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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-03-26
ARE NOT MAKING FLAT RATE
A. B. S. Co. Denies Report of Writ
ing New IS Flat Contracts.

Red and fiaring scare heads" in last
Sundays papers drew attention to an
article under Rocky Ford date line say
ing in substance that "the Farmers Ed
ueational and COOPERATIVE Union had
won its battle against the American
Beet Sugar Co.; had forced the sugar
company to come to their terms-a fiat
rate of SIS per ton for all bsets, and for
three days the sugar company had been
signing the SIS fat contracts with the
farmers of the Arkansas Valley"
The Enterprise at once began an in
vestigation and very quickly learned that
there was not a particle OF truth in the
report. The local members of the Far
mers Union disclaimed all knowledge of
how the report originated or whether it
was true or false. but an interview with
.he officials OF the local factory elected
the following positive statement:
ave have not written new contracts
for fiat rate during the present season
and do not have any intention to do so.
We know from years of experience and
results that the terms we offer in our
present three-price contract are favor
able to the growers, who will make 4
reasonable attempt to grow beets of fair
quality. Farmers who will grow beets
during the coming season undoubtedly
will be thoroughly convinced of this fact
by the time they have delivered their
beets. We have not changed our view
that it is nee sssary for the growers to be
financially interested IN the quality of the
crop in order to make the business mu-
tually satisfactory.
The terms we offer are:-
$3.50 per ton for beets containing
IL per cent but less than l4.5 per cent.
$500 per ton for beets containing 4-5
per cent but less than | 6 per cent.
$3.50 for beets containing | 6 per cent
or more of sugar to weight Of the beet"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-03-26
Commissioner Daimler Dead

Matt Daimler. the recently elected COM
m ssIoner and a man we'll KNOW and re-
s,seted throughout otero county. died At
n,s home IN La Junta a, 4 o'clock on
Tuesday morning from appendicitis. He
was 8 years old. a native Of Ireland. ano
Isavss wife and one son.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-03-26
Good Crop
Next Year

l have a number of very
fine propositions for sale in
large and small tracts Of
land.
40 acres, Catlin Water,
all good land. easy pay.
ments, 800 per acre.
5 room house, corner lot,
90 foot front, house needs a
little repair, price $1,000.
Lot alone is worth 5000.
Think about your Fire
Insurance, are you fully in
sured?
Do you want to carry an
Accident or Health Policy?
Are you in need Of a bond
from a Bonding Company.
If you have money to loan
| can place it for you, make
the papers, examine abs
stract, collect your interest
in fact take all of the trou-
bic from you.
Good Modern house for
rent. stable, $1,000 per
month.
Money at all times to loan
on all kinds of Real Estate.
5 acres with full Catlin
water right, mostly set to
cherry trees, close to town.
Will trade for city proper
ty.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
PINEAPPLE DAlNTIES

Now that Strawberries are becoming
scarce, utilize pineapples. They make
the very best pie, short cake, MARINA
lade, preserves, puddings, etc.
Pineapple Brown Betty"-Fill a
baking dish with alternate layers of
buttered bread crumbs sprinkled with
sugar and grated pineapple, letting the
top layer be of the bread with an extra
spreading of butter Cover with plate
and bake in a slow oven about a half
hour, adding a little water, if It seems
to dry out. Remove the plate and
brown the top.
Frozen pineapple-One quart finely
chopped pineapple from one to two
cupfuls of sugar according to the tart
ness of the fruit, one pint of water, and
the beaten whites Of three eggs. Blend
carefully and freeze. The above recipe
may be varied by using cream in place
of water.
+. Pineapple fritters-Make batter with
one egg beaten separately. To the yoke
add one-half cup milk, pinch of salt
and enough flour to make a stiff batter,
the beaten white and a half teaspoon
baking powder. Open a can of best
pineapple. Cut each slice in half, dip in
the batter and fry in very hot lard
Drain, sprinkle with powdered sugar
and serve on a dish covered with a
napkin. One-third can of pineapple is
sufficient for a meal. The same quan-
tity Of fresh pineapple makes it much
nicer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
PICNIC STANDBY

The sandwich Is the picnic standby,
but there are other savory and sub
stantlal edihles which may prove more
satisfying to the masculine contingent.
Toast slices of bacon done at the
camp fire or frankfurters are most APP
petizing, and stuffed eggs make an
agreeable addition to the lunch For
stuffed eggs with meat add finely
chopped ham or chicken to the yolks,
moistening the mixture with cream OF
mayonnaise or melted butter. Saratoga
chips should not be forgotten, or the
cake. Grape juice makes an excellent
drink, and a bottle of lemon syrup
guarantees a glass of lemonade in a
minute. Sandwiches and rolls may be
kept fresh and moist by wrapping in
paraffine paper or If this is not at
hand, in an old napkin or tea towel,
wrung dry as possible out of very hot
water. Cream the butter used in
spreading the sandwiches, and see that
the bread of which they are made is
twenty-four hours old.
A supply of paper napkins is better
than taking linen ones. A few wooden
plates, some drinking cups, few
knives, forks and spoons and little
pepper and salt shakers will set the
table sufficiently. Fill In the chinks OF
the basket with olives-little ones
bottles of pickles, box of sardines and
two or three of crackers If there are
children in the party. If you have a
number Of discarded cracker boxes, fill
them with the various sorts of sand
wiches, one kind in each box.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17

per and serve hot. May be sprinkled
with a little minced parsley.
Boiled onions may be served with
any hot sauce-tomato, brown, mush-
room, etc.
Bordeaux Onions-Peel six or eight
small onions and parboil them for fif-
teen minutes in salted water. Put two
tablespoonfus of butter in saucepan
or a baking dish, with one tablespoon
full of chopped parsley and one
tablespoonful of chopped celery, one
Glove, one-half bay leaf, one-quarter of
cupful of claret one cupful of brown
sauce, the juice of one lemon, pepper
and salt. Put the onions in this cover
and let cook very gently for half an
hour or until tender. Remove bay leaf
and serve with the sauce.
Onions and Tomato Scallop-Place
alternate layers of fresh onions sliced,
and fresh tomatoes in buttered bak-
ing dish, covering each layer with
crumbs, butter, pepper and salt. Put
one and one-half cupful Of water over
and bake for about an hour In slow
oven. Or use boiled onions and canned
tomatoes, minced celery or parsley, the
Juice of the tomatoes and cook thirty
to forty-five minutes.
Onions Beatrice-Fill large bean pot
(or a high earthenware covered jar)
with small Bermuda onions two inches
in diameter. The onions should be left
whole, but a sharp knife can be used
to make two cuts in the shape of a
cross in the top of each, as this in
sures the cooking of the centers. While
arranging the onions in the jar sprin-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
Bad Boys Transformed Into Good

overfiowing animal spirits and plenty
of time on their hands.
What the boys want is something to
do. Vacation days should not mean
idle days. The boys must do some
thing and 1t Is far better for them as
we'll as for every one else around them
if they are given something congenial
to do. What could be better than work
in the open air? When they are made
to feel responsibility and in addition
are able to make little money by the
deal there is no element wanting to
it's success.
Il supervise in this way; I show
them how to go to work and appoint the
bigger boys as leaders. The rest 1
leave to them. The policing is done
entirely by themselves. There are
about twenty-five boys in the COM
munity and they have arranged it so
that the patroling is done in turns. 1t
is a bad day for the youngster who
tries to raid my property now. The
boys attend to his case in way that
a boy can do much better, and | may
add with much more personal safety,
than a man can. 1t has become a set
tied conviction in the neighborhood
that my farm property had better be
left severely alone, and have no rea-
son to lose sleep nowadays over the
produce.
1.-THE boys are making good thing
out of land that was not cultivated by
me at all. l lose nothing by taking
them into partnership, for they use
only the vacant land that had no use
for. Working in regular gangs, at
stated intervals, the boys accomplish
wonders in the way of growing crops.
They are better workers than my hired
men and l wish they would come un-
der my banner but l imagine that as
soon as they felt they were working
for wages the charm would be broken
and they would loaf like the rest of
them.
But the feeling that they are work.
ing for their own profit, and the com
panionship of a score of youngsters,
all bent on the same mission, keeps
the enthusiasm up. They sell the pro-
duce to local dealers and are putting
the proceeds in a common fund to be
divided when school days come around
again. 1 intend to encourage them to
keep at work in their spare time even
when the schools open and have no
doubt they will fall in with the idea"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17

kle them we'll with salt, also with
black pepper Cor use one-half dozen
pepper-corns instead); put in one bay
leaf broken in pieces and also distrib-
ute one teaspoonful of mixed herbs.
Cover with hot water, put the lid on
and set on the back of the stove or in
a slow oven. The onions should not
cook to pieces, and with the proper
heat will be cooked through in about
two hours; this time Is given only as
a guide. Serve in marmite in which
they were cooked.
Fried Onions-Peel the onions and
cut into thin slices; put a generous
tablespoonful of butter in a fryingpan,
and when it has slowly melted put in
the onions. turn on one-half cupful of
boiling water, cover the pan and let
cook until onions are tender, then re-
move cover and brown. The water will
all evaporate, but the steam from II
cooks the onions tender then the but
ter crisps them delicately without
burning.
Onions in Potato Cradles-Left-over
potatoes of uniform size may be cut In
half lengthwise, the centers scooped
out, leaving a shell. This should be
Drowned in butter, then filled with
fried onions. Hot buttered peas may
substitute for onions.
Onions and Apples-Put one table
spoonful of butter in a fryingpan, and
when melted put in three sliced onions
and three sliced apples let fry slowly
until Drowned, season with salt and
pepper, and serve on toast.-Arranged
from Mrs. Sharpe's Recipes.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
TO FRY SPRING CHICKEN

If you scald spring chicken the tender
skin will come off and the meat will
probably burn unless 1t is carefully
watched. Use hot. not scalding, water.
Disjoint the chicken and have the
pieces as small as possible. The legs
should be disjointed, the breast cut
into parts, and the back left whole.
First heat enough lard and butter in a
bake pan to cook the chicken, then
sprinkle all the parts with slightly
salted -four, dredge with pepper and
place the pieces evenly in the pan. Add
enough water to create steam and keep
a close lid on. Fry slowly. If hurried,
the meat will cook too fast and will not
be savory. Remove the cover, which,
by the way, can be a pan of similar
size, and continue frying slowly. If
desired, the pan can be placed in the
oven. Occasionally raise the pieces
from the pan to prevent them sticking,
but do not turn until brown. When
done on one side brown the opposite
side. Watch the meat carefully, and
should 1t have a dry look add just the
least bit of water. This steam is what
is so helpful in cooking practically all
meats, yet many forget it in the rush
of work. When the chicken is cooked
place 1t on warm platter, and since
the grease in the pan will be rough
with particles of meat, do not attempt
to blend -four for gravy in the grease.
Stir up the grease and meat, cleaning
the pan with the cooking spoon, add
cream thickening, and season with salt
and pepper. Place the meat on the
serving dish, garnish with parsley. Do
not put the gravy around the meat, for
many persons do not care for gravy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
CHANGING WITH THE WEATHER

However unadvisable it is to let one S
disposition vary with the weather, the
same rule does not apply to clothing
More crossness in grown ups and chill
dren is due to hard and fast rules as to
wearing apparel than anyone but the
one who has learned to adapt her cloth
ing to the day can imagine.
Young babies and children are the
worst sufferers in this respect. If their
grown ups are so silly as to sweltel
from habit or to freeze from necessity
they have only themselves to blame
The child of a mother who never re-
lakes her rules suffers needlessly.
While we would be Mortified to affiict
our little ones with the six and eight
petticoats which some of the Dutch
children of Holland wear, it is well to
remember that our climate in summer
often causes suffering to native OF
the tropics and is nothing if not Varl-
able.
Do not think because your ancestors
dressed their babies for the first year
in wool that you must follow suit
Treat child as an individuat There
are some babies to whom wool is an
noying, even in cold weather, and tor
ture in summer. In our climate gauzt
is all that most people can endure uur-
ing July and August.
Imagine a grown person spending the
summer in layers of clothing! No won
der children yell with prickly heat ant
have constant cold from overheating
Why should it be? 1t is such sim
pie matter to own several grades OF
underclothing for the baby, and change
as the days are hot or cool. that II
would seem to be sheer laziness or in
difference to let the little ones suffer
from heat or chilling.
The sensible mother depends less
upon wooden underclothing during the
summer than on warm outer garments
1t is much better to have dainty knit
sacques to slip on in the cool OF morn
ing and evening than to keep the child
chronically overheated. Even in winter
the underclothing should not be toe
heavy, and the necessary warmth sup
piled by outer wraps, easily removed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
DELICIOUS PEACH RECIPES

Peach Blanc Mange-Cover one-half
of a box of gelatine with one-halt of
cupful of cold water and let it stand
for one-half of an hour; pour over one
cupful of hot scalded milk and stir un-
til it is dissolved. Select eight nice
ripe peaches, peel and seed and press
through a sieve; add one cupful Of pull
verized sugar. Beat one pint of cream
gradually into the peaches, add the dis
solved gelatine, well mixed, pour into
molds and stand away to harden.
Peach Butter-Pare and stone very
ripe mellow peaches. To every pound
of peaches allow one-half of a pound
of sugar. Put the peaches over the fire,
where they will heat slowly. Cook and
stir them until they become like mar
malade. If not perfectly smooth press
through a sieve. Add the sugar, cook
for ten minutes; then set on the back
of the stove until the fruit is quite
solid. Pack in jars or tumblers While
hot. Cover and keep in cool place.
Peach armalade-Peaches make the
best of marmalades. After fruit is
peeled and stoned cut it into small
pieces. For every pound of fruit take
one-half of pound of sugar. Mix the
fruit and sugar well together and stand
away in a cool place until next day.
Before putting over the fire to cook,
add the peach kernels prepared as fol-
lows 10 every uOASII PSdCIlSso OPCll
four peach stones and remove the ker-
nels. Scald in boiling water and take
off the brown skins as almonds are
blanched. Shred the nuts and add to
the peaches. Let the marmalade stew
until it is a thick smooth paste, STIR
ring frequently. Fill into alright jars.
Spiced Peaches-To ten pounds of
fruit take six pounds of sugar and one
cupful of vinegar. Pare the fruit and
stick five or six cloves in each peach.
Put the vinegar and four pounds of
the sugar over the fire. When hot, add
the peaches and cook until clear. Take
out the fruit and put in jar. Add the
rest of the sugar to the syrup, and
the following spices, put in a thin
cloth bag: One tablespoonful of cinna-
mon, one tablespoonful of cloves and
two teaspoonfuls of allspice. Cover un-
til the syrup is the desired consistency.
and pour over the peaches while hot.
in order ont to have the syrup thicken
when cold cook it until it thickens
when tried in a saucer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
Engage i'm Many Lines of Work

| as successful as I firmly believe it will,
l shall duplicate it, and do not doubt
that other states will follow the ex-
ample. In time men wardens may be
displaced entirely"
Now listen to these tales from Paris:
The first woman judge has recently
taken office, in the person of Nine.
Jousselin. She is a member of the
Counsel des Prudhommes, a tribunal
which decides certain disputes in trade.
She was selected by an association of
men representing the cloth industry.
Just two hours distant from the
French capital is the little village of
Froissy, where the recent appoint
ment of a woman as stationmaster dis
closed the startling fact that practical
ly all the official posts usually filed
by men are occupied by women. The
BARRIERS shop is kept by woman, the
postmaster is a woman, several council
lors are women. and the only letter
carrier is woman, who walks regular
ly twenty miles a day. But the crown
ing triumph for feminists Is the NUM-
cipal drummer, woman of 80, who has
succeeded her late husband, and by
common consent does the work better
than he did.
From over seas also comes the re-
port that in Leipzig a system of bicycle
messenger girls has just been institute
eQ. Iney are dressed III UNIFORMS OF
red, trimmed with gold braid and gold
buttons, and wear their little messen-
ger caps at the dangerous angle of
forty-five degrees. 1t isn't hard to
imagine the fading away of all the
poor little masculine "Buttons-es" in
Leipzig.
Only the other day the French Bal
loon-Aeroplane club for women held it's
first ascension, and at least one of the
women did her own flying. She is
Nine. Surcouf, who holds an air pilots
license and can manage an aeroplane
as we'll as a man.
Even in staid old Boston town, be-
sides the big crop of women peddlers
and sidewalk merchants of every sort
that are to be faced everywhere in the
North End, there is a well-known wo-
man teaming contractor She lives in
Roxbury and does a large business,
conducting 1t personally She holds
couple of good-sized contracts from
the city, obtained by outbidding all the
men contractors when bids were called
for by the city street department.
Finally. in recent report of the cen
sus bureau it is stated that there are
1893 women blacksmiths, 1877 women
stone masons and bricklayers, 545 wo-
men carpenters, 571 women machinists,
9S9 women quarrymen, 5574 women
BARRIERS, 6663 women messenger boys,
and-but that'll do!-Cleveland Plain
dealer
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17

I'M HERE are many delicious receipts
for cooking onions, none among
Il them better than the old fashioned
them better than the old fashioned
boiled onions.
Peel onions under cold water and
they will not bring tears to the eyes
They then should be put in rapidly
boiling water, and this changed after
the first five minutes of cooking; then
put in fresh boiling water, salt added,
and cooked for from half an hour to
forty minutes. If onions are not COW
cred when boiling the odor will be less
noticeable. Serve boiled onions with
parsley butter, or after draining cover
with milk, add butter, pepper and
salt and let boil up once before serv-
ing.
Onions in Cream-Use boiled sea-
soned onions, tender but not broken.
Drain well, pour over each pint of
small onions one cupful of cream, let
cream scald, season with salt and pep
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
PICNIC RECIPES
Club Sandwiches

These delectable morse1s call for
white bread toasted crisply. The fill-
ing may be of grilled ham or bacon,
or of broiled chicken with the addition
of taste of either of the first two
meats. A morsel of broiled ham or
bacon always gives an etxra FLIP to
chicken. A leaf of delicate lettuce is
put on first on a slice of the toast then
comes the meat, with a sprinkle of salt,
cayenne and squeeze of lemon juice
for the final notes. Most sandwiches
are better without butter, and these
call absolutely for the broiling of the
meat. This cooking and the toast re-
alize the name, club sandwich"
Mayonnaise Sandwiches
Gluten bread, cut In thin slices,
with the crust trimmed off, Is the
foundation for these. When making
the mayonnaise filling add mustard
spoon of dry mustard and use cay
enne, lemon juice and touch of su-
gar for other seasoners. The whole
bite will also seem far more delicious
If the filling includes two fragments
of lettuce, these including the mayon-
naise in a roll.
Herring Sandwiches
The boneless strips put up IN glass
jars or small boxes are convenient for
these. If the herring seems unpleas-
antly strong soak the strips in cold
water for half an hour. After this
cook them gently in hot pan, with
a little butter, and add, while cooking.
a little cayenne. White bread, which
is not too fresh, is suitable for the cas-
ing.
Stuffed Eggs
Boil six eggs for fifteen minutes and
let them stand in the same water till
1t is lukewarm After this thoroughly
chill them in cold water, cut directly
in half, take out the yolks and mix
them into paste with three table,
spoons of freshly toasted bread crumbs
rolled to a powder, one tablespoon of
olive oil-or more as liked-a teaspoon
Of lemon juice and salt and cayenne to
taste. If the oil and acid are not liked
use melted butter and cream and sea-
son with chopped parsley. Eggs pre-
pared in this way are invaluable for
excursion lunch baskets, as they are
as filling as appetizing, and not the
least messy.
AnchoVy Tartlnes
Select the Swedish anchovies which
are put up in bottles. Wash them off
with warm water and let them soak
for an hour in fresh olive oil. Put
between Saltines or thin slices of day
old white bread. AfeW drops of lem
on juice improve them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-17
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

II it is necessary to be away from
home several days and you have no one
to care for house plants, water all we'll
place in a dark room and place vessels
of water around them.
The water pipes in the kitchen will
not be so unattractive If painted the
color of the kitchen.
If mice are gnawing holes in the
house, rub common laundry SOAP
around the gnawed places and you may
depend on 1t they will cease labor in
that district.
Cloudy looking cocoa will look and
taste better If vigorously beaten with
an egg beater. Instead of cooking milk
with it, add whipped cream to the top
of each cup.
Kerosene rubbed on the outside of
screens will drive flies away.
Two pounds of caustic. soda poured
into a cistern of foul smelling water
will clean the water A box of concen-
trated I've has also been known to
purify It.