GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1917 



ago, advised a vegetable butter instead of 

 animal'? Nuts has been thc(tr forte — at 

 least largely. Is it really true the farmers 

 of our land have been, for selfish interests, 

 putting" a burden on us down here? I 

 should like to hear from our good friends 

 of The Bural New-Yorker. 



CORN MEAL, ITS FOOD VALUE, AND SOME- 

 THING ABOUT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. 



The following I clip from the Medina 

 County (Ohio) Gazette. It may not all 

 be exactly true, but it certainly is largely 

 true. 



In these times of the high cost of livins;, and 

 particularly of the heights to which the prices of 

 wheat and flour have soared, the average American 

 loses sight of the value of corn as food. 



Corn is cheap, comparatively. Wheat is high, 

 very high. We have much corn. We have little 

 wheat. We have raised three thousand million 

 hushels of corn in one crop. The greatest crop of 

 wheat we ever produced was one thousand million 

 bushels. Of the crop this year our yield of corn 

 is four and a half times that of wheat. 



Dr. Barnard tells us cornmeal at three cents a 

 pound is equal in value to two loaves of wheat bread. 



Based on food value, corn in the form of meal 

 or hominy is the cheapest foodstuff obtainal'.e today. 



The South knows corn. To the North and West 

 it is little known, comparatively. 



Again, Dr. Barnard tells us three cents' worth of 

 cornmeal contains as much nutriment as 91 cents' 

 worth of eggs at 50 cents a dozen, or 56 cents' 

 worth of round steak for which yoi. pay 30 cents 

 a pound. 



The high cost of living touches every pocketbook. 

 If you would lighten the strain on your purse, 

 study the virtues of corn. 



Today the American housewife u.^es 10 pounds of 

 wheat flour to one pound of corn — 'orn of which we 

 have an amp'e quantity, and wheat of which there 

 is a scarcity that approaches fj. nine. 



Cornmeal at three cents a pound is equal in 

 food value to six pounds of potatoes, for which 

 the housekeeper today pays 20 cents. 



It is equal to a pound of cheese, for which she 

 pa- s 3' cents or more. 



It is equal to six pounds of bananas, 11 pounds 

 of oranges, 14 pounds of cabbage. 



The corn that we cook into corn cakes, that we 

 eat as hominy and mush, costs only one tenth as 

 much as some of our breakfast foods. 



Cornmeal and hominy contain twice as much fat 

 as any other cereal except oats, and the world knows 

 (he worth of oatmeal. 



Think of corn, study corn, talk of corn. The 

 result will be to your benefit and to the benefit of 

 America. 



Eat corn bread. Get to know the corn bread 

 of the South. Have a real Southerner serve corn 

 bread to you once, and the wheaten loaf no longer 

 will have its present appeal. 



Know the corn pone, if opportunity offers. Know 

 liominy. Know the gr.-iin of all grains, corn. 



The stnicnient in Iho abnve in regard 

 to eggs may be a surprise to m.any { but 

 it is quite in accord with some experi- 

 ments of my own toward 50 years ago. 

 reported in the Home papers,' then just 

 started, I made an entire meal of differ- 



ent articles of food, figured the cost, and 

 then did a good hard day's work with 

 the bees, garden, etc., to see how I held 

 out. One morning my breakfast was not 

 a thing but eggs. My impression was I 

 ate nearly a dozen; at any rate, it was one 

 of the most expensive meals, and I be- 

 came faint and hungry before dinner. 

 The meal that gave most endurance for 

 the money was beans. I think corn meal 

 was a close second. All sorts of canned 

 foods bought at the groceries figured in 

 cost " aAvay up." 



"ENSEROL," BORIC ACID, ETC., FOR THE EYE 

 AND EAR. 



Some time ago I mentioned a medicine 

 called "enserol" that was sold at $2.50 an 

 ounce, or something like that, and that our 

 Ohio Health Department had pronounced it 

 simply boric acid in solution, and that the 

 patent-medicine cjuack was charging $2.50 

 for something which could be had at the 

 drugstore for five cents. This enserol, in 

 connection with glycerine, was recommend- 

 ed for deafness. Some time ago when I got 

 up one morning one of my eyes was paining 

 me, and I thonglit something had got into it. 

 I called our family doctor, and he made a 

 careful examination, but said he could find 

 nothing; but he suggested a little boric acid 

 in solution miglit help, and the relief wa'5 

 instantaneous. Since then I have found 

 our neighbors have been using the same 

 thing for troubles with the eye. I was re- 

 minded of the above by the clipping below 

 which I take from the Cleveland Pla'n 

 Dealer. T give it here because it tells just 

 iiow strong a solution to use. 



"Pink eye," or acute epidemic conjunctivitis, is 

 a common disease of the eye, and is caused by a 

 germ. This may be treated by closing the eye and 

 then applying a lotion consisting of ten grains of 

 boric acid to one ounce of boiled water. The pow- 

 ders should be dissolved in the water while it is liot. 



HONEY IN PLACE OF SUGAR. 



Dr. J. H. Kellogg gives the following in 

 Good Health for December : 



HONRV .^S A DIABETIC KOOD. 



A Russian physician, Davidoff, reports an obser- 

 vation of seven diabetic patients in mIioui he found 

 that great benefit followed the substitution of honey 

 for sugar and other sweets. The sugar of the urine 

 was diminished and acidosis was prevented. 



This reminds us of what .Tohn Burroughs once 

 siiid about honey : 



" It is a moi-o wholesome t'dcul tlian sugar, and 

 modern confectionery is poison beside it. Besides 

 grape sugar, honey contains manna, mucilage, pollen, 

 acid, and other vegetable odoriferous substances and 

 .iuices. It is a sugar with a kind of wild natural 

 bread added." 



