1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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lean-meat diet. Nature is ready to do her 

 part siiortly after rising in the morning, almost 

 as promptly as the rising of the sun. At pres- 

 ent I do not know of any other food that can 

 take the place of the lean meat, for it contains 

 neither starch nor sugar — the two substances 

 that produce most of the fermentatioq, sour- 

 ness, and gaseous disturbance in the bowels. 

 AH physicians, I believe, now agree, also, that 

 lean meat is digested almost if not quite entire- 

 ly in the stomach, thus relieving the bowels so 

 that they may become entirely empty, and 

 recover their normal state. 



ZVPIEBACK MADE OF WHOLE-WHEAT FLOUR. 



Dr. Miller asks, in Straws, why this can not 

 be made wholesale by the bakers. Doubtless it 

 will be as soon as there is demand for it. The 

 Battle Creek people do make it; but, to tell the 

 truth, our people like the home-made rather 

 better than that we buy at Battle Creek. May 

 be the Battle Creek folks have not any whole- 

 wheat flour equal to that made by W. B. 

 McKenney, Abbeyville, Medina Co., O. 



HOME-MADE ZWIEBACK, ETC. 



Mr. A. I. Root:— We are glad to notice good 

 progress with you in the lean-beef cure. In 

 your notes on Battle Creek you did not tell us 

 whether it was yeast bread of which zwieback 

 is made. Thirty years ago I learned at Dr. 

 Jackson's "Our Home on the Hillside," Dan- 

 ville, N. Y., how to make rusk, which in sub- 

 stance is identical with zwieback. It is made 

 of whole-wheat flour and water, the dough 

 thoroughly kneaded, then rolled out, cut into 

 strips, or with a biscuit-cutter, and baked in a 

 quick oven. It is broken in pieces, placed in a 

 pan, and returned to a slow oven until all the 

 moisture is dried out. It is then run through a 

 hand-mill, and served with cream, or milk and 

 cream. If zwieback is as good as this rusk, 

 then surely it is mighty fine living, and it 

 doesn't cost 10c a pound. Anybody can make 

 it who will. Sixty pounds of wheat costs sixty 

 cents. Made into zwieback it will cost the 

 consumers $6 00. 



By the way. I must tell you of a discovery we 

 made last summer. The mill from which we 

 got graham flour shut down for repairs. When 

 our graham gave out we tried a small lot made 

 with our hand-mill. It did so well that we 

 continued it. We wash and dry out the wheat 

 before grinding; and for every purpose of 

 whole-whole flour it is perfection— superior to 

 that milled by the roller process. Now we don't 

 go to mill for graham. Our mill is a Wilson. 



Pure beef diet, without suitable and efficient 

 means of chopping the meat fine, is like the 

 play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. I have 

 used an Enterprise meat-grinder for five years, 

 and know the excellent results from its use. In 

 order to use all of the lean parts of a cut weigh- 

 ing S or 10 pounds, one has to stop and clean 

 out the perforated plate several times. There 

 is an implement called a steak-greith (sold for 

 50 cents by Ailing it Lodge, Madison. Tndiann) 

 which fills the bill exactly. With ihis. nno can 

 utilize all the lean parts, chopping it a« fine as 

 the grinder, and in only a little more time. 



John Cadwalladek. 



North Madison, Ind., Nov. 24. 



Working Bee. — "A fellow came around here 

 hunting for our nest the other day." 

 Queen Bee.—'' What did you do? " 

 Wnrkinq Bee. — "Those of us who happened 

 to be around at the time gave him a few 

 points." — Truth. 



Peace on eartli, good will toward men. 



something from GEOKGE O. GOODHUE, DAN- 

 VILLE, QUEBEC, CANADA. 



Our old'-r readers will, without any explana- 

 tion, be glad to receive any thing that comes 

 from the pen of George O. Goodhue. We might 

 explain briefly to the newer ones that friend 

 Goodhue paid a visit to your humble servant, 

 A. I. Root,, away back when the foundation 

 stones wei-e being laid for the first brick build- 

 ing at the Home of the Honey-bees. When 

 everybody else— or at least almost everybody 

 else — was afraid to loan money toward the en- 

 terprise, friend Goodhue supplied the needful 

 funds, without even asking security. In fact, 

 he ri'fiised to accept any thing except a simple 

 piece of paper as a memorandum of the money 

 he advanced. He had faith in the Home Pa- 

 pers and in the Home teachings; and even 

 though he was not at that time a professor of 

 religion he had faith in God, and it was my 

 pleasure to tell him so. He has sinf*e come out 

 before the world as a humble follower of the 

 Lord Jesus Christ and as one of his ablest 

 teachers; and it is because "p^acf• on earth and 

 good will toward men" seem to shine forth 

 from every word he utters, and every line he 

 writes, that I have seen fit to choose the little 

 text for the title of my talk to you to day. 



B^'irst I submit entire a private li'tter, written, 

 as you will notice, on New Year's day. He says 

 this letter w:»s not written for publication; but 

 I know he will forgive me for using it thus 

 when I assure him I believe it will do good. 



~~DPAtr Mr.'Rf)<if:—J take the liberty of sending you 

 a copy of the Montreal TT'i7/ic.'*.s, thinking it may be 

 of interest to you at this time when so much has 

 been said and done to jar upon the sensibilities of 

 well-wishers of the race in botli our countries. 

 Perhaps one of the articles on the i:5th page, entitl- 

 ed "The Cri ne of tlie Century." may have a little 

 added interest to you as coming from my pen. I do 

 not send it, nor this letter, for publicatinn. but wish 

 to say that our prayers join with yours that wisdom 

 and kindness— in fact, true, genuine Christianity- 

 may yet prevail in the councils of both nations. 



My Christmas w;is made happier by a new photo 

 of o\ir dear Helen Keller and her estimable teacher, 

 whicli reache'1 me on that day; and the new year 

 opens more briglitly because of a kind, loving let- 

 ter which cm nie to me this morning from Helen. 

 She is now pnssing licr second winter in New York 

 city, at the Wright-Humason school, wliere she has 

 made astonishing progress. Besides arithmetic and 

 physical geogrHphy, she is studying German, 

 French, lip-re ding, and voice training. When I 

 think of her wond rful lip-reading, it seems almost 

 an added pioof that, the age of miracles is not past. 

 Just imagine the delight with wliicli she told me in 

 one of her letters last summer, that, by putting her 

 fingers upon her little br<itlier's and sister's lips she 

 could understand wliat they were saying! Don't 

 you think the dear fingers often get kissed when in 

 such a tempting position ? 



I was at tiie Kindergarten for the Blind at Ja- 

 mnica I'lain, Boston, two years ago, and greatly 

 enjoyed my visit there among the little blind chil- 

 dren. Among them was little Tommy Stringer, 

 whom you and many of your readers so kindly aid- 

 ed Helen in placing there. He is a very happy little 

 fellow. anJ has much imjiroved since his entry 

 there, and the gor)d work of improvement is still 

 going on. Anoilier dear child 1 saw was Lizzie 

 Robin, who is deaf and blind, the same as both 

 Helen and Tommy. Such a quick, active, and al- 

 together charming little chatterbox! "I will show 

 you how Tommy i/'rt^/ced when he first came here," 

 she said to me with a funny, roguish look on her 

 bright, pretty face, and down she got in a trice 

 upon all fours on the carpet, and commenced a. 



