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The Seaforth News, 1943-10-07, Page 3THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1943 I KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT GOOD BREAD/ 111104‘------ 'Pots :,..Slikk Clever women 'bake with ROYAL � t nder, EAST— Makes loave even -textured, delicious WRAPPED AIRTIGHT FOR DEPENDABILITY Made In Candi THE MIXING BOWL By ANNE ALLAN Hyd,o Home Economist MEMO TO SANTA CLAUS Hello Homemakers! November 1st is the last day for mailing overseas Christmas boxes, but we suggest sending the "long-distance" gifts this week, Christmas is one occasion when we like to give special yet useful gifts. It brings back memories of home festivities, and it impresses upon us the standard of life our men are fighting for. . We have talked with some of the ,men who have been in those distant theatres of war, and pass along their suggestions. 1. If you are uncertain as to the new address of a man or woman in the fighting services, use the last known address overseas, Boxes which are properly addressed are reaching the men and women on the war fronts in record time. 2. Homemade cookies and cakes are not edible when they reach the Mediterranean area, We suggest that you send food only if you are able to find vacuum canned products. 8. Send gifts the boys will appreci- ate. For instance, a recent photo in a waterproof folder, a pocket-size book, a new song book, toilet articles and underclothing are always welcomed. Then, of souse, men and nurses in hot climates are glad to get lotions for sunburn, insect bites and tired feet—but nothing must be sent in glass containers. 4. Eleven pounds is the limit for a box going to any member of the Al- lied Forces overseas, with the ex- ception of the Americans, and the postage is 12 cents per pound, Par- cels weighing 20 pounds may be sent to the C.A.S.F, on duty in the West Indies or Newfoundland, the rate be- ing 12 cents a pound. Eleven pound boxes to Allied Forces stationed in, Canada may be mailed for 12 cents per poimd. Over eleven pounds the COSTS LESS THAN 10 PER AVERAGE BAKING civilian rate of 24 mints per pound is charged for parcels, i.e„ from 12 to 20 pounds sent to Allied Forces in the Dominion, Pack well, 'tie with strong cord and write with indelible into, Use 2 or 3 labels and write or print distinctly. Wo suggest that you cross out the word "abandon on the declaration form and give the Officer Commanding his unit as the alternat- ive address. Parcels to those in uni- form cannot be insured, but niay be to the British civilians (and should be marked "Gifts"), By the way, two' pounds is the total amount of any one foodstuff that can be sent to a civilian. Suggestions for boxes for Civilians in Great Britain, and the approximate packaged weight: 2 lbs. fano biscuits 36 ozs. 1 Ib. fruit cake 18 ozs, % lb, package cheese 9 ozs. Large pkg. bouillion 24 ozs. Small tin soup.. ..... .6 ozs. Dehydrated vegetables 5 ozs. Small box soda biscuits 11 ozs. Small pkg, hot chocolate.., .....1 oz. Small tin chicken 20c ozs. Suggested parcel for Nurses (about 2 lbs.) 2 packages hair pins, 1 pkg. cleans- ing tissues, 1 cake toilet soap,, 1 wash cloth, 1 tooth brush, 1 tooth powder (small), 1 pact and pkg: envelopes. Suggested parcel for Navy (about 3 lbs.): 2 blue handkerchiefs, 1 pair socks, 1 deck cards, 1 book (39c), 6 choco- late bars, 2 pkgs. life-savers, 2 pkgs. gum. Suggested parcel for Army or Air Force (about 5 lbs.): 1 lb, fruit cake, 3 pkgs. hot choco- late, 6 chocolate bars, 1 tin hum- bugs, 1 pkg. nuts, i pkg. blades, 1 shaving stick, 2 pkgs, flints, 3 hand- kerchiefs. * * THE QUESTION BOX Mrs, G.G, asks: How should we store green tomatoes to ripen — also list ingredients for green pickle. Answer: Each green tomato should be wrapped in newspaper and placed in a closed box. Another method is to pull the vine before any signs of frost injury and suspend the entire vine from ceiling of cool storage room. Green Tomato Pickle 1 gallon green tomatoes, 11/ cups brown sugar, 6 large onions, 2 swat red peppers, 4 cups vine- gar, 1 tbsp. mustard seed, 1 tbsp, ' whole allspice, 1 tbsp. celery seed, 1 tbsp, whole cloves, 1 tsp• whole black pepper, 1 tbsp. mus- tard. Slice tomatoes and onions thinly. Sprinkle with i/z cup salt. Let stand over night in a crook or enamel vessel. Tie all spices in a cheesecloth bag. Chop pepper pods very thinly. Drain the tomatoes and onions well. Add the sugar, mustard, seasonings and peppers to the vinegar, then add the tomato and onion. Cook for 3d hour, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Remove spice bag. Pack into 'hot sterilized jars and seal immedi- ately. Yield: about 4 pints, Mrs. C.M. suggests a Herb Dressing to make the meat clislt serve un- expected guests: To 2 quarts of bread crumbs add 1 chopped onion, 14 teaslioon mint, 3d cup dripping and 2 beaten eggs, Fill a greased cake pan. Bake 20 minutes in electric oven 'at 350°, Cut piece out of the centre and serve stew in centre of it. Murder Castle Real Life Story of A Maniac Corpses were the stook in trade of mysterious Mr. Mudgott 'who, for 14 years, terrorized the Middle West with his one -ural crime syndicate, Read. , ,in The American Weeldy with this Sunday's (Oct. 10) issue of The Detroit Sunday Times,..the story of it crazy man with a strange way with women and the castle ho trans- formed into a "murder factory". Get The Detroit Sunday Times this 'week and every week. THE S1+SAT ORT NEWS Weekly Editor Looks At Ottawa 137 Jim Greenblat • Ttegina, Sept, 23, 'Taking a woelc'a holiday front this news letter turned out to be a busman's holiday and 1 wound up in Regina, Sask„ Queen City of the Plains, taking in the an- nual convention of the Saskatchewan Division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, After two days and two nights on the train, Ottawa and its hive of war activity seems a remote place. Out here on the long strotchea of flat prairie, with the manpower available, the farmers are garnering a crop which, while it isn't so much com- pared to last year's record bumper, will contribute greatly to feeding the United Nations. For miles and miles on end one sees threshing rigs going full blast and numberless straw stacks—golden yellow mounds that tell a story of nature's gift in fruition. On the train, which rumbles ceaselessly on, is f0unei part of the public opinion of Canada, and for anyone interested in the dissemination of information Isere is a fountain of interesting 'hours to be spent. It is on a train too, I think, that some of the mechanics of public opinion is moulded and considerable inter.seetional goodwill is cemented But rumours are also spread, sect misinformation is spilled around pro- miscuously. And it is also where poli- tical hash is potted, More people are travelling than ever before; and more people are learning more about Canada than they ever did before. Good will come of it. I was talking to a western agri- culturist who had been down. in Que- bec taking a looksee. He had probably hated to persuade himself, but he ad- mitted frankly that the Quebec far- mer "was doing a good job" that he was in most cases, and in his own way, really farming better than the westerner had given him credit for. I only mention this because it shows what travel and inter -mingling Ican do for a people. You run into interesting things on a train all right. I talked with a dip- lomat's wife who was just three weeks away from Stockholm with her two small children and a Norwegian nurse. A high priority got her out of Sweden by plane. Some of her ob- servations I think will record Here something that I haven't seen sug- gested anywhere in the press of Canada or the United States, She had spoken to newspaper people in Stock- holm, to people from Germany who had been in Sweden on business, to refugees just escaped from occupied Norway, and she said the feeling is growing that Germany will soon quietly move out of Norway and be i'id of what's turning out to be a decided pain in the neck to her — econimally, militarily, and otherwise. This is the "something" that. I haven't seen even suggested before. Sha said conditions in Norway, are terrible, worse than what you read about, There is an average of about forty Norwegians getting out every day to Sweden and she has had the opportunity of getting first hand in- formation. She confirmed the reports that no German troops have moved through Sweden for some time, ever since the Swedish government pro- mulgated that edict, People recently from Germany had, told her that the city of Hamburg, for instance, was really totally obliterat- ed. Fires so terrible raged there after the big raids that they didn't even try to stop them, and cement flowed down the streets like lava. Berlin has taken a terrible pasting and is in a bad way, but her information was that the morale of the German peo- ple is not yet shaken to the extent where there is liable to be an early collapse. To get back to this prairie conven- tion, which is thought important enough to be attended by the nation- al president, J. W. Rowe, of Mantitou, Manitoba, and managing director, C. V. Charters of Brampton, Ont., a high note of the convention, as it was at the national affair in Toronto, is the contribution weekly papers can make to the winning of victory. Why I mention this is because they mere- ly reflect the opinions of the physical and ,moral effort of those who read weekly newspapers—the people who live in the areas not classed as urban. The Regina Leader -Pot in an edit- orial today voiced this sentiment apt- ly and in the following paragraph of that editorial showed what the daily newspaper's—which means the daily readers too—think of the weeklies, which as we mentioned before, means you and you, too, "The weekly newspapers constitute the veritable backbone of public in- formation. They reach at reach a reading group that the dailies barely touch, They enjoy an intimacy of re- lationship with their subscribers that metropolitan newspapers regard with envy but can scarcely hope to equal because of their much greater end thereby more impersonal circulation," "When this has been said, let it be quickly added that in this Sear up to.. new the weultly newspapers barn done a remarkably effective and mneg- nihcc'ntly unselfish. Job in supporting the war effort, They 'lave given gale erously of their time, space and energy and will keep on so doing until the war is won. They are not holding out for Mare of anything ex- cept a greaten opportunity pf contrib uting to victory," Along a similarly serious vein of thought was Premier W. 3. Patter - son's address to the convention. 'He asked the newspapermen in their various communities to preach the doctrine of hope and optimism, which must, however, be checked by the prospect of the serious problems which are still facing us. He thought it was up to people to retain their tine sense of proportion, not to re- gard the general outlook from any standpoint of Our own personal prob- lems; we should take the broader and national view. He meant we should not miss the forest because of the trees. And that ends a rambling news- letter that had to be despite the sup- posed week's holiday, What Can Be Done in Hog Improvement Farmers of the IVlaxvllle district of Ontario have in the past four years, besides doing a great deal to- wards hog improvement, made sub- stantially more profits for them- selves and also enabled larger ship- ments of high quality bacon to Bri- tain. In 1988 about •4,800 hogs were shipped from the district of which only about 15 per cent graded sel- ects. The farmers were naturally dis- satisfied with such a poor rating; so, too, was the drover, as he was not making any profit on hogs that were mostly discounted. The Bogs were a more or less nondescript lot, principally the re- sult of poor breeding. Scrub boars were prevalent resulting in coloured hogs or butcher type, with ruptures, ridgeling's and other factors that caused discounts to be made, The 'Government grading policy was blamed as a cause for the losses. The principal drover of the district appealed to the Livestock Division, Department of Agriculture to assist in educating the farmers concerning the advantages of hog improvement and a survey of the district disclosed the`''principal need was the introduc- tion of better breeding stock. The drover agreed • that if something were done to bring about an im- provement he would buy 'togs strict- ly on the graded basis. Iii, 1939 farmers in the district, after being told at a series of meet- ings how better boars and sows would mean better hogs, higher prices and more high quality bacon for Britain, bought 113 sows. Bacon hog clubs were formed and the On- tario Government loaned boars un- der the Board Loan Policy. In the following three years 165 Advanced Registry Sows were sent into the district. Meanwhile groups of farm- ers were taken to Montreal under the auspices of the Live ;,tock (;:«21. ing Service, Dominion • Department of Agriculture, to visit packing plants for the purpose of studying hog grading at lint hand and seeing the requirements for the ,best finish- ed product for export. Last year the Maxville district dro- ver shipped 8,278 hogs which grad- ed 33 per cent A's, which was 3 per cent above the average for Canada As an additional piece of educa- tion a leading packing company sponsored a Bacon Hog Pair as a special feature of the Maxville Ag- ricultural Fair in 1942 with 144 market hogs entered, Of that num- ber exhibited 62 per cent graded A's and the remainder B's. At this year's fair another bacon hog exhibit was held. There were 26 entries of two hogs and 22 of four hogs. Entries were limited to hogs weighing from 195 to 226 pounds. That display of hogs was evidence of the encouraging change that has taken place in hog breeding and raising in the past four years. It was as fine a lot of export bacon as it was possible to see anywhere. The hogs exhibited were bought by a well known packing company and shipped to Montreal The price paid was $16.'75 per cwt. dressed weight the prevailing price at Mon- treal on the day of the fair, less 15 cents per cwt. for freight, plus an extra premium of 50 cents on the carcasses which graded A. This was paid in addition to the regular pre- mium of $1 by the packing company and $1 subsidy paid by the Ontario Government, 0£ the whole 140 hogs, 98 graded A, or 70 per cent; 38 graded B1; two graded B2; and two graded B3. The average dressed weight of the carcasses was 153 pounds. An additional feature of this year's fair was the Export Bacon Exhibit of 22 Wiltshire sides, the product of 11 hogs raised by farm- ers in the district, and marketed pre- vious to the fair. The sides were cured and prepared ready for ship - theOne side was hung up to show the type and also the amount of back fat. The corresponding side was cut to allow a view of the amount of MISERIES OF abs ' Cold Cul eliP°. ;Iee Now .. , here's reliable home proved medication that Works 2 ways at once to relieve distress of child's cold—even while he sleeps! Just rub throat, chest and back with Vicks VapoRub at bed- time. Instantly VapoRub starts to relieve coughing spasms, ease muscular soreness or tightness, and invite restful, comforting sleep. Often by morning, most of the misery is gone. For baby's sake, try VapoRub tonight, It must be good, because when colds strike, most mothers use Vicks VapoRub. lean in the cross section, This exhib- it gave the hog producers an oppor- tunity to see their own hogs in the form in which bacon is shipped to Britain. It also provided an example to study the faults of the hogs mar- keted. The exhibit created great interest. It was evident that many of the Wiltshires displayed were too fat in proportionto the amount of lean meat, a fault which can only be cor- rected by careful attention to feed- ing practices and making certain that balanced rations are used. The encouraging results of 4 years' efforts in the Maxville district in which the farmers have co-operat- ed to their own and the general ad- vantage, is an example of what can be done elsewhere. Despite the fact that many farm- ers in Eastern Canada will have to purchase feed this year, feed is be- ing brought into the district and every confidence is being displayed in the hog industry. Want ani For Sale Ads, 1 week 35c TUNE IN ON Old -Fashioned Revival Hour 9 to 10 P,M., E,D.S.T. Pilgrim's Hour 2 to 3 PM., E,D,S.T, ON MUTUAL NETWORK — SUNDAYS Local Station — C.Ii.L.W„ Windsor CHARLES E. FULLER, P.O. Box 123, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 41011M111111<sssssss , A N 1 IVM A 14 S DDI ABLED Quickly removed in clean sanitary trucks. 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