PERSONS WON OVER

My experience in more than one instance has been very happy in the past nine months. I gave the March nnmber 1894 of Food to an acquaintance of mine, as she was leaving for Boston, (she is not a vegetarian) and she quite unintentionally became the proselytizer of a gentlemen seventy-two years old, (whom I also know, and whom I had hoped would in some way be converted, being a worker in humane and christian work.(I had prayed for this). This lady left by mistake Food on the table in the house where she as well as this gentleman boarded, in place of carrying it with her to read on her way to Boston. The gentleman picked it up and when the lady returned in three weeks she found an almost full fledged vegetarian in the gentleman.

In my mountain experiences the past sum- mer and autumn I made much progress with one lady. She is an earnest person, and was deeply impressed with the teaching in Food and onr talks on vegetarianism seemed to open a new view of life to her. She became a sub- scriber in the month of August last.

Two Roman Catholic ladies were much in- terested in Father Paroli'a account of how he became a vegetarian, and they decided to eat less meat.

At Richfield Springs, Floyd Williams, (12 years old) was sent as my escort on a drive ronnd Canandagaa Lake : we soon began to talk and I found a sympathetic listener, and one who had already begun humane practices, being a member of the Audubon Society. This little boy spoke of the life of the animals, and tarda in their relation to us, in such simple yet comprehensive language as this : it WOTild be very quiet wouldn't it, if there were DO little birds and squirrels jumping about. This is very true, when we want no other company we love the (K>mpany of the animals, theirsympathy ia just enough. Lovethe an- mals, and you have a hundred and more (riends in a short time — devoted friends.

The principal of the Richfield Springs Union School, received my proposition to send Food to the School Library very gracious- ly, and many no doubt are enjoying the priv- ileges of reading "Food" in the village of Richfield Springs today, for Floyd Williams has also a copy sent to him each month

THE CUSTOM OF FLESH-EATING. This custom has been pronounced by the highest scientific and medical authorities (in- cluding such men as LinnEeus, Owen, Cuvier, Lawrence, Darwin, Ray, Sir Henry Thomp- son, Dr. Lyon Playfair and B. W. Richardson) to be a violation of one of the funda- mental laws of man's being, and therefore to- tally unnecessary. Their verdict is confirmed by the Brahmins and Hindoos of India after thirty centuries of experience, and by the de- vout Buddhists of Asia after twenty-five cen- turies, by the Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, Irish and Scotch peasantry, the Bed- ouin Arabs, the famons porters of Turkey and Greece, the conquering soldiers of ancient Rome and Sparta, the wrestlers and athletes of ancient Greece and modern Europe, the Car- melite, Franciscan, Dominican and Trappist monks, and by thousands of vegetarians of longstanding in our own and other countries of to-day, who, although inhabiting every variety of climate and engaging in all kinds of physical and mental toil, testify tliat they are happier, healthier, and more vigorous than when they ate flesh as food. — Tke Gol- den Age.

One nnmber of the F., H, & G. was received by a neighbor who let me read it and I like it very much. I believe it teaches the right way to live, and in time expect to become with God's help a thorough vegetarian. — Mrs. S. Loeffler, 913 Partridge St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

One of our regular physicians and bis wife and daughters spent last afternoon and even- ing with us and are I think thoroughly con- vinced of the right of vegetarian truths and will begin to live them. — Mrs. Hortense Black, '375 Central Park Boulevard, Chicago.

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NUT CULTURE. There is much encouragement to plant our native nuts and some of the foreign ones. As a rule, oar indigenous trees are good bearers, and in Mr. VanDeman's opinion they prodnce nuts of better quality than foreign ones. The Chestnut is receiving the most attention now, and there are a few well-marked native varie- ties of value. Although they are smaller than the European varieties, they are of better qnality and very productive. The best arc Delaney, Excelsior, Griffin, Hathaway, Mor- rell and Otto. Rocky hillsides and other places unsuitable for tillage can be used with profit for nut trees, and they can be set about build- ings and in pastures. The European varieties seem more profitable. It seems to be a rule that the more pubesence the nut has, the bet- ter its qnality. European varieties are more fuzzy than the Japanese, and less so than the American sorts. The most prominent of these are the Paragon, Numbo, Ridgely and Han- num. Japanese chestnut trees have a more dwarf habit, and the nut has a bitter skin. They graft quite readily on American seed- lings, and the best varieties introduced are Al- pha, Early Reliance, Grand and Superb. Among the hickories, the best nut tree is the pecan, a native of our Southern States, and the shell bark hickory common throughout the North- ern States. A firm in PennS3-lvania ships more than twenty tons of hickory nuts every year. The nuts should be planted in rough places four feet apart each way and thinned as they grow. Seedlings are variable, and so they must be grafted. The principal varieties are Hale's, a large thin -shelled sort. Learning, Curtis, Elliott and Mulford. Among the wal- nuts, our native butternuts may, perhaps, be improved, but the so called Engl

doubt that nut trees are hard to graft and to bud. Evaporation should be prevented until the sap begins to flow. When the sap starts the grafts should be put in underground. The scions should be cut so as to have the pith all on one side, or, if necessary to graft above the ground, they should be covered well to pre- vent all evaporation possible. — Garden and Forest. — ^The culture of Nuts is attracting much attention and the result of the agitation will be an improvement in mauy farms and homesteads.

PEANUTS VS. FLESH. My own faith in Vegetarianism strengthens with experience. I have made further ex- periments and find that fewer people would die of starvation if they knew that an able bodied man or woman can maintain life and a fair degree of physical strength for a period of time on uncooked peanuts and onions with a little salt. This is of course providing they have fresh air and there are none no poor that they may not have fresh air and plenty of it. The air enables us to assimulate all the nutri- tion in the food. It is said that American peanuts now form one of the staple foods of the German army. The American peanut is so much more reliable than American meat.— Mrs. Le Favre, Box 999, Chicago, 111. — The rqection of American cattle and hogs by Germany and France, and the falling off of the consumption of meat in this country in consequence of high prices and diseased con- ditions, should lead Texas and other western ranchmen to give up the raising of livestock and induce the cultivation of peanuts, pecan nuts and other wholesome productions for which their climate is adapted, and they would enrich themselves by the change while they would supply good food instead of diseased flesh.

Feb. J 897.

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Voi« I, No. 5, New Series.

Whole Number, 77.