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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-08-02, Page 7Wcgorna,ns 4 r Make Your Toeless Refrigerator, Do not let the food spoil]. 'Here's at way to keep it cool for $3.17, and it's nothing but a wooden frame with ai cloth around it. Any smart .girl ,can build one. • The iceless refrigerator is a fine •t in. Zu ,,, simple and cheap. 141issionar- -ies in India discovered that if they were to live in the intense heat of that region they must stretch wet sheets :;cross the doors and windows, and the hot winds blowing through made the rooms comfortably cool. This is the simple principle of the iceless refrigerator. A wet cloth sur- rounding a frame will make the space en the inside cool enough to keep the milk sweet, the butter hard and the other foods in good condition. If you live where ice is hard to get or 'if you • havo no ice house or cellar or even if you have a cold cellar, save steps lith an iceless refrigerator. - There are four corner posts, each 3 ft. ti in. high, and made of 1x2 in. lumber. Tha shelves should be made of 1x12 hi. limber and the corners sawed out 1x2 in. to fit the corner Posts. The shelves are 15 in. long. The middle shelves may be made of strips or of poultry netting so as to let the air through. An easy way to frame it in your ;mind is to "play" you are going to is too warns to play. Make them come build two ladders, one on each side, fortable in the 'cool, dark room pre - The steps of the ladder are the cross pared for just this use early in the bars at sides of refrigerator, These morning with heavy cotton comfort - are 814, in. each. The top bars should ables on the floor and coal pillows, !nineties and everymotherershot should real- ize that upon her depends the good spirits of the family. Babies are better if underdressed than overdressed in hot weather. If ab d f bowels there is little 1 f flavor. Left -over cooked peas, moist- ened with a salad dressing, also ,in- prove the taste and looks of the meat.. Blackberry pudding: Haif'fill a bak- ing-d•ish with berries; sprinkle well. with anger and dot with butter; cover with a batter made by beating to- getheratwo eggs, two small cupfuls of flour and enough sweet milk to make a batter as thick as righ cream. Beat well, add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a ]little salt, pour over the r' berries andbakef •minutes for forty in a moderate oven. Blueberries can be used in the same way, 1-I1NTS FOR INVENTORS. an o flannel is kept around the - c anger rem chills, even though the only other garment is a loose romper or bloomers and waist. Sleeves from father's and mother's wornout flannels, or a three- inch section cut from the leg mare excellent bands' as they will stretch enough to permit their being drawn up into position and no pins are re- quired to hold them. In dog days givea light breakfast; do not insist that' little children eat what is set before them if to do so means starting the day with tears and bickering. At ten o'clock a few chin sandwiches and a glass of lemony will make sup for the lack of brea fast. Early in the' morning thiow o downstairs room open to the co fresh air, and as soon as the sun fairly up close it tightly, shutting 0 every possible degree of heat: I mediately •after dinner tell the lit people, and children are little peop from two years of age to twelve; th they may stay up later in the evenin if they will take a nice nap while ty de k- ne ol, is ut m- tl e le at g it be 1 in. from the top of the posts. They should fit between them. and the Mails (8 -penny finish nails) ,should be driven through the posts into the end ef the bars. and, using firmness if necessary, insist that they go to sleep. The average child will sleep until three or -four o'clock and the most intense heat of the day will then be passed. The second •"step" should be 12 in.After supper allow them to play below the first and the third 12 in. in the yard until dark, •and give them below the second. This makes the a special bed -tine treat' either of fourth bar 15 in, below the third. fruit, ice cream,'a cold glass of some Now when you have the two Iadders kind of fruitage, or any delicacy ' or sides drone, you can fit your Iower easily prepared. shelf right on and nail it, then the ' .. next and the next and last of a1 the top shelf. To brace the whole frame there really ' should be a cross bar under the top shelf in front and hack, How To Do Things. Ice cream is a real food and not a delicacy. Families having their own freezers should serve ice-cream often -and the same undee tile. lower shelf, for dessert. Its cost is no- greater .also. The door is too simple to need than that of pie and take and it furn- des'tription, ishes nourishment. The pan was made to order to fit Those who go picnicking should boil the top and cost $1.00 but you can all drinking water and milk before use a bread baking' pan that fits snug- drinking. People who have been auto- ly. Or this can be tin, painted and mobiling or picnicking in an unfam- then enameled to prevent rusting, iliar neighborhood often wring home The whole frame should be painted in their bodies typhoid -fever germs to keep it from warping. A wire which develop later. screen may be put around the sides Mint sauce can be made now for and on the door if you wish to make `inter use. Gather the leaves when it ;touter and to exclude insects. dry and clean; chop finely, put in a A cover of canton flannel, burlap, or bottle and fill with vinegar; cork well. dock is made to fit, the frame. Put When used pour out the quantity de - the smooth side' out if canton flannel' sired for flavoring, and add to it more is used. It will require about three' vinegar and sugar to taste. yards of material, This cover is buts' During hot weather give the baby toned around the top of the frame all the cool water—not ice water he' and down the side on which the door' will drink. Keep him out-of-doors all is not hinged, using buggy hooks and day, if possible. Dress hint lightly eyes or large -headed tacks' and eye- and bathe him night and morning with lets worked in the material. On the water at about the temperature of front side arrange the hooks on the the air. top of the door instead of on the' To keep fly -paper from blowing off frame and also fasten. the cover down the table, or wherever ,it is placed, the latch side of the door, allowing a tack a sheet of it to a small board wide hens of the material to overlap about the same length as the paper. the place where the door closes. The It will be found much easier to handle. door can then be opened..without un -I When your feet grow tired and ache, buttoning the cover. The bottom of and it is not practicable to take off the cover should extend down into the' your shoes, lie down and raise your lower pan. Four double strips, which feet as high as your Bead and higher. taper to 8 or 10 inches in width, are The blood will flow away from them sewed to the upper part of the cover.' and they will feel easier. This is These strips form wicks that dip over the plan sometimes used by soldiers into the upper pan, on a march. The iceless refrigerator ha, the ad -1 In the season of thunder storms it vantage of not drying out. The cloth; is wise to have ladders and buckets of folded into the pan of water at the' water at hand. Often a fire that to acts the same as the lamp wick • would destroy buildings and stock which draws the kerosene upto the could be extinguished if .instant mean flame. The cloth. around the rofriger- were taken, Chemical fire extinguish- atoredraws the water ;just like a wick, ers, not too heavy to be handled by a and the cloth is kept wet all the way: woman or child, that are simple in down to the'botto i. All you have to operation and non-explosiive, are a do is keep the pan flllcd with water, I great protection, and should be found just as you must keep your lamp filled in every home. with oil. I A broom wi1'1 last longer if on each The iceless refrigerator should be wash day, after the clothes are all placed where the air is in motion.boiled, it is dipped for a moment in motion.; soapy suds. Then shako it as free The Comfortable Child. I from water as possible and hang up The uncomfortable child is always by the handle. Slip an old newspaper MSS. If mothers would spend a little underneath to catch the drippings. I£ more time in discovering the causo there is a tendency to Iop-sidedness, back of John's bad temper •or araay's press the broom into shape while it sulkiness, family life would be a much is wet and pliable. pleast,i�ter thing. If there is eve. a1 Use short cuts in your work; one time for b:::a-g good-natured its short cut is to punch holes in the bete when the mercury runs up to tae tom of a tin can and put it in your rinsing pan. When you wash the silver knives, forks and spoons put Invest Your Money In r.f,' a (.4, DEBENTURES Iotereet payable half yearly. 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See or phone your dealer today. 13 U a`i ITE WEST TORONTO ----epirt.341,. .... Asp® Liquid Manure. Solid manure is a food, while liquid manure is a stimulant. All soils re- quire solid manure, and this should be applied in the autumn, if possible; certainly in the early spring before planting or sowing. The tulle to apply liquid manure is when the plants are making growth 'or .just as the plants are about to fruit on flower, if they are grown for the flowers. Fruit plants, are best treated with liquid manure when the fruit is in a half adAyel'oped condition; flowering plants just before the bode show color;; vegetables when about half grown, and foliage plants that make new growth in the spring when the new growth is well started. Never apply liquid manure when] thesoil is dry. Water dry soil lightly before applying 'liquid manure. Liquid inanure may be prepared from stable manure or from cows, sheep, fowls or pigeons. A barrel containing thirty -'six gal- lons of water in a secluded place in which a bag of half a bushel of horse or,cow manure has been placed can coveniently be renewed. The bag should be moved about until•the con - teats have pretty well dissolved. Draw off as wanted and dilute with water until: the color of weak tea. Fowl 'manure is' strong 'and only a peck may be used to thirty-sim garllons EFFECTS OF VEGETABLE POISONS Sixteen years ago a young pian eras 'brought into the iieepita] at Cairns, in Queensland, 'suffering from a strange paralysis of the optic nerves. Ixt spite of skilled treatment, he be- came ,blind. Other cases occurred in the Sanie district, and were traced to the eating of a wild fruit "known as the finger cherry, a IOng, bright red berry, which has nothing in common with. aur Can- adian cherry, The effects of certain 'vegetable poisons are ett present beyond scien- tific explanation, The finger cherry is not the only Australian pant which has, a. baneful effect upon • tba, optic nerves. Some years ago Mr. W.' I3, Morri- son, a well-known Australian horse breeder, wrote to the Sydney kerning Herald pointing out that numbers of horse were being blinded by eating the wild melon, which is common in many parts of Australia, and which grows in great profusion after the 'breaking of a long drought. One of the most terrible plants in existence is the Asclepias gigantee, which is common in Abyssinia, and • grows also in Ceylon. When cut, a mirky sap exudes from the stem and leaves, and the least drop of this will cause total blindness if it comes an contact with the eyes. The aselepias is used Iargely for firewood, but the men who cut it have to exercise extreme care. If a man ac- cidentally rubs his eye with his hand while engaged in •cutting this wood, acute ophthalmia is certain, and the sight of the eye is gone for goad. There is no cure. Yet the strangest thing is that goats eat the aselepias without suffering harm. Goats, too, can eat the Texan loco weed, which kills horses and cattle. This poisonous plant drives horses mad. They run in circles, and some- times are seized by a sort of mania. There are plants, even in the British Isles which are none too safe to med- dle with. Reference is not made to the regular poison plants -such a n hem- lock, deadly nightshade, or wild pars- nip. There are plants which ale popularly supposed to be harmless or even wholesome, yet which have very queer effects on certain individuals. Mountain ash, . for instance. The pretty fruit of this tree is made into jam, jelly, and a sort of spirit. The spirit has the extraordinary power of destroying the memory.. • Mixtures of fruits or .leaves, each of water. Always apply liquid manure harmless in themselves, may have un- directly to the soil, not over the foli- pleasant consequences. Be careful not 'age or flowers. ' Pot plants should not to eat spinach and an orange et the be given more than one application same meal. The :oxalic acid of the a week. former is freed by the nitric acid of the latter, and the result is a more or less sharp case of paisaning. To- mato must not•be followed by Iemon or the result may be the same. Some fruits are injurious in an. unni.pe condition. The juice of a raw pineapple if injected under the skin is most dangerous. The Grasshopper Ca c Ler When grasshoppers make their ap- pearance they can be destroyed by the common poison bait method. But there is another way of getting rid of grass- hoppers that makes the pests pay for the trouble of killing and catching them. This method consists of driv- ing a grasshopper catcher through an infested field, catching all the grass- hoppers that hop and then feeding the insects to chickens, They can be dumped, into sacks and hung up to; dry and fed as dry grasshoppers, ori if it is preferred to feed the grass -I hoppers, alive the machine can ;bed hauled to the poultry yard and placed; so that the front will face the light. The [insects will find their way own! but none too fast for an ordinary flock' of chickens. ' Thus the grasshopper catcher becomes a self -feeder. An analysis of grasshoppers shows then to be high in protein and •there- fore good chicken feed. It is known that chickens are more piroductive. when insects are a part of theirra- tion, and grasshoppers when dried can be used with other feeds during' the winter. The grasshopper catcher, which has an advantage over the old style hop- perdozer in that the insects can be I utilized for chicken feed, is about six- teen feet long with an upright but curved piece of tin in front, and so arranged that the grasshoppers will strike it as they hop up, failing to the bottom and back through a { narrow trap opening into a box be- - The tin front does not extend quite to the bottom, where just in front of the tin shield is a strip of tin placed so that there is an opening about one and a half or five inches wide. This frent strip or lip niay be made by using a sixteen foot length of gutter one side of which is flatten- ed outward. The back and top of the box in the rear is covered with wire screen and the top should be so dinged that it can easily be opened and the accumulated ' grasshoppers shoveller] out as needed. A horse i$ hitched at the extended beam at each end and the catcher dragged through the infested ife5t" l area be- ginning at the sides and working to- ward the centre of the field. To prepare your stock for the r To be held at UNION STOCK YARDS how 1 •ith and 12t Early preparation produces the prize winners. Premium List, which will be ready for distribution in three weeks, carries more classes than ever before. Low -Headed Apple Trees. Old apple trees frequently grow skyward until they reach a height that makes them difficu.•t to harvest. Apple pickers cannot afford to waste their time trying to gather fruit from small limb, which shoot far beyond them when working from the last safe round of the ladder. It pays to dehorn many trees of this type. At least they should be headed back so that all of the fruit can bei reached without • excessive effort. Then the strength of the trees will be con- served for the lower limbs and they will produce more fruit and fruit of better quality. • The open centre is of value ,in tho old apple tree to allow the 'sunshine to enter and color up the fruit. Trees which have a bush -like centre aro difficult to spray and harvest p yest aund the fruit may be dull and green because of a lack of sunshine. Many old apple orchards have reached a stage where most of the trees cannot be made profitable even with the best of care. It will pay to cut down such trees and plant a new orchard or use the land for another purpose. It is good to recommend the proper tale of old orchards but some of diem have reached a stage where they cannot profitably compete with new commer- cial orchards, and farmers cannot af- ford to waste time caring for half- dead trees, When the trees aro good enough to rejuvenate the low Bead and open centre should be emphasized (11 training then, ''1 • "With -Drawing" Room, Drawing -room" is en abbreviation of "with drawing room," which was originally the apartment in a house to which the ladies withdrew from the hall, which was the usual living and dining room, The custom of withdraw. ing after dinner is derived from the Norsemen, for 'the Vikings always Ms - missed women frons their drinking bouts.