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years except this one. It is still a fine store 

 and doinc: a fine business. 



"A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY/' 

 IN PLACE OF " BEER AND BREWERIES." 



The clipping' below, which T take from 

 the Sunday School Times, tells us just how 

 it is coming to pass. 



WHV STEEL COMPANIES ANNEX DAIRIES. 



The bjg steel companies, according to W. E. 

 Skinner, General Manager of tlie National Dairy 

 Show in Columbus this year, have found it practica- 

 Me to go into the milk business to the extent of 

 buying it wholesale and selling it to their workmen 

 at cost. " Men soon go to pieces who drink liquor 

 after working over hot fires," he explained to the 

 newspaper reporters. " The fires start them on the 

 decline and booze finishes it. But manufacturers 

 have found that milk not only rebuilds tissue and 

 overcome the harm that heat and flames have done, 

 but it keeps the men away from the saloons and 

 thus does double duty." 



I have long been expecting something 

 of the kind, and may the Lord be praised 

 that it is already under way. 



HONEY FROM THE PEANUT, AND SOMETHING MORE 

 ABOUT MOORE HAVEN. 



A. L Root, Brademtown, Fla. 



Dear Friend: — I just ran across something here 

 that I am sure will interest you. H. P. Merseran 

 of this place furnished the honey, so he told me yes- 

 terday, which took the blue ribbon at the Kansas 

 City exposition. The exhibit was made by Mr. 

 Rollo in the name, I believe, of the South Florida 

 Lands Co. and the honey was samples of comb and 

 of extracted honey. Mr. Merseran has about 30 

 colonies here and says they are doing well. I will 

 say that the honey they produce here is fine — quite 

 similar to clover honey, as it comeis mostly from the 

 peanut blossoms. Moore Haven captured pretty 

 nearly everything on vegetables and grains, includ- 

 ing the grand sweepstakes prize, for best display of 

 all varieties of farm crops. 



Mr. Merseran tells me that while this is a fine 

 honey-producing region it isn't a beeman's paradise, 

 as there are many pests to contend with, not the 

 least of which is the moth. This pest will occupy 

 the combs many times even in a strong colony. But 

 I guess we have to fight for what we get almost 

 anywhere. We just have different things to con- 

 tend with in different places. Your friend, 



Leon C. Wheeler. 



Moore Haven, Fla., Mar. 13, 1919. 



SWEET CLOVER TOR BOTH CORN AND HONEY. 



On page 373, .June Gleanngs, particulars are 

 ^iven of a wonderful crop of corn produced by 

 'mrning under sweet clover. C. -\. Neal of .Tones- 

 aoro, Ind., who believes he has discovered an im- 

 provement on the plan, writes to me as follows, 

 discribing what what he calls, " The New Neal Sys- 

 tem of Sweet Clover Farming." 



"Here it is: Sow scarified sweet-clover seed in 

 corn on July 1. Run thru the corn with a one-horse 

 weeder, that has 14 small teeth about one inch wide, 

 to cover seed. Next year don't touch it at all. 

 Supposing the seed was sown .July 1, 1919, then on 

 the first of October, 1919, take a Mogul tractor 

 with two plows and weed tuckers, and turn under 

 the full growth, which goes 30 tons to the acre ex- 

 clusive of roots. In the following spring put in 



corn, and on tlie first of July sow to sweet clover 

 again. In this way the farmer gets a crop of corn 

 every other year, and I get a crop of honey every 

 other year. The humus and moisture supplied by 

 the 'rott-en' sweet clover will double the yield of 

 corn, and the corn-belt becomes a beekeeper's para- 

 dise. " It's a poor rule that won't work both ways " 

 Put your shoulder to the wheel, A. I. Root, and give 

 the new Neal system of farming a life. A full un- 

 touched growth of sweet clover turned under and 

 the field sown to wheat mean.s at least 50 bushe's 

 to the acre. The^ same rate of increase holds for 

 potatoes, oats, rT,e, sunflowers, and hay. Pastures 

 produce ten times as much feed, and this feed will 

 make healthy stock because of its tonic qualities. 

 My statements are not an idle dream, but have been 

 proved by actual test. The clovers now in use will 

 not turn under right, as they choke the plow. Be- 

 sides this, they do not rot when turned under, and 

 so cause the ground to dry out and reduce the yield 

 of corn. Any kind of rotten vegetable matter turn 

 ed under holds water like a sponge all summer, nn 

 matter how dry is becomes. Let us christen sweet 

 clover the ' magical lamp.' Rub that lamp, anl 

 the farmer will enter a new era of prosperity. To 

 use your own words, ' May the Great Spirit above 

 1 e thanked for this great gift to man.' " 



C. A. Neal, Bee Specialist. 

 Jonesboro, Ind. 



BACK TO OUR MEDINA HOME. 

 Mrs. Eoot and I expect to be back in our 

 Medina home about the last vreek in April. 

 The following from The Bfddentoicn Herald 

 of April 9 may interest our readers: 



the wind electric automobile up TO date. 

 Editor Herald: — All great inventions that have 

 blessed the world in times past, it seems, have had 

 to pass thru a sort of evolution, or series of experi- 

 nifints before coming into general use. The wind- 

 propelled electric auto is no exception to this rule. 

 When the WMnd Electric Corporation of Wynd- 

 inere, N. D., was consulted they replied they 

 had never undertakem to make the wind replace a 

 horse, but they were willing to try it. Again it was 

 a question whether the belt they used would stand 

 the hot wet summers of southern Florida. As a 

 result the fabric belt used for lighting residences, 

 gave out down here in about six months. At this 

 stage I had consiilted the Goodyear Rubber Co. of 

 Akron, O., and they felt sure they could give a 

 belt that would " stand up." Such a belt has now 

 been running over six months, day and night, win- 

 ter and summer, and is apparently unharmed. 

 Again the Windmill folks supposed a heavy gen- 

 erator or dynamo would be required to run a car 

 and sent one with the mill weighing about 400 

 pounds. Recent experiences induced them to believe 

 one weighing less than half as much would give 

 more " juice " for the car. Such a generator has 

 just replaced the heavy one, and I am happy to 

 state, I not only get more miles daily with the auto 

 but it also lights our home very successfully. There- 

 fore I can now say, " My steed requires no hav. 

 oats, or corn, but feeds only on wind," and st'l! 

 more, he now converts said wind into light. Who 

 knows but that wind may ultimately be the light of 

 the world? 



It may be well to add the electric auto has already 

 during the pa«t winter made close to 1,000 miles. 

 and a good deal of the time it has carried quite a 

 load of our new potatoes (over $200 worth) to mar- 

 ket. Of course the wind is lost when the machine 

 is out on the road, 1 ut I am planning (if spared) 

 to have extra batteries during the coming winter 

 to store for the house lighting, when the machine is 

 out on its trips. A. I. ROOT. 



