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THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO. THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18th, 1947
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11 Winter Plays Havoc
With Unprotected Cars
Every winter thousands of motorists wake up on a cold morn
ing to find a sick car in the garage. And in most
because its owner has neglected to prepare it foi*
weather. If the guilty finger points at you don’t let
suffer any longer. Bring it to ns today. We’ll do a
winterizing job.
cases it’s
the cold
your car
thorough
Your Studebaker Dealer
GRAHAM ARTHUR
AjlJ ‘
BY -^3
Hello Homemakers! Enough time
to prepare for the holiday table
is the quandry of many homemak
ers today. Every year there seem
to be more functions to attend,
especially at this season, not only
the women’s organizations, but the
children’s concerts, father’s
parties and the numerous
mas endeavours.
It therefore behooves us
pare something simple yet
for our home
lieve that our
variations may
your number
week
offices
Christ-
to pre-
festive
gatherings. We be-
basie receipes with
be
one
the answer to
problem ■this
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BUTTERMILK
1 cup brown sugar, % cup
shortening, 1 egg, well beaten,
sour
cake
tsp.
*
COOKIE'S
U cup buttermilk or
milk, 2 % cups sifted
flour, tsp. salt, *4
soda, % tsp. cinnamon.
Cream brown sugar and
ening, add beaten egg. Sift -dry in
gredients and add alternately with
buttermilk to creamed mixture.
Drop from teaspoon on greased
cookie sheet. Bake in electric oven
of 375 degrees about 12 min. '
Cocoanut Cooldes: Add % cup
shredded cocoanut and 1 tsp grated
orange rind and ltsp. lemon rind.
Decorated Cookies: Use basic recipe
and after cookies are in pan, de
corated in one
ways: Flatten
place on centre
almond, raisin,
sesame seeds.
BASIC BAKING POWDER
BISCUITS
2 cups (all purpose) flour,
1 tsp. salt, 7/8 cup milk, 4
tsps, baking powder, 2- tbsps.
shortening.
Sift dry ingredients twice. Cut
in the shortening with pastry blen
der. Sprinkle in the milk and toss
into a dough mixture
en spoon. (Use more
cessary.)
Place the dough
board, pat or roll lightly to about
1 inch thickness. Cut it with a
biscuit cutter, dipping the cutter
into flour to keep it from sticking.
Bake on a lightly floured pan in
a hot electric oven at 450 degrees
for 12 mins.
Cheese Biscuits: Cut % cup grated
cheese into dough.
Cranberry Biscuits: Add 2 tbsps.
sugar to dry ingredients. Cut %
cup chopped raw cranberries into
the dough.
Raisin Biscuits: Fold % cup rais
ins into mixture after shortening
is cut in.
Nut Biscuits: Add %
nuts to mixture after
cut in
sliort-
of the following
with spatula and
of each, blanched
pieces of peel or
*
with wood
milk if ne-
on floured
cup chopped
shortening is
TAKE A TIP
1. If you use gumdrops for var
iation in cookies, cut and mix in
the dough
candies will
temperature
2. If your
come black, place the pan of cook
ies on top of the jelly roll pan to
deflect
cookies
3. If
baking
require
soft dough.
4. The basic pastry dough recipe
may be
shells.
because
harden
oven.
cookie
these gelatin
in a moderate
sheet has be-
the heat and prevent the
burning on the bottom.
you use pastry flour for
powder biscuits, you may
1 cup of milk to make a
used for making tart
* * * *
THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs. J. T. asks: Is it advisable
to chill cookie dough in the refrig
erator before rolling it out? How
long will it keep in a cold place?
Answer: The flavoui* and texture
is much better if you chill cookie
dough. You store cookie dough in
a covered
erator for
necessary.
Mrs. S.
container in the refrig-
two or three weeks if
W. asks: How to keep
ice-box cookies crisp and hermits
soft.
Answer: Keep crisp cookies in
a tin box or crock with a lid—do
not store anything else in the con
tainer but the cookies after they
have been allowed to cool.
Hermits and other soft mixtures
may be stored in a covered glass
jar with a piece of apple. Replace
the apple every few days.
Mrs. J. T. asks: Recipe for Short
Bread.
Answer:
Short Bread
1 cup butter, 1/3 cup fruit
sugar, 2 cups floui* (or more)
Cream butter well, add sugar
gradually and cream well together.
Add flour slowly. When dough is
stiff, turn out on floured board,
knead in flour until dough begins
to crack. Roll out thick, cut
with cookie cutter. Place on bak
ing sheet and bake until lightly
browned at 300 degrees.
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Anne Allan invites you to
to her (% Times-Advocate).
in your suggestions on homemak
ing problems and watch this column
for replies.
write
Send
Hassocks
and
Tables
For Daughter or Sweetheart
Goblin
Electric
The Ontario farmer can buttress
his independence by producing
more feed grain on liis own land,
said Kenneth Murphy, Ontario De
partment of Agriculture, speaking
at Clinton Friday. “Once he de
pends on the western farmer to
grow his grain, the Ontario farmer
is no longer
pointed out. Mr.
for the crops,
branch, was one
the annual meeting of the Huron
Crop Improvement Association.
Fanners interested in the prac
tical research work of the associa
tion filled the assembly room of
the Department of Agriculture
office, Clinton, to capacity for the
meeting. Annual elections returned
Harry Strang, Exeter,
term as president of
tion.
Although the feed
tion for Ontario livestock farmers
seems perilous now, and the mark
eting situation is uncertain, Mr.
Murphy said, farmers will probably
be best advised to keep up theii’
herds, and try to stay in business.
“We know that Britain is starving
at the present time, or practically
so, and yet we don’t know whether
they will buy our bacon.” Mr. Mur
phy said. “At the same time, as
long as there is hunger in the
world, and we have the food, there
will be some kind of arrangement
by which we will get a market.”
Seed Grain Very Dirty
Nearly half of the grain seed
sown in Central Ontario this year
was so dirtly with weed seeds that
it graded in the “rejected” class,
Mr. Murphy said, when he an
nounced for the first time, the re
sults of a study made of the grain
actually used for 1947 spring seed
ing on Central Ontario farms. One
sample from a
had 2,600 weed
of grain.
Giving notice
vey is to be made in the spring of
1948 in a number of Western On
tario counties, including Perth and
Huron, Mr. Murphy said that
samples were taken this year from
seed-drills found at work
fields on
farms; the farms were chosen at
random, simply by driving-
back concessions,
collect a sample whenever a seed
drill was seen at work. In 1948, he
said, it is intended to use the same
method to get about 5 0 samples
from each Western Ontario county,
to get a true picture of the quality
of seed actually being used in
practical agriculture.
Plants Could Do Better
In the Central Ontario test, Mr.
Murphy revealed, only 273 out of
83 7 grain samples were graded as
No. 1, and only 31 out of 122 .grass
and clover seed samples were grad
ed as No. 1. One farmer was found
to be sowing clover seed that con
tained
ounce,
all the
against
Weed seeds most frequently found
Mr. Murphy said, were, in order,
twitch-grass, wild mustard, bladder
campion and wild oats.
Weeds Greatest Obstacle
“The greatest single menace to
production—ovei’ which we have
any control, that is,—is weeds,”
said William R. Dougall, Hensall,
county weed inspector for Huron.
“The railroads are the
fenders,”
reporting
trol work,
tention to
to them,
fairly well taken care of, and
county roads are next best.
“Mowing, in my opinion,
most economical method of
control,” Mr. Dougall said,
ical spraying, he went on, i
place, but wherever roads ■
levelled out to the fencelines, the
mower will do the most weed-kill
ing for the least money. One of the
greatest problems, he said, is pos
ed by abandoned farms and farms
with elderly couples on them,
where there is no manpower avail
able to keep the weeds down. In
the long run, he suggested, the
solution may be found in township
mowers, to cut the weeds where-
ever no one can be found in the
local neighborhood to do the job.
Powerful Weed-Killer
On orders from the county coun
cil, Mr. Dougall reported, he has
this year sprayed all the knapweed
and all the leafy spurge that could
be found in the country, except that
the
when
seed.
“It
independent,” he
Murphy, field man
weeds, and seeds
of the speakers at
for another
the associa-
grain situa-
seed-drill, he said,
seeds in a pound
that a similar sur-
in the
959 Central Ontario
down
and stopping to
seeds to the
four of
3,925 weed
Only about one in
samples had been treated
smut.
sidered Funks 35 one of the best
corn varieties he has ever grown.
He had good results this year also,
he said, with Wisconsin 279 and
Wisconsin 335.
Corn Unbeatable For Feed
R.R. 5, Brus-
reported that in yield tests
with 10 var-
h e
to
In
he
Richard Proctor,
seis,
this yeai’ on his farm,
ieties of hybrid corn,
yield of 58.74 bushels
with Wisconsin 240.
varieties for ensilage,
results with DeKalb 65.
“If you want a crop to
your feed supply,” commented An
drew McTavisli, paisley, “there’s
nothing to beat corn.” Mr. McTav-
ish attended the meeting as zone
director of
got top
the acre
tests of
got best
increase
the Ontario Crop
Improvement Association.
Other testing work done by H.
C. I. A. members this year, it was
reported by LeRoy G. Brown, sec-
reary-treasurer, included soybean
variety tests on the farms of Ross
■Proctor, R.R, 5, Brussels, and W.
C. Bremner, R.R. 3, Brussels; hy
brid corn ensilage tests by Cliff
Keys, Varna; drill-width tests of
four varieties of oats by Alfred
Warner, R.R. 2, Bayfield, and at
the Huron County Home, Clinton;
drill-width tests of four varieties
of barley by Harry Bolger, R.R. 3,
Walton, and Russell Bolton, R.R.
1, Dublin.
Pasture Demonstration
A site has been chosen, Mr.
Brown reported, for a problem pas
ture demonstration on the farm of
Ephraim Snell, R.R. 1, Clinton.
The field has been plowed and fall-
worked, Mr. Brown said, and is to
be fertilized and seeded early in
1948.
Projects on which the H.C.I.A.
is now working, Mr. Brown report
ed are a proposed county cam
paign to rid Huron of barberry, the
host bush for stem rust of oats; a
publicity campaign to encourage
early cleaning of 19 48 seed grain;
and plans for a seed fair to be held
in the spring of 19 48.
Explains Plant Breeding
Donald Huntley, Guelph,
search assistant to Prof. Keegan,
explained the methods used in
plant breeding for new varieties.
Citing an example of plant-breed
ing work, he said that the O.A.C.
21 variety of barley, long a favor
ite with Ontario farmers, has three
shortcomings: it is liable to mil
dew, the heads break off easily,
and it has rough awns which make
it unpleasant to handle. It is an
objective of plant breeders to find
a barley strain, he said,
these three faults will be
without losing the other good cha
racteristics of’ O.A.C. 21.
Officers elected by the H.C.I.A.
for 1948 are . president, Harry
Strang, Exeter; 1st vice-president,
Elmer Robertson, R.R. 5, Goder
ich; 2nd vice-president, Alvin Bet
tles, R.R. 2, Bayfield; secretary
treasurer, LeRoy G. Brown, Clin
ton; auditors, W. R. Dougall, Hen
sall, and Alvin Walper, R.R.
Parkhill.
re-
in which
■corrected
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Phone 20w
diers Game”, a march and song;
“To make a Merry Christmas”, a
song; “December”,
Marion Pepper; “Lazy Daisy’
vocal duet by Greta Pfaff
Geraldine Parker; piano solo
Miss Gladys Luker, “Dance of
Lady birds”, “Silent Night”; 1
Farm Yard, a song; Strawberry
Fair, Rythnu Band and song; vocal
solo by Joyce Pfaff, “Chi-ba-ba”;
Clippety Clop drill by Junior boys;
Balloon song, Rythrn Band and
song; recitation “Gruel for Christ
mas” by Gerald Bell; vocal solos,
Sylvia, I’m Dreaming of a White
Christmas, The Old Lamplighter,
by Mr. S. G. Rannie; “The Whip
ped Cream Club” a short skit en
acted by several boys in costume
representing the Southland. 'Selec
tions used were John Brown’s
Body, band; Old Black Joe, song;
Carry Me Back, song; With a Hey
and a Hi, song; Novelty dance,
Soldiers Joy; vocal solo, Why Do
Little Children Sing by Kenneth
Parker; Christmas Symbols by
Grades 3, 4, 6 and 7; Cradle vers
es, by Marion Pepper, Greta Pfaff
and Geraldine Parker; closing
number The First Noel. Santa
Claus arrived and distributed the
gifts.
recitation by
” a
and
by*-
the
The
z Business DirectoryMrs. Mary Hennesey, of London
spent the week-end with Mrs.
sie Case.
Mrs. Jack
Connie spent
don with the
Leslie Adams
Mrs.
ed
with her daughters,
McNaughton and Mrs.
can in Toronto.
The Hensall Public
cert will be held in the Town
Hensall on Thursday, Dec. 18th at
8 p.m.
Mr. Wm. Fee and Miss Mary Fee
visited recently with friends in
Goderich.
The many friends of Mr. Melvin
Moil* are pleased to
speedy recovery and
following his recent
St. Joseph’s Hospital,
■Special Christmas
be held in the Hensall United
church on Sunday Dec. 21st. Rev.
R. A. Brook will speak on the
theme “The Spiritual Dawn”,
the evening a candle lighting
vice will be held in which
choir, members of the Sunday
School and congregation will com
bine in a service of Christmas an
thems and carols. A children’s
chorus will sing “Away in a Man
ger”. Nine readers from the Sun
day School will be light bearers
and bring messages from scripture.
White Gifts will be presented to
help the needy folk in Britain.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Bell, of "
don, visited
Mrs. Glenn
Concert S.S.
Monday
chosen for the Christmas program
presented by the pupils of S.'S. 1,
Tuckersmith under the efficient
leadership of Mrs. Robt. Simpson
teacher and Mr. S. G. Rannie mus
ic instructor. The schoolroom was
efficiently decorated for the event
which was largely attended by the
parents, pupils and guests. Rev.
P. A, Ferguson, of Hensall, capab
ly acted as chairman. Miss Gladys
Luker presided at the piano
throughout the evening
lowing enjoyable
Vided: address,
greetings, Joyce
mas Time”; Rytl;
“The Hunter’s Horn
El-
Corbett, Ross
the week-end in
former’s sisters,
and Mrs. Chapman.
Lome McNaughton return
home after spending a week
Helen
Dun-
and
Lon-
Mrs.
Dr. H. H. Cowen, L.D.S., D.D.S.
DENTAL SURGEON
Main Street, Exeter
Office 36w Telephones Res. 36J
Closed Wednesday Afternoons
ELMER D. BELL, B.A.
BARRISTER & SOLICITORGRAND BEND
Always lovely at any time
year
able
one wantin;
mas card
through
snow storm. •
The committee in charge of the
local rink is making splendid pro
gress. If the weatherman is only
good enough to co-operate there
should be excellent skating for the
holiday season.
The annual “White Gift” ser
vice was held in the United church
Sunday School on Sunday morn
ing. There was a splendid turnout
and a fine showing of gifts. Mr.
Wood told the children a story in
keeping with the occasion. The
gifts will go to the Salvation
Army in London for distribution.
All parents and any others in
terested in the work of the Sun
day school are asked to keep in
mind the service which has been
arranged for Monday evening, Dec
ember 22nd in the auditorium of
the church. All classes in the Sun
day School are taking part.
of
Grand Bend is now a verit-
“Winter Wonderland”. Any-
,g to see a real Christ-
should take a drive
the “Pinery” after a
worst of-
Mr. Dougall commented,
on his year’s weed-con-
‘‘They pay very little at-
any complaints you take
The provincial roads are
the
Miss
John
School con-
Hall
Successor to J. W. Morley
EXETER, ONT.
Dr. J. W. Corbett, D.D.S., L.D.S
DENTAL SURGEON
BELL BUILDING, EXETER
Telephone 273
GLADMAN and COCHRANE
BARRISTERS — SOLICITORS
is the
weed
Chem-
has its
can be
EXETER, ONTARIO*
RECIPE'
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BASIC PASTRY
iy2 cups flour (pastry), %
tsp. salt, % cup shortening, 4
tbsps. cold water.
Sift the flour with salt and
work the shortening into it with
pastry mixer. (When shortening is
mixed evenly, the mix looks like
coarse oatmeal.) Sprinkle in the
cold water, tossing flour
dough. Pat lightly into a ball, wrap
in wax paper and chill in refrig
erator for I hour. Roll out light
ly on a floured board to 1/3 inch
thickness in
Fold in half
Press gently
■down around
one nine-inch
Orange Pastry: Use orange
in place of water, adding a
grated orange rind.
Nut Paltry; Add % cup
chopped nuts to flour mixture.
Cheese Pastry: Add 1/3 cup finely
grated cheese to flour mixture.
*
into
a circular fashion,
and lift to pie plate,
onto pie plate. Cut
the edge. This makes
double crust.
juice
little
finely
“Waiter, there’s no wishbone
this chicken.”
“It didn’t need one, sir. That
chicken lived such a contented life
that it had nothing to wish for”.
in
spraying was discontinued
the leafy spurge went to
at Hensail, Friday 2 to 5 p.m.
hear of his
return home
operation in
London,
services will
POULTRY - GEESE - DUCKS - TURKEYS
We will take them in every day of the week including
Friday and Saturday, from now until Christmas.
PARKDALE POULTRY
looks as if a small quantity
of Atlacide, mixed with 2,4-D.
would kill anything we tried it on,”
he said, adding that the kill on
leafy spurge was not 100 per cent
but was effective enough to justi
fy the effort.
Elmer Robertson, R.R. 5, Goder
ich, reported on extensive tests
made on his farm with varieties of
hybrid corn, both for husking and
for ensilage. Most of the varieties
tested, lie said, were planted June
22, and were matured
for harvest • before the
came in mid-Soptember,
Pioneer 37.3 and Pride
ported were good ensilage varieties
this year on the Robertson farm.
Among the huskin,g-corn varieties
he found the DeKalb varieties and
aiPFuhks 35 easy to husk, and con-
and ready
■first frost
66, he re-
Phone 245 Mitchell, Ont.
recently with Mr.
Bell.
1 Tuckersmith
night Dec. 15 th
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FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office, Exeter, Ontario
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Exeter
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R.R, 1, Mitchell
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