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The Seaforth News, 1943-07-22, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 THE SEAFORTH NEWS MAKES GORGEOUS TASTY BREAD— NO READ_NO COARSE HOLES, NO DOUGHY LUMPS Airtight wrapper protects strength and purity ALWAYS DEPENDABLE! THE MIXING BO'V L by ANNE ALLAN Hydro Home Economist - 1943 PRESERVING SEASON Hello Homemakers! The harvest season is here again — and in the year between Canadians have real- ized more fully the implications of "war effort" Women have learned that their part in the kitchen is as important as "kitchen fatigue" in the armed forces. With the preserving session; we are utilizing to the last degree our fruits and vegetables — leaving nothing to waste. This is one. duty from which the housewife reaps a rich reward — the food is on her own shelf. When you have to make sugar go a long way, it calls for you to guard every movement in your tactics — a real service stripe for your rolled -up sleeve, * * • RECIPES Raspberry Jam 2 quarts raspberries, 3 cups sugar, , Crush fruit and simmer 10 minutes. Then add sugar and cook until thick' about 25 minutes. Pour into hot, sterilized jars and when cool, seal with paraffin. Yield: approximately 21/z pints, A delicious jelly-like jam may be made by adding 2 teaspoons cider vinegar with the sugar in the above 1recipe, Raspberry and Red Currant Jam 2 quarts raspberries, 1 cup red currant juice, 31/ cups sugar, To make currant juice, crush 135 cups currants slightly and cover them with 33 cup water. Cook until cur- rants are soft and mushy about 10 to 15 minutes. Drainthrough a moist jelly bag: Cover raspberries with 1 cup red currant juice and let stand 20 min- utes. Simmer raspberries and juice 20 minutes, then add sugar, Cook about 20 minutes. Pour into hot ster- ilized Jars add when cool seal with paraffin. Yield; approximately 235 pints, Gooseberry Jam 2 quarts gooseberries, 1 1/3 ' cups water, 41/4 cups sugar. Top and tail the gooseberries. Sim- mer the fruit and water for 10 min- utes. Add sugar and cook for about t/s hour. Pour into hot sterilized jars and when cool, seal with paraffin. Yield: about 3% pints. This jam is quite thin when hot but it thickens considerably when it cools, If desired, one-half cup honey or corn syrup may be added to the recipe if It is too tart for your taste. Jewel Jam 1 quart pitted , cherries (8 cups =pitted), 1 quart goose- berries, 1 quart red currants, 1 quart raspberries, 8 cups sugar. Wash and ':pit cherries and put in kettle with 2 cups of sugar, Bring to the boil and boil for 5 minutes. Then add quart of cleaned gooseberries and 2 more cups sugar. Bring to boil and boil 5 minutes.. Then add quart of cleaned red currants and quart of cleaned raspberries and 4 °ups of sugar. Bring to boil and boil 5 min- utes. Pour into hot terilized Jars and when cool, seal with paraffin. Yield: approximately 4 pints. * * * TAKE A TIP: 1. Use ripe but not overripe fruit for jam. 2. Wash and cut up or mash fruit for jam, adding about 1/ inch of water in bottom of saucepan. 3. To extract juices, heat fruit slow- ly, stirring' -frequently. 4. Pre-cook solid fruit or wild fruit first — then add sugar. 5. A longer boiling period' is requir- ed when less sugar is used, Test for required time by lifting a spoonful. If it remains heaped up or when poured off the spoon drips to 2 or 3 drops which. run together, it is ready. ' 6. Pour white hot into sterilized jars. Cover with thin layer of melt- ed paraffin, then when cold with thick layer. 7. Jelly may fail to set if juice was not boiled long enough after add- ing sugar or if fruit was over- • ripe. 8,. Telly may be tough if juice and green. This is the result of years of sugar are boiled together too long experiment, or if too little sugar was used First, botanists had to breed according to amount of acid and grasses which would both produce ripeness of fruit. For example, succulent feed and stand up to the not•too.ripe currants contain a lot winds which often whip across those of acid and require some water. spaces at a hundred miles an hour, * * * It is still possible to see the ribs of THE QUESTION BOX thin grass produced bytheearlier Mrs, M. Mc, suggests: To snake trials, and the thick, sturdy growth whipped cream: pour a out of evap- which meant success. orated milk into freezing tray; chill. It is success which is important to until fine crystals form around the the housewives of London and Liv - edges, Meanwhile chill bowl and erpool and Glasgow, because it has beater•. Addye tsp. lemon juice to the been multiplied all over Scotland. milk poured in bowl and meat. This year David Nichol's farm on the Oehils will fatten a thousand sheep and that means sixty thousand Warr Time Farming pounds of the sweetest mutton in the In Scotland w°rld. When the right seed mixtures had'. been found crawler tractors hauled -ploughs up the hills and dug four- teen inches deep to root out the rug of mountain grasses. The "old notables," the leaders of the flocks of hill sheep grazing two or three miles away on the far side hof the fram, scented the fresh feed, long before the grass was ready for cropping and led the way unerringly David Nichol, the farmer with the ice -blue eyes, stood on the hillside facing the easterly breeze which pressed against face and hands and which sped the cloud shadows across the floor of the Scottish Tarn Valley far .below. He pointed towards the peaks of Ben Varlich and Ben Leddi whose snow caps forty or more miles dis to the new pastures. With them came tant, sparkled through the thin air, the rabbits and the hares, like the spangles of a musical corn -Until the new plants were estab- edy chorus.lisped, the sheep had to be turned He said: "There's a saying in the back and kept away by every device Gaelic that's true all right of this the shepherds knew. The rabbits and land. It is "Cha'n ann airson eloinn hares were shot or trapped, a tha na ennu ach airson daoine." It "We looked after the land as means: The Bilis are not for children though it was a field of gold," David but for mem" i Nichol said, "and in the end we had David Nichol is one of the men the best of it," who have helped to change the face of '.Scotland, where no more plough- ing-up campaigns can be ordered be Chop Conditions cause saturation point has already , in Ontario been reached. In. Perthshire alone 115,000 acres By the Ontario Department of Ag. are under tillage. The Scots them- selves call Nichol and the many oth- ers like. him "adventurers of the hills," because they say, if a man can make a living in these parts he can make one anywhere. Away up in desolation made emp- tier still by the thin voices of the lap- wings and the curlews, great holes have been torn in the thick hill car- riculture Statistics Branch, Excessive periodic rains, together with cold backward conditions dur- ing the months of April, May and June delayed seeding operations from three to six weeks in practically all sections of the Province. Therefore emergency crops, such as millet and buckwheat, have been used to replace early spring cereals. In some cases, pet of flying bent and moor mat considerable acreage intended for grass. spring grains has not been sown. Nichol, working only with his bro- Some of the land will be summer they and father and one hired man fallowed and used for fall wheat, on a two -thousand acre farm, has at Recent frequent' rains have promoted altitudes of one thousand feet and good growth of late sown crops. more -450 miles north of London- There are sharp reductions in acre - created new smooth pastures on land ages of spring wheat, oats, barley,. which was formerly thought just fodder corn, peas and beans. Yields good enough to carry one sheep to of all early spring grains are expect - every five acres. ed to bo far below normal, However, That is only half the story. More Crops of fall wheat are very good in than 330 acres of the twothousand most sections of ,the Province, and are under the plough for the first good yields of emergency crops are time in recorded history. On the new also expected. There has been an clean land will be grown healthy abundance of pasture. flay crops, par - stock seed potatoes for replanting ticularly•on new seeding, are yielding down in England and in the Scottish considerably above normal. lowlands. There will be hay to sus- Harvesting the first cutting of al- tain the sheep in the winter, and oat falfa and of the main hay and clover and root crops for the cross -bred crop has been under way since the cattle of the farm. middle of June. Rank growth has I I walked with David Nichol ov- caused the•hay crops to be coarse, of er the hills to the newly seeded field medium quality and rather difficult which is the latest achievement on to cure, More farmers now realize the farm. Early this spring, under the importance of early cutting, as a the lee of a cockscomb plantation of source of hoge grown protein, but young pines, the grass was delicately i shortage of suitable labor, and delays in spring seeding, have interfered to 1O11 k TM,22 to choose the services of any of these ten Chartered Banks... Bank of Montreal The Bank of Toronto The Canadian Bank of Commerce The Dominion Bank Imperial Bank of Canada The Bank of Nova Scotia The Provincial Bank of Canada The Royal . Bank of Canada Banque Canadienne Nationale Barclays Bank (Canada) These banks are constituted under the Bank Act- - an act of the Parliament of Canada. - They compete with each other for your business. -- This makes for fair and efficient operation and for quality of. service. Enterprises and individuals may go to any or all of them to deposit money, obtain loans and transact any other banking business. Security and privacy are two fundamentals which the Cana- dian people have always de- manded of their banks. They maintain moxe than 4,350,000. deposit accounts, knowing that their money' is available when they want it. In thousands of daily contacts with bank man- agers and staffs, they know that their private affairs will be held strictly confidential. In every sense of the word, the , .banksare servants of the'people. Lord Macmillan wrote in the Royal Commission report of 19 33:"The mechanism of finance isa delicate one; the confidence upon which it is based is a slow growth, but it may be destroyed over -night, and those to whom is entrusted responsibilityfor the wel- fare of the people must proceed with caution in the adoption of changes." In any of more than 3,000 branches and sub -agencies of the Chartered Banks across Canada you can entrust your savings and discuss your financial affairs with assurance that privacy will be maintained. some extent with early haying. Culti- vation of hoed crops has also been delayed and weeds are causing much concern, Livestock have made good gains on grass and are in good condition. Milk flow has been maintained at a high level and prospects are good for the balance of the season. ' Many farmers have already pur- chased =riots of western feed grain to supplement the expected decrease in yield of grain on their own farms. The grain movement from the west to Ontario farms is expected to con- tinue brisk, as farmers are attempt- ing to maintain maximum outputs of livestock products. There is considerable variance in reports of fruit set according to both variety and district, but present pros- pects indicate a slightly below aver- age -crop of apples for Western' Ont- ario. The growth of foliage and fruit development are . about two weeks later than last year. Apples are now sizing rapidly. ' Pears—Present prospects for the pear crop appear below average, par- ticularly in respect to Bartletts, with Kieffer and other varieties somewhat better. Fruit .18 sizing well, and the growth development is quite satis- factory. Peaches—Due to various factors which include severe winter bud kill- ing, poor pollination, leaf and tree mortality, there will be a definitely below average crop this year. There; aro practically not fruit prospects in Norfolk, Elgin, Middlesex, Lambton, Burlington, or on top of the Niagara Escarpment. In Niagara the set is very irregular, with Essex -Kent re- porting fair prospects. Plums-- Crop indications for plums are very irregular with many variet- ies below average.',Some trees have been affected by wet soil conditions. Grapes -- Present preliminary out. NATIONAL SELECTIVE SERVICE Fourth Compulsory Employment Transfer Order A Direction to Specified Employers and Employees This Order applies to any young man who is 16, 17 or 18 years of age, and who is working at any one of the employments specified in this notice. It is also directed to the present employers of these young men. A. Objective: The Order provides for the transfer of the young men affected, to work which is of more importance to Canada's war effort. Trans- fers will be made after taking into account the health, and domestic circumstances of these young men. B. YOUNG MEN WHO ARE AFFECTED: Every young man who is in any one of the employments specified, who has reached his 16th birthday but has not reached hie 19th birthday, is covered by this Order, C. EMPLOYMENTS SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER: This Order applies to the young then described above if now employed in any of these occupations: (1) Any occupation in or associated with tha following: (a) barber shops and beauty parlours; (b) distilling alcohol for beverage; (c) dyeing, cleaning and pressing, baths, guide ser- vice, shoe shining; (d) entertainment, including but not restricted to theatres, film agencies, motion picture companies, clubs, bowling alleys, pool rooms; (e) operation of ice cream parlours and soda fountains; (f) manufacture of feathers, plumes and artificial flowers, chewing guns, wine, lace goods, greeting cards, jewelry; (g) retail stores; (h) factory production of statuary and art goods; (i) retail and wholesale florists; (j) retail sale of confectionery, candy, tobacco, books, stationery, news; (k) retail sale of motor vehicles or accessories; (1) retail sale of sporting goods or musical instruments; (m) service stations (gasoline -filling stations) ; (n) taverns, liquor, wine and beer stores. (2) Bus boy; chartnan and cleaner; custom furrier; dancing teacher; dish washer; domestic servant; doorman and starter; elevator operator; greens keeper; grounds keeper; hotel bell boy; porter (other than in railway train service); private chauffeur; taxi driver; waiter. D. How the Order affects Young Men still attending School: Young men in the age groups mentioned, now employed, will not be interfered with insofar as returning to school at the opening of the school session in the Autumn is concerned; but young men in the age classes covered, who are now working during their summer vacation, must comply with this Compulsory Order. E. Procedure to be followed: All men as defined above must report to an Employment and Selective Service Office not later than July 24th, 1943. Men resident outside a city or town having an Employment and Selective Service Office, who are too far removed to call personally at such an Office, may write to the nearest office in the first instance, and await further directions. F. Appeals: • If directed to transfer to employment subsequent to interview. a man may, if he objects, enter appeal with a Court of Referees. within 7 days of receiving such direction. G. Penalties: Penalties are provided for employers who retain, or take into :heir employ, after July 24th, 1943, any man covered by this Order except under special permit. Also, penalties are provided for failure of an employee covered by the Order, to register or follow a subsequent direction to employment. 11. Authority: This Order is issued under authority conferred on the Minister of Labour by National Selective Service Civilian Regulation (P.C. 246 of January 19th, 1943, and amending Orders in Council). Employers or employees uncertain of the application of this Order in a particular case are advised to communicate immediately with the nearest Employ- ment and Selective Service Office. Attention is directed to the fact that the Third Compulsory Order, which contains a list of occupa- tions different form the above, also requires certain young men 16, 17 and 18 years of age to report to National Selective Service. D1TKUNToOg bA e 01112 aUMPIIREY MITCHELL. Minister of Labour Director, National Selective Service A. Mn.NAMARA, DT -4 Down On The Farm Thomas Craig has brought his tractor to a batt for a little consultation with his wife, Martha, ad daughter, Janice. The fourth party is, of course, Eric, hired man par excellence. The camera sought "The Otalgs" down on "Briarwood" farm, the day they made their 1000th[ broadcast to Ontario and Quebec listeners in CBC's daily Farm Broadcast at 12,30 pan. DEAD or ANIMALS DISABLE,D Quickly removed in clean sanitary trucks. Phone collect 219 MITCHELL or Ingersoll 21 WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED loop is for a average crop, particular. Raspborries—Au aver•ago crop is21 ly of blues and reds, Vines are in prospect, but Much will depend upon very good condition, weather conditions during` harvesting,.