> > > > OL oO or PO © Loneliness Routed by Cupid By JESSIE DOUGLAS o o © (Copyright) * ' Woods Savings Bank, | Says Forest Officer Timber Conservation Be- comes Economic Need. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) . Timber is a farm savings bank to be rawn upon in times of extra need, says W. R. Mattoon, extension for- ester of the forest service, United States Department of Agriculture. The trees are the capital or principal; new growth is the interest. Each day ihe interest is added—and the cashier cannot run away. Farm woodlands have many times been the means of lifting a mortgage, or making the difference between profit and loss on the farm balance sheet, Mattoon says. Timber and wood are required for the successful operation of the farm, and most farm- ers have some lands better adapted to tree growth than cultivated crops. The growing of timber is therefore legitimately a part of the regular farm program. Timber conservation has ‘come to be a matter of economic neces- sity. No farmer can afford to pay taxes on idle land. If the woods bank is drawh on only to the extent of cutting the growth, or interest, the capital remains un- touched, and the investment continues undiminished. Some useful hints in using farm timber rightly, in cutting for continuous growth, and in mar- keting farm timber are given in De- partment. of Agriculture Leaflet No. 29, “The Farm Woods—A Savings Bank,” just off the government presses. Copies. of this leaflet can be procured by writing to the United States . Department of Agriculture, . : Washington. Artificial Manure Made From Farm-Grown Crops Manure equal in quality to the best barnyard fertilizer caf:b made from farm-grown materials®and without the aid of ‘horses or oth { m ‘animals, according to a series®of ‘experiments that have bee carried on by the soils department: of the University of Mis- souri for the past two years. Ordinary wheat or oats straw is the material and a simple, inexpensive chemical mixture, combined with rain, is the chief manufacturing agent which changes the straw to manure within two or three months after it is threshed. . The cost of the artificial manure varies between 65 and 85 cents per ton, according to the experiments carried out to date. The process: is briefly this: A sim- ple chemical mixture of 45 per cent ammonium sulphate, 40 per cent agri- cultural limestone and 15 per cent su- perphosphate is mixed with the straw at threshing time at the rate of 150 pounds to a ton of straw. The straw is blown into flat piles not over five or six feet deep in order that it may take up water readily from rains and start the rotting brought about by the chemicals through their effect on the bacteria and molds in the straw. The length of time necessary to change the straw into manure depends on the depth of the piles of straw and the amount of rainfall, as water is one of the very necessary chemical agents in the process of rotting. Modified Rag-Doll Seed- Corn Tester Easily Made More than a million ears of corn were tested in the spring of 1928 in community testers by the rag doll method, according to Purdue univer- sity. Plans for such testers can be secured from the university at La- fayette, Ind. : To make the modified rag-doll seed- corn tester, use a piece of heavy waterproof paper, 12 inches wide and abodt 52 inches long. On this lay a cloth the same width and about 48 inches long. Three sections of ordi- nary paper hand towels are equally good. The cloth or paper should be thoroughly wet and at least five ker- nels from each ear be laid in rows on the doll, which will accommodate 20 ears. The dolls are rolled and set in a heated container where the . temperature can be held at about 80 degrees. and the dolls can be watered daily. After seven days the dollsewill . be ready to read.. 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0-000-00000000000 : Agricultural Hints 3 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00-000-00-000000-0000 If you can get good seed now, buy it. Seed prices are expected to be high this spring. * * Milk your cows immediately before instead of after feeding them and you will avoid off-flavors: * * =x Remember that onions in storage need a cool temperature, dry atmos- phere, and plenty of ventilation. * * ® A warmed tool house starts the good husbandman on next year’s farm tasks by giving him a chance to put all im- plements in order. * *® * Sweet clover improves the soil so much that it runs itself out of a home by making the ground more suitable to other plants which can then crowd it off the ground. * ® * Time spent during the winter in cleaning and grading. seed oats, seed corn, and sorghum seed is time well invested. It is always advisable to have a germination test made of all seed that is to be used for planting. TALE RIGHT FEED FOR A DAIRY HEIFER Dairymen should become more far- sighted in raising young stock, for the quality of the future herd depends largely on breeding and inherited pro- ductive capacity. If the heifer is stunted by poor feeding and neglect she will not become the kind of ani- mal we want when she calves. She will be lacking in capacity, and as the consumption of roughage is heces- sary for economical milk production, it will be found that in the end it does not pay to neglect ‘the young stock. One cause for the marked difference in the size of cows of the same breed- ing as found in different herds is this factor of ration when young, says J. P. LaMaster, chief of the dairy divi- sion, at Clemson college, South Caro- lina. During the summer, on good pas- ture, little if any, grain is needed if the heifer is at least ten months old; but when pastures are poor or dried up, a little grain is necessary. In winter, however, to_get the most rapid grewth it is necessary to supply a considerable proportion of the nutri- ents in the form .of concentrates. Where even the best roughage is fed alone, the growth wili not be as much as where grain is fed also. The following are suggestions for rations for heifers in winter: 1. When silage and legume hay are available: corn silage, alfalfa,’cowpea or soybean hay at will. For heifers less than ten months old, two pounds of grain daily in addition. The grain must be equal parts of corn and oats. For heifers within three months of calving, in order to insure good flesh at that time, three to five pounds of grain should be fed depending on con- dition. 2. When corn silage is available but not legume hay: Silage at will and hay or fodder. Two or three pounds of concentrates should be fed daily, one pound of which should be of high protein content such as cottonseed meal. Equal parts of corn, oats, and bran and one-third cottonseed mez’ 3. When legume hay is on hand but no silage: Feed all the hay they will clean up and also two pounds of corn and oats. 4, When no silage or legume hay is available: It will pay to buy legume hay; or if grass hay is fed alone, feed all they will clean up. A grain ra- tion for mixed hay will have to be somewhat higher in protein, such as three pounds of a mixture of two parts of corn and one part of cotton- seed meal. Great Care Required in Selecting Record Cows If the farmer wants a record cow* he must buy a cow with a record, and a good one, too, says the New York State College of Agriculture. Time is needed to make good selections, and it is well to seek aid from competent and trustworthy persons. If a dairyman is buying his cow through a cattle dealer he should be able to trust him, and when he does not kgow a trustworthy dealer; he should seek assistance from a county breed association or the cattle sales company of the county in which the animal is to be bought. The names and full information about these or- ganizations may be obtained from the county agricultural agents. In case there are no such organizations, coun- ty agents :an supply prospective buy- ers with the names of reliable breed- ers, dairymen, or dealers in the county. The New York state college says that too much caution cannot be used in buying cows for, although extra time may be needed during the pur- chasing, much time and money can be saved later on, Dairymen who have lost herds because of random buying are mcre careful in the future. Ropy Milk or Cream Is Caused by Minute Germs Ropy milk or cream is caused by germs that get into the milk after it comes ‘from the cow. These germs usually live in water from which they get into the milk. If your cow has access to water in which she stands or stands in a muddy place these germs get onto the switch of her tail or on the flanks and when dry fall into the milk pail while the m¢lking is being done. In other cases these germs are found in the water tank and get onto the utensils from which they infect the milk. Clean and thoroughly disinféct all dairy utensils with boiling water. Clean and disinfect the stock tank. Before milking wipe the switch and flanks with a damp cloth to prevent any dirt or dust from falling into the milk. A thorough cleaning and dis- infecting will usually” end the trouble. Todized Milk At the Ohio station it was found that where no iodine was fed to dairy cows, no trace of the chemical could be detected in the milk: But all tests made of milk from cows re- ceiving two grains of calcium iodine or potassium iodine per day, or two ounces of seaweed rich in iodine, showed -an appreciable amount of iodine in the milk. It has not yet been determined whether there may be advantages to humans in consum- ing iodized milk or not. noon. | week end with his family and par- February is soon past Time does fly away so fast. Wm. Opel and Sylvester Maust were visiting at Howard Maust’s, Sunday evening. Miss Margaret Gowns, Yost Zum- my, Russel Engle and Marlen Gnagy were dinner guests at S. S. Hostet- ler’s, Saturday. Mrs. S. S. Hostetler was a business caller at the homes of G. C. Peter- hiem and Eli Yoder, Tuesday fore- Eli Thomas was a visitor at the Mt. View school, Friday afternoon. Misses Ruth and Julia Maust took dinner with S. S. Hostetler’s, Wed- nesday. i Clarence Humbertson was a busi- ness caller in Salisbury, Friday. Markle Maust was a visitor at S. S. Hostetler’s, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kinsinger and family and Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Peter- heim, were calling at S. S. 'Hostet- ler’s Sunday. . Miss Anna Thomas, teacher of the Mt. View school, spent Thursday night at Howard Maust’s. : Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Maust and children, were visitors at Noah Maust’s, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Miller and children, Mr. and Mrs. Evan Miller and children, were visiting at Joel Maust’s, ‘Sunday. ; > Misses Elva'and Verda Yoder, Del- la and Verda Bender and Messers Simon and Elmer Bitzel were callers at Floyd Bender’s, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Maust and children and Mr. Maust’s mother, Mrs. David Maust, spent Sunday af- ternoon at Milton Opel’s. Howard Maust called on Ed. Hum- bertson, Sunday. Mr. Humbertson has been very » poor in health for some time. Howard Peck spent Sunday night at Howard Maust’s. Messers Howard Maust and How- ard Peck were business callers at Somerset, Monday, congerning road matters. Miss Annie Opel will spend a few weeks in Cleveland, Ohio, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Opel. Miss Opel just returned from Cumberland ‘here she had spent a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Opel and child- ren and Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Maust and daughter, were visitors at Irvin Firl’s, Sunday. Mr: dnd Mrs. J. L. Sechler were Sunday visitors at Christ Maust’s. Thirty five young people from Summit Mills had a sleighing party on Thursday night, and visited Mr. and Mrs. Irvin: Firl. They all spent a very pleasant evening. g James Opel, of Blough, spent the F MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, THURS., FEBRUARY 28, 1929 Page Three All That Indispensable Vitamin C ~1¢ IPPOCRATES (400 B. C.) is 4 authority for the statement that the effort of people to find better foods was the beginning of the science of medicine. Hippo- crates was known as “the father of medicine” so he must have known something about its origin. He was a man of great nobility of character and possessed high ideals " of medical ethics which have been perpetuated to the present day in the world-wide reverence of physi- cians for the “Hippocratic oath.” The search for better foods has also . continued to the present day, accompanied by a vast development in the science of medicine. One of this science’s latest discoveries is the existence of the vitamins all- important to human nutritions Of these, vitamin C is the substance, the presence of which is essential to protect mankind against the dis- ease known as scurvy, and it has been found to be present in large quantities in oranges and tomato + Juice. . Tomatoes vs. Oranges One No. 2 can of tomatoes costs 15 cents (or two for 25 cents) and produces ten ounces of juice. Three Florida oranges cost 15 cents in most seasons, and produce an equal quantity of juice. These two juices are equally potent sources of vitamin C, the only more potent ones known being lemon and grape- fruit- juice. Therefore, equal quan- tities of orange and tomato juice give equal amounts of this vitamin. Two tablespoons daily of either will ensure an adult of his full require- ment of vitamin C. More is a safeguard and advisable. Tomato Pulp Recipes The juice from a No. 2 can of tomatoes costs far less than that from three Florida oranges, since there are many uses to be made of the nutritious tomato pulp which is left in the can when the juice is drained from it. They can be scal- loped by themselves, combined with various other vegetables, with eggs, with shrimps and crabs, used in soups, sauces, stews and hash, combined with meats, spaghetti. macaroni, noodles, cereal, ‘rice and in a multitude of other ways. Just to give you a start on some of the many ways in which the tomato pulp can be utilized after the juice with its valuable vitamin C has been drained off and drunk, here are a couple of recipes which will suggest many others: Lima Beans Italienne: Dice four slices of bacon and fry to extract fat. Add one onion, chopped, one green pepper, cut in rings, and two cups diced celery. Add the juice from one No. 2 can of lima beans, and simmer until the celery and green pepper are tender. Then add two cups of canned tomato pulp and the lima beans and heat well. Pour in center of platter and surround with" boiled spaghetti. Half a package will prove sufficient. Serve as' a main dish with quince jelly. You will find this recipe sufficient to serve from six to eight. Italian €hop Suey: Slice one medium onion, and cut one cup of celery in fine strips two inches long. Sauté the onion and celery in four tablespoons butter until yellow. Add one-half pound Hamburger steak, and cook until it begins to brown. Then add one cup canned tomato pulp, one cup canned corn, one- half cup grated cheese, and sim- mer until the meat is tender. Add two cups ~cooked spaghetti and serve as a main dish with spiced cucumber slices. This recipe, too, is sufficient for from six to eight people. Try Some of These You can go on from here devis- ing your own dishes, but here are a few in which tomato pulp com- bines excellently: scrambled eggs, omelets, meat cakes, round steak, with meats en casserole, with kid- neys and liver, with cooked cereal baked with tomato pulp and meat, with Spanish rice, and in tomato griddle cakes.* ents. Mrs. Milton Opel and daughter. Dorothy, and Mrs. noon at Wm. Kinsinger’s. Ward Compton now has his saw- James Opel and mill in operation which he put up in| Amos Lindeman proved to be a ham- daughter Alice, spent Monday after- this vicinity some time ago. i breaking his sled one day last week. (dy man in repairing it. Milton Opel had the misfortune of LN 2) i —3 = JO; rr EE A A SE SE Ey A Ea ey ET nln nln elt aU i RT RR THE MEYERSDALE OMMERCIAL An Independent Paper For the Reading Public This paper solicits your patronage on no other basis than dollar for dollar value. 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