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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-04-27
Somerset Grange nj NOrridgeWock

One of the red letter days Of the
year to be remembered by the mem
bers of Somerset Grange was the all
day meeting last Thursday held in
honor of the anniversary of the order.
At noon very nice dinner consist
ing of escalloped potatoes. baked
beans, cold meat, and all the usual
variety of good things such as cake,
doughnuts, pies, coffee and so forth
were served to a very large gather
ing at noon. After dinner the com
pany adjourned to the lodge room,
where very nice musical and liter
airy program was given under the di-
rection of the committee for the en-
tertainment composed of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. A. Tobey, Mr.. and Mrs. d. L. Tay-
lor, Mr.. and Mrs. HeToert Crosby,
Mr. and Mrs Ed Wilder, and Mr. and
Mrs. Levi Ham. The three Tracey
boys delighted the audience with
dances. the music for one being fur
nished by Herbert Crosby playing the
harmonica. The next meeting will
be held on ay 4th and will be a May
Basket Social and the program will be
in charge of large committee of
young people.
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Meeting Executive Board OF Somerset
Farm Bureau


The executive board of the Somer.
set County Farm Bureau was helf
Saturday at the office in the mum.
cipal building of the county agent
c. A. Storer The reports which
were given were of much interest
and were as follows Report by tbs
president, A. c. Head on member.
ship; report of the vice president. d
w. Ellis, who is leader of the croI
project. on crops; report of treasurer
II. A. Fuller; report of secretary, f
c. White; report of clubs by leader
Guy l.. Williams of Arson Academy
report ON farm accounts, George |.
Parker; report on dairy. George Eos.
ter. l.. L. Sandford, the leader oil
poultry project was absent because
Of illness and his report was read
by the secretary, Mr.. White; W. G.
Robinson, the leader of the orchard
project of North Arson is in Wash
ington, ID. c., and his report was also
read by the secretary. Mrs Bert
Hilton of ST Adams, leader of the
clothing project was present and
gave her report. Mrs. Walter Crosby
Of Norridgewock, the project leader
on foods was not present but her re-
port was given by the Somerset
County Home Demonstration, Miss
Marion G. Hare.
Mrs. Guy Williams of North An
son, project leader on household
management was absent and Miss
Hare gave that report. The com
mittee composed of P. c. White
George Parker and l.. l.. Sanford
who was previously appointed to
confer with the Somerset Pomona
Grange concerning holding a union
field day of the Farm Bureau.
Pomona Grange and the Boys
and Girls Clubs, reported that a
committee had been appointed by
the grange and that the committee
from the Farm Bureau and Grange
were soon to hold a joint meeting
The executive board voted to in
struct its committee in charge of the
field day to appoint what ever sub
committees it deemed wise.
A. c. Heald the president of the
Somerset County Farm Bureau, who
attended the meetings of the State
Farm Bureau held at Orono during
farmers week, gave an excellent re-
port of those meetings which was OF
real value to the members of the
executive board. The executive
board voted to conduee far bu-
reau tour this summer especially in
the interest of the Ladies' Branches
Of the bureau, better sires for better
stock and in silo campaign work
The meeting adjourned in time for
the out of town people to depart on
the $50 p. m. train.
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Pruning Demonstration ut SmifhieI,

The County Agent will give dem
on tration in grating and pruning in
Smithfield, May 9th. at 10 o'clock, at
w. NJ. Ellis; 2 O'Clock at Esther Hart
fords. The Grange will give baked
bean dinner at their hall at noon.
Everyone come and bring pastry. 1t
is hoped that the ladies' will receive
a lesson on the same day in dress
making.
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"e''Frun>ctt Grange

4 a..
csuiaF meeting of Wesserun-
I,a, suse at CornYiue was held
ai,., ssEehlng, April % with a
/ v,s 1aance. The following pro-
a. presented by Ethel Flawel-
h, t v',pening song, I'VE are all
l rO o,aa to See You; play. "The
|lare !" M. social; reading, Pearl
|re n. Illustrated ] song. Down
j PIs ne Votton blossoms Grow"
|rea Iih s,l'hg' reading, Dear Dad,
ii F,sw poy' Irish song, illustrated.
kns," iuu ,,1g piano solo, Low
5 Tho n,1 Judkins; tableau /:
&c oid Home,' folks.
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CROPPING

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Moscow Lady Sends Egg Record For
Three Months

We received at this Office on Mon
day a report of the egg record for
the past three months as kept by Mrs
Andrew Goff, of Moscow. Mrs. Golf
has a pen of az pullets, 30 Rhode
Island Reds and 13 Barred Rocks. In
January they laid 73l eggs; February
729 and March S22, making a total
production of 1882 eggs. This makes
an average of % 13 eggs a day and
ID eggs for each pullet in the 80 days
They were fed Worthmore's scratch
feed and dry mash.
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teaspoon cream tartar: IL teaspoon
Soda % cup Gweet milk. Just enough
flour to make the dough roll out thin.
Cut with cookie cutter; put spoon
fnl filling ON top. Moistcn the under
cookie around the edge with little
water so the top cookie will press
down tight FILL1NG-1-2 cup sugar;
2 tablespoons flour; II cup boiling
water. Mix we'll together and when
thoroughly blended boil for two min
utcs until thick.
Mrs Celia A. Fcrnald.
81 G Street
Lowell, Mass.
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Abstract OF Address by Lyman II. Nel-
sen, Chairman Maine Highway
Commission nj L. OF VI. Farmers
Week

Mr.. Nelson began his remarks with
a brief but graphic recital of the de-
velopment of transportation. showing
that from early days the vital prin-
ciple has been to make the land more
easily accessible. Only such portion
Of a nation or state as can be east
ly reached will receive its fullest de-
velopment The railroads are the
great backbone of transportation and
must be fostered and encouraged
when they conduct their business pro-
perly. But the railroad can go only
about so far in serving the country
in making it accessible because limit
ed in the degree to which it can cut
up territory. Therefore it must be
wagon road, to make a complete and
supplemented by the highway. the
perfect system.
While we must build great trunk
highways more or less parallel with
the railroads, because the people are
located there, we should Offset this
competition by building also feeders
to the railroad stations. These are
the market roads, and they must have
our earnest and serious attention else
the railroads will be ruined and the
farm remain Improbable.
More money for Maine market
roads should be the slogan for d
campaign that shows interest every
city dweller who wants larger and
more economical production of food
IS well as every farmer whose bust
ness. and | might almost say whose
very life, is at stake. And this cam
paign should not stop until Maine ad-
opts a sound financial basis for rapid
ly improving her roads in general,
and particularly the rural market
roads
This basis consists in adopting the
principle that the state should issue
bonds, the proceeds of which may be
spent on cutting grades, widening,
strengthening and taking land for the
right of way, laying a solid founda-
ton, building a lasting drainage sys-
TEN. and doing with bond money all
the enduring things that enter into
road bulldog Then pay for and main
tain the surface. the wearing surface,
with money derived from taxation.
The adoption of this principle will
not only clear the sky and make our
financing sound, but it will promptly
produce real statewide improve
ment If market roads. This cannot
be accomplished under the present
plan. We should issue bonds for
state aid and third class roads and
make real business of building
Names market roads.
Moscow Lady Sends Egg Record For
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CHOICE ScS
Saa RECIPES
Series II %
COOKIES

Series 17-23
COOKIES
BOILED MOLASSES COOKIES
cup molasses; tablespoons cold
water. Put in large dish and let boil
five minutes. Put in | heaping table
spoon soda; ! well beaten egg. | tea
spoon ca STA Flour to roll.
Mrs. II. V. Dreamer,
r. No. 2, North Arson.
Third Pri2e-Sl.00
SUGAR COOKIES
l cup sugar: / cup butter and COM
pound; l eag; tablespoons sweet
milk; / teaspoon soda; four cups
flour; II little nutmeg and ginger.
knead and roll thin.
Mrs. Myrtle Dean,
Scion, Me.
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Test seed samples to find out what
proportion you can count on when
sowing time comer
An out-of-repair rig may mean the
delayed dormant spraying will be done
just too late.
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FRAL FARMING A.
T|VITIES

! ns~rr Of south bingham nv VI
D w. two hundred chickens
IT, or esst IN the incubator 70
| .....7t tine there are TWEEN
p p,,.g Hampshire pigs at sun
l. o""7 1IaIoons Mis-.
' r.ctqan Of Bingham received
/ l ry'' =. STING eggs from Mrs !.
Fen. 81 sltowbegan the last OF
|I,l.T T...1 were the Iowa Light
4 breed .=.,,i,, If vor-
d, =. are 10 plant a large acre
DE- ast corn this year. 1t Is
" ,I.5f both the canning FAC
,,5 w a very satisfactory acre
n ,9 The Jewett Factory al
Eil ! roo3 acreage OF string beans
anI are making preparations
, ar. snccotash and apples be-
A.. M reqlllaf PACK of both white
ri d golden lantam. 1t is also
,aa5 fbat d large acreage Of
wv will he planted in town.
md Mrs. Wilbur Taylor Of
Da@ors received six hundred
-t-.aul Red chicks recently to
tbcIr already large flock OF
nj farmers Of the Malbon's
81 in this vicinity have two
. nice litters Of pigs. sun
nm. Bales Spaalding, manag-
some good ones, rs also has
NaI65n anl Isaiah Crowell,
+. ., from thrce mothers.
l.rmers at Burns District.
.sgcek. are much interested in
ming demonstration by county
,forer. given at L. " Shaw's
'adneslaY
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second Prize Sl.2j

ELEPHANTS EAR COOKIES
: eggs; 1 cup sugar tseantt ! cup
molasIes; Il cup sour milk. IL en-
butter or lard; even teaspoons soda ;
: cups flour; salt; ! teaspoon cassla
ana cloves: l cup chopped raiains
Da3p On buttered tins.
Mrs. b. +. Baker.
Madison Maine.
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OF the AZ COWS on the honor roll of
one dairy Improvement association, 81
were purebreds and the rest were
grades. Does breeding pay?
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together. di% - II can be handled
sasiIE Bake ia qGife hot oven.
Gladys Kicker,
r. Il, 5kowhegan.
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IOIAsSFS #cCOKIFs

] egg wcll beaten: ] cup lnolasses :
! cup sugar - cup OK butter: tea
SPOON ea~saa and ginger; table
SPOONS coffee; ] Tablespoon vinegar;
j lafPe teaspoon soda.
Mrs. Joseph LaPointe,
IfDpbarn
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OAT MEAL COOKIES

egg; cup sugar; l cup rolled
oaia; - cup butter and lard; 4 table
poems sweet milk; ] teaspoon soda;
l. teaspoon cassia; IL teaspoon salt.
Flour to mix quite stiff, drop from
spoon on CREASED tins.
Mrs. Elsie NJ. Smith,
South Portland, Me.
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FILLED COOKIES

l cup sugar: IL cup shortening
IL cup milk; three cups flour; tea
'poon soda; 2 of cream Of tartar
FILLING cup sugar; II cup wa
ter; , heaping tablespoons -four; /
cup chopped raisins Cook all to-
gether.
Mrs Harris Farrand.
Mercer, Maine
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First Prize-Sl.50
CORN FLAKE COOKIES

2 cups corn flakes; , egg whites
beaten stiff. 2-3 cup sugar. Small box
of cocoanut. Flavor with almond or
any desirable extract Drop from
spoon in buttered tin, and bake to a
delicious brown. Very much like mac
afoons.
Mrs. A. NJ Ingersoll.
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Gladys Kicker,
Il. 6. Skowhegan.
SOFT MoLAssEs COOKIES

cup moiasses; l2 cup water; IA
cup shortening; / heaping teaspoon
soda; little cinnamon ginger, Glove
and salt. Boil water and shortening
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HER MITS

IA cup butter; "a cup sugar; /
cgg; IA cup milk; flour; Il teaspoon
soda: IL Gun raisins, stoned and cut
in small pieces; IL teaspoon CHINA
mon; IA teaspoon nutmeg; - tea
spoon salt. Cream the butter, add
sugar gradually. then raisins. egg we'll
beaten and milk Mix and sift dry
ingredients and add to first mixture
Roll and bake in moderate oven This
recipe may be doubled if larger
quantity is desired.
Miss Gladys Dunlap.
Madison Maine
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Mime Decker,
A1nl.nnI. MIN.
MRS. YoUNG's MOLAssEs COOKIES

MRS. YOUNG'S MOLASStS COOKIES
l cup molasses; % or 3-4 cups Of
lard: i-2 cup hot water; 1 teaspoon
ginger: 2 teaspoons soda; teaspoons
cassia; 1-2 teaspoon salt; IL cup su-
gar to be added after half of flour has
been stirred in. Roll Trim and bake
in hot even.
Miss Gladys Vaughn,
Pinpham Mo
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.lnLASSES uERHLTa

Il cup tugar; II cup nolasses,
, cup butter melted u cup chop
ped raisins, ] egg beaten: little
salt; teaspoon soda dissolved in a
little milk; 1-2 teaspoon all kinds OF
spices. Flour tn roll DO not roll
them too thin.
Mime Decker
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Fourth Prize-75c
SUGAR COOKIES

2 cups sugar; y cup butter, = cup
lard; l egg l cup sweet milk: level
teaspoon soda; ! heaping tcapo
cream tartar; add favoring or spice
to taste. Vanilla and lemon are good.
Knead as lightly as possible to roll
Have oven quite hot
Alice NJ. Goodrich,
Bingham, Maine.
NICE COOKIES
cup sugar; l on . egg; II cup
butter; IL cup lard; - cup molasses
in which beat one teaspoon soda; -
teaspoon ginger and IL teaspoon cin-
namon beaten to foam. Il cup
sweet milk; ] teaspoon cream tarta.
in flour Mix soft, roll thin and bake
in quick a quick oven.
Alice NJ. Good}ich,
Bingham. Maine.
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Fifth Prize soc
MOLASSEs DROP COOKIES

MOLASSHS DROP COOKIES
Sift together; Az cups flour: .
teaspoons soda; alspces. Stir into
This two cups molasses; Ia cup
hcrtening; ID pound rasins /
pound walnms cut in small pieces.
Turn over this l cup boiling water.
Drop by small spoonfuls on buttered
tin Bake in> quick oven
Mrs Walter Scribner.
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FILLED COOKIES

/ cup sugar; II cup lard and but
to-; / egg; IL cup milk; 31-2 cups
tleur; , teaspoons cream Of tartar. /
teaspoon soda; ] teaspoon vanilla
FILLING / cup chopped raisins. %
cup sugar; ! tablespoon -four. , CUP
water Cook until thick. little salt.
Mrs Willard CUNT,
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FILLED COOKIES

Emma Hamilton.
Arson, Maine.
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~ ITIIVTl
Stratton. Nc.
NOLASSES COOKIES WITHOUT
SHORTENING

! cup molasses brought up to a boil
beat teaspoon soda while boiling
i cup sugar; ! egg beaten to a
froth, teaspoon ginger; teaIpoon
salt Mix together while molasses
and soda are foaming hot Add -four
enough to knead stiff. Roll thin and
bake in Il hot oven.
Mrs. Eta Holt,
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Mrs. A. NJ. Ingersoll.
North Arson. Me. r. |
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Mrs. Eta Holt,
Bingham, Maine.
SOFT MOLAssEs COOKIES

cup sugar; II cup of molasses;
10 cup melted lard; / cup boiling wa
ter; , teaspoons of soda dissolved in
water; - teaspoon Of cloves. cassia
ginger and salt Flour to make fairly
stiff and roll quite thin.
Mrs. Lowell E. Bailey,
North Arson, Maine.
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FRUIT COOKIES

cup chopped dates; cup chopped
walnuts; ! cup chopped 'raisins, IL
cup butter; IL cup flour; eggs; l
level teaspoon soda, cinnamon and
cloves; tablespoons hot water:
cream. butter and sugar. add egg we'll
beaten and soda dissolved in hot wa
ter. Drop from teaspoon in buttered
pan.
Gladys Kicker,
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: r1-rr 0I SCUM Hinsha Ian, VI. p.
ieT be- t9a hundred chickens
las a asg. IN the incubator to
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Helmies. Assistant Professor
|, Agr4nomY, L. OF NJ
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- ~, .IaNE-Y ~Ests-rA4 .ar3s 4 tN s....sf n
EVENING EpITIoN.

A. It IS necessary to use black
dials on clocks and watches where
luminous paint 10 employed.
g. How often are rural free deliv-
cry mail carriers paid? s. H. s..
A. The postoffice department says
that r. F. D. mail carriers receive
their pay checks everys16 days. They
receive a check the frtk OF the month
and the middle Of the month.
Q. When did France lose Canada?
A. France Lost CANADA with the
final battle Of the Heights ofs1Ahra-
ham in 1852.
Q. When was the first eisht-hour
strike? E. 3. K, sE
A. In April and May Of 1856 there
was a strike, OF Six weeks in New Eng
land and New York for the etght-hour
day, believed to have been the first
Of Its kind IN the United States It
was unsuccessful. The first great
concerted effort TOR the etght-hour
day was in 1886 when 100000 work
ers went on strike. In 1880 a general
strike was announced for this object,
but wAs. only partially successful.
@. Why did caruso otten attend
services in s%ynAgoguAs? j.. +. p
A. CaruAo ID quoted an saying Il
have discovered that the Jewtsh chan
tsrs employ q peculiar method OF In
ltonfuon and vocalization in their
service. They are ~unexcelled in the
art OF shifting the melody, Of pick
ing up q new key, Of moduatinEst their
ritual chant, ana OF overcoming vocal
difficulties that may occur in the
words rather than ii the melody T.
self. For this reason / visit Jewish
synagogues whenever I have the OPP
| - ~~< y .i EE EtrLEN -f w
Q. Flow fast do court reporters
have toTtake? II. r. p.
A. Court work rarely gees. above
800 words a. minute, un)sss, several
people are speaking at once. In such
cases, all cannot be recorded accur-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-14
POTATO BUGS IN FRANCE.

American potato growers are so familiar with
the potato beetle that it may strike some readers as
a novelty that alarm is felt in any populous country
over the appearance Of that unpleasant little pest.
The Colorado potato beetle, the bug with which
most Of us have been familiar for years, has made
its appearance ina district near Bordeaux, France,
and has caused considerable damage to the potato
crop in that section. This is not the first appearance
OF the bug in Europe. In 1877 it appeared in a po-
tato field near Cologne, but it was exterminated by
the heroic efforts Of government agencies aided by
the local population. The field where the BEETLE
was found was sprinkled with kerosene and burned
over, after which it was turned under to such a
depth that any beetles escaping the fire could not
regain the surface. AS a further precaution the soil
was given a heavy dressing of quick lime, and since
then the potato bug has not been found in Europe
until the present season.
The importation of american potatoes has been
prohibited by France since 1878, but it is quite likely
that some of the insects may have been carried
across in shipments of grain or forage from the
United States during the war.
The potato bug was a rarity il, the United
States as lately as the early seventies. In sections
where it appeared it was very destructive, as means
of keeping it in check had not been devised. Pota:
to growers undertook the impossible task of keep
ing their plots clean by gathering the bugs and de-
stroying the eggs, and many a man today will shud.
der to recall the hours which he spent in gathering
those repulsive little pests. The bug has followed
the potato all over this country. Homesteaders or
the western plains found that their first potato
crops were free from bugs, and many of then
thought that climatic conditions might keep Their
fields free perpetually. But it appears that the bus
ing is the one method of control, and it is p~erfectl,
successful. ' .tr tatE@+.t AZ 03=
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1900 YEARS OF IRRIGATION.

sEs Thousands Of acres Of land have been reclaimed
and made fertile in the west by use Of irrigation
methods, and we are often inclined to think of irri-
CATION as a very modern device. But there are in
Mesopotamia irrigation canals that are three thou
sand possibly four thousand years old. They are
used to bring water to the date gardens of that
fegion which supply Us with the oriental dates that
grace our tables.
@ The best Of the gardens are located near where
III shistoric Iligris and Euphrates rivers meet and
The scene Of one Of the worlds earliest ~civiliza-
ons and, according 70 tradition, the site Of the
Garden of Eden.
sg% he irrigation canals branch Of in both direc-
Mons from the Shat-el-Asab and the creeks that are
s16xgibatarya to II. However. they are now in need Of
government that has been established in
feSopotan,ia following the freeing Of that land
pe I'D the Turkk, III rs extend the irrigation system
insure 4 EontinuAtion 81 The delieious date crops.