For January and February we have many varieties of splendid quality, such as the 

 Steele Red, Spitzenburg, Grimes Golden, Yellow Bellflower, Jonathan, Tolman Sweet 

 and Hubbardston. These are all dessert apples of the highest quality, and for my own 

 use I would just as soon have them as the Spy, and I am sure that no one will question 

 but that they are quite as good as the Spy for cooking purposes. As winter advances, I 

 would suggest for dessert such varieties as the Golden Russet, which at this season sur- 

 passes all other varieties in richness of flavour. For cooking, even the much despised 

 Ben Davis, Stark and Gano, if properly prepared, will then be found very acceptable, 

 and may be depended upon to keep, without showing material waste, right on into the 

 late spring. 



As my life has been devoted to the fruit growing industry, I think I may safely 

 claim familiarity with all the standard varieties grown in Canada. It may therefore 

 be of interest to state the varieties I selected for our own use during the present winter, 

 after we had exhausted our supply of Ribston Pippin and Gravenstein. Since the 

 family is not a large one, we secure our apples in boxes. The list was as follows: — 

 Snow, Mcintosh Red, King, Greening, Bellflower, Jonathan, Steele Red, Spy, Golden 

 Russet, Ben Davis. 



"Perhaps the item most to be condemned, as usually it is positively danger- 

 ous, is the patent medicine, which is found in such alarming quantities in so many 

 homes." — Toronto Dept. of Public Health. 



THE FOOD VALUE OF CHEESE 



Dairy Department O.A.C. 



Cheese at 17c. a pound furnishes, for one dollar, more than twice as much human 

 energy as is obtained from one dollar's worth of beef sirloin at 18c. per pound. There 

 is more than twice as much muscle building food in a pound of cheese as in a dozen 

 eggs. The more general use of cheese as a food will help to reduce the cost of living. 



Note the following points about cheese. 



(1) Cheese furnishes energy and muscle. 



(2) It can be eaten without cooking, or made into a variety of cooked dishes. 



(3) Well prepared cheese is practically pre-digested and can be eaten by any one. 



(4) There is less water about dairy products than any other class of foods. » 

 Ask your grocer for Canadian Cheese and insist that it be of good quality. Make 



up your mind to eat it at least once a day. The Dairy Department at the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, Guelph, has issued a leaflet containing receipts for cheese dishes 

 which will be sent on aplication. 



THE CANNING OF POULTRY 



DR. R. BARNES, Chief of Meat and Canned Food Division, Ottawa. 



Since the bringing into operation of the Meat and Canned Foods Act eight years 

 ago, the effect has been to eliminate veal as a constituent of the products labelled and 

 sold as "Chicken" and "Turkey." 



It may not be out of place to state that at the time the Act came into force there 

 was not one single plant in Canada engaged exclusively in the canning of chicken. 

 Several had tried and were losing ventures, due solely to the fact that they could not 

 place on the market an honest product at the price for which so-called "Canned Poultry' ' 

 could be purchased, and of this counterfeit there were thousands of cases. 



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