Secretary of Agriculture asks
Every Household to can and
Dry their Surplus Fruits and
Vegetables
Every housewife this year should restore to her home the often
overlooked home industries of canning, preserving, pickling,
and drying of perishable fruits or vegetables. The large numb
er of new back-yard gardens which have been planted this yeat
shortly will begin to yield their extra harvest of beans, peas,
carrots, beets, sweet corn and tomatoes. The regular supplies
also will reach the markets and, as happens each summer, the
local supply at times will exceed immediate consumption capac
ty. Not to conserve much of this surplusage of valuable food
would be sinful waste.
The present food and labor situations are such that no house
hold is justified in looking to others to release it wholly from
individual responsibility and constructive action in saving and
conserving food. All any home should expect of others is to
supply those foods which can not be produced effectively by its
own members. The railroads will be burdened with the trans
portation of staple foods and civil and military necessaries from
localities of production and manufacture to districts incapable
of supplying their own needs. It follows that all locally pro
duced foods, conserved by home methods, lessen the winter
pressure on transportation agencies and also release similar pro
ducts of factories for other purposes.
I urge every household, therefore, to can all surplus perishable
products for which they have containers and to dry and keep in
paper any additional surplus suitable for such preservation.
Canning calls for no special skill and for little equipment beyond
a wash boiler and jars. Fresh products, cleanliness, and heat
are the chief requirements, as even sugar is not essential for
canning fruits under modern procedure. Fruits and vegetables
moreover, can be dried efficiently in the sun, over a range or
gas stove, or before an electric fan. Homemade shallow trays
of wood or heavy wire screen are the chief equipment required
Drying is a time-tried home industry; conservation of food by
drying is largely a matter of restoring to the home great-grand
mother’s method of seeing that her family had good food in
winter as a relief from a monotonous diet of root vegetables.
Canning, of course, already ..is a profitable industry for women
and children in thousands of homes and I trust will become al
most universal this season To aid the home conservation
movement, the Department of Agriculture has issued a new
Farmer’s Bulletin on home canning and another on home dry
ing of fruits and vegetables. These free pamphlets should be
read and followed in every household which wishes to translate
patriotic impulse into concrete service.
D. F. HOUSTIN,
U. S. Sec. of Agriculture.
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Make Your Children Healthier and
Happier and Save Doctor's Bills By
Feeding Them Properly.
By Mjss Isabelle Thui bv, Specialist in
Home Economics, in Extension
Division, University of
Arkansas.
When one stops to consider that it
has been a good many years since all
the progressive farmers became con
vinced that a farm animal, when fed
on a scientific ration, kept in better
health and was more profitable than
one fed on a "hit and miss” diet, it is
I surpassing strange that so many poo
ple should doubt the wisdom of con
sidering a scientific knowledge of
foods in the feeding of human ani
mals. When we consider that what
uit- scientists nave tound out would,
if generally known and heeded, un
doubtedly prolong human life, and
keep most of us in better health, it is
incomprehensible that the government
should be spending so comparatively
much on the lives and health of swine,
| and so comparatively little on the
lives and health of human beings.
Even for him who can understand
nothing but the language of dollars
and cents, healthy children may he
more profitable than healthy horses
and cattle. It takes more money to
maintain a family with sickness in it
than it does to maintain a well one,
j for the doctor may take away more
j than hogs or horses can bring in.
The kind of food which produces a
healthy human being is of the gravest
importance at any period of life, but
it is of the most Importance in child
hood. We are, all of us, what our
foods make us, and if one has been
! reared to manhood on a fare which
; has made him rugged, full of vitality,
pure blood and abounding health, he
Is best equipped to meet all the dan
gers which threaten human life. Fur
ther, a youth who is being properly
fed is forming correct food habits.
"Raise a child in the way he should
go, and in his manhood he will not
depart from it,” was not said only of
character. A mother who feeds her
children on poorly selected food is
putting a more potent curse upon them
than the most ingenious witch rould
devise.”
On the subject of what is intended
by Nature for animal food there has
been much argument, but the farts of
Nature indicate that, while many oth
er things may be, and probably are,
intended for animal food, there are,
so far as we actually know, only
three things intended for that purpose.
These are milk, eggs and honey. It
l,s certain that Nature made these for
that purpose, and for that purpose
only.
No greater tribute could be paid to
good, pure milk than the citation of
the—fact that it is being more and
more recognized not only as a pre
ventive but as a cure for many dis
eases. Just what it is in milk which
gives it. its value, not only for main
taining health, but as a specific for
these diseases, cannot be said to have
been determined as yet with absolute
eertninty; yet more and more are phy
sicians prescribing it with the great
est success. There have always been
fairly good reasons for believing thRt
eggs were a form of food that should
never be omitted from the diet of
children past infancy, but lately the
scientists have been able to furnish
absolute proof. Dr. McCollum of the
University of Wisconsin fed some
young rats on a diet which was sup
posed to contain all the elements
that were necessary in human food
proteid, starch, fat, mineral and vit
amines from grains, chemically re
moving everything else from the food,
making it absolutely pure. Rut the
rats would not grow. When a certain
amount, of butter or fats from egg
yolks was added to this diet, the rats
grew. He found that neither olive oil
nor hog fat would serve the purpose.
"Sugar,” in ordinary language,
means merely that commercial prod
uct, usually made from cane sugar,
which is sold as sugar in the grocery
stores. Rut that which is known as
sugar to the scientists is an element
some amount of it is undoubtedly
| necessary in the human diet. Milk
contains some, and some fruits—
dates for instance, contain a great
• deal. White cane sugar contains that
: element, and contains it in a far more
; concentrated form than can he found
anywhere else in Nature. However,
I honey not only has a more delightful
flavor, hut is certainly far more whole
| some than cane sugar.
Every farmer who has regard for
| the welfare of his family should kfpp
i a cow, chickens, and a few hives of
bees, and supply an abundance or
these foods.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE EX
PERT ADVICE THE AGRICUL
TURAL EXPERTS CAN
GIVE YOU.
When you are in trouble or need
any agricultural information why not
write to the College of Agriculture of
i the Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas at Fayetteville,
j Ark ? A number of experts in every
line of agriculture are always willing
i and ready to help you.
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PRESIDENT J. W. CONGER, Conway, Ark.
For My Demonstration Orchards
1WANT one farmer in each neighborhood to write me
once for my unusual and money-making proposition. You'll
surprised when you see just what this proposition Is — so write me
once for full particulars. Here’s a hint or what I am doing—read
then write me promptly —
A Lifetime Opportunity
I want you to put your waste land
to work, by letting me plan an orchard for
you. My expert orchardist will lay It out,
examine your noil and determine just w hat
treea end varieties would be beet adapted.
All thin tie done without expeniac to
you. Then, you can order aa many treoa aa
as you want. and. If you want to, you can pay
for a few treea each year—Just aa you please.
When your orchard Is planted. I’ll make
you my manager In your neighborhood and you
can make money with mo right from the start.
ni|«t
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thi
This plan has been worked
various sections of the
has proved a big
farmer managers are
over it—you will be the seme.
There are other feature# that I can’t sn
plaln here because of limited apace, but U
you will just dropmeanoteora poetal and say
Tell me all shout your DemonstrsMen erchanT
return mail. Make
—I'll answer personally, by
momey with me —It's ail
GEORGE PARKER, Manager
PARKER BROS. NURSERY CO.
"Yho raymttovUlo Nuraorlot”
hu.'ker Building, Fayetteville,
ADAMS BROTHERS
Cotton and Corn Buyers
General Merchandise
To the Farmers:—We want your produceand will
pay the highest market price in cash or trade
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Preparatory Department
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