Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-01

jects in our club. 20 each different pro- |
feet had something special planned for
the meetings. The cooking and house,
keeping members made and served
cake and cocoa for their part. Four
girls make cake and brought it to the
meeting and the cocoa was made at the
leaders home.
''The first Of the year our club de-
cided to try for a charter and COM
mittee planned q program for the IL
meetings. We made over $50 selling
chocolates and making maybaskets and
eellins them.
1.-THE women Of the Farm Bureau
raised money for a local contest. but
we were unable to hold one. They are
going to give all the members that
finish the project 81 apiece, which
am sure wo all appreciate.
THE regular meetings that were
he'd helped to keep up the interest in
the work. Many Of the members rode
TO the meetings in one sled in the win
ter and we had the most fun practicing
cur cheers and singing club songs on
the way"
Miss Rsbskah's Canning Story
Last year when saw my sister
preparing her canning exhibit wished
had Joined the same club. so that
year I did and canned 153 pints. OF
these there were seven varieties of
vegetables and eight Of fruit.
ION account of the wet year 1t was
hard to get 10 attractive looking Jars
for exhibit.
First canned dandelion greens.
Strawberries and rhubarb. For the first
| exhibit Of rhubard I took great pains,
packing 1t as full as possible and in
even rows. only to find that the fancy
pack counted less rather than more
ana the practical pack was more desir-
able; also the extremely close pack did
not leave room enough for syrup. I
like the strawberries best canned by
the special strawberry rule. cooked in
an open kettle with sugar 20 minutes,
| allowed to cool over night and packed
cold in jars and sterilized.
about the middle Of August my sis
ter and were given an opportunity to
! can $50 pints Of fruit and vegetables
for tho Springfield Exposition. At the
| time Of the Central Maine Fair we had
|
| rncre learned that the remaining 100
pfnt5 must be ready to send in less
than q week.
II needed to thin the carrots and
:op tine pickle onions in my club garden
but we did not wish to lose this chance
SO we went to work gathering vegeta-
| bles. washing jars, blanching and can
ming.
Anyone who has gathered, washed
and canned from a muddy. clayey gar
den three bushels Of beet green's knows
how much time 1t takes. BY working
late nights and with the assistance OF
our club leader, who came in and help
ed US to can over jars which we found
| leaking the last minute. we managed
10 get them polished, labeled and pack
ed in time for the train.
Il think the hardest part of the can
! ming club work is the account keeping,
especially where we bought higher
priced jars for the exhibition and used
| lew and oid jars for the home canning.
! also in picking over the fruit for ex-
pc sition. The culls were canned for
home use and had to be counted at a
| lower price.
| after this seasons experience, can
ming for home use seems Very easy"
Miss Mary's Poultry Story
| "The White Wyandotte hens l start
| ed with were too fat to be good lay
crs as they had not been fed right and
were mostly late Matched pullets. We
| mad tcen culling out the best hens cv-
| cry year until last fall when we went
20 culling demonstration and found
We had been saving poor hens, so the
prospects were not very good
| "Soon after commenced taking care
| Of the hens l put deeper litter on the
| floor 10 give them more exercise. In
the coolest weather put cloth over the
open windows to protect the hens from
drafts. l also gave them more oats
as they had been having too much corn.
| Kept sour milk and grit before them
during the winter. but several times
the grit gave out before l discovered
| II, and one time it caused the loss Of
many eggs as l was saving them for
setting at that time and many of them
were SO thin shelled that they broke
in the rests.
III haG very good matches except for
That, as most Of the eggs were fertile.
Neary all Of the chickens Matched in
My and JLre. as the latehatched pull
les :iidn't set early. I bought rs day.
Old chicks from a 200-egg strain OF
hens in order to improve the egg pro-
.iuction next year, and as they were
IA sed by hand it made much extra
york al busy time of the year. but !
hops they VIII pay for it.
II set 217 eggs in all and lost only /
% chickens out of the 1o9 Matched I
thuug.i some people near us lost tho
most Of theirs by skunks and other
animals. l think a little fox terrier
that came to US must have saved a
great many chickens.
"Ore instance was when the chick
ems were small and We were just start
the chickens and went out 10 investi-
gate. the deg running ahead. Before
Ne hardly knew what had happened she
came out f:1m under the shed with
skunk. She shook it and shook it I'M
til her eyes were so full of scene she
could hardly see, when the skunk es-
capcd and went under the shed again. |
Lut my brother finally found it and !
shot il.
Another time when I was away pick |;
ing berries and my sister was feeding |
III. chickens she found big bunch of |