August, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



648 



Referee in Bankruptcy Coles today ordered the 

 division of $37, 9116. 75 luuong- 275 creditors of the 

 bankrupt Lewis Publishing Company of University 

 City. Each creditor will receive 1.675 per cent of 

 his claims. 



Liabilities of the company were fixed at $2,211,- 

 055.26 when it made voluntary declaration of in- 

 solvency. Matt G. Reynolds is trustee. 



The above notice appeared in the daily papers of 

 St. Louis on April 17, 1917. The creditors realized 

 a little more than a cent and a half on the dollar. 

 Lewis apparently squandered the 971/4 cts. Tliis 

 record should prove interesting to those whom Lewis 

 is soliciting: to invest In his new Atascadero, Cali- 

 fornia, schemes. 



Some years ago, when Gleanings^ to- 

 ii'etlier with the Bnral New-Yorker, exposed 

 the tricks of the Lewis Co., quite a lot pro- 

 tested, declaring- that Lewis was all straight, 

 and wonld do all he agreed, etc. From the 

 above you can see how it turned out. With 

 over two million dollars sent him, largely 

 by poor people, of their hard earnings, and 

 mostly women at that, they get back only a 

 cent and a half on tlie dollar. We might 

 drop the matter right here and call it " spill- 

 ed milk " were it not for the fact that this 

 same Lewis is out in California trying to 

 do the same thing over again, or, what is 

 worse, that he is succeeding, at least to a 

 certain extent, in doing the same thing over 

 again. Before investing your hard earnings 

 in the future, dear friends, you had better 

 listen to the Rural Neio-Yorker; and if you 

 will not think me immodest I should like to 

 add, listen to your old friend A. L Root. 



PEU'TILK EGGS FOR HATCHING. 



On page 210 of our March issue I men- 

 tioned taking six dozen eggs down to Flori- 

 da, and that I got only 18 chicks from them; 

 and I said there were two reasons for the 

 poor hatch. First, some of them were a 

 month old or more; second, I carried the 

 six dozen eggs in my grip over a thousand 

 miles. Well, in order to test the matter a 

 little further to see where the trouble lay, 

 about the last of April I put 20 more fresh 

 eggs in my grip, packed in bran as before. 

 The eggs carried safely, and only one was 

 broken, and that by accident after it reached 

 Medina. The 19 were put under two hens, 

 and every egg showed Strong iflertillty. 

 From the 19 eggs I got 18 nice strong chick- 

 ens; and yesterday, June 5, every chicken 

 was pretty well feathered out, and strong 

 and healthy. This morning I found one 

 dead, without any apparent reason. But I 

 feel pretty well satisfied with the experiment 

 after all, for it demonstrates conclusively 

 that strictly fresh eggs will bear long ship- 

 ment all right if properly packed, but that 

 it is poor policy to undertake to get chicks 

 from eggs over a month old. One more 

 point is that the Eglantine strain of White 

 Leghorns — at least so far as my experience 

 goes — give eggs of remarkable fertility. 

 Nineteen fertile eggs out of twenty is pretty 

 good ; and if the one had not been broken 

 by accident, very likely every egg would 

 have proven fertile. 



HEALTH NOTES 



CORN MEAL AND " HIGH COST OF LIVING." 



Our readei-s will rocall that our remark 

 on corn meal, page 302, was given with 

 something of a word of caution; therefore 

 we take pleasui-e in giving the following : 



Mr. Root: — Your article on corn meal, page 302, 

 is SO' misleading that I feel it a duty I owe the 

 subscribers to make a few comments. If you will 

 refer to Farmers' Bulletin No. 142 you will see that 

 corn meal is not a lalanced ration (a balanced ration 

 mujst have about 14 per cent protein, page 48 bulle- 

 tin), and, when eaten without something to balance, 

 it is dangerous (page 45). Corn meal has only 7.8 

 per cent of digestible protein (page 28), and re- 

 quires to balance it about a dozen eggs, 2/3 lb. 

 cheese, 1 lb. beef, or 1 lb. of beans, which, added to 

 the corn meal, makes it much more expensive than 

 oatmeal, which costs but little more, and is already 

 a balanced ration. Children fed on corn meal alone 

 will get sick and stop growing. I have seen it 

 tried. Southern darkies live on corn meal, but they 

 do love chicken, which balances the corn meal. Per- 

 sons living on an unbalanced ration will soon crave 

 something that balances their ration. Everybody 

 should have bulletin No. 142 and study it, if they 

 wish to economize and still be healthy. 



Hamilton, N. J., April 21. C. E. Fowler. 



Perhaps I should add that it is pretty 

 generally accepted that corn meal alone is 

 not a safe food for chickens — especially 

 veiy small ones. If the chickens, however, 

 have a run outdoors they might get along 

 very well. But years ago, when our young 

 chicks died in considerable numbers, it was 

 generally agi'eed tliat it was because they 

 had too much eorn meal, or an exclusively 

 corn-meal diet, when they Avere quite young. 

 Notwithstanding all the above, however, I 

 tliink many people and many families would 

 not only save money but have better health 

 by using considerably more corn meal in 

 some shape than they have been using. 



VEGETABLE BUTTER AND COWS' BUTTER; BY A 



SOUTHERN MAN WHO CAN SPEAK FROM BOTH 



SIDES OF THE QUESTION. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I have just read your article on 

 page 301, April issue, about the " high cost of " — 

 butter. I see you have been deceived by the oleo 

 people with their one-sided statement of the case. 

 Being a Southern man, and making for sale cotton- 



