GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



light, the hens with a good large yard laid 

 about a third more eggs than those shut up 

 in a small house. If you had a yard large 

 enough so they could get gveen food and 

 insects more or less, the expense for the 

 grain might be reduced a third or perhaps 

 a half. In our Florida home 100 fowls, 

 young and old, had a run of three acres; 

 and they get all over it every day or two. 



One objection that has been made to the 

 Philo system is that it seems cniel to keep 

 fowls shut up in this way, as it is so natural 

 for them to range at large ; and where they 

 have been in the habit of running loose, it 

 'loes seem to be a hardship. But chickens 



that have been shut up all their lives do 

 •lot seem to mind it verj' much. While 

 visiting Philo at his home in New York I 

 said, '" But wouldn't they enjoy it if they 

 could once get out ? " 



By way of replj' he opened one of the 

 little coops, but none of the fowls ran out 

 at all. Then he took two and tossed them 

 out into the garden ; but to my great sur- 

 prise they ran right back into the coop. 

 They did not feel at home outside. There 

 is a diii'erence in the breed, however. Some 

 stand confinement very much better than 

 others. Leghorns do not seem to be very 

 well adapted to confinement. 



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HEALTH NOTE; 



And Jesus said unto them, This kind can come 

 forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting. — ^Lvkk 

 9:29. 



Dear Brother Root: — After reading your Health 

 Notes, Oct. 1, [ am prompted to ask you, as a fol- 

 lower of the Great Physician, why you never give 

 the injunction that he gave his disciples in Mark 

 9:29 in curing difficult diseases. I have found fast- 

 ing for a period of 36 to 40 hours, from all food, 

 and even drink unless thirsty, when water is taken 

 as often as desired, to be an unfailing specific for 

 cough, colds, and the disposition to catch cold, ca- 

 tarrh, and ills of throat and nasal passages, and 

 cure for deafness where the actual physical injury 

 through inflammation has not been so great as to 

 can-} away some essential part of the " machinerj-," 

 as you term it, of hearing. 



In breaking your fast, eat as heartily as your 

 appetite prompts of the easiest tincook^'d food to di- 

 gest, which I have found to be a salad made of 

 lettuce, celery, cucumber, cabbage, endive, or even 

 turnips, any two of which, according to season, may 

 be chopped up with raw apples or totnatoes, and 

 dressed with a good salad oil and salt ; and, if de- 

 sired, a dash of leinon juice and honey. 



For bread, chew slowly along with the salad some 

 good hard biscuit, like hardtack, German pretzels, 

 Swedish knackbrod, or water crackers. This is for 

 your breakfast. Give the hearty meat dinner the 

 .ibsent treatment — abstain from " meats oiTered to 

 the idol " of one's belly, from pork, and from eggs. 

 It has been said that no orthodox Jew who abstains 

 from pork ever ciies of cancer. 



Your directions as to a daily washing of ihe 

 whole body are good with one exception — that of the 

 toothbrush. Your teeth and mouth will become ab- 

 solutely clean, as soon as the alimentary canal has 

 through systematic fasting, becomes clean. This 

 cleanliness is indicated by the fact that the excreta 

 becomes inoffensive in odor, and of a healthy yellow 

 color. 



If the teeth arc unclean, with a bad taste in the 

 mouth, it is a sure indication that the forty-hour 

 fast should be resorted to at once and persisted in 

 from time to tiir.e until this ideal condition of a 

 clean mouth and alimentary canal becomes a settled 

 condition, when the buzzing sounds in one's ears, 

 with sore eyes, running noses, cough, colds, eczema, 

 and so on, will " lift up their tents, like the Arabs, 

 ;ind silently steal away " without recourse to pills, 

 gargles, washes, etc. 



However, I have found it impossible to attain this 

 ideal while keeping to three meals a day of cooked 



food. One meal is better by far than three; and 

 your idea oi the apple supper is excellent. I find a 

 vegetable diet, composed of half alkaline vegetables 

 and half acid fruit the ideal thing, though I vary 

 it with small quantities of the dairy products, good 

 butter and cheese ; but milk, almost never. Honey 

 in the comb is enjoyed by me as a nectar from God. 



The further along I go on the road to Wellville 

 tlie further behind I leave meat and eggs, which I 

 have identified as "' meats offered unto idols.'' 



John A. Winterbukx. 



West Morris, Ct., Oct. 8. 



My good brother, T agree with you in 

 regard to the matter of prayer and fasting. 

 Faith healing has had at different times 

 many folloAver.s, and has, "even at tlie pres- 

 ent time; but I shall have to confess that I 

 never noticed, until you called my attention 

 to it, that the Savior recommended in a 

 single sentence fasting as well as prayer; 

 ard I am sure my health has been very 

 much benefited since I have used no cooked 

 food, after noon time. Apples are certainly 

 uncooked food, and the little cheese J use 

 with them is uncooked in the sense that no 

 cooking or heat is necessary for the last 

 meal of the day. Airs. Root often declares 

 it is quite a saving of housework to be re- 

 lieved entirel3' of the ta.sk of " getting sup- 

 per." I personally, however, could not 

 quite agree in regard to the vegetarian diet. 

 Please remcn^.ber 1 was for four years mj'- 

 self a vegetarian; and later on I was for 

 eighteen weeks without any vegetable food 

 whate\er — lean meat and nothing else — not 

 even an apple. I now use a little meat, but 

 get along very well most of the time, even 

 for several days, vvithout any meat at all; 

 and I think very likely I could adopt a 

 vegetable diet exclusively, providing I could 

 liave plenty of milk and eggs. If 1 under- 

 stand you correctly, you object to milk. I 

 use milk both at breakfast and dinner, but 

 oidy about half a cupful. If I take more I 



