1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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berries as a fruit; but those growing on our 

 ground have such an awfully acrid, bitter 

 taste that it does not seem to me as if thev 

 could be fit for jelly. It may be that our pe- 

 culiar season has caused them to ripen earlier, 

 for they were all matured and gone before we 

 could test them under the influence of frost, as 

 suggested by friend Green on page 764. 



SWEET POTATOES IN THE NOKTH— l£OW TO RAISE 

 *'G001> ONES." 



C Friend R<)ot:~l havfi raised sweet potatoes for the 

 past 38 years. I was told to plant on the very best 

 land I had, which I did for a few years. Tlie result 

 was plenty of vines but no potatoes. True, we had 

 an abundance of roots. I once had one 3 feet long 

 and not more than I'i inches in diameter in the 

 largest place— stringy and not lit to eat. When I 

 can succeed in getting potatoes just the size and 

 shape I desire, I want them, when split through the 

 center, to represent a paw-pa,w leaf in size and 

 shape. I do not care to have them any larger. The 

 poorer the land the better will be the quality of the 

 potatoes. I think the best potatoes 1 ever raised 

 were on a Ijank of pure clean sand where not a weed 

 or spear of grass could grow. The vines will then 

 not grow more than 3 to 6 feet long, and never root 

 to the ground. It adds very much to the size of the 

 crop if one puts a quart of well-rotted manure in 

 each hill when the plants are set. W. C. Gault. 

 Ruggles, O., Oct. 8. 



prizetaker onion-sets versus onion-plants, 



;etc. 



Friend Boot:— I bought Prizetaker and Pearl on- 

 ionsets of you last spring. The Prizetaker sets 

 were a success and did better than those I raised by 

 the new onion culture, making larger onions; but 

 the Pearls beat them all. I have been getting 3 cts. 

 per lb. for nice pearl onions, and have about sold 

 out. 



Of the 11 Manum's potatoes, 3 were rotten [from 

 freezing. — A. I. R.] and rottea spots on some of the 

 others. I planted one eye in hills one foot apart, 

 and got 450 nice potatoes. I think they are a great 

 potato. J.E.Johnson. 



Bishophill, 111., Sept. 36. 



REPORT ON SECOND-CROP THOROUGHBRED POTA- 

 TOES. 



I got one pound of Maule's Thoroughbred potatoes 

 (second crop) from you July 34; planted 50 sets; 13 

 were up Aug. 15; 30 more came up afterward, too 

 late to amount to much; dug Oct. 1.5, 36 lbs., some 

 of them fine ones. Levi Herr. 



Wilton Junction, la., Oct. 34. 



Health Notes. 



We copy the following from a little pamphlet 

 from the Sanitas Food Co. Where we put in 

 stars we have omitted some of their objections 

 to lean meats, for our experience does not quite 

 agree with it: 



A NEW FOOD. 



The excessive indulgence in sugar, candy, and 

 other sweets, and the general use of imperfectly 

 cooked grains in the form of oatmeal, cracked 

 wheat, and tlie great variety of other breakfast 

 foods with which the market is flooded, have given 

 rise to a new form of ailment which is almost uni- 

 versal among Americans, although but recently 

 recognized. This disease is known as " amylaceous 

 dyspepsia," or indigestion of starch, and is some- 

 times called "vegetable dyspei)sia." It manifests 

 itself by pain and sourness in the stomach, forma- 

 tion of gas in the stomach and bowels, bloating, 

 colic, heaviness after eating, headache, emaciation, 

 etc. ******* 



Quite a large proportion of persons suffering from 

 this form of dyspepsia find so much relief from 

 their distressing symptoms by the use of a tiesh diet 

 that they are naturally led to the conclusion that a 

 vegetable diet does not agree with them, and so sub- 

 sist almost wholly on meats. * * * 



The ett'ort to meet the requirements of this class 

 of patients lias led the writer to undertake an ex- 

 tended series of experiments, as a result of which 

 he has succeeded in produciug a most delicious and 

 wlioU some food from nuts, to which has been given 

 the name of " nuttose." It is so perfect a substitute 

 for flesh flood, that in eating it one could readily 

 imagine himself to be partaking of roast beef, dried 

 beef, broiled chicken, or other meats, according to 

 the mode of preparing. 



Nuttose not only satisfles the craving for meat, 

 but supplies the same kind of nutriment, and in a 

 form wliich is digestible, and wholly free from the 

 unwholesome properties of flesh food. 



Price 40 cents perl-lb. can. 



Sanitas Food Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 



We have had a sample of the nuttose; and it 

 is not only a most delicious and nourishing 

 food, but one would be almost certain it was a 

 preparation of meat were he not told other- 

 wise. Great credit is due to the Sanitas Food 

 Co. for having given us a preparation of 

 nuts, so nearly resembling meat. I presume 

 our readers are well aware that I have long 

 felt that I should be very glad of something in 

 the line of nourishing food for invalids that 

 would not necessitate the taking of animal life; 

 and our friends in Battle Creek have, I believe, 

 come pretty near it. The only thing to be done 

 now is to make the price so that it will not be 

 more expensive than flesh food. 



Since the above was written they have also 

 sent me a sample of nut cheese. This is a very 

 fair substitute for real cheese itself; and in 

 one respect it is better, for one can make a 

 whole meal of nut cheese— at least I think so — 

 when he would hardly dare to do it with cheese 

 made from milk. For full particulars in regard 

 to these new food products, address as;above. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



low prices on seeds. 

 With corn and oats at 18 cts., and many other 

 things about as low, the prices on field seeds and 

 garden seeds too, for that matter, are bound to run 

 low. We are not prepared yet to make figures on 

 all kinds of seeds, but we can usually give a big re- 

 duction from last year's prices on almost any thing. 

 As a sample, we give you 



prices of .JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT, NEW CROP. ~ 



Peck, 30 cts.; '.; bushel, 35 cts.; bushel, 65 cts.; 3- 

 bushel bag, $1.10; 10 bushels or more, purchaser 

 paying for bags, 50 cts. per bushel. 



BASSWOOD SEEDS FOR FALL PLANTING. 



Now is the time to sow them, friends, and we can 

 give you fresh new seeds ,iust gathered from thrifty 

 young basswoods of our own growing. Ounce, 5 

 cts.; per lb., 50 cts. If wanted by mail, add 10 cts. 

 per lb. for postage and packing. Sow the seeds now 

 in good rich soil about as you would sow peas. If 

 you put them in beds in the garden, you can put 

 the rows as close as a foot apart, and drop the seeds 

 about every inch. If you put them as close as this, 

 however, you will have to transplant the young 

 trees when they are one year old. With good rich 

 soil, such as is used for market-gardening or plant- 

 beds, you can get trees three feet high in a single 

 season, under favorable circumstances. 



This is also the proper time of year for planting 

 out either large or small basswoodtrees. See prices 

 in our regular catalog. 



POTATOES FOR PREMIUMS. 



We shall continue offering as heretofore 1 lb. of 

 Thoroughbreds to everybody who pays $1.00 for 

 Gleanings without asking for any other premium. 

 Remember, 1 lb. of Thoroughbreds for every dollar 

 sent, whether it is paying up old dues or subscrib- 

 ing for the future; and to every present subscriber 

 who sends us $1.00 for a new name— that is, who in- 

 troduces Gleanings for the first time into a family 



