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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1917 



seed, peanuts, and butter, I think I am in position 

 to see both sides of the matter. 



In the first place, butter is not higli, relative!}'. 

 It has far less purchasing power now than a few 

 years ago. Then I could take a pound of butter to 

 the store and pay for ten pounds of flour or two 

 pounds of ham; now it will pay for only five pounds 

 of flour or less than a pound and a half of ham. 

 The oleo people have been flooding the country and 

 besieging congress with just such appeals to make 

 it appear that they are great friends of the Southern 

 farmer, when the fact is that the amount of peanut 

 and cottonseed oil used in oleo is very small compar- 

 ed with that used in shortenings and for other pur- 

 poses. I think, if you will investigate, you will 

 find that the amount of vegetable oil used in oleo 

 would not justify Dr. Kellogg in using it as a vege- 

 table product. 



The manufacturers have the privilege of making 

 and selling all the oleo they choose without paying 

 the ten-cent tax provided they do not color it in 

 imitation of butter and sell it as such — but will sell 

 it for what it is. The poor man also has the privi- 

 lege of buying all he wants without paying the tax; 

 but he does not want to get that when he thinks he 

 is getting butter. Uncolored oleo has only a nominal 

 tax, the larger tax being only for the purpose of 

 preventing its being colored and sold as butter. 



Properly made of wholesome materials, o'eomargar- 

 ine is a perfectly wholesome and legitimate product ; 

 but when colored and sold in imitation of butter, 

 it comes into unfair competition with the dairyman 

 who has to contend with the constantly increasing 

 cost of feed and labor. Mill feeds which sold a 

 few years ago for $1.50 per hundred now bring 

 $2.50; and cottonseed meal (one of our best and 

 most popular dairy f»eds) sells for twice what it did. 



Besides all this, the constantly increasing dairj' 

 industry of the South is far more important than 

 the small amo-,i". t, comparatively, of vegetable oils 

 used in oleo. 



The tax does r>t seem to have hurt the manufac- 

 turers or the Southern farmers, for we have gotten 

 as high as $1.00 per bushel (30 lbs.) for our cotton- 

 seed this winter, and peanuts have sold well. The 

 latter, however, are controlled by a trust, and are 

 not as high relatively. 



The oleo manufacturers' professions of interest 

 in the Southern farmers reminds me of the express 

 companies' concern for the country merchants in the 

 parcel-post matter. 



I cannot close without expressing my apprecia- 

 tion of your splendid articles in Gleanings, and 

 the noble work you are doing in preaching right 

 living. Richard B. Huntek. 



Areola, N. C, April 4. 



TEMPERANCE 



' WAR-TIME PROHIBITION. 



This institution, comprising some of our 

 best and greatest men, headed by Prof. 

 Irving Fisher, sends out the following re- 

 port: 



To the Editor: — The Connecticut Manufacturers' 

 Association, representing over 200 of the leading 

 manufacturers of that state, passed a resolution 

 favoring complete war prohibition by a vote of 176 

 to 1. That was remarkable. 



The American Medical Association, the most 

 representative body of its kind in the world, at its 

 national convention in New York this month adopted 

 resolutions declaring alcohol to be neither a food 

 nor a stimulant. That was remarkable. 



The National Conference of Charities and Correc- 

 tion violated its custom of passing no reiolution on a 

 controverted subject, and, recognizing the patriotic 

 character and overshadowing importance of the ques- 

 tion, unanimously adopted the resolution appearing 

 in the enclosure. That was remarkable. 



Will it seem over-presumptuous to suggest that 

 these three remarkable events in the field of com- 

 merce, science, and social health and morals, are 

 worthy of editorial comment? 



W. G. Calderwood, 



Washington, D. C, June 14. Executive Secretary. 



MORE " RIGHTEOUSNESS " AND LESS " IN- 

 IQUITY.-'^ 



The National Stockman and Farmer very 

 appropriately gives place to the following 

 boiled-down self-evident truth: 



Speaking of the need of the suppression of the 

 use, sale, and manufacture of intoxicating liquors 

 tbruout the United States the Pomona Grange of 

 Delaware County, Ohio, in a petition says: 



" We are for more beef, beans, bread, and butter, 



and less beer, booze, and bums ; more wheat, wealth, 

 and wisdom, and less whisky, waste, and want; more 

 milk, molasses, and money, and less malt, misery, 

 and meanness; more apples, alfalfa, and amity, and 

 less ale, ailments, and animosity ; more rice, rye, 

 and reason, and less saloons, sin, and suffering; 

 more dress, dainties, and dishes, and less distilleries, 

 drunkards, and disturbances; more beets, barns, and 

 business, and less breweries, brawLs, and burials; 

 more sheep, swine, and sugar, and less sherry, sham, 

 and shame; more potatoes, pumpkins, and peaches, 

 pnd less port, punch, and poison ; more corn, cab- 

 bage, and cheese, and less champagne, chaff, and 

 cheat; more harmony, homes, and heaven, and less 

 hofljrau, havoc, and hell." 



THE SIXTY MILLION BUSHELS OF GRAIN USED 

 BY THE BREWERS EVERY YEAR. 



From the Methodist Temperance Bulletin 

 I make two clippings. Below is the first 

 one, from Dr. Wiley : 



Dr. Wiley, the pure-food expert, recently said, 

 "American distillers use enough grain every year to 

 feed one-eighth of the American population." A 

 startling fact. 



Here is what the brewers have to say. 

 Wliile reading it, please keep in mind what 

 a parade they made some two years ago 

 about the grain they purchased from the 

 poor farmers : 



The brewers say all the food value of the grain 

 reaches the people in the beer; all of the food value 

 of the grain and more reaches the cattle in the 

 refuse; the grain used in making beer is not fit for 

 anything else anyhow, having no food value; and in 

 the last place they don't use any grain to speak of 

 in the first place. 



