The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-10-03
STATE COLLEGE
WEEKLY LETTER
Home Made Products


products as eggs, poultry, milk
butter, surplus apples and vege-
tables might be marketed at a
small profit to both rural and city
homemakers If made available in
the form of homemade cakes,
cookies, pies, rolls, jelly, salads,
dressings, baked beans, dressed or
roasted poultry, boiled ham, jam,
pickles, buttermilk and cottage
cheese, Miss Blanche Lee, state
leader of home demonstration
agents, believes.
1.-THE city housewife is glad for
an opportunity to secure home
made products made from good
materials such as are available on
most FARMS" says Miss Lee, "and
the rural housewife is thereby able
to add to her cash income"
Experience in Montana and 9TH
er states has proved that organized
effort to market home products at
a specified place and a regular
time has been beneficial and salts
factory both to the producer and
the consumer. Such a market was
established in Harlowton in 1921
by women from the adjoining
Musselshell Valley community.
This market proved very cce
full.
In order for the home products
market to be successful Miss Lee
says that products offered for sale
must be properly made from the
best of materials, they must be at
tractively displayed and the sur
roundings must be clean.
Miss Lee suggests that those in
terested in establishing home pro-
ducts markets obtain Extension
Circular No. 80 entitled "Coopera-
tive Markets for Farm Home Pro-
ducts" A copy of this circular
may be obtained through county
extension agents or by writing to
the Montana Extension Service at
Bozeman.
Cleaning Henhouses
One of the first steps in cleaning
the hen house in the fall is to take
out all removable equipment, &C.
cording to Miss H. E. Cushman.
extension poultry specialist at
Montana State College. "Then
+b,or o,,+ +bo I;++or opd euroon 4bo
floor and walls so there won't be
any dust or cobWebs clinging tc
the surface or inbedded in the
cracks" she says.
The next part of the cleaning
process is to wash the interior of
the house with hot soapy water.
Then it should be di~sinfected with
a solution of creosote or similar
material. Nests, perches and other
equipment which have been re-
moved should receive the same
treatment. Miss Cushman says to
be sure the interior of the house
is completely dry before return
ing the chickens. Otherwise they
may become diseased from the
damp house.
A torch is now on the market
Miss Cushman says has
very satisfactory in killing
germin. 1t produces an intensely
not fame which penetrates the
cracks in the walls killing vermin
concealed there but does not char
he wood. 1t may be used in con-
lection with liquid ~disinfecting or
Besides killing vermin the
orch helps dry out the interior of
he house. Care should be taken
% see that no straw, cobwebs or
,ther rapidly burning material is
n the house as the torch may set
ire to such material.
Ventilation is very necessary
or winter. Ventilation without
lraft is needed and the ideal sys-
EN- is CROSS ventilation from
lboye with a straw loft house and
ront windows for the outlet.
Damp litter is an indication Of In
ventilation.
Plenty OF drinking fountains
Ind mash troughs should be pro-
vided. Miss Cushman stated that
TX linear inches of feeding space |
re required for each hen and that
adequate feeding space will boost
,gg production. The average size
requires four square feet of
loor space. One nest is sufficient
or every six hens.
Change the litter often during
he winter" says Miss Cushman,
and remember that a clean, dry.
warm, well ventilated house and
,lenty of the proper feeds and wa /.
will help fill your egg crates
his winter"
A Prize Winning Herd
About seven years ago F. NJ.
shoemaker Of Arlee, Montana, de- Z
.ided to go into the purebred t
'ersey business. This year his /
ierd OF Jersey COWS won their !
lue ribbon laurels at several of