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straiEht opinions of wealthy business men. They 

 are too well posted to drink tea and coffee. And no- 

 tice they have saved the article telling how to roast 

 the wheat: and it need cost you only 3 cents a pound 

 and the trouble of roasting: 26 cups for one cent! 

 And it is good. And there is no enormous profit 

 going to make millionaires of manufacturers. 



T. B. Terry. 



I suppose the above refers to our establish- 

 ment, because we are probably the largest 

 manufacturers of bee-supplies in the world. 

 Now about real coffee. Two or three times 

 a year I drink real colTee — sometimes, but 

 not often, stronc/ collee, such as is usually 

 served at public eating-places. I never take 

 a full cup, however, for it is too strong for 

 me. I call for half a cup, and then I fill it 

 up with milk. Some of you may ask w^hy 

 I drink coffee at all. It is because I want 

 to keep tab on the customs of our people; 

 and I want to study the effect on myself. 

 Of course, in using coffee so seldom, it pro- 

 duces an unusual effect. Half a cupful 

 of strong coffee, even at mealtime, banishes 

 sleep, and makes me talkative, or inclined 

 to be so; for I hope I have enough good 

 sense to keep still when I am under the in- 

 fluence of any stimulant. I do not know 

 but coffee may have a necessary place in 

 diet, or, rather, in medicine. When I am 

 obliged to be up late at night, or traveling, 

 or at a lecture, a little strong coffee helps me 

 amazingly to hold out; but I am not at all 

 certain tliat it is the proper thing to use cof- 

 fee, even in such a case. When one is sick 

 or faint when traveling, a little coffee will 

 brace him up until he gets home, and may 

 be it is all right; but one who wants to live 

 to a good old age, and to preserve his strength 

 and faculties, certainly can not afford to use 

 real coffee; and I for one greatly ^j;-e/er wheat 

 coffee or "wheat soup," as friend Terry is 

 pleased to term it. 



A. T. cook's domestic COFFEE-BERRY. 



By the way, I have just been testing 

 Cook's coffee-berry. Of course, it is not a 

 new thing; but after using Terry's M'heat 

 coffee I thought I would try the soja-bean 

 coffee once more; and I am glad to say that 

 I find it very nutritious, and pleasant to 

 taste; in fact, I like it for a change fully as 

 well as the wheat coffee; and, by the way, I 

 notice by the papers that the soja bean is 

 rapidly coming to the front as a very nutri- 

 tious and cheap food for all kinds of domes- 

 tic animals. The berries themselves, or 

 beans, if you choose, contain a larger jiropor- 

 tion of nutritious food than almost any oth- 

 er article of diet; besides, as the plant is a 

 legume it greatly improves the soil where it 

 grows by taking nitrogen from the air. All 

 sorts of crops grow ranker and stronger in 

 the ground w'here a crop of soja beans has 

 been entirely removed. If plowed under as 

 we do clover, it is, perhaps, one of the best if 

 not the best plant in the world to bring up 

 the fertility of worn-out or exhausted soils. 



Friend Cook says in his catalog the coffee 

 berry is a "big thing" for chickens, and I 

 notice the Petaluna Weekly advertises soja 

 bean meal as a substitute for meat for poul- 

 try. I have now a beautiful stand of it in 

 our garden. 



A BREAKFA.ST FOOD AT LESS THAN TWO 

 CENTS A POUND, EQUAL OR SUPERIOR 



TO ANY THING ON THE MARKET. 

 Mr. A. I. Root: — I have read your writings for a 

 number of years, and like them very much, espe- 

 cially those about health foods. We have away of 

 preparing wheat which I think makes a better 

 breakfast food than any on the market, and at the 

 very cheap price of one and a half cents a pound- 

 that is, at the retail price of wheat here: It Is 

 cheap, healthful, and delicious, and very easy to 

 prepare. Sprout clean wheat, grind in a food-chop- 

 per, and bake till crisp. If it is boiled for ten min- 

 ute before grinding it will grind easier. It may be 

 eaten like grape nuts" without further preparation, 

 or may be cooked like rolled oats, but not so long. 

 North Yakima, Wash., Feb. 18. V. V. Dexter. 



Many thanks, my good friend Dexter; 

 and I will say to our readers that, while I 

 have not yet had time to test what he rec- 

 ommends, I feel absolutely sure it will prove 

 to be all our friend says in regard to it. 

 While sprouting oats for chickens of all ages 

 during the past winter (and we have been 

 doing it continuously) I have often thought 

 that sprouted grains would be a delicious 

 and nourishing food for the human family. 

 The Chinese already have sprouted peas on 

 the market; and the malted-nuts prepara- 

 tion is, if I am correct, the result of sprout- 

 ing the nuts. During the past winter a 

 great part of our food has been clean wheat, 

 grown right here in Medina last year on our 

 own farm, and ground in a little hand mill 

 I have frequently mentioned. Set the mill 

 so as just to break the wheat grain; then 

 wdth a sieve take out the fine flour, which 

 makes better graham bread than any gra- 

 ham flour that can be found on the market. 

 The ground wheat that does not go through 

 the sieve is then cooked in a double boiler, 

 cooking it several hours. This form of 

 breakfast food served with butter, cream, 

 and good honey, is about the most delicious 

 food I ever ate, and also one of the most 

 healthful and nourishing. In writing to 

 T. B. Terry, Ernest made the remark a few 

 days ago that it was a dish fit for a king. 

 Terry published it in the Practiced Fetrmer 

 and I can fully indorse the statement. 

 Now, then, let us go to work and have 

 sproriieel wheat for the people, just as we 

 have been having sprouted oats for chick- 

 ens; and I am sure that multitudes will 

 find there is nothing better in the way of a 

 cheap, nourishing, and healthful food. 



OUR GOVERNMENT S CHEMIST S OPINION OF 

 THE DRUG BUSINESS. 



We clip the following from the Union 

 Signed oiMpy 11: 



Dr. Harvey Wiley, government food and drug ex- 

 pert, says; " Unless something is speedily done to 

 stop the growth of the drug habit, the ITnited 

 States will become a nation of weak-minded and 

 befviddled people!" He attributes the large and 

 ever increasing number of dope fiends to the fact 

 that doctors prescribe harmful drugs when not at 

 all necessary, and says a physician should never 

 prescribe opium or morphine unless it is for the 

 purpose of saving life, for when a drug is given lor 

 some trivial illness, the odds are strong that the 

 patient will continue to take the drug and will 

 finally become a slave to the habit. 



May God be praised that we have a gov- 

 ernment chemist who is not afraid to speak 

 out God's truth, and who can not be bribed 



