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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



NOYEMBEB, 1921 



cused of charging almost as big profits (?) 

 as that graham-cracker episode — 50 cents 

 for 3 cents' worth of wheat. 



A good friend of mine went to a promi- 

 nent physician, and this doctor gave him a 

 prescription to be filled out at the drug- 

 store; and he said, in referring to it in a 

 joking way, ' ' There was enough medicine 

 to kill a horse if he had taken it all." 



Well, this Cleveland doctor, when he 

 caught sight of me, began to laugh. By the 

 way, in years gone by he was one of my 

 Sunday-school pupils. He said something 

 like this: 



"Mr. Eoot, some thirty or more years 

 ago you recommended pretty vehemently a 

 hot-water enema in place of pills and phy- 

 sics. Later on you told us that you made 

 a mistake in advising the use of it every 

 day, saying that it should be used only oc- 

 casionally when there are indications that 

 the bowels do not have the thoro cleansing 

 which they should have. The leading physi- 

 cians of the great wide world are just now 

 pretty unanimously getting around to your 

 teachings of years ago. Pills and physics 

 are to be a thing of the past." 



First he congratulated me on being in 

 such excellent shape for a man of 82; and 

 then, touching my forehead, he added, ' ' Es- 

 pecially in being able to give the world these 

 Home papers apparently about as well as 

 you ever did when 60 years old instead of 

 82. ' ' He said my troubles which sent me 

 to him were probably caused by tardy or im- 

 perfect bowel movement; that the same 

 cracked wheat that I have been talking to 

 you about was the very best remedy — ^much 

 better than bran put up in fancy packages 

 or anything else of that sort. Then there is 

 one more important thing. All machinery, 

 when it becomes old, must have a lubricant, 

 and more and a better lubricant. He said 

 that old men and women are just like ma- 

 chinery. Years ago Dr. Salisbury said to 

 me the human body needs to be kept "well 

 greased;" and I think he recommended cas- 

 tor oil. Dr. Bishop said that butter, bacon, 

 and animal fats of all kind are well enough 

 for lubricating, but that old people in par- 

 ticular need a lubricant that is neither ani- 

 mal nor vegetable. He said we are just now 

 getting hold of a mineral lubricant made 

 from crude oil. I think you can get this 

 at any drugstore, made specially for medi- 

 cine. H© said, "At first take, at night, a 

 tablespoonful or more; but after a thoro 

 cleansing movement has been secured take 

 a little occasionally as needed." 



A good rule is to take enough so that the 

 toilet papers will look a little greasy. He 

 added further that my outdoor exercise was 

 the thing; and going to Florida winters in 

 order to have this outdoor exercise was also 

 the right thing. In regard to diet, he said 

 that men and women over 80 years of age 

 should be fed about as we feed a baby. 

 Fruit is all right; but, as a rule, it should be 

 well cooked; and last, but by no means 



least, old people should sleep about as often 

 as a baby sleeps — say a good nap shortly 

 after every meal; and that is just about 

 what I have been having. Have meals regu- 

 larly; let there be no eating of any thing of 

 any sort between meals; and have the sleep, 

 as far as possible, at regular hours, not only 

 to the hour, but, if possible, almost to the 

 minute. 



I was intending to say something about 

 the high cost of dying; but this paper is 

 already too long. Mrs. Eoot suggests that 

 the very cheapest coffins you can get here 

 in Medina cost $100. These coffins are never 

 exposed to public gaze for more than a few 

 hours. I would suggest a plain wooden box 

 made of the cheapest kind of material. To 

 hide its unsightliness during the brief time 

 it is exposed to view, cover it with some 

 cheap paper, and take the money thus saved 

 to feed the starving babies and poor moth- 

 ers who seem to be dying from lack of nour- 

 ishment in some parts of this world of ours 

 almost every day and every hour. Use some 

 of the money thus saved for putting up a 

 decent tombstone which can be visited by 

 the descendants for years to come, and have 

 some appropriate lettering as a reminder of 

 the life of the departed one; and also do 

 your part .in keeping the cemetery in decent- 

 looking order. Some one has said that the 

 best indication of the way in which a town 

 or city is managed and kept up to date is 

 shown by the appearance of the cemetery. 



HUBAM CLOVER AND WHAT IT MAY DO AS 



A FIELD CROP. 



By Prof. Hughes (himself) 



The extent to which Hubam will come to be used 

 as a field crop will depend largely on the growth 

 which it makes following the small grain crop when 

 seeded with the small grain in the spring. We are 

 trying to get together just now as complete infor- 

 mation as we can from all parts of the country on 

 this particular phase of its growth. I had an ex- 

 cellent report this morning from central Wisconsin, 

 where when seeded with barley it had made a 

 growth of over two feet following the removal of 

 barley, and produced a great mass of material for 

 plowing under. This report came from Melvin 

 Haines at Sawyer, Wis. He writes that he is 

 nearly a hundred years old and a retired farmer, 

 and will not be able to use it much himself, but 

 wants to leave something to his friends and neigh- 

 bors and has great faith in this clover. Altho the 

 writer was a retired farmer, he tells me that he is 

 an extensive grower of cherries, and that they have 

 marketed 350,000 cases of sour cherries this year. 



In a letter from my father received yesterday 

 from northern Illinois, he states that the Hubam 

 seeded with the winter wheat made a growth of 

 over four feet following the removal of the winter 

 wheat crop, and that it is still growing rapidly ; 

 that it has outgrown ragweed, pigweed, tumbleweed, 

 and everything else, making over eight times the 

 growth of other clovers seeded under the same con- 

 ditions. Another report, received a few days ago 

 from Iowa, reports a perfect mass of material fol- 

 lowing winter wheat with a growth of four feet 

 there. 



There are, of course, a few individuals here and 

 there who foel it their duty to warn the public that 

 Hubam clover really has no value, and when these 

 occasionally come to our attention, you can imagine 

 how much we appreciate the support of such men 

 as yourself, your son, and Mr. Collingwood and 

 others. Very sincerely yours. 



Newborn, Ala., Oct. 4, 1921. H. D. Hughes. 



