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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 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.
FRUIT G VEC STABLE CROPS
Problems in Marketing Perishable
Products Begin With Produc
tion—Important Factors.
The problems iu the marketing of
the vast amount of perishable food
products begin, as do most marketing ;
problems, with production. The vari- :
ety of the fruit or vegetable grown
and the amount of this variety avail
able, often are important factors in
shaping market demand and prices. 1
The quality of the product, as influ
enced by choice of soils, fertilizers j
and cultural methods, is another im
portant consideration affecting mar
keting success.
Since the growing of perishable
fruits and vegetables is on a rela
tively small-scale basis, while the
large aggregate demands of the great
market centers have brought about
the existence of dealers who handle
such produce only in large lots, the
questions of production which later
Influence marketing cun be dealt with 1
satisfactorily in most cases only on a
community basis. This fact and the
recognition that many other problems
could he met satisfactorily only by co
operating groups of producers, has
led to the organization of co-operative
marketing associations in many sec
tions devoted more or less extensively
to the production of such perishable
crops.
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SPRAY OUTFIT iS ESSENTIAL
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Many Places on Farm Where It Is
Needed—Valuable in Orchard,
Garden and Henhouse.
No farm should be without a good
spraying outfit. There are so many
places where It is valuable. The or
chard, the garden and the henhouse
all need it. The little bucket spray
ers are just an aggravation for any
use where pressure and speed are
needed, though they are fully as use
ful as one could expect them to he.
For spraying one or two trees, or for
the henhouse, they will do very well,
but in a large field of potatoes, a large
orchard of large trees, or where force
enough is needed to throw the spray
into dense foliage, they cannot he ex
pected to do the work as well as a I
more powerful pump. The lever ac
tion of the barrel pump handle adds to
the power exerted, and the larger cyl
inder gives a faster flowing stream and
a greater pressure can be maintained
with the same nozzle. A barrel spray
er, that takes a barrel without a head
and is attached to the rim of the bar
rel, will give good service.
BALANCED RATION FOR HENS
In Experiment Conducted by Ohio Sta
tion Fowls Gained in Weight and
Produced More Eggs.
Feeders of horses, cattle, sheep and
hogs have claimed for years that these
animals must be fed a “balanced
rutlon. Special attention has been
given to balanced rations for dairy
cows. By this is meant that one feed
constituent should not be fed in ex
cess, while another is lacking for the
upkeep of the animal’s body. The pro
tein must be in a certain proportion
to the sugars, starches and fat in the
feed. Now the hen comes in for her
share in this scientific feeding.
Ten times as many eggs were pro
duced by hens fed a well-balanced
ration as by those given only corn,
wheat and oats in an experiment con
ducted by the Ohio experiment sta
tion. The balanced ration consisted
of three parts by weight of corn and
one part of wheat fed twice daily in
tiie litter, and a mash mixture of two
parts meatscrap added to two parts
ground corn and one part bran fed in
self-feeding hoppers.
The 21 Barred Plymouth Rock pul
lets in each lot received the same
Barred Plymouth Rock Pullet.
house space and treatment except for
the difference In feed. The test period
lasted 140 days.
The hens given the balanced ration
ate more feed, which cost about 50
per cent more than the ration of corn,
wheat and oats. However, they gained
more in weight anil produced ten
times as many eggs, making a net ;
profit, while the other lot was kept at
a loss.
PROPER QUARTERS FOR HOGS 1
Animals Should Not Be Permitted to
Burrow Deep and Sleep in Damp
Straw—Have Pens Dry.
M Hogs should not be allowed to bur
[ | row deep and sleep in damp straw
r around the stacks,
k They come out wet and steaming
r j into the cold air and contract cold and
k i pneumonia.
r provide dry tight pens and make
4 them sleep in suitable quarters.
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FAYETTEVILLE
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Complete courses in music, painting, drawing, domes
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war work will be offered.
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The next session opens Wednesday, September 19.
For catalogs, bulletins, and full Information, write The
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PRESIDENT J. W. CONGER, Conway, Ark.
For My Demonstration Orchards
I WANT 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 writ* me
once for full particulars. Here’s a hint of what I am doing—read it
then write me promptly —
A Lifetime Opportunity
1 want you to put your waste land
to work, by letting me plan an orchard for
you. My expert orchardist w ill lay It out,
examine your soil and determine just what
trees and varieties v «it adapted.
All this is done wiihout expense to
you. Thee, you can order as many trees as
as yon want, and. If you want to, you can pay
for a few trees each year—just aa you plouso.
When your orchard is planted. I'll make
you my manager In your neighborhood and you
can make money with me right from the start.
This plan has been worked mat In
various sections of the stale aad
has *proved a big suceesa. »y
farmer managers are enthtuhMrfk
over it—you will be the same.
Thera are other fra to ret that I oaa't ex
plain here because of limited apace, but If
*i“i will just drop meanoteor a postal aad aar
'Tell me all about yonr iV'ium*tra!i««i •rcharo'
—I’ll answer personally, by return mail. Make
montejr with me — ft’* ell eimple as
GEORGE PARKER, Manager
PARKER BROS. NURSERY CO.
“Tho Fayattovtne Nursorlcs”
!>«-.'kcr Building, Fayetteville, Aiki
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
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Preparatory Department
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