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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31

Given a choice between a nice, juicy piece of beef and dish of cottage cheese, and the chances are you would take beef. We are such a meat-lovilg people. But pound for pound, cottage cheese contains 20 per cent more pro- tein-the body building substance for which we eat meat largely-than a medium fat side of beef. And the cheese costs about half as much It has less energy value than beef, but it is never thelesa capable of taking meats place in the diet.
 |. CHEESE EASY TO MAKE
 Because cottage cheese is most pala- table and nutritious product and because it can be made easily on a small scale with little equipment in any kitchen and because it is an economical and convenient means of utilizing skim milk "a good food much neglected--in the human diet, food and dairy specialists of the United States department of ag- riculture are urging it's wider use to save meat. Haphazzard methods used in making this cheese, together with the lack of simple and easily available directions, probably are responsible for the comparatively small quantities made and used at present. Uncertainty of results and defects in the finished prod ucts also have been causes for dscoulag- ment in making By following the direc- tions given here it is believed a better and more nutritious product may be ob- tained.
 For making the cheese in small quan- titles for home use a very simple process ard ordinary household equipment will suffice. but if it is desired to mar ket the product and to insure good, uni form quality. it will be necessary to follow somewhat more elaborate meth ods The process of making a small amount, as well as methods used when it is desired to produce larger quan- tity for the market is described in farmers bulletin $50 of the United States department of agriculture. This is The way to make cottage cheese in small amounts, perhaps utilizing only few cups of skim milk-what is left after the cream for the coffee has been re- moved.
 First of all start with good, clean skim milk and clean utensils. Careful attention then to the details of making will insure a good product.
 One gallon of skim milk will make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31
Pulse Beat in Animals

The normal pulse beats per minute in the domestic animals are as follows: Horses, 36 to 42; cattle, 3S to 50; sheep, goats and hogs, 70 to 80, and dogs, so to 100. The pulse beats faster in young than in old animals. Excitement and a nervous temperament may cause a more rapid pulse. When exercising and after. the rate is higher than when the animal is at rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31
Peanut Butter

Roast the peanuts. remove shell and chaff grind very fine int food chop per salt to taste and run through food chopper second time. This may be made as needed, or may be packed in sealed glass or earthenware jars to be used in sandwiches, or thinned with water and vinegar as a salad dressing for lettuce or other vegetables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31
COTTON PESTS ARE NUMEROUS

senate of lead as soon as grasshop- pers or worms begin to attack, unless worm attack starts late and would hasten ripening.
 Keep down the weeds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31
New Treatment That
 Knocks Rheumatism
soc BOX FREE TO ANY SUFFERER


 Up in Syracuse. \. Y.. treatment for rheuIn atism has been found that hundreds of users Is wonder reporting that seem little short of miraculous few treatments in the very worst eases seem accomplish wonders after other remedies have failed entirely. It to neutralixe the rric acid and lime salt deposits fin the blood driving all the poisonous clogging waste from the system Soreness pain. stiffness. swelling just to melt away and yapsh
 The treatment first introduced by Mr. pelano is co good that It's wants everybody who suffers from rheumatism who has friend afflicted to get \ free 5oc package from him to just what It will io in every case before penny Is spent Mir. Delano says sTo prove that the Deano treatment will pos- lively overcome rheumatism. no matter how severe stubborn or long standing the and after all other treatments have failed. will. if you have previously used the treatment. send you full size soc package free will just cut out this notice and send it with your and address with ac to help pay postage and distribution expense to me 
 F. H, Delano. ss9-P. Wood Bldg. Syracuse. \. T. can send only one Free Packzse to an address
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31

Keep the brood sows. They mean more meat and profit .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31

The United States at present Is ship, ping vast quantities more pork to Flu rope than this time one year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31

Three-fourths of the worlds exports of pork come from the United States in normal times. This amount has largely increased since the war began.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31

More hogs will mean moro profits In 1918.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-31

shortage and every indication points to much advanced prices for pork in 1918.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
PAGE GHOST OF. Ml INC cH 4ltysE e.!
Prince OF Story TeIlers Would Be In.
terested in This Wonderful Tale
Of Adventure.

One Of the big ocean liners was sew
eral days out from New York or a
trip across the Atlantic. 1t was din
ner time, and those at the table fell to
telling stories about their experiences
at sea. Finally it was the turn of Il
person who had previously been boast
ing Of his lineage. He told this yarn
says the Youths Companion.
1T happened number of years
ago." said he, ION my fifteenth trip
across the ocean, when we ran short
Of some provisions, particularly eggs,
milk. fruit and fresh meat We were
very fortunate TO have on board n
resourceful fellow named Brand, who
pulled us out of the difficulty in good
shape. First he went to the hatch
way for eggs, but. as they We're lit
tie too old to eat, they were used for
to have the ship lay to. This opera.
ton was repeated until we had eggs
enough to go round.
"Then, at Brands suggestion, the
captain fired a ships rocket into the
Milky Way, and all we had to do was
to hold buckets and catch the milk as
it poured out of the hole made by the
rocket. For fruit supply we let
down buckets over the side of the ship
and picked up enough ocean currants
to last for Il week. The next day we
had foul weather. which provided US
with plenty of ducks and chickens.
Some of these we ate and others we
kept to replenish our egg supply"
II was on that very trip" spoke up
a wag at the end of the table. 1T was
the steamer Baltic, in October. 1905
New York to Liverpool. We also had
on board q fair-sized goose. which was
overlooked in some way. I'm sure they
never ate the bird, but I've wondered,
all these years until today whatever
became of it,"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
ENROLLING $4,000 men
FOR WORK in SHIPYARDS
Shipping Board Must Have Men IL
Merchant Fleet is to be Built.

General Francis E. Waters, chair
man of the Maryland Council of De-
. Tense. received the following tele-
I gram this morning from Charles
! Piez, General Manager of the Emer-
I gency Fleet Corporation:
The work of the State Councils
| of Defense and of the agents of the
Public Service Reserve in enrolling
| two hundred fifty thousand skilled
Workmen for the United States ship
yard volunteers is of paramount i'm
portance in the early winning of this
war, for on earnest labor depends
/ the early construction of our mer-
chant fleets.
Within sixty days three huge
government yards will be completed
and soon thereafter more than sixty
! thousand workmen will be required
to furnish for them the three eight
hour shifts necessary if these yards
are to turn out their ships according
to schedule.
The Shipping Board now has
seven hundred sixteen ship ways.
Three hundred two are for wooden
ships and four hundred fourteen are
for steel construction. The yards in
which they are established are only
working one eight-hour shift per
day six days a week. This is mon
strous. If we are to keep ahead of
the submarine we must run three
shifts per day fifty-two weeks in the
year.
Our program calls for the con-
struction in nineteen eighteen of
eight times the tonnage delivered in
nineteen sixteen at a cost of more
than a billion dollars. The Shipping
/ Board has the necessary yards, the
materials and the money. All that
is lacking is a spirit in the nation
that will send a quarter of a mil
lion American mechanics into tho
yards to give their best and most
| efficient work.
We all honor the men in uni
form and the same honor must be
! given to the men who look to work
in the yards. Just as the Navy is
the first line of the British Empire
and just as Germany depends upon
the submarines, SO must America de-
pend fer E1sissPs u pod the sfipbuIfd-
ers in the rican yards. To the
women OF America say, Send your
men to the shipyards for they will
be doing there no less a service than
in the Army or the Navy, and they
will be returned to you safe and
we'll paid, after having performed a
duty that is primal necessity Of
! this war"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
Aae of Fishes.

The most striking characteristic by
which fishes of different ages can be
distinguished Is their size. But the
size affords us only the means to esti-
mate the'age of younger fishes; as to
the older. 1t cannot serve us as an in
dication of their age. since their
growth may vary according to the diff
ferent conditions of nutrition, so that
often the younger fish will excel in
size the much older fish. There Is,
however, at least as regards the fishes
of the Northern seas, sure indica-
ton that betrays their age. 1t IS the
otolites, or ear stones. These ear
stones grow as long as the fish itself
continues to grow. and form annual
rings in the manner of trees. The
more annual rings shown by tishs
ear stones the greater its age. In
this way the age of fish can be ex-
actly determined.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
WORLDS MOST CURIOUS efTs
London magazine Seems to Have Die
covered Queer Settlement on
Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron.

The most curious of cities consists
Of wooden huts on wheels, to the num-
Der of about one hundred and thirty,
which, when the season arrives, are
rolled onto the ice ON Saginaw Bay,
Lake Huron. The population of this
city without a name is about five hun
drad. Each hut is fitted with cooking
utensils, hammocks, and a stove, and
is occupied by three men, whose bust
ness on the ice is to follow a peculiar
method of fishing.
In the center Of each hut q hole,
about yard square, is dug to the wa
ter. One of the fishermen then takes
live fish of the herring tribe, and
after fastening it to a piece of pack
thread drops 1t into the water. The
fish dasheS away as swift as an arrow
until it is pulled up by the thread.
lowed by host of pike and other fish
DESTROYS to feast on the dainty NOR
sci. Beside the hole stand the fisher
men, harpoOn in hand, waiting the ar
rival of the pursuers, who are received
with thrusts of the four or five-prong-
ed instrument, which rarely fails to
bring up some writhing victims
Some hutS can show two hundred
or more of fine fish at the end of the
days work. The most weird appear
ance of this city is at night, when the
fishermen prosecute the work by the
light of torches, which, as Is we'll
known, attract fish without the aid of
the herring bait. The glancing torches
and the shadows of the men leaning
over the holes make a strange spec
tacle. If fish are not abundant in the
spot first chosen the hut is wheeled TO
another site.-London Tit-Bits.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
a Chance for the Invalid.

If you have a friend lying Ill, try
taking some daintily prepared edibles
next time you make visit.
Nourishing broths and soups, wine
jellies, delicately Drowned custards
and light buildings made of eggs and
milk are good Or a small jar of mar
malade or half a dozen lightly brown
ed biscuit for the invalid's tea. Or
creamed chicken and creamed oysters
delivered in a charming blue bowl and
all ready to be heated up by the nurse.
Grapefruit is always appreciated
and mandarin oranges and white
grapes in pretty basket are an appe-
tizing combination, and there are some
invalids who would be delighted with
jar of preserved ginger for occa-
EiOnal nibbling.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06

hundred boys in O. as clothes.
This army seemed 81 but. it was
iLeeaIly the eefftffe N insnhood
of the town. Theywefe the very
finest boys in your town and you
knew each one of them. AS they
passed you recognized the boy who
delivered meat at your house, whose
irrepressible spirits could never be
dampened, the boy who kept the
news stand at the corner and never
brought your paper on time, but who
never by any chance was at fault,
and SO on. Until at length all the
other faces faded from the ranks
and you saw only your own son, the
finest and biggest of them all.
You had sent away to camp the
young men you had known from ba-
byhood and watched grow up. And
you were proud of them.
Four months later you visited
your son in camp. You saw again
practically every one Of the five hun
dred young men who marched in
that parade late in the Fall
1t seemed inconceiyable to you
that four months could make such a
difference. They were no longer
boys, they are no longer young men,
they were most Enthusiastically I'm
Gle Sans soldiers. Their shoulders
were erect and broader, they had lit
orally grown, their faces and eyes
were clear an dstrong, and the very
swing of their bodies bespoke per-
feet health and fine spirits. Within
four months Uncle Sam had remade
nice young men into a wonderful
army.
This was no miracle; he had but
followed out a simple recipe for
good health, using work as the basis
of the recipe, adding plenty of sim
pie food, sufficient and regular sleep,
seasoned with a generous amount of
recreation.
Perfect health is as essential to
the army behind the lines as to the
soldiers. We too have a fight to
fight and a victory to win.
1t is a fight in which every patri-
otto citizen will need every ounce of
good health and strength that he can
muster together, for in this emer-
gency America requires every atom
of the productive power of her peo-
pie.
Let us who are fighting behind
the lines try out the same recipe
that worked so wonderfully well for
the boys in camp.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06

The kind of a motto to adopt for
the railroads. Something Doing"
War without frills. The kind this
country is going to wage when 1t
gets over the red tape period and
sets down on lot of fellers Hike
Reed.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
Nuts and Digestion.

The reason nuts are thought indiges-
tible by some is because of the thin
skin surrounding each kernel notes a
medical authority. This can easily be
blanched off by pouring boiling water
on the nut, and allowing it to stand
for q few moments. Almonds should
never be eaten with the red, tough
skin on the nut meat. When boiling
water IS poured on the almond, this
skin becomes as tough as leather. The
best way to use nuts for children Is to
grind the nut meats or pound them,
for which purpose the nut-butter knife
in the meat grinder will be found the
right tool. A good nut cracker with
strong spring makes nut-cracking
easy, and is preferable to buying the
ready-picked meats ON the market.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
CornnfeaI in Honduras.

Because of the marked success of
recent governmental and private eff
forts to promote the production of
more cereals during the period of the
war, writes Consul Walter F. Boyle.
Puerto Cortes, an American company
has imported and erected the first mill
for the milling of cornmeal. This was
purchased in the United States and
has been erected at San Pedro, Sula
Honduras. 1t is small equipment,
but marks the beginning of new In
dustry.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
How To Burn Soft Coal

Since soft coal must be more gen
orally used in Maryland, the follow
ing simple, but serviceable, direc-
lions for using soft coal are presen.
ted by Ferdinand A. Meyer, Fuel
Administrator, with request that
hard coal be displaced by soft when
ever possible:
First: When starting a fresh
fire, lay aside some lump coal. II
too large, break the Jumps. to about
the size of an apple. This will pre-
vent too much smoke, while the fire
is burning up and getting into good
shape. After the fire is burnt up
bright, keep feeding it with lump
coal until the necessary depth of
fire is made, after which the coal
can be used as it comes. Care, how
ever, should be taken to see that 1t
is only put on the fire in small guam
titles. Never put a heavy bed OF
green or fresh coal on the fire, as
this will prevent the free passage of
air through the bed of fuel, with
the result that toe much smoke and
unconsumed gas will be formed,
which means not only a direct loss
of coal, but the deposit Of SCOT will
be too heavy in the passage to the
chimney and in the chimney which
will in turn reduce the efficiency of
the heating apparatus.
Second: Before putting fresh
supply of coal ON the fire, always use
the poker, stirring the fire up from
the CRATE and breaking the surface
of the fuel bed properly; then let the
fire burn few minutes or until the
flames have disappeared. Then ap-
ply a fresh charge, but as already
advised, only slight covering.
The methods of using the two
kinds of coal are entirely opposite to
each other. The hard coal fire
should never be disturbed by the
use of a poker, while the more the
poker is used with the soft coal fire
the better will be the results.
Third: Never entirely close the
damper to the chimney. There
must always be free escape for the
gases.
Fourth: If the fire is banked at
night, the front part of the crate
should be left bare; banking the fire
to the back and covering it well with
fine coal, leaving the fire door open,
closing the ash pit door and partly
closing the damper to the chimney;
but do not close damper to such an
extent that the gas will be prevented
from going up the chimney.
Finally: Keep the ash pit COM
paratively clear of ashes and see that
no unburnt coal or cinders are was
ted. The ash pit should always ap-
pear bright from the fire to get best
results.
The only objection to the use Of
soft coal seems to be that we have
not been accustomed to it, which is
a common objection to the use Of
many things. If the people will only
accustom themselves to the use of
soft coal now. when necessity COM
pells us, We will all find in the fu-
ture, what now appears to us hard
ship, will eventually prove to be one
of the greatest and most valuable
lessons taught us by the war.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
We Have a Victory To Win!

The streets were cleared, and
along either side of the road was a
solid wall of people anxiously wait
ing. The laughing and talking
grew DINNER and gradually faded
into silence, for in the distance was
heard a steady, even marching.
Then around the corner into full
view swung a small army of five
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-06
LOOK.

We buy furniture, carpets, cloth
Ing and household goods of all kinds.
Phone 655.-James Bros, 143 Race
St.-Adv. 1-22-2m. cod
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-03-26
BITS" OF NEWS FROM
 FROM EVERYWHERE

The principle of the Fairbanks schools recently decided to inaugurate school savings bank with view toward encouraging thrift among the scholars One hundred and three students have enrolled in the bank and to date have deposited $1714.25. One hundred and nine students invest ed in $50 liberty bonds and many are saving to invest in the third issue.
 Rumors current throughout the Southeastern part of Alaska were to the effect that the Alaska-Juneau Mine was going to shut down. Man. ager Bradley at once denied the re- port, stating that about thirty men would be laid off for about three months in the mills but the under ground working would not be lessen ed any. This curtailment of work will only be temporary.
 Douglas is feeling very worried for she does not know where she can pos sibly put any more snow as the streets are as high as a shovel can reach and the snow has piled up on the other side. Two teams chanced to meet in
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-03-26

one of the single tracks and as they could neither back, turn, nor go ahead it required about three hours of man. ual labor to clear treok sufficiently wide to permit them to pass each oth. CT.
 The Cordova Times is receiving sub. scriptions to build a monument for James Barclay, known to all old timers as Jimmy the Bear." Barclay who was an old pioneer and trail blazer of the north, lost his life in a snowslide last spring while trying to rescue his partner. He was a man with large number of friends, and 1t is hoped that some monument to his memory may be erected by those who realize the true value of the old pio- neer to the nation.
 c. T. Boyles, formerly a member of the local signal corps office force, and who left here about two years ago to engage in telegraph and tele- phone construction work on the line of the new government railroad at Anchorage, and who was some time since appointed superintendent of construction. has been arrested at An chorage-on the charge of embedding government funds. It is alleged that Boyles has appropriated to his own use $4.7O0 of the funds of the con- mission, and he is being held in cus- tody awaiting a preliminary hearing in the Commissioners Court at that place.
 A fine mineral spring exists near Tonsina roadhouse along the govern ment trail, according to information received here recently The waters are strongly impregnated with sulphur and other minerals and are said to be highly medicinal. It is stated that an effort will be made to attract atten- tion to the springs splendid therea- peutic properties and that a resort will be built for tourists who desire to use it's healing waters. At many points in Alaska medicinal springs have been discovered, many of them of great healing powers for certain diseases, and it is believed that the spring at Tonsina will be found to be of this class when its waters have been anal yzed. A sample will be sent to gov ernment chemists by parties interest ed in the near future.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-03-26

and taken out, you diminish it's value. Eventually it is exhausted. Take 20, or 100, or any number of acres of till able land, and start cultivation. For hundreds of generations it will pro. duce its quota for the human race. China has been farmed for thousands of years and still supports from the soil 450,O0O,000 people. The same will! be true of Alaska.
 have had charge of an agricultur. al experiment station at Rampant in latitude 65-30, a degree south of the Arctic circle. There during harvest time have seen the grain in the shock and the men and self binders at work in the glow of the midnight sun. Mil. lions of acres can be made exactly like that One hundred thousand square miles can be used for agricultural pur- poses, and one-half, or 5O,000 square miles, can be cleared for tillage, for grain growing, for homes"