The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-19

Well Attended Institute In the
FIame-Swept District.


The farmers institute at Hinckley
was held on the 18th and 18th inst It
was well attended. considering that it
was in a locality swept with the flames
but two years ago.
In addition to the addresses given on
other topics, Miss Thompson gave an
excellent address on cooking. She
dwelt upon the advantages of learning
what might be termed a balanced diet
aTy. This was quite as important to
the well-being and well-doing of the
Individual as balanced ration is to the
well-doing of live stock. Protim and
carbohydrates should be used in the
proportions of one and four parts 1t
was shown by the aid of charts giving
the chemical analyses of foods how
certain combinations were superior to
other combinations, because Of their
more perfect balance.
Men sometimes turned cooks, but
when they did so they got out of their
own proper sphere. That was women's
domain. Miss Thompson was rather
hard on young ladies, who were ambi-
tious to be placed in charge of a home
and who were not qualified to take
charge of the same. But she was NOT
too hard on them, as it is generally ac-
knowledged that such an ambition on
the part of young ladies is an ignobie
one.
1t would take her six months to go
over the subject of cooking. She would
therefore only attempt to show how
good bread could be made The essen
tials in breadmaking are good flour,
good yeast and good breadmakers. The
men Of Minnesota, on whom devoived
the making of the flour, had done their
duty nobly. The women, who were the
breadmakers, had not done their work
SO well.
Miss Thompson then showed how
yeast should be made and kept. She
showed also how it was to be kept in
good form. Bread was baking in the
oven While the lecture was going on.
The processes of setting, rising, mixing
the bread and baking the same were
all minutely described. And after the
bread was baked it was served to the
ladies present. She showed how bread
should be kept in good form, and told
how fresh bread Or it's equivalent may
be prepared for the breakfast table.
Miss Thompson paid a compliment to
the young ladies who were present.
Many Of them were evidently from the
schools. Many mothers also were pres
ent. 1t augured well for the future, she
thought, that SO much interest was
everywhere manifested in this work.
Prof Shaw urged the farmers to
grow sheep on their burned land
around Hinckley. They could be kept
for nothing all summer and would have
an excellent influence in, keeping down
young trees on their burned lands, that
are to be cleared.
Col. J. F. Stone told about a new
settler in the neighborhood Of Pine City
who kept five lambs and nine other
sheep Oh three acres of burned land.
The land had been sowed to clover the
previous year. Mr.. Stone paid for the
lambs dressed what he was ac-
customed to pay for good mutton.
The lambs averaged fifty pounds each
in the early autumn, and without the
skins they netted the grower $25 This
little incident admirably illustrates the
adaptability of that section to sheep
husbandry for the lambs had no other
food than the grasses grown upon the
pasture.
joel Chandler Harris Uncle Rentus) tc's'ites
entertatningty regarding the observance Of
Christmas ias the South. See 7tomOrrotc's
Sunday Globe. -eToc-