The Lexington advertiser., 1942-04-30

submitting through the county chairman
the best report of the weeks rural bet
ter homes activities, to Mrs. James NJ.
FORD, State Chairman of Rural Better
Homes, Vicksburg. The report will show
the number Of homes improved. and
communities cooperating. Items of rural
home improvement which will help the
county score are: I'D Clothes or linen
closets, canned products storage and
built-in kitchen cabinets; (2) number of
homes with new screening; (3) homes
repairing screens; ca roofs repaired or
replaced; % porches improved; (6) new
steps, Cd windows replaced; (S) doors
repaired or reconGitioned (9) floors
repaired; (lol sinks with drains in
stalled; (1D stoves repaired; (12) 9TH
er home appliances or equipment re-
paired; (13) pounds of aluminium, iron
pounds of paper contributed; a;nd num-
pounds of paper cintributeG; and num-
Der OF persons in community taking first
aid, nursing or other war emergency in
struction. To us as homemakers is en-
trusted maintaining homes to which
our loved ones fighting this War Of
Survival may return, on our establish
ment in this world of armed might our
unequivocal fitness to survive.
ANT C0NTROL: The 1856 kinds of ants
in Mississippi are grouped in two gem
eral classes on the basis of their food
preferences. Some prefer sweets and may
be controlled with sirup like the regu-
lar Argentine ant poison which has been
successful for many years. II it is not
| sold locally, sweetened poison may be
made at home by dissolving ounces of
sugar in quart of water and stirring
in one-half ounce of tartar emetic. The
poison is placed on containers accessible
to the ants. The ants which prefer meats
or greasy foods may be poisoned by rub
bing small quantities of tartar emetic
on greasy bones or bacon rinds, or strips
of bacon may be dipped into Argentine
ant poison.
Ant nests on lawns and in gardens
may be destroyed by making holes down
into them with a stick or broom handle
and pouring 2 or 3 tablespoons of car
bon bisulphide into each hole, then
closing them with wet soil. A solution of
ounce sodium cyanide in a gallon of
water may also be used in ant burrows,
but should be handled with great care
as it is deadly poisonous. For large num-
Der on small ant hills in lawns or gar
dens, scatter fine mixture of / ounce
of paris green and pound brown sugar
over the soil at the rate Of 1 pound to
10000 square feet.
CONSERVING SUGAR: Hot Water
Gingerbread: 1 cup molasses, ~ cup
boiling water, pa cups flour, tea
spoon soda, 112 teaspoons ginger, "
teaspoon salt and tablespoons melted
butter. Add water to molasses. Mix and
sift dry ingredients, combine mixtures,
add butter, and beat vigorously. Pour
into a buttered shallow pan, and bake
twenty-five minutes in moderate even.
Chicken fat dried out and clarified fur
nishes an excellent shortening, and may
be used in place Of butter.
Show your colors--re6. white and blue
in your flower garden this year. A
background Of these colors can be made
with three varieties of morning glories
on a fence or trellis-the well-known va
riety, Heavenly Blue, and relatively new
variety, Scarlet O'Hara will furnish the
blue and red colors, and Pearly Gates,
a 1910 introduction, produces large sat
my white blossoms. Several red, white
and blue combinations are possible in
uS,
sweet aIyssum as border for red and
blue-purple petunias; white periwinkle,
blue ageratum and red verbena; white
feverfew. blue nierembergia or torenia,
and red saliva.
Waste not--want not!" is maxim
thrifty homemakers have always prac-
ticed. Every day the army OF thrlfty
homemakers gets new recruit, for ev-
cry Gay food prices are rising.
What can the farm wife do IN TINS
situation? The answer is that she should
produce all that she possibly can OF
meat. eggs, poultry, and vegetables for
home use and the local market. By do
ING this she will contribute to the ma
tional defense program in two ways;
first, by growing at home the products
she has been buying; and second, by
producing more and better 1000 1or tne
farm table and for market.
Factory and warehouse supplies OF
MANY foods are already exhausted. II
canned lima beans, green peas, and
dried beans of different varieties are
available this fall surplus will have 20
be produced on the Mississippi farms
for home use and the local market.
To meet the greatly altered produc-
tion and marketing program, food must
be grown to feed the farm family, to
supply the urban family buying all foods,
and to restock the grocery stores with
canned and fresh foods not avaliapie
through other sources.
Plan now to increase the production
of food which is secondary in the pres
ent situation only to the production Oh
actua1 defense materials.
SAVING SUGAR: To conserve sugar,
make fewer sugar-rich desserts, substi-
tuting sirup or honey in recipes where
possible; use more fruits-fresh, can
ned and dried. Reduce sugar in bever-
ages, especially where some is left un-
dissolved, in the bottom Of the cup. Eat
cereals with little or no sugar-learn
to enjoy their distinctive flavor. Serve
any extra sweet foods such as preserves.
last-not before foods less sweet-as
contrast increases desire for extra su-