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sowed the oats and raked them in, but the 

 daily rains, with the excessive heat, for some 

 reason I can not quite understanti, caused 

 them to rot instead of sjirout. Well, a few 

 days ago 1 wrote neighbor Rood, asking him 

 how early in the fall it would do to i)lant 

 garden-stuff, as Mrs. Root wovdd like a nice 

 garden as soon as i)ossible after she gets 

 back to her Southern home. Below is his 

 brief reply: 



Mr. Root: — I do not think it will jiay one to plant 

 any garden-stuff here till about Oct. 1; then he can 

 put in turnips, peas, corn, jjotatoes, etc. I'ntil the 



Cleanings in Bee Cuhuit! 



heavy rains stop, vegetables do not do well. We 

 had rains every day for a week till to-day. 1 am 

 tiling land, and it is prett.v wet. 

 Bradentown, Fla., May 23. K. B. Rood. 



Please note in the above he does not say 

 we can not grow garden-stulf earlier than 

 Oct. 1; but he says he hardly thinks it will 

 pay to begin gardening much earlier. As a 

 usual thing there is a dry spell that hinders 

 garden-stulf and almost every thing else 

 during the month of May; Vnit you will no- 

 tice in the above that the May just past has 

 been unusually favorable. 





D^Dd m®il 



god's gifts — ANOTHER "DISCOVERY." 



While I was paying 5 cents apiece for ap- 

 ples for my e\ ening meal, our early cherries 

 began to ripen. This early cherry-tree 

 stands right close beside the apjile-tree that 

 gave me so many " sui)pers " last fall. Well, 

 at first I thouglit cherries were not going to 

 be a good substitute for the apples; but 

 bearing in mind that dame Nature has to 

 get used to a change in diet I kept on eating 

 the cherries for supper — short cut, remem- 

 ber, between "producer and consumer," es- 

 ])ecially while I was up in the cherry-tree. 

 Well, liiy "great discovery " is that cherries 

 are even better than apjiles, when Nature 

 once catches on and becomes accustomed to 

 it. My good old father died when he was 

 between /I and 72 — just about my age. For 

 some time ):)efore he died he told me that he 

 was having a great deal of trouble with his 

 kidneys; in fact, for years he used to keep 

 lemons in the house, and used them fre- 

 quently, because he said they were benefi- 

 cial for this special trouble that he had 

 had for so long. Well, it is not strange, 

 therefore, that I have for a great part of my 

 life been troubled in the same way; and 

 some years ago I found out that Florida 

 ■ gr'apefruU seemed to hit the sjwt and cor- 

 rect this difficulty more than almost any 

 other fruit. I think I have mentioned it 

 before here in these pages, ^^'ell, the ay)- 

 ples I have been eating for many years be- 

 fore the close of the day have kept me pret- 

 ty free from all troubles along this line. 

 Our first early cherries were somewhat on 

 the sweet order. The next one to ri})en was 

 a rather tart cherry; but as there was not 

 any other kind handy, I commenced taking 

 them for my evening meal — say about a 

 pint; and to my great surprise they proved 

 to be better than api)les or any thing else — 

 even more beneficial than the grapefruit. 

 Of course I took my fruit without any su- 

 gar, just as ( Jod created it and ]ilanned it, to 

 correct such maladies as might get a foot- 

 hokl where one is for some time deprived of 

 ripe juicy fruit. A great many people think 

 they can not eat fruit. The doctors, years 

 ago, persuaded even T. li. Terry that fruit 

 was harmful, and for quite a little time he 

 gave it uj). Well, fruit sometimes /.s harm- 

 ful. IjCt me illustrate: 



Some time ago Dr. Kellogg, of the liattle 

 Creek sanitarium, advised those who think 

 they can not eat fruit to nrake a good full 

 meal of it for any one of the three meals of 

 the day. He said any one could eat fruit 

 with impunity if he made a meal of it and 

 nothing else — no sugar of any kind, mind 

 you. 1 at once tried it, and ate baked ap- 

 ples for su])per and nothing else. Of course 

 they agreed with me fin.ely. 



Now, I feel impressed that any one of my 

 ailing friends (and I know there are thou- 

 sands) can get more real enjoyment from 

 fruit only for supper than any thing else in 

 the world, and better health; and I do not 

 kiiow of any better fruit for such an exjjeri- 

 ment than cherries. If you go to a good 

 nurseryman and tell him you want some 

 cherry-trees, one or more, that will begin to 

 rii)en at the very first, and others to continue 

 until the very latest, he will provide for you 

 a cherry diet for a good many weeks, just at 

 a time when the system seems to need the 

 beautiful and delicious tart that the cherry 

 furnishes. Of course, cherries come right 

 in at the same time as strawberries; but 

 strawberries always seem to trouble me 

 more or less until 1 become gradually accus- 

 tomed to them. 



Now, my good friends, please try a supper 

 of nice tart fruit, without any sugar or any 

 thing else, and relieve the good wife of the 

 necessity of getting three elaborate meals a 

 day. I am sure she will jum}) at the chance 

 of getting you up a tiptop breakfast, and 

 dinner too, if you will let up in your de- 

 mand for the usual su])per, with dishes to 

 l)ut aw^ay, etc.; and after the dinner things 

 are i)ut away, you ami your wife can go out 

 for a ride, or anywhere you choose, to see 

 what is going on in this big world of ours, 

 without any bother or responsibility con- 

 cerning "sui)pertime." And, by the way, 

 do not have any thing to do with the ban- 

 quet and such follies as are now getting to 

 be so fashionabl', after you have already 

 eaten all you ought to during the daytime. 

 May the Lord be i)raised for the beautiful 

 luscious cherries that he has with such a 

 lavish and loving hand i)rei)ared (especial- 

 ly during the present season) , for those who 

 love to study and enjoy his wondrous and 

 precious "gifts." 



