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(JLEANlNCiS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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been gaineJ fiom the ABC book and Gleaninc;s, which lat- 

 ter alwjys comes to the rescue in every emt-rgency. A healthier 

 and more beantifiil apiary could not be desired. Thanks to all 

 our bee friends who so generously give their expeiiments and ex- 

 perience from which we profit. Any suggestion will be most 

 graciously received. Alice S. Crank. 



Ml. Lebanon, N. Y., Aug. 15. 



My impression is that if the seed is worked 

 well into the ground, and there is plenty of rain, 

 the seed, if sown any time during September, 

 will probably make root enough to stand the 

 winter. The roots of sweet clover go away down 

 into the ground, as most of you will admit who 

 have tried to pull up the plant, and especially on 

 hard ^ry ground; andittakesan unusual amount 

 of freezing to throw it out. Now, I wish the 

 others who have had experience in this line would 

 tell us about how late the seed can be put in and 

 still winter over. 1 will sow some seed at differ- 

 ent times and report. 



MIRACLE WHEAT; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 

 SENDS A MAN TO INTERVIEW ABRAHAM ADAMS. 



We are glad to know that i\\G Salui-day E'venin^ 

 Post has had enterprise enough to get down to the 

 real facts in the matter. We clip the following 

 from their issue for Sept. 12: 



The Saturday Evening Post dispatched a thoroughly reliable 

 man to Idaho to examine the wheat on the ground, and his wired 

 report, which follows, pretty thoroughly disposes of this agricul- 

 tural niarvel: 



" Assertions of huge crops or good flour-making qualities not 

 justified. Adams' only claim of proponion of two hundred bush 

 els an acre is with an eighth-of-an-acte patch two years ago. For 

 last year, admits farm average only thirty bushels. So far this 

 year only twenty-five to thirty-five an acre. Others excuses such 

 as weeds and undersowing. Not tme that wheat has been suc- 

 cessfully grown elsewhere. Misleading to say frost-proof, for 

 admits some injury by snow. Flour-making qualities unknown. 

 Adams was given experiment-station analysis last year, and told 

 with it that milling test was necessary to show the quality with 

 certainty. Has not had the test. The wheat in appearance is 

 much like certain large coarse wheats: not valuable for flour." 



The Indiana Farmer suggests that this person 

 should be punished under the United States postal 

 laws for using the mails for fraudulent purposes. 

 We heartily second the suggestion. The De- 

 partment of Agriculture sent a special agent to 

 Idaho, and here is his report: 



Alaska yielding twenty-five bushels an acre. Badly mixed. 

 Grjin inferior. Quality soft and white. Ordinary wheat yield- 

 ing fully as much. Best varieties, more. 



THOMAS W. LAVVSON. 



When this man first came out with his expose 

 I commenced to read carefully every word ot his 

 writings. I continued until I was satisfied the 

 man was but little if any better than the other 

 men he claimed to be exposing; and just recent- 

 ly I have been reading his paid-for advertising in 

 the daily papers. Now, I hope it is not true that 

 money has been pouring into his coffers at the 

 rate he tells us it has. Farmers, gardeners, and 

 fruit-growers generally are prospering; and I am 

 glad to know that some of them have a little 

 money ahead, and perhaps most of them have. 

 But God forbid that their hard earnings should 

 ever go to support and encourage men of the 

 Thomas W. Lawson type. Just now I am re- 

 joicing to see such a grand home paper as the 

 Ohio Farmer come out boldly as they do in the 

 following: 



This man is again spending thousands of dollars, advertising 

 in papers all over the land. Now he booms or bulls a certain 

 stock or line of stocks, advises all his " customers " to send him 

 their checks and orders for " maigin investment," and the mails 



and telegraph othces (he declarer) are choked wiih buying orders. 

 Of course, the stock rises for a time, and he reaps his percentages. 

 (Jr, now, he " bears " the market — advertises that certain stocks 

 are sure to fall, and selling orders crowd the mails and the stocks 

 fall and he gets his percentages on all the sales. Let him and 

 similar men alone. Speculating on margins of grain or railway 

 or other stocks is one of the most dangerous, delusive, and harm- 

 ful kinds of gambling, and the " lambs " usually " get shorn." 

 Gambling is exactly what it is. Let us call a spade a spade. It 

 is the business of the farmer to giow wheat, corn, and oats— not 

 to gamble on them, and he is foolish, not to say morally wrong, 

 wherever he " bets on the other fellow's game." 



Health Notes 



SHREDDED-WHEAT BISCUIT. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I have been reading what you say about the 

 use of shredded-wheat biscuit. I had a severe fit of sickness last 

 spring, which lasted about six weeks. Since then I have Ujed 

 largely of the b'scuit as an article of diet. My practice is to 

 soften the biscuit well with hot WJter, then flatten it and cove' 

 with butter, then pour on a liberal quantity of best extracted 

 grAiulated honey, and eat with a spoon. I have mad- a lareer 

 use of eggs than ever before, but use no meat. I am now 77, 

 and have taken care of 100 colonies of bees this season. I have 

 used no tea nor cofTee for years. Edward BtviN.s. 



Leon, la., Sept. 6. 



Here is a newspaper clipping sent me by a 

 friend. I do not know what paper it came from. 



SECRET OF LONGEVITY. 



Wu Ting-fang, the famous Chinese diplomat, recently said h» 

 had discovered the secret of long vity, and averred that by his 

 bystem of diet he could live 200 years — a term greatly exceeding 

 the longest possible period as fixed by Prof. MetchnikotT, of ihe 

 Paris Pasteur Institute. Naturally the Chinese minister's state- 

 ment excited much curiosity, and a Boston man wrote to him fo^ 

 particulars, receiving the following plan as adopted and put in 

 practice: 



" In answer to your letter requesting my plan of diet I have '■) 

 say: 1. I have given up my breakfast, taking two meals a day, 

 lunch and dinner. 2. Abstain from all fl'sh food. My diet is 

 rice, or, when I go out to dinner, whole-wheat bread, fresh vegr- 

 tibles, nuts, and fruit. ."*. 1 avoid all coffee, co^oa, tea, liquor^, 

 condiments, and all rich foods. 4. I have given up salt also, bi - 

 caus^ it is found that salt makes the bones stifle. 5. I mastica.e 

 every mouth'ul thoroughly b fore it is swallowed. 6. I do not 

 diink at meals, but between meals or one hour after meals. 7. I 

 practice deep breathing. 8. I take moderate exercise." 



Minister Wu Ting-fang's fifth rule aligns him with the follow- 

 ers of Fletcherisni, though in other particulars he is a law to him- 

 self. Mr. Fiercer eats only when he is hungry, and does not 

 eat meat, though not making this a rule for others. 



The plan of the Chinese minister will commend itself to many 

 practical expeiimenters in dietetics. It is sensible, and com 

 bines exercise and deep breath'ng with frugality — a wholesome 

 scheme of living. 



You will notice from the above that Wu Ting- 

 fang agrees exactly with T. B. Terry in No. 1 in 

 recommending two meals a day, and I think h ' 

 agrees with Terry also in No. 2 in abstaining 

 from all flesh foods. In No. 3 he agrees with 

 Terry and A. I. Root also. No. 4 I do not 

 know about. When I am eating green corn I 

 want butter and salt both, and quite a little s:ilt, 

 and I want milk to drink with it. It may be 

 that one can get along without salt, and that salt 

 does make the bones stiff. I shall have to say I 

 do not know, for I never tried living without 

 salt. No. 5, in regard to thorough mastication., 

 we all agree on. No. 6 also. I drink only milk, 

 and only about half a. feacnpful at that. If I 

 drink more than that three times a day, nature, 

 sooner or later, makes a protest. With Nos. 7 

 and 8 we are all entirely at an agreement. The 

 concluding suggestion, about eating only when 

 you are hungry, might do for some people, but I, 

 for one, want to sit down with a lot of other peo- 

 ple and have somebody give thanks, and then 

 talk and laugh and feel happy while I chew my 

 food, and try to make everybody else feel happy. 



