1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



539 



old-chicks " at 15 cts. each, so there is at 

 least one man in Florida in the day-old- 

 c-hick business. 



Health Notes 



By A. I. Root 



I hold in my hand two publications that 

 have given me very much satisfaction. The 

 first one is " Directions for Livingand Sleep- 

 ing in the Open Air." It is put out by the 

 JSIetropolitan Life Insurance Company. 

 This company, as I understand it, insures 

 the lives of sick people; and after they have 

 thus insured them it is a pecuniary object 

 to have their patrons keep well, especially 

 to live and not die, because when they die 

 they have to hand over a lot of money. 

 Well, I must confess this is the first time I 

 have ever considered and clearly compre- 

 lipnded such a scheme for "making sick 

 ! eople well." The pamphlet is by Thomas 

 Specs Carrington. M. D., and it is about the 

 most sensible thing on the subject I ever 

 got hold of. The author talks open air from 

 beginning to end with a vengeance; and the 

 pictures of arrangements that can be con- 

 structed or adai)ted to almost any dwelling 

 at a low price are worth more alone than 

 some books that cost SI. 00, say new systems 

 of poultry-books for instance. I was espe- 

 cially attracted by a sort of woolen cap that 

 covers the face, neck, and every thing but 

 the mouth and eyes. If I were to sleep out- 

 doors in freezing temperature it is just ex- 

 actly what I should want. This great in- 

 surance company has at its command the 

 very ablest talent in the line of medicine 

 that the world can produce, and they have 

 no nostrums to sell; in fact, the book is a 

 vehement jirotest against attempting to cure 

 tuberculosis and other kindred diseases by 

 the use of drugs and medicines. Good food, 

 pure water, and outdoor pure air first, last, 

 and all the time. I do not know whether 

 the book is sent free of charge or not. You 

 can tell by addressing Metropolitan Life In- 

 surance Company, New York. By the w^ay, 

 our good friend Dr. S. A. Knopf has assist- 

 ed in preparing this pamphlet. May the 

 Lord be praised for the progress that the 

 whole wide world is making in stamping 

 out the great white plague. 



Now, the other book that has greatly 

 jileascd me is "Preventable Diseases," by 

 Woods Hutchinson, M. D., who, like the 

 l)amphlet I have mentioneil, advises open 

 air for tuberculosis, typhoid fever, malaria, 

 and every thing else. As Dr. Hutchinson 

 is an allopathic physician he endorses the 

 use of medicines, but to only a very limit- 

 ed extent. It seems the whole wide world 

 as well as doctors of all and every school are 

 beginning to believe prevention is better 

 than cure, and they are fast getting into a 

 line })retly nearly parallel to what T. B. 

 Terry has been so vehemently teaching, if 

 not altogether so. This beautiful book eon- 



tains over 400 pages, and it brings the mat- 

 ter of scientific and intelligent medicine 

 clear up to the present date, touching on al- 

 most every thing that produces sickness, 

 ]iain, and death, as well as the iireventable 

 diseases as colds, tuberculosis, diphtheria, 

 malaria, headache, nervousness, and wind- 

 ing up with menial influences in disease. 

 Price of the book is $1.50. Address Hough- 

 ton, Mifllin c't Company, Boston, Mass. 



ONLY TWO MEALS A DAY, ETC. 



I inclose a clipping from the Norwich Bulletin of 

 June 27. It says the no-breakfast fad started in 

 Norwich 17 years ago. Such may be the case as to 

 Norwich; but 1 began the no-breakfast habit ten 

 years earlier, merely because of lack of appetite tor 

 that meal, and before I had ever heard or read of 

 any one else doing so; but some years later 1 read 

 Fowler's "Science of Life," in which he stated he 

 had lived 15 years, I believe, on one meal a day. At 

 one time T lived for about two years on one meal a 

 day, but often ate a light lunch in the evening, and 

 my weight kept at the usual place the same as when 

 eatiLg two or three meals a day. Now I and my 

 family eat at about eight and live o'clock each day, 

 and probably eat much more than is necessary. 



The following is the clipping referred to: 



"The omission of breakfast in the interest of 

 health started in Norwich 17 years ago, and since 

 then has become nearly world-wide. It is now in 

 vogue in .Japan, China, Australia, and New Zea- 

 land, and has been accepted by some eminent doc- 

 tors in civilized lands. The following paragraph is 

 clipped from a recent copy of the Sydney, N. S. W., 

 Stock Journal, the editor of which recovered his 

 health and has become 70 years young, instead of 70 

 years old, in conseciuence of this practice: 



■• • A man wlio undertakes to eat only when he is hu' gry 

 will soon find that two meals a day are ample. A fair lunch 

 in the middle of the day. and a very light dinner at nicrht. Is 

 plenty, or. better still, a tea Then his household will be hap- 

 py and healthy, and liis own life will be free from disease. He 

 will see the sim shining as it never shone before, and life will 

 tlTigle ihrough all his veins as it never did since his careless 

 bojhood; and his women folks will have time to look around 

 and wonder at the glory of God's fair earth.' 



"The evidences are ample that this 'gospel of 

 health' is a living gospel.'' 

 Packerville, Ct., July 7. E. P. Robinson. 



YELLOW SWEET CLOVER BLOSSOMING WITH- 

 IN 60 DAYS AFTER THE SEED WAS SOWN. 



Noticing what is said on page 421 as to the early 

 maturity of yellow sweet clover. I have a yet bigger 

 story to tell. Last fall I bought some sweet-clover 

 seed of you, both white and yellow, and about the 

 first of May gave some of the seed (mixed) to my 

 neighbor, Mr. Lillibridge, who sowed it in his gar- 

 den. The yellow is now about two feet tall, and lias 

 been in blossom for the past two weeks. We can 

 not be certain as to the date of sowing; but Mr. I>. 

 and I are quite positive the clover was in blossom 

 within sixty days after sowing. I have traveled 

 over quite a bit of Eastern Connecticut and West- 

 ern Rhode Island, and have seen sweet clover grow- 

 ing in but one place, except as above mentioned, 

 and that was near the railroad station at Mont- 

 ville, Ct. I have not succeeded well with sweet clo- 

 ver, but have done well with alfalfa. The white 

 sweet clover sown by Mr. L. has not yet blossomed. 



Packerville, Ct., July 6. E. P. IJobinson. 



The above corroborates what we have 

 said, that yellow sweet clover, as a rule, 

 blossoms much sooner than the white. 



SWEET CLOVER FOR HAY. 



We clip the following from the National 

 Stockman and Farmer, written by ISIr. L. 

 Roudebush, of Clermont Co., O.: 



H. S. C, of Mt. ( iilead, O.. asks: " V.'ill you kindly 

 let me know what the feeding value of sweet clover 

 is. and if there is any place in this country where it 

 is sown for hay? If so. please let nie know the num- 



