Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
INSIDE INFORMATION

Paint and varnish spatters on
glass may be dissolved with turpen-
tine or alcohol, or rubbed off with a
dull knife.
Chocolate that appears white on
the outside has been kept in an over
warm place, so that some of the fat
has melted and has come to the sur
face. This does not injure it for
use.
An imperfect seal, or lack of ster-
ilization will cause catsup to spoil.
Bottles should be sterilized, and
filled while they are boiling hot, with
boiling catsup, and then processed
in the water-bath Gamer for 80 min
utes.
Many vegetable combinations are
good when you do not have enough
of any one vegetable to go around.
Carrots and peas in equal quantities;
string beans and carrots; celery and
turnips; rutabaga and potato; to-
mato and onion, or tomato and okra;
corn, string beans, onions; beets and
peas; blends of different greens.
When making jelly it is not neces-
sary to heat the sugar before addin5
it to the fruit juice. The only rea-
son for heating it is to shorten the
time of boiling the jelly. If the juice
is boiling hot when the sugar is put
in, the boiling process will only be
checked for a minute or by the ad-
dition Of the cold sugar 1t is then
boiled rapidly until the jelly state is
reached, which should be in from 5
to 10 minutes or even less.
Few flowers yield so lavish re-
turn for a small effort as garden
irises. One essential in iris culture
is that other plants surrounding
them do not grow over them after
their towering season. Shade over
iris rhizOmes prevents proper growth
and curtails bloom for the next year.
Flower buds for next season are
formed in late summer or early fall,
so it is better to transplant irises
either before or after this time.
Most asparagus growers cut the
dead tops of the plants in the fall
and burn them to destroy any dis
ease germs or insects that may be
present, but it is doubtful if this
practice is advisable in regions
where severe freezes occur. The
old tops hold the snow and prevent
deep freezing and blowing of the
soil. Some growers harrow the bed
or throw slight ridges over the rows,
in the fall, but where land is inclined
to wash, cultivating and ridging are
Objectionable.
A common mistake in figuring the
quantities of materials needed for a
given volume of concrete is to as
sumo that the volume of concrete
produced equals the quantity of sand
plus the quality of gravel, in the
mix. For example, a 1924 mixture
will not produce cubic yards of
concrete, if yards of sand and
yards of gravel are used, because the
sand will lodge in the spaces be-
tween the pebbles. If you want 6
cubic yards of concrete, use 2,7
cubic yards of sand and 5.34 cubic
yards of gravel.
The chances of raising a pig in
the fall are less than in the spring,
and fall-farrowed pigs need special
attention, particularly in the north.
Records compiled by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture show that
losses of pigs on pasture are consld-
erably greater in the fall, principal
ly on account of hog cholera, which
is more prevalent in late fall than at
any other season. Pigs should have
comfortable, dry, well-bedded quart
ers in the fall and winter. Where
SHOWS occur and the pigs carry con-.
siderable moisture into their quart
ers. the bedding should be changed
frequently. Plans should be made
in the south for supplying winter
pasture. Though the Open-trough
plan of watering is all right in the
Southern States, au automatic, heat
ed waterer should be provided in the
northern sections.
The destructive activities of weeV-
lis in stored beans and peas can be
effectively curtailed by fumigation
with carbon disulphide, carbon tet-
rachloride, or hydrocyanic-acid gas,
and also by means of heat or cold
storage, according to the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture. Treated
seed should be stored in rooms tree
from adult weevils, or put in tight
barrels or closely woven sacks. Dust
or air-slaked lime mixed with the
seed will prevent weevils from breed
iag in it. Most infestations begin in
the field, the brubs burrowing into
the seeds by making a hole no larger
than a pin prick that is generally
unnoticed. This accounts for the
erroneous belief that the adult wee
wills which eat out from the seed
have developed from the germ,
says the department. Some adult
weevils emerge in the late summer
and fall depending on the latitude)
and leguminous crops subject to
weevil attack should be harvested as
soon as possible after maturity.