East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1921-06-10
HOME ECONOMICS NOTES
Miss Harriet M. Jones.

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We visited several orchards this
week and find trees so overloaded
that the fruit is not having any
oupol tunity of developing. When
the trees are over crowded with
fruit, the product is small. Thin
the fruit by picking off part of it,
aud you will be prepaid, by secur>
ing larger, better quality fruit.
Lettuce, be0tS, and similar veg.
etables are cool weather plants.
III these are planted during VAIN
weather, say in August, much
better stand will be secured if the
seeds are placed in the ice box for
from twelve to twenty>four hours
before planting. If the soil is very
dry the trench may be opened,
well watered. and after the water
has all seeped out into the soil, the
seed sOwn and the trench covered
with dry soil. This moisture will
continue to supply the seed bed for
sometime and the little plants will
come thru quickly.
During the summer Prot. Clay
ton has class at the college that
needs about so fiocks of poultry IT,
Gull. He has chosen our county
as the one in which to select tlocks
tC work on. This means that Prof,
Clayton and his class will come to
YOUR home and under his supero
vision your flock of Young aud old
chickens will be properly cuIIed.
They do the work for the experience
as it is regular class work, and
YOU profit by having YOUR flock
culled. ANY one wishing to have
their flock cuIled leave your name
at the office,
The needfor food preservation
by canning, drying, preserving,
and picking is more urgent now
than ever before. TIE following
factors in the food problem makes
this necessary:
l. The economic situation caus
ed by low price of cotton and other
raw farm products.
2. High transportation charges
which makes the cost of imported
foods high.
3. Unsettled market conditions
4. Scarcity OF money with the
tendency to lower wages and un~
employment
Because of these things we are
putting on intensive programs for
food conservation aud preservation.
This Is Icing stressed ut the short
courses and camps, as we'll rs pub.
lie demonstration We are urg
ing every housewife who eau to
dry or otherwise preserve IN abundr
auce of fruits and vegetables, And
where an abundance of these things
are grown at home to pack for the
local markets Women who are
not able to grow or pack these
things are being urged to give
their orders to rural women and
girls. This will save tralsporta-
tion charges, provide a market for
perishables, and native fruits, and
berries are also being cons erYed
During the poultry cuIling season
the surplus roosters and non-pro,
duclng hens may be canned. Low
priced eggs should be put in water
glass for use at home next winter,
while fresh eggs can then be mar,
keted to an advantage. We are
also urging the packing of a liberal
supply of products for the orphan
anges, Old Ladies Home and other
institutions which so sorely heed
them, This is now an excellent
time to see it that these institutions
are abundantly supplied with food.
When prices are higher it .is diff.
fcult to~secure an adequate-supply
and the health of inmates. suffers
accordingly.
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