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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



GRINDING WHEAT IN A COFFEE-MILL — MORE 

 ABOUT IT. 



A year or so ago I was out roaming through the woods picking 

 up some chestnuts and walnuts — something 1 always delighted 

 to do. Getting the smell of autumn leaves and crisp autumn air, 

 gives life and vigor to a shop or store creature. Well, as I was 

 strolling along, not noticing that I was quite near a barn, the 

 owner seeing me came down to order me of! the place; but seem- 

 ing to recognize me he asked me up to the house. We sat on 

 the veranda for some time, and talked. Somehow our conversa- 

 tion turned to this subject of wheat. The lady said she and her 

 brother lived on this almost entirely — cracked wheat and cream. 

 She insisted on my trying it, so she brought out a bowl of cracked 

 wheat and cream. Talk about your patent breakfast foods ! I 

 never tasted any thing like that for fine flavor. On inquiry, they 

 said they bought a bag of wheat from their grocer, and just 

 ground it, when they wanted to use it, in a common coffee-mill, 

 pouring cold water on it and letting it stand on the stove, so as 

 not to burn, for from three to four hours. If you want to eat a 

 royal dish, just try it. Take your coffee-mill and get all the 

 coffee out of it. Rinse it out with warm water, and have it dry, 

 otherwise you will find it hard work to grind the wheat. Use 

 nice clean wheat, cracked as we used to crack corn, and cook it 

 a good long time. In fact, you can not cook it too much. 

 Now serve it with nice cream and a nice baked sweet apple cut 

 up with it. I don't believe there is any thing a weak stomach 

 will digest any better; and as for cathartic pills, you will never 

 need them. This seems to be the most natural food man can 

 eat — simple to prepare, and satisfying to appetite. 



I immediately ordered half a bushel of wheat and used up the 

 lot. 



I find I don't care for a meat diet as much as I did in my 

 younger days. E. Vanderwerkkn. 



Stamford, Conn., Oct. 29. 



The above little story illustrates some recent 

 experience of my own. While in Detroit at- 

 tending the convention I went into a dairy lunch 

 to get my breakfast. When I found some of my 

 shredded biscuit and a bowl of nice milk I felt 

 glad; and when I saw a large luscious baked ap- 

 ple right beside them, with some nice fresh cream, 

 I felt gladder still. I made an excellent break- 

 fast, and what do you think the bill was? A 

 nicicel for the shredded biscuit and the little bowl 

 of milk, and another nickel for the baked apple 

 and cream. It was all the breakfast I wanted, 

 and I held out until noon very nicely. 



In regard to grinding wheat in a coffee-mill, a 

 friend suggests that a large coi?ee-mill, such as 

 may be found in most of the city groceries, will 

 grind a pound of wheat in a very few minutes; 

 and he says the pound of wheat ground in this 

 way is not only equal to any of the wheat prepa- 

 rations put up by the millionaire manufacturers, 

 with a lot of fancy pasteboard and pretty pictures 

 on it, but it is really fresher and more whole- 

 some. If you use the wheat grown on your own 

 farm (or your neighbor's farm) it costs you less 

 than two cents a pound. If you patronize the 

 poor millionaire because vou are sorry for him, 

 it will cost you fifteen cents a pound, including 

 a pasteboard package, which is usually weighed 

 up at the same price as wheat. 



In regard to cooking the wheat, I prefer it 

 Terry's fashion — uncooked; but if you must 

 have it cooked a long while, as our friend states, 

 the fireless cooker will do it to perfection. Put 

 it into the cooker boiling hot, just as you go to 

 bed, and the next morning it will be hot enough 

 for breakfast. 



Just after the above was dictated, Good Health 

 for November was put into my hands; and on 

 the front cover we have a very nice picture of 

 Wu Ting Fang sitting in a crowd of men and 

 women in the Battle Creek sanitarium. It is an 

 excellent picture; and as Mr. Wu sits there in 

 the foreground he is spreading out his hands and 

 saying, "I am going to live 200 years." You 

 see he has thrown friend Terry and myself into 



the background. Is it not funny to see how 

 " great minds (.?) run in parallel channels.'" Well, 

 to get right down to it, where can the whole wide 

 world show us a more praiseworthy undertaking.? 

 You can all join, and be right in the crowd "as 

 long as you live," especially if you manage not 

 only to li'X'e but to keep -ixell. It makes me 

 think of the old-fashioned spelling-school, and 

 the way in which they let the best spellers go to 

 the head of the class. The man or woman who 

 demonstrates the truthfulness of her theories by 

 living long and keeping the full use of her powers, 

 both mental and physical, stands at the head of 

 the class. It is refreshing to note that Mr. W^u 

 so fully agrees with Terry and your humble ser- 

 vant — see page 1145, Sept. 15; and one of the 

 grand and glorious things about this battle for 

 good health and long life is that it is right in the 

 line of " overcoming. " The conditions of suc- 

 cess depend upon pure, clean, temperate lives. 

 "To him that overcometh will 1 grant to sit with 

 me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and 

 am set down with my Father in his throne." 



A kind word has just come from an old friend. 

 I think it will be a good closing for this health 

 talk. 



Friend Root: — If you are going to increase for the coming forty 

 years in catholicity as you have in the past decade your Usefulness 

 will be very great; and that we may keep tab on you, continue 

 your department in Gleanings. R. A. Burnett. 



Chicago, Nov. 4. 



By the way, I think it would pay every reader 

 of Gleanings to send for the November number, 

 at least, of Good Health. The account of Wu 

 Ting Fang's visit to the sanitarium is alone worth 

 the price of the journal for a year. 



Since the above was in print I have ground 

 some wheat in a coffee-mill, and compared it 

 with the Pettijohn rolled wheat. There is no 

 trouble in mastication ; but the wheat that we 

 find here in the market is evidently of poor qual- 

 ity compared with the Pettijohn. In our grocer- 

 ies the latter sells at 13 cts. a package ; and the 

 clean wheat, without the pasteboard box, weighed 

 1 lb. 6 oz. ; so the cost here is only about 8 cts. 

 per lb. for the finest quality of rolled wheat 

 ready to be eaten.* but it does seem too bad to 

 pay even 8 cts. per lb. for wheat that is worth at 

 home less than 2 cts. A good many people will 

 doubtless find it less trouble to get their supplies 

 at the nearest grocery than to prepare them at 

 home. And even at 8 cts. per lb. the expense of 

 good wholesome food is ever so much less than 

 paying 50, 40, or even 25 cts. for a meal at a res- 

 taurant or boardinghouse. This same number 

 of Good Health has quite an article on the impor- 

 tance of a certain amount, at least, of raw or un- 

 cooked food right along with your cooked meals 

 — if you must have them cooked. 



We clip the following from the Budget, of Su- 

 gar Creek, Ohio: 



SALOONS OUT: POLICE FOLLOW. 



Goldengate, the third largest town in Wayne Co., 111., has 

 found it does not need a police force since the saloons are closed. 

 On April 7, Goldengite voted out the saloons; and since then the 

 office of marshal has been abolished as being a useless expendi- 

 ture; and the town is now entirely without police protection. 



* Shredded-wheat biscuit cosls us 13 cts. per lb., or 2 lbs. for 

 25 cts. Each package contains a dozen biscuits, so they cost 

 about a cent apiece. This, I think, is partially cooked, and so 

 far I give it the preference over any other cereal. 



