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The Exeter Advocate, 1924-10-23, Page 6.i l�~4i'i e Address communications to Agronomist, 7s Adetaitie St. STORING ROOTS FOR WINTER. The crops grown specially for home consumption during winter and spring, will now be sufficiently matured to re- quire immediate attention. The hardy roots such as parsnips, salsify, ifY, ruta- bagas, turnips and carrots are best. left in the ground as long as the weather continues mild.. Beets are best harvested when only of medium size. Root crops already harvested, such as potatoes and onions, require some care at this time. We go over the po- tatoes thoroughly when the crop is Iifted. The very small and the bruised tubers are not stored, of course. The perfect tubers are taken under cover and stored in boxes holding from one to two bushels each. Potatoes must be kept in the dark. The few bushels of potatoes neces sary for the winter and early spring supply of the average fancily are best stored in a cool but frost -proof cellar, excluding all light. If perfectly dry when put away they will keep in good condition for several months. Stored in boxes placed upon the earthen floor of our cellar they never fail to retain their solidity and quality to the end. Anions which were harvested a few weeks ago we treat differently, as the slight dampness of the cellar, which just suits other vegetables, quickly; onuses the onions to grow. They are therefore stored in the spare room of the attic which is un- heated, and they rarely give any trouble until well into spring, the at- mosphere of their winter quarters then becoming sufficiently warm to encourage growth. Previous to finally putting them away they are well dried wider cover but where they are ex- posed to the air. In the course of two or three weeks, they are sufficiently, hardened and dry to pack in baskets' or crates and taken to the storage room. Although frozen at times they do not appear to be harmed. In lifting beets we are careful not' to bruise or cut the skin of the roots, as this leads to bleeding and 'loss of quality. To keep beets in perfect condition for any length of time they must be packed so that air is excluded; other - You Can Gather Eggs for Christmas. If your hens loaf during December and January, they idle away one-sixth of their year—two months when eggs are high in price, too. They' do not need to loaf, and will not if managed skillfully. West. T oronte A happy and healthy hen is produc- tive. So r ifo a y u can keep your hens comfortable and properly • fed—that's what makes then' happy -you can count on getting some eggs to sell. A hen may know nothing about Santa Claus, but she will respond to the Chri tma s s spirit, In December and January you and I have our furnaces and base -burners wise they will become soft and worth- less as 'food. They are best stored in an outshed or cool cellar packed in dry soil or fine weathered ashes. A thin layer of sand or soil is first spread on the floor or in a box, al layerer of roots, then a covering of soil, and so on until all the roots are packed away. Carrots are eared for in the same manner. Where parsnips can stay in the ground to be lifted as required the flesh remains tender, juicy and sweet. Frost does not harm them, but except in comparatively mild localities, the crop should be lifted previous to the ground freezing, storing part of them it: an outehr d in the same manneras we handled the beets. Parsley is in demand the year round and during the winter months it is often difficult to procure. We over- come that difficulty by lifting and pot- ting a few plants which are placed in a sunny kitchen window where they grow and thrive famously. i We lift the plants with as much soil adhering to the roots as possible, this being facilitated by thoroughly soak-' ing the ground beforehand, After lift-± ing, potting and watering, the plants are left in a partially shaded spot in the open for a few days. ere bringing them indoors. Cabbages are usually wintered in a pit, though T find they keep nicely, 1 packed in a barrel in the outshed. In pitting cabbage, a heavy layer of straw is spread on the'ground and the cabbage, which for this method of storing are pulled with stem and roots, adhering, are placed in rows. Suppose the first layer consists of three rows of cabbage, the next layer will be in two rows, and the last layer one row, thus bringing the heap to a peak. Pack them compactly together:, stem and roots upwards, and cover all with dry straw six to nine inches thick. A trench is then , taken out around the pit using the soil as a cover to the straw.. When storing the cabbage in a bar- 1 rel the head is removed from the stem. The barrel is heavily lined with paper finish by covering it with a few 'old sacks. • • January the hen eaniiht range for them under snow and" ice. Also, you can help her store up a supply of the elements in her body so she will be ready for the spring rush. About ane per cent, of sulphur flour in the mash is essential, and so is salt.. Either bone or rock phosphate'wi11 do, and if you have one . the other le unnecessary, Lights aren't necessary, but they are certainly effective. Two or three hours of extra daylight, either morn- ing or evening, will showup in the egg basket in •a week or ten days very noticeably. If you have no electricty,'• a good gasoline or even acoal-oil lan- tern a -tern or two will do. Your flock will come through the winter better too for not having to sit on the roosts through these long, hungry nights. Your hens ought to lay in December. The early pullets should be well over their late fall molt. The late pullets, of which most farms have too many, should be well matured. The older hens have had time enough to be well rested up. So with plenty of mineral, proper animal feed, a comfortable home, and lights, if you can furnish them, your hens are not doing their duty . if they do not lay December eggs. You'll find it worth trying to "egg them along." Hallow Eve. As I was walking homeward in The middle of the street I saw a figure stiff and tall Draped in a winding sheet. Nine cats were sitting on a fence And all of them ..were black; A witch upon a broomstick rode Across the moon and back. going to keep us comfortable. A hen doesn't ask for any, artificial heat, but she does hate drafts and wind. About all you need to do to make old biddy comfortable is to furnish her a. place to live where' wind and drafts do not bother her, give her a dry floor with plenty of litter, and you have attended to her ccm�'ort, Proper feed is very simple and very, important. The elements the hen has trouble to get in winter are animal protein and mineral matter. Animal food'from meat scrap, green cut bone ,• fish scrap, or milk must besupplied in addition to the grain ration. The meat or fish scrap can be fed at the rate of from 10 to 12 per cent. by weight in the mash. Less need be fed if you have skim milk, sour milk, or butterrnilk, which the hen may drink or eat in wet mash. A good commercial mineral com- pound from your dealer, fed at the rate of two or three per cent, in your mash, will do very well. Most of the mineral rations for hogs will do for poultry, Oyster shell, shell flour, ground bone, granulated bone, ground phosphate• rock, sulphur, and table salt are com-I mon and important mineral elements; and easy to get, if you do not use a' commercial mixture. Oyster shell you will want to keep before the hens' all the time, regardless of what else you feed. It is important to feed mineral the year around, but in December and I found the house door swinging wide, The candles flickered blue, The clock at midnight wrung its hands, The mirror cracked in two. A shadow that was not my own Arose and touched my sleeve And went before me up the stair— For that was Hallow Eve. —Mina Irving. 'Tis the well-fed, not the starved, live stock that brings the income, Hume Education "'The' Chlld'a First School ie the Family i._ rro.bp1 " A Man's Ideas. on Disdzphne—By Russell• Coryell. again the hand doesn't hurt a child very turn to his post under her feet. Mother . very, will thenpick'm more of le ha o much. I mean to say that it isn'tv y, up s' painful from a physical standpoint--' violently and carry him into another, and it is so simple to administer, and room, scold him with raised voice and such a relief to a nervous parent to return to the kitchen. Johnny will be able to expend his overwrought shortly return under her feet again. feelings an the naughty child. A smart spanking with the flat of will patiently get them and roe' if the little chaps didn't have this • But what a pity it is that often the courageous persistence, theywould spanking does the child no good!' If soon have all personality squeezed out only onet them. could have the satisfaction faciioi aft of relieving his feelings and at the However, Mother mustet dinner. sante time benefiting the child, But Suppose she puts Johnny:into other jalas, it seldom helps the child from room and shuts the door. bite has a moral standpoint, but instead usual-' a right to protect herself, and then ly does him harm. It is an object she can work. Johnny,,however, will lesson in violence and vindictiveness.' probably shriek. He has found that A child soon learns to beat his com to be the most effective way of get• panions when he is angry. j ting what he wants. Until he tvas But if we were to abandon this good able to talk, crying was his only means, old custom of whipping, what then, of expression. could we do with naughty children?! At this point there enters into the The answer is rather difficult. In equation. Mother's frazzled nerves. the first place, what constitutes naugh. She simply can't stand his yelling, so. tineas? Is it doing something that Is she opens the door again and slaps bad for the .child? Or is it doing him. somethingcontrary to custom Or "What else can l� do?" she asks is it simplycdoing something that an-' perately. The fact that she knows no- noys the parent? (thing better to do is hardly a reason Let's be honest for once and admit for doing something wrong, that we want to punish children al -1 Suppose, instead, that Mother steps most always because they have an-' work just long enough to explain to noyed ea, pestered us, made us nervi' Johnny that her work niust be accom-! ous, pushed, and that it cannot be accom- Take the first case: Suppose the plished with him under her feet, and child is doing something dangerous that therefore he must choose between or likely to harm him. if it really is playing in et corner of the kitchen dangerous it ought not to be very hard where he won't disturb Mother, or she to demonstrate this fact to the child. will have to put him in the other room In case the child cannot be shown the and shut the door. danger then the only thing to do is to Sonne children will recognize the remove the danger, remove the child, logic of such a situation at once; mos or keep a watchful eye on him. If you children will, if they have been raised are honest with yourself you must ad- from the very beginning with reason mit the inadequacy of whipping, It and logic. Johnny, however, has not simply doesn't register, been so raised, and tan to ane will not Take the second case: Suppose the be reasonable. Mother will have to child is doing something contrary to put him in the other room. She will custom, etiquette or some other of aur have to be firm with herself. She civilized taboos. Suppose, for example, will have to steel herself against his th t h lik to la i the coal bin wails—angry furious wails pleading, - ..-- ___ and get dirty, or that he prefers to heartbroken wails, and wails in all _..._ __._.___—._.__� ? - - -_" _• eat his food with his hands instead of keys. She may have to repeat the Good Things for the Hallows en Party • his fork or his spoon. - Well, these experience more than once. It may things in themselves are not wicked cost her considerable effort and (*our- • or wrong. The first makes extra work age, but in the end Johnny will see teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, one-half for Mother and the second is shock- the logic of it, and then Mother's life teaspoonful of cloves, one cupful of ing to finicky old maids, but there is will be a hundredfold easier --and so seedless raisins, and one-half cupful of nothing wicked about them, is there? will Johnny's. walnuts, chopped. Cream butter well, Nothing wicked until Mother has com- Raisin chocolates are made with one cupful of seeded raisins, one cupful, of dates (pitted), one teaspoonful of grated orange rind, one-quarter tea -1 spoonful of cinnamon, one-half pound of dipping chocolate, and one-half tea- spoonful of vanilla. Put raisins and dates through food -chopper. Add orange rind, cinnamon and vanilla. add sugar, sift remaining dry ingredi- nianded the child never to do it again Egg and Meat Values of Hens. ents together. Add well -beaten eggs promptly does it. to butter and sugar; mix well, add dry child has then committed the sin of An item of much importance (rota ingee len s, raisins an nu s. i , ams; a as been iso a dent. won't then roll out and cut in any desired, attempt. to justify a child in being dis- cid�n� t d' t d t Chill h h d' b d I a busiuesn point of view and oi` • at should be considera 1 carefully 're e - Cocoa to drink of course should be Mix well and form into bails. Melt shape. Bake in a moderate oven. I obedient in such a ease. I could never �+ vat proportion of pullets and outside the pot of gold. chocolate in double boiler. Dip the! "Smiles" are cookies especially' convince you. Let us rather assume THE CHILD R EN'S Pop plenty of corn—make fairly; balls into chocolate one at a time,' adapted for picnics or Hallowe'en. Use that disobedience is to be avoided. 1 HOUR soft molasses candy and pour it over using a wire chocolate dipper or a any good cookie recipe and make them' suggest, then, that if a mother doesn't the corn boiling hot. Stir thoroughly hatpin. Place on waxed paper to cool fairly large, and of two kinds—lemon' want her child to disobey she would or to be sure all is coated. Cracker Jack and harden, I or vanilla flavored ones, and ginger- be wise not to issue any arbitrary A HALLOWE'EN PARTY. is always popular so you'll need a lot. Banana and peanut salad is easily, snaps or chocolate flavored ones, so commands. Don't tell Johnny never a value aspotential After supper give each a few as to have light and dark ones. Use •again to go into the coal bin on pain egg produeers- Cut invitations in pumpkin shape squares of orange paper and scissors. prepared. Peel bananas, skies length- , If they have every indication of bc- from orange paper. On this paste Offer prizes (pumpkin faces filled with' wise and roll in chapped"peanuts. Ar- white icing on the dark cookies and .of punishment, Thais the easiest way ing high -record hens this value will Hallowe'en (for the funniest' range slices on lettuce leaves indi-' chocolate icing on the light cookies. out of it. You might explain that you be considerably above the meat value. black cats or witches and write the candy) vidual plates and serve with boiled Make icing rather stiff, and with it hope he won't go in again, and then As hensgrow older this egg-Iaying following verse: pumpkin face cut out—the pleasantest'make little faces on the •flat round suggest something more interesting gg- dying , "At salad dressingto which has been add-, —the Grossest—etc.cakes, a circle with a riot for eyes, two to do. my house you'll find a host ! As romantic Hallowe'en fortunes ed finely ground peanuts. I dots for noseand a line for mouth—' Now we come to the third case: Of different creatures—witch and are inappropriate for children, try Savory sandwich filling is made on the order 'of Jack o' Lanterns. A' Suppose the child is making a nuis- yearlings to carry through the winter, is depreciation in s she value. Hens have a meat value which, under a given price situation., will vary chiefly with their weight and condition. These same hens also have gnose—' 1 these. Arrange a parade to "the: `n'ith one cupful of cheese put through little practice will give ludicrous and ance'of himself, "driving Mother dis- What will you dress up to be? � witch's cauldron" which should be in f a meat -chopper, three-quarters of a ( tracted." This is, indeed, a difficult be kept in the flock: only at a loss. (tome to my house, so I'll see. cu ful of finel cho ed nuts one :varied results. The decrease in e a hidden nook. Express delight that P y pp Chocolate cookies—One cupful of case to handle for the reason that we egg -laying value i P.S.—Wear anything funny—my her absence enables you to have your, sweet pepper or pimento, finely chop- brown sugar, one-half cupful of melt- must now make Mother be reasonable what is 'Ordinarily meant by the term party Is October 91st, 5 until 8. ( fortunes, and each take a paper slip Bed. Moisten with mayonnaise or ed, butter, one-half cupful of milk,' —and of course a grown-up is much depreciation, although sometimes it is i from the, kettle. Disappointment will! thick boiled dressing and put between one egg, one and one-half cupfuls of more difficult to reason with than a taken to include losses by death. Black cats or witches can also be follow as they are apparently blank,; lightly buttered slices of graham or flour, one-half teasponful of soda, two child. If pullets are worth two dollars pasted on envelope. 1 but on your proposing to destroy them,I White bread. squares of chocolate (melted), one Mother has a right to her peace and each as egg producers and can be sold Cut witches and cats from dark holding one near a flame, the fortune Hard-boiled eggs mixed with equal cupful of chopped nuts. Mix ingredi- comfort. But so has Johnny, Then . at the end of their first year for but paper and pumpkin faces from orange,1 (which you have previously written in parts of chopped ham or tongue and ents in the order given, roll out and they must both learn to compromise $1,50 each, the depreciation has been fifty cents a head, or 25 per cent. and use them together with autunni lemon juice) will stand out dark. You! finely chopped pickle and the whole cut as desired. land be reasonable. leaves and corn stalks, and festoons ;can think of endless prophecies—you I moistened with mayonnaise or Russian Molasses pop -corn balls—Mix ono Let us suppose that Mather is work- If at the end of the second year of of orange paper strips, for decors will be very wealthy—look in the sic- dressing, will make delightful sand-, cupful of molasses and one cupful of ing in the kitchen, If Johnny is very laying they are worth only one dollar, tior.a, tionary for it. You will travel far—I wishes. Equal parts of hard-boiled brown sugar with half a cupful of fond of her and has been taught never the depreciation will have amounted to Children delight in dressing up, so find your destination inside the cellar, egg and celery cut in pieces will also water. Boil until a little dropped in to stray far away, it is altogether another 331-3 per cent. of the value clanks coma in costume—funng come door, etc. The "answers," cut from ! be worthy .af a trial, Hard-boiled eggs, cold water forms a hard mass. Add probable that Johnny will gravitate to at the beginning of the year. if used alone,should be well seasoned On this basis a pullet would have to binations of old clothes may be topped magazines or ads and pasted on cards, itwo tablespoonfuls of butter and boil the kitchen also. He will begin to with a five -cent or even a hone -made may be appropriate or inappropriate, and moistened with butter, until a bit dropped in cold water be- play cars there. More than that, he lay only enough more eggs than a mask, A little ingenuity will contrive as you wish. For instance—the card Hermits require one-third cupful of comes brittle. Add half a teaspoon- will want to play cars just where it yearling to pay the interest charge answering wealth might picture se butter, two eggs, one cupful of brown ful of bicarbonate of soda mix then is most inconvenient for Mother• right on a fifty -cent higher ixivestment, in delightful ones. g g p p order to be a better buy than a e puppy -dog the travel be Fairyland— Cover bg pour over freshly popped corn 'and under her feet. Mother will probably lin at the figures y 3 a y mix thoroughly. Dip the hands in tell him with more emphasis than' g g given. Most an very cold water, shape the pop -corn reasonableness to get out from under pullet would be likely to do this. into balls, then roll the balls in fresh her feet. She niay give his cars an ' three the other hand, if pullets cost " pop -corn. I .neonsiderate kick to one side. Johnny dollars each and yearlings' one dollar and fifty cents with the meat value still at one dollar, the eggs laid, by the pullet would have to be worth at least a dollar more •than those laid by a yearling in order to make pullets as good. an investment as yearlings. This is because. pullets would be de- preciating one dollar and fifty cents ' each as compared with•fifty cents each for the. yearling hens. It is always wise to do a little :cal- • eulating of this sort before deciding just how many pullets and hens to buy or sell. Color of Egg Yolk Affected by Feed. That the color of the yolk in eggs 'varies considerably with the .kind of feeds that may be given to the hen has been known in a general way for some time, Recent eeperenents have '4- demonstrated that feeds lacking in color, as white corn, produce' when fed to laying hers yolks that. lack color. Feeds that possess color. such as yel- low corn, wheat, green grass and vel - low carrots have been found to,pro duce an egg with, considerably more colarein the yolk than the feeds that lack, color. An egg with a yolk of good. color is more inviting:to the consumer of fresh eggs than one lacking color. Anything that will help the sale of value decreases and approaches the meat value. The value of some hens as egg producers may be even less than their meat value. Such hens can Cover a bowl with orange paper, or ' scoop out half a pumpkin. F111 with peanuts and place on table. Seat the guests and give each a few peanuts and pins—have also fuzzy feathers (for cats' tails), scraps of black paper or cloth—glue, pen and ink. Allow Africa—or the grocery store. On Hallowe'en. On Hallowe'en, when colors swim Beneath October's moon, while grim Ascetics troop with cavaliers fifteen minutes to make witch or cat— In' mummery that shifts and sheers, using pins far arms and legs, and In city blaze and hamlets dim. inking features. A tiny witch should be the prize for the cleverest. A barrel hoop covered with orange paper on which nose and goggle eyes Falstaffs carouse with maidens slim, While Puritans walk stiff and prim, And gayety dispels our tears— are painted, but grinning mouth is On Hallowe'en. cut out, should be suspended by two Within, the feasting tideways brim: strings in a doorway. Two at a time Maids peer and pray that: mirrors let the children try to toss peanuts limn luta the mouth offering a small prize A lover's face, 'mid doubts and fears. for the one missing fewest tunes. The hours fly and distant cheers Draw a witch cat on a large sheet Faint far across the night's low rite -- of paper. Tack to wall, and give each On Ha dowe'en child a tail—a strip of paper with pin ; throngh end. Then one at a time lead Thomas J. Murray. them away, blindfold and lead back occasionally turning round to confuse, lethcxds of CookingLan-ib and Iet them try to pin tail in right and Mutton. . place. This is always fun. A pamphlet on the selection and Now you should notice the rainbow cooking of lamb cuts, issued . by the —strips of colored paper or ribbons Dominion Dept. of Agriculture, will tend to make lamb -snore popular and add variety to the bill of fare in the average household. The points to be considered in buying lamb are set forth, the various cuts are illustrated and recipes for cooking are given in detail. Readers who desire to secure a, copy should drop a card to the Pub- I lications Branch, Dept. of Agriculture,' Ottawa, asking for Pamphlet No. 8, New Series, fastened to floor of party room, over wall and into dining -room, where it is hidden by a screen or partly -closed door. Propose a hunt for the pot of gold at :other end. This should be ori fbe dining able and may be made of orange paper, inside of which are -the refreshments the hostess lifts out and passes round. A variety,. if possible, of,et bstantial es►ndwiohes--beel, chicken, hatra and peanut butter. The meat au, � and five atter cooking and thlcka ed se Gingerbread a not z'tba tuts torr r rt little with flra aS � a ti ai 1'9'8 r ch frost., i -is a'li t ra # itn+! , scala % -blit t iaii�ired a su tr to th iso b r ,� ia� �acpn b •ice "tlplos.. "Aet� ."Ob.9a^bllat!m �9kles. f 'ir�o1� � '�� sugar, two and one-half cupfuls of flour, one-half teasponful of salt, one- quarter teaspoonful of soda, one tea- spoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoon- ful of baking -powder, one-quarter •00, A2i1=11111111EXIMIll BUILDING THE'- WORLD'S LARGEST PILE DRIVER Thus "Tartan," the 1000 ton scow recently built and launched in Vancouver. Constructed by the Wallace $h arae 'Vancouver "Tartan Will carry the largest. floating pile driver•in the. world, to be used, by tho Sydney E. �p>r, l Jural ln3 Company, B.C., Minitel, far• the handling :of the huge 3Q• too- concrete piles which vr1,11 go into the ••.coo-• e+tritetiou o- the Canail7an,-a.,iflc iiaiiwa'y's 16W:deep sea pica now•in oours4.,a!L arectfou at ViSaCouver. ;.• fir` a $11Mr-'ACIii'Ot'" , thio farm product should receive .con-! sideration or the part of the producer., �r•Theconcrete floor is - at pro o, • s a ni1 taryand.pem�anen '. It o eray•,con etxucted its, lo.sr sti-'fNr'