1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



I was surprised to find that I had to a consider- 

 able extent lost my taste for it; and 1 must 

 think it is a good deal an acquired taste. If I 

 am correct, starch and ougar are at the bottom 

 of half the dyspepsia and indigestion that 

 afflict our American people. In fact, the Salis- 

 bury treatment is largely based on feeding the 

 patient on something that contains not a par- 

 ticle of either starcli or sugar. This is not a 

 new idea by any means. In diabetes, and per- 

 haps other diseases, the patient is obliged to 

 guard against articles of food containing starch 

 and sugar as he would guard against poison. 

 Our good friend Dr. Jesse Oren, at Dayiona, 

 Fla., told me that for many years he had been 

 obliged to practice this sort of diet. He has a 

 sort of bread or cracker called gluten cracker, I 

 think, which contains no starch, and. of course, 

 he subsists largely on lean meat, as I do. Now, 

 when it becomes apparent, or seems to become 

 apparent, that it is not only a damage to our 

 physical natures, but a damage to our moral 

 and spiritual natures as well, does it not be- 

 hoove us to look after these things? 



Many times we hear people speak about 

 avoiding meat for supper, or just before they 

 go to bed. For years past I have been obliged 

 to be careful about eating fruit, pies, or cake 

 very near my bedtime. But for more than 25 

 years I have been aware that I could eat lean 

 meat for a late supper just before going to bed, 

 without having my rest at night disturbed a 

 particle. Now. then, friends, when we use that 

 oft-repeated prayer. "Create in me a clean 

 heart, O God, anil renew a right spirit within 

 me" — and I hope the thousands of our readers 

 have been using that prayer for years past as I 

 have used it — when we take these sacred words 

 on our lips, does it not behoove us to be careful 

 of our diet? In our recent Bible readings in 

 the Old Testament I have been struck again 

 and again with the fact that the patriarchs in 

 olden times, in an age when men lived to be 

 from 5no to 1000 years old. nearlv. all had their 

 large flocks and herds; and their sheep and 

 oxen were counted by the hundreds and thou- 

 sands; and on feast-days it would seem, indeed, 

 from the accounts of the number of animals 

 used for a feast, that they must have been 

 largely a meat-eating people. We do not read 

 much about sugar and candy in those olden 

 times. In fact, milk and honey seem to have 

 been the nearest approach to it; and if we were 

 using milk and honey now (instead of sugar at 

 4 or 5 cents a pound), with meat in the quanti- 

 ties evidently consumed away back in the 

 childhood of humanity, who knows but that we 

 might live and hold our strength and vigor for 

 a hundred years or more ? 



For years past. Mrs. Root has constantly 

 urged me. especially when my health was ooor, 

 to eat 7Ho?-e lean meat and less of other things. 

 But some way, after indulging in sweets and 

 fruits I would get a dislike for meat, and often- 

 times give it up altogether until I was obliged 

 to call a halt. Dear reader, if you are afflicted 

 with poor health along the lines I have indicat- 

 ed, just try for a little time using more lean 

 meat and less of sugar and starch, and see if I 

 am not right. You may urge the matter of ex- 

 pense; but the dearest " feed " that anybody 

 can find is that given by doctors, and bought at 

 the drugstore. And. by the way. poor people, 

 and those in moderate circumstances, a great 

 many times employ the doctor a great deal 

 more than the rich. Is this not true? People 

 who are too poor to pay a doctor, and. in fact, 

 never do pay him, oftentimes are the ones who 

 are wanting the doctor continually. 



Right here it would seem quite fitting that I 

 should give some extracts from a letter just re- 



ceived from my old friend and physician, Dr. J. 

 H. Salisbury, the originator and discoverer, if I 

 am correct, of the systeiu of treating disease, 

 that has received his name, not only through- 

 out England and America, but almost if not 

 quite throughout the whole world. 



Drat- Mr. Roof; — You must be rigid, and follow 

 out the instructions accurately, and put your whole 

 soul and body into tlie work, if you desire to make 

 good progress. Keep the bowels well opeTi, stomach 

 well waslu'd out, and urine clear, and be careful 

 not to overeat. Rest before and after each meal 

 15 minutes or half an hour if poss;ible. and be care- 

 ful not to overdo on the bicycle. You will enjoy 

 life as never before if you will simply live rightly. 

 Yours very truly, 



J. H. Salisbury. 



170 W. 59Lh St.. New Y'ork, Sept. 27. 



P. S.— When bowels do not move by 9 or 9:30 a.m., 

 then take one injection of 1 pint of warm water, 

 with two tablespoonfuls of glycerine in it. 



J. H. S. 



In addition to the above he makes some 

 comment'^ on my own instructions in our issue 

 for Sept. 1: 



Use Enterprise meat grinder No. 10, and put beef 

 through from three to five times, according to qual- 

 ity of beef. Butter is not allowed in bad oases. 



IN REGARD TO THE HOT WATER. 



Take water at a temperature most comfortable to 

 the Indiv dual, but not cold. 



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Several years ago a farmi r of my acquain- 

 tance showed me a small, insignificant-looking 

 potato. He said he had just got it as a premium 

 for subscribing to the Rural New Yorker, and 

 that it was the "Rural New-Yorker No. 3." 

 A year or two later a good deal was said about 

 this potato; but people generally seemed to be 

 a little slow in recognizing its good qualities, 

 and it was not until three or four years ago 

 that I gave it a trial on our own grounds. You 

 may remember I reported at once that it gave 

 us the only nice good-sized potatoes, free from 

 scab, we had that year, the season being quite 

 unfavorable. Since then it has seemed to be 

 steadily growing in favor. Last fall, in my 

 absence. Ernest bought a load of potatoes, pay- 

 ing, as I thought, a pretty good price for them. 

 He urged that they were worth it on account 

 of the large size and smooth round appearance, 

 and finally had a load of themptitin his own 

 cellar. I told him they were a nice looking 

 potato, but that they were not extra for table 

 use. To my surprise he declared they were the 

 best potatoes they ever got hold of. This, per- 

 haps, mav have been later on, toward the 

 spring. Well, the Rurals are now one of the 

 standard potatoes in our locality. Farmers 

 who never succeeded in getting any nice pota- 

 toes before, have, with the Rurals. secured 

 large yields of fine clean potatoes. The son- 

 in-law of the old farmer who first showed me 

 that little potato, years ago. has this season 

 about 800 bushels from four acres of ground. 

 Our good friend Merton G. Chase, who raises 

 such nice crops of honey every year, no matter 

 whether the season is good or bad, secured 75 

 bushels of the Rural New-Yorker potatoes 

 frflm a quarter of an acre of ground: and they 

 are the handsomest lot of potatoes, for a large 

 potato, I ever saw in my life. Just think of it 

 —300 bushels to the acre! I told him I thought 

 he must be a high-pressure farmer as well as a 



