DECEMBER 1, 1913 



Briefl}-, then, the law does not distinctly say that 

 articles of food must all be labeled; but the law does 

 say that if articles of food are mixtures or com- 

 pounds, or contain certain drugs, such articles must 

 be labeled with a true statement of the facts. 



Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 13. S. E. Strode. 



CRACKED-WHEAT MUFFINS AND HONEY ; A SO- 

 LUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE HIGH 

 COST OP LIVING. 



Last summer, on page 514, of our issue 

 for Aug. 15th, we spoke of the pleasure we 

 had in eating a home-made cereal sweetened 

 with honey. This cereal is certainly the 

 cheapest tiling of the kind in the world. It 

 will go a long way toward solving the prob- 

 lem of the high cost of living, because it is 

 almost a complete food of itself. It is 

 nothing more nor less than ordinary wheat 

 iim through a family hand grinder such as 

 can be obtained at any of the large hard- 

 ware stores, iiarticularly Montgomery Ward 

 & Co. or Sears, Roebuck & Co., of Chicago. 

 The mill is set so that the wheat is not 

 ground fine; and when ground and cooked 

 for 4 hours over a slow fire it makes a most 

 delicious breakfast food in connection with 

 a little extracted honey. The fact that it is 

 ground coarse makes it all the more valu- 

 able to persons of sedentary habits, espe- 

 cially if they find it necessary to use cathar- 

 tics at times. Referring to the muffins made 

 from this cracked wheat, one of our sub- 

 scribers along last summer sent the follow- 

 ing inquiry, which was overlooked. He 

 writes : 



We feel interested in what you say about the 

 above, but we shall have to ask you to make the 

 recipe more intelligible. We have cups here in the 

 South that will hold anywhere from a gill to three 

 quarts. It may be that the people living north of 

 the Ohio River understand what is meant when you 

 say a cupful, but not many of us south of it would 

 readily understand it. 



Reidsville, N. C, Aug. 20. Jas. M. Gibbs. 



By a " cupful " we mean a common tea- 

 cup holding half a pint. As some may have 

 mislaid our Aug. 15th number, we are re- 

 producing the recipe here. 



Two cups whole-wheat flour ; 1 tablespoonful white 



flour; Vz teaspoonful salt; % cup sugar; 2 eggs; 



1 cup sour milk or buttermilk ; % teaspoonful soda ; 

 1 tablespoonful melted butter. 



At our house this kind of graham muffins 

 is preferred by nearly all the members of 

 the family to white bread, not alone because 

 they are superior in food value, but because 

 they are toothsome and delightful. 



Ordinary wheat is now worth 90 cents per 

 bushel in our locality. With a hand grinder 

 one can grind up his own cereal as he needs 

 it, a little at a time, in order to avoid its 

 becoming wormy; and this is one reason 

 why cereal foods are so high in price gen- 

 erally. They have to be put up in pound 



packages, and these, of course, add to the 

 price of their contents. Another large item 

 entering into their cost is the advertising 

 that appears in all the periodicals. Tliis 

 kind of overhead expense alone must neces- 

 sarily double the cost of the food after it 

 leaves the mill. But this cracked wheat can 

 be had at practically the price of raw wheat 

 per bushel because it carries with it no over- 

 head expense; and it has as much or more 

 food value than any of the cereals sold, at 

 a small part of their cost. 



During these winter months granulated 

 extracted honej^ and cracked-wheat cereal 

 or muffins make a menu that is fit for the 

 gods. If the}- are prej^ared right they are 

 more toothsome than any of the modern 

 cereals whose praises are sung in every 

 magazine in the country, and at a mere 

 fraction of the cost. 



BeekeeiDers who have honey for sale would 

 do well to call the attention of their custom- 

 ers to the cheapness of cracked wheat as a 

 cereal, at the same time explaining how well 

 extracted honey goes with it. 



THE TORONTO CONVENTION. 



We have just come from attending a veiy 

 entlmsiastic and successful meeting of the 

 Ontario Beekeepers' Association held in 

 Toronto, Nov. 19 to 21 inclusive. When we 

 arrived at the convention hall we were not 

 a little surprised to see so large an attend- 

 ance. It was estimated that there were 350 

 present. This is larger than the attendance 

 at conventions that have been held on this 

 side of the line. Indeed, there have been 

 only two meetings in this country, if we are 

 correct, that surpassed it. One was the 

 National, held at the World's Fair, Chicago, 

 and the other the field-day meet at Jenkin- 

 town, Pa. But one feature peculiar to the 

 Toronto convention was the fact that there 

 was so large a number of extensive honey- 

 producers who could measure their crops by 

 the carload. 



In this connection it is proper to remark 

 that Ontario probably produces a larger 

 amount of honey, and table honey at that, 

 than any State in the American Union, even 

 if we include Texas or California. The soil 

 conditions just north of the lakes are supe- 

 rior to those just south of the lakes. The 

 whole of Ontario seems to be a splendid 

 fruit and bee country; for, so far as we can 

 ascertain, the territory is well developed ; 

 or, to put it another way, it is but fair for 

 us to say that more beekeepers probably 

 could not be accommodated in the Province 

 without overstocking, so that there is no use 

 for beekeepers on this side of the line to 

 migrate over into Ontario, as they will find 



