Evening star., 1949-03-14
GARDEN TRACTOR.

This is an answer to the lady
requesting other peoples views
concerning garden tractor. My
!; husband purchased a 1Ha-horse-
power garden tractor from a we'll
known mail order store in Balti-
more, Md, over year ago. He is
completely satisfied with this trac-
I tor. With this tractor he also got
the lawn mower and sickle bar at
! tachments. With this lawn mower
attachment my husband kept
about an acre of lawn moved. Part
Of this lawn is divided into circles
and squares of flower beds. Natur-
ally it took some experience to
cut smoothly around these flower
beds. But this did not take much
practice. There are about 11a
acres of field that my husband
uses the sickle bar attachment to
keep weeds moved. This proved
very satisfactory. Besides the good
work of these attachments, the
plows and harrows, and cultivators
worked very well. We have hard
red clay ground. but had no
trouble with tractor stalling. etc.
As far as we are concerned this
Sarden tractor is wonderful.
RECIPE WANTED?
fFrom Miss B. w., WashinotonJ
I would like very much to have
the recipes for corn-sirup cake
and Jelly frosting offered by Mrs.
G. G. c., on February 8, 1949.
Thank you.
WELSH CAKES.
BAKED BEANS.
fFrou Mrs. J. W. S., WnshinotonJ
It would be interesting to know
how far "our" Readers Clearing
House page travels. My copy is
often sent to my mother who en-
Joys it in Lake Wales. Fla. She
sends the following recipe for
Welsh cakes Cookies to me):
4 cups flour. sift and measure, IA
cups shortening. teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoons baking powder Sift
hour, salt. baking powder, cut in
shortening as you would for pie
crust. Add ~ cups sugar, IA
cups currants or raisins, eggs
beaten with just little milk to
make a soft dough. l teaspoon
vanilla. Mix. roll "a to % inch
thick and cut with cutter. Bake
on ungreased griddle on top of
stove. medium heat. These can
also be made as drop cookies.
An excellent and easily prepared
recipe for baked beans comes from
Detroit, Mich:
2 cans baked beans, or large
can: y bottle catsup. 4 slices
bacon. - sliced onion. table
spoons brown sugar, u teaspoon
dry mustard. Bake 3 hours at
900 degrees.
ABOUT HEDGES.
(From Mrs. C. w. M, Silrer
Spring.
For the reader who inquired
about hedges. can say from ex-
perience that if you have trees
you would not like q barberry
hedge. No advantage can offset
the painful struggle to extract
leaves and torn papers from
among the thorny stalks. We
finally gave UP trying to do
neat and thorough job because of
the many painful scratches re-
ceived even through work gloves.
And some of the bushes grow
faster than others so that you do
have to trim!
The hemlock hedge is nice, but
does require some cutting and
may grow scraggly at the bottom.
The one at Walter Reed is not as
beautiful now as it was when the
hemlocks were small. due to dying
out of the lower limbs.
For real enjoyment and mini
mum of effort in upkeep. sug-
gest a hedge of spirea (Van Hou-
teo). Ours is about 5 foot high
and during, Is years of growth
has had no pruning except what
We give 1t by cutting generous
amounts of blooming sprays each
year to use for indoor decoration
and to give away. So far as I
know 1t is blight resistant.
Il y
GLOSS ON LINEN.
from Mrs. c. N. j., Fdtrlington)
For Mrs. T. J. c., Manassas
For gloss on linen damask, just
iron with hot iron when linen is
damp dry or dampened very wet.
With Needle