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plant on the lot is now (July 21) in full 

 bloom, higher than my head, and covered 

 with bees. This plant was on the edge of 

 a. strawberry-bed, and had no cultivation, 

 because I wanted to save the strawberries. 

 The hard uncultivated clay seems to have 

 saved it from being thrown out by the frost. 

 I think I shall have to confess that the 

 seedlings of my pet plant are but little if 

 any ditJerent from the common white sweet 

 clover. If anything they bloom a little 

 earlier; and for some reason or other the 

 })lant is larger, and there seem to be more 

 bees on tins plant than on the common 

 sweet clover all around it. One reason may 

 be that it has a place all by itself, whereas 

 the other ])lants are close together. As I 

 have said, it has had no cultivation what- 

 ever. We should be glad to hear from 

 others .to whom we sent seed a year ago; 

 iind we shall also be glad to get the expe- 

 rience of all along the line of giving sweet 

 clover cultivation and loose soil like other 



" A GOLD-MINE ON EVERY FARM." 



We clip the following from the Florida 

 Grower: 



There is a gold-mine on every farm. From the 

 ground now occupied by stumps sufficient food could 

 le grown in a year to equal in value a good-sized 

 gold nugget. Rarely, if ever before, have food prod- 

 ucts sold for so high a price. Never before have 

 our farmers had so great an opportunity to make 



themselves comfortably wealthy from one crop, and 

 at the same time perform a great service to all the 

 world by feeding the hungry. 



From what experience I have had I 

 should say the above is about right — not 

 only doAvn in Florida but here in Ohio. All 

 that is wanted is a man who knows how 

 and is not afraid to work. Our boys and 

 girls in the corn and canning clubs will 

 show us how if we are willing to be taught. 



FRUIT-TREES, 



Inasmuch as there has has been consid- 

 erable discussion in regard to the best rem- 

 edy for San Jose scale, I wrote to Prof. 

 Gossard, of the Ohio Experiment Station, 

 and below is his reply : 



Mr. A. I. Root: — You need have no hesitation 

 at all in running an advertisement in your journal 

 for scalecide. Tbis is one of the very best of all our 

 scale remedies, and is possibly excelled by none. We 

 constantly make use of it in our work, and for a 

 number of scale species get better results with it 

 than with any other remedy. Scalecide rightly 

 divides with lime-sulphur solution iirst place among 

 remedies for control of San .Jose scale. It is par- 

 ticularly useful on old rough-barked apple and pear 

 trees. I enclose a paper by Mr. Houser on the more 

 recent tests of remedies for San .Jose scale. 



H. A. Gossard, Entomologist. 



Wooster, O., Oct. 2. 



All of you who are interested in better 

 fruit should get right about it and send for 

 the little book by the scalecide people. See 

 their advertisement. 



HEALTH NOTES 



"milk and honey;" goats^ milk instead 

 of cows^ milk. 



With all the good things that get into Gleanings 

 I wonder that milch goats have never been written 

 up. The wisest of men said, "And thou shalt have 

 goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy 

 household, and for the maintenance of thy maidens. 

 — Peoverbs 27:27. 



The Bible has much to say about milk, and often 

 ■speaks of honey. When the Israelites were taken 

 from Egypt the Lord promised them " A good land 

 and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and 

 honey." — E.x. 3:8; and it is well known that the 

 Syrian (or they are now called Nubian) goats of 

 Palestine are the finest goats and best milkers of 

 l!ie goat family. Seventeen times in the Biljle is 

 '■ milk and honey " mentioned. It is well known by 

 every Bible student that goats' milk was used by 

 God's ancient people much more than cows' milk, 

 .Tnd I assure you that " milk and honey " will have 

 .a new meaning to those who use goats' milk and 

 honey. As so many beekeepers are "little landers," 

 it strikes me that they should keep goats, not only 

 to have " milk and honey " but to have the very best, 

 cleanest, easiest digested, most healthful, as well as 

 the cheapest milk, and to be sure that the blessed 

 .babies do not get the dread tuberculosis that is de- 

 ■stro}ing its thousands of innocents. " Inno.xious. 

 iuninfectious ;aniuui nourishment fjr the infiint. 



the child, the invalid, and the aged, has been until 

 recently a reflective problem for the medical man as 

 well as the layman;" but goats' milk is solving the 

 problem. 



" The fourth annual report of the District of 

 Columbia Association for the prevention of tubercu- 

 losis, and this is from the most reliable and highest 

 source of information in the United States, tells us 

 that one-fourth of all eases of tuberculosis among 

 children under 16 years of age, and one-eighth of all 

 fatal cases under 5 years of age, are due to bovine 

 tuberculosis. And among children fed exclusively on 

 cows' milk, nine out of ten cases of fatal tuberculosis 

 revealed that five, or 55 per cent, were due to bo- 

 vine infection. The most noted authorities of Eu- 

 rope and America agree that the qualities of goats' 

 milk lie in its chemical composition, its immunity 

 from danger of carryng the germs of tuberculosis, 

 and make it the ne plus ultra of all foods. As a 

 prophecy, remember that the goat will be the foster- 

 mother and wet-nurse of generations yet unborn." — 

 LOUIS G. Knox, M. D., D. V. S. 



Most people have an idea that goats' milk has 

 some strong, pungent, bitter, or unpleasant taste. 

 I assure you that if you like milk you would drink 

 goats' milk and never know the difference unlps.s you 

 detected that it was exceptionally good. 



My wife objected to my getting goats, because I 

 am so " finicky " about the milk I drink. Now that 

 I have goats, I am so " tinicky " atout my milk that 



