GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15. 



by an outsider. As it gives some additional 

 particulars I give it here: 



THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY. 



"A human liive of industry" is a sentence tliat 

 tersely and well defines the mammoth plant devoted 

 to the manufacture of bee-keepers' supplies by this 

 noted concern whose reputation extends through- 

 out the universe. Right in the town, and adjoinlug- 

 the depot and tracks of theC.L. & W. R. R., are 

 their immense two and three story factory build- 

 ings, covering an area of three to four acres of 

 ground. The letter U would convey a pretty good 

 idea of their arranged connection, the frontal or 

 base of this letter to be 125 feet, and running depth 

 250 feet. Six engines are so arranged as lo bring 

 motive power to bear direct where it is needed. 

 Combined there is 225 horse-power. Buildings are 

 lighted by tlieir own electric-light system, and 

 equipped with their own first-class and adequate 

 fire-protection system. The machinery for produc- 

 ing the multitudinous articles turned out is the best 

 that can be constructed, and much of it is original. 

 Any attempt to place on paper a conception of the 

 workings here would result in failure, even were 

 one to have columns instead of lines at his disposal. 

 They do business with the whole world, and would 

 with the planets if they could be reached. This 

 useful industry was started just a quarter of a cen- 

 tury ago by A. I. Root, a Buckeye production from 

 Connecticut stock that distriouted itself through 

 this part of the State, and which has left an indelible 

 impress. Every individual in thewoild that owns 

 a swarm of bees, and every bee in the universe, 

 knows The A. I. Root Company, Medina, Ohio. 

 Their works are manned by a force of KM) skilled 

 employes, who are busy every working day in the 

 year, and often, in the press of season, work far 

 into the night. Fully $4". OOti in wages are annually 

 disbursed. They liave their own printing-rooms, 

 from which issue carloads of catalogs which go out 

 all over the globe, and print 10,000 copies of their 

 semi-monthly magazine. Gleanings, devoted en- 

 tirely to bee culiure. A. ]. Root has advertised 

 Medina to the world, to all nations and tribes; and 

 they spend thousands of dollars in advertising in 

 various periodicals devoteil to kindred interests. 

 There is no other similar factory in existence. It 

 causes the admiring visitor to wonder. In itself it 

 is a wonder. The amount of American inventive 

 genius that one can see under The A. I. Root Com- 

 pany's roof is simplj' marvelous. The name, fame, 

 and successes of this concern -are almost beyond 

 conception. It is remarkably and strangely co-inci- 

 dental that this plant in its entirety, its workings 

 and management, should so much resemble that for 

 which it is laboring— the beehive. Medina owes a 

 a debt of gratitude to this enti iprising concern. It 

 has been a tireless machine, throhbing its energies, 

 and aiding materially at all times the g-eneral wel- 

 fare of Mi'diiia. 



DOCTORING WITHOUT MEDICINE. 



LEAN MEAT AND NOT FAT JtEAT. 



After I had got to feeling real well, and was 

 eating zwieback and the health foods pretty 

 freely, I told Mrs. Root there was no furiher 

 need that she should be so very particular in 

 cutting out every little bit of fat so as to give 

 me just the pure lean meat as she had been 

 doing. She remonstrated, and declared I would 

 get a setback if I went to eating greasy meat 

 or greasy food. But I finally induced her to 

 give me just one meal of nice /ot juicy steak. 

 As I had been dieting so long on pure lean meat 

 I rather enjoyed the change. But a dinner of 

 pork and beans, cabbage and squash, could 

 hardly have upset my digestion more. I had 

 one f>f my old sick- headaches, and kept awake 

 a good part of the night with disturbance in 

 the digestive apparatus; and I awoke with a 

 headache next morning, and an entire loss of 

 appetite. I think this is almost the only time 

 when I have sat down to a meal, in the whole 

 six months I have been dieting, without a good 

 healthy relish for my meat. At breakfast I 



felt as if I could not eat any thing at all. You 

 may be sure, however, I had the pure lean sir- 

 loin steak, and not a bit of grease about it — not 

 a bit of butter, not a crumb of zwieback, nor 

 any thing except the lean meat. As soon, how- 

 ever, as I had chewed very thoroughly, and 

 swallowed a few mouthfuls, my appetite began 

 to return. The outraged stomach and bowels 

 indicated their approval of the clean, easily 

 digested food. The bad feelings gradually 

 subsided, and in the course of 34 hours of strict- 

 ly lean-meat fare, I came around to my normal 

 state. Since then, whenever there has been 

 any slight disturbance of the digestion, I have 

 come back promptly to the clean meat, with 

 nothing else: and there is no question about it 

 in my case, that this treatment is sure and 

 unvarying. But it took fully three months of 

 a steady meat diet to get my whole system into 

 natural working trim of the best sort. 



Now, the question comes in right here, and it 

 is the whole point of my little story this morn- 

 ing: Can headache, and other troubles that 

 follow along the line of indigestion, sour stom- 

 ach, distress of the bowels, etc.. be cured in this 

 way with other people as with myself? Will 

 the beef diet, or this plan of '"doctoring with- 

 out medicine," give relief generally? I wish 

 the readers of Gleanings would try it, and 

 give me a postal-card report. The next time 

 they have sick-headache, instead of trying the 

 starvation plan (that is a sure thing with so 

 many), just eat pure lean beef. This will give 

 you strength to go about your work, and will 

 be less violent than entire fasting. If your 

 headache proceeds from a cold, my impression 

 is that the lean meat will be a help even then; 

 for my belief is that most colds are primarily 

 caused by disordered digestion. An ordinary 

 sick-headache ought to be cured entirely by a 

 lean-meat diet for 24 hours, or. say. whenever 

 you feel a dislike for food of any kind. Instead 

 of toast and tea, which is so often recommended, 

 use just the lean meat. A little strong tea 

 might in some cases be a benefit, for tea of 

 itself will often cure some forms of headache 

 caused by indigestion. In my case, however, 

 whenever I have this sort of headache I seem 

 to be overburdened with fluids in the stomach 

 and bowels, and I get along better without a 

 particle of drink of any kind at mealtime. 

 Three hours after having eaten your dry meat, 

 you may drink a cupful of hot water, just as 

 hot as you can get it down by sipping it with a 

 spoon. Even if you feel a repugnance to it, 

 you will find, by the time you have taken half 

 a pint, it has brought a feeling of relief. Please 

 tell me briefly if it is not true, that I may be 

 better able to guide those who are wishing me 

 to guide them in this matter of health. 



Just now I am discussing, mind you, the cure 

 of sudden and acute diseases — something that 

 can be cured, probably, within 24 hours or less. 

 Now, when you find your system responds to 

 this meat treatment, then you are ready to com- 

 mence the cure of such stubborn and chronic 

 diseases as rheumatism, asthma, and even con- 

 sumption — diseases that will require absolutely 

 pure lean meat for several weeks or months, or 

 in bad cases it may be a couple of years, or the 

 rest of your life; for it is surely better to live, 

 and enjoy tolerable health on a restricted diet, 

 than not to live at all, or to live a life of suffer- 

 ing and pain. With such a disease as diabetes, 

 and others of kindred character, you may be 

 obliged to hold to a strict diet all your life. 

 One who changes suddenly from a mixed diet 

 to one of pure lean meat will probably have 

 trouble in the outset with constipation. With 

 myself, however, at the present time I have no 

 trouble of this kind at all, even on a strictly 



