JANUARY 1, 1915 



have a strange feeling of respect for a man of your 

 ase who speaks and writes so tenderly of his wife. 

 Of course it ought to be the rule, but it isn't. 



With best wishes for the sui-cess ot' your Christian 

 ,ind humanitarian work that you arc dolus in con- 

 luH'tiou with your business, not divorcing them as 

 ^oiuf men do, I am Yours sincerely, 



C. V. Williams, 

 Director Children's Welfare Department. 



Now, if any citizen of the Slate of Ohio 



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who has read the above knows of :i baby 

 neglected and uncared for, will he please 

 notify the writer of the above letter"? and 

 if you are willing to take a baby, or know 

 of somebody else who would do so^ send the 

 names to the same address. May God help 

 US in our efforts to care for the homeless 

 babies. 



eiGE=PKE§§UME GAMDEMNG 



DASIIEENS Ul' TO DATE. 



Our neighbor, Mr. Stanton, got a peck 

 of tubers of us last April, from which he 

 has raised ten bushels. On a part of his 

 mound that was damp black muck he got a 

 uood full peck from only one hill, and this 

 hill came from a single small tuber. After 

 seeing the peck of tubers 1 came home and 

 had Wesley dig one of our best hills, and we 

 got a heaping half-bushel. How is that for 

 reducing the "high cost of living"? Are 

 they as good, and will they really take the 

 place of Irish potatoes? There is a •' draw- 

 back '' to the dasheeu as food. Once in a 

 while you get a hill that has the wild un- 

 tamed ''acridity." The government bulletin 

 mentions this, you may recall, and recom- 

 mends baking soda as a corrective. We, in 

 niir own home, have never got hold of such; 

 but Huber and his wife had one hill of our 

 raising that " stung their throats " quite 

 badly. Mr. Stanton says they have also had 

 one such experience, and the women folks 

 since then are prejudiced against the dash- 

 een ; but as for himself he wants them every 

 meal instead of Irish potatoes. He expects 

 to plant his whole ten bushels. 



There is just one other fault. When 

 baked we occasionally get a tuber, or more 

 frequently a corm that is tough and watery, 

 and won't bake so as to mash up dry and 

 lloury. Sometimes a small part of a tuber, 

 say one end, will be like this; but when 

 stewed we have never noticed any such 

 trouble. 



Another neighbor, Mr. D. Abbott, a bee- 

 keeper, has periiaps 100 busliels of fine 

 matured tubers, and I would advise the 

 friends who want seed to con'espond with 

 him. As for myself I still consider a nice 

 baked dasheen (such as we have just had 

 for dinner) as far ahead of any sweet or 

 Irish potato. 



So far we have not succeeded (so far as 

 I recall) in getting any tubers to go across 

 the ocean without spoiling. It seems to be 

 because they cannot liave sufhciont ventila- 

 tion in the mail. They go to California and 

 other remote States, but not to foreign 



countries. Now, while this is true I have 

 dasheen growing in our garden, the tubers 

 of which were sent me from South Africa. 

 See p. 471, June 15, 1913. I cannot recall 

 now how friend Thompson packed the 

 tubers; but he may recall when he sees this, 

 and let us know. 



TREASURE ON EARTH, AND TREASURE IN HEAVEN. 



I have a walnut-tree that is a very strange one. 

 It is a cross between a franquette and an English 

 walnut. This tree is 11 years old, and never puts 

 forth a leaf until July 2 or 3, and then it will grow 

 two or three feet of wood, and harden up the wood 

 for winter so frost will not freeze it. It bore four 

 nuts last year. We ate one, and found it finer than 

 any nut we ever saw before. We planted the three 

 remaining nuts, and now we have two little trees 

 from the three nuts. Now, Mr. Root, would you like 

 to have me send you one of these trees this fall? 



I am doing some experimental work. I have a 

 chestnut grafted on to a black oak. It bore chest- 

 nuts the second year after grafting. They are good, 

 and the tree is full of burrs this year, and promises 

 a large crop of nuts. 



Let me tell you something else. You are the cause 

 of me and my family going to church here; and now 

 we have a nice Sunday-school, of which I am the 

 superintendent. The people here have tried to break 

 it up, but I am in it to stay. 



Pine Grove, Cal., Aug. 13. George Peeston. 



Many thanks, my good friend, for the 

 olfer of a walnut-tree. In our Florida home, 

 I have several walnut-trees, and perhaps 

 you had better mail yours to me there, as 

 the climate is more like yours in California. 



May God abundantly bless that Sunday- 

 school and its superintendent. Such work 

 may not be treasures laid u]) on carlli, but 

 it is treasures in heaven that can never be 

 taken away. 



GREEN CORN ; MAKING IT MORE DIGESTIBLE. 



Friend Root : — Did you ever use a corn-scratcher 

 on your green corn? If you have never used one 

 you would find a very decided improvement in the 

 corn, and find it much more digestible, as you do 

 not get any of the hulls of the corn. I do not 

 remember seeing you mention it, so I concluded you 

 had not. 



Oregon City, Ore. H. A. Bly. 



My good friend, 1 thank you especially, 

 as I have noticed green corn sometimes dis- 

 tresses me, and it occurred to me these 

 tough hulls are ditRcult of digestion. I now 

 recall seeing such a " scratcher," as you call 



