1897 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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have hail a clear brain, aiul have hetii able to think 

 and stmly without any feeling of heavines.s or fatifjiie 

 whatever. Prior to tliis 1 used to feel the need occa- 

 sionallv of an after-dinner nap on acount of a dull 

 heavy feeling I had at mid-day. .Since besinninj; the 

 two-nieal-a-day method I have not felt the need of 

 such. 



I'or the fir.>;t six weeks or two month.s I lo.st flesh 

 and weiiiht. and became somewhat weak in boily, 

 yet alw.ivs clear in mind, .\lter that I soon regained 

 flesh and weight and stienjith. ami have continued in 

 the enjoyment of good health ever since. 



The result, after a year's trial, summed up in n few 

 words, is this: Dysjie'psia comi>letely gone : ability to 

 eat and digest any thing the appetite calls for; clear- 

 ncs.sofinind all through; greater energy in preach- 

 ing than ever before, with no supervening tiredncs.s 

 on Monday ; ability to travel with pleasure by train, 

 tram-car. or buggy." (I have not te.sted it on "the ,sea 

 yet.) The no-bre.ik fast method has been to me good, 

 all good, and onlv good, and good altogether. 



I hope that others may be led to procure the book 

 and read it. and realize like benefits. 



Murrurundi, N. S. \\'., .\us. Gko. A. Rkkvi:. 



Dear Bro. R., I thank yon for your kind 

 word.'^, and I greatly rejoice that you have 

 found such wontlerful help and stren^jth from 

 so simple a remedy. But please pardon me if 

 I sutjgest that it may not work as well with 

 everybody as it does with yourself ; and mav 

 I suggest, aLso, that perhaps a great many of 

 our troul)les arise from our eating more than 

 Nature really demands. In any case, omit- 

 ting the breakfast and cutting off the surplus 

 gave Nature the chance she wanted ; and I 

 have several times suggested to Dr. Lewis that 

 one of the reasons, certainly, why the beef 

 diet gave such good results was that it entirely 

 removes the trouble of overloading the digest- 

 ive apparatus ; and it also cuts off the harmful 

 fashion of eating sweets and other things be- 

 tween meals. And now a word to our readers: 



Dear brothers and sisters, when you smile 

 at the enthusiasm of our good friend away off 

 in Australia, please consider what a wonderful 

 advertisement his letter would have been if he 

 had secured the above result by using some 

 patent medicine. May God be praised for the 

 fact that he is not booming or advertising any 

 kind of "doctor stuff." It would hardly do 

 to suggest that his wonderful recovery was 

 through enthusiasm awakened by that book ; 

 but it does teach with exceeding plainness 

 that a ver}- little thing may make all the differ- 

 ence between exuberant health and a painful 

 malady. I have heard of great relief being 

 obtained by simply cutting off tea and coffee, 

 and drinking ab.solutely nothing at mealtimes. 

 Others have found relief by eating dry bread 

 or zwieback ; and just now in a neighboring 

 town I am told of wonderful cures tliat have 

 been brought about by a cereal food cooked 

 four or five hours in a double hot-water kettle. 

 So many people got strong and well on 

 this new health food that the proprietor has 

 been receiving five dollars for his kettle and 

 five pounds of the cereal food ; and each pur- 

 chaser was refpiired to sign a contract not to 

 divulge the secret of the method of cooking 

 to any of his friends or neighbors. You may 

 say that, if people get well, the money is well 

 invested ; and some of you have even gone .so 

 far as to say the same in regard to Electropuise 

 — that, if a man or woman ,^o/ rtr//, the >^25.00 

 was well invested ; no matter, either, if it was 

 all through the influence of the imagination. 



May God help us in our efforts to sift out the 

 wheat when theiv is .so niticli chaff. 



rerlia])s I should add, in closing, tliat the 

 book mentioned above can l)e procured of tlie 

 Henry Bill Publisliing Co., Norwich, Ct. Price 



NO KILLING FROST BliKORE NOV. 6. 



When we had quite a little frost on the eve- 

 ning of Oct. 7 I began to think this was a bad 

 season for tomatoes, cucumbers, and perish- 

 able stuff ; but after the tomatoes on tlie up- 

 land began to show that they were not hurt 

 very much after all, I told the boys to take 

 care of them and may be we should have 

 some tomatoes after all. Sure enough, we got 

 our largest picking f^?//;:';- that fir.st frost. Be- 

 fore the frost, the tomatoes had brought a dol- 

 lar a bushel ; but along about the la.st of Oc- 

 toberithey became so plentiful everywhere that 

 the i»ice went down to 40 cts. We were act- 

 ually picking and selling tomatoes until Nov. 

 6. I have known this to happen so many 

 times before that I rather expected it. Do 

 not be in haste to think }'our chance is over 

 for the season. 



During the past two months we have had a 

 severe drouth. In fact, the wells were dry to 

 such an extent that farmers were coming in 

 from the country to get water from our arte- 

 sian well ; and on my wheelrides I saw men, 

 women, and children carrying water, almost 

 everywhere, until Nov. 1, when we were great- 

 ly rejoiced by several days of rain. The sun 

 then came out a little ; then it rained again, 

 and now, Nov. 10, every thing is rejoicing. I 

 was just thinking this afternoon that such 

 a condition of affairs would be sure to produce 

 mushrooms ; and while I write, a quart straw- 

 berry-box heaping full has just been placed 

 on my table. 



SWEET CLOVER, AG.\IN. 

 We clip the following from a valued agricul- 

 tural journal : 



One kind of clover is a nuisance in farming, as, de- 

 spite its savory name, it has no feeding value what- 

 ever. That is the common sweet clover which springs 

 up beside railroad-tracks and other wa.ste places. Cows 

 will not eat it, even when it i.s young and tender. Bees 

 sometimes visit its flowers, but the honey made from 

 them is greatlj' inferior to that from white clover. 



It seems to me the above is a series of mis- 

 takes. First, that it has no feeding value what- 

 ever, is surely not true ; second, that cows will 

 not eat it, even when it is young and tender. 

 I should like to see such a cow. I have seen 

 cows hunting greedily for it in almost every 

 locality where I hav-e traveled. It is possible, 

 however, that there may be cows like those I 

 found in Florida, that would not eat corn be- 

 cause they did not know what it was for. 

 Once more : In my estimation, and in the 

 estimation of thousands of people, the honey 

 is little if any inferior to that from white clo- 



