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.
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