Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-24
VIEWS AND NEAR-VlEWS,
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
More Advice to Town Conference.-The
Farmer Boy-Good Roads Work
Must Go On.

The United States Department of
ninS or surplus food. and at the same
time insists that jars and cans shall be
wisely used. Here arc some suEEcs-
tons II wants the women of Virginia
10 read and act upon:
Don't have an empty preserving jar
in your home next fall. Reserve reSu-
lar tiEht-scaling containers for can
INNS foods. Concentrate products so
that each jar or can will hold as much
food and as little water as possible
Put up jams. jcliics and preserves in
wide-neckcd glasses scaled with cork
or paper and paraiiin. Don't can any
thinE that be kept just as we'll
dried or in other forms. Dry navy and
mature lima beans for winter use
Produce iii your garden lots of cab
baCe. potatoes and root crops that can
be kept for winter without canning
a farmer friend writes that the hints
he heard All orator in Virginia throw
out decade ago arc very timely just
now. They arc as follows:
Parents on the farm are quite often
TO blame for their children leaving
the farm.
Too much hard work and too little
appreciation of the chldren's efforts
are frequently forces that drive the
young folks from the farm.
Educate the boys and girls OF the
farm up to tho idea that farming is
just as much of profession and just
As honorable as the law. medicine or
any other legitimate life calling
Use every worthy means to make
them love the farm and tho free in
dependent life that goes with 1t.
Zach child should be made to share
Ia.
since he helps to make them possible"
Another hint that comes in by the
farmer route is as follows:
THE great shortage OF wool and the
need of clothing great armies who are
fighting the battles of free govern
mcnt make il necessary that the peo-
pie Of America should make their old
clothes go just as far as possible.
Clothing should be cleaned and made
oyer and protected from moths"
Some people in these immediate
parts had commenced acting on that
suggestion quite while before they
heard of the war.
Speaking of the fact that war has
not put any apparent stop to public
improvements throughout the South.
the Manufacturers Record says:
The building OF better roads is
especially being looked after. for the
disposition OF the people is favorable
TO such loans wherever they can he
afforded because of the increasing use
OF motor vehicles for business as well
as for pleasure. Besides the farmers
have come to learn the economic
value OF good roads also for horse
drawn vehicles, which. on the inn
proved highways. can he loaded with
from two to four times the burdens
possible when only the old dirt roads
existed everywhere. Compared also
with the best OF the old ia shioncd
turnpikcs. the modern roads also
show tremendous gain for all vehi-
cles in carrying ability besides less
wear and tear" All Of which is as
true as gospel. No matter what else
may or may not happen, the making
of good roads must go Oh III this part
Of tho country.
The bclated patriot who writes this
column of his regrets that he was so
busy he could not find the time to 20
to town and buy Liberty Bond"
need not fret Another loan will pro-
baby he noated within a few months
and perhaps even third one and
ono OF them will likely be on at a time
when this gentleman will not be so