1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1033 



But the greater part of the time, about 

 three meals sets me right again; and very 

 frequently dropping sugar in every shape, 

 together with sweet or sweetened fruits, of 

 itself gets me all right again. Now, a great 

 many of our readers, as I know from the 

 letters you send me, have proved this mat- 

 ter just as I have done; and yet it is one of 

 the saddest and most saddening things that 

 we meet (at least saddening to me) to see 

 our health journals, or the greater part of 

 them, hammering away on vegetarian diet 

 for everybody indiscriminately. Lots of 

 people, and I am glad to say my wife is 

 among the crowd, could get along very well, 

 and perhaps enjoy excellent health, on a 

 vegetarian diet; but even she, when hover- 

 ing between life and death, after an attack 

 of pleuro - pneumonia, acknowledged that 

 ground or scraped lean meat, without any 

 question, saved her life. 



Another sad thing is that there are quite 

 a good many physicians who will have it that 

 meat is indigestible, and not fit for a weak 

 stomach. Such physicians had better ac- 

 quaint themselves with Dr. SaUsbury's ex- 

 periments and with his life work. May God 

 be praised that Dr. Salisbury was permitted 

 to live and to call the attention of the whole 

 wide world to the fact that thousands of val- 

 uable lives can be saved by cutting off a veg- 

 etable diet entirely for a sufficient time to 

 let the digestive apparatus rest and recu- 

 perate. 



We can furnish on application a little 

 pamphlet entitled "Who is Dr. Salisbury? 

 and what is his Treatment? " 



NOTtS OF TRAVt^ 



CABIN IN THE WOODS; EARLY PEACHES. 



When we planted our peach-trees around 

 the "cabin, "four years ago, I selected only 

 early varieties because I supposed we should 

 make this our home only in summer or early 

 fall. I had two points in view — to make a 

 test of the early and extra earlies, and to 

 have a succession, one kind ripening after 

 another. Well, when we reached here July 

 27 (see p. 875, Aug. 15) the Hale's Early were 

 just coming up nicely; and. by the way, if 

 this peach were not an edible fruit at all, I 

 think it would be worth planting just for an 



take into considertiaon the cost of doctors and drugs. 

 Yesterday, Sept. 5, my breakfast, dinner, and supper 

 were all made from IM lbs. of ground lean beef, which 

 cost just 20 cents, I did not eat any thing else all day — 

 not even a crumb of bread. All the dishes needed to 

 serve this excellent repast— and it was excellent, too, 

 becase it was good meat— was just a fork and one 

 plate. As I drank only hot water there was no expense 

 (in "washing dishes ") for a cup and saucer. There- 

 suit is that to-day 1 feel as sweet and clean as a glass 

 bottle that has been scalded outside and in with hot 

 water. I could keep this diet up for a week or more 

 without any particiilnr inconvenience, for I have done 

 so repeatedly when my digestion was impaired by ma- 

 laria or otherwise. 



ornamental tree. The trees around the c ab- 

 in door had been pruned, mulched, and train- 

 ed by my own hand; and when the limbs 

 were bending gracefully, lower and lower 

 every day with their loads of ruddy fruit, I 

 never seemed to tire of admiring them. 

 Austin Hale, the introducer of Hale's Early, 

 was a near neighbor and intimate friend of 

 my boyhood; and as the fruit began to ripen 

 they seemed not only the finest peaches in 

 the world, but I was tempted to call them 

 the finest of all fruits. Mrs. Root declared 

 it was largely due to the fact that I had 

 fussed with the trees, and loved them (yes, 

 loved is the word) every summer that made 

 me so enthusiastic over the fruit. Of course, 

 they are tenacious "clings " (at least they 

 are here) ; and, besides, they are so full of 

 "juice " one can hardly eat one without get- 

 ting it all over his fingers and mouth, and 

 possibly clothing also. 



The next to ripen was Waterloo. This is 

 larger, beautifully marked with both red 

 and yellow, and a firm peach, but with 

 white flesh. 



Triumph ripens here about two weeks aft- 

 er Hale's Early; is much like it in color out- 

 side, but yellow flesh, and not nearly as wa- 

 tery as Hale's. The flesh is more meaty, 

 and does not cling so tenaciously to the 

 stone. 



Prolific is about a week later still, large 

 size, yellow flesh, and almost a freestone; 

 and I should call it almost equal to any of 

 the best late peaches. 



All the above early peaches have the dis- 

 agreeable habit, more or less, of beginning 

 to rot just as they begin to ripen, or a little 

 before. Many fine peaches will be hard on 

 one side, just right to eat on the other, and 

 a rotten spot in the center of the soft side. 

 When this peculiar rot starts it takes the 

 whole peach very quickly. A neighbor 

 picked a lot just right to can, put them in 

 the cellar to wait until next day; but when 

 next day came the most of them were too far 

 gone to use. Hale's Early presents a beau- 

 tiful appearance canned whole; and where 

 one is pressed for time, even the peeling can 

 be left on. 



BEES AND PEACHES. 



When this rot starts so suddenly, when 

 the peach is just softening on one side, bees 

 and other insects are apt to be accused of 

 destroying the peaches; and no wonder the 

 bees consider it quite a "find," for a Hale's 

 Early peach is almost as sweet as sugar, and 

 a more "entrancing" sweetness than any 

 sugar ever invented or discovered. The bees 

 have not troubled ours; but a large blaok ant 

 would get inside just where (and when) the 

 rot started, and in a very short time there 

 would be a big cavity filled with ants. 

 When I attempted to drive them out and off 

 they bit my hands viciously. Had I not 

 known about bees and early peaches I might 

 have claimed the ants were destroying all 

 my nice fruit. I think most fruitmen are 

 now posted in regard to this matter, as we 

 hear little of late in regard to bees destroy- 

 ing fruit. 



