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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-03

PACKING BLANCHED AND COLD DIPPED
PRODUCT INTO JARS.
no draft strikes the hot jars. Watch
for leakage, and screw covers down
tighter when necessary. Store in a
cool, dry place not exposed to freezing
temperature
Use band labels for cans, being care
full not to let the glue get on the can
itself, as it may cause rust.
From time to time, especially in very
hot weather, examine jars and cans,
making certain that there are no leaks,
swellings or other signs of fermenta-
ton.
There will be no spoilage if the direc-
tons are followed implicitly and the
containers are sealed up tight.
Fruits which are put up with heavy
sirups can be kept under cork and
paraffin seal. Save all wide necked
bottles, glasses and jars for putting up
fruits.
Vegetables, meats and fish, however,
cannot be kept safely unless they are
Theoretically sealed. Reserve regular
jars for products that cannot be pack
ed in other ways.
AS there may be some difficulty in
securing cans and jars, dry or keep in
other ways everything that need not
be canned
@~~~~N~~~ee%~e~e~e
For ScaIdins, Bianching, and SteriLixinS of
Fruits and Vegetables BY One-peTiod
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-03

lowered into boiling water.
better Take them out immediately
and let them drain. Don't let them
soak in the cold water.
From this point on speed is highly
important. The blanched vegetables
and fruits, which are slightly warm
must not be allowed to remain out OF
the jars moment longer than is nee
essary.
Remove skins when required, and as
each article is pared cnt it up int
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-03
HELPFUL HINTS ON
HOME CANNING
Simple Equipment For Preserv-
Ing Fruits and Vegetables.
COLD PACK METHOD IS EASY

Long Used With Success by Thousands
Of Boys and Girls of Canning Clubs.
Washboiier Useful In the Process.
Time Table For ScaIding, BIanching
and Sterilizing the Foods.
[From office of information, United States
department of agricultural
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

Type of Beet Found in Many Fields.
to prove that by careful and pains
taking work such strains can be pro-
duced
No intelligent study of cultural
methods in the production of sugar
beets or of problems involving a
comparison of varieties can be made
until uniform and fixed varieties with
which TO work are available.
The production of strains having
roots of uniform size and habit of
growth and capable of yielding seed
stalks uniform in habit of growth
and maturity should make possible
improved cultural methods, especially
in the planting of the roots and In
the harvesting of the seed, that will
reduce greatly the cost of production.
After seed harvest the beet roots
and stalks remain in the ground in
sound and palatable condition for
live stock feed. The present practice
is to feed these roots in the field
utilizing them as pasture.
The beet-sugar industry in the
United States is composed of three
distinct branches, namely, beet-seed
production, sugar-beet growing, and
beet-sugar extraction and refining
They are so linked that each is de-
pendent upon the others, not only for
its complete success but for its very
existence. Without seed the sugar
beet industry, in which more than
10000 American farmers are directly
interested, could not exist, and with
out beets the 81 beet-sugar mills now
standing, with an invested capital of
more than S100000,000, would be idle.
The beet-sugar industry is. of course,
the foundation upon which sugar
beet growing and beet-sugar extrac-
ton rests. Because of its fundamen-
tai character, it is surprising that
sugar-beet seed production in this
country has not received more gen.
eral and more earnest attention in the
past. The two primary causes that
have operated against the development
of the sugar-beet seed industry in this
country were ID the fact that suf-
ficient quantity of seed TO meet our re-
quirements was easily obtainable from
European countries at reasonable
price and (2) the prevailing idea that
conditions in this country, from the
standpoint either of labor cost or of
climate. would not permit the success
full development of the seed industry in
the United States. Recent experiences,
however, have shown the folly of de-
pending upon foreign countries for our
beet-Seed supply, while experiments
extending over many years have
proved the falsity of the opinion rela-
tive to labor and climatic conditions.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
INJURY BY CORN-EAR WORMS
Kansas Agricultural College Finds II
Possible to Control Little Pest
by Spraying.

Nearly all roasting ears on the mar
ket In recent years have been injured
by the corn-ear worm, and those known
to be free from the injury can be sold
at from TO 10 cents more per dozen.
For six years the department of en-
tOmology of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college and experiment station
has been studying the worm and has
found that large proportion of the
eggs deposited in the summer are
placed on the fresh corn silks. From
these eggs the worms that injure the
ears originate. The young larvae be-
gin feeding on the silks and eat their
way down into the ear. 1t is, there
fore, possible to control much Of the
injury by keeping the silks sprayed
during the silking period.
Powdered arsenate of lead has been
found to be the most efficient poison.
A 20 per cent mixture of arsenate of
lead, with air-slaked lime or land plas-
ter is practically as good as the poison
alone. The dust is shaken upon the
silks from an ordinary cheesecloth bag
or flour sack. Under average weather
conditions four or five applications at
intervals of three or four days are suf-
ficient.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
PLATE BETTER THAN BRIDGE
Cannot Be Used by Dentists in Pre-
pairing Men for War, However,
AS 1t Is Barred by Army.

"The most conscientious dentists
wherever possible" said DR.. Frank S.
Delano of New York, secretary of the
Dentists Preparedness association, In
discussing the difficulties the 200
members Of this association are hav-
ing with putting the mouths of would
be recruits into condition for their ac-
ceptance by the army and navy.
"The navy will accept men with
plates to replace teeth they have lost;
the army will not, but makes no Objec-
continued Doctor Delano. "Men come
TO US to have their teeth put into con-
dition, and we should like to make
plates for them, but as the army re-
cruiting officers reject men with plates,
we have to put in bridges. This is
unfortunate, because q bridge means
the certain death before long of the
two teeth to which it is anchored.
1.-THE general public ought to know
this about bridgework Many people
object to a plate, but they would not
if they knew they were saving money
by it. After the anchor teeth die,
trouble begins; very soon the teeth
have to come out, and either larger
bridge or plate is necessary. If a
larger bridge be put in, it means the
death of two more teeth, and ultimate
ly you have to come to the plate"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
MAKING MONEY OUT OF cows
Seven Fundamental Principles of Sue
cessfuI Dairying-Weed Out All
Poor Animals.

There are ten rules for making
money out of cows and they all begin
with milk good cows"
To put the case in a nutshell, or
rather . skim the cream from the
whole matter, let us admit that there
are, say, seven fundamental principles
Of successful dairying, about as fol-
lows:
l. Weed out the poor cows by means
of the scales and the Babcock test.
2. Feed the good cows plenty of
clean, choice stuff as close to a bal
auced ration as possible.
3. Eliminate competition by produc-
ing better product than the other fell
low and demanding a good price for it.
4. Head the herd with high-class,
pure-bred sire.
5. Raise the promising calves from
the best cows only.
8. Develop q market for your sur
plus bull calves and other stock.
Z. Feed the mind of the man behind
the cow.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
CAN'T RIDE ON FAST TRAINS
Italian Soldiers Resort TO Many Tricks
to Esade Order When Going Home
on Leave of Absence.

One of the most frequent causes of
arrests of soldiers of the Italian army
is not for drunken or disorderly con-
duct, but for violation of the order
that when given leave of absence TO
visit their homes they shall ride on
slow and not express trains. Soldiers
exert all their ingenuity to evade the
order. They are always in a hurry
TO reach their homes, after many
months absence, and as they generally
reserve but a narrow margin of their
leave for the return trip, they are in
hurry TO arrive at their posts be-
fore 1t expires. Since the reduction
of fast trains on the railroads, as a
coal-saving measure, policemen have
been stationed on each fast train to
prevent soldiers, who ride free, from
travelling on them. Recently on the
Rome-Florence express a policeman
found a big, healthy-looking soldier
who. of course, had no paid ticket.
what are you doing here?" demand
ed the policeman.
I'm going home from the hospital"
answered the soldier.
'You don't look as if you had ever
seen the inside of one," the other re-
torted.
The soldier silently threw back his
cape with his left hand. His entire
right arm and shoulder blade were
missing.
Il guess you've earned the right to
ride on the expresses" said the police
man and passed on.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
The Essentials of Gardening.

The essentials for successful gar.
dening on a small or large scale are
soil, water and cultivation. Much de-
ponds also on the grower, the season
and the crops selected.
The soil is the storehouse of plant
food. The garden, therefore, should
contain humus or rotted material in
large quantities. The gardener should
remember that about so per cent of
ordinary earth is not soil at all, but
consists of air and water.
Water makes plantfood that is pres
ent freely soluble. Rain and snow
water are soft and contain ammonia
The magic of soft water on the plant
world is one of the miracles of good
gardening, as everyone who has con-
trasted the effect of rain with that
produced by sprinkling with a hose
realizes. Plants are succulent and
contain large amounts of water which
they have to draw from the soil.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
She Understood.

Certain members of the house party
were describing the accidents that had
happened TO them during their respec-
tive careers. Adventures by flood, fire
and field had all been we'll received,
and Mr.. Brown. eager for fame,
thought 1t was his turn.
'Dyou know" he said, Il had a
very painful experience once. ] ran "A
COMPOUNDED splinter quite half an inch
long right under my finger-nail. don't
you know. -
Really. Mr.. Brown" said Il maiden
of the party; how did you do it?'
We'll" he said. iii happened like
this"
As he spoke he unconsciously raised
his hand and scratched his forehead.
"Oh. l see." she interrupted. sweet
ly; how very careless of you."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
GUARD ALL ALFALFA LEAVES
Two-Thirds of Feeding Value of Plant
Is in leaves-Rake Into Wind
rows Before Dry.

Two-thirGs of the feeding value OF
the alfalfa plant is in the leaves. If
the leaves are lost in curing only one
third OF the feeding value remains.
This fact is regarded as important by
farmers who advocate that alfalfa hay
be cured so as to save the leaves. This
means that the alfalfa must be raked
into windows before the leaves dry
and fall OF Raking can be done two
hours after cutting. thus saving the
leaves and preserving the green color
and desirable flavor.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
Very Human Proverbs.

Replying to a toast. Chinese Consul
Moy Hin said in Portland:
when / desire 70 make Cd Ameri-
can better acquainted with the Chi
nese l quote some of cur Chinese
proverbs for him. These proverbs
show that we, like you, can see one
another's faults and laugh at them.
"Our temperance proverbs are rath-
or good. There's one. 1T is not wine
that makes man drunk it is the man
himself And another. a red-nosed
man may be q teetotaler, but nobody
will believe it
I'VE have feminist proyerb--'A
man thinks he knows, but a woman
knows better
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
PLAN TO DESTROY CUTWORMS
Paris Green Mixed With Bran Is Rec
commended by North Dakota Sta
tion-Spread in Evening.

North Dakota Agricultural College Bull
letin.)
CutwOrms eat off the young plants
ut the surface of the ground, and they
do this in the night. In the daytime
they can usually DE found buried an
inch deep and only a short distance
from the last plant eaten. Plants that
are transplanted can be protected by
wrapping paper around the stem, COW
erinS it half an inch above and below
the surface of the soil. The cutworms
can be poisoned with the following:
One-half pound paris green mixed dry
with % pounds bran, then add one gal
Ion water and one quart molasses and
mix thoroughly. The set time to spread
this is in the evening, or late after
noon.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
A Sporting Event.

At recent sports meeting in a coun-
try town an old countryman picked up
dsuSed program of events and was
studying il earnestly when swell APP
preached him.
Hello, old chap, what's the next
event on the program?"
old Man Cooking up from his card)
A donkey race, sir. Are you going 10
run?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
MAINTAINING PIGS ON RAPE
Minnesota Station Finds Il Most Valu-
able Of Forage Crops-Red Glover
Also Excellent.

At the Minnesota experiment station
more pigs have been maintained on n
given area with the pasturage of rape
than any other forage crop. Red clover
is also an excellent pasture. more pal
atable than rape and nearly as good
as alfalfa. Bluegrass is extensively
used for n hog pasture and serves this
purpose we'll until Ii becomes more or
less dead during the late summer. Rye
is sown for late fall and early spring
pasture.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY
American Seed Is Usually Su-
perior in termination.
Soil and Climatic Conditions Favor
Production of Seed in Sufficient
Quantity to Meet All Future
Requirements.
(By c. o. TowNsENDl

Our experience thus far indicates
that American sugar-beet seed is
usually superior in termination and
capable of producing larger and better
roots than the imported seed.
Our soil and climatic conditions, ex-
tending over large areas, favor the pro-
duction of sugar-beet seed In sufficient
quantity TO meet al allure require
ments.
Well-defined strains of sugar beets
of high yield and quality are essential
to the development of a satisfactory
seed industry. Enough has been done
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

troubled with cramps and feel like a
different woman. l cannot praise
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound too highly and am recommend
ing it to my frie nds who suffer as | did"
Mrs. GEORGE r. NAYLoR, Box IL,
Marysville, Pa.
Young women who are troubled with
painful or irregular periods, backache,
fainting spells or Indigestion should
take Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Thousands have been re-
stored to health by this root and herb
remedy.
Write for free and helpful advice to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (con-
fidentiaD, Lynn, Mass. Only women
open and read such letters.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
Kitchen Cars Built for Troop Trains.

Kitchen Cars Built for Troop Trains.
Kitchen cars that are individually
of sufficient capacity to meet the needs
of a fair-sized hotel are being carried
with the long troop trains operated on
one of the Canadian railways between
military training camps and the sea-
board. They have been constructed
to facilitate the dining service so that
meals can be prepared for several hun
dred men and served without confu-
sion or delay, says the Popular Me-
chanics Magazine. Each of these mo-
bile kitchens occupies an entire car,
is equipped with a 10-foot range,
steam-cooking apparatus, a spacious
refrigerator and other necessary par
aphernalia. This is all installed on
one side and inclosed by a long table
extending the full length of the car.
: passageway is provided between this
counter and unobstructed wall, so that
walters can enter and leave the kitch-
en- without disorganizing the work Of
the eight cooks and helpers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
Save the Babies

something fghtf We hardly realize that
of all the children born civilized countries Twenty-Five cent
than oneh before they fve and onh before
they ffteenl
hesitate that timely Of Castora would
nfane by the narcotic
Drops, for chden
considerable
retard circulation anG cad
toria hearst the sgnatur of Chas H. Fletcher
Genuine Caora always bears the signature of AaTZAtZe.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
Finger Bar for Mowers.

way interfering with the remaining
parts of the device. 1t provides a fin
ger bar in which the alternate cutters
rotate in different direction, the posi-
ton of rotation of these cutters being
such that one cutter will overlay the
ton though never coming in contact"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

Disappear With Use of Cuticura Soap
and Ointment-TriaI Free.

The first thing in restoring dry, fall
ing hair is to get rid of dandruff and
itching. Rub Cuticura Ointment into
scalp, next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. Prevent
skin and scalp troubles by making Cuti-
cura your everyday toilet preparation.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard. Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv. z
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

The history OF oil reads like fairy tale.
II has made more millionaires in ten years
than mining made in fifty. and offers an
opportunity to the small investor never
before equaled in the history of the world.
Why not join The Capitol Petroleum Com
pany at the start? Stock only two cents
per share. Address The Securities Finance
and Investment Co. Fiscal Agents. 329
Foster Bldg. Denver, Colo. Adv.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
The Same Trespass.

A farmer, going over his land,
caught an Irishman with his dog tres
passing in a field, and threatened him
with prosecution.
Returning, however, through the
same field an hour later he was sur
prised TO meet the Irishman in an
other part of ii, and exclaimed an
grily:
what. Trespassing again."
NO, no." answered Pat, its still
the same trespass. Fair play, sorr !"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
COWS TAIL OF IMPORTANCE
often Measured in Judging Animal
Chief Purpose is for Brushing
Flies Away.

The tail Is often measured in judg-
ing a COW and 10 meet the standard
requirements should reach 10. or be-
low. the hooks and carry good
switch. This renders IL most useful
I'm brushing flies. which is its chief pur-
pose.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
CUTTING BLADES ON MOWERS
Finger Bar Arranged in Which Alter
nate Cutters Rotate in Different
Directions.

In illustrating and describing a fin
ger bar for mowers, invented by c. A.
Johnson, 3010 Upper Stockton road,
Sacramento, Cal, the Scientific Ameri-
can says:
"This invention provides an arrange
ment of cutting members which cor
rectly strike the grass or vegetable
matter TO be cut and without in any
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
Expectations Realized.

'Look'ee, George, diGn' l tellee my
boy would make tn folks sit up an
open their mouths when e got 10 Lun-
non?"
40 you did, an has e done it?
AYE. Eve started business rs a
dentist !-PasSing Show.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

WOulQ nave 10 stay
in bed several days
every m n b. l
tried all kinds Of
remedies and was
treated by doctors,
but my trouble con-
tinued until one day
/ read about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Y ege-
table Compound and
what it had done for
others. / tried It
and now I am never
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
WILLING TO Share.

She-Ninety-nin women in hun
dred are naturally generous.
He-YeS; where one woman will
keep secret. ninety-nine will give II
away.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
Rare Case.

This criminal has a streak of hon
esty, anyway"
"Eh?"
HE says he's sane and guilty"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
A SliQht Mistake.

This -his-seems a II -.e
weak"
go slow. old man. You're dipping
into the goldfish globe"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

Many man who thinks he is ready
money resembles a dollar minus 40
cents.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
RED CROSS STORY.


Red Cross Ball Blue and what 10
will do seems like an old story, but it's
rue. Red Cross Ball Blue is all blue.
No adulteration. Makes clothes whittier
than snow. Use it next washday. All
good grocers sell it-Adv.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
THOSE AWFUL
CRAMPS
Suggestions that may save
Much Suffering

Marysville, Pa--''For twelve years
I suffered with terrible cramps. J.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

Speaking without thinking is shoot
ing with the eyes shut.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
Grimly Classical.

do you regard the study of Latin
as an advantageT
mot now" replied Mr.. Growcher.
But sometimes | wish literature had
stuck TO the old language. | can't imag-
inc anybody writing best-seller stories
or ragtime in Latin"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

A woman'S shoe is usually large for
its size
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06
CHOOSING His Words.

FF~~~'fFJ IT. IT.
Nifie-"Why are you speak,, SO
sharply" Hubby-"Because want
to get word in edgewayS."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-07-06

Now IL the Time tn Get Rid Of These
Oh snofs

Ugly Spots.
There's longer the slightest need OF
feeling ashamed OF your freckies as the
prescription othine double strength - 10
guaranteed 10 remove these homely spots
Simply get an ounce OF othine-douols
strength--from your druggist. and apply Q
little OF IL night and morning and you
should soon that even the worst freckies
have begun TO disappear. while the lighter
have vanished entirely. IL II seldom
that more than one ounce IL needed TO COM
pletely clear the skin and gain beautiful
clear complexion
othine. this Is sold under guarantee or
money back IL 10 fails to remove frecklea--
Adv.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-31
DYING VILLAGES


But it is the American village that
most betrays the impulse OF our civiliza-
ton, civilization that pecpetually
overreaches itself, only to be obliged to
surrender again and again to nature
everything it has gained. How many
thousands of villages frost bitten, palsied,
full of a morbid, bloodless death-in-life,
villages that have lost, if they ever pos
sessed, the secret of self-perpetuation, lie
scattered across the continent! Even
in California used to find them on long
cross-country walks, villages often
enough not half a century old, but in a
state of essential decay. Communities
that have come into being on the flood
tide of an enterprise too rapidly worked
out, they all signify some lost cause of a
kind that has left humanity
high and dry; like the neutral areas in
an old painting where the color, in
completely mixed and of perishable
quality, has evaporated with time
Seven Arts.