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PREPARE FOR RETTER LIVING. Homo Drying of Surplus Fruits and Vegetable* Is a Simple and Easy Matter. Careful Selection and Prep aration Important If Bent Results Are to lie Obtained. The scarcity and high price of tin and glass containers this year has caused attention to be turned to dry ing and evaporating as economical methods of conserving perishable food products. It is extremely important this ^ year thi.t all surplus fruits : nd veg- ? e tables be saved for future consump- I tion. The food situation of the country 1 has become exceedingly acute. Quali- I fied experts agree that the shortage of food products this year will be aerious. In almost every garden there occurs at different timcB and in varying amounts, surplus products above those that can be used. The sav ing of this surplus can best be ac complished through the agencies of vanning and drying. To meet the urgent demand for in formation regarding drying fruits and vegetables, a circular on this sub ject has been prepared by the Divi sion or Horticulture. This circular may be obtained by writing the Agricul- 1 tural Extension Service, Raleigh, N. C. Drying or evaporating is the sim plest and cheapest method of prese rving fruits and vegetables. Root crops may be stored rather than dried if they mature at a time when they may be kept in this way. The more perishable fruit and vegetable crops should be dried. Conservation or sur plus produce by drying is highly practical and may be practiced in every home at very slight expense. Dried products require a minimum expenditure for containers and if pro perly stored may be kept for a long period of time. When properly dried I the products lose very little or none I of their flavor and retain their entire I food value. | Methods of Drying. Drying may be accomplished either by exposing (he material to the sun or by subjecting to artificial heat, j While sun drying is employed to a ( large extent in some sections, a prod uct of higher quality may be produc- ( ed more economically by the use of , artificial heat. A type of cook-stove , evaporator is most satisfactory for | home use. This evaporator may be , either purchased from dealers or ( made at home. Detailed instructions , for making one of these evaporators , are given in the Department's circu lar on drying. The selection and preparation of , the raw material determines in a | large measure the quality of the fin ished product. Material of poor quali ty and coarse texture cannot be im proved by drying but will give a poor product. Equally as much care should be given to the selection and prepara tion of vegetables for drying as for canning. Where the highest quality of product is desired only absolutely fresh, sound, and tender vegetables should be used. All vegetables and fruits should be washed perfectly clean before preparing. After the material has been cleaned it should be peeled, if peeling is nec essary, and then sliced or threaded. With many roots crops, it is not ab solutely necessary that they should be peeled but a product of better and more uniform color is produced if the vegetables are first peeled before slic ing or shredding. Most vegetables may be dried with or without blanch ing and each method has its advo cates. Blanching is accomplished by immersing the vegetables in boiling water for a short time. Fruits are not 11-- 1.1 ?L 1 D a _1 1 J generally uiuiimvu. owlti nirii snouiu be boiled long enough to set the milk. After the material is properly pre pared, it is spread on the trays of drier in thin layers not over 1 to 1% inches deep. The drying is generally started at 110 degrees P. and gradu ally increased to 150 degrees F. and the drying completed withiti 2'^ to 3 Vt hours. If a higher temperature is used the material is liable to be scorched. To secure a uniform pro duct, the material should be thorough ly stirred on the trays several times during the drying, and the trays should be shifted once or twice. Every drier should be provided with a ther mometer so that the temperature may be regulated accurately. The best temperature and length of time for drying varies with different vegetables and fruits and is easily de termined by experience. Green string beans, shelled beans, garden peas, sweet corn, carrots and parsnip, onions, beets, pumpkins, spinach, cabbage, Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes are vegetables that may easily be dried. Applies, p?ars, peeches, plums, and berries are commonly dried. Properly dried vegetable products will be slightly brittle when removed from the drier. In this condition, careful handling is essential to prevent break ing them into smaller pieces. Dried fruits should be leathery and should not stick to one another when pressed ! together. Storing Dried Fruits and Vegetables. The dried products should be care fully stored in both moisture and in sect-proof containers in a dry place. Any form of tin container with a tight ??over is satisfactory. Fruit jars may j be used. The cheapest container is a paper bag. Small paper bags should be used and only a quantity of prod i net sufficient for a few meals should {be put in each bag- The bag should be tied and given a coat of paraffin. All dried food products should be soaked in either cold or warm water before cooking. The material should (>e soaked until it resumes its orig inal appearance and is soft and pli able. The material should be cook ed in the water in which it was soak ed. ? C. I). Matthews, Assistant Hor ticulturist. MORE NEW RECORDS IN COTTON Entire Option List Above 27-Cent IUmih. Poor Crop Report* Continue. No repetition of 200-point fluctua tions has been witnessed in cotton, though prices have established more new records, with the entire option list above the 27-cent basis and the spot quotation up to 27.40 cents. From the top levels, there was a subsequent break in futures of about 75 points on the average, and some net decline appears in comparison with last Sat urday's final figures. Yet the market obviously remains at an extraordina rily high position ,and practically the same influences which explained the recent great rise accounted for the week's further upturn. Briefly summarized, the propelling forces be hind the advunce have been the scarcity of contracts, persistent trade buying by both domestic and foreign interests and continuance of poor crop advices, with low condition es timates from private sources. In con sequence, nearly everyone is looking for a decidedly bullish report by the Government on Monday as to the status of the plant on June 25, and the statistics on acreage are expect ed to show a small decrease. On the other hand, not all of the crop news has made dismal reading, and late dispatches telling of showers at nu merous points in Texas, where drought has beeu serious, prompted not a little profit-taking and other selling. By conservative people, the future of the market is viewed with n>me degree of uneasiness, because ?>f the rapidity with which it has risen, and the possibilities of sudden und violent reaction are not disre garded. Reopening of the Liverpool Exchange occurred on Friday, but with no new speculative commitments permitted. -Dun's Review, 30th. Campaign Against Typhoid Fever. This week the State Board of Health is mailing to citizens of John ston J'ounty valuable advertising matter announcing the campaign of free treatment to prevent typhoid fever, beginning July 9, 11)17. It is the sincere hope of The Her ald that this advertising matter will be posted by those receiving same, that every one may have information not only of tho anti-typhoid cam paign; but the other educational in formation bearing upon other pre ventable diseases as well. The reason preventable disease is not controlled, is because the people themselves are not informed and do not take hold on the matter. Let us accept this opportuunity to do some thing ourselves by posting the adver tising matter for our own and the benefit of the other fellow. Law and health officers cannot prevent dis ease unless we do our part, and this time we have a chance to begin. The work is made easy ? everything ? even the tacks come, nothing to do but to pick up a rock and begin our part. The number of people treated in the campaign will be an index more of the progressive spirit of our citi zenship in grasping the opportunity of protecting our health than it will the effort or lack of effort of those in charge of the campaign. TJje phy sicians are offering us a great oppor tunity, and arc rendering a service none but the unselfish can ? but we must act ? must take our part and place in a groat work." Think Health! "It is not a fear of illness or of death that we should encourape, but a love of health, a sense of responsi bility for the eare of our bodies, a desire for bodily endurance and effi ciency and full achievement. "If the mind is fixed on these ideals, and the already known means of ap proaching them are utilized, the needless miseries that embitter the lives of so many may be left to take care of themselves. "It is not much necessary to fipht disease as to cultivate health for the happiness, contentment and n^tal gain that it brings." ? Health Bulletin. I ?DYNAMITE JOHNNY" O'BRIEN Capt. John (Dynamite Johnny) O'Brien, who recently celebrated the passing of his eightieth year at the Hotel McAlpin in New York. In honor of his birthday, President Menocal of Cuba ordered Victor Hugo Barranco, Cuban representative in New York, to entertain the captain at an elaborate dinner. A. & E. SUMMER SCHOOL. Plans for Institute Week July 12-25. 1 Enrollment to Friday, 122. (By C. F. Miller.) , West Raleigh, June 29. ? The Sum- , mer School of the Stute College of | Agriculture & Engineering which , opened for its first annual session on j June 12 completed the first two weeks , of the session with success from ev- > ery standpoint. { The first Teachers' Institute has ^ just ended and eminent satisfaction i with the benefits obtained has been ] expressed by departing teachers, i Plans for making the Institute last- ( ing from July 1 2-25 an even greater ( success have been evolved by Dr. W. 1 A. Withers, Director of the Summer School and Messrs. ^ Giles and Smith, members of the State Hoard of Examiners and Institute Conductors in conjunction with the other teachers on the staff of the ( Summer School. The announcement of i the courses and tcachers conducting i the Institute follows herewith: United States History will be ( taught by Miss Gladys Beckwith, head , of the Department of History in the < Miami Schools, Florida. 1 Prof. W. H. Browne, of the State ; College will teach General Science. t Miss Daphne K. Carraway, ltural \ Supervisor of Elementary Schools of 1 Wake County, will have charge of ] Primary Number Work. Mr. D. F. Giles, the Rural School and Community. 1 Mrs. Pearl Cross Green, Drawing:. < Professor J. Henry Highgmith, ] How to Teach. 1 Miss Mary Shotwell, Rural Super- t visor of Granville County, Grammar Grade Reading. l Miss Ethel Terrell, Secretary North i Carolina Primary Teachers' Associa- t tion, Reading and Language. 1 Prof. C. B. Williams, Dean of the j Department of Agriculture of the i State College, will give a course in t Agriculture. I The enrollment of the Summer t School was 422 at noon to-day and this increasing dady. Already reser vations for the second Teachers' In- f stitute are being received. Strong 1 courses in Home Economics, Music, i Story-telling, Industrial Manual c Training, including Basketry, are al- ( so offered. 1 Among the noted lecturers who will ? address the Institute will be C. Al phonso Smith, formerly Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin. Brushing the Teeth. Do not brush the teeth straight across. The outside of the upper teeth should be brushed downward from the gums; the lower teeth upward. Clean the inside of your teeth ? next to your tongue ? in the same way. The part of the teeth us^d for chewing food (the grinding surfaces) should be brushed in all directions. After each meal use a soft quill toothpick or floss silk to remove bits of food from between the teeth. Decay causes the teeth to ache, so by preventing decay you prevent pain. The best way to stop decay is to keep the teeth clean. Twice a year is nvne too often to see your dentist. ? The Health Bul letin. Before marriage a girl wants a man I to write love letters, but after mar- ' riage nothing but checks will do. ' JOHN BARLEYCORN A SLACKER. More Grain L'wd In a Year for Liquor Making Than All German Submarine** Can Sink in a Year. (By Rex Beach.) Today I saw two drunken soldiers on the street. They were young sol diers, their uniforms were new and sufficiently unusual, alas, -to excite at tention. They were ordinary upstand ing young fellows, better a lot than many of us who passed them by, for they had answered the call ? they were not slackers. It came as a shock to see lliem swaying in their tracks, waving awkward gestures and grin ning fatuously. Their eyes were | bleared, they were foul mouthed and , abusive. A block below weru tko tents of a recruiting station. Some boys ? they were nearing the age for enlistment ? began to guy the intoxicated guardsmen; they betray ed contempt for both the mea and their uniforms. Women who were paasiag harried faster. It was plain that this exhibi tion had not helped the causa of the recruiting squad down the street. Prohibition the Answer. Prohibition in the ranks was the first answer that suggested itself to me. But why prohibition in the ranks if not in the file? We are all soldiers in this war ? soldiers of the lathe, soldiers of the plow, or we must quickly learn to be, else we shall go down in the general wreckage in the wake of the Hun. Why, then, deny to the man in khaki, who is physically fit to bear the shock of battle, that privilege which we weaker, less courageous brothers prize so highly ? the glorious and in alienable privilege of getting drunk? No, manifestly that sort of prohibi tion isn't the right sort. John Harleycorn Poor Drillmaster. I5ut if John Barleycorn is a bad recruiting sergeant he is a worse Jrillmaster and just at this particu ar crisis in our national affairs that makes him a real and potent influence for evil. Nor is that the worst that :an be said about him. He is the arince of slackers, the king of waste ind the veriest glutton in all the vorld. In his year of threatened fam ne he will, unless he is curbed, swal ow more fyod than will, the wide At antic, aided by the entire fleet of jerman U-boa^s. Eighty million bush ?ls of sound grain, 120,000,000 gal ons of mosasses ? that is only a part >f the good foodstuffs that will go to ;lut his monstrous appetitr. And neamvhile Europe starves; our allies ?ry for food. In answer to that cry ive sound the alarm for grain, more jrfiin and ships, more ships, to put it n. We suffer panic from our lack of 'arm lands and farm hunds. The war will be won in the trench es of France and in the furrows of \merica, so we are told. We set our- ] Ives to the task of training a mil ion men in a year, of bringing new icres under the plow, and yet during he course of that twelve months we >v i 1 1 consume in the form of alcoholic leverages alone enough grain to feed 1(5, 000, 000 mouths. Waste Is Colossal. It is all wrong. It is colossal waste. It is extravagance which the world ?annot tolerate in this hour of stress. England, France and Russia have earned their lesson. Let us profit by heir experience. We nied alcohol, yes. We will need nore of it in war than in peacc, but ilcohol ? usable, drinkable alcohol ? ?an be made from swill, from refuse, 'rum damaged grain. In fact, almost iny food which is unfit to cat can be nade fit to drink if one goes to the rouble, but of all the uses we can )ut it to, the drinking of alcohcl is he least important. "Let's Go Without It." Nor is the fact that the byproducts 'rum the process of liquor-making lave a considerable commercial value i sufficient reason to warrant us in levoting to it 80,000,000 bushels of >ur all-too-scanty grain supply. Our ive stock can subsist on other fod MISS FLORENCE SCH0FIELD h Miss Florence Schofield is doing jreat work In this country in behalf ; Bf the organization for the relief of J French war orphans. U. S. GRANT IV U. S. Grant IV, grandson of Presi dent Grant, has enlisted as a private in Company H of the Seventh regi ment, N. Y. N. G. He is twenty-three years old and was born at San Diego, Cal. His father is U. S. Grant, Jr., a retired lawyer of that city. The fourth Grant to bear the famous name was graduated from Harvard in 1915 and has been employed in the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co., the New York bank ers. ders than brewer's grains, our dairy cows can be made to give milk from food lees vital to our own stomachs. So, too, in the matetr of taxes. We levy a tremendous blackmail on bibu lous old John Barleycorn, but wc can raise th?t revenue elsewhere. He pays in undue share of taxes anyhow. If alcoholic liquor is a food we pay too nigh for the privilege of consuming it; if it is not a food let's go without It for a while and foot the bill out of \ greater economy. War Is Sober Business. We are in this war to win, and win ve must, but war is a sober business, lust now bread is as vital to France is bullets; she needs American grain is badly as she needs American ;roops. The war has come home to us, and ive shall feel it sorely before we are :hrough. .Let us begin our sacrifice by i great big saving, a saving of 11, )00,000 leaves a day ? enough to feed :.he armies and the navies of our al ies and ourselves. If wc lose this ight we shall go broke. Let's go dry md win. After we have tried it we may like t well enough to stay dry. Who mows ? (Copyright, 1917, Science Service.) WHEAT PRICES ON DECLINE. Mers of New Crop and Good Weath er Again Depress Markets. Once more, July wheat in Chicago, ifter a temporary recovery, has fal en below the $2 basis, and Septem jer has dropped to about $1.78. These igures approximate the bottom lev els of last week, and no one who has matched the situation with some ?loscness finds the renewed yielding >f prices surprising. That rallies oc ?ur from time to time is logical enough, but any sustained advance vould seem strange, with the new ?rop coming on the markets and the veekly weather reports telling of the ?ontinued favorable progress of ag riculture. Needless to say, the next >fficial estimates are being awaited vith keen interest, and it will be de ?idedly puzzling if the figures fail to ?eflect the improvement in winter vheat conditions which has been re jorted in the weekly dispatches from Washington. The last return of the Government, it will be recalled, was lot only disappointing, but surpris ng, and the forthcoming forecast should prove substantially better, judging from the advices which the Department of Agriculture has been ssuing. Reverting briefly to the sub ject of prices, the improved crop out ook not alone affords reason for re iction, with such factors as food con :rol and Federal regulation of mar iets present. ? Dun's Review, 30th. The Merchant and the Spider. The merchant who advertises is like thff spider that builds its not to catch the fly. He gets what he goes after ? but unlike the spider, he gives an pquivalent for what he gets. Don't let the spider put one over you, Mr. Merchant. This paper makes an excellent net for the catching of local trade. No. Six-Sixty-Six This ia a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS &, FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel end doe* not gripe or sicken. 25c Couldn't Escape. With pathetic tears on her cheeks, little Ethel ran up to the big, stalwart policeman. "P-p-plcase, sir," she sobbed, "will you come and lock a bad man up?" "What's he been doing?" asked the man in blue, gently. "Oo ? boo ? boo," wailed Ethel, "he's b-b-broken up my hoop wif 'is nasty bicycle." ? "Has he?" replied the bobbie an grily, as he saw her tears flow afresh. "Where is he?" "Oh, you'll easily eatch 'im," said Ethel, drying her tears. "They've just carried 'im into that chemist'* shop on a shutter!" ? Argonaut. COUNTY EXAMINATION. The regular examination for county certificates will be held in Smithfield Tuesday and Wednesday, July 10th and 11th. The white teachers will be examined at the Turlington Graded School building and the colored teach ers at the colored school building. All tcachers who hold first grade certificates that expire this year may have them renewed till July 1st, 1918, provided the reading course has been kept up. For further information concern ing the regulations of the State Board of Examiners, write the County Su perintendent. L. T. ROYALL, County Superintendent. Stand by the President. Why? J Because he stands by you. Stand by the Laundryman. Why? Because he stands by you. All kinds of laundry work done at the Smithfield Steam Laundry. Prices reasonable. Call phone 19-L and we will come. T. W. JOHNSON Proprietor. Achy Joints Give Warning I . A creaky joint often predicts'"1 rain. It may also moan that the kidneys are not filtering the poi sonous uric acid from the blood. Bad backs, rheumatic pains, sore, aching joints, headaches, dizziness, and urinary disorders are all ef fects s>f weak kidneys and if noth ing is done, there's danger of more serious trouble. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, the best recommend ed kidney remedy. A Smithfield Case J. G. Hamilton, carpenter, Sniithfield, says: "Trouble with my kidneys was cau sed by heavy lifting and straining while working at my trade. I had a dull pain across my back and suffered from headaches and dizzy spells. My kid neys acted irregularly. Friends recommended Doan's Kid ney Pills to me and I got some at D. H. Creech's Drug Store. They relieved all symptoms of kidney trouble." Get Doan's at Any Store, 50c a Box DOAN'S k,?lnlsey Foster-Milburn Co., - Buffalo, N. Y. NEW HOME ( Til qei it ? for L/ ? /? ?? mu unfe NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS COOD. I *ia<!c the "NEW KCME" and ? u will have a life a**et at the price you pay. The elimination c; repair expense hy superior workmanship and V * t quality of material ins.ires l.fr-Ionjc service at m>- ? mum tost. In? >t on having the "NEW HOME' . WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Known the ? rid over for superior sewing qualities Not told under any other name. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE C0.,0RANGE,MAS3. J. M. BEATY Smithfield, N. C.
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