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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-10-30, Page 3Address comtmnicatIntis to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. PASTEURIZING MILK AT HOME. GOOD CONDITION NECESSARY Milk is one of the very best mad- FOR, PRODUCTION• iums for bacteria to grow in that can A hen will not lay if not in good be found, If milk. becomes infected, condition. She should be healthy, Free BS it nearly always (lees either from any disease, and show plenty of through the utensils, dust, or other vigor and activity, The first, pullet to means, the microbes will reproduce lay in the fall is the early maturing very rapidly, when the conditions are one. The hen which is a slow grower, right. Moreover, if the milk is infec- is slow in feathering .out, is also'a ed with dangerous germs, such as ty- slow layer, The moult is important. phoid fever; sickness may result: In As soon as a hen goes into a moult the case of small children in :par- she uses her. reed to manufacture fea- ticuiar,_ milk which has a high per- thers,andher eggproduction falls centage of bacteria may be unhealthy, generally to a minimum or nothing. It even i£ the Bacteria are not disease is easily,. noticed that some hens go producing. into a moult much. earlier than others. Pasteurization is a goodmethod foe If a hen starts to moult in July ,her 'combating this evil This can be done Paying for the summer is about over. at home, as well as in a milk plant. So we say that late moulting and The method described below is easy heavy egg production go together, be and cheap. Especially where the milk cause it gives the heat a longer sum - is fed to babies, it will be worth while mer period and still she is back in to pasteurize it at home if raw milk form in time for winter production, so is all that can be secured . says Prof. W. R. Graham, O. A. C. If inconvenient to have the milk in If a hen is laying heavily the plum - bottles, fruit jars couldbe used. Have age will become dry, hard and brittle. a pail in which these bottles may be The lustre will disappear and the fea- set. Provide something to ]fold the there become broken. The hen cer.- bottles up from the bottom of the pail. thinly loses much of her natural An old pie tin punched full of holes beauty, but she cannot retain that and placed, inverted, in the bottom of bright, lustre and also keep up heavy the pail will answer the purpose very production. Watch for the old lady well. This will keep the bottles from with the full array of feathers all in being broken by bumping on the bot- good form and. see if she is not one tom of the pail and will let the waiter of the boarders in your flock. under the bottles. Place the capped The question is often asked, "Can bottles in this pail and fill up with. water nearly to the level of the milk. Punch a hole through one of the caps and insert a thermometer. Now place the pail and all on the stove and heat lip to 150 degrees F. As soon as this temperature is reached, remove the bottles from the water. Let the milk stand twenty or thirty minutes so that it will cool slowly (replacing the cap on the one which contained the thermometer) . ' When the bottles have cooled enough so that there is no danger of breaking, place them on ice, if it is available.. Cold water is the next best thing. Iieep cold, and tightly closed In the same container until ready to use. In addition to keeping the mills more safe, this process will lengthen the time before souring occurs. The flavor or nutritive value of the milk will not be injured at all. POULTRY Pullets hatched in April or early May are now six months old' or better. If they are of the light Mediterran- ean breeds, such as Leghorns or An- cones, they will in all probability be laying quite heavily onthe range Mrs. T umeat e, u. taanotam, is Lite .V,.,/ n,,u...0 u.:.u.u..e.LO for legisla- tive territory of Hawaii. She a 69 years old and a vendor on five honors in Y _ one of the busy streets of Honolulu, THE THANKSGIVING MENU `�Itl1J�° Recipes From Old-Timey Canadian House Wives. BY A.NNETTE C. DIMOCIi. First preparations for Thanksgiv- cream to make that nice brown skin F ing began. a fortnight ago when Aunt on top. Piave a brisk oven at first to Min, black-eyed, rosy-cheeked, had prevent the crust from soaking, then what she calls Pie Day. On this d'ay, reduce the heat and bake very slowly she made thirty pies to be frozen and until a silver knife thrust in comes you tell whether or not a hen is lay so, according to some cooks, improve', out clean, ing?" This is very easy, and requires their flavor. A happy youngster sat MIN'S moivramo MrxoEmnam. but a few observations. When a hen on either side of her trying to copy commences laying the conditions set her deft motions and unconsciously Five c. cooked chopped green to - veryin the reproductive organs axe absorbing some of her 'old-fashioned. matoee, 5' c, chopped apples, 5 c. sugar very similar to conditions in any preg- joy in work: ( (Min uses maple), 1 c: fat salt pork nant animal, Preparation is made for "Butcherin'" came right after the (chopped), 1 ib, raisins (seeded or laying, much as for parturition in a first freeze, so the pork loin is ready seedless), % lb. currants, 2 tsp. cow. to bake as well as the turkey, goose ground cloves, 2 tsp, ground alspice, 4 When the ovary is dormant and no or chicken, dressed days ago._1 tsp. eggs are being produced the distance Hens, canned at culling time; are cider.ground cinnamon, % c. boiled between the pelvic bones is very small, ready to be turned into chicken pies. IChop the green tomatoes fine, put The vent is dry, small, puckered, and Dressing for the salad is always on I them over the fire without any water in yellow fleshed chickens has a decid- hand just waiting for cream to be and cook until tender. Measure. Add ed band of yellow pigment around the added. 1 all of the remaining ingredients ex - inside: When laying commences the Sweet pickles and jelly were made sept the cider and cook until the ap- pelvic bones become pliable and in September. Cranberry jelly may ples are tender but still hold their spread apart, The distance may in- be made ahead, so after all there is, shape. Cool. Add boiled cider and put into jars. Some Education +'Thi Child's Fleet Behool. le the Fstpily"--Froobel.'s Romancing --By Florence J. wens. "I saw a great black cat chasing'a dom .from material limitations. 'kite mouse: The mouse was as big as environment pictured in the story be- Fido 'nd the cat was as big, as an comes very real. The narrative seeing auto, 'nd'she had great big eyes just like an experience and like an exper- like the lights on the auto 'nd—" ience is lived over again and again: "Harry!" exclaimed his mother in Is it strange if the story sometimes a shocked reproving tone as she came varies, the hero er heroine changes out on the porch where her boy -was and this daydream is woven into`the entertaining two smaller children, autobiography that the child likes so "What' are you saying?.' Come here well to, tell? ' to me. Why will you tell what isn't The situation calls for imagination true? Haven't I told you how wicked on the part of the one who is to deal it fa? What shall I do with your, with it. A little sympathetic under - "When T was at Aunt Edith's," standing will admit one to the child's Bertha was saying to her little play- confidence. It is necessary to be there mate,' "I saw a doll that could walk in order to be of service. That it and talk and eat just like anybody. really is difficult for some children :left a box of custlito distinguish between what they im- S d all un the table agine and that which actually occurs, near her and she ate p." is well substantiated. Fortunately Bertha's mother, standing at the there are men and women who have window, heard her and was troubled, not forgotten the days when "Jack but when the child came in answer and the Bean Stalls" was real to them. to her call she only said, "Please go Some can even remember holy they upstairs and get Mother's knitting." themselves, in imagination, quite out - Many a mother has been puzzled re did Jack's 'exploits. garding the attitude she ought to Little by little this vagueness of take when the little son or daughter distinction between what is really insists on telling original stories for done and what is merely thought of facts. No one can solve this problem disappears, and the former stands out for her. No one can outline a definite course and be sure that it will prove to be the best always; individual cases differ so greatly. Nevertheless, perplexities of this sort are often much simplified by considering the underlying causes. The little child has had compara- tively few experiences, and for this reason each one is very vivid in his consciousness. He lives them over and over. This is not the result of any effort on his part, the mind acts spontaneously. Stories are enjoyed because they minister to this mental activity, and, to the younger children, most satisfying of all are those in which there is an atmosphere of free - crease from one to three fingers in a not so much to do at the last minute. short time. The vent becomes large Oystex Soup, Pickles, Crackers, and moist and after two or three eggs Roast Chicken, Turkey, Duck or Goose, have been laid the ring of yellow -pig- ment has disappeared and, the vent is bleached. or oil meal in the proper proportion to balance them. One pound of tank- age, two pounds of oil meal or fifty pounds of skim -milk should be added to ton pounds of these grains. A good, ration for a;sow consists of corn and oats of about equal parts, BELLE'S CABBAGE SALAD. One c. sugar, 2 tbsp. mustard, 3Z Roast Loin of Perls, Chicken Pie, ter. salt, 2 eggs, IA c. strong vinegar, Cranberry Jelly, Jelly or Conserve, el c, butter, dash of cayenne, 1 c 'sashed Potatoes, Buttered Onions, cream to whip, about 1% quarts fine. Mashed Turnip Squash, Cabbage ly chopped raw cabbage. Wed, Mince, Pumpkin and Apple Pie,I Mix sugar and mustard, add beaten Rice Pudding, Cheese, Apples, Nuts, eggs, salt, cayenne and vinegar. Cook; potatoes—mrir-mmmle his corn scorched—and they could Raisins, Coffee. l over hot water, stirring until it thick- l "Just the thing!' And Daddy Tar- give him all of the first lot. From this glorious abundance it is, ens, adding the butter as the mixture foot slapped his knee jovially. "Let's And he ate every bit of it—and easy to subtract enough for a simpler heats. Cool. This foundation will see—to-night's moonlight—and the became so ill that they had to call festive meal, reducing. the menu of our l keep for months in a cool place. As ,rm co's in the milk—we'll fly around Doctor Pedley. So he had his lesson, foremothers to something like this. I desired, add 2,4 c. of the foundation' and get every one here to help—half Mrs. Zip Coon did up Daddy Tar - with clean-cut outline. At this tints a reaction may take place against the fairy story. This is to be regretted, especially if it be the outcome of a feeling, on the child's part, that be has been deceived. The plea for a true story is quite often the outcry of disillusionment, The child should be protected from such experiences. T4 told from the beginning that the fairy story is a make-believe it will lose no- thing of its flrst °harm, and his pleas- ure leas ure in it will be, prolonged. And what is even better, this method will help him to classify his own stories. If the parent uses tact the child will quite enjoy applying the term "make- believe to his romancing. L THE CHILDREN'S HOUR n thankful to sit down to a meal that I didn't cook myself!" Sol Simon Silvertail kindled the fire—bright and clear;, and Daddy Tarfoot put his ears to roast; and Henry Hopover kindled another fire and Daddy Longears put the potatoea to bake. Weill Everything was going beau- tifully when Uncle Strapleaf Turnip came up with a great armful of dried moss and without so much as saying "by your leave" flung it full on Daddy Tarfoot's fire. Up shot the blaze; and the ladies screamed; and the corn scorched; and poor Daddy Tarfoot burned his arms dreadfully. But Uncle Turnip laugh- ed sort ofnervously and said he liked 7 DADDY TARFOOT'S CORN ROAST. Daddy Tarfoot had the very finest patch of coin in the whole neighbor- hood—and he was mighty proud of it, too. It was Yellow Bantam and sweat DS ewer. Daddy Longears said he could actually see It growing, and one day— well along in September—he told Daddy Tarfoot that he ought to give a party—"roasting ears and baked ll A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE Farming is unique, among life's ac tivities. It is a sort a three -in -one' affair; whereas other life works are usually one -in -one, propesitions. A doctor is a''doetor; his home life l3 elsewhere; his social activities are still in another place: An auto me- chanic puts in eight hours at the shop' probably eight in bed and eight in amusement-and,eocial activities;, But, the farmer spends twenty -few -hours, sometimes It seems like twenty-five,; on the farm. The farm is his bust. ncss, his factory, his investment, his home and the scene of most of his social activities, Farming is a whole life, because itinvolves all of life's activities. As a busness, farming is the back. bone, of the country's prosperity. Aird - furthermore, the individual farm is not a small affair when compared with other businesses. The average show that each farm represents an Investment when compared with`a lot' of "shoe string" ventures in other lines of business. The farms, includ- ing equipment and stock, comprise mar greatest national asset. So, as the economic side of farming involves business " fundamentals, it seems that it should be managed like a business man would conduct it. That means cutting wastes and leaks by SOW testing, chicken culling; proper feeding of both live stock and soil, us- ing good 'seed and doing the other things which every farmer knows con- stitutes good farming. In other words, good farming is; good business. i when the are with fifty pounds of wheat middlings, Soup, Roast Turkey oi. Chicken,; to the whipped cream and mix with: the for in a party is getting ready y put in their laying made into a thin slop with skim -milk Cranberry Sauce, Haifa !, Potatoes, the cabbage. Adding a little chopped for it." quarters. If they are of the heavier and kitchen wastes.' What she will Any preferred vegetable, Salad, Des- sen or red sweat pepper, pimento American breads, they will be just serf ie or pudding), Beverage.. I p pp ' No sooner said than done! Daddy clean up in twenty minutes is enough (P p g)' or parsley to this gives a nice dash Longears Ikppety-lipped over to the starting to lay their first eggs as a to feed. In addition, she should have Grape fruit may be substituted fox; of color. Cottontail's and told Pa Cottontail to 9 k the soup, or may precede it. Oyster stew may give place to a clear soup or tomato soup. Celery and olives would give crisp- ness, color and interest. Many people prefer ice cream and oc . plenty of fresh pasture, or, in winter, This means then that our feeding, clover or alfalfa hay and a chance to problem is one of supplying the nee- :look over the wastes from the stables. essary ingredients to induce egg pro She will get lots of exercise in this duction, and at the same time to en- way, which is essential. able . the birds to put on flesh and In winter hogs often suffer for lacks gain in weight In tackling this problem the first requisite is to continue to feed heavily of grain. Cutting the grain at this season may induce a few more eggs foot's burns with a strip torn from her old work apron; she had her best apron with her. The ladies waited on Daddy Tar - foot so that he had a good time in CRANBERRY SAUCE, tell au his neighbors that they were spite of his burns and he felt sorry One quart cranberries, 1 pt, sugar, invited to Daddy Tarfoot's corn roast for Uncle Turnip and told him he 1 c. water.. —that very night—and be sure to could carry an armful of corn home Cook cranberries in the water until come early. with him—to eat when he felt better. the skins burst, Add the sugar and And Daddy Tarfoot lippety-lipped Well—the party was a great sue - cook until of .the consistency of mar- to the Iiopover's and asked Henry, cess. Granny Wobblenose roasted the of sufficient mineral elements. This cake for dessert rather than pies or,malade: Strain or not as desired. Hopover would he invite the Silver- i corn and it was done to a turn—so is especially true with animals that puddings, and freezing the cream It is easy enough to "stodge up" tails and the Twitehets and any one,wero the potatoes. D not hha wide variety foods, makes nice busy work for father on food materials, mix flavors and add else he could thinks of. "And don'tThen Bob Cricket and his folks • During the winter months when n they Thanksgiving morning! new names but little is gained there- forget Zip Coon and his folks—I Piped up—"Crik-erik-crikl" And the cannot root in the ground it is advis- How pretty the Thanksgiving table by. As Liberty Hyde Bailey says: they've been eyeing that patch for little bunnies and the little squirrels out of the pullets, but it is almost able to ,supply these minerals in the looks with its snowy best tablecloth, "We add the extrinsic and meaning- some time." I and the little Zip Coons played Samos sure to deplete their body weight.' So form• of wood ashes, salt, sulphur and its centrepiece of fruits and nuts, its less odors of spices and flavorings, In fess than, an hour the little foils: m the silvery moonlight it is a good plan o fend to laying put- bone meal: Often hairless pig§, rickets, shining glass and silver. How good forgetting thatodorno less than of the woods came streaming from a11' So one and all they thanked Daddy lots for rho next flues or. four months and paralysis of the hind parts may the whole house smalls. What an at ,music hath occasions; each of the ma-, directions—chattering gaily, each try -1 Tarfoot for their lovely party. as high as fifteen pounds of •grain a- be avoided by taking this •precaution. mosphere of good cheer pervades it—' terkals has its own odor that the die- in to reach Daddy Tarfoot's first. Then they bade one another good - day to 100 birds. I would not chane the ration at peace and plenty. g y g y night and went happily h In the case- of the Mediterranean farrowing time, but •Carry it right Elaborate, sophisticated dishes have in is best expression. I think that own i hale knife—no sone could husk bad• pp y orae and to breeds this fi sure can b d d ] tit d P g e re ace through the suckling period. It is ad_ uo proper p ace m rs ay s semi•one reason why persons enjoy the corn as neatly as she; and Sophia alightly, whereas with the heavier vieable, honvever, to feed lightly or religious, ceremonial feast. It is a simple cooking of farmers and sailors Silvertail had acorn cookies. American breeds a slight increase; if withhold a feed o •• two at time of far- time of family gatherings and homey and other elemental folk, is because of , Jemima Hopover set the Cottontail the birds will eat •it readily, isnot too rowing. It is usually safest to follow associations, Homely dishes with the comparative lack of disguise, al bunnies and the Hopover bunnies and much grain Do not fail to feed the h fl 1 the t t emands as ,expressed by the sow home avers mase a grea es ape-, most so here are som active and searching for every particle ,I h standbys used by genuine old timey thin terms that she is hungry. grain in deep litter, ]seeping the birds the d eel to o people, though they may not he aware of the the Silvertail squirrels to gathering herself at flus time, and feed lightly pmerit of it. cones to start `a blaze. anti she lets you !mow in no tracer- S let best kill t By the time the big moon honey t• Canadian housewives. of i All we need to give the birds is a combination of the three staple grains So e us use our es skill n corn, wheat and oats. A mixture . of Hapoling .fipples. o pre- MrN's rdiviricrN riE. pare wholesome, simple food for this colored—was peeping through the I High Festival in wholesome, simple pines, Daddy Tarfoot had a great pile. One pt.. stewed end strained pmnP-; ways. And keep the • feast with . of corn ready and waiting; and he kin, 1 pt. sugar (Min uses maple), thankful hearts. rubbed his hands and said: 200 pounds of °racked corn, 1001 To prevent waste in the apple 1 qt. mills, 4 tbsp. flour, 2 tsp. salt, "Well, folks, I'm hungry as a bear; proved the most suitable on the near - pounds of wheat 'and 100 pounds of orchard, those handling the fruit 8 — cinnamon, 8 isginger. and if the ladies don't mind I'll roast heavy oats is hard to beat, both from should realize that they are dealing• asp p•'est Experimental Farm. By growing the nutritive as well as from the cost with a product that is a living"organ- These proportions make four pies. Leghorns require at least three! the corn—for I m a fine hand at the these crops first on the illustration standpoint. d I h Fill a crimped shell of flaky pastry square feet of floor space and six, business." fields the farmers in the district are 'tired. Most of the soft rots attacks - i • ism ori also that it Improved Seed. P The production and distribution of improved farm crop seed' is made an important factor in the supervision of the Dominion Illustration Stations. The report of these Stations for 1929, available at the Publications Branch of the Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa, points out that the varieties grown nt these Stations are those that have is very easily ck- with this mixture. Over the to of inches of roosting space. The heav i "Mind!" exclaimed Susan Cotton- �_q. IJ p g P Y able oto observe •titer 'r performance HOGS. I jug the apple are star- •tel through each pie pour 2 tbsp. sweet milk or breeds need more space. � tail: "I'm sure T, for one, should be from a field and yield standpoint. The bruises and skin breaks commonly lessons in regard to these are ire There are a great many rations y: quently learned at meetings ,held at that ars good for brood sows: I do .caused by rough handling. Apples not know that there is any one best should not he packed until they have; ration. The important thing to re -'reached a stage of hard ripeness with, member is that the ration be well I'olor development characteristic of balanced. the variety. If picked too early flavor By a Well-balanced ration ave mean! and keeping qualities are lost; to an extent that does not help the sale of one that supplies only what lfor he' tIris fruit: Apple Picking` is carried' Gary of the elements essential of for the • on- by some in a way that shows ten. health and normal growth of. the carry-, per cent, of the fruit' injured by care- µnd of the litter which she is carrye i lessness. Packing apples in tight bar- rette This means not only t nutritive rels on warm days generally leads to ratio of one pound o£ protein to six unprofitable results. If the .work pounds of carbohydrates and fats; asImust be clone on warm clays, select We are in the habit of thinking e n eine place other than the, orchard for balanced ration, but also the n7ineral,"' elements and the bulky foods that are the packing table: A cool building or }}squired for the normal, healthful; basement with a temperature below functioning of the vital organs. 50 degrees;: is to be preferred over a Such foods as corm, barley and rye! temperature of 75 or 80 degrees in. are carbonaceous foods and make too the orchard. Low tempevatttre in wide'a ration. Skim -milk, tankage,I.•which to coolessential pack and Storepapples and oil meal are nitrogenous foods this product: and make too narrow a ration. Oats, s heat middlings and clover are well iss glanced so far as the nutritive ra-1 When. weaning . the calves they io is concerned, Vire need not look should be taken '•from the dams ab- et ketinhe re or ail: ru tl and i�f possible, other f � P Y eels to balance them I P- y, l but when we add corn, barley or rye! they can neither see nor hear the We should also ad; ekin?-mill, tartan.... cows: Isere a. nine ct utuniaa's future eitizeue. Some eighty-five Barnacle boys are shown on Toronto receutiy in a special car, on the regular tram from, Quebec. F. heir arrival in Conserving Fertility of Prairie Farms. The continuous growing of grain as carried on under western farm prac- tice, gradually decreases the nitrogen content of the soil. Where the sum- mer fallow is used as the land clean- ing process and for the conservation of moisture, as is the rule on many farms, the reduction of the nitrogen is more pronounced. That is to say, apart from the nitrogen that is re- moved in the grain, there is a heavy, . loss in this element as a result of the cultural operations. Further, with the loss of nitrogen there is a loss of humus=a most important soil con- stituent. Dr. Frank T. Shutt, Dominion Chemist, has been working on this question for marry years. At the re- cent meeting of the British Asaecia- tion for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Shutt dealt with this problem in. the light of the work he had done upon it. It was shown that. rich vir- gin soil as found on the ;prairies, ,in the top eight inches contains 8,580. pounds of nitrogen to the acre. After thirty-eight years of cultivation by grain cropping and summer fallow the nitrogen had been reduced to 5,180 pounds per acre in. the upper eight - inch layer of soil. Of the 3,400 pounds. of nitrogen thus removed only 1,485 could be charged against that taken away by the grain crop, leaving al- most. 2,000 pounds having been lost by the fallowing and other cultural operations. The investigation from which these figures are deducted in- cluded the analysis of sells raider ro- tation as well as those exclusively de- ' voted to grain growing. Under straight grain growing, without an exception, the loss wee ` pronounced, , not only in nitrogen but in organic matter as well. On the other hand, the soil from the plots under a rota- tion system, which included the peri- odic seeding down to grass and clov- ers, low ers, had maintained or increased both its nitrogen and organic matter cons tent. The lessons to be drawn from this series of experiments point to the necessity' of following' a system of mixed farming and establishing the adoption of the rotation introducing grasses and clovers and the raising of. stock for the consumption of these' crops. - Heating the. Farm Shop. the Stations at different periods of the year. It is the policy of the Stations to dispose of the surplus seed of these varieties to farmers in theneighbor- hood at a; nominal price, In "a single year there were sold from the Eastern Canada Illustration Stations :about six thousand bushels of wheat, ten thousand bushels of oats, besides large quantities of. potatoes, grasses, and clovers of the most popular productive varieties. C4 e14, ;; `b Modern Dress. "She's wise in knowing' what to pat on." "Birt not so wiee in lsuowing, what not to leave riff." - The cold month°, during which the farm tools are overhauled, are not far ahead. It is hard to do such jobs with chilled hands, so this is a good time to think about heating the farm shop. If you haven't a stove in your shop get an old oil barrel—a thirty -gallon steel drum is good --and cut a hole in the bottom end for draft and one in the top for a stovepipe. A damper in the stovepipe and ashes in the, hot-' tom will control the lire. This would be suitable for a dirt -floor shop and the large capacity of the drum gives lots of heat. If you, have a small gasoline ^engine just make a line shaft of one and a half inch pipe and put pulleys along it in different places to run. a cheap grinder, drill press and other small machines. You will' -quickly save many times its cost. I have used just such an equipment and find it is the hand- iest and greatest. time -saving outfit I over had on the piece. Belting and a.pulley or two are cheaper than hard, tedious handwork, and Hutch quicker results are obtained. The dormant season from Novem- ber to April is the proper time to re- move .the dead and,=Taus wood from the tops of tare fruit trees. It also the best time to go over our system i remen: and rune ottt of farm management t p the antiquated and inefficient Prac- tices that healthy, econoniic,\farming methods may hata a heti= silence,