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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Mar. 1 



from 30 of his best breeders, selected from a 

 flock of 5000 or 6000. The book is a valuable 

 one, even if it does contain less than 100 

 pages, and about 40 of these pages are taken 

 up with testimonials from his customers who 

 paid $2 00 each for 15 eggs. The book is a 

 Dig improvement in paper and print over 

 the otner dollar books that exploit "sys- 

 tems;" but why didn't Mr. K., with that big 

 lot of money, put a cloth cover on his book 

 and make it a little larger? In many respects 

 the "book" is only an advertising medium 

 for his $2.00 eggs, such as our incubator peo- 

 ple send out free of charge; and, to cap the 

 climax, one of the pages in the back part is 

 all taken up with tne announcement that if 

 you want his catalog of prices with pictures 

 of the things described in the book (for which 

 you have already paid a dollar), you must 

 send four cents to pay the postage on the cat- 

 alog. Evidently Mr. K. and some others 

 (Burbank, for instance) do not expect to do 

 much for the "dear people" unless they 

 pay for it in good round dollars. 



Now, 1 am glad to say Mr. Kellerstrass 

 seems to have developed a wonderful strain 

 of egg-laying White Orpingtor s. The editor 

 of Reliable Poultry Journal wrote to 84 people 

 who purchased the $2.00 eggs, and seventy- 

 two replied. Mr. K. seems to have a fashion 

 of making his customers satisfied (and well 

 he can afford to) , and a lot report getting 

 200 or more eggs in a year from pullets from 

 the $2 UO eggs; and I notice one report of 

 265 eggs in a year. The $2.00 eggs are from 

 30 breeders selected from tive or six thousand 

 by careful trap nesting. 



I want to call attention again this year to 

 the Cyphers catalog. It contains a "secret" 

 of more value, in my opinion, than any I have 

 found in the "System" books— viz., a plan 

 by which you can raise the very best chickens, 

 and neither feed them nor clean out the lit- 

 ter oftener than once in t>*o weeks, uur 

 friends will remember I copied the process 

 from their catalog about a year ago, and since 

 then they have proved again the superioiity 

 of the method (deep litter feeding), not only 

 for young chickens but for laying pullets. 



Health Notes 



MILK "STRIPPINGS" FOR CONSUMPTIVES. 



Toward forty years ago, when I was tak- 

 ing the "beef diet" with Dr. Salisbury, he 

 had a patient threatened with c nsumption, 

 and by his orders this patient took about a 

 pint of milk strippings right from the cow, 

 night and morning. This patient is sH'l alive 

 and enjoying fair health, so far as I know, 

 and the whole matter was brought to mind 

 by the following clipping sent out by Dr. 

 Kendall who is prommently connected with 

 the Christian Home Orphanage, Council 

 Bluffs. Iowa. Milk is surely better than 

 medicine for almost everybody. 



The most certain method ever adopted for the cure 

 of the " ereat white plague " is through the diet used 

 as per directions below, which can be taken at home, 



and comes within the reach of the poor as well as the 

 rich. The modus operandi is to force the body to take 

 on fat— a desideratum long felt by the medical profes- 

 sion, but never before attained to. 



During the last fifteen years I have prescribed this 

 diet in hundreds of instances ; and where directions 

 have been followed strictly it has raised the weight 

 and increased the strength and vitality of the patient 

 rapidly up to a normal condition, thus enabling na- 

 ture to assert her sovereign riwht to be the dominating 

 force in the body, and the germs causing consumption 

 have been overcome and the cure accomplished. Some 

 have gained a pound a day, and would gradually take 

 on less until they would not increase in weight any 

 more. 



The all-important thing is to drink large quantities 

 of milk strippings (the very last of the milking). This 

 seems so simple and easy that many have refused to 

 follow directions, and demanded medicines to cure 

 them; but there has not yet been discovered any med- 

 icine that is a specinc for consumption. 



To get best results a healthy cow should be selected, 

 one that does not cough, and one that gives very rich 

 milk. A Jersey cow is preferable. The milk should 

 always be tested to be sure that there is a large per 

 cent of cream in it. 



The last quart should be milked into a separate dish 

 which rests in a larger vessel containing warm water, 

 just sufficient to prevent the strippings from cooling 

 below blood heat. The cow should be thoroughly 

 cleaned to prevent any dirt getting into the milk, so 

 the patient can blow back the froth and drink at once 

 without straining;, as this cools it too much. 



Begin by drinking nearly a pint in the morning and 

 the same at night, and increase the quantity gradually 

 so that in ten or fifteen days a full quart will be taken 

 twice a day. It should be taken immediately after 

 milking, before it has had time to cnol any. All should 

 be taken that can be without too much discomfort, and 

 then rest two or three minutes, and drink more and 

 rest again, ^nd so on until a full quart has been taken 

 as soon as it can be conveniently. In about fifteen 

 minutes the patient should eat at the table such arti- 

 cles of food as are known to agree with the stomach. 

 At noon eat as usual. 



When the strippings are not allowed to cool below 

 blood heat, and taken immediately after it is milked, a 

 full quart will be transfused into the circulation in a 

 remarkably short time. 



I have never seen a case but could take the strip- 

 pings without any discomfort worth mentioning when 

 above directions were followed strictly, although some 

 have declared they could not before trying it; but 

 when they delayed taking for half an hour and the 

 milk had cooled ten degrees I have seen half a pint 

 make them very sick. The great secret of success 

 with it is in taking it immediately after milking and 

 not allowing it to cool below blood heat, taking a full 

 quart morning and evening, and having milk that is 

 very rich. 



The following is a typical case. Mrs. A. E. was sud- 

 denly startled to find her weight was forty pounds be- 

 low normal. She was coughing terribly, and soon 

 had a very profuse hemorrhage from the lungs that 

 came near taking her life. I at once began the use of 

 the milk strippings after hemorrhage was stopped, and 

 in about ten or Hftfen days she had gained nearly a 

 pound a day, and was soon able to get out of bed and 

 go around the house. She increased quite rapidly; 

 and as her weight and strength increased her cough 

 decreased. When she had gained thirty pounds in 

 about three months her cough had left her. I had her 

 continue the same diet for six or eight weeks longer, 

 and she gained ten pounds more, and then took on no 

 more flesh She was then as well as she ever had been, 

 and continued well after the strippings were discon- 

 tinued. 



She took no medicine after the hemorrhage was 

 stopped, excepting a little pepsin and some other rem- 

 edies to aid digestion, and a simple cough remedy to 

 ease the cough: but tar, lobelia, opium, tartar emetic, 

 and such medicines as disturb the stomach and inter- 

 fere with digestion were carefully avoided. 



It is easy for those on a farm to carry out this meth- 

 od; and on several occasions parties who lived in the 

 city purchased a suiiabie cow, and. after complete re- 

 covery in every instance, they sold the cow for nearly 

 as much as was paid for her. 



I do not remember any patient who followed the di- 

 rections strictly who was not cured ; but several per- 

 sisted in declaring they could not take it, until so 

 much valuable time wasted that they lost their lives. 



I have found the same diet, when these directions 

 were carried out carefully, to increase the weight and 

 strength of those run down from other causes. 



