Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1910 — Incubator Dinner New Fad [ARTICLE]

Incubator Dinner New Fad

Rhode Island Farmer Hits Upon Novel Scheme to Bake Beans While Wife Is In Town. Westerly, R. I. —A drummer who invaded the rural districts here a tew days ago with the latest brand of fireless cooker for the economy and comfort of the over-worked farmer’s wife has left town disgusted, with not a sale to his credit. He found the natives equipped with cookers which, they assert, are far ahead of so-called up-to-date ones. Walter Russeil Boss, a farmer on the post road, is the Moses of the kitchen. A few weeks ago his wife went to town to sj.end the day. Walter foraged his own breakfast and enough for the help. It was Saturday, and his better-half had left instructions to put the big pot of beans in early and let them bake all day. Walter had some hoeing to do and figured he couldn’t waste a day indoors, and he cudgeled his Yankee brain for an idea. It came. He took the pot of beans with the big/chunk of pork floating, on top out into the woodroom vhere the incubator stood. Turning up the lamp, he took off the weight on the thermostat and shoved in the pot of beans. Shouldering his hoe, he set out for the field. When Ms wife returned from, town she found the fire out in the kitchen stove and no beaus in sight. She prepared a cold supper and a warm welcome for Walter. Walter hastened to the woodroom, with the scolding wife at his heels. From the incubator he took a steaming hot pot of beans, browned and. savory and done to a turn. Afterward he took oat a dozen chickens, which the extreme heat bad hatched and sub-

sequently well baked. Walter said that the discovery of the usefulness of the Incubator more than repaid for the loss of the fowl. The news of his experiment has spread, until all the farmers’ wives now do their week-end baking in incubators.