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across the country some 25 miles from my place I 

 saw a tree in a Cuban's yard that had over 50 fruit 

 on it. Three years ago I had a friend who planted 

 many of the papaya-trees in order to sell the fruit. 

 He had a seedless variety, and they were very large 

 and much nicer-flavored than the ordinary, I thought. 

 I don't know where they came from, as I had never 

 seen any like them before or since, but could no 

 doubt find out very easily, as he is still in Cuba. I 

 have the papaya-trees planted this year 8 feet apart 

 in front of 300 colonies of bees at this place. I 

 believe they will give me ample shade, and at the 

 same time not interfere with working around them. 

 In Mexico they sear the skin when green, and a 

 white milk collects and crystallizes, and this is sold, 

 I believe, to Park Davis & Co., for making some 

 kind of stomach medicine. The dry crystals, I be- 

 lieve, are worth about $40 per lb. This is what I 

 was told, but cannot vouch for the truth of it. The 

 chickens and pigs seem to like the papaya very 

 much; but what value as a food for such animals it 

 has I do not know. The male trees do not bear fruit 

 here. 



We hear much about the dasheens of Florida, and 

 from the pictures and descriptions have often heard 

 it said they were the same as our malanga. There 

 are two varieties, but one is not edible. The pota- 

 toes are the only part ever eaten here to my knowl- 

 edge, and then but seldom, although the malanga 

 grows in most yards among the Cubans. Perhaps 

 when you again go to Florida I might send you 

 some things we have here wild that are new there, 

 and would be very glad to do so if you would be 

 interested. 



Holguin, Cuba, May 23. D. W. Millae. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Many thanks, friend Millar, for the in- 

 formation you give us. I knew that a med- 

 icine "was prepared from the papaya fruit, 

 but I did not know before how they man- 

 aged it. I am pretty well satisfied that the 

 fruit when dead ripe is a help to good di- 

 gestion. There are trees in Florida very 

 much larger than my own ; but as they are 

 sensitive to frost, unless when near water, 

 they are often cut back. In regard to the 

 male trees not bearing, a missionary in 

 South America who visited our garden told 

 me they did sometimes bear, but that the 

 fruit from such trees was on the end of a 

 long string or cord; and we had about half 

 a dozen such fruit on one of our trees. The 

 fruit does not look like the one pictured 

 from the female tree. I also saw the ma- 

 langa during the winter I spent in Cuba; 

 but the quality of the tubers was very much 

 inferior to our Trinidad dasheens. 



My good friend, I am exceedingly obliged 

 to you for your kind offer; and if you can 

 send me a little plant of the seedless papaya, 

 or one that is nearly seedless, I would pay 

 almost any price for it. 



HEALTH NOTE! 



"fluid ENSEROL" and THE VALUE OF BORACIC 

 ACID FOR THE EYES, EARS, ETC. 



On page 742, Sept. 15, 1914, I gave my 

 experience with the so-called fluid enserol. 

 Below is a letter in regard to the same 

 matter : 



Mr. Root : — A good many years ago my father 

 worked in the boiler-works and lost his hearing, and 

 was not able to hear unless a person was quite close 

 and raised his voice very high. About a year ago 

 last fall he received this booklet, "A Woman's Story," 

 and sent and got the prescription filled, and started 

 to use it early in the fall, and continued to use it 

 all winter. Along in the spring we were sitting on 

 the porch waiting for supper when mother spoke 

 from the kitchen and said, " Supper is ready." He 

 turned to me and repeated it; and as she was across 

 two rooms from us, and spoke in an ordinary tone, 

 and I had barely heard her, I asked him if he had 

 heard her say so, and he said he had; and then he 

 took out his watch and could hear it tick in one ear. 

 That was the first time he had heard a watch tick 

 for 25 years, and he was much pleased over it, I 

 tell you. But it did not last long — only a few days, 

 and then he was worse than he had been before. 

 But he had faith in the medicine and kept on using 

 it; and after a couple of weeks his hearing came 

 again, and he could hear so well that it hurt him; 

 for if he was near the railroad he had to hold his 

 hands over his ears; and while driving along the 

 road, and the wagon would rattle, he would get off 

 to see if something was wrong, as it was so loud 

 to him. Soon his right ear quit again; but he can 

 still hear well out of his left, and can hear an ordi- 

 nary conversation in a room or outdoors ever since ; 

 but his right ear is still deaf. He still uses the 



medicine, but it is so old he is going to get some 

 new, and feels that it will fix that one ear up too. 



There are hundreds of people who can verify all 

 this, and a good many are using this medicine after 

 seeing what it did for him, and some have been 

 benefited already, while others are still using it. 

 Now, if Mr. Root is hard of hearing, or any other 

 person, I wo«ld advise such to use this and not 

 despair, as I feel sure it will fix them if they keep 

 right on long enough. 



It was fully six months before it helped father ; 

 but it stopped the noises in his head in a few weeks, 

 and he says that was worth all the money invested, 

 because the noises were awful all the time. He 

 compares them now to a big storm coming up roar- 

 ing through the woods, and he never heard these 

 storms until after he got to hearing things. 



Springboro, Pa., March 9. Frank P. Dobb. 



I am exceedingly glad to get the above, 

 for it verifies what I suspected before, that 

 boracic acid, very much diluted, of course, 

 is an excellent remedy for eyes and ears. 

 In fact, I believe this is well known and 

 well recognized by medical men for years 

 past. Our friend who writes the above 

 speaks of noises in his father's ears, which 

 he endured while the deafness lasted. This 

 reminds me of something I had forgotten to 

 mention. There are times when I hear a 

 roaring, something like the cars coming or 

 a storm far awa3\ Here in Medina I have 

 often asked Mrs. Root if she heard a roar- 

 ing. Of course she did not. The use of 



