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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-22

an extra large feed carrier, comes
about as near solving the problem as
any system that has ever been tried.
Thirty-six feet in width is recos-
nized as being the most satisfactory
COW stable when machinery Is used to
save hand labor. 1t gives room for tho
different stable carriers. for milking
machines and for the necessary me-
chanical appliances to operate the dill
fefent labor savers. ,..,., L. LA $50.
In this stable the cows are headed
In for the same reason. It Is cheaper
and easier to care for cattle when they
face each other. Also the many win
5dows OF the building admit light where
1t is most needed. All Of the window
openings are fitted with sash that may
be closed during cold or stormy wealth
or. The monitor sash Is hung with =
patent bracket, 80 that each sash
swings from the center IN such way
% to easily open by means Of con-
meeting rods that come down within
reach OF the attendant. One advan'
tage OF hanging the sash from the CEN
ter 10 that high winds are not likely
to slam the sash. either open or shut.
], The foundation Of this monitor.roof
dairy barn ID OF concrete, the walls
having footinss wide enough to make
them solid and deep enough to reach
down TO solid ground. These walls
extend Up two feet above grade. a
profile Of the dairy door conforms 70
the most approved plan worked out ~
practical dairymen. sSi5
the concryle standing door has :
sfall 81 one inch between the front and
Hind fset OF the cows. This 20 10 ~
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-22

feed carrier to run through the center
feed alley, to carry silage from the
silo, or mixed feed from the little feed
room built in between the end of the
stable and the silo. The same center
car track and carrier will bring for
age from hayrack at the other end
Of the building. In using a stable In
this way dairymen often prefer to cut
certain crops in the field and haul the
fodder to the stable to feed.
This plan of feeding is not prac-
ticed to any extent in the North, but
there are conditions of climate in some
Of our best dairy sections where feed
crops grow late in the fall, and still
others are sown in the fall to mature
early in the spring, that may be fed to
advantage as soiling crops. AL soil
ing crops are expensive to handle, be.
cause they are fed green. It has al.
ways been a puzzle to dairymen how
to handle such fodder without pulling
their arms out of the sockets. A cen
ter feed alley built on this plan. with
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-22

is incorrectly used, as pimento IL all
spice. The real name Is "pimiento,
giving another &yllable. A chopped
green pepper given to almost any
salad, and especially potato salad,
improves it wonderfully. Care should
be taken to carefully wash them, re-
move the white inner fiber, as well as
the seeds, before using. Peppers
chopped and pounded, then fixed with
cream cheese make most appetizing
relish.
Fried sweet peppers make nice
garnish to serve with lamb, mutton
or pork chops.
Stuffed Peppers.-Bread crumbs
with tomato or rice and a few nuts,
corn beef hash, boiled rice with chick
en-, and many other combinations
make fine stuffing for peppers. See
that they are well washed, then cut
off the best end to make stable re-
ceptacle, remove the white fiber and
seeds; fill the pepper, replacing the
cap. Put them into baking dish
with a little stock or butter and water
to keep them moist while baking.
Steak Smothered In Sweet Peppers.
Spread over a round steak the fol-
lowing mixture: A cup Of bread
crumbs, one small onion, chopped; q
little poultry dressing. a pint OF to-
matoes and peppers mixed; If canned
they will not need chopping. Place
the stuffing on steak, roll and tie and
pour over the tomato and pepper mix
ture, Cook very slowly three hours.
Add boiling water or tomato juice II
the meat becomes dry. Canned pep
pers should always find a place on
the emergency shelf, as they add much
to many dishes. Dreamed eggs with q
pepper or two added, either chopped
or rubbed through sieve; serve on
toast as usual and have an unusual
relish. These eggs may be served
with q border Of seasoned boiled rice
instead of toast, If desired.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-22
GATHERED FACTS
Spain has 100000 acres OF olives.
New York leads the states in salt

Spain has 100000 acres OF olives
, New York leads the states in salt
production. ..-..-
kid" is gypsy for child" Hence
the term kidnapping. ls
Hailstones "A inches In circumfer'
ence have been found in England.
Intrinsically, Victoria crosses are
worth 9 cents each. 2@t5N,
Some Japanese spiders make webs
30 strong 1t requires q knife to cut
them. .z,
Documents containing details OF the
vessels cargo and the ports for which
she Is bound are called the ships man.
ifest
Weather records compiled for more
than quarter Of century indicate
that the atmosphere OF London d be
coming less foggy.
Wireless communication between
Scandinavia and An1erica. with IN In
station 10 southern Green,
land, has been proposed.
The bloodhound figures rather prom
5insntly 81 nction, but abouts III that
can be said for 4 q that 4 lests isss
than = tpxhcunsl.
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c'htate drainage and for easy clean
ing. The hangers are two feet in
width, they are six inches deep at the
PACK and IL inches deep at the front or
teed'alley side. The standing floor
measures four feet ten inches from the
back OF the manger to the gutter. Tho
gutter Is Is inches wide and drops six
inches below the standing floor. The
iced alley In the center Is about seven
feet In width and the alleys behind
the cows are five feet six inches wide.
The side alleys slope with fall of
one inch towards the gutter. This
makes stable floor that is perma.
nent and satisfactory.
The roof may be supported in two
ways 1t may be made self-supporting
so there will be no posts in the way.
This is done by running the rafters
from the caves clear through to the
monitor plates. They are crossed and
bolted at the crossings, and the whole
roof structure is made into trussed
AoSA ~ tASo ACt&SAiA5 uCAOSo tAC UuAN-
Ing from one side plate to the other
side plate. All monitor studding
reaches down and is bolted to these
cross ties and to the rafters. thus
forming very strong truss.
The other plan supports the monitor
studding or posts long enough to reach
from the rear wall of the concrete
hangers to the monitor plates. 1t is
customary to place these posts two
cows apart, and the monitor windows
are the same width as the COW stalls.
This arrangement provides one mon
itor window for each two cows.
The COW stalls may be two feet ten
inches between stall partitions, or
they may be three feet two inches, &C
cording to the size of the COWS the
stable is intended for
Generally there is no ceiling in a
ncnitor-roof COW stable. for the rea-
son that with a ceiling 1t is necessary
to have ventilator flues, in which case
there is no excuse for the monitor.
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White Bread.

Into your bread mixer put one cup.
full of -four, one tablespoonful of salt,
three tablespoonfuls of sugar and a
heaping tablespoonful OF lard. Then
pour in one pint Of boiling water;
stir until smooth and allow to cool
Add one quart Of luke-warm water
and one-half a yeast cake dissolved
in one cupful of luke-warm water,
Then add flour enough to make a
firm dough, knead until smooth. In
the morning mold into loaves and al
low to raise. Bake for one hour,
This recipe makes three loaves.
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ADD SALAD DISHES TO MENU
People Today Eat Too Much Cooked
Food That 10 Frequently Lacking
In Nutritive Qualities.

II has long been Joke how cats
and dogs. when out OF sorts, fly to
grass or some kind Of green food for
relief. The animal knows by in
stinct what only few human beings
are beginning to learn from expe-
rience-namely, that nature has pro-
vided vegetables Of the leaf order.
rich In mineral salts. These salts pos
sess q double power-they not only
combine with the acids and poisons
in the body, rendering them power
less, but they also drive them out
Of the system altogether.
It is not too much to say that no
great mental. moral or physical pros.
ress can be made without an ample
supply Of this vegetable food. Salad
is the one ingredient OF our regular
diet which we cannot afford to DC
without.
Some people say salad Is cold and
hdisestible, but cabbage, II eaten raw.
needs only two and half hours for
digestion, as against Ave hours when
boiled! The boiling Of green foods
destroys the original organic comblna-
ton of the mineral salts.
The blood of healthy person
should be alkaline-tEat is, the op-
posite of acid-and 1t is the alkaline
salts in vegetables which bring about
this healthy condition.
Many thousands Of men and women
Of all ages suffer from anemia, from
having lived almost entirely on cooked
food.
To those long accustomed to high.
ly favored food, salads will at first
seem tasteless, but liking for them
comes with use.
Salad should be very carefully
washed in several changes of clean
water. This is essential. During
washing the leaves should be well
picked over and inspected.
Leaves should be torn. not cut.
When done, they can be allowed to
soak for an hour, or overnight, but
not longer in cold water. to which a
little lemon Juice has been added to
Increase the crispness of the leaves
The Japanese use the petals Of many
flowers for salads. Chrysanthemums
stocks, violets, roses. nasturtiums and
dandelions are especially good. as they
possess strong antitoxic powers.
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Neglected Duty. !.

There is one duty that human be.
ings .conspicuously neglect. 1t is q
tremendously important duty. And It
Is. also. for most human beings. the
most attractive duty in the world.
Nevertheless, in spite of it's attract.
iveness and it, importance. Il II sci.
dom spoken Of. There are millions OF
people who don't recognize It 40 4
duty. SO they neglect to strive for It.
Then they wonder why they have not
achieved the duty. Sometimes they
complain, bitterly. Occasionally. BY I
chance. they do achieve the duty with.
out recognising It % duty Thsn
they neglect Il. and they suffer for the
rest Of their lives. Surely you know
what the duty =. 81 4 - simply the
duty " bsing happy. New York I'll.
egran
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-22
GROW HARDY ROSES
" ELIZABETH VAN RENTHUYsEN.

BY ELIZABETH VAN eENTHuYsEN.
The season of bloom of the hybrid
perpetual can be greatly extended by
intelligent cultivation and a proper
selection of varieties. The sturdy
bushes should carry their beautiful
flowers way into the fall. We have
come to think of roses in the~fall as
delusion and snare, excepting, of
course, the hybrid teas, which have
so long been regarded in America as
the only everblooming roses. There
are, however, good dozen and half
that can be relied upon to give sec.
ond crop of bloom and be a thing Of
beauty in August and September
The Frau Karl Druschki, one of the
very best and most popular plants
ever raised, has done more to redeem
hardy rose culture than any other
hybrid perpetual class. 1t adapts
|, itself. to almost any, soil, and stands
unique as hardy white rose of its
class. ~'s -'5 -?
The very best of the long season
boomers IN pink 1nclude the mrs.
John Laing, pure, pale pink; Madame
Gabriel Luizet, deep rosy pink with
white 1T the base much like the Mrs.
R. 6. Sharman-Crawford.
You certainly cannot afford to ig-
more when planting for second bloom,
Pride of Waltham, delicate flesh col
ored shaded with bright rose; Anna
de Diesbach. very large; Heinrich
schultheis, light rose, very fragrant;
Mrs. F. w. Sanford, blush shading to
white; Pauls Early Blush, pale pink.
towering all the summer right up to
frost.
These roses form group of roses
from which a selection may easily be
made.
The Paul Neyron will yield its best
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PARsNIP NOT GIVEN ITS DUE
With Proper Preparation the vegeta-
Bile Should Be One Of the Great.
est Table Favorites.

Do you like parsnips? If you don't,
why don't you? If they cost as much
as French artichokes-which have far
less flavor-wouldnt you like them?
Perhaps the reason they have never
appealed to you is because they are 80
common that they are fed to the cat
tie. Often our likes and dislikes for
food are based on such reasoning.
OF course, parsnips must be careful.
ly cooked to be really worth the eat
ing. Baked parsnips have delicious
flavor. To prepare them, wash them
and pare them and steam them until
tender Then slice them lengthwise
and put them in baking dish, with
butter and pepper and salt sprinkled
over them. Bake them until brown in
a moderate oven.
Parsnip salad is made of parsnips
that have been steamed until tender,
sliced crosswise, dredged in -four and
fried brown in butter. Chill them
and put them on lettuce leaves and
add teaspoonful Of chopped ham and
one of hardboiled egg chopped fine to
each plate. Sprinkle a little chopped
parsley over them and serve with
mayonnaise.
Parsnip fritters are made from
mashed boiled parsnips. To pint of
it add teaspoonful of -four. we'll
beaten egg and salt and pepper. Make
into flat cakes and fry brown.
Scalloped parsnips: Mix two cup
fuls of cold mashed parsnips with two
tablespocnfuls of butter and cream
enough to make smooth. Put in q
pudding dish. sprinkle with buttered
bread crumbs and bake until brown.
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added beauty and the cool fruit will be
most grateful.
Grape Juice.-To prepare-pick the
stems from the fruit and cover with
enough water to be seen between the
grapes. Cook until the seeds are free
and the skins look pink or have lost
their color, then strain. Return the
Juice to the fire and boil 20 minutes;
then to each quart add cupful of
sugar; cook ten minutes longer and
bottle in alright bottles, dipping the
corks in melted parattin. rs
Grape Juice Ice Cream.-To cupful
of grape juice add pint of thin cream
and sugar to sweeten, tablespoonful
of lemon juice. mix and freeze.
Crane Jam.-Remove the skin from
the pulp of well.washed grapes and
put them in separate utensils; heat.
the pulp with a cupful of water and
press through sieve to remove the
seeds; add the skins to the pulp and
weigh. To each pound of fruit add
three-fourths Of pound OF sugar and
just enough water to prevent burning
Cook slowly for 40 minutes.
Grape Sherbet.-Take three pounds
Of Concord grapes. three lemons. three
pints of water and three cupfuls OF
sugar. Wash the grapes and put them
in a granite pan, mash and squeeze
out all the Juice; measure and add an
equal amount of water, the lemon
juice and sugar. The sugar and water.
If boiled to strip, will make q
smoother sherbet. The amount OF va
ter should be allowed when measur-
ing. Freeze as usual.
A pretty novelty is crystallized
grapes. Select firm, large grapes in
perfect punches; wash carefully and
dip in white of egg, then in pulverized
sugar. Arrange on platter. on bed
of grape leaves. #5
For grape jelly the grapes should be
underripe. Prepare them as for grape
Juice, then add the sugar to the juice
and cook until it thickens in cold
dish, when tcaspoonful is tried. ''1
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Italian Mold.

Cook two tablespoonfuls OF rice un
til tender in a pint OF milk in a double
saucepan. with tn very thin rind OF a
lemon. Sweeten to taste, add three
sheets of leaf gelatin and the yolks
of three eggs. Let cook in double
saucepan a few minutes longer 10 cook
the yolks; add the whites. stit1ly beat
en- and two tablespoonfuis Of cream.
Pour into a wetted mould and turn
out when stiff and set.
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sley and a little ohion Juice. Season
with salt, and paprika. Form into
balls and bake ten or fifteen minutes
in a hot oven. Serve on oyster shells
with parsley and lemon as a garnish!
Asparagus With Stuffed Eggs.
Take canned asparagus, or il fresh.
cook until tender in salted water and
arrange on a platter in border OF
buttered toast points and quartered.
stuffed eggs. Pour over hot sauce
made as follows: Take two table
spoonfuls of butter and two and q half
of flour; when we'll mixed add pint
of chicken stock, or a small can OF
chicken broth and six finely minced
mushrooms. Stir and cook for fifteen
minutes, then add cupful Of hot
cream and the juice OF lemon; strain
and reheat.
Chicken and Mushroom Patties. ----
Saute two cupfuls of mushrooms IN
two tablespoonfuls Of butter five min
utes; season we'll with salt and pep
per Remove from the fire, take out
scant cupful and chop the remain
der fine with two and half cupfuls OF
cold cooked chicken. Beat two eggs
add salt, pepper and the Juice OF half
lemon. Add tablespoonful OF
chopped parsley and pint OF boiling
milk; stirring until it thickens. Now
add the mushroom and chicken mix
ture and when very hot fill patty
shells and garnish the tops with whole
mushrooms.
Gingerbread with whipped cream
and a cupful of hot coffee Is well
liked by many people who do not en-
Joy rich cake.
Cold ham, boiled or fried, put
through the meat chopper, mixed with
little mustard or hard-boiled egg, Is
nice filing for sandwiches.
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this place half-decayed sod and fill
with carefully mixed and sifted leaf
mold and sand.
Make the surface of the soil per-
fectly smooth and level, and then scat"
ter the spores on 1t and leave then
without any covering, that is, of soil.
However, they must be Enclosed In
glass by placing pane Of glass over
the seed box or pan.
Water. by placing the seed pan ii
water, and keep it there until the wa
ter appears on the surface of the 81 T.
Then remove at once, for too mucd
water will destroy the spores. Keep
the box in the light, but not in the
sun, for ferns naturally grow in shady
places. Follow natures lead.
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roses three weeks later than the sea-
son of ordinary rose bloom, and is the
largest, most vigorous looking and
sturdiest of the roses so often &C.
cused of being coarse on account OF
their enormous growth.
The deepest colored latest Towering
rose is Louis Van Houtte. This is one
of the very best black-crimson, hardy
roses for any time of the year. 1t has
competitor in Horace Vernet, deep
purplish red shaded with dark GRIM
son.
The careful cultivator must not sit
down and expect plants to do their
best with little attention. Eternal
vigilance is the price of good roses.
Plenty of good feeding, plenty of cul-
tivation, early spring pruning and
manuring will usually repay the anna
teur.
Cut off the flowers as they fade in
June and July. Cut back the flower
ing growth one-third, thus leaving
about foot OF the seasons growth.
The side branches that develop will
ordinarily give flowers in due season.
It is quite possible to have second
bloom from some of the Wichuraiana
roses. The tendency to second bloom
is latent and needs development. With
congenial soil these roses will give
pretty show of flowers the latter
part of September and during October.
have seen Hiawatha, laden with
flowers in the middle Of November.
Here are the varieties that are
sure to bloom aft the year: Madame
Levavasseur, Frau Karl Druschki,
white; Burbank, pink; Gruss and Tep'
litz, red all Bengals.
For very deep red and crimson:
Horace Vernet, Louis Van Houtte,
General Washington, Mrs. John Laing,
Anna de Diesbach, Mrs. R. G. Shar'
man. Crawford, Heinrich Schultheis
and Rev. ]. M. B. Camm.
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disposition to listen amiably. it is q
DANGEROUS SYMPTOM,

disposition to listen amiably. it Is
dangerous symptom.
We notice it ourselves. AS sure as
young woman is interested in US.
considers US with certain amount OF
admiration, she invariably starts in to
tell US the story of her life. We may
feel bored but we can also safely fiat
ter ourselves that she has cast favor
able eye upon us.
But how do you know he is inter-
ested in you?" asks mamma. when
daughter makes tentative conf
dence. ..
"Oh. he talked about himself the
whole time" answers daughter art
lessly-and mamma mods understand.
ingly and puts him through Bradstreet.
Exchange.
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Entertained Cake.

One egg, one cupful sugar, one-halt
cupful of butter, one and one.half cup
fuls -four, one and one-half teaspoon.
fuls baking powder. one.half cupful
milk, flavor. Bake in round tins. Put
together with jelly. Frost with q t..
blespoonful butter, one cupful OF pow.
dered sugar, little milk and flavor.
Put this cake together with whipped
cream. Il. q;
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Floor Plan.

as against an enemy, and kept strict
watch over his movements. But when
the Wolf. day after day. kept in the
company of the sheep. and did not
make the slightest effort to seize
them, the Shepherd began to look
upon him as a guardian of his flock
rather than as plotter of evil against
it: and when occasion called him one
day. into the city. he left the sheep
entirely in his charge. The Wolf, now
that he had the opportunity, fell upon
the sheep. and destroyed the greater
part of the flock. The Shepherd on
his return, finding his flock destroyed.
exclaimed. Il have been rightly
served; why did ! trust my sheep to q
Wolf?"-From Aesop's Fables.
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FERNS EASY TO RAISE
av L. NJ. BENNINGTON.

The ordinary way to propagate this
class of plants is by dividing the
plant, by the creeping rhizomes, by
the little bullets that form on the
fronds and by the seeds or spores that
appear on the underside of the leaves.
The enterprising fern lover will find
it most interesting to propagate by
spores and perchance produce really
valuable addition to these beautiful
and graceful plants.
Procure a seed pan or box with
plenty of drainage holes, and cover
the bottom with broken crockery. On
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saves steps.

Saves Steps.
When the best and happiest house
keeper known to the writer was asked
to tell the secret Of her speed In
Homework, she replied: II never iron
with cold iron. cut with dull knife.
or get to my kitchen to prepare q meal
without clean small hand towel
pinned to my apron belt on one side
and similar dish towel pinned on the
other. Try II, and you will be sur.
prised to see how much time and
how many extra stops you Will ~ Z. 4
S7
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CABBAGE and Flee.

\ Boil one head OF cabbage Weighing
about two pounds. in sailed water I'M
til done. Boil in another pan. cupful
Of washed rice. Drain. when cooked.
Of all but little water. Fry one
onion in four slices Of salt pork. Nix
these all together and boil up for one
minute. Season to taste
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-10-22
Original Molasses Cookies.

One-half cupful sugar. two table
spoonfuls Of butter and lard. cream
together with sugar. one halt cupful5
molasses. one-half cupful sweet milk:
Sone-half teaspoonful ginger, one tea.
spoonful soda In flour. -four enough
70 roll roll thin and bake q hot oyss
I'VE minutes I'll w
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ONE OF THE SUREST SIGNS
Get Lover to Talk About Himself, and
You Have Him Hooked, Is opin.
ion of Expert.

And directly we feel yearning to
talk about ourselves, our hopes. our
fears, we are weak and tractable. 1t
is sure sign. Brother, when you find
yourself expanding conversationally
to the young woman, and she shows a
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always have at
least q dozen
plants in the gar
den to supply the
needs of the table.
A name commonly
used for this vege-
table when canned
Is pimentO, which