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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Junk, 1917 



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cloth-bound. Of this we have two copies left, which 

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Gardenette, a beautiful book clear up to date, and 

 beautifully illustrated, on " high - pr&ssure garden- 

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Asparagus Culture, a 40-cent book, we also offer 

 at 25 cents, postpaid. 



Alfalfa, a 40-cent book, we offer now at 25 cents. 



Merrybanks and his Neighbor, a story about gar- 

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Winter Care of Horses and Cattle, by T. B. Terry, 

 a 40-cent book, we now offer at 10 cents. 



Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush, by A. J. Cook, 

 a 40-cent book, we now offer at 25 cents. 



Carp Culture, a 40-cent book, is now offered at 

 15 cents. 



If there ever was a time when these books on 

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 why. 



OLEOMARGARINE — MORE IN REGARD TO IT. 



We gladly give place to the following 

 kind word : 



Brother Root: — You surely made a big mistake 

 when you advised oleomargarine as a substitute for 

 butter. At the Wisconsin Experiment Station they 

 proved that butter is infinitely superior to oleo. 

 Butter is filled with God-given life. Oleomargarine 

 is dead fat. In the experiment, rats fed on butler 

 thrived amazingly; but those fed ou the oils from 

 which oleo is made did not grow but nearly starved. 

 In justice to yourself, to humanity, and the pro- 

 ducer of butter, you should inform yourself and 

 correct the serious error you fell into. I address 

 you as brotlier, and in that spirit I write the above. 

 You have been one of my chosen guides for 30 years. 



East Berlin, Pa., May 9. L. W. Lighty. 



I notice in the above that no distinction 

 is made between nut butter and that made 

 of animal oil, etc.; and this has been the 

 case with most of the criticisms. The writ- 

 ers, it seems, do not recognize there are 

 two kinds — -the animal and the vegetable 

 oleo; or it may be that they mean to 

 class both as inferior to real butter; and I 

 might say, since Mrs. Root and 1 have used 

 perhaps two or three pounds of tlie nut oleo, 

 both in Florida and here in Ohio, we have 

 about decided to use the real butter, even 

 if it does cost about one-half more. 



Still later. — The Rural New - Yorker 

 quotes from an advertisement of the Bane 

 jVIilk-producers' Association as follows : 



Animal fat in butter is worth three times the same 

 amount of vegetable fat which you get in oleomar- 

 garine. 



Just below the above the Rural indorses 

 it as follows : 



This is a good advertisement, and it should be 

 kept constantly before the people. Milk is a good 

 food bargain at 15 cents a quart as compared with 

 other standard foods at present prices. As for 

 butter, do not forget that its food value is not the 

 full measure of it. As compared with other fats, 

 butter is alone in containing a principle which is 

 absolutely necessary to children and growing young 

 people. Fats or oils like " oleo " cannot supply the 

 vital principle which comes in pure butter, and in 

 all advertisements of milk and butter this point may 

 well be made plain. 



