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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



October, 1917 



ette traffic as she did those who persisted in 

 violating the laws against the opium traffic. 

 The missionary told us they were doing 

 everything in their power to warn the 

 Chinese, especially the schoolchildren, 

 against taking and using cigarettes. They 

 posted printed handbills right over the bills 

 put up by the tobacco company ; and when 

 the missionary 1-eft, only a few weeks ago, 

 the tobacco people Avere trying to make out 

 that it was against the Chinese laws to cover 

 up or tear down their posters. The agents 

 of the cigarette company have a slogan 

 something like this : "Among the four hun- 

 dred millions of men, women, and children 

 in China, we want four hundred million to 

 be cigarette-users." 



It may not b? known to our Ohio people 

 that we have strict laws here that forbid any 

 such work in Ohio. Two years ago we 

 ))rinted a lot of leaflets giving a copy of our 

 Ohio law. The heading of the leaflet reads 

 as follows : 



"Sliall the State of Ohio continue the 



business of growing a crop of fools, idiots, 

 and imbeciles?" 



These leaflets will be mailed free of 

 charge to any one Avho will see to distribut- 

 ing them juclieiously. 



Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 



We clii3 as follows from American Issue: 



WHI.SKBY-SOAKED KENTUCKY NOW KAISING FUNDS 

 TO TEACH HER SOLDIERS TO READ AND WRITE. 



A Columbus man was in Louisville, Ky., the other 

 day. He saw the city placarded with vivid posters, 

 on which was printed, 



" Fifteen regiment's of our Kentucky soldiers can- 

 not read or write; must he taught before they go 

 into the trenches. Will i/om assist?" 



" Vnty don't you tear down those posters?" asked 

 the Columbus citizen of a gentleman, " for what they 

 say cannot be true." 



" LTnfortunately, they are true," was the response.. 

 " We are raising money to send teachers to the 

 camps to teach the boys to read and write. The 

 trouble is, Kentucky has boasted for years of her 

 production of whisky, has talked about the millions 

 invested in distilleries, but she has neglected the 

 education of her people. We have had whisky and 

 distilleries, and now we have a state hopelessly in 

 debt and thousands of her people illiterate." 



Sounds different from Kansas, doesn't it? 



HEALTH NOTES 



^'victuals and DRINK^^ ESPECIALLY THE 



MATTER OF DRINK. 



I hold in my hand Farmer's Bulletin No. 

 817, <^ntitled '''How to Select Food." This 

 bulletin of 22 pages was written by two 

 bright and able women. We have space to 

 make only a couple of extracts. The first 

 is in regard to economy in purchasing. 



Prepared cereals differ so much in form that 

 their appearance gives little idea of the amount 

 of nourishment they yield. For instance, the amount 

 of flour which will fill a cup weighs 4 ounces ; that 

 of. rice, 8 or 9 ounces; and that of flaked breakfast 

 cereal, hardly half an ounce; and it is this weight 

 rather than bulk or volume which indicates food 

 value. Such differences in weight and volume must 

 be remembered by those who wish to buy their food 

 as cheaply as possible. Some breakfast foods retail 

 at 48 cents a pound (15 cents for a five-ounce pack- 

 age) ; others cost 5 or 6 cents a pound. The cheap- 

 est ones are usually those sold in bulk. The 

 housekeeper, by grinding her own wheat, can get a 

 cereal breakfast food for a still smaller sum. When 

 wheat sells for $2 a bushel the cost per pound is 

 between 3 and 4 cents. This wheat can be prepared 

 by washing, drying, and then grinding in an oi-di- 

 nary coffee-mill. 



You will notice, friends, that this places 

 emi^hasis on what I have so often talked 

 about. Just at present the Root neighbor- 

 hood are living largely on wheat grown on 

 our own ground. Instead of using a com- 

 mon coffee-mill we have a little mill that 

 has been referred to already on these pages, 

 costing four or five dollars. Huber rigged 



it so as to be run by a little cheap electric 

 motor, so all you have to do is to pour your 

 clean wheat into the hopper, turn the 

 switch, and then go for your "grist" when 

 you get ready. While this cracked wheat 

 costs only three or four cents a pound, as 

 stated above I greatly prefer it to any other 

 cereal, or any other flour that can be pur- 

 chased at any price. Just think of the 

 short cut between producer and consumer, 

 by growing your own wheat and gi'inding 

 it in your own little mill ! You need not 

 take my word for it — just weigh the stuff 

 you buy after passing thru the hands of 

 se\'leral middlemen and contrast it with 

 the cost of wheat prepared as above. 



In regard to the method of cooking, let 

 me make another extract from this bul- 

 letin : 



There are several practical points to remember in 

 cooking cereals. One is that there is more danger 

 of not cooking them enough than of cooking them 

 too much. Uncooked cereal preparations. liC<e 

 cracked wheat and coarse samp, need several hours' 

 cooking, and are often improved by being left on 

 the back of the stove or in the flreless cooker over- 

 night. Cereals partially cooked at the factory, such 

 as the rolled or fine granular preparations, should be 

 cooked fully as long as the directions on the package 

 suggest. 



You will notice by the above tliey recom- 

 mend several hours' cooking. With a gas- 

 stove such as we use, this is ea.sily man- 



