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PACE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE highlands MACONIAN THURSDAY, Home Demonstration Club News BY MRS. T. J. O’NEIL Macon County Hiome Dem.Oin:stratloii Agent HOME STORAGE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES The home gardener usually has a supply of fruits and vegetables,, which if stored, will increase the food supply of these crops for sev eral months. A cellar, basement, attic or pit in the ground are the more favorable places for storage of apples, pears, root crops, cab bage, onions, pumpkins and squash or some of the fruits and vegetables available in the fall for storage. APPLES AND PEARS keep best in cool, moist air which has good circulation. They can be kept at temperatures close to freezing. Ap ples and pears picked when fully ripe will keep better than when picked green. Leave pears on trees until green color bus turned to a lemon yellow, then store in slatted crates or slatted bins. POTATOES—Storage co.nditions such as moisture and air similar to apples and pears. Temperature around 35 to 40 degrees F. Late harvested potatoes will keep best. Potatoes free from cuts, bruises,, and damage caused by insects and diseases keep best. Place in slatted crates or bins. One cubic foot of space will store around 40 pounds of potatoes. ONIONS AND SWEET POTA TOES should ibe well matured and thoroughly dried before storing. Im perfect onion bulbs will not keep well, neither will bulbs which have produced seed stalks. Handle care fully. Store in slatted crates in the attic where the atmosphere is dry and temperature is around SO de grees F. A basement or cellar is not a good place to store. DRIED BEANS AND PEAS— Treat seed after harvest for weevils with carbon bisulphide. Use three teaspoonfulls of this fumigant for each cubic foot of space. Put peas and beans in container, pour fumi gant into a shallow dish which is placed on top of beans. Repeat treatment in about 10 days. Leave beans and peas under each treat ment for 48 hours. ROOT CROPS—Same as for po tatoes, place root crops in piles or in boxes or bins. Sprinkle them occasionally 'with water to prevent shriveling. S'hort leaf stems should be left on beets. Outside shallow pits may be used. Dig a hole 6 inches deep. Place a layer of straw on ground, pile, in the .roots and cover with straw and then a layer of dirt. CABBAGE—Same as for potatoes and fruits—Store in basement and outdoor pits. When storing in base ment remove roots but do not re move outer leaves. Place on shelves with cut stem up. For outside stor age in pits same as for root crops. Leave stem and outer leaves at tached. Pile with stems up and two or three layers deep. PUMPKINS AND SQUASHES— Store in warm dry room at a tem perature of 50 degrees F. Pick with stems attached and before a hard frost specimens should be fully matured and hard for best storage. METHOD FOR PIT STORAGE FOR IRISH POTATOES—Dig a hole 3 to 4 feet deep and about ,6 feet wide and in length according to quantity of potato'cs to ibe stored. Pour potatoes in pit heaping with level of surface of the ground cover with a thick layer of straw. Put a layer of dirt a foot thick over the straw except alo'ng the ridge where a strip about a foot wide from end to end is left. This uncovered strip of straw allows for ventilation. The strip of straw should be protected from heavy rains. When freezing weather comes cover strip of straw with dirt. THE FAMILY DOCTOR JOSEPH HOW THE HEART IS OVERLOADED We are still confronted with statements that heart diseases are on the increase. Look over the columns in the big city papers and note the causes of death—the list of fatalities, I mean. There were ten deaths recorded in my neigh bor metropolis yesterday, most of them were in the early fifties; “heart disease” took most of them. l^ou are positively guilty of every crime against your heart, ignorant ly, it may be, but with results just the same; ignorance of the law does not excuse the violator—he must pay the penalty in full. Two chief causes are notable in affections of the heart—infections and overloading. A neglected throat is almost sure to send a swarm of bacteria to the heart muscle. At tend to your throat right now, if it is affected. Influenza, rheumatism, tonsilitis—all of them menace the heart, no matter how mild they may appear; get your physician’s advice frequently. Overloading the heart is inex cusable on your part. How do you do it ? Firsl, by overeating and unnecessary stimulation. The heart keeps all fluid elements in the body in motion; if you overeat, excess fluid and juices are absorbed for the heart to keep circulating,' through the channels provided. When you are short of breath after eating, you are crowding your heart. It may be gases in the stomach, from indigestion that oppress the heart—^^a warning you must heed if you value life. These heart disease cases could have—two-thirds of them —ibeen prevented. TODAY and IVMUCSR HARVARD .... 300 yeaii:s The whole world of scholarship is paying compliments this month to the oldest American institution of learning, Harvard University, which was founded in 1636, three hundred years ago. Harvard’s tercentenaiV interests me particularly because one of my earliest American ancestors. Dr. Benjamin Stockbridge, was one of the first students in the “colledge or scholae” which the Rev. John Harvard endowed in the town which was named for his own English university town of Cambridge. In its (beginning Harvard was a, crude, one-teacher boarding school, where Nathaniel Eaton, the master, half starved and mercilessly whip ped the unfortunate boys. But from that seed sprang what is, I believe, the most far-reaching educational influence in America, and the most democratic. COTTON far roadis New York state is about to try out the new type of cotton road, on a six-mile stretch in the Mo hawk Valley. Cotton ooads have been quite successful in the South, as the cheapest improvement on the ordinary gravel or clay road. I have been trying to remember a time when the cotton planters of the South were .not in distress, seeking new uses and markets for their surplus product. It was a year or so before the World War that the “buy a bale of cotton” propa ganda was' started all over the country, to help the So*thern planters. The truth about cotton, it seems to me, is that it can be grown profitably only in especially favor ed regions or where there is a plentiful supply of the cheapest manual labor to “chop” and pick it. Most of cotton’s troubles arise fr@m trying to grow it under conditions which militate against profits. PIOS from albroad “Pigs,” as my friend Ellis Parker Butler pointed out in the «tory which made him famous, “is pigs.” In Pigs is Pigs” it was a country railway agent who insisted that guinea-pigs should come under Jbe same classification as regular pork- ^Tn England, where they been breeding pigs since long for« Columbus Amenc^ pigs is The kind they are not all ainte. that bring home the bacon i land are known only by th of Large Black pigs, are * to be far more docile than “fancy” breeds, and also more pro - Unde Sam has just imported four Large Black pigs, two boars and two sows, and is going to *y crossing them with familiar Ameri can breeds. Which is interesting o hog-raisers, but to most of us pigs is just pigs. BATS userui I have long accounted bats as among the most interesting as well as the most useful little animals we have. They are useful, because if you have plenty of bats flying around your house on Summer eve nings you won’t have so many mo'sq.uitoes. Indeed, one Texas town some years ago built a “bat tower in which these flying mice could live and breed, and so get rid of a serious mosquito pest. Only a few persons with excep tionally keen ears can hear the squeaky cries of bats as they fly- Their tone is pitched in a key be yond ordinary audibility. Not all bats are harmless, how ever. The great vampire bats of the tropics and some parts of Europe are actually a msnace to human and animal life. And the other day the Federal government ordered the kiHing of eight “flying foxes” from India, fruit bats with a three- foot wing spread, which destroy orchards and fruit groves of all kinds. Still, I like bats. children ^ „ew law has just gone into ,/fect in New York, raising from 14 to 16 the age at which a boy „,ay leave school and get his “work ing papers.” Boys of 12 are sti allowed, however, to sell newspapers and shine shoes on the streets. I have never been convinced that it is always a good thing for a boy to keep him from earning his own in the world, whatever h^is I kw)w too many men ^vha have risen to real greatness, who had very little formal schooling but got their education through their contacts with life itself. Of course, it all depends on what the boy has got in him; but I think most boys who want to go to wor don’t get very much of value out of compulsory school attendance. Farm Price Index Highest in Six Years The general level of prices re ceived by farmers on August 15 was the highest in six years, the bureau of agricultural economics re ports. The bureau’s index for that date was 124, compared with 115 on July 15, and with 106 on August 15 a year ago. Grain led the march to higher prices during the past month, with both wheat and corn passing $1 a bushel, for the first time since July 1928. Prices of truck crops rose sub stantially during the month; prices of dairy products were strong; chick ens and eggs advanced seasonally, and meat animal prices were high er. Cotton, cottonseed, and fruits were the only maj(5r groups to re cede from the July level. SEfj Banish 6oi{| Perspiration I with YODOra, cream which and counter; eoncejL, Yodora is a ISl) white, soft cream—r,|' acts promptly * harmless to the will not stain fabric, For those who r,,... whether under the ann? parts of the body valuably. It is a * body odors, Yodora, a McKesf be had in both tube costs only 25)!. AT YOUR FAVo,J drug STOSi Be Sure I h( Qeanse I VOUR kidneys e J ing waste matlettj ^eam. 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