Weekly journal-miner., 1919-07-16

l SnTeQQeQ WutdL DlSCuI ne Will drop II into big hot frying pan, or better still a Dutch oven, with a smoking cupful of sweet beef fat, or fresh but ter if you're at home, and let it brown slowly. Then hot water and simmer long time, then a little flour, chili i if you like it, or a little milk if you have it (no real old COW ranch ever | did)-simmer some more, till the bis cults Drowned in the other Dutch oven and then it would be joyful to die i'll such a good cause-and the biggest pan always seems mighty small, and the other fellows doggone greedy anyway-and that cook never did make enough of what anybody really liked.
 Free tip to Lester Rudner-hunt up that boss range cook next Frontier Day and watch everybody stampede away from the roping contest to an eating contest.
 Speaking of Things to Eat.
 These rains are not all to the glory of the stockman, the orchards and corn fields and gardens come in for their own share of growing joy and the fruit and vegetable crop never promised better in Northern Arizona. We ought to rival Maryland as q place for good "eatings' this summer and already we country women are greeting each other with Eve put up so many dozen glasses of jelly already and I'm going to can so and so next week. just feel dippy about putting Up things this year, there's so much nice stuff to work up."
 Sure there is-and a lot of new ways to do it, too. It's pity we nome-maling women cant have sort of gct-together week of our own and exchange experiences, but since we can't, some bits of it can go through this department-all of them tried land tested in a plain country kitchen without any expensive frills, and every one of them worth while for the busy woman who must make her time count in permanent results. But while we are working in the best ways we have found, with the best materials we have, it will perhaps, be news to many ranch women that we now have in Yavapai county lady
 employed by county and state to help , LIS in our home work problems much as the county farm agent Is a helper Ito the men folks. The home demon strator for Yavapai is Miss Grace l, Tufts and she has all office in the county court house right across from the realm of that active lady manager of the chamber of commerce, Miss Grace Sparkes.
 I Another week l shall hope to tell just how we can reach the informa- tion to be distributed through Miss Tui.s' office and how far her work has progressed in Yavapai. We Yav- apai county women are really such a busy and efficient lot of women that we are not likely to know that home demonstration work has been under taken in the county unless it is brought directly to our attention.
 Moreover, some of us have been extra busy since the rains begun with new industry-that of drying off and feeding up the automobile tour I ists whom our men folks have been ipulIing out of mud holes ever since the wet weather started. Just why a man will try to navigate a EavapaI stream full of black mud, moving drift and boulders in the wake Of a good old mountain flood needs demonstrator of extra quality to un. derstand; but just now our roads are specked with standed autos that ought to have known better.
 When We Buy and Sell.
 Not many of our city friends arc going to be brave enough to venture out into the country by automobile ] till the roads dry up, not if we offered them apples of Hesperides; but we country people do get into town right along in spite of cloudburstS and floods, for if the auto stays in the ! garage we can hitch up the good old farm team and navigate even such roads as the present ones and our i fruit comes right along all the better for daily wetting and our vegetables have to be canned whether the wealth CT clerk forgets to shut off the faucet or not.
 Last year there was a serious short age of ali the materials for putting up' foodstuffs, from jars and cans to sugar, and we were put to many shifts to save what we had grown or bought This year the condition is better but it is wise to prepare early for what isl sure to be the biggest canning season ever seen in the United States and toI get all the needed things before the extra demand creates a possible shortage.
 The big Bashford-Burmister Com pany store has stocked up this year with such a variety of canning sup plies that to look through their stock is almost like a short course in home demonstration applied to canning.