The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 May 1923 — Page 6

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Hnniv Made Floor Wax Many housewives are busy at , this season of the year, working floors. Farmers Bulletin, No. 1219,' Department of Agriculture, "Floors and Floor Coverings" gives the following proportions and directions for Home Made Floor Wax: 1 pint turpentine. 4 ounces beeswax. 3 ounces aqua ammonia (strength, 10 per cent). 1 pint water. Mix the beeswax and the turpentine and heat them by placing the vessel in hot water until the wax dissolves. Remove the mixture from the source of heat, add the ammonia and the water, and stir vigorously until the mass becomes creamy. On varnished or shellaced floors this wax should be applied lightly and any excess wiped off at once, because ammonia dissolves varnish and shellac. Unfinished oak flooring polished with this wax will be darkened somewhat as a result of the chemical action of the ammonia. Turpentine is highly inflammable; therefore care must be taken in making these waxes tc heat the ingredients only by setting them in hot water and to have no flames in the room. Wax may be applied to a floor that has been stained, painted, or varnished, or directly on the bare wood. Hardwood floors are generally paste filled and in many cases surfaced with shellac varnish before being waxed. The paste fills up the pores, and the shellac varnish makes a hard foundation for the wax and prevents grease from penetrating and staining the wood. A waxed floor will be less slippery, however, if the shellac is omitted or if only a very thin coat is applied and well sandpapered. Success in waxing floors lies in applying the wax in thin coats and nibbing it a great deal. One pound will coat about 250 square feet of floor. After th* preliminary coats of filler or varnish are thoroughly dry, the wax should be rubbed on with a woolen cloth, a piece of old carpet, or a brush, and allowed to harden over night. The next morning the floor should be polished lengthwise of the grain with a weighted brush or a heavy block wrapped in woolen cloth, burlap, or old carpet. Then one or perhaps two more coats of wax should be applied and rubbed down in the same way as the first. How to Make the H<*m> Garden Pay If you have a fireplace, or use wood in the cook stove, do not throw away the wood ashes; save this valuable material to use in fertilizing your garden. Wood ashes are of vwlue as a fertilizer because of the potash and lime they contain. Potash has been impossible to get for some time and is still likely tc be scare? and high in price. For every 100 pounds of unbleached wood ashes you spread over the garden, five pounds of potash will be added. Your root crops particularly will be benefitted. At the same time the lime in the Mhes will sweeten your soil and Improve its texture. Save all four wood ashes until spring, then just after harrowing, sift, spread them over the garden, five to ten pounds to the square rod, and work them in with harrow or rake. Coal ashes have no fertilizing value, but in case of heavy clay soils, if sifted lightly over the surface and worked in they will lighten the soil so that air and

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water may more easily penetrate. Because of the improvement in texture of the clay it will be better for root crops and easier to cultivate. 130 Cows Tested lu Hamilton Ass’n. A total of 430 cows were tested in Hamilton County in February with an average production of 548 pounds of milk and 22.9 of fat, county agent J. R. Gilkey reports. Cost of feed per cow was $9.79 and the profit over cost of feed was $6.54. The net income per cow in the highest herd was $14.74 per cow or 2-J greater than the average. One member increased his feed cost 31 cents per month and his profit increased $33.46 per month. Fat production increased 1.5 pounds per day. The cow test association is one means employ’d by Purdue University Agricultural Extension Department to help Hoosier dairymen put their business on a more profitable basis.

Id inns County Men Form Spray Rings As a direct result of Agricultural Extension Work. Adams County now has two orchard spray rings, according to a report of the county agent, L. M. Busche. In 1921 and 1922, C. L. Burkholder of the horticultural extension staff of Purdue University, was in the county and conducted pruning and spraying demonstrations for the small farm orchards. The farmers were so much impressed with the value of spraying that they formed a ring to work co-opera-tively in caring for their orchards of these other farmers justify the purchase of as good equipment as they could buy to ■serve the entire community. The second spray ring, prompted by the success of the first, was formed in March and the orchards, none of which would now are being cared for on recommendations of the university. 125 In Bubois Poultry’ Club Approximately 125 members ire lined up in the Poultry Club work in Dubois County, county igent, J. L Mororw, reports. The Farm Bureau is furnishing the eggs for the work, allowing each club member three settings >r 15 eggs. At first it was planned to let all that wanted in to join, but the number was so great and the expenses would have been so high that a limit of two from each school district had to be set. Most of the townships now have their quota enrolled. It is the hope of the people back of this club move- ( Agricultural News- 2) .... Hit ment that the people of Dubois County may have a chance to secure pure bred poultry in a quantity large enough to form a small farm flock another year. The club work is an out growth of the efforts started by the agricultural extension department of Purdue University in Dubois and surrounding counties last year. Blackford CountyMen Treat Oatn Hartford City. Ind.—As a result of the campaign waged this spring by County Agent O. W. Mansfield in co-operation with the Blackford County Farm Bureau, more farmers than ever in the history of the county" treated their seed oats with formaldehyde to prevent smut. Mr. Mansfield in previous work here has found that the average loss from smut is 2 bushels per acre, which means a total loss of 34,041 bushels for the entire county. This loss can be overcome at the cost of treating which is only, a few cents per acre, and a large majority of the farmers treated their oats this year before seeding time. o — ■ ■ THE SURPRISED REPORTER Even a reporter can learn something. This one, standing at the counter in a neighboring meat market, heard a woman ask for "six pairs of goose feet" She said they were to be used for making soup for an invalid with stomach* trouble. Not even the reporter, who thought he had heard something about everything had ever heard of that.

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| INTERESTING FACTS j North Carolina has 383 textile mills, more than any other state in the Union. Harold Young, 161st street, New York, is 18 months old. A perfectly normal child in every respect except that he recites some 20 nursery rhymes, the Lord’s Prayer, sings several songs, reels off the alphabet and counts to 20 without mistakes. Two hundred and eighteen labor unions won increased wage scales during March, according to a report of the Labor Bureau Inc. Not a single decrease was noted. Woolen and cotton mills furnished 59 cases of the increases, and the building trades 44. Detroit has a model women police division of 23 members with a woman commissioner at the head. Atlanta. Savannah, Boston, and San Francisco are preparing similar divisions, and the University of California is to start a training course for this work. Norway, a strong prohibition nation, has been compelled to abandon that principle because of trade conditions. Its greatest fish markets are with Portugal, Spain and other wine producing states who demand the privilege of payment in goods. The trade agreement signed last week with Portugal provides for the free importation of wine. The Jewish Agricultural Society, sponser of the "back to the land" movement, reports that there are now 75.000 Jews in farming communities throughout the country. Every state in the union has its quota of Jewish tillers of the soil. The movement started 23 years ago. Today more than 1,000,000 acres of land are under cultivation and the value of these holdings approximates $100,000,000. The American Economic League, chartered at Hartford. Conn., has filed petitions in Nebraska asking that the name of Henry Ford be placed on the primary ballot next year as Progressive Party candidate for President of the United States. Similar petitions will be filed in all other states. The League expressly states that Mr. Ford has not been consulted in the ,matter, but it is believed he will not decline when it is shown that the American people want him.

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THE UNDERPAID FARMER The United States Department of Agriculture recently compiled a survey of over 6,(MM) representative farms in an effort to ascertain what return average American farmer gets from its capital. The results are not only interesting but instructive, especially in view of the recent Supreme Court decision which affirms the principle "that legislation which precludes a fair return on the investment which it affects is confiecatory and unconstitutional." The department of agriculture finds that the average invested capital of these 6,000 farms is $16,400. . The average return on this capital in cash was only $71,500— less than 4.5 per cent. That return, however, does not include one dollar f<W his labor. To get the less than 4.5 per cent on his investment he has had tc work for nothing. He has had however, an increase $202 in inventories, crops, live stock and machinery which makes his total gross earning on his investment a little less than 6 per cent. Estimating the value of his labor at the figures decided upon by three different surveys, as to how much is required to support a family and live decently without saving a dollar, he should be credited with $1,900 per year in addition to his gross return on his invested capital. From this might be deducted the $294 which the department reports show was the value of food and fuel consumed on the farm. Putting the 6,000 farms on the same financial basis with the New York Telephone Company, or the railroads which are guaranteed 5.5 per cent on their stock (watered or otherwise), the farm as a commercial enterprise, is losing over $1,500 per year. This may explain the cause of nearly thirteen thousand millions of dollars of indebtedness recorded against American farms and farmers. Legislation that permits a charge of 9 per cent interest to the farmers for the use of government money, together with high freight rates, might be construed as "confiscatory"—when viewed from the fact that the gross cash earning will not pay it. The Supreme Court decision, in the case of Prendergast vs. New York Telephone Co., will also have the effect of blocking the “Farm Bloc” in the proposed program to lower railroad rates, and it will effect Jegislation in nearly every state and city. Following this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the day may come when professional people, school teachers and superintendents, printers preachers, engineers and skilled mechanics, will capitalize the money and years of time spent in preparing themselves, and demand a fair return on that investment in addition to a reasons! wage or overhead expense. The knowledge acquired after years of study and expense cer- < tainly becomes invested capital —at least as much as a piece of inanimate machinery, or a mine mule. CATARRH Catarrh is a Local disease greatly influenced by Constitutional conditions. HAUL’S CATARRH MEDICINE consists of an Ointment which gives Quick Relief by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood ot» the Mucous Surfaces and assists in ridding your System of Catarrh. _ I Sold by druggists for over 40 Tears. F. J, Cheney * Co.. Toledo. O.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS The leaf stems of cauliflower makes a delicious soup. Make the same as cream'of celery soup. A plate scraper is much better than the ordinary spatula to clean mayonnaise bowls or pastry ( mixing bowls. Dampen a tiny cloth in vinegar and rub it upon the cut end of the ham before laying it aside. It will not mold for many days. A mat or two of clear varnish over the backs of the children’s books will make them washable as if they were glass. It protects any decoration that may be on the back as well. Put a small brass or other metal curtain rod up behind the sewihg machine and place spools of the most used threads upon it. You will be surprised at the convenience of the plan. Water in which potatoes have been boiled either for mashing or as “plain boiled potatoes” is almost equal in food value of milk and is an excellent substitute in meat gravies and soups. A work table covered with new linoleum of a good grade, preferably inlaid, has a better top upon which to work than any hard surface. It will not cut through as does ordinary oilcloth. A bag of tissue paper such as comes off oranges and box apples or from shoe boxes is almost indispensable in the kitchen. Use it to remove drops of milk or fat that fall upon the linoleum. Saves cloths. Nice easily-cleaned covers for dishes of food may be made by buying cheap embroidery hoops of various sizes and putting double cheese cloth into them. The cloth can easily be removed and washed or replaced with new. A small marble slab is just as important to the cook for many other things as for cooking candy. Use it as a cutting block for onions lemons, garlic, or anything of the sort. It will not absorb*any odor that cannot readily be washed off. Is mayonnaise too rich for your taste? Make a paste from two level tablespoons corn starch and a cup of water, boil until smooth and transparent, and when cool mix equal amounts of ordinary mayonnaise and this paste. The flavor will not be changed. To Clean Aluminum The best way to clean alumi-

THE ~ fi 7 ~ ’ IS STUDEBAKER LIGHT-SIX SEDAN « *9 |g| $1550 Si —But You Can’t Ride on the Paint! H Imitation diamonds can be made to look so real and sparkle so . ,1' brightly that it is difficult to tell them from the genuine. 'CS I s But try to sell one and you will find out its real worth in a flash. . J , Same with automobiles. Weaknesses of construction in a closed - ’ ’ 1 car can be hidden, for a time, with paint and varnish and fancy fittings. But all is not quality that glitters. You can’t ride on the paint. And when you place such a car in the second hand market, you suffer a heavy depreciation because it ■: lacked real intrinsic value at the outset. Use will never improve a , mediocre product. The second hand floor is the melting pot for automobile values. - - xc, iV ' Cars are stripped of artificial values and only inherent worth counts. Motor car owners tell us that the trade-in value of any Studebaker car at the end of three or four or five years of useful life is greater than on any other car built today—the percentage of depreciation is the , lowest. No wonder the Studebaker Light-Six Sedan is the fastest selling quality Sedan in the world! The name Studebaker stands for quality, durability, comfort and H integrity. Four wide-opening doors. Eight- plush upholstery. Glare proof ' day clock. Quick-action cowl visor and windshield cleaner. y- ' ventilator. Attractive coach Dome light. Thief-proof tiaua- |SgSSBSS|S lamp* Heater. Mohair velvet miasloa lock. 9B FLOYD HEDGES, Dealer BS SYRACUSE. INDIANA < IP ... ? MODELS AND PRICKS-/ • > gggp .... L LIGHT SIX SPXCIAL SIX 810 SIX ——J " Towinc Town. SUM Toww SUM I Ro-Uter (3 P»-) 9T5 R.^, ltl , ; Pu. > )1W 0 Pw. I lAi* ■ 3 ujs Coupe 0 P.«> l«0 Cow» U P—> ? ■ I ' 1550 SH.n B 80S Term, to Your ConxnM/Ke

num is to squeeze , the juice of a fresh \lemon over a cloth and apply this*t\brighten the metal. When the aluminum is ven much soiled a paste of -whiting and water will help‘to clean it. Hose From Old Underwear Use the old, -worn knit summer underwear to make everyday stockings for little girls' Cut the hose and sew them neatly with a double seam so it will not pull out. Several pairs car be made from a suit of under wear,' as there is much strong material in the lower legs ant upper arms, etc. If half hos< are preferred, hem or croche around the tops. Hot Cabbage Slaw Shave fine a small head cab bage. Put into skillet with piece of butter the size of a walnut. Season with pepper and salt am add one-half cup water. Cooluntil tender. Beat well one egg and add two tablespoons cream, three tablespoons vinegar am stir well together. Pour ovei cabbage and serve at once. Be sure the cabbage is hot at time of adding dressing tc cook the egg. Bread for Children. Children are by instinct great bread eaters. One never heard of too much bread making them sick. Childhood is linked in memory with bowls of bread and' milk. School days recall generous slices of good bread and butter—sometimes sprinkled with sugar or spread with jam, sirup, etc. Therefore, the more one can plan to economize in expensive foods by the addition of bread and milk to them, the better. Oil Mop for Floor To make an oil mop for the hardwood floor or for the linoleum if it does not get too much dirt, take a large cloth and wet it in water just as hot as it is possible to handle and then wring as dry as is convenient. Now pour on the cloth three or four tablespoons of any oil that will do for sewing machine or washer. Rub the folds of the cloth together so that the oil may spread throughout the cloth. If the oil is poured upon the cloth before it has time to cool it will spread most easily. o —, A California congressman was elected without making a speech. Undoubtedly that was the reason he was elected.

TO SUBMIT A REFERENDUM The Massachusetts legislature will undoubtedly adopt a measure to submit a referendum to the people of the State on the Volstead Act. The first question will be “shall Senators and Congressmen from the State be requested to support an amendment to repeal the 18th amendment;” the second question, ‘shall they be requested to support constitutional amendments co legalize the transportation of wines and beers.” Aside from the issue involved, Mass, may establish a precedent ,for the >ther states, and on other questions which have heretofore been est to the judgment of Senators l -.nd Representatives. Os the referendum, and even the sower of recall, is purest democracy, but careful analysis of the population of this nation makes it a very hazardous undertaking until some definite action has been adopted for Americanizing the balance of power. Some people never forget an act of kindness* 1 because they >4|ver recognize one when they see it. be all right utthrincrmng* “When I feel like this—dizzy, black spots before my eyes, bad taste in my mouth, stupid and lazy—l know what’s the matter. I’m bilious, I just take a couple of DR. MILES’ LIVER PILLS They fix me up in short order. Why don’t YOU try these little wonder workers? You’ll find them easy to take and mild but effective ia operation. * Your Druggist sells Dr. Milefl* Preparationfl.