GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



I am very touchy about the cows' milk I sometimes 

 get in some places. Do you like a cow smell ? Well, 

 do you like the cow smell in your milk? How often 

 do you see a really clean milk cow ? They are usu- 

 ally smeared with their droppings, and their filthy 

 fail is everlastingly on the swing. My goats are 

 white, and you will never see them unclean. I tan 

 sweep their droppings away with a broom. Tlio'r 

 tail is short, and never in the way, nor filthy. They 

 are as clean about their food as the ordinary person. 

 They prefer weeds, leaves, shrubs, etc., to grass, but 

 it must all be clean. They are the most docile and 

 lovable of pets; can be kept on one-eighth of a cow's 

 keep; will eat the scraps of bread, fruit, and potato 

 parings from the kitchen (if they are perfectly 

 clean), and will cost for keep but little over one 

 dollar per month if you buy all the feed, and will 

 gi .'e from one to four quarts of milk per da/ tlat 

 is twice as rich as cows' milk, and absolutely im- 

 mune to tuberculosis. Thorobred Swiss milch goats 

 are expensive ; but their crosses on the common goat 

 are cheaper, and sometimes nearly as good. I 

 should like to see more beekeepers and little landers 

 enjoying real " milk and honey," the best milk, the 

 only safe milk. I have nothing for sale. 



Noosack, Wash. Rev. Alson W. Steers. 



We have already had several suggestions 

 that goats' milk be recommended in place of 

 cows' milk ; and one writer sent us a num- 

 ber of clippings telling where babies' lives 

 have been saved by substituting goats' milk 

 for cows' milk. But I have always had a 

 prejudice against goats because of the smell 

 that I supposed pertained to all goats. As 

 the writer makes no mention of a disagree- 

 able smell of the animal I have been won- 

 dering if there is any particular strain of 

 goats that is devoid of this smell. And be- 

 sides the smell they have always seemed to 

 me to be very uncouth-looking animals — 

 more so than our other domestic animals. 

 Is it not true that a certain kind of rather 

 expensive cheese is made from goats' milk? 

 If what the writer claims in the above is 

 true, perhaps it may be well to have the 

 matter discussed a little more in Glean- 

 ings. We have had several sample copies 

 of a periodical devoted exclusively, or near- 

 ly so, to the breeding and care of goats. 



Later. — Recently while traveling in the 

 northern part of Michigan the train stopped 

 at a junction for some little time. Close by 

 the train a man came up with a little wagon 

 drawn by a goat. It had horns, and was 

 almost as large as a Jersey cow. In fact, 

 I did not know before that goats ever grew 

 to such a size. This big goat seemed to be 

 a novelty to the passengers, for they all 

 began to push their heads out of the win- 

 dow, and finally they gathered around the 

 man and his cart. He was selling peanuts 

 and popcorn. The goat was evidently used 

 to attract attention; and his owner by 

 means of it gathered in quite a lot of dimes 

 and nickels. Was this big goat a large kind 

 of goat, or was he a giant among his own 

 species'? 



ANIMALS, 95 PER CENT NORMAL AT BIRTH; 

 HUMANITY ONLY 20 PER CENT; WHY? 



I have before made frequent mention of 

 Prof. W. T. Shannon, of Delaware, Ohio. 

 His lifework is not only for better babies 

 but better men and women, " lifting up the 

 fallen," etc. We give below the first page 

 of a six-page leaflet. If you want to help, 

 send for a sample copy of his journal, 

 Practical Eugenics, or, better still, send 50 

 cents and get it a whole year. Address as 

 above. 



PRACTICAL EUGENICS. 



We have more than eight hundred weekly and 

 monthly publications devoted to better fruit, vege- 

 tables, cereals, bees, chickens, and stock. Largely 

 thru their agency we have doubled the variety, size, 

 and quality of our vegetables and fruits, and pro- 

 duced our popular varieties of poultry and breeds 

 of domestic animals. Nearly every man at the head 

 of a family, whether he owns an acre of land or not, 

 subscribes for one or more of these papers. Their 

 wisdom has our commendation. 



Not one family in twenty takes a magazine or 

 reads a book devoted to the teaching of sane and 

 practical methods of improving the race of mankind. 

 We have turned the advent of childhood over to 

 ignorance and selfishness. Prudery and ignorance 

 prevail, instead of intelligent child culture. The 

 double standard of morals, so largely responsible 

 for the degenerating habits of tobacco, alcohol, and 

 immorality, goes unchallenged. Young people are 

 teased about sweethearts, marriage is a joke, divorce 

 is an ever increasing reality, and degeneracy threat- 

 ens the race. 



" SMOKING AND FIRE LOSS OP LIFE AND 

 PROPERTY.^' 



The above heading I clipped from a little 

 pamphlet of eight pages and from the eight 

 pages I clip as follows : 



This article was prepared by Mr. Williams, at the 

 request of Mr. RoUa V. Watt, Manager of the Royal 

 Insurance Company, San Francisco, CaJifornia, 

 specially for Manfred P. Welcher, Field Secretary 

 Anti-cigarette League of America, Eastern Division. 



Copies of this folder will be sent by Mr. Welcher 

 at 5 cts. for 10 copies; 50 cts. for 100; $5.00 for 

 1000. General delivery, Los Angeles, California. 



The pamphlet contains a vast amount of 

 important matter in regard to fires caused 

 by smoking, particularly from cigarettes; 

 and at the close we read as follows: 



The great Baltimore fire, costing the insurance 

 companies fifty million dollars, was caused by a 

 cigarette thrown into rubbish, where it smouldered 

 and finally created the conflagration which looked 

 for a time as if it would sweep the entire city. 



Every time a cigar, pipe, or cigarette is lighted, a 

 fire is started ; and whether it will become a con- 

 flagration that will destroy a block or a whole city 

 depends upon the care or carelessness of the smoker. 



There is not an hour of the day that some fijre is 

 not being caused by a careless smoker, either with 

 matches or by throwing away his stub of a cigar or 

 cigarette, and some drastic nation-wide action must 

 be taken to prevent it. 



The state of Washington passed a law prohibit- 

 ing the use and sale of cigarettes, and almost in- 

 stantly the number of preventable fires was reduced. 



