APRIL 15, 191« 



and more dim, and closing at last to open no more! 

 Not dozens, nor scores, nor hundreds, Init many 

 thousands dying like this! 



AVe send shells to kill men. May we not send 

 milk to eare babies? 



aeroi'IjAnk development. 



The war has revolutionized the aeroplane. We no 

 longer hear about the dangers of mere flying; me- 

 chanical ingenuity has apparently overcome them. 

 In almost any kind of weather except the severest 

 gales, the fliers now sweep along at over a hundred 

 miles an hour, under 150 horsepower. Waldemar 

 Kampffert, in a recent article, writes that there are 

 over 5000 planes of various models in use in the 

 different armies, and that the perils from armed 

 aerial enemies and from aeroplane guns on the field 

 below are such that the average flying life of a 

 plane is not longer than two weeks I Very few of 

 the machines used at the beginning of the war are 

 now in service, and to repair the waste it may be 

 necessary to build 50,000 aeroplanes a year while 

 the war lasts. There have been no radical depar- 

 tures from the early models of Orville and Wilbur 

 Wright, altho there are many varied arrangements 

 of the wings. Types may vary, but the original 

 principle persists. No longer is the aeroplane the 

 toy of sport and adventure. It has become a sur- 

 prisingly dependable machine. 



THE " SUNSHINE CURE," GOD'S MEDICINE. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — Do you remember the sick boy 

 who came to Bradentown with his mother in the 

 spring of 1914? Well, this is he, and I am not 

 dead yet. 



I read in your Home talks about the baby that is 

 allowed to enjoy the sun every day (p. 1001, Dec. 

 15), and I am going to tell you about my experience 

 with the sun cure. 



The doctor advocated rich food, such as cream, 

 raw eggs, buttermilk, etc., which, of course, I found 

 agreeable enough. I sleep on the porch winter and- 

 summer, and never expect to quit. But the most 

 remarkable part of the treatment, and the part that 

 brought me up like a soap-bubble, was the eun cure. 

 Fortunately I live on a farm with no near neigh- 

 bors, so I had no hindrance from that quarter. The 

 treatment consists of going as nearly naked as 

 possible in the hot sun. From May 1 to Sept. 1, 

 1914, we had practically no rain in this section of 

 the country. The sun beat down with a fury. Crops 

 were ruined, and it looked like bankruptcy to most 

 of the farmers, but it was just the thing for me. 

 I made use of it too. That was one summer I did 

 not " sit in the shade." I was in the broiling sun 

 all summer with nothing on except a narrow pair of 

 bathing-trunks. Of course I had to get myself ac- 

 customed to the sun before I could stand the 

 continual glare all day. That is a tedious job, and 

 must be gone about with caution. One would think 

 that the heat of the sun would be very disagreeable ; 

 but I enjoyed it. It puts a snap and vigor into the 

 body, and at night I slept like a baby, which was 

 indeed a treat to me after the many nights I had 

 suffered from insomnia and cold sweats. I am per- 

 fectly well now; but I wore my "sunning" clothes 

 last summer, and intend to again this summer, just 

 for the life it puts into me. Lyman L. Duley. 



Smithland, Ky., Feb. 17. 



In the above, nothing is said about exer- 

 cise while out in the sun; but I take it our 

 friend was all the time busy at work of 

 some kind. Many times when I felt "too 

 sick to do anything," by getting out in the 

 sun, in scant attire, with my light hoe, I 

 would soon be feeling fine. 



The following from the Plain Dealer 

 C(imcs in nicely right here: 



LIGHT THE BEST HISKASE CURE; EXPERT SAYS IT'S 

 SUT'ERIOR TO WATER BAG OR POULTICE. 



Prof. E. C. Titus, in an address, stated that light 

 is a much better cure for disease than hot-water bag 

 or poultice. He says that when rays of light fall 

 on the skin some are arrested by one layer of ekin 

 and some by another, while some are not stopped 

 until they have penetrated the subcutaneous tissues. 



When the light is thus arrested it produces radi- 

 ant heat, which has a higher penetrating power than 

 convection heat, such as generated by poultices, etc. 

 Radiant heat penetrates two inches or more, while 

 convection heat is excited principally on the surface. 



.MEDINA 45 YE/VRS AGO^ OR 3 YEARS BEFORE 

 GLEANINGS WAS STARTED. 



My attention Mas recently called to a 

 clipping from the Medina Gazette of July 

 8, 1870. This was about five years after 1 

 bought my twenty-dollar queen, and about 

 three years before Gleanings was started. 

 Below is the clipping: 



The statement made by A. I. Root in his communi- 

 cation on the fourth page of the Gazette, of the 

 iimount of honey made by his bees within the post 

 two months, seems incredible; but it is a solid fact. 

 Five thousand pounds in sixty days by fifty hives! 

 Has it ever been beaten in the United States? 



After I got the Italian queen from Mr. 

 Langstroth I began studying bees and bee 

 cultiire almost day and night, in my desire 

 to find out everything known about bees on 

 the face of the earth. I commenced hunting 

 up bee-books and subscribing for farm 

 papers that contained articles on bee cul- 

 ture. The above report of 100 lbs. per 

 colony for an apiary of 50 colonies was at 

 that time considered a feat; but when the 

 news became .spread of what was possible 

 with bee culture, reports came thick and 

 fast from Florida, California, New York. 

 Michigan, and all over our land. If T re- 

 call cori-ectly, the largest number of pounds 

 per colony from a fair-sized apiary was 

 produced in the vicinity of New Smyrna, 

 ITa. Perhaps some of the veterans can give 

 me the figures. So far as I can recall, an 

 apiary of somewhere toward 100 colonies 

 made an avera.ge of betAveen 200 and 300 

 lbs. per colony. This was just before the 

 disastrous freeze of 1895. 



■' CHURNLFss bi;tter:" how thev make it in 



CHINA 



It might interest A. I. Root to know how we 

 luake churnless buttei- here. Not being able to get 

 more than four fo six large bottles from a cow per 

 day we have very little to spare for butter. After 

 fcoiiig through the process of getting the cream to 

 the lop we put it into a wide-nvouthed bottle, say 

 Mason j.Tr; and after a few minutes of jerky shak- 

 ing, which slops the cream against the side of the 

 bottle, we have a nice solid piece of butter. A 

 .steady shake is not so good. It wants to hit the 

 glass sharply. J. F. Moore. 



Shau Tai Kuran, China. 



