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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
CANNING CLUB And HOME DEMONSTRATION
DEPARTMENT
Edited by Caroline Moorhead, Home Demonstration
Agent.
Agent.

house. There is a house for the gas
plant, gasoline, oil and kerosene.
There are FIVE cottages for tenants
and servants. AS the reader has
, doubtless surmised there is a dairy
at Glenhurst, being owned and run
for the past twenty years by Mrs.
/ Pyles. She has about seventy-nve
cows and calves in the herd, using
only thoroughbred Jerseys and max
ing speciality of butter, but she also
sells buttermilk and makes cottage
cheese as well as cheese Of com.
merce.
Mrs. Pyles raises about five hundred
chickens annually, preferring the
Barred Plymouth Rock and White
Leghorns crossed, They are good
layers and a splendid chicken for the
market.
Capt. Pyles raises annually about
zoe Berkshire and Poland china hogs
with no special effort. He also raises
some horses and mules.
He has never used a tractor on the
farm, though he believes the labor
question VIII necessitate the use Of
one another year.
On the farm is raised corn. velv4t
beans, cowpeas. peanuts, sweet and
Irish potatoes, sorghum, oats ana
hay, relying absolutely on the staple
crops.
The railways have good and spring
fall garden and live almost entirely
from the products of their farm, nav
ing to buy only such things as sugar,
flour, coffee, rice and such delicacies
as are obtainable only from the gro
Gerry store.
Let's have more farms like Glen
hurst Of Marion county
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
PLANTING CORN MAT will
GROW

Connecticut's experience last sea-
son shows the value Of testing seed
corn. Corn shows IN the state in 1917
were unique in that a 50-ear germina-
ton test was made Of every entry
These tests saved the state thousands
CT dollars, disclosing that much Of
the seed corn of the 1917 crop was
very low in terminating qualities A
campaign was inaugurated for the
testing of all corn to be used for the
1918 crop. The work in many places
was taken up through the schools
and teachers and pupils were taught
to make tests. No excuse was left
for any farmer to plant immature
corn. In one county 700 samples
showed only 80 per cent terminating
power, and in another county only
10 per cent of the corn tested was
fit for planting. The farm bureaus
saved the day by carrying ON so Wig,
orous campaign that all corn fit FOR
planting was made available for home
use or sale. In addition to supplying
the states need for good seed corn
the farm bureaus were able to get
together six carloads of tested seed
corn for sipment to North Dakota
and Wisconsin, where also the situa-
ton was serious. This corn brought
the farmers of Connecticut about $40,
600.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
BIG WAR GARDEN BECOMES
"ptGGERY"

Twenty acres near Glendale, Ohio,
donated for community garden prof.
ect, proved unwieldy, and the Glen
dale garden club called in the county
agent. He advised abandonment OF
the garden project, putting the entire
tract in corn and getting enough pigs
to provide a hOof market for the
crop. So the garden club turned over
it's interest to new organization call
ed the Glendale Piggery. A farmer
agreed to put the 20 acres in corn on
shares, and from him the club bought
40 pigs with the understanding that
he would maintain them until he corn
crop was harvested and then feed
them on the clubs share of the corn.
The club got nearly 500 bushels of
corn as its share, and this corn is
being fed to the pigs, which are max
ing gains that promise a substantial
contribution to the clubs war relief
fund.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
PUT THE PLow TO WORK

Getting rid Of grass, weeds. and
underground about the farm during
the winter is one of the best protective
measures the farmer can use against
crop damaging insects the following
year. says the University Of Florida
experiment station. Weeds, matted
grass, dead vegetation and the like,
in fields. along fences, roadsides and
on the banks Of small streams are
the natural alternating and often the
breeding places of many destructive
insects.
When this old vegetation can be
plcwed under IT viii add much humus
10 the soil. Where blowing cannot
be practiced. the dead vegetation
should be burned.
Winter blowing will expose white
grubs and the eggs of grasshoppers
to the moisture and cold of winter,
and will also turn up those insects
which hibernate in the first few IN
ches of soil Burning the vegetation
will destroy many insects, though in
the case of grasshoppers it probably
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
HAVE YOUR CATTLE TUBERcU-
LIN TESTED

Dairy cattle owners should keep in
mind that it is very essential to keep
cattle free from tuberculosis, as this
disease is easily communicated
through the milk to members of the
family. This is especially true of
children. Or. John Spencer. veterin-
arian, state college Of agriculture,
urges all owners Of dairy cattle to
have their COWS tuberculin tested by
Z competent veterinarian. If you find
your COW has tuberculosis. exclude
her from the dairy herd.
Conditions which bring about tuber-
cul0sis should be gotten rid of. Bad
sanitation, small, dark, overcrowded,
i'll ventilated stables are hotbeds Of
tuberculosis, when once introduced.
Heavy milking, by its depletion, IA
vOrs the ravages of the disease.
If we will stop to think how much
and just what it means 10 us, surely
we will all see that we have no tuber-
culin cattle on our place.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
MAKE PARTNERS OF TIE BOYS
AND GIRLS

The state marketing bureau has
from time to time urged that boys
and girls De made partners Of their
parents in farm life, by being given
ownership in livestock and in other
ways the children made to feel that
they are on the program to play real
parts. This is true when the boy
has as his really own" a calf, a colt
or pig, and the girl has title N
chickens, or lambs, or something else
upon which they can bestow atten.
tiOn with ktowledge Of complete au-
thOrity. This sort of thing in the
family begets confidence in the chill
dren. it tests their ability in small
ways that they Will be able to con
duet affairs on a larger scale when
it ecomes necessary. Anent this sub
ject, Golfers Weekly has something
to say under the heading Of How
TO Make Farm Deserters.
Some American warns are a good
deal ike the Austro- Hungarian en-
pire in that the boys break away be-
cause they are not allowed to have
what they earn. Unpaid labor is Just
as disturbing 70 family life as il IS
TO politics With all these prizes and
jaunts for boys and girls corn clubs.
canning communes. etc. this unpleas-
am fact will net down. In the Uni,
versity OF North Carolina Newsletter
Tarheel bard breaks into near-song
ever il. He goes to the heart of the
matter which has puzzled preachers.
statesmen and editors by pointing
out that the farm boy is not deserving
to a faster life or to an easier Job.
but because the garden truck was
dads to sell but mine to hoe. The
ballad in question reaches its climax
in this verse:
" ! left my dad, his farm. his pillow,
Because my calf becomes his COW;
I left my dad twas wrong. of course.
Because my colt became his horse.
Those learned in such matters
say that the progress up out of slav-
cry is from status to contract, j. e,
from working because you must to
working because others keep their
word with you as you do with them.
Odd. isn't it, that this evolution
should take SO long to reach the boys
Of the farm regions Perhaps in
time IS will reach even the women.
Voting should help somewhat. -
Florida Grower.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10

would not be as effective as blowing.
In making the late fall OF winter
blowing, the ground sohuld be broken
just little deeper than it was plowed
the previous year, tending to increase
the depth of the soil in which the
plant grows. In our thin sandy vir,
gin soils it would be rlinous to begin
by deep blowing, but the thinnest son
in the state can be built up by a prop
er crop rotation which will include
the growing of legumes. such as vel
vet cans or cOwpease. They viii
add considerable nitrogen and humus
to the soil when handled properly.
In few years a reasonably profitable
depth Of soil will be had to work
upon.
A deep soil is conducive to maxi
mum crop production. It will hold
more moisture and when this is ex-
hausted Will draw the moisture from
the subsoil Since moisture is the
main agent by which the roots Of
plants get their food, il is necessary
that the soil be deep to get the best
results. By blowing a deep soil. it
viii be pulveri2ed and aerated. which
IS also necessary for good root
growth.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
HAVE FRESH FRUIT THE YEAR
ROUND

It is a regrettable fact to note the
absence Of fruit trees on the average
Florida farm. This is to be most
sincerely regretted when we consider
the fact that there is no section of
the United States where fruit can be
produced in more abundance nomin-
ally all the year round than right here
in the state of Florida.
In every rural home in the state,
says c. K McQuarrie of the Univer.
sity of Florida extension division,
there is no reason whatever why the
table should not be supplied with
fresh fruit every day and month in
the year. Strawberries come on in
winter and early spring, followed by
huckleberries, blackerrIes, dewerries:
then peaches for about three months
during summer IF the varieties that
fruit in succession are selected) /;
then grapes coming in for two months
and figs, pears. plums and ether vari-
cites Of fruit that it is not necessary
to mention, followed by citrus fruits
IN the fall and winter.
The selection Of varities should be
carefully made. especially On the
small, rural home plat. A special ef-
fort should be made SO that the vari-
cites chosen viii come in succession
Sc IS 70 make a never failing supply
possible. This is especially true Of
he summer fruits such as peaches
and plums, also grapes.
The time Of year is now at hand
y hen plans should be laid for the set,
ting Of al fruit bearing trees and
plants. Our experience has been that
me planting Of fruit trees such as
peaches, pears and plums should be
delayed until the latter part Of Janu-
airy. The reason for this, based on
number Of years Of experience is
that when fruit trees are planted in
November, December. or early in Jan
airy the coming Of a warm period in
January will start them to growing,
and the cold snap in February, which
never fails to materialize, is apt TO
have a serious effect on the trees.
Blackberries, also dewberries,
should not be planted before the mid
ole Of January at the very earliest
II planted aout that time and given
proper care and attention, a small
crop can be had the first year and
the second year they will come into
full bearing.
Fig trees should also be somewhat
delayed in planting. They are gener-
ally Of slower growth than peaches
and plums, but a few days of warm
weather in mid-winter is apt to start
them growing, with a bad effect later
on should cold snap occur
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
WOMEN ON FARMS

The woman on the farm IS a most
important factor in agriculture Her
domestic work undoubtedly mas d.
rect bearing on the efficiency Of the
field workers; her handling of the
home and its surroundings contrib
utes TO the cash intake, and in add
ton, hers is largely the responsible
ity for contributing the social and
other features which make farm life
satisfactory and pleasHrable. On her
rests largely the moral and mental
development of the children, and on
her attitude depends IN a great part
the important question Of whether the
succeeding generation will continue
TO farm or will seek the allurement
Of hfe in the cities.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
CRYSTALiZE6 FLORIDA ROUGH
LEMON PEEL

Scrub lemons, cut into quarters.
remove and cut peel into one-tighth
inch strips and place n sausepan. For
each pound of peel add 8 pts Of cold
water; boil 10 minutes Pour water
off and repeat five times, or until all
the bitter flavor has been removed
from the peelu. Dissolve one half
lb. of sugar in OF, Of water and cook
to thick syrup Dry peel in the folds
OF towel, place in syrup and cook
until syrup is all absorbed by the
peel While hot roll in dry sugar.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10

Some weeks ago a letter was re.
ceived from the state department
asking that a picture of the Pyles
home (Glenhurst) be gotten, together
with description Of same to be used
in connection with report on rural
homes in Florida.
This particular home was selected
because of its completeness in equip.
ment. There are a number Of other
rural homes in Marion county that
could make interesting reading.
We hope TO be able to give an &C.
count of some of them from time &C
time.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
TIE MODEL

] took piece of plastic clay,
And idly fashioned it one day;
And as my fingers pressed it, still
1t moved and yielded to my will.
came again when days were pass
ed;
The bit of clay was hard at last;
The form I gave it still it bore,
But I could change that form no
more.
/ took a piece of living clay
And gently formed it day by day,
And moulded with my power and art
A young child's soft and welding
heart.
i came again when years were gone
1t was a man looked upon
He still that early impress bore,
And ! could change II nevermore
Anon.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
ONE STEP MEETS TWO NEED:

ONE STEP MEETS TWO NEEDS
Fields in Hamilton county. Ohio,
that were acid in soil and broken by
stone outcroppings have been made
more productive and easier to plow
by the one step of crushing the stone
and spreading it over the ground
The stone is limestone with a high
percentage of calcium. This method
of solving the lining problem was de-
veloped by the county agent Some
men brought stone crushers and en-
tered the business of grinding lime
stone.
OF the 5000 tons Of lime applied
in Hamilton county on the county
agents recommendation $500 tone
were ground on the SO farms where
the stone was wound.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
GLENHURST

Five miles south Of Ocala is the
plantation and country home Glen
hurst of Capt. and Mrs. s. r. Pyles
In this home the old southern hos
pitality still abounds and the latch
string is always out to every one.
Capt Pyles was born and reared
in Marion county, near his present
home, while Mrs. Pyles claims In
diana as her native state.
Twelve years ago they rebuilt their
old home, making it a strictly modern
one with every convenience and very
spacious as well, not too large as ev-
cry inch of room is utilized.
A cellar, a necessity to almost any
home, is filed with canned goods and
with an incubation where all the
chickens are Matched.
On the first floor are nine rooms,
large pantries. closets and porches,
including servants. room and two
screened porches, one of which IS
used for a part of the dairy work etc
There is a kerosene engine con
nected to shaft on which are several
pulleys, for the sausage mill, bone
cutter cream separator, grindstone,
washing machine and mangle, the lat
er being a great reducer of the laun-
dry bill
There are two large bed rooms on
the third floor, sewing room, one
used for packing away clothes, bed
ding, furnishings and discarded
school books
A pump, windmill, two wells, two
tanks and cistern supply the home
with running well and cistern water.
From the well tank water is con-
nected to many different places about
the farm. The yard, garden, gass-
house. poultry yards. hog pens, horse
lot. COW barns and such pasture as
are not supplied by pond or spring.
A Doris accetylene plant of fifty
light capacity furnishes the home
with splendid light throughout
There is also a gas iron in the
laundry room. which is said TO be
very economical.
Two large oaks are just in front
of the house with many other shade
trees about the lawn, there are also
quite few black walnut trees which
have bore rather heavily for years.
Several buildings are around and
near the home That which
was the packing house before the
freeze" has been converted into a
place for storing the farming nipple
ments and garage.
There is a large barn for the grain
and harvest with stables and lots for
horses and mules.
COW barn where the cows are fed
and MIXED. A large shelter under
which is an engine and the necessary
equipment for saving wood and
grinding grain In connection with
this is the blacksmith shop and smoke
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
TOMATO AND CUCUMBER SALAD

Remove the skins from six small
tomatoes and chill Cut q thin slice
from the TOP OF each and carefully re
move center. Inyert and let stand in
clod place half an hour. Fill the
cav ties with cucumbers cut into
small cubes, dressing with any salad
cream
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
FR Ed HomlNY SQUARES

This is made from the remains Of
boiled hominy, which is a firm jelly
when ccld Cut the cold hominy into
slices or neat uniform squares, flour
them, egg and bread-crumb them,
plu cgc Them into boiling fat until
they are or bright golden color
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
crystaIized Grapefruit Peel

OTSStaiiZeo grapefruit Peel
Follow the same directions as for
rough lemon peel The oily part Of
the rind may be grated from the peel
before boiling This makes d tender
product and reduces the time of
cooking.
crystalized Sour Orange
Follow the same directions as for
rough lemon peel except that two
changes Of water are sufficient.
CrystaIized TangeIo Peel
Cut tangelo orange peel into thin
strips Boil in large quantity Of
water until tender Make a syrup #
one cup of sugar and one cup of wat
er. Boil until clear: add drained
peel and cook until syrup is all alb
sorbed. Drain and roll tightly in sug-
ar. Keep in dry place.
crystalized kumouats
Scrub kumquats with soap and wat
er Sprinkle with soda using one
Ib. of soda TO one Ii. Of kumouats.
Pour sufficient boiling water over
this to cover fruit. Allow to stand
ten minutes Pour water off and rinse
through three changes Of water. Slit
EumQuats one-quarter Of an inch on
one side DRIP into boilingwater and
boil slowly for ten minutes. Remove
from the boiling water and drop into
boiling sugar solution made by dis
solving one-half cup Of sugar in one
cup of water. Boil Tor 80 minutes.
Remove from the sugar solution and
drop into boiling sugar solution
made from one cup of sugar to one
cup of water. After boiling for 30
minutes they are transferred to a
heavier sugar solution made by dis,
solving one and one-half cups of sug-
ar in one cup of water. The boiling
is continued for 80 minutes at which
time they may be removed and placed
on a platter to dry.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10
STUFFED BAKED APPLES

core and pare nice large. juicy
apples, put ] teaspoonfuI OF molasses
INTO each cavity, then fill with stew.
ca dates; place the apples in a bak.
ing dish. cover and bake until the
fruit is soft, but not long enough for
the apples to lose their shape.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10

1t is time some club member were
writing an article for the club de-
partment Come, girls, don't drive
rs to the point Of calling names.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-01-10

Why not make the most of your
mind? The body ceases to grow in
a few years put the mind if we let it,
may grow a. long as life lasts.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-05-30
.ssDESFILE SOCLAL.t

dental en- ell Ejercito Americana
Los que saben escoger llevan
muchas probabilidades de perpe-
tua felicidad.
En- Marianita Padilla Sc reu-
nen todos estOs meritos como
educanda que ha sido del "Sagra-
do COraz0n."
Ella ha sabido tambien tender
su maIo a una joven de relevantes
cualidades.
Ell amor en- la terra y Dios Ell
ell cielo bendigan la hOra feliz dc
los enamorados que bajo un toldC
de madreselvas, habran de llegal
a la blanca alameda de los aza
hares, para quedarse en- ella
tiernamente.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-05-30
FL PUBLICO &4TO...

GonzalO Nunez, aquel gran com
positor, pianista cuyo talento ig
moro siempre Puerto Rico, Sc
quejaba de este defecto de nuestro
pdblico, y en- varias ocasiOnes
protest0 de esta malacrianza.
RecOrdaremos aqui una anec-
dota del gran pianista.
Una noche de verdadera inspi
raci6n, ell viejo sublime tocaba
noble mdsica. Algunas seiioritas,y y
seiiOras, Sc entretenian, como es
costumbre, en- hablar de los nlti.
mos mOdelOs de Paris.
Gonzalo Nufez, que era posee
dor de un enOrme temperamento
artfstico, irritable como todOs los
genios, interrumpiendO su ejecu
ci6n, sc vOlvi0 hacia ell grupO de
damas, y les dijO: Perd6nenme
que les interrumpa la converse
ci6n de encajes y cintas.
Y tomandO ell sOmbrero, Sc lar
60 con su mnsica a Otra parte.
Ell gran poeta ChocanO tam
bien nos dijo algO acerca de este
defecto, de este gran defecto que
acusa falta' de cultura.
Ell Arte es una misa q. debemos
DIR con ell recogimineto que re
quiere ell case.
Al temple no Sc va sin devo
ci6n.
El que va "a un espectaculO pd
blicO gOzar de las manifestacio
nes del Arte, debe ir con ell alma
no con la vanidad, ell egoismO.
Ell que no va al temple con fe
no debe ir.
Para conversar estan los Clubs
Y los Cafes.
Al Teatro O los AteneOs Sc va
REAR con ell alma, a vivir la
vida noble y ALTA de las ideas y
las emociOnes.
Luis MIRAFLORES.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-05-30
PUNTOS Y PUNTAS

por ciento-la cuarta parte-de
los beneficios para Instituciones
de Carload, 10 que no ocurre con
muchos otros negocios de todos
conocidos y que producer gran
des ganancias, Y 81 cumple con
todos los requisites de la Ley
de Corporaciones y ayuda a las
cargas publicas ipueden lesio-
narse tan grandemente sus inte-
.reses, como Sc acaba de hacer,
por informes O apreciaciones
mas o menos err6neas, mas O
menos apasionadas que para OBJ
tener tai resultado Sc pudieran
emplear?
Hay respetables opiniones de
conocidos Abogados, con refe-
rencia al funcionamiento de la
Comision Hipica Insular,y la Cor
poraci6n del Hipodromo que tie
ne lagitimo derecho a defenderse
podri utilizar esos recursos lega-
les para evitar que Sc lie perju-
dique y abuse de ella.
-Continqaremos en- proximas
ediciones para demostrar que la
Comisi6n Hfpica Insular no Sc
ha ocupado hasta ahora del Hi
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-05-30

signe lfricO mexican0 Amado
Nervo representa- para las letras
latinO-americanas una perdida
irreparable, un dolor hOndamente
sentido, una impression de amar-
gura ins0lita que todos nos
emociona v todos nos entriste-
ce.
Su fina labor poetica y litera-
ria ha tenido en- ell mundO de las
letras la legftima resonancia que
alcanzar supo con su pluma y
con su Ira el gallardo poeta tan
admirable y tan consentidO EN- la
lfrica contemporaries.
Sin tempo nOsOtras para con-
sagrar al inspirado NervO ell ho-
menaje de admiration que justa-
mente merece, nos limitamOs a
llOrar profundamente la desapa-
rici6n sdbita del elegante mode
fador de frases hellas, saturadas
de un mistfcism0 inefable v en-
cantador. X - a. =.
'C0l0quemos ul bdcaro de rosas
sobre la tumba del glorieso bar
do, del seiiador mistico, del ex-
ohisitO Seda, Amado Nefy0.