Milford chronicle., 1927-04-29
light lettuce salad is relished with
a heavy meat dish.

Contrast in flavor is important in
a meal. Don't repeat the same
flavor too often. For instance, even
though we liked tomatoes, we would
not relish meal commencing with
tomato soup, followed by tomato
sauce on the meat, or stewed toma-
toes, and fresh sliced tomato salad.
Heifers get their inheritance for
producing ability equally from their
sire and their dam.
Pasteurization doesn't destroy
food value in milk. A temperature
OF las degrees Fahrenheit for 80
minutes hasn't any marked effect on
the chemical makeup of milk, or
its growth-prOmoting properties.
Some scientists say that pasteuriza-
ton makes the Yitamin which pre-
vents scurvy, less effective. But this
same Vitamin is also found in
fruits and vegetables, so it probably
doesn't matter so much. Pasteuriza-
ton kills disease-producing bacter-
ia in milk. /
You can continue a awberry
patch more than two years if you
will keep it clean, well cultivated
and fertilized, and take out the old
plants and save strong young
plants each year. 1t is usually pre-
ferable to set new plants each
spring and take out the two-year-
old plants after they have fruited.
You can't expect tonics, which
the hens take internally, to kill
cooties, mites, blue bugs, feas, and
those sorts of parasites. Don't
waste your money that way. You
won't kill the bugs-but you may
kill the chickens.
Don't sprinkle the dropping
boards with hydrated lime. You'll
lose a lot of. the ammonia that way.
A better practice is to mix acid
phosphate with the droppings when
they are stored.
For keeping down underbrush on
pasture, sheep are preferable to cat
tie. Both can be used, however.
Sheep prefer short grass and weeds
while cattle like the taller pasture.
Farmers Bulletin 1456-F, Homes
for Birds" contains detailed infor-
nation relative to the construction
of bird houses and also illustra-
tions of several types of houses. A
copy of the publication may be OBJ
tanned free, as long as the supply
lasts, upon application to the De-
partment of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. c.
Birds, because of the enormous
quantities of insects that they con-
sumo, are important allies of the
farmer in his warfare against crop
pests. Where proper measures have
been adopted to attract and protect
birds and to increase their num-
bers by providing boxes and nesting
facilities, an increase of several
fold in the bird population has re-
suited, with decreased losses from
depradations of injurious insects.
Unbleached sheeting makes ex-
cellent slip-on covers for mattress
ses.
Try hot gingerbread, split and
spread with cream cheese mixed
with chopped dates and nuts.
Among the early vegetables which
can be started in the house in
flats or boxes are: Tomatoes, cab
bage, peppers, caulif1ower, celery
and lettuce. Now is the time.
When drop cakes spread out toe
much in baking the trouble is
sometimes that the oven is not hot
enough, rather than that the mix
ture is too soft. Drop cakes bake
best on baking sheet without high
sides, or on an inverted pan.
The sheen on properly mercer
lied cotton is permanent. True
mercerization makes cotton fabrics
stronger, and very attractive in
appearance. For summer dress
goods, mercerized cottons are hard
to equal. They are durable, cool
and easily laundered.
Painted furniture is attractive
and much used nowadays, but don't
paint all the furniture in the
house just because you like to
paint. If you have any furniture
made of beautiful wood, such as
mahogany, walnut, or others, it
should not be painted, but refinish-
ed by an expert.
Always use particular care in
building milk-house floor. Con-
crete is the best material for the
purpose. 1t resists moisture, de-
cay and wear. Make the top coat
one inch thick of l part cement and
2 parts sand; the base five inches
thick of 1 part cement, 8 parts
sharp, clean sand, and parts
stone.
Cows watered once a day drink
less and produce less than those
watered twice day or at will. In
experiments by the United States
Department of Agriculture, those
watered twice a day drank as much
but produced less than those wa
tered at will. The maximum diff
ference in production, between wa
tering once day and at will was
about 5 per cent. The higher the
production the greater the benefit
to be derived from frequent water