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| Every Household to can and
| Dry their Surplus Fruits and
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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 year
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 requ ired
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 .ris 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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Smith Center, Kan.—ltay Con- |
£ i away, a farmer of this county, f
► | surely is entitled to the title of ?
| ? champion stay-at-home. Born
► l four miles from this city. Coua- J
b • way has never been more than t
£ | 27 miles from his birthplace, and I
£ t when he made that trip he en- t
£ ! joyed his first and only ride on a i
[ t passenger train. He is thirty J
r I years old, married and has sev- i
i • eral children. |
TOO BUSY FOR CELL TERM
Prisoner Balks at Long Prison Sen
tence and Gets Jail Term
Instead.
Orange, N. J.—On the plea that he
could not afford to pass from one to
three years In the state prison,
George Calvey was finally successful
In his efforts to have Judge Roseberry,
sitting in the Warren county court,
Belvidere, reduce his sentence to one
to three months in the Warren county
KANSAS FARMER IS
REAL STAY-AT-HOME •
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When the judge first passed sen
tence the prisoner pleaded that he
was “a busy man," and was unable to
pass that much time in prison. The
judge refused to listen to his plead
ings at first, but before court ad
journed he finally won the judge over
by relating that while he wanted to
do what was right in the matter, he
could not really set' his way clear to
devote so much time in serving a sen
tence. Calvey, who Is a traveling
salesman, was convicted of assault
nnd battery on Rev. Walter II. Stone
of Belvidere.
LIVING FISH IN RIVER ICE
Curious Phenomena of Recent Bliz
zard in Missouri Is Reported by
Party on Skates.
Jefferson City, Mo.—A curious phe
nomenon of a sudden blizzard that
struck this section is reported by Jef
ferson City people who have been sknt
Ing on the Moreau river, several miles
from the city.
The mercury dropped from well up
In the sixties to 14 below zero in 15
hours, and ice on the streams
and ponds formed so rapidly that
many fish were imprisoned in the
ice and are still solidly embedded.
The ice in many places is eight to ten
inches thick, and clear. Skaters say
that hundreds of fish of all kinds nnd
dizes can plainly be seen.
It is said that fish frozen in the ice
tf a living stream will revive when the
Ice thaws.
WINS RANK AS COLONEL
Colonel Girard-Mangin is the only
woman doctor in France who has been
called into service at the front. For
two years she has been in complete
charge of a great hospital at Verdun,
and so successful has she been that
she has been gazetted to the rank of
colonel.
USE CLUBS, DEFY OFFICIALS
Father and Daughter Take Heroic
Measures to Prevent Sale of
Farm for Taxes.
Oswego, N. Y.—Patrick Lonergan
and his daughter, Josephine, seven
teen, defied the village officials at Alt
mar when the officials attempted to
sell the Lonergan farm at auction for
unpaid village taxes.
When Clarence Reese, villuge clerk,
and V. D. Pierce, treasurer, went to
the town hall they found Lonergan and
his daughter armed with clubs. En
treaties to permit the sale proved un
availing, and the officials swore In four
special constables, who held father
and daughter long enough to enable
the sale to be made. In the light pre
ceding tlie sale two constables were
hurt, and charges of assault were
made against father and daughter.
One Red Rose, Consideration.
New York.—A single red rose to be
paid every June to Evans Dick, New
York broker, is the consideration for
a piece of property just transferred
! to Mrs. Celyna Fitzgerald, widow,
' here.
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FAYETTEVILLE
Offers full and complete courses leading to degrees In
agriculture, engineering, education, or normal xvork, and
liberal arts and sciences. i
Complete courses in music, painting, drawing, domes
tic science, domestic art, and other work that appeals
especially to women. During the next session, special
courses intended to prepare women for various kinds of
war work will be offered.
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requiring four years of high school work for unconditional
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work for a degree. Its graduates are admitted without res
ervation to the greatest post graduate schools of the Unit'
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Its mechanic arts, electricity, engineering, and agricul
ture, special courses of a practical nature are provided for
students of ability who have not had the high school edu
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The next session opens Wednesday, September 19.
For catalogs, bulletins, and full information, write The
Registrar.
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ARKANSAS’ SELECT 8CHOOL FOR GIRLS
Its Reputation and Success Are Built on Merit and Results
Standard Curriculum loading t© regular degrees.
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For catalogue and other information, write
PRESIDENT J. W. CONGER, Conway, Ark.
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For My Demonstration Orchards
T WANT one farmer in each neighborhood to write me at
A °nce for my unusual and money-making proposition. You’ll be
surprised when you see just what this proposition is — so write me et
once for full particulars. Here’s a hint of what I am doing—read It
then write me promptly—
A Lifetime Opportunity
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I want you to put your waste land
to work, by letting: me plan an orchard for
yon. My expert orchardist will lay it out,
examine your noil and determine just what
tree* and varieties would be best adapted.
All tliia l/i done without expense to
you. Then, you can order as many trees as
as you want, and. if you want to. you can pay
for m few trees each year—just as you please.
When your orchard is planted. I’ll make
you my manager in your neigh borhood and you
can make money wi th mo riff h t from the start.
This plan has been worked
various sections of the stale
has proved a big succei
farmer managers are enth__
over it—you will be the seme.
There ere ether feature, th.t I aaat ea
plain here because of limited specs, but If
you will just dropmeanoteora postalasdey
Trll me all about your Demon.trall«a ercharr
— I'll answer personally, by return mail. Malta
— it's all aiaapla
motney with me
GEORGE PARKER. Manager
PARKER BROS. NURSERY
“The rmyettovlllo Nurmonos”
P^.-ker Building, Fayetteville,
CO.
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
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
Arkansas College
Preparatory Department
The beat place to educate your son or daught<._. a
high-toned student-body; the teachers are men and
women of the highest culture refinement, and ability.
The student’s course of study and conduct is care
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easily and pursues his studies with pleasure and suc
cess.
Experienced teachers. Small classes. Thorough and
rapid progress.
Considering time saved and character of the work,
it is cheaper than the public school.
Students admitted as low as the eighth grade.
New classes after the New Tear.
Get ready for entrance by writing for information
I ° E. D. BROWN, DEAN
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Batesville, Arkansas
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