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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



the automobile, in getting^ up a bad sandy 

 hill he overworked right in the sun, and 

 had a little touch of something like sun- 

 stroke. He said afterward this was caused 

 by being persuaded to eat breakfast with 

 the rest of us. Had begone without break- 

 fast he claimed he would nut have had any 

 trouble. It would seem, however, that dis- 

 carding breakfast did not give you the ro- 

 bust health that it does the advocates of 

 this plan. 



I am glad of your testimony in favor of 

 the nut diet. Just lately I have been made 

 happy, and nourished at the same time, by 

 eating five cents' worth of roasted chestnuts 

 after a meal — that is, when I could get hold 

 of them. When they are roasted and '* ta- 

 ken hot " they digest with me perfectly, 

 and give lots of strength (I wish more of 

 our people would go to planting chestnut- 

 trees as I am doing). Sweet milk with the 

 fruit and nuts is all right — that is, if you 

 live outdoors. 



When you spoke about raw cabbage I had 

 to smile. Ordinarily I can not eat cabbage 

 at the table without great distress the 

 night afterward. But when I am out in 

 the field where, say, Jersey Wakefield cab- 

 bage-heads are bursting open, I can eat 

 and eat raw cabbage, and feel happy, and 

 it has never troubled me a particle. 



The point you make about "keeping an 

 army of women over hot kitchen-stoves, just 

 to get a big dinner," is a grand one; such 

 things are a disgrace to the present age. 

 By the way, you did not tell us whether you 

 are now living on grains, fruits, and nuts, 

 or not. At any rate, I am glad to know, 

 old friend, you are still finding health and 

 strength and happiness, and a disposition 

 to do good to your fellow-man that always 

 comes with it, or ought to. 



HOW TO CURE CONSUMPTION. 



The above heading would look as if I had 

 something to sell for the "benefit of poor 

 humanity," etc.; but the heading is by A. 

 I. Root, and he has not any thing to sell in 

 the line of drugs or medicines. What he 

 has to offer is well illustrated by the fol- 

 lowing, which I clip from the Cleveland 

 News and Herald: 



E. C. Norri* has just reached New York from a tramp 

 across the continent. His home is in San FrHncisc >. 

 The doctors told him he had consumption. He decid- 

 ed to walk it out of his system, if possible, and he has 

 walked three ihous md niiUs in iwenty-six months. 

 Incidentnllv, he wore out sixty-one pairs of shoes. He 

 didn't huir'y. He saw more beautiful things in nature 

 than he had dreamed existed. He saw broad acres and 

 mighty mountains. He heard strange bints and talk- 

 ed with fine people. Those he met everywhere. They 

 were kind to a stranger, and he discovered that there 

 are no map liinits to brotherly love. 



And as he walked he felt strength returning. He 

 dropptd his cough in Arizona, an i lost his aches in 

 Coloiado. W hen he reached the great wheat-fields of 

 Kansas he was tanned and happy, and he trudged 

 along, gla 1 that he wa^ living. It looks and fei lings 

 count for any thing, E C Norris is a well man. His 

 flesh is hard, his muscles firm, he sleeps like a >-al)y, 

 and his brain never slips a cog. That is what walking 

 didfor/i/w. And it suggests that walking is one of 

 the best of txercises, good lor the health and the di- 

 gestion, a cure for the blues, a remedy for bad nerves. 



a promoter of peaceful sleep, and excellent for the 

 temper. Try it some day. 



Now, friends, the above prescription 

 would probably cure hundreds and thou- 

 sands of people, even if they have the real" 

 consumption. It wants a little Christian 

 science about it, if you will excuse the term, 

 to give the patient faith. If he can scrape 

 up faith enough to have some enthusiasm in 

 testing the cure, he will get well. Perhaps, 

 some may not be able to walk more than a 

 mile the first day. I think it would be a 

 good plan to have some faithful friend go 

 along with him — his wife, for instance. Of 

 course, you would need some money, but 

 not much more than to pay doctors' bills, 

 after all, and some arrangement would have 

 to be made so the patient could find pro- 

 tection in case of severe weather. If he can 

 walk half a mile the first day, and rest up 

 so as to make another half-mile the follow- 

 ing day, his case is a hopeful one. He 

 should have an ambition, however, to go a 

 little further each daj?; and then he should 

 give his whole soul to the work, for it is in 

 real truth a matter of life atid death. If it 

 were my case, if my life depended on it, 

 Mrs. Ruot would go with me. My work up 

 in the woods in Northern Michigan was ex- 

 actly in that line. When I first started I 

 was so used up by a little exertion for half 

 an hour I became discouraged, and almost 

 yielded to the notion that 1 was too sick to 

 start out in any thing of the kind. Why, I 

 almost feel like having some slips printed 

 for free distribution, telling how this man 

 zval/ied 'd-wa-y from his own "funeral." 



THE FUTURE OF SWEET CLOVER. 



It has pained me to see the way in which 

 many of the agricultural papers have talk- 

 ed about sweet clover, especially in ans- 

 wering inquiries. Here is something from 

 the Country Gentleman, however, from John 

 Chamberlain, that is a fair recognition of 

 its true value: 



I never see a swampy growth of sweet clover that a 

 man could fairly gel lost in, as he would in a southern 

 canebroke, without wondering why some one has not 

 taken it up and made it a U ader in hay-producing 

 plants. As we see it, only one crop is produced; but 

 where it happens to be cut down before seeiling. and 

 before the main stem becomes woody, it springs up 

 again at once and covers the ground with the most 

 succulent giowth imaginable, and always quite indif- 

 ferent to dry or wet w.ather. Some aay we shall ap- 

 preciate sweet clover. 



The writer of the above item does not 

 say outright that it will be eaten with 

 the greatest avidity bj' almost all kinds of 

 Sitock when the3' once create an appetite for 

 it. but he seems to take it for granted it is 

 of value. None of the clovers can be class- 

 ed as noxious weeds. Of course, even rank 

 red clover in a strawberry- patch might be 

 called a weed; and sweet clover has per- 

 haps created the impression that it is a 

 weed because it grows luxuriantly, even on 

 the hardest ground by the roadside, where 

 red clover would not grow at all. It is 

 really one of the hardiest and most valuable 

 of the clovers. 



