORMED
WHILE WEATHER 18 WARM.
Each Hive Should Be Examined to As
certain If Required Storee Are on
Hind There li Nothing Bet
ter Than Sealud Honey.
(By F. 0. HERMAN.)
If there Is one Item above another
having great Importance In the winter
ing problem, It la the securing of the
winter stores near and about the clus
ter of bees In time for them to settle
down lntb that quiescent state bo con
ducive to good wintering, prior to the
middle of October, in the more north
ern localities.
To arrange these stores properly
and seal them, requires warm weather
hence ail will see the fallacy of put
ting off caring for them until cold
weather arrives. To be sur that
all have the desired amount of stores
there Is only one certain way to do,
and that Is to open the hives and take
out each frame.
If, after going over a hive and
weighing each comb, I find that there
Is 25 pounds of actual stores, I call
that hive or colony all right for win
ter. If less It must be fed the defi
ciency; if more, It can spare some to
help another colony which is lacking
In the amount. In this way the whole
apiary should be gone over.
Colonies left on the summer stand
require anywhere from 20 to 30 pounds
of good food for successful wintering.
A little In excess of this will do no
harm, but1 on the contrary will stimu1
late the colony In building up faster
in the following spring.
If one has on hand some sealed
combs of honey, a few of them can be
distributed among the light colonies,
but In the absence of these it will be
necessary to feed liquid honey or a
Birup made of sugar and water.
Do not think of using anything but
the best granulated sugar. When bees
can fly all the time, you can safely
feed them anything. But when they
cannot fly, there is nothing better than
sealed honey. When you cannot have
that use a sirup of granulated sugar.
If the feeding can be attended to
while the weather is still warm, the
sirup may not be quite so thick, say
about 2 pounds of sugar to one pint
of water, which will make 3 pounds of
sirup.
If the feeding is deferred until cool
weather has set in, the sirup will,, of
necessity, have to be a somewhat
thicker consistency, for the bees wilt
not be able to evaporate the super
fluous water out of it.
In making the sugar-sirup be care
ful not to burn it while boiling. In
fact It need not be boiled at all; Just
pour the boiling water over the sugar
and stir until thoroughly dissolved;
when cool It Is ready to give to th
bees.
It is claimed by some beekeepers
that if a few tablespoonfuls of extract
ed honey are added to the sugar sirup
It will prevent It granulating In the
comb, but there ,1s little danger of
this anyway. If there are weak lots
just unite two or more together, re
moving the least valuable queen.
The bees of two lots may be united
peaceably by sprinkling them thinly
with sugar sirup flavored with pepper
mint, and then placing the frames
with adhering bees alternately in a
Swarming a Hive,
fresh hive. The stronger the colony
and the bees the less Is the honey
consumed.
This appears strange, but It Is quite
true; a ( small lot of bees in a hive
containing several combs are restless,
with the consequence that they con
sume honey to raise the temperature
lowered by the cool air surrounding
them.
The food supply may be ample
owing to a particularly favorable sea
son after the supers have been re
moved, but even If feeding has to be
resorted to, very little time will be
needed to perform this part of the
work.
In order to obtain young bees for
wintering, a supply of sugar, given at
the close of the honey flow, will prob
ably be all that Is necessary to con
tinue breeding up to the middle of
September, when whatever further
supply Is needed to make the colony
safe for winter can be given In the
form of sirup.
Burn All Old Canet.
As soon as the old canes of black
berries and raspberries are through
fruiting, cut them out and bum them,
thus destroying many Insects and fun
gous pests. The young canes need the
if r f
jgpl !r m
room. . . .,. .
VETCH li, IMPORTANT CROP
Its Mors General Growth Would Aid
Materially In Live Stock Indus
tryAlso Improves 8oll.
(By A. BMITH.)
Vetch should occupy an Important
place In the agriculture of those states
whore It can be raised with success.
In four years' comparisons, on over
800 fields, vetch has consistently made
heavier growths and greater yields
than irlmson clover, red clover, or
bur clover, although under favorable
conditions these have done well.
Vetch Is high in protein content, Is
a good hay, pasture, and soiling crop,
and its more general growth would
aid in the development of the live
stock Industry and remove much of
the existing necessity for buying hay.
Vetch Is used as a cover crop to pre
vent the leaching and washing of soils.
Like all legumes, It Improves land by
adding nitrogen and organic matter
to the soils. As It grows through the
winter and spring and may be har
vested In ,time to plant corn or cow
peas on the same land, It should be
used in building up Impoverished soils
and In maintaining the productivity
of the land. The vetch crop does not
Plant of English Vetch.
require horse or man labor at any
time when this Is needed for the cow
pea crop, except possibly at the har
vest time of cowpea hay.
RETURNS FROM WORK HORSES
Many Little Points Are Enumerated
That Will Lessen Cost of Animal
Labor on the Farm,
(By A. H. BENTON, Assistant Agricul
turist, University Farm, 8t. Paul,
Minn.)
One of the most frequent sources of
loss oa the farm Is Insufficient return
from work horses.
Have you satisfied yourself on the
following points?
Do your horses earn enough to pay
for their feed and care, and enough
to meet the Interest, depreciation and
other expenses, as harness costs and
shoeing?
It costs $100 annually to keep the
average horse, In Minnesota, but this
horse works only a little more than
three hours each working day. This
makes the horse labor cost approxi
mately ten cents an hour.
Do you handle the horse labor on
your farm so that the annual cost of
keeping your horse Is less than the
average, or so that the number ol
hours worked Is greater? Both meth
ods will reduce the cost of the horse
labor, but the latter offers by far the
greatest opportunity.
Can you revise your cropping sys
tem so that fewer work horses will be
needed, or so that the work will be
more equally distributed and thus
make it possible to employ them more
hours each year?
Can you raise colts and thus reduce
the cost of keeping your horses?
Can you arrange to use your work
fcorses for outside work when not busy
on the farm?
Can you reduce the cost of keeping
each horse by feeding less feed or
cheaper feed and still give a proper
ration?
Farm work done with fewer horses
means a saving of (100 a year for
each horse not needed.
Humus Needed.
The amount of water a soil will
hold against gravity depends upon
the type of soil. A clay soil composed
of fine particles with very small spaces
will retain more water than a coarser,
sandier soil composed of larger par
ticles and larger spaces. Also, the
amount of humus, or decomposed or
ganic matter. In the soil influences
the water holding capacity. The more
humus In the soil, the more water It
will hold, providing the soil particles
are of tnllar size.
Alfalfa Causes Scours.
Ait'alfa fed too liberally to very
young calves will cause scours. It is
very rich feed and the amount given
must be limited, especially when the
calf Is voune and before it hna a
chance to adjust Itself to alfalfa hay
in short, whenever there is a change
made In the feeding of animals it
should be done gradually or there is
danger of digestive troubles.
Waste of Food.
Food Is wasted when the animal It
exposed to excessive cold; when It it
deprived of sufficient water; when it it
compelled to drink ice cold water;
When It Is worried, driven about.
Mutch the Celery.
Do not delay applying the manure
mulch to the celery. It conservei
moisture better than any kind or
amount of tillage. Us three) to foul
Inches of manure.
The Governor's
L- Atr A Novelization of
aOy , Alice Bradley's Play
2fy GERTRUDE STEVENSON
Illustrations from Photographs of the Stage. Production
Coi7rl!it,Ull (PsMlowlon JUihu Iwmtl Iknla BeUMO.
6YNOP8I8.
Daniel Blade suddenly advances from a
penniless miner to a millionaire and be
comes a power In the political and busi
ness world, He has his eye on the nover
nor's chair. Ills simple, home-loving wile
(alls to rise to the new conditions.
CHAPTER I Continued.
"Dan," she said, "I'll tell you some
thing. These expensive laundries ruin
your shirts right off, and when I
washed 'em they lasted a whole year.
They ain't Ironed right, either."
"Oh, my God!" groaned Slade, help
lessly, pitying her lack of understand
ing rather than being angry with ber.
"I wish you'd forget, Mary, that I
had to let you wash and scrub once.
We're up now. Let us kick the lad
der out from under us and stay up
forget how we got here."
"But I don't want to forget," remon
strated the little wisp of a woman op
posite him. "I was perfectly content
ed those days. I ain't now. I hate
this house. I hate it It's too big.
The help scare me, so many of 'em.
I'd like jest one hired girl and my old
sitting-room set." She stopped medi
tatively, her thoughts wandering back
to the early days when her husband
took his pick and dinner pall and
tramped off to the mines, and she
sang as she bent over the washtub
and busied herself at the kitchen
stove.
Her husband sat with face averted,
his imagination carrying him far into
the future a vision of honor as chief
executive of the state and power in
keeping with the untold riches he had
accumulated.
"That's It," he finally exclaimed, "I
want to go ahead and you want to
stick over your washtubs. I need the
support of big people got to mix with
'em, and be one of 'em. And you
won't."
"No, I don't have to," replied Mary.
"1 needn't"
"You don't see the necessity of join
ing me?" he asked, testily.
"I don't know how."
"Do you want to know how?" he
persisted.
"No," came the) provoklngly Indiffer
ent answer.
"You're putting the bars up In the
middle of the road," he continued,
"and I'm' making "up my mind' to
change things."
Suddenly Mary's lips quivered and
a hurt look showed in her eyes behind
the misty tears as she realized that
whatever she did Irritated her hus
band. She started to speak, but was
interrupted by the entrance of a serv
ant, who announced that Senator
Strickland and his daughter had Just
phoned to say that he and his daugh
ter would call on their way to the
opera.
Blade's face flushed and paled at the
thought flushed at the pleasurable
surprise at this unlooked-for attention
from the senator, and paled as he
thought of th-9 senator's stunningly
gowned daughter arriving to find hlB
wife In a cheap, ill-fitting dresa that
would have looked badly even for
morning wear.
"Mary, you look like a steerage pas
senger," he exclaimed suddenly, turn
ing on the flustered little woman, who
was aghast at the very thought of a
call from the senator and his daugh
ter. "Go upstairs and dress. I'll
make excuses and hold them till you
come down."
"I can't," she gasped. "I ain't got
time, anyway, and I haven't anything
to go to the opera in."
Slade leaned forward and struck
the table with his clenched fist "Don't
you understand? You must see these
people. Tonight's paper names me for
governor. Strickland's influence is
more necessary to ms than any other
man's in the whole state, He controls
the party. He's bringing his daugh
ter to my bouse. You're meeting them
socially. Come on, now, come on"
he became persuasive "put on a nice
little gown and come along and show
them you can do something. We'll
hold a reception here and it'll be a
direct answer to Wesley Merritt's slur
on you in tonight's paper."
Go to the . opera with Katherlne
Strickland with a women who had
Just returned from Europe the wom
an who bad dined with a queen and
been feted all over the continent. Hold
a reception hostess in this house
where the felt, save for her' Dan, a
stranger. Meet people who spoke In
what to her was a strange and alto
gether unmanageable fashion.
Mary caught her, breath with a sob
of dismay. The very thought para
lysed her. "I can't, Dan," she finally
managed to blurt out. "I'd do any
thing else for you but not this."
"I'll not ask you again," replied
Slade, ominously, and poor Mary, too
excited to interpret the threat, picked
np her sewing and her newspapers
and made tor the door.
"Tell them," she exclaimed breath
lessly, "tell them I had a headache
that's a fashionable enough excuse,
anyway." And, terrified, she fled out
of the room as Katherlne Strickland
and her father were announced.
CHAPTER II.
As Blade turned from the fright
ened, insignificant figure of his flee
ing wife, he saw a woman of perfeot
poise and queenly carriage, a woman
a trifle haughty and Insolent in ber
youth and beauty and assured com
mand of all the Intricacies of social
grace and charm. Her wide, full eyes
met his with an engaging, frank curi
osity to see this new factor in the po
litical world. Her gown was a tri
umph of soft, shimmering silk and
alluring chllfon a gown that empha
sized the charm of her proud, statu
esque figure. She was the sort of
woman that makes a man glow with
pride to present as bis wife or daugh
ter. She was all that Mary Slade was
not.
Slade stood looking at her, fasci
nated, forgetting for the moment the
man she was with, remembering noth
ing but the magnetic personality of
the woman whose reputation for do
ing big things in a big way was al
ready known to him a woman whose
eyes meeting his gave back flash for
flash and understanding for under
standing. Almost mechanically Slade found
himself acknowledging Senator Strick
land's formal presentation of his
daughter. Hesitatingly he offered his
hand, which the girl, perfectly at
ease, grasped with a cordial, sympa
thetic pressure. Her eyes were look
ing critically Into his, much as If she
were trying to read him through and
through and take his measure for fu
ture use.
Her easy, graceful acceptance of the
eituatlon, her thoughtful inquiry for
Mrs. Slade's health, prompted by well
bred sympathy rather than any curi
ous interest and the cultured modula
tion of her splendid voice, charmed
him as no woman had ever done be
fore. There was nothing of the shy, retir
ing Ingenue In Katherlne Strickland's
makeup. She was a woman of splen
did physique and wonderful mental de
velopment Her appeal to a man was
that of a dominant Intellect as much
as of a lovely woman. She Immedi
ately Impressed Slade as being keen
witted, Btrong-minded and clever. His
admiration displayed Itself In his shin
ing eyes and his unusually affable, at
tentive manner. '
Suddenly he found hlmBelf compar
ing his own little old-fashioned wife
with this handsome, self-possessed
woman before him. What a wife Kath
erlne Strickland would be for the gov
ernor of a state! What a picture she
would make presiding at the head of
a millionaire's dinner tables! How
wonderfully such a woman would
adorn the richly furnished rooms of
his newly built mansion! Instead of
the work-worn fingers of his wife, con
tinuously fumbling with darning
threads, he saw, in a mental vision,
this woman's lovely hands constantly
engaged in unwinding the thre-ds of
problematic political tangles. Here
was a woman who would be a man's
wife and comrade the very autithesls
of the household drudge his own wife
was content to be, with no interest
outside of the four walls of her home
and no desire for anything bigger in
life than the daily routine of break
fast, dinner and supper, washing on
Monday, Ironing on Tuesday, and so
on to the end of the week week after
week In the same deadly rut Here
was a woman who would "go along
with a man" possibly a step ahead,
blazing the way for new and greater
glories and recognizing no limit.
Slade brought his reflections to a
sudden halt as he remembered the
girl's father,
"Why, what has happened to you,
senator? Your face looks different
than it did this afternoon."
"Her fault," replied the senator,
with a smile of tolerant affection, in
dicating Mb daughter. "She made me
cut my beard this way. It's French."
Katharine laughed a delightful,
throaty little laugh.
"Nonsense, father," she protested.
"Of course, I like the West, but I
don't believe in being absolutely typ
ical. I was horrified when I got back
and found you so blatantly the typi
cal, much-cartooned Westerner."
"Mr. Slade," reeumed Strickland, "a
few influential men from different
parts of our state are having a meet
ing in town tomorrow, and I want you
to meet them. I'm arranging a little
Impromptu dinner, and thought Kath
erlne might be able to persuade Mrs.
Slade and yourself to join us."
"Oh, father, tell the truth," Kath
erlne interrupted. "These gentlemen
want to meet you, Mr. Slade. I hear
we're to expect great things of you.
You see, I've been mixed up in poll
tics all my life, and I do love to have
a hand In them."
"Ehe'd run for president if they'd
let her," teased her father.
"Indeed I would," the girl admitted,
brazenly. "I've got politics in my
blood, and home doesn't seem like
home unless politics are being brewed
in our dining-room. So you'll both
come, won't you you and Mrs. Slade."
Slade was stammering his accept
ance when Strickland Interrupted ab
ruptly. "How'd you like to be governor,
Slade?"
Slade threw back his head with a
laugh that was intended to denote
complete unconcern.
"Oh that talk! Did the evening
papers put that Into your head or"
and he paused significantly, "did you
put It Into the evening papers?"
Strickland's laugh was a practical
admission.
"It would mean a hard fight, Blade.
The water-front crowd's against you,
and you can't get on without their
Influence."
"Not In this town, at least," amend
ed Katherlne. '
"You've got to have Wesley Merritt,
his paper, his hlghfalutlng editorials
and his speschmaklng and his wife,"
Strickland explained. "He and his
crowd run the town."
"Oh, you mean my neighbors?"
asked Blade. "They'll corns around,'
he finished, meaningly.
"But, man alive! Only today Mer
ritt's attack on you was scurrilous. I
remonstrated with him myself. He's
your out-and-out enemy. I've tried to
get him to to come over and shake
hands, but he swears he'll never cross
your threshold "
"I guess they'll corns when I want
'em to come," Slade Interrupted, with
an assurance his auditors could not
understand. "In fact, I'm looking for
'em any minute now," and hs consult
ed his watch.
"You'rs looking for them here to
night?" guped Strickland, showing
plainly he thought Blade was making
a joke of the matter.
"Yes, tonight," replied the would-be
governor, quietly, and turned to Kath
erlne. Strickland subsided, a question
growing In his mind as to whether hs
had fully measured the man he expect
ed to ubs for his own political and
financial ends. There was In Slade's
method of lighting a direct and open
quality that would make him hard to
handle In the crooked and indirect
ways of political lire.
Katherlne Strickland's eyes nar
rowed as she met Slade's gate. Her
quick, calculating mind saw In this
man the possibility of realising her
highest hopes and ambitions. With
such a man a woman could scale any
heights reach any goal. He was hard
yes! But a man needs to he bard
In these days and times if he is ever
to accomplish anything. In her fer
tile brain smoldered ambitions as
great as his ambitions that she now
realized would never be attained un
less she made some great radical
change In her life.
, She had pushed her father as far
as the man would could go. She
had outdistanced every girl p her
circle. She had reached high, but she
had triumphed. Now she was at the
end of her 'tether. It was a matter
of making some one huge stroke or
sinking back into stupid obscurity, a
situation all the more bitter because
of her previous successes. The
thought of settling down into the ev
eryday life of the western city where
she was horn made her very soul
squirm. Surely there was something
more In lite for her. . Surely (hers
were bigger goals to be gained.
She had never realized how empty
the old home life was until now, when
she suddenly found herself a part of
It again after the brilliant European
season and the stimulating, exciting
life in diplomatic circles at the capital.
The thought of remaining in the West
a big frog In a little puddle, had
grown positively hateful to her. Big
or little herself, Bhe wanted a big
puddle. She was quite satisfied in her
own mind that no puddle would be so
big that she couldn't become a frog
of considerable size In it.
Now, as ber restless brain and soul
clamored for higher goals and a wider
field, the thought of Slade's millions,
Slade's dominating, forceful personal
ity, Slade's reputation for sweeping
everything before him, Slade's prob
able governorship, flashed through her
mind like a burning streak of electric
fire. With him, with his weapons,
what a career lay before a woman!
Just as suddenly she found herself
wondering what sort of a woman had
been a mate to this man for so many
years. She was conscious of a poign
ant pang of envy Jealousy almost
against tills woman who had the op
portunity which was denied her.
"Well, what do you think of your
own country, now you're back?" she
heard Slade's voice saying, "Seem
big to you?"
- (TO BE CONTINUED.)
French Temperance Society.
An organization for the promotion
of temperance In France has been
founded by M. Schmidt, deputy for the
department of the VosgeB. A feature
of the new body is its catholicity. It
includes every shade of political and
religious belief, and all classes of so
ciety politicians, professional men
and workmen. A meeting, addressed
by doctors, lawyers and a deputy, has
just been held In Bordeaux. The
new association, which 1b called
"L'AIarme," Justifies Its name by call
ing attention to the rising flood of
alcoholism In France.
Remembered Instructions.
She was a little girl and very po
lite. It was the first time she had
been on a visit alone, and she bad
been carefully Instructed how to be
have. "If they ask you to dine with them."
papa had said, "you must say, 'No,
thank you; I have already dined.'"
It turned oat just as papa had an
ticipated. "Come along, MarJorle," said her
little friend's father, "you must have
a bite with us."
"No, thank you," said the little girl,
with dignity; "I have already bitten."
To Make Whitewash Stick.
To keen whitewash from rubblne oft
easily make a thin cooked paste of
one pint of wheat flour and add to
each pailful. A little carbolic acid
added to the whitewash will heln ore-
vent the places where It Is used get
ting musty.
HOW HOP? LC3T HIS MONEY
Thrills snd Joys Experienced by Ama
teur 8tock Gambler Are Related
by Railroad Man.
Stuart C, Leake, the railroad man,
who spends much of his time traveling
between Richmond, Va and New
York, has all sorts of friends and ac
quaintances. One of these is a man
named Hopp.
"Hopp," said Leake, one day in
Philadelphia, "what have you been do
ing with yourself?"
"The biggest thing I've done," ex
plained Hopp, "was to experience the
joys of stock gambling. Take It from
me, I'm some gambler In Btocks."
Leake asked him to tell the merry
story.
"I bad saved up $1,000," Hopp nar
rated, "and I decided to take a shot at
the market. I picked out the stock on
which I knew I could make a lot of
money. I decided to buy, and I took
ten shares.
"Over In the corner of the bucket shop
was a telegraph operator, and I could
hear the instrument saying, 'Hopp's
got a thousand!' Hopp's got a thou
sand!' That sounded good to me. It
was an omen of victory. . Pretty soon
a cold shiver ran down my spine, and
then ran up again. The Instrument be
gan to say, 'Take It away from Hopp!
Take it away from Hopp!' Talk about
thrills and excitement! I was begin
ning with 'em right away.
"To make a long Btory short do you
get me? that stock dropped eleven
points In about fifty minutes. They
took It away from Hopp." Popular
Magazine, i
MUST BE.
First Passenger Beg pardon, but
my name is Baggs. '
Second Passenger Baggs! Baggs!
I once knew a man named Sax. Any
relation of yours?
Cracking a Joke.
. A popular suburbanite, who is also
a ready wit, told some children in the
neighborhood that as there were Eng
lish walnuts on his place, he was going
to Invite them to his Nutty Castle,
where be would furnish the expense
of entertainment.
"If your house is named Nutty Cas
tle," said one of the children, "what
are you called?"
"Oh, I am tlio doughnut," answered
the entertainer.
Promoting Cheer,
"Did you got any encouragement
from the eminent official on whom yon
called?"
"Yes, sir," replied the spokesman of
the delegation; "he was right encour
aging. He called attention to the fact
that It's a pleasant day toriav, and he
said he wouldn't be surprise) If It waj
Just as pleasant tomorrow."
Handicapped.
"You ought to be ashamed of your
self," said the sheriff. "Trying to hold
up a train In the hope of getting a few
hundred dollars."
"I know It!" Ba'd the train robber.
"But I had to work fast. I didn't have
time to get hold of the directors and
make them help me to hold up the
stockholders."
Costume.
"I've bought a silk hat and a frock
coat," said the man who has decided
ta run for ofllce, "but somehow I don't
rook like a regular statesman."
"Let me look at you," exclaimed
his wife. "I thought so! Men don't
know how to dress themselves, Rub
that hat the wrong way and put on a
lay-down collar and a black bow tie."
Fitness.
"Do you think the natives of the
Philippines are capable of establishing
a government?"
"To a certain extent. You put a bolo
In the hands of a healthy Moro and
turn him loose on an unarmed com
munity and the way he'll turn in and
govern will surprise you."
Dividing Up the Day,
"A man should have eight hours for
recreation and then take the remain
der of the day for work and sleep."
"Perhaps. It depends on the kind
of work you select. Sometimes a
man goes after his recreation so vio
lently that he gets too nervous to
work or sleep."
A Quandary.
"A great many of the people out our
way think that you ought to come out
and say something," said the adviser.
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum;
"and if 1 do say something Just as
many people will say that I ought to
have kept still."
-Greeting the Doc.
"Roman gladiators used to address
the emperor thus; 'We who are about
to die salute you!' "
"I feel like using the singular num
ber of that salutation every Uus I
oilmb into a dentist's chair."