N()VKM;-.kr, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



887 



well-developed industry constantly meet difficulties, 

 as everything has to pass thru belligerent country. 



Speaking of goats, I may say that they are also 

 rather numerous in this section of Argentina (Sierras 

 of Cordoba) — a semi-arid region somewhat similar to 

 Southern California. This summer we had an un- 

 precedented drouth of eight and one-half months, 

 and cattle have died by the hundreds, but only in 

 this section — at least in the cases where the owners 

 neglected to bring their animals to the high sierra, 

 where there is always some grass. But under the 

 same condition, where no cow could exist, the goat 

 has kept the field, and not one goat was lost on 

 account of the drouth. This native race has thus 

 given an excellent proof of its resistance and its 

 adaptability to adverse conditions. 



Ernesto Tschudin. 



Luyaba, Sierras de Cordoba, Argentina, Feb. 6. 



goats' milk. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — -In your talk about goats' milk 



in Gleanings for December 1, 1910, page 1138, 

 you quote from the editor, A. C. Gage, of Angora 

 Journal. He says that you could not tcU the dif- 

 ference from cows' milk and goats' milk out of 

 different glasses but by the richness of the latter. 

 You might tell Gage he should never start to judge 

 honey. If his taste is so poor he would make a 

 poor judge. Many years ago we bought a goat to 

 go among a dairy of cows, as people said it would 

 stop abortion in cows, or, as it was called, "picking 

 calf." The goat had no effect. I had a sister, not 

 strong, and she was advised to drink goats' milk. 

 At my breakfast they used to put some goats' milk 

 among the cows' milk I had for my porridge. 

 They never let on to me, and watched to see the 

 effect. Never once did they manage to cheat me 

 without my knowing the difference, and I do not 

 consider that I am an expert taster; still, I could 

 pick out that peculiar taste. James Smith. 



Drungans, New Abbey, by Dumfries, Scotland, 

 Feb. 23. 



TEMPERANCE 



CARLOADS OF BEER OK CARLOADS OP COAL — 

 WHICH SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY? 



May the Lord be praised that we have at 

 least one woman (Miss Jeannette Rankin) 

 in our national congress; and may he be 

 praised still more for a woman of such abil- 

 ity, and one who is not afraid to call things 

 by their right name. From the Chicago 

 Herald we learn that she is making a pro- 

 test because cars for the transportation of 

 beer (just while there is a ear shortagje) are 

 given the right of way in place of cars for 

 coal or almost anything else. During the 

 year 1916 368,000 carloads of beer was con- 

 sumed ; and she tells us that 10 per cent of 

 the available ears in the United States are 

 used for moving liquor. Of course, spiritu- 

 ous liquors have been knocked out; but ten 

 times as many cars are used for moving beer 

 on account of its greater bulk. 



Now, then, good people of the United 

 States, it rests on our shoulders during the 

 coming election to decide which is of the 

 most importance — ■ the transportation of 

 coal or of beer. This good woman also 

 holds up before our eyes the way in which 

 congress has been urging us to save every 

 crumb of bread and every bit of meat, but- 

 ter, fat, etc. 



KENTUCKY — SO:\rETHIKG IN HER DEFENSE.' 

 Mr. A. I. Root: — Apropos to your clipping in 

 October Gleanings, p. 806, " Whisky-soaked Ken- 

 tucky, etc.," allow me to correct both yourself and 

 the American Issue. In the first placni, let me say 

 I am a Yankee of the Yankees, and proud of it, 

 having been born on Bunker Hill and lived a part 

 of my life there. Kentucky has been the state 

 of my adoption for half of my life, and I am proud 

 of that also. I love her people and the .state, 

 althn raised in the North and having had a father 



whom we called " the last of the Puritans." Yoii 

 will readily see that I have had experience enough 

 to see both sides of the question. Possibly neither 

 you nor the American Issue is aware that Kentucky 

 has 108 absolutely di'y counties out of a total of 119. 

 This compares favorably with Ohio, the state where 

 the American Issue is published. Let it be known 

 that, altho Kentucky hasi made lots of whisky, the 

 great bulk of it is used in the North. There is more 

 illiteracy in the South than in the North (Kentucky 

 included), not because of whisky, but of the differ- 

 ent systems of education that in the past have ob- 

 tained here. When I first came here we had no 

 public-school system worthy of the name. Any one 

 who could make a living at all had money enough 

 to send his children to a private school, and they 

 did it. In later years more attention has been paid 

 to public schools, and most of them will compare 

 favorably with those in the North for towns of 

 equal size; and the private schools have languished 

 in consequence, which is proper. The most of the 

 illiteracy in this state is among the mountain coun- 

 ties and the colored population. We have all over 

 the state so-called " moonlight " schools where any 

 one so disposed can obtain, free of charge, the 

 rudiments of an education. " You can lead a 

 horse to water, but you can't make him drink," 

 holds good both in the North and South. A colored 

 man worked for me over twenty years, and in all 

 that time I could not induce him to come to my 

 house at night and learn to read and write. We 

 are a very good people here, altho " whisky-soaked." 

 Pastors from other states come here and state that 

 central Kentucky has a larger proportion of church 

 members and attendants than any locality they ever 

 heard of. Our population, outside of the three 

 largest cities, is almost pure English. In this 

 county of about 15,000 population I can safely say 

 there are not 100 of foreign birth. Don't kick poor 

 old Kentucky around. Quit drinking our whisky. 

 Honey crop this year, one-tenth of last. 



Hurrodsburg, Ky., Oct. 9. W. H. Reed. 



My good friend, I confess I felt worried 

 when I made that clipping from the Ameri- 

 can Tssue; but I thought it might have a 

 good effect in calling forth a correction such 

 as you have just made. I rejoice to- know 

 that Kentucky has 108 dry counties out of 



