Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-24
FREE FARMERS BULLETINS FOR
THE WOMEN.

Jellies.
No. 25s-Preparation of Vegetables
for the Table
No. SsS-The Use of Milk as Food.
No. 375-Care Of Food in the Home.
No. 52l-Canning Tomatoes at Home
and in Club Work.
No. 55s-Use of Kaffir Corn and Cow
peas.
No. s44-Manufacture and Use of I'm
fermented Grape Juice.
No. TI7-Food for Young children.
No. 29s-Use of Fruit as Food
No. S17-How to Select Foods
No. 771-Homs Made Cookers and
Their Use.
No. I2I-Beans. Peas and other Lee
gumes as Food.
No. 24s-Cereal Breakfast Foods.
No. 9I-Evaporation of Apples.
No. 35s-Canning Vegetables in the
Home.
No. ss1-Economical Use of Meat in
the Home.
No. 4s7-Cheese and Its Use in Diet.
No. 565-Corn Meal as Food and
Ways of Using 1t.
No.65S-Honey and Its Use in the
Home
No. 712-School Lunches.
No. S41-Drying Fruits and Negeta-
bles at Home.
No. SOT-Bread and Bread Making.
No. sOS-How 10 Select Foods-What
the Body Needs.
No. S53-Home Canning of Fruits and
Vegetables.
Please do not send to me for these.
only have one Of the sorts that l need.
Write to Washington.
believe that eight different ones is
as many as one woman can select. Give
the number and name or each. Be sure
and sign your own name in plain writ
ing Don't get the idea that anybody
can read your name because you can
read il yourself Sometimes l get let
tiers with the name so jumbled up. or in
such a way that the a and are alike
the II and n, the might be l. or 5.
Where one has to handle as many let
tiers as the clerks in Washington handle
daily il is our Christian duty TO try 10
spare their tried eyes
After you have written your letter
and put your name and address at the
end of 1t put ii in an envelope with
your name, route, and postoffice in the
upper lefthand corner. Then direct it
L. s. Department of Agriculture. Wash
ington, d. c.
1t may seem to many OF the readers
Of The Journal a waste Of time for me
to write these directions, but all of the
readers do not know just how to send
a letter for these bulletins.
In many of the papers that have
woman's page l have seen the method
for saving apples by using sulphur. My
advice to you is against that method.
Dr. Wiley, just about the wisest man IN
America when it, comes to foods and
their effects on the body. is strongly OPP
he
ment of agriculture would be sure to
have the method il IL we're good for
us. lust nut IL aside for the same rea-
son that you should not use acid in
canning beans: IL accumulates in the
system and becomes poison. such
little bit will not hurt" l think some
Of you say. II would not hurt you II
the body would throw off the sulphur or
acid with the other waste matter, but IL
does not.
I visited a family, once upon a time,
that were continually taking some sort
of medicines There was a serious case
of intestinal trouble there every year,
and 1 set my mind on finding out the
cause That was years ago, before Dr.
Wiley had been given the opportunity to
tell all the women what not to do. As
IL was summer time l could not find any
cause for the stomach troubles that
three of the younger members had.
However, the day l was to return 10
Atlanta the lady of the house SAID;
Wont you please buy some acid Tor
me? l want 10 can beans next week.
There IL is" / exclaimed. What is?'
she asked. Then l told her how the
acid accumulated and begged her not to
use it, Some of you know that the
method now used for making the home
Gamer out of a dishpan with cloth in
the bottom. or a wash boiler with Stats,
and the methods OF canning now in the
papers has been published in this depart
ment OF The Journal more than ten
years.
agents often go to your homes and
sell you books that your own govern
ment would give you. | do hope that
every woman on the farm or in town
wilr send to Washington for these num-
bers 203. 256. $50, 565, SAL and s.53,
Farmers Bulletins.
Now is the time to start your honey
plant" II costs too much for the aver
age woman to buy the outfits that the
dealers advise. A homemade hive, a coll
ony OF bees from some one I'm the
neighborhood. with a good italian queen
makes a good start. Bee keeping, like
any other sort of enterprise. must be
understood and the experience comes
from actual work with them before one
should put much money IN the bees or
their parsphernalia. There have been
many thousands Of dollars thrown away
by people making the mistake of get
ting a fine outfit before they know
whether the enterprise was going 10 be
the one for them 20 engage in.
The first time that 7 saw those two
acres I'm Kirkwood that first expert
ment station" OF which 7 have written
you. 7 shut my eyes and mentally saw
bee hives dOwr the row Of peach trees
Then when J made the change 7 again
saw hce hives under peach trees but
thus far my mental vision has not ma
terislized- Every wear there has heen
good reason for the failure Of nv vi
sion 70 become a realitv But It's as
strong an impulse as II vas five years
ago and I'm the meautime 7 am learning
more about bees and bee keeping There
Is not a farm that should not have
some-they make the fruit trees and
grapev1nes more productive. 20 say moth
ing Of the staple crops and the honey
one could then enjoy There is a farm
ers bulletin on bees. but 7 do not re-
member the number. The Beekeeper
ma gazine. published at Medina Ohio IS
great help TO the beginner. I cannot
understand how people expect TO raise
anything. whether bees. chickens or
clover. with no literature on he sub
ject
The man mr. ,-op,ap uybo THINKS he or