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Rural Women
N e e d Art Of
Budget Keeping
Farm Woman Will Find
Great Satisfaction In The
Keeping Of Family Records
WILL DETERMINE
HOW THINGS GOING
It Is Satisfying To Know
That You Are Just A
Good Manager, And
Budget Keeping Will
Prove Stimulating
MISS RUTH CURRENT
In The Southern Planter
There never was a time when
the holders and spenders of the
farm family income needed more
than now to be guided by a wisespending
plan. Once a plan is
started it becomes interesting
and stimulating rather than, as
to many, a seeming hardship. It
is satisfying just To know that
you are a good manager. Every
rural homemaker should learn
Wa lrooniro' hnnks and
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spending the income by a plan. '
Spending By A Plan
A good story has come to us
from Mrs. N. J. Daniels, home
demonstration club woman of Oxford,
I hope many of the readers
will do just what Mrs. Daniels
has done, become so filled with
curiosity and desire to follow the
club program that a spending
plan will become a part of their
home defense program. It is a
good defense measure and one
that is practical for any time. \
Mrs. Daniels says:
"I found it interesting to compare
month-by-month accounts.
Soon I began to find it profitable.
"At the nd of 1940 I checked
over my expenditures and used
the findings as a basis for planning
the year's budget. I could
tell approximately what routine
expenses would be. I listed the
absolute essentials?taxes, insurance,
and such defenite items.
Household labor, laundry, education,
gifts, incidental and personal
expenses could be estimated
rather accurately. I checked the
family wardrobe with a view to
deciding what must be bought
this year. An estimate of normal
household replacements was
made. It was rather easy to estimate
the amount of food to be
bought though rising prices havb
upset the budget in that and other
respects.
"Having listed the necessities,
it was next in order to note the
wants. That list was checked by
the 'can't do withouts and, sad
to relate, most of the wants are
still wants!
"I have found that planning
my spending has decided advantages.
One is that I buy more
wisely. I do not buy on the spur
of the moment and consequently
I have been able to 'catch many
leaks,' and get only those items
which give maximum sen-ice or
fill the largest need.
"There is a definite satisfaction
in being able to tell at any time
exactly how much money has
been spent, in estimating how it
must be spent, and in continual
planning to get the greatest return
for it economically, physically,
and socially."
Spent More On Car Than Food
Mrs, Maurice Grant, president
of the White Plains Home Demonstration
Club in Alexander
County, kept a complete Farm
and Home Record in 1941 and
says her experiences and the results
have been helpful for better
planning for the year to come.
"You know," she says, "We found
we spent more on our car than
we did for food. We just used it
for short trips like to town and
around in the community. All the
expense was for gas and oil except
one tire and the license."
Mrs. Frank Walden of the
Rocky Springs Home Demonstration
Club, also in Alexander
County, says: "I didn't think I
ever had any new clothes scarcely
until I kept a record. We
found out we had more than we
thought we had. And I enjoyed
keeping the record, too."
People Will Like You?If
You will agree with me that
this program for the 4-H boys
and girls in Henderson County
on Self Improvement is a good
one and will do a .great deal toward
developing these young people.
Each of the following points
was discussed by a club member
at the club meeting.
People will like yoo:(l) If you
have the right attitude toward
others, (2) If you always look
your best, (3) If you mind your
manners, (4) it you Know now
to get along with other people,
(5) If you are sympathetic and
kind. .
Getting information of this
type is another reason why boys
and girls like 4-H Club Work.
There Is Something For
Each To Do
During the meeting of the
Berryhill 4-H Club in Mecklenburg
County. Melbert Dixon was
asked to tell what a Senior 4-H
club member could do in the Victory
Program. Here is what she
said.
"If I were H. V. Kaltenborn,
Edwin C. Hill .or even Grady
Cole I would probably make a
long speech on how to win the
At Carolina
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j war, but since I am just Melbert
j Dixon I will tell what I, as a
! citizen of the United States, can
do when it comes to this import-!
ant matter of defense.
"All of our available men have j
itratted off to the Army camps
| to pee! potatoes and carry guns,
| while we women and girls are
left at home to keep thing- going.
At first I tnoUf.i.t that there j
was nothing we could do except |
grab our knitting needles and sit
in the corner and furiously knit I
socks and sweaters. Now, how-1
ever, I realize that we each have j
a much larger task. There is
something for each of us to do,'
something that we as citizens of!
this free country should look, upon
doing as a privilege rather
than a duty.
"It is not necessary for me to
say much about buying Defense
Bonds and Stamps because practically
all of us are buying them.
The important thing is to keep it
up. We can save paper, help our
parents conserve, learn not to be
so wasteful. We can atend school
regularly and make every minute
count. One of the most precious
things in our Defense Program
is Time and we should strive to
make every minute useful.
"We may feel that we are just
a few insignificant citizens and
that the little we do won't help
any, but every person's help is
necessary to the defense of our
country. In Germany, the citizens
put their country first; they
put their whole faith and trust in
a cause that isn't even just and
think of wnat we Americans can
accomplish if we back our government
to the limit because we
know that our cause is right.
We're fighting for our Liberty and
Freedom."
Wool Is Scarce ? Protect It
When flowers bloom in the
spring it is time for homsmakers
to make ready organized spring
housecleaning?storing for winter
clothes, bedding, cleaning walls
and woodwork. Sometimes we
hear someone say. "I do dread
spring house cleaning." And when
you ask why you find out that
this person upsets the whole
house at one time rather than
taking just one room at a time
in an organized way and having
ready the necessary equipment
i that makes for easier and better
i work.
Did you kiow that wool, once
so abundant is now very scarce?
j And those who know best the
j status of the wool market say
{that it will be scarce for several
j years to come. So, "a word to the
I wise is sufficient."
Plan to store safely all the
j precious articles made of wool?
j your blankets, sweaters, suits.
J coats, even gloves, hats, and
socks. Nothing should be stored
that is not absolutely clean. Every
article or garment should be
THE
Eating Of More
Vegetables Urged
Mrs. McKimmon Says That
The Mechanics Of The
Kitchen All Mixed Up
With Nutrition Of The
Family
By JANE S. McKIMMON'
We are now in the midst of
| the vegetable season and the
I more we e.at the better it will be
I for us.
But no matter how the seasons
I may come and go the housekeeper
has always the same responsibil|
ity towards vegetables in the
kitchen. "It is there," says the
! Market Basket, that she writes
; the final chapter in the life
J history of the cabbage and spinach
but for any vegetable there can
be no better climax than to be
served up in a nourishing and
appetizing meal."
I believe the crux 01 the matter
is that just how nourishing that
cooked food is will depend upon
the method of cooking and how
[ well it conserves the vitamins and
minerals.
A not so wise woman with a
Ph. D. degree remarked to me
j once, "I am not interested in
I the mechanics of the kitchen."
No? said I, then perhaps you are
interested in the nutrition of the
family and that is all mixed up
with the mechanics of the
kitchen.
One does not need to go furi
ther to discover the truth of this
i statement than to many public
eating places where he swallows
the bronzed looking greens or
wilted, exhausted cabbage which
; has given up its water soluable
j vitamins and minerals under too
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or he eats the soggy indigestible
fried potatoes served in a meal
for which he begrudges the fifty
to seventy-fiv% cents he must pay.
Like the Ph. D. some people do
not know that there is a scientific
procedure for preserving food
values when meals are prepared
and the family and the public are
mal-nourished because ignorance
has deprived them of the necessary
food elements.
In this day when the trained
woman has seen the guess taken
out of cookery she knows that
some of the vitamins are destroyed
in food when it is heated in
the presence of air or as they are
soluable in the water in which j
they are cooked, vitamins may be
lost if that is thrown away. It
all depends on the cook and how j
much water she uses. Heat does j
not destroy mineral salts, but
they. toe. are soluable in water.
Sometimes it is hard to believe
that those good old southern j
cooks who gave us vegetable soup '
every day or so did not know that!
they were also saving for us the j
vitamins that formerly went to j
the kitchen in the potliquor when j
vegetables were cooked separate-!
iyNow
if you wish to preserve J
the color of your green vegetables;
the main thing to remember is
cook them in an uncovered pan,
for chlorophyll, the color pigment,
is easily affected by cooking
when there is acid present Leaving
off the lid, however, will allow
vegetable acids that volatilize
to go off in the air. For red vegetables
such as beets cook in a
covered pan and let your first
rule for cooking all vegetables be,
"Use the least amount of water
that is practical," to save food
value. j
Why not try to make your!
vegetables look attractive, taste
good, and retain their food value
at the same time. We are all tremendously
affected by these
things.
The Editor of a marketing
magazine, I once read, was vocifej
rous in his criticism of the way
j in which one merchant announced
| string beans as a seasonal spe|
cialty. "String beans," said he,
"Why don't you advertise them|
as stringless beans, for that is
what they really are." You can i
really feel the difference.
We used to call these beans
snaps in' the south and the name
snap beafis does sound crisp and
attractive. The editor said it was
certainly a more truthful description
of what they were.
Right in line with this reasoning,
I place the effect a dinner
I once attended had upon those
who ate.
Women al. over the United
States at that time were serving
raw vegetables to their families
and many of them were good; but
friends, don't serve too many raw
tilings at one meal.
i You may come away from the
table as I did, feeling as if you
I had been dining with your pet
Jersey or you had just joined
i the vegetarian society and wished
you hadn't. I will go some distj
ance with these raw food enthu'
siasts but I draw the line at raw
1 Irish potatoes; and raw turnips
are not my favorite by any
j means. We don't like the thought
| of the thing.
After all, it is hard to change
t ones food habits and. to my mind,
a good hot dish of butter beans,
turnip greens, or corn on the
cob can't be improved upon by all
raw.
either washed or dry cleaned, and
there are rules for washing wool.
The water must not be hot, only
lukewarm. Avoid wringing and
use only a mild soap.
I W. F.
1
"HPORT, N. C.
:rs, especially, to consider the
:ffe'ct that potash might have on
:he quality of their crop.
NEW
A new wheelbarrow type of
ow-crop duster, powdered by the
iraction of the front wheel and
:apable of dusting two rows of
ilants simultaneously, has been
>laced on the market.
A 550 - mile, 24 inch pipeline
ivill be built from Longview,
Texas, to Salem, Illinois, to help
relieve the Eastern oil shortage.
Watch the label on your paper
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Potash Scarce
In N. C. Soils
Piland Reminds Growers Of i
State That Most N. C. t
Soils Are Deficient In <
Potash, Especially Where'
Cotton, Corn And Tobac- {
co Grown
Farmers are alreay thinking i
of their next year's fertilizer ,
needs, and J. R. Piland, associate ,
soil chemist of N. C. State College,
reminds growers that the
majority of North Carolina soils
are deficient in potash. This is \
especially true, he says, in soils
where cotton, corn, tobacco, and
! vegetable crops of the Coastal
j Plain are grown.
"In the fertilization of cotton
j where cotton rust is prevalent,
| the use of fertilizers containing I
5 to 8 pei cent potash has materially
increased yields," Mr. Piland |
j reports. "Sometimes, under severe
j conditions of rust, side dressing
with potash has prove beneficial."
The chemist says that, in gen'
eral, the soils of the Coastal
Plain are relatively low in their
potash reserves, especially under j
J conditions of inadequate fertiflza- I
tion. Tobacco has a high require-1
ment for potash, and usually there
is a noted response of the crop |
to this element with regard to,
the quality of the leaf produced.'
The tobacco fertilizer grades now
recommended seem to furnish
sufficient potash for the production
of the crop in most soils. ]
Explaining the symptoms of!
potash deficiency, Mr. Piland!
| says, "Potash deficiency is usally i
accompanied by yellowing of the J
leaves of the plant, with development
of brown spots and death
| along the margins of the leaves.
| Cotton, tobacco, corn, soybeans,;
small grain, vegetables, and
fruits are all subject to potash
deficiency which can easily be
identified by its characteristic
leaf pattern."
The State College man suggests
that where such conditions were
noted in past crops, farmers
should plan their fertilization pro
gram so as to eliminate this trou-11
ble again. He urges tobacco farm-'j
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Cooking Eggs Is
Ticklish Affair
There is a difference between
"hard boiled" and "hard cooked"
eggs, says Miss Mary E. Thomas,!
nutritionist of State College Ex-1
tension Service. Likewise, soft
i boiled eggs may be hard cooked, j
| she says. |
Miss Thomas explained that I
eggs should always be cooked
slowly, at moderate, even heat.
High cooking temperatures make
eggs tough. "For either soft cooked
or hard cooked eggs with ten.
der whites," the nutritionist said,
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WEDNE,1
"the eggs should be placed in f
boiling water and then the vessel)
should be set back from the heat'
where the water will simmer butj
not boil. For soft cooking, leave'
the eggs in the water six minutes;
for hard cooking, allowing
20 minutes.
"The same general method is
followed in Doaching eggs. That
is, the water should be boiling I
when the eggs are put in, but the I
heat should be lowered immediately
and the eggs cooked at the!
simmering temperature."
CABS AND TRUCKS
One-fourth of all trucks and'
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or City Mutual
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erything he will need on the
gons, harness, fertilizer and
your wife and let her select
s from our big stock while w
lete stock of farm supplies.
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one-sixth of all automobiles""^ 1
ufactured and sold in the . I
States are purchased by "*l
American farmer, accord^ .1
the latest estimate. 1
ADVERTISING I
Nine sUtes are spending g^l
to advertise farm products, w|
thus help farmers. 1
OATS I
New hull-less oats have t^l
developed by the North DsteJ
State College experiment
and distributed tinder the mj
Nakota." I
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