Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25

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sugar, and bake until tender. Serve
warm for dessert.
Now that nuts are in season, you
can enjoy them in a great many diff
ferent dishes. They not only i'm
prove the flavor of salads, cakes,
breads, scalloped dishes and other
foods to which you add them, but they
increase the food value.
Better Bread From Hard Kernels.
That hard, vitreous kernels of
wheat have superior qualities for
bread making when compared with the
starchy grains of the same class of
wheat is indicated by series of
tests recently made by ]. H. Shollen-
berger and D. A. Coleman of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. This belief was recognized
when the official United States grain
standards were promulgated, and the
percentage of hard and vitreous kerr
nels was taken as the basis for estab-
fishing subclasses for the hard red
spring, hard red winter, durum, and
white wheat classes.
Cow Chemistry.
If a heavy milking cow does not
get sufficient calcium Qime) in her
feed she will take it from the reserve
supply in her bones in order to put
irf0 tho &c Iro in, hn
cows body has a serious effect on
her health, and ultimately reduces
her capacity for milk production anc
the bringing forth of normal, we'll
developed offspring.
The assimilation of calcium from
such calcium compounds as ground
rock phosphate, ground limestone,
and bone meal has been found to be
much lower than that from either al
falfa or timothy hay. 49,
If the diet of the milking cow con-
tains sufficient assimilable calcium
but not enough phosphorus, she will
at first take phosphorus from her soft
tissues to put into the milk. This
supply, however, is soon used up, and
the COW then begins to take phos
phorus from her bones. The chem
ical composition of the bones being
not easily changed, when phosphorus
is taken from them calcium comes
along with it in the proportion of two
parts of weight to one of phosphorus.
Calcium coming from the bones in
thiS onI nSn1 for mill
erection is lost in the manure. Thus
a COW may lose calcium from her
body on account of shortage of phos-
phorus in her diet.
Easy With the Hogs.
Hogs ready for market should be
assembled a sufficient length of time
prior to the date of shipment to al
low them to become rested. Do not
feed heavy rations. If they are to
be driven to the loading point, do not
rush them on the way. Where they
are, hauled it is important that not
too many be crowded into the truck
or wagon. Loading hogs after a
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is nothing to be gained by forced
feeding just before shipping. Crowd
ing too many hogs in a car is likely
to result in number of them dying
in transit. Hogs are often loaded
in cars containing sharp pieces of
broken timber, nails sticking out of
boards, and in which the flooring is
covered with mud and rubbish. AS
a result many of the animals reach
the yards badly crippled, the injuries
commonly involving the hind quar-
ters, thus lowering the quality of the
most valuable cuts-the hams. Steps
should be taken to remedy such con-
ditions before loading.
Peanuts Were Food for Slaves.
Peanuts were introduced into Vir-
Iginia during the early days of colon
ization, according to tradition, pre-
sumably by the slave traders as food
for the slaves. Peanuts were found
in ancient mummy graves in Peru
by E. G. Squier exploring in 1877, al
so by w. e. Stafford in 1887. This
would seem to indicate that the pea
nut is a native of the New World.
During the early days peanuts were
grown largely in gardens and in
small patches, and few were roasted
and sold on the street in the towns
of Virginia and later in New York
and other eastern cities. Necessity
for some crop that would yield cash
return caused the farmers of Virgin
la and North Carolina to plant pea
nuts as a regular farm crop imme-
diately following the Civil War.
The peanut industry of the United
States is well distributed over most
of the Southern States but is carried
on intensively in eastern Virginia,
North Carolina, and southern Georgia.
The crop now occupies about~1 100000
acres each year, the annual produc
ton amounting to approximately $780,