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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May, 1919 



I IS- LAST CHANCE | 



I ALL FOR 2 DIMES--T0 Introduce | 



I I will send Selected Seed for 10 Big Hills | 



I Genuine Early Six Weeks Potatoes, earli- | 



1 est, hardiest, best keepers on earth — de- I 



I licious quality; so early you can grow two i 



I full crops a year even in the north (I send 1 



i full directions); amazingly productive. i 



I Growers Report 



= *' 650 bushels per acre/' 



= "A full bushel from every 



= six hills."' ^'52 big po- 



= tatoes in one hill/' " 12 



= bushels from a dollar or- 



= der/' Etc., elc. 



I Also 20 Hills New Pro- 



= lific Tree Beans — enor- _ 



= mous and sure yielders everywhere of extra early, pure ^ 



~ white luscious beans; 10 varie- p 



ties best Butter and Head Let- p 



tuce— 1700 seeds; 30 Hills red, f 



blue, white, rice and gold Pop = 



corn — lor children and chick- h 



ens; 10 beautiful fragrant Iree p 



Ferns, and big 25c. Flower = 



Collection — for wife and child- ^ 



ren, ALL safely boxed and h 



postpaid for TWO DIMES or = 



24c. in stamps. All seeds and ^ 



j Trie Beans 30 Hills Potatoes 50c. Seeds § 



i and 70 Hills 81.00. Seeds and 250 Hills Potatoes $3.00. | 



H T f^ \iTf^ ^O Beautiful Watches Free to 50 customers ^ 



^ -I- 'jlVC OU growing most Potatoes from 100 hills. = 



1 A. G. Cook, Potato Specialist | 



I Hyde Park on Hudson, N. Y. | 



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This cut represents our com- 

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 the construction of their 

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Machines on Trial 



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solves thelabor problem and makes 

 the best use of high priced seed. 

 Means $5 to $50 extra profit per acre. 

 Every seed piece in its place • 

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 bushels seed per acre. Uni- 

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Our Food Page — Continued from page 304. 



ey and the seasonings and cook until 

 smooth. Pour the sauce over the beets, 

 which have been cut in dice and heat thru. 

 — Adapted from recipe by Fannie Merritt 

 Farmer. 



BUTTERSCOTCH PIE. 



Vz cup water 

 4 tablespoons flour 

 3 tablespoons butter 



1 cup milk 



2 eggs 



Vt teaspoon salt 

 2 tablespoons pulveriz- 

 ed sugar 

 1 teaspoon vanilla 

 1 baked crust 



Put the brown sugar and water over the 

 fire until the sugar is dissolved, add to the 

 milk, thicken with the flour and butter rub- 

 bed together, and then add the beaten egg 

 yolks, the salt and cook until smooth. Pour 

 into the crust, cover with a meringue made 

 of the egg whites well beaten and combined 

 with the pulverized sugar and put into the 

 oven until lightly browned. 



FRUIT DUMPLINGS. 



3 cups canned fruit milk 



1 cup flour % teaspoon salt 



2 teaspoons baking 1 tablespoon butter 



powder honey 



Put the fruit on to heat in a rather wide 

 stew pan which has a close-fitting cover. 

 Sift the baking powder and salt in the flour, 

 add enough milk to make a stiff drop batter 

 and drop from a teaspoon over the boiling 

 hot fruit, cover and cook about 12 minutes. 

 Serve the dumplings with the fruit for a 

 sauce, having first added the butter to the 

 fruit and sweetened it to taste with honey. 



This is a good emergency dessert as it 

 may be prepared in a very few minutes 

 from materials at hand in nearly every 

 pantry. 



STE4MED DATE PUDDING. 



3 tablespoons melted 

 butter substitute 

 % cup hone}- 

 V2 cup thick sour milk 

 about 1% cups flour 



?4 teaspoon soda 

 1 teaspoon cinnamon 



Vs. teaspoon cloves 



Vz teaspoon salt 

 1 cup chopped dates or 



figs. 



Combine the melted butter substitute and 

 the honey. Sift the flour and the other dry 

 ingredients together, and add the sour milk 

 and the flour a little at a time, alternately, 

 until all has been used. The batter should 

 be as stiff as cake batter. Stir in the fruit, 

 steam two hours, and serve with pineapple 

 hard sauce; 



1 cup pulverized sugar 

 1/3 cup butter or butter 

 substitute 



PIXE.\PPLE HARD SAUCE FOR STEAMED PUDDING. 



2 or 3 tablespoons pine- 

 apple juice drain- 

 ed from canned 

 pineapple. 



Cream the butter or substitute and the 

 pulverized sugar thoroly together and grad- 

 ually beat in the pineapple juice a few 

 drops at a time. Put in a cool place to be- 

 come firm. 



