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living, and lay by a nice little snug sum for old age 

 or a rainy day at this very time he lacks all the true 

 principles of frugality. 



It is only the penny wise and pound foolish in 

 our herd that suffer at this time. Their habits seem 

 to be quite popular. They " kick " because milk is 

 selling for eight cents per quart, which is below 

 cost, but never " kick " at the price of poor whisky 

 at ten cents per drink for a dozen or more friends 

 at one time. I never could see why our saloons have 

 more generous friends than our good milkmen or 

 grocers who sell close and live frugally for a life 

 time, and then do not die rich. It's the saloonkeep- 

 ers who die rich. Most inconsistent is man, any 

 way; so, what are we going to do about it? 



Brewster, Wash., Dec. 14. V. W. Clough. 



The following from T. B. Terry, in the 

 Practical Farmer, I heartily endorse, espe- 

 cially that part about the average city 

 " specialist." Our readers may recall that 

 I wasted quite a few dollars on " treat- 

 ments." 



HOW WOMEN CAN SAVE MANY DOLLARS. 



Women pay out much money for doctors and 

 drugs. We want to help our readers to save this to 

 buy more of the comforts of life with. A dollar 

 saved is as good as one earned. One of our readers, 

 a woman of 48, has had several spells of ill health. 

 She went to a "well-known specialist" in a city 

 for advice. He told her that she was suffering from 

 auto-intoxication. In plain English this means that 

 she is self -poisoned; that there is an excessive 



amount of poisons in her system, coming from wrong 

 habits of life. He gave this sister medicine, and 

 wanted her to remain with him for four months at 

 considerable expense for " treatment." She at once 

 wrote to us to get our advice about this. He told 

 her not to eat any " fruits, sweet potatoes, corn, 

 and lots of other good things that I am fond of. 

 He said they brought on my troubles. My tongue is 

 coated, bowels sluggish, and bad taste in mouth in 

 the morning. Do you advise me to stop taking this 

 man's medicine?" Well, what the doctor said about 

 your condition is probably correct. But his plan of 

 "treatment" would transfer considerable money 

 from your pocket to his, and do you no good that 

 you can not get at home. Yes, I advise you to throw 

 the medicine out where even the chickens can not 

 get it. By simply changing your wrong habits of 

 life, nature will cure you at no expense, practically, 

 and you can stay cured. Your tongue will then be 

 clean, breath sweet, and you can get up in the morn- 

 ing feeling splendidly. The first thing to do is to eat, 

 drink, and exercise so as to cause bowels to move 

 loosely two or three times a day. It will take some 

 time, but keep right at it until you do. Pardon me ; 

 but the straight truth is that the bad taste in mouth 

 and coated tongue come largely from filth in the 

 blood reabsorbed from constipated bowels. Nature 

 sends this filth into one's mouth, where it can be 

 tasted to give plain notice that the main sewer of 

 the body is clogged and needs immediate attention. 

 Having this matter right, be careful to furnish your 

 body with proper air, water, sleep, and food. Then, 

 in a word, you will probably gain by eating less, 

 especially of protein-furnishing foods, and chewing 

 more. 



High-pressure Gardeningr 



SEED POTATOES; HOW TO GET THEM, READY 

 TO PLANT, BY OCT. 1, DOWN IN FLORIDA. 



I have already mentioned the difficulty of 

 finding seed potatoes ready lo plant when 

 we first reach our Florida home, say along 

 the last of October. So far there does not 

 seem to be an^^ of the seedsmen or anybody 

 else down in Florida who is prepared to 

 furnish such potatoes, nol withstanding the 

 best time to grow potatoes in Florida — that 

 is, in order to have new ones about the tirst 

 of the year — is in October and November. 

 A good friend of mine whose former home 

 was in this (Medina) county tells me how 

 lie manages it. If I am correct, he usually 

 makes a pretty good thing of it in growing- 

 new potatoes when nobody else has them. 

 He sends us the following in regard to his 

 manner of doing it. 



Mr. Root: — I see in Gleanings for April 15 that 

 you have had trouble in raising early potatoes in 

 Florida. For several years I have liad potatoes raised 

 for me in Medina, and shipped the first of Septem- 

 ber, so I would get them about Sept. 15, take them 

 out under a tree or other shady place, spread them 

 out not over two deep, cover them with grass or old 

 sacks, throw a few bucketfuls of water on them, look 

 at them every day or two to see that they do not get 

 dry. They will sprout. I plant them about Oct. 1, 

 and have new potatoes for Christmas. Potatoes 

 should be planted in Ohio so as to have them get 

 ripe in August ; and when dug they should be spread 

 out in a cool place to dry, then put in barrels and 

 shipped. 



West Palm Beach, Fla., April 28. J. N. Parker. 



SWEET-CLOVER GROWING IN FLORIDA NOT A Dim- 

 CULT MATTER AFTER ALL. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I am now a subscriber to 

 Gleanings, and have been, off and on, for a num- 

 ber of years. I am interested in all its contents, 

 especially your department ; and, contrary to the 

 usual custom, as soon as received I begin its read- 

 ing at the back to see what A. I. Root has to say. 

 I am always interested in the different topics you 

 discuss — particularly sweet clover. This has inter- 

 ested me from the beginning. In the fall of 1910 

 I came to Florida, and located at Taft, Orange Co., 

 seven miles south of Orlando. The same fall I sent 

 to your firm for a pound of white-sweet-clover seed 

 and the " Clover Book." Both seed and book came 

 to hand promptly. The seed was not opened until 

 last December (one year later), when my good wife 

 planted two 30-foot rows of it. The seed was drilled 

 very much thicker than necessary, using for fertil- 

 izer Canada hard-wood ashes and " cowchips." It 

 came up very thick, and made a growth of 2^ to 

 3 feet in height. Had less seed been used it would 

 have grown taller. It matured the seed ; and where 

 it grew the ground is now thickly set in young clo- 

 ver. Last week (December 26) we di'illed us a 100- 

 foot row of the Root seed, and it is already coming 

 up nicely. We have had this seed on hand 2 V2 

 years. It speaks well for its vitality. 



It may be of interest to you to state that we live 

 in the flattest kind of " flat woods " — raw scrub 

 palmetto, and on this kind of land this clover grew. 



I sent quite a bundle of the clover to Mr. M. K. 

 Van Duzor, who was then editor of the Messenger 

 at Orlando, Pla. ; also a little write-up on sweet 

 clover. 



I am prompted to ti'espass upon your time with 

 tliis statement, owing to your recent reference to 

 sweet clover in a late issue of Gleanings, saying 

 it had failed to grow at your Bradentown home ; 

 and also a statement recently by another writer, 



