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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

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drying. No amount Of cooking will
soften the fruit % soaking overnight
will do. Dates and nss are 10 rich
In sugar that they do not need soak
Ing az q rule.
A most delicious marmalade may b.
made Of the fresh orange, grapefruit,
and lemon, using one Of each sliced a.
iine ~ possible, discarding the seeds.
Cover the sliced fruit with three
quarts Of cold water and let Il stand
overnight, or better "a hours. Then
simmer for an hour and q half and
again let stand overnight. The next
day add five pounds Of light brown
sugar and cook slowly until the fruit
ls clear. Turn into glasses and cover
as for ordinary jelly.
spIeed Prunes.-Soak q pound Of
large prunes overnight In water to
cover. In the morning stew In tho
same water until soft, adding q two
inch stick Of cinnamon, the grated
rind Of half q lemon, six cloves while
the fruit is still hot add half a cup
full each Of vinegar and sugar. Chill
before serving.
Prune and Apple RoIy-poIy.-Roll
out rich pastry very thin, heap on
1t two cupfuls Of finely chopped apples
and a cupful Of drained, stoned, and
slightly chopped, stewed prunes. Roll
up and place In deep saucepan; COW
er with boiling water, a cupful Of
brown sugar and two tablespoonfuls
Of butter. Bake one hour and serve
with whipped cream and the sauce IN
which 1t was cooked.
Cranberries are also delicious, spiced
as one does other fruit. To three
quarts Of berries use three and n half
pounds OF brown sugar, two cupfuls
OF vinegar, tablespoonful OF aIlspice,
a teaspoonfui Of cloves and a three
inch stick OF cinnamon. The vinegar.
II very acid, should be diluted. The
spices may be removed before putting
In the glasses II desired.
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
Had q Bum Dinner.

Mrs. Wise--We were at the Browns
to dinner last week-now, ii We don't
make a dinner call they won't ask US
again.
Mr.. Wise--GoOd. Then We won't
make the call.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rev. A. E. Mclean, pastor
Markville-
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Preaching every other Sunday
at II a. m.
Preaching alternate Sunday at
8.p. m.
ClOvertOn
Sunday school every Sunday at
2 p. m.
Preaching at 3 p. m. Sundays.
Bentley School House
Sunday school every Sunday at
1890 a. m.
Preaching every alternate Sun
day at II a. m.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
He Knew,

Tommy-Say, pop. Is skin-grafting
different from political grating?
Papa-No; all grating is skin
process.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
Not Quite Clear.

Wife (reading)-They have cap
tured clever hotel robber at the sea-
shore, Tom.
Husband-So? What hotel did he
run?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
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There are % many things-best
thinss-that can only come whom youth
y past that Il may well happen %
many Of u 70 ma ourselves happloP
and happier 70 The last.-Niok
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
His Answer.

Willie--Say, pop. what's radium?
His Father (absently)--The stun
:ha1 make radiators out Of.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

HE Only Charm.
The dudes walking fashion plata
With but q single charm;
Upon his watch chain 1t shows up.
Where 1t can do no harm.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

- the jams ana
5olues, We are
forced to ! think
about dried fruits.
In preparing dried
fruit It II well to
remember that It
needs q good soak
Ing to restore the
moisture lost By
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
REASONABLE DISHES.

In many small places it is next to
impossible to get any variety Of fresh
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

AT this season Of the year when
canned fruit 10 Mappearing % well
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13

perrin entation with Easter lily culture during the past ten years is MT. George w. Oliver. expert in plant breeding. MT. Oliver's tests have proven to him that, climatic conditions being right, the most important factor in success or failure in lily growing is observance of the fact that they should not be grown for two consecutive years in the same field. This he believes to be the main cause of trouble with lily growing in Berm uda. Farms are small and the lily crop so stable and profit able that the farmers have not prac- ticed the attenuation of crops neces- sary to keep the bulbs up to the stand- ard.
 As a result of these conditions the bulbs coming from Bermuda have grown more and more unsatisfactory land the vigor of the plants lessened; and were it not that people demand lilies more than any other flower at Easter many dealers would abandon their culture from imported bulbs. especially those which year after year have come to this country from Ber- muda. Despite their defects there are over three million Easter lily bulbs still imported into this country from Bermuda for the Easter trade:
 The Japanese lilies so far have been more satisfactory, according to the Department of Agriculture expert, but they are by no means all that could be desired. In Japan at present millioas of bulbs are grown from seed each year, the demand being so large that enough cannot be grown to SUD-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13

painted in landscape in which there is cupid lurking. The custom is rather pretty especially the meeting of friends on the street and the ex- change of eggs. It is regarded as ill., luck not to take part in this egg cus- tom at Easter in Russia.
 Origin Of 'sEgg Rolling"
 { The egg rolling custom had its origin in the north of England, where it still exists to a certain extent. 1t is customary for boys to beg the eggs on Easter Eve. They are then hard ened by boiling and tinted with the juice of herbs. The eggs being thus prepared, the boys go into the fields and roll them up and down the slopes. Sometimes they are hidden and there is a merry time hunting for them. Prizes are often given to the boy who finds the greatest number. After the game is over tile eggs are given to the poor people who enjoy feast. A survival of this custom still exists in America when on Easter Monday the children gather on the White House lawn and roll eggs up and down it's slopes frequently hiding them in the shrubbery. At Newcastle-upon-Tyn eggs covered with gold leaf are some times presented to the children.
 In North Wales the children still go from house to house from Monday
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13

ply it. Several factors initiate against the Japanf lily bulbs. They are att tackled by a mite which spells them for forcing purposes and there is also a fungous disease which affects the stems and leaves.
 Where The Japanese Fails.
 The Japanese Easter-lily-bulb farm CT has not yet learned the importance of selection. and in lis desire to reap large profits from his crop he does not make the necessary selection from his seedlings for high-class bulbs, the result being that many of the plants grown from Japanese bulbs lack uni- formity of size and stem, time of flow ering and other characteristics. MT. Oliver stated that he had been in- formed that the Japanese Department of Agriculture had taken the matter in hand with a view to inducing the growers to weed out inferior seedlings and propagate only the best.
 ''When you look over a collection of blooming Easter lily plants you will seldom fail to note the preponderance of weakly, yellow-leaved plants, with one or two flowers on each. You may take it for granted that these weak lings have been grown from imported bulbs,'' said MT. Oliver.
 The experiments undertaken in vari- ous sections of the country by the De- partment of Agriculture have shown that the best results so far have been attained on the Pacific Coast; also that homegrown bulbs from home grown seed yield the best plants. Portions of the coast lands of Cali
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13

them. If no eggs are given piece of money is acceptable. At Wilmslow an old rhyme was used in begging for eggs:
 Please MT. Smith,
 Please give us an Easter Egg.
 If you do not give us one.
 Your hen shall lay an added one,
 Your cock shall lay a stone.'
 In Northumberland. century ago. when man begged an Easter Egg of a woman and she refused he took off her boots until she, paid a penalty. If man refused an egg to a woman she snatched away his cap and did not restore it until he paid a money forfeit. YN
 There was a curious custom \ in medieval churches for priests and choristers to join in a game of ball at Eastertide, when hard boiled eggs were thrown from one to the other in the nave of the church while an an- them was being sung. A missed egg meant smashed egg and after a time a rubber ball in the shape of an egg was substituted.
 During the early part of the eight eenth century. in France men set out to search for the largest eggs in the country to be brought in as a tribute to the king and all the farms were
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13

a day of visiting, the visitor always
 carrying as many eggs as he expects
 to make calls. When he is ushered
 into the room he sees several dishes
 filled with colored eggs, those which
 have been received on one side and
 those to be given out on the other.
 Jesus Christ is risen" is the greeting
 and the answer is ''Yes, He is risen"
 The visitor and host then embrace
 and vodka is served Very little of
 this vile stuff can be drunk without
 causing intoxication and now that
 Russia is dry the Easter gifts of eggs
 will probably take lon more sOlenanity.
 No matter how poor the common peo-
 pie of Russia may be, they are always able to have plenty of eggs at Easter and they go about the street with the greeting Jesus Christ is risen" and present their friends with eggs. Many
 are dyed with tcochineal and are in- scribed with the name of the donor.
 This is done by writing the name in grease or tallow from a tallow dip.
 The egg is then immersed in hot water and the dye. The part over which the tallow has been passed will not take the dye and when the egg is removed it presents a beautiful red ground with a white inscription. Some of the eggs are covered with fancy designs. This is done by wrapping I them in colored calico. Others have the color 'scraped off by a penknife and figures in white sketched on the sides. Another method is to break the shell and take out the meat of the
 egg, nll the shell with jelly or fine herbs. putting the name of the giver inside. The outside is frequently
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13
What the Department of Agriculture Is Doing To Keep At Home the Millions Annually Spent In Easter Blooms Southern California Grows
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ton of foreign plants for the Easter sale ?"

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 AS the arsaffected the introduc-
 A tion of foreign plants for the
 Easter sale?"
 f1 One of the largest plant inn < iporters in the East repeated the quas- ztion somewhat Indignantly. Well. ] should say 1t has. Look at that" and he drew into his hand a cluster of green shoots appearing through the heart of an early spring plant. These have no right there. That head should be close-knit mass of white blossoms. This condition indicates delay in transit and the shooting of the foliage. thus preventing the full towering of the plant.
 We Must Grow Our Own Flowers.
 "Yes. the Easter lily has suffered with the other spring bloomers al- though coming. as it does. from an- other direction than the war-stricken gardens of Europe it's plight is not so pad as some of the other bulb plants. This war and other conditions have shown us that we must grow our flow CTS at home, and it is being proved that we can do so if we must
 The Department of Agriculture has demonstrated conclusive1y that in the matter of Easter lilies. as well as in that of other bulbs used in great quan- titles at Easter, the soil and climatic conditions in some. portions of the United States are better adapted to the growth of the Easter lily. and what are generally termed Dutch Bulbs. than are their original coun- tries.
 The Easter lily, which will be used In abundance this month by the peo- pie in the decoration of churches and homes all over this country comes mainly from Japan and Bermuda
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13
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fornia present nearly ideal conditions l for the culture of the Easter lily. Some time ago a large number of seedlings were grown in the Depart ment green houses. From these sev- eral pounds of seed resulted. This
 was distributed on the Pacific Coast
 and in Florida. The seedlings grown
 with careful treatment. first class
 bulbs can be grown at home, and the plants are found almost free from dis
 ease A few plants show it here and
 there in the first generation seedlings.
 but in the second and third genera
 tions it is difficult to find an affected
 plant
 | These results, begun under the
 auspices of the Department of Agri- culture, have been so encouraging to
 practical men on the coast that sev-
 eral are now engaged in getting up a stock of seedlings on a large scale: and the Department is encouraging
 their efforts in every possible way, so
 that the Easter lily plant may be prop-
 agated satisfactorily and profitably in
 the United States
 Profits From Easter Lilies. It has been calculated that 10000
 salable bulbs, ranging in size from three to five inches in circumference, can be grown on an acre of ground i from mother bulbs planted the pre- ceding year. The second years crop of bulbs of that size. whether from seedlings or from bulbs, it has been | figured, should bring from $1.000 to $2, ,000 an acre. One florist who car ried out the instructions of the De- partment of Agriculture cleared $250 1 in one spring from flowers )cut from seedlings on space 25 by 45 feet:
 and this was only for flowers he did not want for seed.
 The removal of flowers and stems, 1 of course, results in bulbs of an in- ferior grade. The Department has | found it difficult in some cases to have | its instructions carried out to their full l length in Easter lily culture. for when
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13

One of the prettiest of the German egg customs is the Easter singers who go about in the Tyrol singing in honor of the resurrection and receiving eggs as gifts. Fires are lighted away up on the mountain sides and when these begin to burn the peasants in their native costumes go from door to door strumming> their guitars and singing the hymns of their church. They stop at the different homes where the good wives have eggs and wine prepared for them. After being refreshed at many dwellings, the singers light their torches and return home. Baking eggs before an open fire is also a Ger man custom. The ends of the egsv are opened and salt and pepper are | added. Then the eggs are set up in D tiny cup and allowed to roast. They are said to be delicious
 The Rabbit And The Egg.
 The Easter rabbit is an important
 figure in the nursery lore of Germany for the children are taught to believe that the Easter bunnie will slip in and secret any number of beautifully colored eggs for the child who has obeyed his parents during the year. The children are tucked into bed early on Easter Eve so that they rise early and find the pretty eggs which the rabbit or the hare Gas the animal is known there) has left for the kiddies. 1 The Easter hare myth reached Amer ica long ago. but here the animal has been transformed into rabbit. Per- haps this is due to whim of the confectioner for in the shop windows one finds bunnies dressed to represent women carrying baskets of candy eggs or fat rabbits drawing wagon full of eggs like triumphal chariot.
 | There Is little real foundation for 1 the connection between the hare and the Easter eggs. but custom has linked them together and year after year, we find them inseparable. The use Of sugar eggs enclosing quantities of bon
 bons or huge eggs of cream covered with chocolate have been used as gifts for the past fifty years. Many of them are exquisite works of art and the confectionery shops rival each other in their efforts to turn out the most attractive eggs-the Easter symbol of the Resurrection. 4
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13
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the trenches, and these factors. along with the difficulty in ocean transporta- tion due to warning conditions. have all had their share in creating short age in foreign bulb importation.
 Aims To Keep Millions At Home.
 For several years the Department of Agriculture has had the desire to keep the millions which are annually sent abroad for Dutch bulbs" within its own borders, and its efforts show that they can all be grown success fully at home Tulips in variety can be successfully grown in commercial quantities in many sections of the United States, and the tests so far show that American-grown tulips are superior in strength and coloring to those grown from imported bulbs.
 Hyacinths, originally imported from Southern France, are now extensively grown on the Pacific Coast and on Puget Sound. The results obtained give promise of the State of Washing ton being able to produce hyacinths of very good quality, quite equal to those grown in any foreign country. The sweet-scented freesia is another of the bulbous plants formerly im- ported from France. The Department of Agriculture, in encouraging the home-growing of bulbs. has demon strated that this fragrant blossom can also be brought to as high state of perfection here as in Europe. It is now grown extensively in the Caro- linas and in Florida, as we'll on the Pacific slope just north of Santa Barr bara. >-
 The dainty jonquil and narcissus. which rival one another in popularity at Easter for use in the decoration of churches and homes and are used to great extent as corsage bouquets, can be grown here IS easily as in their native European soils, and produce better results. Many sections have been found favorable to their culture and they are now being grown in large quantities in Rhode Island for the Northern markets, and in vir- ginia and Southern States for their nearby trade.
 It has been fount. that the United States will produce better and health fer plants and yield larger and earlier blooms on longer and stronger stems in the case of both the jonquil and. the narcissus than can be grown in tba Netherlands.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13
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the lily comes in flower twelve months before planting the seedlings, the price offered by retail florists for the blooms is a temptation hard to resist. Those florists who have grown the seedlings for the bulbs alone are more than pleased with the results.
 This has been done in the neighbor- hood of Santa Ana. California, where the soil and climatic conditions are very favorable. Some of the. plants raised there had twenty or mors flowers on stem. At Yuma, Arizona. the growth made from mature bulbs was good, and bulbs may be grown there to mature quite as early as those from the Bermudas
 Although enough has not been done in an experimental way to ascertain all the localities where lilies can be grown successfully, the Department of Agriculture states that the lily seed lings have shown great vigor where the winter temperature does not fall below A degrees Farenheit Below that point the plants get a check to their growth and the foliage puts on an undesirable yellowsh tinge which
 
 parts of California, especially in the hot interior valleys, where good soil and plenty of water are available and the winter temperature is not too low. the seedlings thrive well.
 The scientists in the Department of Agriculture have been trying to dis cover a native rival for the Bermuda lily. something more hardy and suited to larger area of the country. Vari- ous experiments are being carried on at this time in the direction of hy- bridizing and crossing, with a view to dem onstrating the practicability of growing lilies in the United States for the Easter trade directly from seed.
 To lend variety to the floral display at Easter many Towering bulbs are forced to bear their blooms to honor the day of Resurrection. Most of the Easter Towering bulbs in general use are imported from Holland, Belgium and France. and war has affected their import for this seasons blooming to a considerable degree. In some of the districts of Europe where Towering bulbs have been main source of in dustry and income, the bulbs have been fed to the stock and the ground planted to yield food products. In other sections the cultivators are in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-13
How the Egg Has Been the Symbol of the Resurrec- ton for Centuries J Quaint Customs of Many
 Lands InWhichthe Easter Egg Plays Its Part
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 markets by peddlers along the streets. The sport consisted of striking one egg against another and the egg that breaks first is won by the owner of the egg that struck it. Immediately another egg is pitted against the win ming egg and so this went on till the last remaining egg wins all the others which their respective owners have won. This game is clearly the origin of the sport indulged in at the present time when the boy goes forth and calls out Who's got the bully and when he finds a boy with an egg the eggs are pitted together in order to find out which shell will break first. The broken egg is won by the owner of the egg whose shell remains firm. Blessing Eggs.
 In Rome prior to the nineteenth cen- tury the heads of Catholic families sent out large baskets of hard boiled eggs to church to have them blest which the priests do by saying certain prayers and making signs of the cross over them, after which they are sprinkled with holy water. After the Eceremony was over the eggs were counted as a record was kept of the a ! number of eggs blest by each priest. These blest eggs were said to hive the virtue of sanctifying the entrails of the body and were to be the first fat or feshy nourishment they take after the abstinence of Lent. The Italians i at that time labstained from eggs, cheese and butter as we'll as meat during Lent As soon as the eggs were b1est each man, woman and child carried his or her portion home and had them placed in dishes on table covered with the best linen the house could afford. The egg shells were sometimes gilded or silvered, and piled
 into a. pyramid. The table was kept set for week and visitors were in yited to partake of the eggs and to
 refuse one. of these eggs was regarded
 as an insult to the host.
 Russian Customs.
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