June, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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oleo; and why not use peanut butter, which 

 is good and wholesome, and I suppose it can 

 be bought almost anywhere for about a third 

 the price of real butter? 



Since dictating the above I find the fol- 

 lowing advt. in the Cleveland Plain Dealer : 



Eat nut margarine; contains no animal fats; 

 sells for about half the price of butter. The Brund- 

 age Co., 604 Broadway, Distributors. 



From the above it would appear that 

 there is a " margarine " made of nuts ; and 

 there is also another sort, made of animal 

 oils. Now, whatever is made from the oil 

 of nuts must be nutritious and wholesome ; 

 but I think it should be sold under its 

 proper name, and recognized as an honest 

 article of food. So far as coloring it to 

 make it represent butter, or to look like 

 butter, this is, of course, a fraud, and should 

 be punished by a heavy penalty. Let me 



repeat what llie Sunday Srhonl Times has 

 said: "Deception is always wrong," and 

 espeicially is it wrong to use any kind of 

 deception or anything misleading in any 

 way in articles of food for human beings. 

 Later.— ^'mee the above was written we 

 have found that our grocery here in Medina 

 sells " nut margarine," and we like it very 

 well. It looks so much like our brick can- 

 died honey that neither Mrs. Root nor I can 

 tell one from the other except by tasting. 

 On the outside of the package we read: 

 " Nut margarine, coco-nut brand oleomar- 

 garine. We brand this product oleomargar- 

 ine to comply with the law; but it is abso- 

 lutely free from animal fats." So far as I 

 can judge just now it seems to me to be very 

 good and wholesome as an article of food. 

 The retail price is 30 cts. per lb., while 

 butter is about 45. 



HIGH - PRESSURE GARDENING 



children's gardens; also something 



ABOUT gardens PLANNED AND WORKED 

 OUT BY OLDER PEOPLE. 



Of course our readers know already that 

 I am always interested in gardening — ■ 

 especially nice gardening; and while the 



matter was up about gardening in the back 

 yard, etc., last summer I was called to be 

 one of the judges in the city of Cleveland 

 in a sort of garden festival. The invita- 

 tion came from the Plain Dealer, and while 

 there Mr. J. W. Love, one of the Plain 



A backyard garden belonging to J. H. Hellwig, Cleveland, Ohio. Courtesy Cleveland Plain Dealer. 



