The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-08

Jap-a-lac for making old furniture
new, at Reilly's.
Whitman for Plumbing and Tin
work. Phone 46-J.
w. T. Calender, chief clerk Of the
state land board, spent Sunday at
home.
Let US figure with you or your
building. All work guaranteed. Wal
ters & Tyler.
John McNish was a Boise visitor
on Monday, returning nome Tuesday
with E. K Hayes.
Twenty weeks Of thrills in the
great serial Liberty" every Tuesday
at the Ideal Theatre
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Hoseley last
week moved to Boise and viii make
their home there Indefinitely.
Mrs. VIM. Lyman of Rupert is ex-
pected Saturday for a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Flagler.
Mrs. L. NJ Bayston, who is teach
ing school at Owyhee, was at home
Friday, looking after business mat
tiers.
For sale-Seed oats, 800 bushels,
regenerated, Swedish Select. Also
| 100 bushels seed barley. F. II. Sher-
wood. 23-4
One way to relieve habitual consti-
patton is to take regularly mild lax
alive Doan's Regulets are recon-
mended for this purpose. 25c box
at all drug stores.
The Crescent Club will meet Fri
day, March 9, with Mrs. Josef Hell
fert. Miss Amy Kelley, Of the Uni
versity Extension department, viii be
present and give talk The women
of Emmett are invited.
A movement has been initiated by
the women of Nampa for boycott on
potatoes, consequent to their high
price Petitions which are being cir
culated declare that prices have
reached an unreasonable level, large
ly due to spectators holding them
for higher prices, therefore we the
undersigned housewives of Nampa
agree to boycott them until they can
be bought for 212 cents or less per
pound" They are now selling on the
local markets at AZ cents a pound
All hail the "dasheen;" and thrice
welcome. No, it's not dog. It's a
root crop new to America, planted
and grown in all the Southern states.
The "dasheen" produces from $50 to
ATS bushels per acre, tastes as good as
a potato, is almost twice as nutritious,
and will be cheaper than potatoes as
soon as the farmers of the South get
to growing them, and people learn
how good they are The high price
of potatoes has revived the interest
of the Department of Agriculture in
the "dasheen," and it has issued a /
bulletin giving the history of the |
"dasheen," instructions how to grow I
it and how to prepare it in various I
ways for the table The "dasheen" is
one of the important food crops of
warm climate nations. 1t is eaten
largely in China and Japan, and we
see it here occasionally in Chinese
stores as the "China potato" In
Hawaii it is known as the "targo"
and poi" favorite food, is made
from it. In Cuba it is known as the
"malanga' Its leaves are like those
of the elephant plant, familiar to US
as a decorative plant. One hill often
produces twenty-six pounds Of its
tubers. 1t is boiled, or baked, or
dried and ground into flour to mix
with grain flour. 1t has delicate
nutty flavor, between that of potato
and a chestnut, and it contains less
water than a potato and so per cent
more protein, and so per cent more
starch and sugar than the potato, and
1t equal prices would be a much .
,heaper food. The government has
crown the "dasheen" extensively on i
experiment. farms in the South, has
proved that it yields abundantly and
he government expects its culture
o spread. and that it will be used
n place of the potato, especially IN
hose long seasons when potatoes
AVE to be shipped from the North.
I keeps well and ships well; freight
ates are the same as for potatoes,
nd says the bulletin: "The success
nj establishment of the dasheen'
Industry means a new and valuable
God crop for the Nation as whole,
nd an additional source of income
or the South
Gem flour for short time only at
2 per sack. Cash Grocery.
DR. Judd. dentist. Monroe Bldg.