HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-05-22, Page 7THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1941
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
SAFEGUARD FINE CAKE!
INGREDIENTS
THE MIXING BOWL
Sy ANNE ALLAN
Hydro Home Economist
THIS AND THAT RHUBARB
Hello Homemakers! Did you know:
Drinking tea out of a saucer was
considered "1n good taste" in this
country a hundred years ago, Special
"cup plates" were used as recep-
tacles for the tea cup, while the
saucer was in Use.
The salt cellar, which superstition
decreed should always be ,the first
article placed on the table, occupied
an important place in the 16th Cen-
tury English society --it separated
the important guests from the in-
ferior ones at the dinner table,
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Did you know that coffee is com-
pletely tasteless and odorless until
roasted?
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"Swapping" is an old English cus-
tom which came to Canada with the
U. E.L.'s, Early in - the Spring gard-
eners often swap rhubarb plants,
when it comes "thinning -out" time.
Later homemakers may "swap" the
rhubarb itself, for some equally pal-
atable fruit or vegetable. And failing
that—there is the ever -intriguing ex.
change of recipes. Rhubarb is so del-
icious, and has such a tonic effect in
the Spring every homemaker should
try at least one of these budget•wise
rhubarb recipes.
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Recipes
Rhubarb Conserve
4 quarts rhubarb
1 quart shredded pineapple
2 oranges
31/. quarts sugar
1 cup nuts
Cooit the piwvtppie in a covered
kettle, with a small 511(101111 of
water, until tender. Add the rhubarb,
juice and grated rind of oranges, and
the sugar, and nook moll thick. This
makes an excellent tilling for sand •
niches. Add the chopped nuts when
partially cool and seal in clean hot
jars.
Fashion Pie
2 cups eut rhubarb
3 tbsps. dour
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp„sugar for merfugu.,
1 tsp. butter •
Line a pie plate with platin pastry.
Wash and peel the rhubarb, cut into
small pieces, and dredge with lour
until each place is quite white. Mix
the sugar. rhubarb and egg yolks to-
gether ant' place in the hued pie
plate. Dot with butter, Bake in elec-
tric oven at 4511 deg. for 10 minutes,
then at 325 deg. for 30 minutes.
When the filling is set spread over
the top the stiffly beaten egg white
into which the tablespoon ,>f sugar
has been folded. Return to the oven
and brown lightly at 325 deg..for.-
3-10 minutes.
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Take A Tip
1. if meat, just purchased. sticks to
the paper. hold under the cold
water tap for a few minutes, and it'
-can be removed with ease. Meat does
not need to be covered when kept in
the meat keeper of the electric re-
frigerator. However. if the meat
keeper leas no cover, it is advisable
to cover with wax paper.-
2,
aper.2, Here's a polut to remember in
preserving the length of life of your
aluminum utensils. Do not pour cold
water into a hot aluminum pot or
kettle repeatedly. It is quite liable t0
become warped.
BRITAIN DELIVERS PLOUGHS
Ploughs made to a special design
for Turkey were among the agricul-
tural implements sent out from
Great Britain overseas last year.
South Africa, and particularly Rho-
desia, had a wide range of higher
class manufactures. Burma, Iadle
and Egypt took cheaper wares. '
Cultivators of the latter countries
were actually using, a century and a
half ago, ploughs identical with
those handled by their ancestors two
thousand years before. It was Brit
ain who introduced: to these and
other lands of primitive agriculture
the first light (32 lb.) steel -shared
ploughs. The makers catering for the
poorest of native cultivators, made
as well disc ploughs weighing 3
tons. Many British makers have been
supplying overseas markets for close
on two centuries. They have been
able to keep steadily going since the
war because of the accumulation of
raw material which they had the
foresight to put aside. The result was
that they 'could send abroad daring
1940 more than £1,000,000 worth of
PAGE SEVEN
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This is a war for existence. It is war to the death. It is a war to win or to lose.
There can be no half way—no compromise. It is a war to WIN.
Money is the fourth arm of the service.
Whatever you are called on to pay or to lend, it is little compared to the lives
that our sons offer.
There have been many and heavy calls upon Canada already.
There will be more.
Let us face the truth and the truth will make us free.
It is freedom we are fighting for, British freedom, the freedom of body and
spirit that makes life worth living.
If we fail, we fall.
Be prepared for sacrifice.
Great Britain has set us an example on a scale of heroic magnificence history
doesn't record.
Let us FIGHT!
Canada has the resources. Let us spare nothing. When our soldiers offer their
lives, let us be willing to share our livelihood.
Presently the Government of Canada will call for money.
The money is here.
We are spending billions. We are already heavily taxed. But most of these
billions and those taxes are being spent in Canada. That money comes back to
you. Keep it rolling. Keep putting it back into the war effort, so that it may be
spent again and again and again until Right prevails and the world is free.
DEPAR TMENT
FINANCE,CANADA
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't'',
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t°xi�.`9't�l,¢ t �'�;,�. E^�-'• iyJt
ploughs andother agricultural im-
plements and machinery such as
threshers (£30,000 worth), air and
gas compr'esse's (£26,000) and
tractors (£30,000).
TURKEY AND CHINA
Get Big Electrical Equipment From
Britain
In twelve months no fewer than
thirteen generating units have been
built for overseas by one British firm
alone. In new territory an outstand-
ing order was a complete power sta-
tion of 60,000 kw. for Turkey; and
China received a 20,000 kw. 3,000
r,p.m. turbine plant.
Apart from these large orders, the
construction of transformers set up
an export recotd, a considerable
part of which was for high-voltage
transformers, New Zealand took
seven big vertical -shaft waterwheel
alternators; Madras a horizontal-
shaft alternator, and South Africa a
number of smaller alternators of
similar type. •
The year's achievement is strik-
ing 'whop it is remembered the
amount of Government work done at'
the same time; and+ despite the calls
of war work upon technicians, a
steady improvement in design has
also been accomplished over the
period, especially of transformers for
efficiency and economy.
Want and For Sale Ads., 1 week 26e
GRASSHOPPERS
Antoine, the .greatest of the calatn-
ties which hostile nature viseted upon
pioneers of the ,western prairies were
the ,devastating grasshopper plagues.
In 13113 a swarm of •gr, e hoppers des-
cended upon the Red River Valley in
North Dakota and devoured all trace
of vegetation. They made destructive
raids in '57, '66 and '67. The great cal-
amity of x37(4, however, surpassed
anything before or since. On :the pl-
ains it is still called "The Grasshopper
Year.”
The 'hoppers came soddenly out of
the north on an afternoon late in July.
They traveled with a strong wind; ris-
ing high in the air with their wings
Spread, they were carried along with
little effort and :their ravages res hod
from the Dakotas to Texas.
To Observers sof their 'approach it
seemed at 'first 'that a squall might -be
in the .offing. 'Gradually ,the sun 'dank-
-erred by a cloud in the northwest..
Presenitly :the cry went up: "'Grass
hoppers!"
They carne like a riving enokv, fill-
ing the air,covering the earth, the
tbuildings, the shocks of grain, every-
thing, According to one observer,
their 'alighting on the rocks sounded
like ,continuous hail. They alighted on
'trees in such numbers that . their
weight ,broke off longe limbs. Chick-
ens and turkeys were frightened at
first and ran from them. but they soon
identified the 'hoppers and ate (them-
selves sick. One ipioneer reported that
a herd of 40 hogs and '50 turkeys fat-
tened on nothing else but grass-
hoppers and a little hay. The pork anti
fowl had a peculiar taste of grasshop-
pers.
1t times the insects were four to six
inches deep on the ground, and contin-
ued to alight for ,hours. Men were ob-
liged 1e tie strings around their trous-
ers to keep the pests from crawling up
their leges The 'happens gathered so
thick on the tracks that 'Union 'Pacific
trains were stopped. The rails were so
oily and greasy that the wheels spun
and would not pull a train.
People tbrought out sheets and
'blankets to 'protect robe nee st valuable
.crops. Yet the insects ate holes in bhe
'bcdelo $hes or ,crawled underneath and
destroyed everything. Ln Dakota old.
straw 'Win +piled around a field and set
on fire; sotite,put a salt solution on ,the
tgitadn, all Ito no avail. Men with clubs
walked dawn the corn rows knocking
the 'hoppers off, but on .looking back
they saw the insects as numerous as
ever. They alighted in such numbers
that the :cornstalks were bent toward
,the' ground and the' potato vines masih-
1'ed •flat, The sound of their +feedin;gs
was like a herd lof ,tabule eating in a
cornfield.
Every green thing except castor
'beans, cane, native grass, and the teals-
es of ,Certain trees was eaten. Onions
and turnips were eaten right down to
the end of the roots, leaving holes in,
the ground. 'Free, denuded of their
leaves and stringed of their hark, died.
The water iu tthc creeks. 5traillOd with
the excrement of the insects, assumed
the color of strong coffee. The cattle
refused to drink until compelled by
extreme thirst. Even the fish tasted
grasshoppers.
A piece of harness or a garment left
on the ;ground was quickly ruined.
Pitchfork and syrhe handles were
gnawed so rough as to become un-
comfortable to the hands, and the
weather-beaten 'boards on houses and
fences were so eaten that within a few
hours they looked like new lumber.
if any of the creatures were tramp-
ed anderfoot, their companions quick-
ly devoured them, They ate +the mos-
quito bar •off the windows and even
invaded houses and ate the window
,curtains. The Jaunty waving fields of
corn were reduced to 'bent -over denu-
ded ,staiks in 12 hours, and even the
large weeds were destroyed.
When the insects left, the country
was a scene of ruin and desolation.
Those who had the money to get out
of 'the country did so. Those who re-
mained were largely dependent noon
relief appropriations, which were
quickly Toted ,by federal and state
governments. and supplies provided
by churches, 'benevolent societies, and
relatives in the East. To +the clergy,
the calamity proved a blessing in dis-
`+guise. It 'Made the individualistic fron-
tiersman see how 'helpless he was in
BUS TIME TABLE
Leaves Seaford; for Stratford:
Daily 8.23 a.m. and 5.15 p.m.
Leaves Seafurth for Goderieh:
Dally except Sunday and bol 1.03 p.m.
and 7.4') p.m.
Sun. and bol., 1.05 0,18. and P.29 e m,
Lunneenun al Strattmd to
Hamilton. Buffalo. London, tr=+.r,it.
Tavistock, Woodstock, Hrantt,rd
Agents: Queen's, Commercial, Dick Soon
the face of God's providence, and
there were wonderful revivals.
There have been other Gmeeehopiper
plagues since the disaster of '74, but
roue which caused such desolation.
The terrible news deterred prospec-
tire homeseekers, and it was years 'be-
fore westward m•i„c;ration 'w'as restored
to its former proportions.
YOUR COLD? A GERM'S "GHOST"
MAY CAUSE iT
Science reports, at last, on the
causes of colds and sees down to
the borderline itself, studying a
strange new world, where live the
viruses, or poisons, (not germs, but
maybe their "spooks'), which gives
us diseases like influenza and many
puizling, but deadly, afflictions. See
this feature article in The American
Weekly with the May 25 issue of
The Detroit Sunday Times.
na best way to waken a man is
to tickle his bare feet, says a. doc-
tor. Oh, well, another little job won't.
do the sergeant -major any harm.