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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



ed it. I turned with an exclamation of sur- 

 prise: 



" Why, friend K.. this Is the most delicious 

 food. I verily do believe, that has ever passed 

 my lips." 



I knew, almost without trying, that it would 

 digest perfectly, and it did. In the proce.«s of 

 manufacture it is cooked for hours, again and 

 again; and, therefore, when put up ready for 

 market, the addition of a little boiling water 

 makes a nice cooked food almost instantly. The 

 gluten biscuit I found equally palatable, but 

 it is more trouble to masticate them. Gluten 

 may be called the "beefsteak" of the wheat: 

 and when cooking it smells very much like 

 savory meat. 



I had quite a talk with Dr. Kellogg in his 

 private office. While he did not say in so many 

 words that gluten foods might entirely take the 

 place of lean meat, he implied that they now 

 succeeded in treating all diseases with a veg- 

 etable diet. Be it said to their credit, very few 

 drugs or medicines are used at all. The whole 

 great institution, employing almost every 

 known art and appliance for the cure of disease, 

 come the nearest of any thing I ever saw or 

 heard of to a system of really— "cZoctori7i(/ 

 without medicine.'''' 



WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE. WHO SHALL DECIDE? 



Dear friends, there is not space in Gleanings 

 to discuss the matter of a mixed diet, or one 

 purely vegetable; for great books have already 

 been written on both sides of the subject. May 

 I simply call attention to the fact expressed in 

 the text at the head of this talk? Once or 

 twice our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ saw fit 

 to provide food for his followers. He fed the 

 multitudes, as you are aware, both with loaves 

 and fishes— very likely because that was the 

 common every-day diet of the times. Once 

 more, he at one time provided a little banquet 

 on the shores of the lake for the chosen few. 

 He had first helped them to catch the fish, then 

 he provided for the tired and hungry laborers a 

 little meal, and it was composed as before of 

 bread and fish, both together. At another 

 time, when he was trying to convince them 

 that he was not a spirit, but really flesh and 

 blood, he asked them for food. They brought 

 him some fish and honey, of which he partook. 

 One of the great objections made to a diet of 

 animal food is that it necessitates the taking of 

 animal life; but the Saviour actually helped, 

 by miraculous means, that his disciples might 

 gather in that great draft of fishes. He at least 

 evidently did not consider it sinful to take life 

 in order to provide them with their daily food. 

 Shall we not drop the subject here, letting each 

 one decide for himself where duty lies? and I 

 should say. shall we not thank God for every 

 little bit of progress that is being made in 

 either vegetable or animal diet, in the preven- 

 tion and cure of disease — especiaUv while this 

 sort of cure was brought about by " doctoring 

 without medicine " ? 



OUR CROP OF CRAIG SEEDLING POTATOES FOR 



1895. 



The ground was occupied by potatoes last 

 year; and had it been any other variety than 

 the Craig we should have been afraid of the 

 scab. Let me say here that the crop is mostly 



dug and harvested, with scarcely a trace of 

 scab in the whole lot. The potatoes were 

 planted May 10, on something over an acre of 

 ground. As there were different pati^'h' s here 

 and there, vacated by other crops, it is hard to 

 get at the whole area exactly. The largest 

 piece, however, was, as nearly as we can mea- 

 sure it, % of an acre. In con.scqnence of a 

 frosty spring, or some other reason, there was 

 not a full stand. Perhaps the seed was slightly 

 frostfd, as it was shipped pretty early in the 

 spring. We cut the potatoes to one eye— mostly 

 large ontatoes. The ground was worked up 

 fine, with appropriate harrows before plowing, 

 then plowed and fined up again, making a 

 mellow seed-bed nine or ten inches deep. The 

 ground was in good order, and they came up 

 quite promptly — that is. what came up. So 

 many failed, as I have told yon, that, fearing 

 the ground would not be all occupied, I planted 

 Burpee's bush lima beans where hills were 

 missing. I did very foolishly, however, in that; 

 for, before digging-time, the ground was so 

 covered with the Craig potatoes that the beans 

 were literally choked out, and they really 

 amounted to about as much as so many weeds. 

 As the ground had no manure, about the time 

 the tops so nearly covered the ground that it 

 would have been impossible to cultivate much 

 further we mulched all the spaces between the 

 rows with coarse stable manure; and this, 

 together with the great mass of tops, held the 

 moisture so well that, after the first heavv rain, 

 it kept at least damp during the whole dry 

 season down under the mulch. About the first 

 of October the greater part of the vines, when 

 stretched up to their full length, came up to my 

 chin — some of them as high as my head. The 

 mass of foliage was tremendous; and so were 

 the potatoes tremendous. While picking them 

 up we put some of them into a bushel basket, 

 for photographing. Forty potatoes made a 

 heaping bushel; and from the whole 5^ of an 

 acre we gathered a good 2.50 bushels. This 

 would be at the rate of 400 bushels per acre, 

 and that, too, with so many missing hills that 

 we should have had quite a crop of lim.a beans 

 if the rank growth of potatoes had not actually 

 crowded them to death before the beans were 

 quite matured. We got some beans on the 

 outside rows— that is about all. The potatoes 

 have now been tested through two of our most 

 trying dry seasons, and they fully sustain their 

 reputation for standing drouth, scab. bugs, and 

 blight, better than any other potato I know of. 

 In fact, it has never shown a particle of blight. 

 By mistake in planting, one row was left after 

 thie seed was all gone, and this furrow was 

 pretty well down through the middle of the 

 patch. A new potato that we wished to test 

 was put in here — in fact, several new kinds 

 were put in, right adjoining the Craigs. One 

 after another showed blight more or less before 

 the season was over, and this one long row was 

 ail black and dead when not a leaf of the Craig 

 foliage on either side was affected at all. The 

 Craig is in shape much like the Rural New- 

 Yorker, and is in every way fully as desirable. 

 We think it of a finer quality as a table potato, 

 and a very much stronger grower, both in foli- 

 age and yield. 



CRAIG POTATOES AT THE OHIO EXPERIMENT 



,,;: ,, STATION, ETC. 



Friend Root: — I was very much interested in 

 your account of your visit to P"'enn's, Terry's, 

 and Chamberlain's, in the Oct. 1 Gleanings. 

 I thought you would be interested in hearing 

 how the Craig Seedling behaved at the station, 

 and your account brought it to my mind. 



I can say that we had no variety out of over 



