Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1918 — Page 2

The Housewife and the War

(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) RICE—GROW MORE, EAT MORE: SAVE WHEAT.

Made-In-America— We Might Advantageously Consume Greater Quantities of This Nutritious Food and Grow the Increase in Our Own Rice Fields.

RICE FAVORED AS NUTRITIOUS FOOD

St Consumption Could Be In- \ creased in United States More \ Wheat Could Be Saved. Igreat value not realized i Most Important Article of Diet in i China and Japan—lncreased Production Would Release Grain for Our Allies. f Here in the United States It Is difficult to realize that there is no other (edible product, excepting meat, upon (which more people In the world are deC endent for food, than rice. We might dvantageously consume much greater (quantities of this nutritious food and (grow the increase in our own rice fields, according to the 1918 crop-pro-IduCtion program recently announced (by the United States department of agriculture. An increased production land consumption not only would exBmd a profitable industry, the federal •ecialists declare, but the eating of ore rice in the place of wheat would (release a greater quantity of the bread {grain for shipment to the allies.

Per Capita Consumption. ‘ The average per capita consumption of rice for food in this country is scarcely six pounds a year, and most of this is consumed in the Southern states. The high esteem in which rice is held in other countries is indicated by their per capita consumption. Norway and Sweden consume over 9 pounds per capita; Russia over 11 pounds; England, 27 pounds: France, 84 pounds; Italy, over 101 pounds, and Germany more than 93 pounds. But even these European countries do not begin to eat as much rice as Japan and China. There rice is the most Important article of diet. Each man. _ woman and. child In Japan, on the average. consumes 147 pounds of rice each year, and those In China, 158 pounds. The placing of such dependence upon rice as a staple food certainly proves beyond a doubt that it is highly nutritious; analysis of rice supports this proof. Pound for pound rice is about as nutritious as wheat. Every 100 pounds of cleaned rice contains 87.7 pounds of nutriment, of which 8 pounds are protein. 0.3 pounds fat, 79 pounds carbohydrates, and .0.4 pound ash. The analysis of wheat flour shows that it contains 87.1 pounds of nutriment in each 100 pounds, of which 10.8 pounds are protein. 1.1 pounds fat, 74.8 pounds carbohydrates, and 0.4 pound ash. Thus the total nutriment in rice Is a trifle greater than in wheat. Wheat has the advantage in protein •nd rice in carbohydrates. Foodstuff f^ - Orient. ‘ Although rice is tfce great foodstuff *of the Orient, it is not used there in making a' raised bread. In this country dietitUns have made excellent bread by substituting as high as 25 Cr cent of rice for wheat flour, and ve obtained a white yeast bread of (excellent flavor. • Unpolished rice is offered and accepted as a product superior to the (polished rice, but in reality its food lvalue is only better by so small a decree that It is practically negligible. (In the preparation of the polished and the unpolished rice, the cuticle, aleu-

rone layer, and germ, which contains much protein and other Important food constituents, are removed, reducing greatly the nutritive value of the grain. The real difference between these two mill products is largely in the coating of the polished rice with glucose and talc, and the absence of coating material on the unpolished. The superiority of the brown rice over either of these lies in the fact that the entire seed as nature produced it is used, except the inclosing husks or hulls, Uhlch have been removed.

BROWN RICE BETTER THAN THE POLISHED—ASK FOR IT

Rice as sold by our grocers is a pretty grain with a smooth and shiny surface, attractive to the eye, but lacks the palatableness that makes foods popular. This rice has been so highly milled that it has been robbed of much of its food value and of most of its oily flavoring matter, leaving a product known to the trade as polished rice, which to many persons is tasteless. If the American housewife could be induced to demand brown rice instead of taking the polished product, there would be a marked increased consumption of this cereal in a very short time, due in part if not entirely to the pleasing flavor of the kernel.

Some Good Rice Recipes. As a staple article of diet, rice may be boiled in salted water and used like potato or sweet potato as a vegetable at' a meal at which tish, meat, eggs, beans or other foods rich in protein are served. Wholly or jairtially cooked rice can be used with cheese, minced meat or poultry, fish, eggs, beans, gravy, etc., for a variety of made dishes, the combinations constituting dishes in which most of the needed food elements are present. It also may be used as a major or minor ingredient in stews and soups. Instead of serving ri cy pl al n as a vegetable, it may be stewed with tomatoes, cooked in a double boiler with tomato juice, soup stock or milk, or it may be seasoned with curry powder. onions or other seasoning materials. By using skim milk in this way a partially economical dish is produced. As a cereal for breakfast, rice may be boiled in milk and sweetened, or eaten with butter and salt. If it is desired, dried fruits such as dates or raisins may be cooked with the rice. Cold boiled rice, mixed with pancake or muffin batters of wheat, buckwheat or cornmeal, for Instance, makes a pleasing addition to such food products, reduces the quantity of wheat needed, and furnishes a method for using the left-over cereal. Mashed Potatoes Different $ Most housekeepers know how delicious mashed potatoes can be made by beating them until light with hot milk, margarine or butter and salt and pepper, four tablespoonfuls of hot milkand one teaspoonful of the fat for every medium-sized potato. To make the mashed potatoes, a little “different” they can be turned Into a potato souffle by adding the beaten white of eggs (two eggs to six medium-sized potatoes), piling lightly in a baking dish and baking in, the oven till brown. Grated cheese added to this souffle is good. , _i_, '

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

OWE THEIR LIVES TO WOMAN

How Mrs. John Hays Hammond Won Pardons From Grim Old “Oom Paul” Kruger. John Hays Hammond, an American citizen, was In prison, under sentence of death. He haß been tried and convicted of high treason to the South African Republic. One of four leaders of the reform movement in the Transvaal, he was charged with complicity in the famous Jameson raid, found guilty, and sentenced to die. Only one person lived in the Transvaal with sufficient power to set aside the death sentence passed upon the man who Is known today as the greatest mining engineer in the United States. This was Oom Paul Kruger, then president of the South African Republic. He was an old man —narrow, bigoted and possessed of an intense hatred for the eager, grasping strangers who he believed had sought his country only to despoil it. John Hays Hammond was among the most enterprising and, consequently, one of the most disliked, of the foreign residents of the Transvaal. For years he had been employed as an engineer; first by Barney Barnato. the English mining operator, and later by Cecil Rhodes, to locate diamonds in Oom Paul’s country. Oom Paul disliked him. He disliked all men who brought swarms of eager reckless adventurers into his country. And he made life as difficult for them as he could. In 1895 the world was startled by the news that a British adventurer, Doctor Jameson, had led a raiding party of armed men into the Transvaal. The raid failed. John Hays Hammond was among those arrested on the accusation of having Instigated Jameson’s attack on the South African Republic. He was found guilty and sentenced to die. » But the brave, cool-headed wife of the eminent American mining engineer did not intend that anything disagreeable should happen to her husband. Ever since their marriage, in 1880, Mrs. John Hays Hammond had followed the fortunes of her young engineer, no matter where they took him. But when they threw him into jail under a death sentence, she decided that it was time for her to interfere. She made up her mind to see Oom Paul Kruger and tell him that she had come to save him from the crime of putting an innocent man to death. It was not easy to see President Kruger, but Mrs. Hammond proved equal to the task. • It was not easy to convince a man who harbored a deep, silent contempt for women, that a woman was worth listening to; but Mrs. Hammond was successful. Before she left his office, Mr. Kruger had promised to spare her husband’s life. The president of the Transvaal republic kept his word to Natalie Hammond. Her husband’s sentence was commuted to imprisonment for 15 and later on, he was freed on payment of a fine of $125,000, and Mrs. Hammond had the extreme happiness of knowing that through her Intercession, not only her husband’s life but the Ilves of the men arrested with him had been saved.

Height Zeppelins Can Reach.

Basing his statement on accurate measurements of a Zeppelin that was brought down in England last October, on known facts regarding the lifting power of hydrogen gas, on the state of the barometer during the flight, on the temperatures of the air recorded in th airship’s log, Jhadoo Jahoz writes in Aeronautics as follows : “It would appear from the foregoing that the latest type of Zeppelin is designed to be able to -attain a height of 17.000 to 18,000 feet when over its objective and after dropping its bombs, but is capable of going even higher under stress of circumstances and at the risk of suffering some slight damage on returning to its base. These conclusions accord well with Mr. Warner Allen’s statements that these airships ‘are built with a view to flying between 16,000 and 18,000 feet.* Of course, on a short flight they could go higher, in view of the reduced quantity of petrol to he carried.”

“Too Many Old Men"—Lenine.

A favorite idea with Lenine, frequently advanced in his Petrograd career, is that there are too many old men in positions of supreme responsibillty, Current Opinion states. His most dramatic effect before the council of soldiers and workers! was won in a crisis on a vote that might have overthrown him. He bade the delegates in thunder tones to look into the first mirror they saw. The faces reflected would be those of young men. What, on the other hand, would be the color of the hair of the rulers opposed to the great social revolution? Gray. The revolution is youth, hope, the future. Against it are ranged the gray haired rulers of men without ideals. “Will you have an old men’s war or a young men’s peace?” The hit was immense.

Appreciation.

“How do you like Shakespeare?” “Oh, I treasure our set of Shakespeare more than any other works we have,” said Mrs. Dubwaite. "Pm glad to hear you say so.” "Yes. It’s really the only set in our living room that matches the wallpaper.”

All Het Up.

“I could understand when they stopped me from cussing mules.” “Well?” “But I started to cuss a tractor the other day and got called down for thaL Now has a tractor any feelings? Answer me thaL”

STRAY PLANTS

Even the rattlesnake uses his fangs only In self defense. For the race of Rfp. a “self-starter” Is a mighty good thing. In trying times, a man’s voice should be just as strong as his Impulse. In considering conservation schemes, man usually waits till after dinner. Of course, we’re all in z a hurry, but “taps” sounds sweeter than “reveille,” Autocracy is the political skunk. After a while there will be only the laugh. A great secret of governmental success is to keep the people in a good humor. If inanimate things could exult, how the old backlog would laugh at the coal men. A fellow that loves a good fight ought to get into it, so as to enjoy all the details. Even when a man considers his face a moral periscope, lots of people will run from It. In Eternity “a thousand years are as a day”—and some fellows have already begun their “day off.” War, you know, reverses many things. Try plugging the bung, and letting the spigot take care of the waste. In war or peace, when swimming for life, don’t stop to try any fancy or experimental diving. Swim. —J. H. Mackley, in Ohio Farmer.

WE HAVE OBSERVED

That the man who thinks he lacks time generally lacks energy; That no amount of culture will make a fat man stop snoring in his sleep. That ,a fellow doesn’t have to be a Marathon runner to be longwinded. That is the constant sifting of life men generally land about where they belong. That 7 there are lots of men with just enough knowledge to be nuisances. That a homely face saves a woman fpbm hearing a lot of rank nonsense. —Boston Transcript.

SAYS THE OFFICE OWL

Be yourself. In the spacS of’7o years you haven’t time to be anybody else successfully. _y There’s something wrong with the house that the children have to go outside of to play. The right man always comes along, girls. The trouble is that sometimes he passes right by. It takes all sorts of people to make up a world, including those who are sure your doctor doesn’t know anything. When it comes to washing the dishes ma discovers that she has brought up several conscientious objectors. Wonder if there ever was a woman who thought it right that her husband should pay 25 cents for two cigars? r , Somehow or other, we’ve an Idea that we wouldn’t care much for this world if it weren’t for the fools there are in it. Some men are so mean that whenever a good man dies the neighbors always get together and wonder why they should be permitted to live. — Detroit Free Press.

LITTLE TRUTHS

In spite,of the gossips, 90 per cent of the evil things said are not carried. There is a cure for insomnia. March between, the handles of a plow eight hours a day. No man was ever fortunate enough to be entirely bald on his chin, where he’d Itkd to be. A man wilt frankly exhibit his affection for a dog, but if he likes a cat he will dissemble, ( Boys who play marbles for keeps are those who don’t believe in frittering away their time. There are people who have reached the conclusion that taking quinine might as well be an incantation. It takes genius to run a bookstore. You’ve got to sell something that people often don’t think they need. Bookstores should be as cleverly advertised as theaters.

A Bird in the Hand

(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) FERTILE EGGS CAUSE OF BIG LOSSES—SELL MALES.

After the Hatching Season Cook, Can, Sell or Confine All the Roosters— Infertile Eggs Keep Best.

INFERTILE EGGS MUCH PREFERRED

Loss in Careless Handling Estimated at $45,000,000 Yearly in United States. I ........ DISPOSE OF ALL MALE BIRDS Warm Weather Will Soon Begin to Take Toll Unless Roosters Are Removed From Laying Pens— Not Needed for Eggs. Forty-five million dollars every year is the estimated loss from improper methods of producing and handling eggs, according to specialists of the United gtates department of agriculture. About one-third of tills loss is due to partial hatching of fertile eggs which have been allowed to become warm enough to incubate, and is preventable. Production of infertile eggs is the remedy. ■’ vcT* Male Not Necessary. An infertile egg is one that is laid by a hen that has not been allowed to run with a male bird. In most cases 14 days is long enough to wait for the eggs to become infertile after the male bird is removed from the females. The male bird in the flock has no Influence on the number of eggs the hens lay. He merely fertilizes the germ of the egg, which is not necessary when the egg is to be sent to market or used for table purposes. It is impossible to hatch an infertile egg or to cause a blood ring to form in one. Infertile eggs keep in good condition in temperatures that will cause fertile eggs to rot. After the hatching season, cook, can, sell, or confine all of the male birds. Tiens not running with a male

Toe Marks Identify Chicks.

Poultry raisers frequently make the mistake of keeping old hens on their farms and killing the younger hena and pullets because they are unable to distinguish them after, the pullets have matured. Marking the chicks when they are young with a toe punch will,

Toe Marks Used to Identify Chicks.

bird will produce infertile eggs—quality eggs that keep best and market best Fertile Egg Spoils Quickly. A fertile egg is Just the opposite of the infertile in many respects. It is the egg that is produced from hens that are running with male birds, although occasionally there 4 are hens running with'male birds that lay infertile eggs. This is often the case with hens that are confined in yards and runs, and birds that do not have green feed, or those that are overfat. The fertile egg should only be produced during the breeding season. The fertile egg is the one from which the chick is hatched, and that spoils so quickly w’hen subjected to the ordinary methods of handling on the farm and when marketed in the hot summer months.

FERTILE EGGS SPOIL SOON GET RID OF ROOSTERS.

After the hatching season, cook, sell, or pen your rooster. Hens not running with a male bird will produce infertile eggs —quality eggs that keep best and market best. Fertile eggs so/n spoil for food and market in summer heat, just as they do under , the sitting hen or in the incubator. Egg production is usually great in flocks from which roosters pre excluded.

Coop Hens; Let Chicks Range. It is best to confine the mother hens until the chicks are weaned. The mother hen that is allowed to range unrestricted with her chicks frequently takes her brood through wet grass and as a result some are chilled and die, especially the weaker ones which are likely to be left behind. The loss of young chicks which follows such practice is large and mainly preventable, specialists of the United Stater department of agriculture say.

help to avoid this and will enable the poultryman to determine readily the age and breeding and to keep any other records desired. The chicks should be marked before they are transferred to the brooder or brood coop. The accompanying diagram shows 16 different marks that may be used.