MAKING GOOD CIDER VINEGAR Process Is Simple and Involves Very Little Work—Cleanliness Is First Important Factor. (By 8. M. MILLER) There are many apple orchards, es pecially those that have never been sprayed or cultivated, in which large quantities of apples are allowed to go to waste every year, Such fruit makes a good grade of cider vinegar, and a handsome profit can be made in utilizing it in this way orchard regularly each and does everything possible to prevent having anything but marketable fruit there will always be a good many culls However, do not allow these unmer- chantable apples to go to waste, Make cider vinegar from them and get a good price for the product right here at home Making cider vinegar is very simple There is practically no labor attached tn it other than extracting the juice from the apples Perfect cleanliness first, last and all the time is a matter of vital impor tance. Apples that are picked up from the ground are usually dirty and should be thoroughly washed before being placed in the cider mill The mill and all utensils used in the making must be kept well cleaned {f a good product is to be made To use unclean fruit unclean vessels sim ply invites bad fermentation If all sorts of germs which are found on dirty and decayed fruit are put in the cider a good quality of must not be expected Where one has no mill the fruit can be pulped by hand with wooden mauls in a wooden trough, and where only a sufficient quantity of vinegar is want. ed for home ft is difficult matter in way The best which put the clder are molasses kegs or barrels, preferably which have held vinegar previously, since fermen tation commences sooner when the fer menting organism is present than when it must find its way into the liquid from outside mediums To made a good grade of vinegar two factors are essential during process of fermentation First, air must have free access to the liquid to support the organism temperature must be favorable for the growth of the fermenting agent The barrels or kegs should be placed in a room the temperature will be fairly cor at placed on thelr surface season or use not a to secure [it this receptacles in to those the the Second, the where 70 to 75 degrees in order to give the atmosp and the juice to witl sides more to here, filled with to eight iin ches inches of the bun HANDY LITTLE GRAPE PICKER Device Is Artificial Thumb Nail, Held on By Means of Plate and Makes Picking Simple. device shown in the il an artificial to pinch The thimble lustration is thumb nail in with reality which Grape Picker, bunches of grapes from the vine. plate and strap, and makes picking simple and quick. KEEP THE LAWN BEAUTIFUL Rake All Moss Out and Cut Dande- lions and Plantain Well Below Crowns—Plant Borders. Go over the lawn and if you find moss rake it out. Cut well belew the crowns of dandelions and plantain. If possible top dress the lawn with leaf mold or thoroughly rotten straw or manure, The continuous flowering border recommends itself to the busy house wife who wants a lot of flowers and who has but little time to give to them, Prepare a border two or two and one half feet wide and spade it two feet deep, enriching It with wellrotted manure. Into this border plant all @orts of annuals, perennials and bulbs, placing the tall growing ones in the back row and the short ones along the edge of the border, As the years pass the border will grow In beauty and bloom ten months in the year almost, | i i { i USEFUL LOW-WHEEL WAGON Has Been Found Practically Indispen- sable for Various Jobs Around Farm Every Day in Year. bed will be close to the ground That need has been met with and has made |t practically indispensable for gathering apples, and hauling basket fruit, fod- the fields of stones and stumps and timber for fixing odd job, say, hauling away a fallen tree Then there is nothing that bill better for all kinds of work in the There is no earthly rea- high as his shoulder when the low wagon will permit him to perform the Low Broad-Tired Wagon. labor in the same amount of time, to say nothing of the wear and tear on a man's back and body Almost year a farmer buys some implement that he can use only during of the year-—per- days; but the low something that he in year make means every one season only a few wagon is every day broad tires and that Of course will wheel CAD use The lighter, the draft saving the certain kinds of always be a tire wheels, the for de but and particularly where the ground is soft the pull on the team is decreased 25 per cent 50 per cent for the simple reason that the broad tires do not sink into the ground: wider bearing surface of the tire t load in such a manner as the wagon and keep it on top of the ground Especially on plowed ground or muddy roads these » mire like ich of course makes the saving on the horses even greater road use there the narrow on a smooth surface to the * distributes the to buoy up very heels do not the ordinary wheels, wh Scientist Has Secret Process By Which Flowers and Fruit Are Con- verted Into Solid Mass. By means of a seeret proc Prof G. Delamothe, a European scientist, said convert and SER, to flowers, fruit Grapes Turned Into Metal. even mal tissue ani > Popular metal, says de the is transmute the life into Mechanics He posit a thin layer i8 ID does not of metal upon surface electroplating, but said to grown material The bunch of flustration and actu dead metal the grapes shown in was so converted, the leaves having all their in metal. The treat complished by an electrical ment is a« It is good practice to graft plums A spraying of the currant and other small fruit bushes will help Fruit should never be offered sale that ia éxposed to flies An orchard neglected for one year | virtually puts it back three years. for | outer bark, wrap the wound with cloth. {you may be sure there ls a reason and you ought to find it. their way every year in fruit Do not be stingy of water for the plants. Soak them plenty a day. too good, If a man sells fruit of which he is ashamed then he should throw away his stencil and conceal all evidence of his ownership. The flowers will require close atten. tion now to keep them tidy. Pick off all the seed pods and dead leaves and keep after the weeds, Lemon and orange growers have learned that it is best to wash and wipe them before packing to prevent the spread of rot fungi The reason fruit trees planted In fence corners and out of the way places do not thrive generally may be found in the fact that they are not cultivated, the st flats outfleld American lubs in spect Cobb i and Detroit's Crawford Jones compose a com in the league, viewed from any standpo bination that has no equal One of the greatest requisite outfielders is th owing, next t When a your utfieider is the scout, af Average can throw with to have curately That see tod was emphasized nt game with fie OU I PAA tN PNP JOHNNY EVERS AS MANAGER! Herrmann Declares Next Head of Cin cinnati Team Will Be Player Trojan Mentioned. ts the next man th ager of ing manage? said sr other ov fice after a tw day. Ga weeks Second Baseman Evers. absence, during which time he was forced to read the reports of numerous Red reverses. “We will move heaven and earth to bring to Cincinnati the man best quali- fled for the position,” continued Gar- ry. “We have several in view and will attempt to get one of them either by trade or purchase.” It was rumored in Cincinnati the other day that Second Baseman John- ny Evers of the Chicago club will probably be the next Red manager. Evers, it 1s sald, should be in condi tion to play his usual good game next geakon, and his presence in the infleld would go a great way toward bracing up the club. The Chicago club, it is not believed, will stand in Evers’ way, if he has a chance to take over the Red manage ment, “George Stallings, manager of the Buffalo club of the Eastern league, is not under consideration,” sald Presi det Herrman, A a dt a a a NP PP Athletics d that the off old baseball ialg have ACK 0 the “lH No team in the Americar has suffered i more from year than the White Sox Hargrove, the young catcher report ight by the Plrates 18 vears old He is hitting 300 Marty O'Todle, who made ciation strikeout record game honors in the for 15810 Pat role ed bo is only the asso held the Western league also Dougherty of really enjoys g¢mergency hitter much bet. than be does a regular berth the outfield Ira Thomas managers in either league. Ira work purchase of Catcher Stephen from the Worcester, Mass. club of the New England league ning team, all the past. present and future, near and distat relatives of Stanley Robison want their share Black, the seventh candidate that Bobby Wallace has tried out at first this season, hag been succeeded by Dode Criss) the pinch hitting pitcher. There might be a lot of bidding for the services of Magee if the Philadel. phia club would ouly indicate in some way that an offer would be considered. Luderus might be a lot of help to the Cubs right gow If they had him, but President Murphy is certain that Saler Is better than the Phillie young: ster, John 1. Taylor would have traded Joe Wood and Bill Carrigan last year for almost anything or anybody. He wouldn't take a big plle of kale for the pair right now, Ed Reulbach has taken a little waif lad under his philanthropic wing. He bought him a hair cut and something to eat, then landed him a job as pop corn butcher at the Boston park. OR SE ROR, ! Manager Fred Tenney of the Boston Nationals, Tells of Some Remark aple All-Round Players. “Just as a chain is only as strong its weakest link, so a ball club is on'y as strong as its substitutes,” says Tenney, manager the Boston “Therefore, |t will be just ae necessary to a careful dis in the of substi the selection of the regular A few when baseball could + different positions, as of use choice YEArs ago the plavers Today there who can do this “This are comparativey few is the of specialization, aptly illus Men fleld one erfection in nowhere | than mm ball ire an themselve ition, disregar« g all others. Oc casionally a man appears who seems ' able to accommodate himself to any 3b the old Stafford was of 100} of repiica York he on in VAS the MILLERS GET ALTIZER Given Team, is Retu “Dare Dev by Cinc nnat to Minneapolis. Dave (“Dare Devil”) Altizer, Recruit Esmond promising so well tillon and shiped Sox back to his 1910 home. Sunday Baseball Uplift. Sunday baseball by professional force, according Cowles of New Haven, Conn, ply to a demand from day games at Lighthouse Point in the suburbs, Chief Cowles says: “Sunday baseball by professionals will continue at Lighthouse Point so long as the game is conducted in an orderly manner, because it draws young men from the streets and les. gens the number of arrests for drunkenness and disorder. Many young men are attracted to the shore by the Sunday games who would oth. erwise loiter on street corners, and from my own personal observation I know it lowers the number of cases in the courts Monday.” # » . NOTHING BUT AN AMATEUR That in His Damasel's Questions Re vealed Callow Lover True Light, “Do th and tri ink 1 asked divine,” you really beautiful 7 ily am “You plied “But there you think “No. 1 fhe are simply he re are more heautiful think there is a beautiful girl in the world than “There giris you are just though You beautlf than other other girls whom than 1” more yom - think don’t are other as beautiful, are girl | "1 suppose girls whom itiful “1 think ful than breathed.” more ever ul any saw.” there are plenty of You consider aimost as bea us more beautd any ever why Wail Vy 11, the frat plas “9 That was what For COLDS and GRIP Car NE i the “med Man. The Honest important to mine careiuil Nothers Every Unexpected. the Went Up Twenty Points ng th ¥ ot 3 03t ol Dying 3 been discove that s after an ordina lent deat! and diseased a vi 11 at ver Ail a pver may be the 3 ¢ it has been { ablest me Leslie's cient Weekly ica ry STRONGER THAN MEAT A Judge's Opinion of Grape-Nuts, A gentleman who has acquired a ju- dicial turn mind from experience on the bench out in the Sunflower State writes a carefully considered opinion as to the value of Grape-Nuts as food. He says: “For the past § years QGrape-Nuts has been a prominent feature in our of “The crisp food with the delicious, nutty flavor has become an indis- in my family's everyday life, “It has proved to be most healthful practically abolish pastry and ples Grape-Nuts, and do not crave rich and “Grape-Nuts keeps us all in perfect cial effects of Grape-Nuts when used by ladies who are troubled with face ete. It clears up the complexion wonderfully. “As to its nutritive qualities, my ex- perience is that one small dish of Grape-Nuts is superior to a pound of meat for breakfast, which is an impor tant consideration for anyone. It sate isfles the appetite and strengthens the power of resisting fatigue, while its use involves none of the disagreeable consequences that sometimes follow a meat breakfast,” Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, “The Road te Wellville,” In pkgs. “There's a reason.” Ever read Fhe above letter? A one appears te time, are genuine, tree, foil of homan wl bee oni
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