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barter that
ftes for commissioner,
, to solicit votes. Once eleet-
a commissioner is torouiaen to
ate any appointment by the city
manager. Already the new plan has
meant a considerable saving of public
money In St. Augustine.
In Niagara Falls, where, owing to
failure of the New York legislature to
pass adequate legislation, the city
manager administration is still ham
pered by partisan elections, the tax
levy has been reduced to 07 cents per
f 1,000 valuation.
In Sherman, Tex., the city mana
ger installed a complaint system, by
which each complaint Is recorded, re
ferred to the department concerned
and followed up if necessary until
cared for. The number of complaints
In six months dropped "0 per cent.
Public works Improvement bonds
amounting to $150,000 were voted by
the people.
So obvious a step toward efficient
government as depositing city funds
In a responsible bank, willing to pay
Interest on daily averages, will save
San Jose, Cal., $5,000 a year under
the city manager plan. Omaha News.
DEAD TREE MADE ATTRACTIVE
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Foliage has been added to the rather
bare trunk of this fine Pepper tree by
placing a fern box in its crotch. Pop
ular Mechanics Magazine.
GET AFTER NEGLECTED LAND
Every Citizen Should Recognize a
Duty in Seeing That It Is
Kept Cleaned Up.
Look not only to your own back
yard, but take a proprietary Interest
in any vacant yards or neglected
patches of land that are in your neigh
borhood, you really ought to have
had them cleaned up last autumn, but
if you didn't then, In the cause of food
conservation and with the hope of an
increased crop from the home gardens
this summer, have these patches
cleared up.
The department of agriculture sent
a plea to the people of the land to
clean up all plots that were used as
war gardens last year In order that the
insects that had been harbored in a
dormant state in the underbrush and
rubbish might be exterminated and not
permitted to multiply and increase.
Ideally, entomologists tell us, as soon
as the crop has been harvested, the
remnants should be promptly cleared
away and burned with the insects
which they harbor.
Many persons apparently believe
that the action of winter snows and
winds would be sufficient to destroy
insect life, but such Is not the case.
Elbert Hubbard's Work Goes On.
A reminder of Elbert Hubbard, vic
tim of the Lusitanla, Is contained in
this paragraph in a New York paper:
"At East Aurora the Roycroftecs con
tinue to flourish. Their annual con
vention Is as usual. But no invitation
is necessary to attend It. Anyone who
goes there Is welcomes and the speak
ers include you if you want to speak.
That's the Roycroft idea. The notables
are scheduled, but in the grove the
open-air theater Is an open forum.
Any subject goes. We hear that the
work phase of the Roycrofters is the
biff thlner now. Which na wi rppnll It
was Hubbard's hope. A place wuer6
everything that was made war.. Srsl
useful and then beautiful. He used
to say, 'If It's useful it is beautiful,
but many useful things can be road
more beautiful. That's what we want
to do.'"
Leave Nature's Work Alone.
The most costly work in landscapes
Is moving earth ; therefore do as lit
tle of it as possible, for seldom does
it really aid in gaining pleasing re
suit.
Fitting the Theory.
I have an idea that rooms reflect
personality of their occunants."
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"Then the lady who uses this roon
must be of a very worrying disposi
tion, to judge by the fret work in it,"
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ared by the United States Depart
ment or Agriculture.)
The successful nd economical pro
duction of pork depends in a large
measure upon good permanent pas
tures supplemented by other forage
crops. There should be on an average
one acre of permanent pasture for each
brood sow kept. Green forage is lit
tle more than a maintenance ration,
and if rapid gains are desired hogs
should have a liberal allowance of
grain. Growing forage crops and graz
ing them off is a good method of im
proving soils lacking in organic mat
ter.
Kinds of crops (a) For the cotton
belt Bermuda, bur clover, white clover
and Lespedeza muke good permanent
pastures, These should be supple
mented by small grains and rape for
winter, crimson clover and vetch for
spring, cowpeas and sorghum for sum
mer, corn with soy beans, velvet beans
or peanuts for fall, (b) For the cen'
tral and middle Atlantic states, includ
ing the blue-grass region, blue grass
should be used largely for permanent
pasture. It 6hould be supplemented
by rye for winter, rape for spring, red
clover for spring and summer, com
with soy beans and rape for fall, (c)
For the Northern and Eastern states
blue grass or redtop provides perma
nent pasture. Supplementary grazing
should be furnished by oats nntl peas
for spring, rape and red clover for
summer, and early field corn for fall,
(d) for the West grazing is furnished
by alfalfa and corn. Corn should be
"hogged down."
SHIPPING SWINE IN SUMMER
Hot Weather Precautions to Prevent
Loss of Important Part of Na
tion's Meat Supply.
(Prepared by the United States. Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Every hog that is killed In transit
due to overcrowding or mishandling
means a loss, at present prices, of prob
ably more than $30 to the shipper as
well as a waste of meat needed by the
nation. Mortality in transit or after
arrival at the central market can be
lessened greatly In hot weather by the
practice of the following simple pre
cautions on the part of shippers and
dealers :
1. When hogs are very hot, during
or after a drive, never pour cold water
over their backs.
2. Before loading, clean out each car
and bed It with sand which, during dry,
hot weather should be wetted down
thoroughly. Hogs in transit during the
night only are not so likely to be lost
from overheating as are the animals
shipped in the daytime. With day ship
ments in hot weather it is highly ad
visable to suspend burlap sacks of ice
from the celling In various parts of the
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Hogs at End of Their Journey to Mar.
ket Do Not Run Risks by Over
crowding During Any Part of This
Trip.
car in order to reduce the temperature
and, incidentally, to sprinkle the an
imals with cool water. The Ice some
times Is placed in sacks on the floor,
but the animals are likely to pile and
crowd around the cakes so that only
those close to the ice are benefited.
The ice should be sufficient to last to
the destination.
3. Do not overload. Crowding hogs
In a car during warm weather Is a
prolific source of mortality.
4. The feeding of corn, because of
its heating effect, before and during
shipment In hot weather, should be re
duced to a minimum. Oats are prefer
able where a grain feed is necessary.
The maximum maintenance require
ment of hogs in transit for 24 hours Is
one pound of grain a hundredweight
or approximately three bushels of
corn to a car. In the past thousands
of bushels of corn have been wasted
in live-stock cars.
Need of Wool and Mutton.
The general need of Increased pro
duction of meat and wool, together
with their high values, has given slieep
raising a new appeal to the older farm
ing areas.
Cleanliness Pays Dividends.
In feeding dairy calves cleanliness
pays big dividends In the health of tht
qniruals.
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SIMPLE PUN TO
COOK CORN MEAL
Plenty of Good Milk to Take Away
Dryness Makes Dish Most
Palatable.
CONSERVE WHEAT AND SUGAR
Try Our Mush Recipes Until Knack of
Cooking Just Long Enough Has
Been Discovered Dried
Fruits Add Variety.
Mush and milk for breakfast or
lunch makes a simple dish fit for a
king but like all other simple dishes
It must be made Just right or the king
won't like it. The secret of serving
cornmeal this way lies In plenty of
milk and not too much mush. In the
first place see that the mush is not
too thick try out your recipes until
you find the knack of cooking it just
long enough. No one enjoys dry, thick
mush. Then serve moderate portions
with a generous amount of milk or
cream on top and have plenty more
in the pitcher to add later on. Raisins,
dates, figs and other dried fruits give
variety to the dish and please the chil
dren. They sr:oten the mush aud
save sugar.
The most common way of prepar
ing mush is to allow the water to
come to the boiling point and to add
the meal slowly, stirring constantly.
The objection to this method is that
there Is considerable danger that the
mush will become lumpy and often
times It is Inconvenient and unpleas
ant to stand over a hot stove and stir
the mixture sufficiently to make it
smooth. A better method, therefore,
is the following:
Put the cornmeal, cold water and
salt together In the top of a double
boiler. No stirring Is necessary. Put
the top of the double boiler into the
lower part and allow the mush to
heat slowly, cooking half an hour, or
longer, if convenient. Many people
cook it as long as four hours. Just
before serving remove the top of the
double boiler from the lower part and
boil the mush for two or three min
utes. In boiling It at this time there
is no danger that it will lump.
Cornmeal Mush.
METHOD NO. L
1 cupful corn meal. 1 teaspoonful salt.
SV cupfuls water.
Bring the salted water to the boil
ing point in the top of a double boil
er. Pour the cornmeal slowly into the
stir-'ng constantly. Cook three
minutes. Put trie upper part of the
boiler into the lower part and codk
the mush half an hour and as much
longer as convenient. Long cooking
Improves the taste and probably adds
to the thoroughness with which the
mush is digested.
The housewife who has no double
boiler can make one, by using two
saucepans of such size that one can
be set inside of the other.
METHOD NO. 2.
1 cupful meal. 4 cupfuls milk,
1 teaspoonful salt. whole- or skim, or
V2 cupfula water, 4 cupfuls milk and
or water.
Put the Ingredients Into-tt4u8l
the double boiler cold and
hour or longer. If conve,
before serving bring the n
boiling point. This impro
ture and also its flavor.
Mush In the Fireless
i cupful corn meal. 4 cub
i teaspoonful salt. milk,
water)
Bring tho salted water
lng point; tdd the meal i
ring all the time. Put iij
less cooker and leave for
hours. If tY.e- pail holdin
is set Into another, pall coi
ter before heliisr nlnceti
cooker, the heat will 1
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puddings which take no wheat and no
sugar. They are made chiefly out of
milk, cornmeal and molasses.
Indian Pudding.
5 cupfuls milk. 1 teaspoonful sait.
1-3 cup corn meal. 1 teaspoonful gJn1
Vi cupful molasses. ger.
Cook milk and meal In a double
boiler 20 minutes; add molasses, sclt
and ginger; pour into buttered pul
ding dish and bake two hours in slow
oven ; serve with cream.
This serves eight people.
Cornmeal and Fig Pudding.
1 cupful corn meal. 1 cupful finely chop
1 cupful molasses. ped figs.
6 cupfuls milk (or 4 1 teaspoonful salt,
of milk and 2 of 2 eggs,
cream).
Cook the cornmeal with four cupfuls
of the milk, add the molasses, figs and
salt.
When the mixture is cool, add the
eggs well beaten. Tour Into a buttered
pudding dish and bake In a moderate
oven for three hours or more. When
partly cooked add the remainder of
the milk without stirring the pudding.
This serves eight or ten people.
Cornmeal and Apple Pudding.
For the figs in the above recipe suo
stltute a pint of finely . sliced or
chopped sweet apples.
This serves eJglit or ten people.
MUSH AND MILK.
What has become of the old
time bowl of cornmeal mush and
milk? It is an American dish,
cheap, nourishing and palatable.
The older generation loved it;
and for economical, sentimental
and patriotic reasons we should
now go back to it and take all
America with us. Mush and
milk furnishes a balanced ra
tion, yet contains no wheat, no
meat, no sugar. It is a whole
meal in itself, and while the war
lasts it should be used more
largely In this country. Its
larger use here will release other
and more concentrated foods for
our armies and the armies of the
allies. We are producing an
abundance of food ; we will save
it for our boys across the water ;
and food will help to win the
war. The Austrians, Bulgari
ans, Turks and Germans are be
ginning to see this, and the kai
ser also believes and trembles.
Fruits Save Suger.
All ripe fruits contain sugar. The
amount varies from about three ounces
or one-fifth cupful per pound In fresh
figs and plums to about one-half ounce
per pound In watermelon.
If the water is driven off from fruits,
as in the drying process, the sugar
becomes far more prominent than it
Is in fresh fruits. Dried fruits, there
fore, taste far sweeter than fresh ones
and are for this reason often classed
among' the sweets. It should be re
membered, however; ' -that sugnjJaL,
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most acid ones, and that th
who wish to do so can ec
other kinds of sugar by t
amounts of fresh fruits i
ened forms.
In warm weather melo
fruits may be used In pla(
desserts, which usually
butter and sugar. Frui
junnet, which can be pi
skim milk, make a refrs
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PLAN TO MAKE GOOD BUTTER
Quality Is Improved If Standard Meth
ods and Care Are Practiced
by Farmer.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The butter made on the farms of
the United States may be materially
Improved in quality In most cases, if
standard methods are employed and
greater care is exercised in carrying
out the necessary details. The depart
ment gives the following outline of
the essential steps to be taken in mak
ing good farm butter:
1. Produce clean milk and cream.
Cool the cream immediately after It
comes from the separator. Clean and
sterilize all utensils.
2. Ripen or sour the cream at from
65 degrees to 75 degrees F. until mildly
sour. Always use a thermometer in
order to know that the right tempera
ture is reached.
3. Cool the cream to churning tem
perature or below and hold at that
temperature for at least two hours be
fore churning.
4. Use a churning temperature usu
ally between 52 degrees and 66 de
crees F. that will require 30 or 40
minutes to obtain butter.
5. Clean and scald the churn, then
half fill It with cold water and revolve
until churn Is thoroughly cooled, after
which empty the water.
6. Tour the cream Into the churn
through a strainer.
7. Add butter color from 20 to 35
drops to a gallon of cream except
late in the spring and early in the
summer.
8. Put the cover on tight; revolve
the churn several times; stop with
bottom up and remove stopper to per
mit escape of ' gas ; repeat until no
more gas forms.
9. Continue churning until butter
granules are formed the size of grains
of wheat.
10. Draw off the buttermilk through
the hole at the bottom of the churn,
using a strainer to catch particles of
butter. When the buttermilk has
drained out, replace the cork.
11. Prepare twice as much wash wa
ter as there Is buttermilk, and at about
the same temperature. Use the ther
mometer; do not guess at tempera
tures. Put one-half the water Into
the churn with the butter.
12. Replace the cover and revolve
the churn rapidly a few times, then
draw off the water. Repeat the wash
ing with the remainder of the water.
13. The butter should still be In
granular form when the washing is
completed.
14. Weigh the butter.
15. Place the butter on the worker
and add salt at the rate of three
quarters of an ounce to a pound of
butter.
16. Work the butter until the salt
is dissolved and evenly distributed. Do
not overwork.
17. Pack in any convenient form for
home use or make Into one-pound
Drawing Off Buttermilk.
prints for market, wrapping the butter
In white parchment paper and inclos
ing in a paraffined carton.
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Personal Experience.
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women." Mrs. John YJ
No. 1, McLean, Nebr
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round, has been resto.
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remedy a trial.
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ONLY ONE CAUSE FOR WORRY
Decoction Put Up by Obliging Chem
ist Removed All Other Troubles
From His Customer.
Ita shuns M'ns feeling uncomfortable
r.s he trudged home in the rain. Sud
denly he heard n laugh behind him
and curious to know who could feel
hilarious in such weather, he turned
o round and recognized Simpson, who
was keeping dry with the aid of an
umbrella.
"Suppose you're laughing because
I've forgotten my umbrella?" growled
Karhuns.
"No, nol Come under and I'll tel!
you," said Simpson. "I have just
heard about Mason. lie went to a
chemist and said to the man : 'Give
me something that will banish from
my mind the thought of sorrow and
bitter recollections. That chemist
must have been an obliging chap, for
he made up a dose of quinine, epsom
salts, wormwood and a little castor oil
for Mason to take, and the poor old
chap can't think of anything now ex
cept new schemes for getting the taste
out of his mouth."
Dad's Great Scheme.
Father noticed that his rather ob
streperous young son had the quality
of thrlftiness, and he resolved to ap
peal to it.
"Sonny," said he, "I'm going to give
you a nickel every day if you're a good
boy, on condition that every day you
are naughty you give me a nickel.
Is It a go?"
Td like to do It, dad," answered the
little fellow. "But I can't afford it.
Tve only got $1.26 in my bank to start
on." Peoples' Home Journal.
In the Tolls.
lie (watching another couple) I
suppose he feels that he could not live
without her.
She Yes, and I don't think he'll
have a chance to find out that he could.
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