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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



after the car arrives. We offer the extracted at the 

 same price we have been selling' California white- 

 sage and Michis-an willow herb, or clover and bas-i- 

 wood honey. We can furnish any of lhe.se in 60-lb. 

 cans, two in a case, at Sc per lb.; two cases or over, 

 T/iC. Write for price on hir^e quantities. Offers of 

 choice comb lioney solicited. 



HIGHER PRICES FOR AVAX. 



A brisk foreign demand for wax lias siillcned up 

 the price about 2 cts. a pound in the New York 

 market. Until further notice we offtT 20 cts. cash, 

 28 cts. in trade, for average wax delivered here. 

 Selling price in small lots will be .S2 cts. per lb. for 

 market wax; 35 cts. for refined, itetail price of 

 comb foundation will be 2 cts. per lb below the 

 printed table in our catalog. We l)a\e for some 

 time been selling at 5 cts. below; but present prices 

 of wax will not warrant further sales at that rate. 



THE BIOGLE POULTRY-BOOK. 



We have not had time to read it through yet, but 

 we notice this one is not a, bit behind the Biggie 

 strawberry-book and the Biggie hoi'se-book. in its 

 wonderful half-tone pictures, to say nothing of the 

 colored plates that are all throng li it. There is a 

 sort of vein of pleasantry running through the Big- 

 gie-book pictures that is quite attractive, and the 

 style of narration has this same vein of comicality. 

 We take it for granted that the book is fully up to 

 the times, because books of this kind, sent out by 

 the Farm Journal, are usually so. The price is .50 

 cts. It contains 16 colored plates, 42 handsome en- 

 gravings, and 61 others illustrating chicken-houses, 

 nests, drinking-vessels, etc. It makes me think of 

 the time when I walked eight miles to a bookstore 

 in order to purchase a book on poultry. It took me 

 a good deal longer to get home than it did to get to 

 the bookstore, because I sat down too often to look 

 at the pictures and to read the wonderful things in 

 regard to my then new hobby; and that book gave 

 me more pleasure, month after month and year 

 after year, than I can well describe, and it gave me 

 also some clean hard cash— the first money I ever 

 earned in any rural industry. I verily believe the 

 Biggie poultry-book is worth .50 et^. Just to Innk at 

 the pif'turivs, even if j'ou do not have time to read it 

 all. You can order it at this office if you prefer. We 

 will send it with Gleanings, if you ask for no other 

 premium, for S1.40. 



HOW TO GET WEf.L AND KEEP WEIiL. 



The above is the title of a book by Mrs. Elma 

 Stuart, of " Merrie Eiiu-land." Permit me to say 

 that, for many years past, T h;ive been purcha'^ing 

 almost evi ry new book as it cam» out. treating on 

 the subject of health and diet. I do n'^t mean that 

 I have been studying all the medical works and 

 doctor books, buttliose written in plain English for 

 common people. WeD, r have been a. good deal dis- 

 appointed to see th;it, almost without exception, 

 they advocated vegetable diet, or mainly .so. Tliis 

 book by ISir^ Stuart presents a most refreshing and 

 cheerful (contrast to the gf neral run. She is a dis- 

 ciple of Salisbury, and. I might say. an ardent dis- 

 ciple; but even the word "ardent" does not express 

 the zeal and happy enthusiasm and pleasantry with 

 which she tells of her trials in seeking health. She 

 had money— at least she did in the beginning— to 

 employ the most expensive doctors, and to go to 

 the celebrated health-resorts: but. like the woman 

 in the scrir'ture, she had "suffered manv things of 

 many physicians, and had spent all that she had, 

 and was nothing better, but rather grew worse." 

 After gaining strength and robust health by the 

 Salisbury treatment she took up — not medicine 

 (because her whole system is nearer " doctoring 

 without medicine " than any thing else T ever heard 

 of), but she soon commenced treating others, and 

 she has quite a long string of trrateful patients to 

 back un h'>r testimony: and in the introduction to 

 the book is a letter by his grace the Duke of Argyll. 

 We find the author's picture in the front of the 

 book, with her own autograph under it, signed, 

 " Yours alw;iys in hot water." Her testimony is so 

 much like mv own that oiie might imagine she 

 copied some of it after me were it not for the fact 

 that tlie first edition of the book rt'as put out in 

 1889: and in 1891 it had got as far as its fifth edition. 

 The full particulars of the treatment are given so 

 plainly, and in such every-dav languas-e, that it 

 seems to me one could hardiv make a mistake. In 

 fact, I would recommend this book to all our in- 



quiring friends who want to know all about the 

 plan ot treatment. And the book is so readable 

 that I think the average person would be likely to 

 read iD all through, even though he were entirely 

 well, and not ailing in any respect. The opening 

 text on the title-page is, " If the prophet had bid 

 thee do some great tiling, wouldst thou not have 

 done it? how much better, then, when he saith to 

 thee. Wash :ind be clean ?" From beginning to end 

 it is a most vehement injunction to "wash and be 

 clean." in ex'cry sen«e of the word. 



The price of tin- l)ook, postpaid, is $1..50, and it may 

 be had at i his office; or we will club it with Glean- 

 ings, and furnish the two for $3.25; or we will mail 

 it to anybody who is alieady taking Gleanings, 

 who will send us $1.2.5. 



FREE SAMPLES OF THE PREPARED HEALTH FOODS 

 manufactured AT BATTLE CREEK, MICH,, ETC. 



I am happy to tell our readers that we are to be 

 furnished Willi a large box of small sample pack- 

 ages, to be given away to those who order goods of 

 us by freight or (xpress. All you have to do is to 

 say. when you make your order, "Put in some 

 of the free samples of the prepared liealth foods." 

 Each p«ckage contains full and complete directions 

 for conking. After you have tiled them, and would 

 like 10 purchase these articles in small quantities 

 by the pound, we are going to have it arranged so 

 we shall keep in stock the follnwing staple atticles, 

 which will be furnished by us at the same prices at 

 which they are so'd in Battle Creek. The following 

 is a list of the prices of the tilings we propose to 

 keep in stock: 



Sanitarium graham crackers, 10 cts. perlb.; wheat 

 crackers, 10 cts.; carbon crackers. 15 cts. These 

 latter are for constipation, and for purifying the 

 stomach and bowels. They are made of carbonized 

 wheat, or wheat partially burned to charcoal. Gra- 

 nola, 20 cts. per lb. This is manufactured from a 

 variety of grains, subjected to continued heat and 

 other processes whereby the starch is partially di- 

 gested, and prepared for immediate assimilation. 

 Gluten meal, 40 per cent pui'e gluten, 40 cts. per lb. 

 This is what I have described elsewhere in this 

 issue, and found so delicious when made into a 

 mush. Grannse, 20 cts. per lb. This is one of their 

 latest and most luscious foods. It is prepared from 

 wheat. It may be used in soups, with milk or 

 cream, or in numbeiless cimbinatinns with fruit 

 and eggs. It is palatable, crisp, delicious, and a 

 valuable food remedy for constipation. Caramel 

 coffee, 15 cts. per lb. This is a sort of coffee that is 

 simply nutritious and not stimulating. You can 

 give it to the children, or drink it yourself. Wheat- 

 germ grits, ^'-//> package, 10 cts. Whole-wheat wa- 

 fers. 20 cts. per lb. These are crisp, delicious, 

 toothsome wafers made of whole-wheat, tlour. short/- 

 ened with cii am. Not a particle of butter, lard, 

 baking-powder, yeast, or soda, is used in making 

 tb< se w.afers, or in any of the crackers or biscuits. 

 The first and main idea in their manufacture is 

 health; next, prices as low as may be consistent 

 with quality. 



Last, but not least, we have fragments or broken 

 crackers in bulk of all the kinds of crackers that 

 they make, at a uniform price of 8 cts. per lb. These 

 crackers are just as good and just as clean and 

 fresh as any other; but they are not considered 

 quite as nice to put up in packages, therefore they 

 sell them at a low price as above. 



Besides all the above, we have the small samples 

 of their health food, nut up in little ji.ackages, with 

 directions for eooking, to be given away fi'ee. If 

 wanted by mail you will have to si^nd 10 cts. for 

 postage; but if you mention them when ordering 

 other goods of us. say by freight or express, we will 

 ])ut in some samples free of expense. 



Now, they manufacture ever so many other kinds 

 of biscuit, ( rackers. etc., as well as prepared foods, 

 and you can get a nice catalog of all by simply mak 

 ing application to the Sanitarium Health Food Co., 

 Battle Creek. Mich. 



One special thing to recommend these foods is, 

 that they can he so quickly prepared. The cooking 

 is all done bj s^eam, or by great coke fires, at tlie 

 factory; and it'isdone on so large a scale that the 

 cost is compiratively nothing. When you want to 

 prepare them for the table, simply pour on a little 

 boiling water, stir it up, and you have a hot dish of 

 most luscious pudding, mush, toast, or whatever 

 else it may be. Where a woman does her own 

 housework (as is the case in our home), we should 



