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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-04-07

\ meeting Of the executive board ot
the State Federation was called FOR
" Wednesday. March -. 100 Las cruces
Evening star., 1917-03-02
WAYS TO OECONOMIZE- Your Own Farmer
By Frederic J. Haskin.

while many more persons, although they
raise poultry, do not make practical
success of it. OF course, poultry keep
ing in cities and towns is restricted by
law. and only the suburbanite and coun-
try dweller can take this means of sup
plementing his meat supply.
The great essentials to profitable poul-
try raising on a small scale, say the gov
ernment chicken experts. are to select a
good breed Of chickens, and to utilize the
scraps from the family table in feeding
them. rather than buy expensive feeds.
In fact. this utilization of garbage which
would otherwise be wasted Is the basis
of economical poultry keeping. Although
no exact study of the matter has been
made. it is asserted that there are few
families that would not support ten hens
at least, on the table scraps. while many
could support twice that many.
Room for the Birds.
A good idea of how much room you
must have to keep chickens may be had
from the fact that at the government ex-
perimental poultry farm thirty hens are
kept on an area twenty-five by 200 feet.
Thus your ten hens might be kept in
runway of one-thrd this size. However.
for good results you should have 4 Some-
what larger area divided into two rum
ways. While the chickens are occupying
one the other should be sown in wheat.
oats, rye or some other Quick-growing
grain. The yards should be rotated
every three or four weeks during the
growing season. the chickens being turned
on the sprouting grain when it is a few
inches high.
What return may you expect from
flock of chickens of this size? A hen of
a good laying breed. during her first year
will produce about 144 eggs, so that If
you have learned how to care for them
rightly you may expect between fourteen
and fifteen hundred eggs a year from
your flock.
In addition TO this. each hen. after her
three years of laying life are over, will
be worth from so to so cents on the mar
ket, while if you raise your own chick
ems, you will have a number of cockerels
to kill in the fall. Needless to say, if the
scraps from the family table were well
utilized in supporting such flock, this
return would easily leave a profit on eX
penditure for a little grain and laying
ration in the winter.
The government experts recommend
that the small producer hatch his own
chicks under hens rather than in in
cubators. Thus a few hens and a few
settings of eggs of some thoroughbred va
riety are all that you need to start in the
business. and the hen does a large part
of the work, while the incubators and
brooders exact almost as much care
from you as a chick does from a hen.
Evening star., 1917-03-02
THIS WEEKS DOLLAR WINNING SUGGESTIONS"
IN THE STARS FOOD AND THRIFT CONTEST

ors as easily as from white. Before the
cloth is wet, moisten the spot with
camphor, and the stain will come out
when washed.
when a tablecIoth is taken off 1t is
we'll to moisten any stains with cam
phor before placing 1t with the soiled
clothes. and then there is no delay to
apply the camphor on wash day.
F. P. T.
An Economy in Bottles.
1 have found the following a good
thrift" idea: So often a large bottle
with small neck is thrown away
especially the quart-size ink and glue
bottles which accumulate SO rapidly IN
large Offices. Now. these bottles are
splendid for preserved fruit or vege-
tables or to protect rose bushes In the
cold season simply by removing the
neck and top in the following way:
Soak a piece of cord in coal oil and
tie securely around the bottle at the
desired place below the top. Apply
match to the cord and let burn. The
top will come off as smooth as ribbon
w. H.
A Food Saver.
Often a valuable part of a can of
food is wasted as a result of the way
in which the can Is opened. A good
way to get all of the contents out is
to place the can on its side and stick
the can opener in the side Of the can
as near the top as possible and near
the seam. Then turn the can up on
end. and it is an easy matter to cut
the tin around, thus removing the
whole top of the can. This is an es-
pecially good plan where a person is
desrous of removing the contents
from the can whole. E. X. Ii.
String Holders.
have found a way of always finding
string at hand when needed. and yet
keeping 1t so that it is not disfgure-
ment. l buy cheap tin tunnels, the size
Evening star., 1917-03-02

On this page every Friday The Star
publishes a number of Suggestions"
concerning a more economical or eff
cient management of the home or the
office, and 1T pays one dollar for each
initials, not the full name of each sue
cessful contributor.
Recipes are not wanted unless they
be unusual ones of practical and OBJ
vious value in reducing table expenses.
Nor can any Suggestion" which recon-
mends the use of any food product or
article with trade name be consider
ed eligible for an award.
Send in your Suggestions" to the
Editor, Food and Thrift Page, The
Evening Star, Washington, D. c.. Write
on but one side of each sheet of paper.
If you desire your suggestion" re-
turned to you. should 1t prove not
available, inclose the necessary pos
tage otherwise 1t will be destroyed.
Here are the suggestions which
have been awarded one dollar each for
this weeks page:
To Keep Apples.
If you have no cold cellar in which
to keep your barrel of apples, here is
a satisfactory way of doing SO: For the
last three winters we have kept bar
rel of apples in our cellar very success
fully by sinking among the apples a
pail of water and then covering the
barrel over with newspapers and car
pet.
Whenever we took any apples out of
the barrel, We added fresh water and
so kept the air in the barrel always
moist. Other winters the furnace heat
has made our apples shrivel up after
few DAYS d. H. H.
To Remove Fruit Stains.
Here is a simple method of removing
fruit stains from the most delicate col
Evening star., 1917-03-02
The Remedy.

We've listened with awe to what they
propose TO do by boycotts, embargoes
and Investigations, and we became so
enthused about what the rest were go
ing to do we almost forgot that the
problem of getting the most food for
that two-ffty to three dollars a week
per person was still with US and un-
solved.
It's never too late in the year for
self-analysis. so let's go and look in
the refrigerator and pantry now-be-
fore you finish that marketing list.
Too bad we forgot those bits of vege-
tables-they would have made fine
salad if combined and served with a
dressing made by mixing clear bacon
drippings, melted. with vinegar, lemon
juice and salt That would have saved
Is cents on last nights dinner.
Whatever have we got chops on our
marketing list for? Here are two kinds
of cold meat in the icebox. Oh! yes.
there is plenty on that ham bone to
make a good casserole dish tonight and
then We'll boil the bone with rice to-
morrow.
The cold beef will do for dinner. Yes,
know the men all like brown gravy.
but that is the easiest thing in the
world with that jar of beef extract you
have.
Will milady just stop now. and take
stock of her own provisions. also her
methods of buying and serving? Let
US make a resolution to buy foods with
little or no waste. To buy canned and
package foods in quantity, but bulk
purchases just as we need them. Let
us also resolve never to throw away
any good food Save everything from
the serving dishes. nothing from the
Individual dishes. and use your inge-
nuity in using what left-overs there may
be. A variety of sauces may be made
which will convert the most prosaic left
over into a delectable delight.
Evening star., 1917-03-02
HEALTH AND HYGIENE
The Common Every Day Pin.

Tho pin is born with millions of
travel all parts of the world. On their
journey they come in contact with us
human beings and it might be interest
ing to consider what sometimes hap
pens when they do SO.
Suppose pin found its way into the
laundry of shirt manufacturer. We
would be likely to hear of It, first in
tho mouth OF one Of those folding the
shirt and preparing 1t for shipment.
This pin. as well as others. might per-
haps be making its first intimate
acquaintance with the germ that pro-
duces sore throat.
The shirt gets to the consumer, who
starts to make it ready for use. For
the second time the poor pin finds the
human mouth again its abiding place.
Possibly this time it gets into an uI-
cerated mouth, thence it gets into the
pincushion or some other receptacle.
The persons who handle these can
not recognize disease germs by the
its cargo of germs. is ready for a new
service. This time. perhaps, by dress
maker: If she has the bad habit already
alluded to. she fills her mouth with
these pins while she cuts with her pat
terms and fits various pieces together.
Then. for variation. the pin may find
lodgment in a healthy mouth. Never
theless, 1t is not a pleasant fault, when
you know the pins history thus far. to
think Of any one making such use of
it.
Many a mother who uses pins In
fastening a child's dress together does
the same thing. By this time, in the
pins life history, 1t Is quite well arm
ed with spores Of germs and really Is
accountable for much harm along Its
path Of travel. And now, as it is get
ting old and about ready to close its
life, little child may be stricken with
tonsilitis or diphtheria or even scarlet
fever. because some of these diseases
are easily communicable from throats
so recently affected by the disease that
the danger is not recognized.
The presence Of the germs that have
been referred to on the pin is real
danger, as the physician or laboratory
worker knows he can plant these pins
taken from everyday use and plant
them in food stuffs that will make
them grow and multiply in great num-
bers; colonies can be seen by the naked
eye, and they can be injected into other
living beings and produce disease.
So the moral of this little story is,
never hold pins in the mouth, as they
spread disease, even fatal disease.
Evening star., 1917-03-02
Why Eat Potatoes? cat

eight cents a pound the potato
is a needless luxury" says the
New York Board of Health.
The potato is seventy-fve per
cent water and the rest is
mostly starch. 1t is a good
food when eaten in 'combina-
ton with proteid foods-but
not worth eight cents a pound.
Cut out meat, eggs and high
priced vegetables and stick
to cereals and fruits. Two
Shredded Wheat Biscuits
(cost two cents) with milk
make a complete meal, sup
plying all the nutriment need
ed for a half days work. For
breakfast with hot milk; for
dinner with sliced bananas or
stewed prunes. Made at Nj
a9ara Falls, n. Y.
Evening star., 1917-03-02

II you have any vacant land at all
about your house, this may and should
be made a means of economizing on food
products. Not only may any individual
substantially reduce the cost and add to
the quality and variety of his food by
being a backyard farmer, but If all town
and suburban backyards were intelligent
ly used to this end the total food supply
of the nation would be greatly increased.
and prices forced down accordingly.
Vegetable gardening and poultry raising
are the two forms of home farming that
may be most conveniently and profitably
practiced 1t does not take much room
to have garden. The experts have de-
cided that a space twenty-five by seven
ty feet in size, if properly cultivated.
will yield enough vegetables to keep a
small family well supplied. Half an acre
can be made to produce 500 worth of
vegetables in year, and when 1t is taken
into account how much more than that
town or suburban family would have TO
spend for the vegetables in the open mar
ket and how much more desirable are
those raised at home, the profit OF gar
dening becomes evident.
The average backyard garden gives no
such return as this, chiefly because 1t Is
about this time laying out the plan OF
your garden a piece of paper. and
studying your government bulletins and
books on the subject Your plans should
be devoted chiefly to two ends. namely.
getting two or. II possible, three crops
out OF your land, and producing the vege-
tables that are most expensive to buy
and hardest to get fresh.
What to Plant.
For example. if you can buy plenty
of cabbages and potatoes to store for
winter use from the farmers in the fall
at reasonable price. it would be foolish
to devote your garden space to these
things Likewise, in general, it would
not pay you to raise melons or squashes,
because they are cheap when in season
and take up a large amount of room.
Green peas and stringbeans. on the other
hand, would probably be advantageous
| to plant because they must be very fresh
| to be good, and are usually expensive
The matter of what to plant. however, is
essentially an individual problem and one
| that you must think out. What do you
| like that is hard to buy? That Is the gist
of the problem.
| The other great homo avocation Is
poultry raising. and here again, thou
sands Of opportunities are neglected,
Evening star., 1917-03-02
FOOD, HEALTH, HOME AND THRIFT

Is then placed in tho cooker. which
does not allow the heat to escape.
The food should be heated In the same
vessel as is used in the cooker to avoid
the fire to the cooker as quickly as
possible. Hot soapstones are some
times placed in the cooker with the
food when a higher temperature is
needed or longer cooking desired.
Made at Home.
The ingenious housewife can con-
struct her own fireless cooker If she does
not wish to purchase one. The ma
terials cost practically nothing, as they
are usually to be found in the house.
To build a flreless cooker select a
tightly built wooden box. lard tub or
tin lard can for the outside container.
four inches of packing all around the
nest. A gallon tin oyster bucket makes
an admirable nest, as 1t will hold a
soapstone and fair-sized vessel. A
packing of shredded newspaper and
excelsior is satisfactory.
THE nest is wrapped on the outside
next the packing with asbestos, and
piece of asbestos is placed under the
bottom to prevent the scorching of the
packing when the hot soapstones are
used. The packing must be very tight
and come to the top of the nest. which
is about three inches below the lid
top of the outside container. Then a
piece of cardboard is cut to At inside
the lard can and a circle cut out of the
center around the top Of the oyster
can. or nest, to hide the packing and
make neat finish. A cushion Of un-
bleached muslin three inches thick and
stuffed tightly with excelsior is used
on the top of the lid of the nest, and
when the top of the container is placed
on and hooked down it is tight enough
to cause pressure"
Evening star., 1917-03-02
CONSTRUCTIVE USES
OF FIRELESS COOKER

"In these days of study of real thrift
and conservation of household forces
there is a good deal to be said in behalf
of the fireless cooker" said Miss Mary
E. Criswell of the Office of extension
work in the south, states relations serv-
ice, Department of Agriculture.
''The use of the fireless cooker has
meant more, and is to mean yet more,
than is obvious. OF course, the i'm
mediate argument for Its use is the
reduction of laborious work. more
leisure away from the kitchen and the
saving in fuel and heat. Beyond that
however, it is possible to correct GER
tain common gross errors In cooking,
and thereby gain more wholesome
dishes for the table.
There are some meats, and nearly
all the cereals, which it is not only
economical from the standpoint of fuel
and time saving to cook in the fireless,
but cooking them in this manner raises
their food value many times.
The temptation to underdo food is
very great in the city, where the fuel
is frequently gas. If the cheaper cuts
of meat are to be substituted for those
more expensive they must as a rule be
cooked for longer time to render them
either palatable or fully nutritious. If
this necessitates their cooking for sew
eral hours over gas stove the cost
of the fuel detracts greatly from the
Brings Out the Flavor.
"It is here the aid of the fireless
cooker comes to the fore. 1t not only
effects large saving in fuel. but also
has introduced better methods of cook
Ing the cheaper cuts of meat. because
it cooks them in such a manner as to
bring the very best out of them Many
foods thus cooked for a long time at
low temperature have finer flavor
and are more nutritious than If cooked
on a stove at high temperature. This
is especially the case when vegetables
and seasonings are used in connection
with ragouts and stews. Such dishes
cooked over gas are not cheap. as long
cooking in that manner is costly and
hardly consistent economy.
Another instance of the advantage
of the fireless cooker is in the prepara-
ton of cereals. The quickly cooked,
underdone cereal is the rule of the
average American breakfast table. All
cereals. oatmeal, wheat, hominy, corn
meal mush and others are much more
nutritious and palatable if allowed to
cook slowly throughout the night In
the fireless cooker.
'"The principle of the freless cooker
is to retain the heat obtained by first
boiling the food for a few minutes. 1t
Evening star., 1917-03-02
BY JEAN PRESCOTT ADAMS.

Wherever two or three thinking men
or women are assembled reasons for
and relief from high costs are soon un-
der discussion. The national policy.
universal peace, even the improvement
topics that seem to take back seat
when we get right down to the subject
nearest our pocketbook.
America is proud of her women who
are taking such broad. sane view of
the situation. These same thoughtful
women, by organization. have raised
the entire standard of the nation so far
as food supply and health is concerned.
A Real Improvement.
When we stop to consider the work
our grandmothers did in storing and
conserving the food supply for large
family we wonder where women ever
found time to study any problem seri-
ously. I'm inclined to give credit to
the first producer who put first quality
food in a sanitary container SO the
housewife would be sure of it's whole
someness.
When it comes to a question of ben
son between the smelly cellar or store
room full of fruits and vegetables that
need constant looking over and the
trim. attractive pantry with neat, clean
shelves of canned foods ready to be
made into a dish as simpls or elab-
crate as you wish.
The following experience, as told by
well known writer, is impressive.
She says: Il have a very dear friend
who lives in a great house with a
kitchen as big as banquet hall, and
pantries and storerooms as big as a
kitchen need me. She has never availed
herself Of the progressive service of
the national producer. but buys all kinds
of things in bulk and quantity. She
sends to some particular farm for veg
etables and has a most exciting time
when they arrive. Barrels of things
from My Mr.. So and So. who knows
just what I want, you know A few
weeks later they would be having one
fruit or vegetable every meal to keep
it from spelling. l induced her to
compare accounts.
I'VE found that while our families
numbered the same with the addition
Of big collie in our family. her food
Evening star., 1917-03-02
Mint Apple Jelly.

Four pounds Of apples, one cup of
chopped mint. four teaspoonfuls of
lemon juice. The apples are washed
and cut into small pieces and cooked
with the mint in enough water to keep
from burning.
When tender the apples are strained
and the straining bag pressed to ex-
tract all the Juice possible. It is then
cooked; three-quarters of a cup of
sugar being added for each cup of
juice. Just before it turns into jelly
the lemon juice is added.
Evening star., 1917-03-02

needed. paint them the desired color
and hang them up in the kitchen, bed
rooms and living room. Into each fun
mel I drop ball Of string. running the
loose end down through the bottom
of the funnel-and the string is ready
to use at any time. V. V.
Fasteners for Rosettes.
Here IS a convenient and labor-saving
way of using snap-fasteners for the
rosettes on baby bonnets: Put either
the socket or ball on the bonnet where
you want the rosettes and the opposite
part on the ribbon. I often use ribbon
ties and bows in this fashion on little
gifts such as aprons, carriage robes,
etc. as the ribbons can be used with
out laundering. l. w., Jr.
A Saving in Doctors Bills.
Last year, whenever we had to call
the doctor for the children. 1 5otted
down in a little notebook the date of
the visit, Its reason and the treatment
prescribed by him. This winter. when
either of them has been out OF sorts,
I have gone to my little book and
found there the remedies previously
used for earache, cough, fever OF "ha1
not. The children have each time got
ten well without the doctors assist
ance. We have been thus saved much
anxiety and no little expense through
knowing at once just exactly what
to do. "A. L. u.
Emergency Hints"
Often 1 need a small funnel and find
there is none available. So. in such an
emergency, 1 make a small hole In the
end of an egg shell and pour the liquid
through this into the bottle or dish.
Another emergency device. If you
have a small bottle which no cork Will
fit. is to boil a cork five minutes, ana
when it is soft it can be nodded to
fit any bottle. A. NJ. h
Evening star., 1917-03-02
Chilled SteWed Apples.

Select firm round greenings. pare
neatly and cut in halves; place in a
shallow pan, far enough apart so as
not to injure one anothers shape. with
sufficient boiling water to cover them
and a cup of sugar to every six apples.
Stew slowly until the pieces are very
tender; remove to a glass dish care
fully: boil the sirup one-half hour
longer; pour it over the apples, and eat
cold. with cream.
Evening star., 1917-03-02
Steamed Barley,

Wash a teacupful of hot barley in
plenty of cold water and boil it slowly
for few minutes; turn it now into a
jar or a pudding basin. and let it steam
for six or eight hours; when it is quite
tender and creamy it Is ready to serve
with butter. pepper and salt Tomatoes
stewed in a little butter may be added
Evening star., 1917-03-02
OUR SHARE IN HIGH COST PROBLEMS.

expenditure very nearly doubled mine.
Besides all this, ! have time to
study, teach and write. while my friend
is so busy everlastingly preparing
meals that one club activity is all she
can manage" Here is an actual eX-
perience that gives room for thought.
Evening star., 1917-03-02

charged, then formed a
crust all over my face and
scaled off, and my face
was dlshgured. The Itch
ing and burning sensation
was awful. | could not
rest day or night.
Nothing gave per-
manent relief until | used
Cuticura SoaD and Oint-
Evening star., 1917-03-02

A very attractive hat is of Milan
straw, small brim and rather high
crown. The only trimming is two small
wings sitting right on top of the
crown.
Evening star., 1917-03-02
Miss Browns
Case Of Eczema
Would Break OCT With Pirnp1es.
Itching andBurningAw Could
not Rest Either Day Or Night.
Cuticura Heals. Cost 81.

"For five years suffered with ecze-
ma on my face. 1t would first break out
with pimples which festered and dis
Evening star., 1917-03-02

ment used one box of Ointment and
two bars of Soap when | was healed" ]"
(Signed) Miss Alma Brown, RID. 3,
Kennesaw, Ga, July 10, 1916.
Not only are these super-creamy en-
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rashes, pimples, dandruff, and baby skin
troubles, but once the skin is clear, the
scalp clean. they keep them SO if used
for everyday toilet purposes.
For Free Sample
Each by Return Mail address post
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Sold everywhere.