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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1915-2-18, Page 6IiOME: steeettefteadat Miseellaueous Recipes.. Lettuce and Tomato Salad. — Take a few lettuce leaves, add one• or two sliced ton,at;;es, according to amount wanted. Mix with a few slices of eueumher. 'Veal with Seer Cream Gravy. -- Take a kin of veal for ro :•sting, elle stripe of fat and lay over meat at he betteut of the pan. Bas o1y with sour cream for the first hal€ inner, and then ceok s°i'wiy. 'Make' a grave I y mielag ttiv t.aizle- spocrnfasls of flour, and the same ameent for eatit pint of liquid. Mayonnaise I)re sing stir the yolks of two eggs with a wooden spoon until. they. are fluffy. Adel euotigh oil thieken, stirring ,,::''s the lime. Add a pinch of paprika, one-third teaspoonful mustard. one- half teespoenful salt, and stir well. Mix the awe .• ingredients together and put on ice until read~ to serve. •C hoeolate Bread Padding.—Take two cups of bread crumbs softened • in one quart of sea'ded milk. Add l two squares of cl eeela.te etre fine.1. tree one teaspeopful sof stilt and one scant capful suger. • When coo: add two eggs well's beaten. Bake one hoar and aer,t with hard sauce. Hard sauce—One cup of powdered sugar. one-half cup of butter and a little vanilla. flavoring. Try Celery This Way. Wash, serape and vet in inch pieces three eupfu',s of celery. Cover with boil - fog, salted water and cools. e.e min- utes. or until tender. 11e:.t• four tablespoonfuls of butter, add three tablespoonfuls of flour, and when 'well blended, add gradually two ctaptuls of hot milk. ileac, and 'then the brining point is renched add half a teaspoonful of salt, a quarter teaspo anful c.f white pep- Ier and a hie.. a ipful of grated. elseese. Cook until the cheese is melted. add ee".ery, and pour into a battered leaking dish. Corer with battered brez;,le;unz°tes, ani bake in a m 'derate k yen for to minutes. £'Lain ultie .- t)ne egg, 1 cup- Le of Lotter, 1 ., cupfule .If sugar, ., enpful .'f milk. 1 large teaspoon - fu': of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of l'.innasnop. 1 tea,epsonful of grat- ed nutmeg. ('ream together the but- ter and sugar, add the egg. well beaten, then the milk and spices. Add sifted flour enough to roll. making it as soft, as can be rolled easily ; rail- a Iittle thicker than pie cruet. Cut with a large sized bis- cult cattier. Place on buttered tins and bake in a quick oven until a light brown. To Keep P:ar iley.--To keep pars - let for winter use, place it in a pa, - per a,per bag. tie it round with string anti hang near the kitchen range to dry. In a week's time it will be perfectly dry. Take off the stems and place the leaves in glass jar, cover it closely, and when needed La soups, etc., it will look and taste just like the fresh herb. We cannot afford to waste anything of ars• food value at the present time. Chicken Casserole. — Clean or truss the chiekeia or eat in pieces Imitable for serving. Slice two social' onions and two small carrots c,r three stalks of celery. Saute it in a tablespoon of bacon fast until browned; add a cupful and a half of boiling water or stock; pourover the chicken in the casserole, cover and place in oven to cook. If the chicken. is young an hour and a half will be sufficient time for cooking it but if an old fowl is used, an liner or more extra time should be allowed. When half done sprinkle with a teaspoonful and a half of salt and two shakes of paprika. Make a sauce from .the, juice in the pan and serve in a sauoe'boat. Rab- bits may be used instead of chicken if desired. Household Hints. 'Let the white woodwork have plenty of sunshine; too much shade will make it yellow. Two tablespoonfuls got£ powdered stager to the white of one egg will Snake excellent meringue. Butter should be kept tight. in a e'tone jar with the lid on tight, or • it will absorb the taste of foods. handsome old Ibrooades or cre- tonne in •peacoc'k- designs are most In favor for sofa pillows this year. Don't leave matches, knives or hot water or other dangers within .reach if there are children in the house. That if the hands are rubbed ' on a sticke of celery after peeling onions the smell will be entirely removed. If troubled with tired, sore feet, rub thoroughly into the feet at night alcohol and mutton tallow well mixed. Orange salad is best served with 'roast chicken, -celery sauce with 'qua'il and currant jelly with ,'roast geese, Cookies should be put ut into; clotlh lined stone' jar when hot, If you would keep them melting and prumfbly. A b'iIl file with its point protect- d wiith a caerk is a useful. latrtJe ogb seot'to hold a :spool of'earpet warp for crocheting: In washing cotton ' crepes and lerepons have grease stasna.reinoved twit's, naphtha or gasolene before *putting tthe"crepe into water. When baking tomatoes or peppers Ancient Louis-Philippe 3lortars Employed in the French T:rcnehes. <s a set-off to the German trench -mortars employed.r n ofof trenches to those facing, a species - for dropping shells at short range from one set au emergency p of artillery first made use of in the Flanders campaign, the French, g , makeshift, have, in some places, been employing some of their own old-fashioned mor- tars, pieces that £}r 1 long time have been considered obsolete, and in the light of historiccuriosities rather than as practicable engines of warfare. As soon as thGerman trench mortar was seen at its work there w't . s, we are told, a regular liana round and rummage in the arsenals of the older French fort- resses iu districts near the seat of at In that way it was that the curious, ancient type mortars, shown in the photograph, a ;'erapouiilot," as it was called, a cast-iron weapon of Louis-Philippe's reign made for firing with black powder and spherical bombshells, came to make its a p earance at the front. With other pieces of their kind, the "crapouiilots, have, all the same, been turned to good account, their short range, deeply curving trajectory, or line of flight, and big, heavy ehells, which contain a de- structive bursting charge, coping with the Getman trench -mortars in general effectiveness, put them in :muffin pans and they Will hold their shape nicely. Greas- ing the tins will prevent sticking. .A simple icing for cake may be made from the unbeaten white of an egg mixed with a cupful of pow- dered sugar and the juice of only half a lemon. v, till aye brush not onlyhe- skin, sin, but the lining of furs when you take 1 theta off. It is unhygienic to be censtautly wearing fur,, in which dust is allowed to remain. To keep a baby ce:avered in his crib, double a sheet or blanket, lar it lengthwise in the crib under the mattress, and then, after the baby t is in, 'fold each end and tuck him in. Bread when a day or two old may be treated thus : Dip a cloth in clean cold water, cover top and sides ufloaf, and bake in a moder- ate oven for half an hour. It will be as nice as when first baked. GREATER AND BETTER CROPS. By Prof. J. Ii. Grisdale, Director of Experimental Farms, in Canadian Countryman. [For the length of his article Prof. Grisdale gives more practical advice and timely suggestions than are to be found in many volumes— advice that if followed this spring Will bring rich returns to farmers.— Editor.] Profits, net, are Professor Gris- dale's object at the Experimental Farm at Ottawa—and he gets an average of $45.'77 per acre. The average Canadian farm yields a profit of $6.50 per acre --only one dollar for every seven got by the scientific methods practised ' and recommended by Professor Gris- dale. There are no secrets in his meth- ods—they are described in this arti- cle. If you have not been getting .anything like the above profits, you will find the reason somewhere in the article—look for it ! Do you know who is to be credit- ed with the introduction of the silo in Canada? The Experimental Farm! Do you know .the effect of it in Eastern Canada An increase of fifty to 100 per cent. in the cattle- cerrying capacity of the farm with the silo! The usual measures of crop pro- duction in normal years are the in- dustry and ambition of the farmer and the prospective profitable mar- ket for the products of his labor. The Canadian farmer of to -day is not lacking in industry, the mar- kets, both immediate and prospec- tive for all the products of his en- ergy havenever been better, and to these may be added the call from the motherland for help such as can be given by your farmers and by none'better, if they will, in the way of plentiful supplies of food- stuffsof all: kinds for man and beast. Given the effective comb]. nation of ability to produce and profitable demand for the product, with the further inspiration of pa- triotic neceasity, •surely such a year of fuming i a m n,g ,activity may be antici- pated for 1915 in Canada as has never before been seen .and as will long live in our annals as the ban- ner year in Canadian agriculture. Canadian wheat, .coarse grains, meats, dairy, products and hay are certain to be greatly in demand by Great Britain and her allies during the period of this war and for in.any months thereafter.. These products of our farms are such that, for the most part, but little time is needed to permit of a material increase in the output, True, only a slightly larger '.acreage can be devoted to eaoh or any one of these crops than was contemplated or, planned for in. the fall of 1914. Fortunately, how- ever, or possiblly we should say un- fortunately, the return per acre and therefore the total return of cereals and hoed crops in the country, very largely depends upon cultural meth-' ods practised by the individual far- mer, as well as` upon the area sown thereto. Hence, with every farmer doing his grain seeding better than ever before, handling his hoed crop as it always should be, but ,seldom or never is, in the way of 4 i maintain- ing a nulela and keeping free frora weeds, such an increased return per G acre may be anticipated in this country as would astonish the far- mer himself and go far towards en- abling this country to meet the ex- traordinary demands the mother- land is sure to make upon us. In erop production, thorough work practically always pays and pays well. A close observer of the following points in connection with cereal and hoed crop production in 1915 would work wonders. Let us all try them. (1) Make every preparation possi- ble for seeding long before seeding time comes around. (a) Clean, test and bag your seed. (b) Get your horses, harness and implements in- to good shape. (e) Anything else that can be done before seed time to facilitate or expedite seeding should be most carefully performed, (2) Lose not a minute when seed time arrives. Get on to the land at the very first opportunity. Earlier seeding usually means bigger crops. (3) Perform every operation thor- oughly : Do the ploughing well. Disc and harrow the land until a perfect seed bed is prepared. Sow the seed carefully, with no misses from bad driving, no blanks from plugged drills, seed sown not too deep but deep enough, according to character and condition of soil. After seeding, roll i,f the soil is not too damp, then lightly harrow. (4) See that water furrows are run where needed. (5) Keep weeds in cheek. (6) In the case of hoed crops, even more thorough work, extending un- til August, will ensure success. (7) Do not economize in labor at seed time. A last stroke of the har- row after the seed bed seems perfect usually means extra bushels. To Summarize: Get ready for seeding now. Prepare land thoroughly for seed. Use. good seed. Sow seed early, Sow seed well. The result:—Muoh'large crops of a better product. Meadows eannot now be increased in area, nor can much be done to increase the quantityof hay in 1915. Not a few old meadows in the eastern provinces, however, might be broken up and sown to oats and peas after, thorough work- ing. The returns would surely be much better than if deft in hay. This is true whether the crop be harvested 'greenas hay or allowed to ripen for grain. In Ontario and Quebec, these old meadows sown to corn for forage would give the best returns of all. A little extrawork' before .seeding is worth a light dressing of manure. if : such is not available. Hay is likely to be dear ; grow other forage erops and be in a position tose sell a: few tons. Sell- ing hay is bad farm practice, but war knows no law. Forage erops and coarse feed in abundance anean cheap production of flesh and milk. Beef can thus be readily produced, mutton and pork made abundantly available and milk be put on the market at :a reason-_ able price with afair profit to the producer. By each and every one ofus doing ng the best that is in him and making, the very wisest use of ` every acre that is under his eontroI,, we, ;as Canadian farmers, may do much to'. help sour country, our, empire ancl the great cause of freedom.. The man who tells es of our faules is our' best friend," quoth the philo- sopher. "Yea, 'bee he 'won't be long," added the mere man. WAR TIME SACRIFICES. (low the President of the C.P.R. DIRECT( C 9A H • iEN 8w, NON4frE 5E11 • Pi t,* nE 86C*fl0- -44 ONAafOFSOARK9 STARCH itt4iregraglift0 READ THE LABEL, }'- F, OR THE PROTECTION OF' THE CON is SUMER THE •INGREDIENTS ARE c PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. IT s IS THE ONLY WELL --KNOWN MEDIUM- PRICED BAKING POWDER MADE IN, CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. N:vM MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM !S SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL- PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIC SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. MONITREAI. case, as will be seen from the fol- lowing statement recently issued by Colonel Hodgetts, commissioner for the Canadian Red Cross Society in England, who says:— "To re -assure the publie on the health of the contingent the total general illness since January 6 (the statement was issued on January 13) was 3,6 per cent, Only twenty cases of cerebro spinal meningitis since landing with fourteen deaths. Of general diseases there were 11 cases of pneumonia, 101 of influen- za four of diphtheria, two of mea- sles, two of scarlet fever, and one of typhoid." When it is considered that over 30,000 soldiers have been encamped at Salisbury Plain for the past four months, these eases of sickness are not exeessive by any means, espe- -' eially when it is to be remembered that the worst kind of weather has existed for a great part of the time. Otte of the finest country houses in England,' Cliveden'House,• which is situated on the banks of the Thames, has been handed over to the Red Cross Society by Major W. W. Astor, M.P., and structural al- terations are now being made in or- der that this palatini residence anay be used as a hospital which bears the name of the Duchess of Con- naught. Taplow Lodge, which stands in its owe grounds at the entrance to the mann drive, has been handed over by the tenants to Major Astor, and the officer-eom- mendin:g and his staff are now quar- tered there. Looks at It. The readiness of all to go deep in the pocket, so that Canada would ' d act worthily her part in helping the British Empire and her Allies in the present war, was expressed by Sre Thomas Shaughnessy to a news- paper representative, who spoke to him about the taxes imposed on railways, steamships, cables and telegrams. "me individual, the community, the nation, fully understand that in war time sacrifices have to be made," said Sir Thomas. "These they are willing to undertake, as they are necessary for the integrity -of the Empire. At the same time, they will accept the extraburdens with the better grace if they are well convinced that proper caution and economy are exercised in the disbursement of the extra taxes and the administration of affairs which accompany such disbursement. "One eannot gauge the amount of trouble involved in the process of realizing these special taxes by stamps or otherwise, but all are willing in .such a time as •the pre- sent, to do their full duty; to put up with any trouble ; and to endure sacrifices. They will the more readily consent to all this if they have the •satisfied feeling that all proper caution and economy have been employed by those ie authority in the administration of public af- fairs, and especially* of those ape- cial public affairs relating to our share in aiding the Mother Country. With such adequate caution and prudence, there would he nothing to regret afterwards. "It is the duty of all of us, indivi- duals and corporations, -to bear our share of the extra burdens, which must necessarily be imposed at this time of stress. If these are wisely and prudently disbursed, so as to obtain the best and most efficacious results, as respects the public ser- vice, there will be no occasion to eomplain ; and all these special bur- dens will be borne, I have no doubt, with cheerfulness by our people, 'Who are ready to do their utmost to aid in the defence of 'the empire," RED CROSS WORK. • Soldiers Appreciate the Articles Be- ing Sent to Them. There are two matters • of great importance in connection with the work• now being carried on by the Red Cross Society that should be brought before the 'notice of the public. During the past few weeks there have been statements inthe press that some of the comforts and ambulance supplies sent out by the society have fallen into the hands of the enemy and founds their way in- to the Red Gross department: of the German army. Needless to say, these reports, that no doubt eine- nated from German sources, are entirely false, and the central come ell of the. Canadian Red Cross So- ciety desires to make it known that all parcels and articles which have been forwarded by them to Eng- land, or by the National Committee of Women for Patriotic Service through the Society have been sent by British vessels from Quebec and Halifax, and that ne shipments have been made through American ports. Therefore, none of the ar°tides ship- ped have inany way fallen` into the hands of the enemy. Another: matter of . supreme, reme im- .ort nee is hehealth of, the.' mem- bers of the first _Canadian contin- gent on Salisbury Plain. State- ments have been published from tiinige to time, more esFecially:dur- ing the past two weeks, that a very large proportion of the Canadian troops were in 'hospital and that the percentage of those sick was very high. Fortunately this is not the. Owing to the feet that the boxes containing Christmas presents did not arrive from Canada in tizsle to be distributed on Christmas Day, a large assortment of pipes, tobacco and cigarettes were selected from the stores and handed out to the sick men under the personal super- vision of Captain Blake. Owing to the terrible state of the roads at Salisbury Plain the difficulties at- tending the work were great and arduous, but everyone worked with a will and saw that no sick soldier of the contingent lacked smoking materials. Lady Evelyn Farquhar has ex- tended her thanks to Colonel Hod- getts, commissioner of t'he Canadian Red Cross in England, who sent 400 mufflers to be distributed among the members of the Princess Patri- cia Canadian Light Infantry. This battalion has already received its first baptism of fire, and there is no doubt but that these comforts will be greatly appreciated by the men in the arduous duties that they are now called upon to undertake. The wave of patriotism which has swept both east and west has reach- ed Lacombe, Alberta, for the wo- men of !hat district are working heroically, preparing comforts for the men at the front and far those of our Canadian soldiers 'wlho will soon take their place in the battle line. Quantities of both goods and money are being forwarded through the Lacombe branch of the Red Cross Society, ,and the farmers of the district have subscribed suffi- cient money to purchase a car -load of flour, Which is now on the way to Montreal, consigned to. the Bel- gian consul in that'city. Miss Vivian Tremain, nursing sister, A.M.C., who with others is busy organizing hospitals at Salis- bury Plain, has recently 'written as follows :-"Please tell any of the dear 'people who send Red Cross things that they will never know what a blessing the things they have made •.are. Some of them have been issued to us, and everything is use- ful and just what is needed.. They cannot make too many handker.' chiefs, night shirts,•pyjamas, bands, etc;' We are taking` great care of them ; they are valuable, I can tell you." It is such a letter that reaches - through the •channels of the press to the 'distant parts: of the Dominion that ishow&: the people of Canada how greatly their generous gifts have been appreciated. Still more are wanted, and the Sooiety looks to the people of this country to con- tinue the good work. Among the things that are speeially needed at the present time are knee -caps, and information as to the making of these articles h e i r les can be obtained by applying to the headquarters of the Canadian Red Cross. Society,, 77 King Street east, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, TRENCH FORTRESSES.. How the Armies in Europe Are Conducting the War. One of the paradoxes of the pre- sent war is the fact that concrete and steel fortresses that it took forty years to build have been re- dueed in twelve days, whereas earth fortresses built in 'forty days have withstood fire for more than. sixteen weeks. In a message of Novemllber 22th, the official eyewit- ness with the British army thus de• seribed iutr•enehment fighting: "For some time the character of the artillery fire has been such as to force both combatants, even for some distance behind the firing . line, to burrow into the earth in order to .obtain shelter, This has been carried on to swell an extent that behind the front fire trenches of British, French, and Germans are labyrinths of burrows of vari- ous types. Where resort is had to siege methods, the earthworks on. both sides become still more eom- plioated, although there is .a defin- ite system underlying their appa- rent confusion. It is permissible to describe how the enemy is carrying on the 'close attack at some points. From the last position attained:they sap forward. The approaches are excavated by pioneers workingat the head, the German pioneers be- ing technically trained troops that correspond to our sappers. Owing to the elose range at which ;the fight- ing is conducted, and the fact that rifles fixed in rests and machine guns .are kept permanently directed upon the crest of the trenches, ob- servation is .somewhat difficult; but the `head' or end,of the approach- ing sap can be detected by the mound o'f earth that is thrown up. This cannot be done, however, when the advance is !being conducted by a 'blinded' sage. Ire executing this type of -sap a -horizontal borehole,' about a foot' in diameter and some three or four feet below ground, is bored by means of aspecial earth borer worked by hand. - It is then enlarged. bypick and shovelinto a small tunnel, whose 'roof is onew ee ,. two. ,feet (below the surface. ,Several of these saps have been driven for- ward, their heads are connected by a lateral trench, which becomes the front line, and can be used for stormers to >colleet for an assault: In some cases, usually at night, a sap is driven right up to the (para- pet of the hostile trench,; which is then blown in by a charge..Amidst the confusion caused, and a shower of grenades,the stormiers attempt to burst in through the opening work along the trench." That is`. how European armies are (besieged: All the world loves a lover. The world loves to be amused Circumstances alter cases, espe cially. financial oirouteasgtanoes. CATARRH NEVER V R STFOPS I • SAME PLACE: REA r. 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The . uttermost parts of the bronchial tubes are reached. Bron- chitis is cured—every sell in the head- throat and by Catarrh nose is treated Catarrh - ozone's wonderful fumes. You can't, beat Catarrhozone for huskiness, weak throat, sore nostrils, catarrhal and bronchial' trouble of any kind. ` Get the complete1.00 outfit. tut. Smaller size 50c. Trial size 25c. a dt erywhere, . i