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Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10

low portion only should be removed, leaving the white which is rich in pectin. When juicy fruits are being employed, add just enough water to prevent hurnir4 while cooking. In using those which are not very juicy, cover them with water. Cook slowly until soft, and strain through bag made of flannel or double thickness of cheesecloth. Do not use pressure if a clear jelly is desired.
 Amount of Sugar to Use.
 The consistency of jelly prepared from fruits having sufficient pectin and acid is dependent upon the amount of sugar used, Too little sugar results in small quantity of jelly which is tough and unpleasantly sour. Too. much sugar on the other hand. gives a larger volume of jelly, but it is soft and will not stand alone" Jelly which is tender and yet holds it's form when taken from the glass is what is desired. and this will be obtained by carefully adjust ing the amount of sugar to the kind of juice used. Juice rich in pectin and having sufficient acid will as a rule give best results if equal measure of sugar and juice are used If the juice is more watery smaller amount of sugar is required-three-f -fourths as much. or perhaps less.
 When to Put in the Sugar.
 Experiments indicate that the best | time to add the sugar to the juice is 1 when the boiling process is approxi- mately half done The sugar should ] be hot when put into the boiling juice
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10

in order that the latter may not be cooled too much, and is a good way to heat the sugar is to spread it on a plate or pan and heat in the oven with the door open. being careful that it is not allowed to scorch. Skim the juice before adding the sugar.
 Length of Time to Boil.
 The boiling time varies with differ ent juices and is dependent upon sev- eral factors The greater the propor- tion of sugar to juice, the shorter time is required; a thin juice requires more time for concentration to the telling point; etc. In brief. from eight to thirty minutes should be sufficient In no case should simmer ing for hours be allowed, as the pectin is destroyed by this long continued heating with the acid, and no amount of heating thereafter will cause the material to 'je1l' Make the process as brief as possible.
 When to Remove From the Fire.
 When the telling point" is reached the material should be removed from the fire as soon as possible. Testing the material al intervals by removing small quantity and allowing it to cool is likely to result in overcoking. A better way is to observe carefully by frequent tests, the time when the jelly sheets off, or breaks off, when allawed to drop from the stirring spoon.N Remove from the fire at once skim carefully, and pour into hot freshly sterilized jelly glasses. Cover to protect from dust, and put in coo place to allow the jelly to set
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS

S5s; Hartford, 157,546; Litchfield,
 123,S15; New Haven, 131137; Holland, 7S,56S. Included in these figures were
 764 turkeys. 1906 ducks, 936 geese
 and 566 guineas, leaving a total ot
 5S3, ,346 hens.
 It is estimated that the other three counties will average about the same number of poultry as those enumerated. In addition ito these birds, as determined by the census, 1t will be fair to assume that there IS about 10 per cent additional poultry keut in towns and villages and small home places which were not enum- erated in the census. Consequently a safe estimate of Connecticut's poultry would appear to be about a million birds on April 1, 1918
 In the counties enumerated there were total of 5S7.41S birds on 1S,S72 farms, which gives an average of forty-four per farm. There were 2,702 farms in the five counties on which no poultry at all was kept Rhode Island Reds is the favorite ! breed as shown by the census with Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks, Wyan- dotts, Orpingtons and Asiatics in the order named. A large percentage of the birds were mixed breeds, There were representative f1ocks also. of the following breeds: Anconas, Campines | Hondons, Faverolles, Dominiques Min0rcas, Buckeyes and Cornish.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
By P. G. HOLDEN

The proper time to cut alfalfa is when the new shoots at the crown of ths plant are about two inches high.
 If we wait any longer before cut ting, the shoots will be caught by the newer and the tops clipped off We may not realize it at the time, but later, we will find that we have cut two crops of alfalfa and got but one.
 The new crop which we have set back by clipping off it's top will have 10 make a new start. and in the mean cfsae clods will spring up and choak 1t out, and the sun will beat down and take the moisture from the ground.
 Here IS one thing we must never io-Est: Lateness in cutting alfalfa IIways ifljures and frequently kills it.
 Cutting alfalfa too early also is a nad practice. t
 When it is cut too early alfalfa otten Becomes rusted, yellow, sickly, and weeds and grass spring up and choke it.
 Thousands of fields of alfalfa have been injured or ruined by being cut at the wreng time.
 One of the things in the growing of alfalfa which needs special attention is the saving of the leaves. If we strip the leaves from the stalk. we will find. that about two- thirds of the plant fs stalk, but much the greater Esyt Of the feeding value is in the a&xves. For this reason it is good
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
CHOOSE THE RIGHT FRUIT '
 IF YOU WANT GOOD JELLY

It is the common feeling among housewives that luck" has more to do with jelly making than win almost anything else. But there are a few fundamental principles underlying the process of jelly making which, if well understood and carefully followed, will make it one of relative cer- tainty rather than of Tuck
 Good jelly is dependent upon the proper combination of pectin, acid, sugar, and fiavoring substances. Of sugar, and even this may be supplied partially, as for instance in certain varieties of grapes. Peetin is the substance contained in the pulp and skins of certain fruits which causes the jellying of the product made from them. and is obtained by cooking it out of the fruit. The raw juice pressed from the fruit does not contain it in large amounts ordinarily. The acid is, of course, the substance which makes the fruit sour or tart, and is contained in both the ray and the cooked out juice. Certain fruits, as entrants, crabapples,. under-ripe grapes, sour apples. raspberries, black 1 berries, blueberries, and green goose l berries contain both pectin and acid l in sufficient quantities, ordinarily, for the making of good jelly. Others, such as pears, quinces. and sweet apples, contain sufficient pectin but not enough acid; and still others, as strawberries and cherries, have acid enough but not sufficient pectin.
 Jelly may be made from those which l lack pectin, however, by adding the | cooked-out juice from pectin- contain ing fruits. Likewise fruits, having sufficient pectin but not enough acid
 may be used for jelly making by add | ing the juice of some sour fruit, such as lemons or sour apples.
 Since the housewife does not have
 at hand, ordinarily. the means of l testing the amount of acid in a par
 ticular juice by accurate methods, she
 must Tely upon taste As good a
 rule as can be given is that the juice from which jelly is made should be l as tart as a good sour apple.
 Preparing the Juice.
 l Wash the fruit, remove stems and hdecayed portions and cut large fruits into small pieces, Do not peel, unless citrus fruits. as lemons or oranges are being used, in which case the yell
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
BuTTERMlLK AND SOUR MILK.

Buttermilk and sour milk are inn portant milk foods. They are usually abundant on the farm and, during the warm weather, the latter is apt to be found in all homes. says the U. s. Food Administration and Connecticut Committee of Food Supply. Buttermilk has much the same food value as skinned milk. An ordinary glass contains about as much nourish- ment as two ounces of bread a good sized potato, or half-pint of oysters. To many persons buttermilk is as paiatabe as whole or skinned milk
 Sour milk is much used in cookery Before baking powders became so common, sour milk and soda were very generally used to leaven doughs and batters of various sorts. and is still so used by some cooks It is more 1 economical than baking powder, as it takes a lesser amount-one level 1 teaspoon-as compared with five and six of baking powder.
 The following recipes for corn breads, using buettermilk are off, l ered:-\
 DinaHs cornbread.-2 cups white cornmeal, cups buttermillk 1 tea | spoon sugar, eggs 1 tablespoon 1 butter, l teaspoon salt, l teaspoon 1 soda OeveD. Add to the milk the sugar, well-beaten eggs. butter, meal, 1 salt and soda dissolved in little hot ] water. Have ready three we'll greased l deep cake tins (hot), divide the batter between them and bake in quick oven.
 | Rice Cornbread.-1 cup cornmeal, l cup boiled rice. Tablespoon fat eggs, l teaspoon salt, , cups butter milk, 1 teaspoon soda (level) Com: 1 rio Sa+ yolks. slightly beaten. and butter milk mixed with soda. Beat two min utes and add whites of eggs beaten | until stiff. Turn into a greased bak- ing dish and bake ill hot oven 4C i minutes, or bake in shallow dish 3(
 minutes. Serve from dish
 Steamed Corn LoaF.- cups corn meal l cup barley flour. sups but termilk, 1 tablespoon fat. tablespoon: 1 sugar, 1 teaspoon soda CeveD
 Mix meal and four in bowl: make { hole in the center of the mixture anC pour in the milk; beat hard and ado
 fat, sugar and soda dissolved in Z
 tablespoon of boiling water: bea
 well and turn into a greased molt
 with q. tightly fitting cover and stean
 for two hours. Turn out in pla
 and dry out in the oven for five min
 utes.
 Corn Dodqers.-2 cups white corn
 meal. 1 teaspoon salt, ? cups butter
 milk one-half teaspoon soda, 1 table
 spoon fat. Stir soda into buttermilB
 mixing thoroughly. and add to sifte' meal and salt Have baking tin
 ready on top of stove with hot fat
 Add fat to dough. Shape in sma1
 pones with hand or drop by spoon , fuI in the hot pan. Do not allow tn .,1,1z. stove for a few minutes: bake to golden brown in a moderately he
 oven. Serve with dinner or fires vegetables.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
CORN IN SlLo SAVES $37 AN
 ACRE ON A 5o- BUSHEL CROP
Even If StoJer Is Saved and Fed the Loss in Dry Matter is 25 to 45 per cent-Loss in Silo Very Slight.

At least 97 per cent of the digesti- ble material of the corn plant is left in the stover when the ears only are used. When corn is ensiled this 37 per cent goes into the silo with the 6S per cent in the ear The impor- tance of this saving will be more ap- parent when given a money value. With yield of 50 bushels an acre the value of grain, is $75. at $150 a bushel. Since the stover contains more than one-third of the food nu- trients, it is worth at least one half as much as the grain. or $375O. How many farmers will willingly leave in the field $37.50 an acre? Yet this is done in many sections of the country where the corn is husked and the stover left in the field.
 But suppose the dry stover is fed as roughage. Even then it is not saved as completely as in siIage. When. under ordinary farm con ditions, corn is cured in the shock, the loss of dry matter is approximate ly p per cent. and may be as high as 45 per cent. These losses are due to the breaking off of leaves by the wind and in handling, and to de- structive lamentations. The loss of dry matter in the siio is very slight
 
 well packed at the, time of filing. As silage, the cornstalk is all consumed but as stover, unless it is shredded only. the leaves are eaten, and even then a great part of the stalk is dis carded. Some feeding experiments show that even in shredded stover the portion, discarded is as high as 51 pel cent. This is in addition to the loss Iof dry matter during the curing pro- cess
 Too infrequenAly an mfavorable season like that of last year results in the loss Of the whole corn plant ol in immature soft corn that is of little value. By far the best method to uti- , lize corn which is immature at har- Testing time is to put it into tho 1 silo. Even frosted corn will mak, satisfactory silage if harvested a once. If t becomes dry it may b, saved hy adding water during the fill 1 ing process
 1 The making of as much silage a can he used wi.l do much to conserv l the feed supply. Have you planner | to fill that silo?
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A cowq

The Connecticut Agricultural Col Iege by action of the trustees at q recent meeting will purchase two car loads Of dairy cattle which they will hold at Gilbert Farms, Georgetown, Conn, to be resold to farmers of the state as the need may arise This action comes as a result of a desire expressed by a number of dairymen Of the state for some place where they gan procure cattle which have been carefully selected and which they may feel reasonably certain are free from disease
 These cattle will be purchased by Professor il. L. Garrigus who will make every effort to secure first cIa ss stuff which is tested and free from disease. The cattle will be distributed on q cash basis at cost plus all ex- penseS and five per cent. additional Prof. Garrigus has also been author l ized to purchase dairy cattle for di- rect shipment 10 farmers Of Connecti- 1 crt at the time he buys the cattle for dlstflDutlon by the college. Any farmer so desiring may place an or 1 der with MT. Garrigus at once and when the cattle for the college are purchased the orders for private in dlyiduals will be shipped direct. ! This work is in line with what has 1 peeli Uone duflnS the last few months l oy the live stock department, the com
 mittee of food supply, state council 1 ot defense. Under the direction of
 Samuel Russell, .Jr, of Middletown,
 chairman of this department a mum
 per of carloads of beef cattle have been brought to Connecticut from
 Chicago and Kansas City. and dis
 tributed to Connecticut farmers at
 cost plus transportation charges. This
 plan has met with wide approval on fthe part of those interested in seeing | Connecticut increasing its pro- duction activities and also among | farmers who are thus enabled to se7
 cure live stock from a source which is absolutely reliable.
 | HOME GARDENERS BE
 l WATcHFUL.
 At the present writing the appear
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
MARRIED IN RICHMOND.
Former New London Man Weeds Social
 Service Worker in Virginia City.

Courtland K Palmer of New London and Miss Mary Helen Heller, social service worker, and trained nurse of Richmond Va, were married in that city on Tuesday by Rev. John J. Wick CT, Baptist clergyman. The wedding was a quiet affair in the home of the brides uncle, w. E. Huff, in Highland park.
 On May 2s. of this year, Courtland k. Palmer, formerly of New London was divorced from his wife, Mary L. L. Palmer of New London, in the su- perior court in Norwich. Mir. Palmer
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
Childr en Cry
 FOR FLETcHER'S A S TO RIA
City of Norwich Water Works

Office Of
 Board of Water Commissioners Norwich. Conn. July 1. 1918. Water rates foa the quarter ending June 30. 1918. ars due and payable 1t the office July l. 1918. Office open from S.So a, m, to , D. m.
 Additions will be made to all bills remaining unpaid after July 20. WILLIAM H. MGUINNTSs, Cashier.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10

When cool. pour hot melted parafin over theetop of the jelly to seal, and then put on the tumbler cover. Store in a cool, dark, dry place.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
LaYler

did not contest the case. Lavler Avery appeared for Mrs. Palmer. She testified thatFshe was married to Pal imer in 1899 and that for four years prior to the time of the plea for di
 yorce he had not supported her. Three children were born of the marriage aged 9, 1S and r wears. The decree was granted for desertion and the court fixed the alimony at s1 a year
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10

The number Of women factory workers in Michigan has more than doubled the last year, according to official business.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
SUMMER HOSIERY IN THE FACTORY END SALE

Silk weknown mperfection nothing price pair. Childrens seoonds e2es to 9ts Sner seamless, price f5e Special pairs Hosiery, gauze weight seconds par-Speca price. 0 outsize Burson r,. d. split i"0A 7eoie9 rlo'4eiS sdoNe S71acSpccia1 15e Black Hosiery, the we-knoWn make these G5c vauSpecial Hosiery, in only-these black only-these
  Silk Hosiery. full fashioned fashionable this seasonhese quality
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-10
SUMMER UNDERWEAR IN THE FACTORY END SALE

One 0 Vests One Misses Ribbed Summer weight, front Vests, neck sleeveless 29c regular 29c full regular Waists One of Wome Bodice Vests ribbed excellent quality, regular 14c 2Sc value Weight Ribbed Vests low neck sleeveless yoke regular of Ribbed Women's Ribbed with regular low neck, sleeveless at............. 3ec trimmed Weight Ribbed Union Suits sleeveless trmmedthes regular 5sc value
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26
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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26
SHE GOT WHAT SHE WANTED
Young Irish Girl ResourcefuI When
Unaccustomed Word Had Tempo
rarily Slipped Her Memory.

In his amusing book, "Old Irish
Life" Mr.. L. NJ. Callwell tells story
of young peasant woman-Sally
Sweeny-who used to walk into CAL
way twice a>week to do shopping for
his family.
She could neither read nor write-
yet she never made q mistake with
any of the messages that were in
trusted to her
Once, however, her memory did fnif
her. One of the ladies of the family
had commissioned her to bring back q
yard OF satin. and the unaccustomed
word had slipped out of Sally's recOl-
lection.
She did not allow herself to be beat
en-, however, and made an effort to re-
call the word; so she went into the
principal shop in Galway still thinking
hard.
"Ayhat is't that We call the divilT'
she asked, "whin it's not divil that ye
say to him?"
as is Satan You would be mean
ing?" asked the astOnished draper.
"The very wan" said Sally, delight
edly; "an' yen give me yard"
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26

American shipyards set record
during August, turning out 66 ships
aggregating 340145 dead weight tons.
Forty-four were Of steel. The total
tonnage built for the shipping board
has now passed the two million mark.
British merchant vessels completed
during August amounted to 124,675
gross tons. The new construction In
the allied countries Is now wen ahead
of the destruction by submarines.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26

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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26

On the Ussurt front in eastern 81
IBERIA the allied forces have been drivF
ing the bolshevilSi porthward, defeat
ing them in every engagement and in
fiicting heavy casualties. The Ameri-
cans under General Graves joined in
these operations.
The suppression Of the Social Rev
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26
Afraid of Rate.

In Providence, r. l., draftee pre-
sented himself with big black cat
in bag. 1--WE read about rats in
the trenches" he said, land I'm more.
afraid of rats than of anything else
In the world, so I'm taking my trained
rat-catching cat along to protect me"
"YOu can't carry q cat overseas with
you" said the army. officer.
'Well no cat, no soldier" snapped
the draftee.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26
Remarkable sian.

Half way between camp and Prince
George Courthouse a sign in little
dump of grocery and refreshnent
store invites all beholders not to spit
on the floor. II is an ambitious sign
of two paragraphs. and the second one
says: 'Tf you can't read this sign,
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26

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Spanish vessel having been torpedoed,
has decided to seize German interned
ships without further parley. The
tone of the press there, and also in
other neutral countries, is becoming
distinctly proally.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26

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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26

According to dispatches from Mu-
Mich by way of Geneva, Count Won
Hertllng, the imperial chancellor, re-
signed Thursday, giving poor health
as the cause of his action.
From Cologne came the news that
the commandant of the Brandenburg
province had placed the province, in
Guiding the city of Berlin, under mar
tial law in order to stop the invention
and circulation of untrue rumors cal
culated to disquiet the populace."
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-09-26

The British in Picardy opened the
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A little 10 the north Haig's men then
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'tasss Her face was whste

|staisA Her face ~ whfte
When Mrs. Murphy reached Ne
Iareaway tho stableMan. clerk: from
q nearby bakery. ana low neigiibtors
had gathered. Stient.y they maAo way
for her. Norah Murphy dropped on
knecs beside the boy. Tears wer
streaming down her checks. With II
Finite tenderness she gathered her 49,.
In her arms. She hold him to hea
breast.
Gcosic's face vas very white and his
arms hung Imply. In a moment his
eyes opened slowiyaand hcsgaxed won
derangiy into his mothers eyes. and
then a contented little smile spread oyer
his face.
.Mither. dear" he whispered. Ind
the words came slowly, and in gasps.
cts thinlin' lam tomorrow the Christ
ma 10. and-it's holdin' me IN
y-e-a-r-m-s-
The words died away. The. curly
head fell forward on Mrs. Murphy's
shoulder. Goosie had left Limerick
court forever.