The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 September 1929 — Page 6

Back To The Farm

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has heard of the 5r mystery of the salmon, the ■*"* peculiar fish that begins its fife in the fresh water of a river and later goes out to sea to spend most of its days, only to return to its birthplace to spawn and die. Something akin to this story is that of the canned food, which originates on the farm, ventures into the seas of manufacturers and retailers and finally returns to its home to be consumed. The Self-Sustaining Farm Time was when the farm was selfsustaining. Sheep were raised for wool which was spun and woven and made into the family’s garments. Hogs were butchered and preserved for later use. Vegetables were dried, and later canned. But it was all done on the farm. Today the housewife on the farm finds that in many cases it is cheaper to buy her fruit and vegetables commercially canned than it is to can them at home. The preparation of a vegetable garden large enough to supply summer needs and some for canning often requires the services of an extra man—and manpower on the farm of today is a most expensive item. Then, too. the canning comes at a time when farm work is at its

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Peas in the Vegetable Plate

A LUNCHEON or dinner which contains no meat is C occasionally enjoyable in the summer, and of all the vegetables which are especially adapted to such dishes, the pea is one of the best. It contains some protein which, combined with a comparatively small amount of cheese or eggs, will give enough for a really hearty meal, and by using canned peas for the main food and fresh vegetables for the accessories, time and expense are saved. Peas in Patties In the plate dinner illustrated, peas are served in a patty shell with a cheese sauce over them. Slices of fresh tomato and parsley potatoes are shown with the pea patty. Another vegetable plate might have on it shced cucumbers, scalloped potatoes and pea and walnut

Sliced Peaches Economical

HIS month the economical housewife who watches the —household expenditures carefully will buy canned peaches. For the year’s California peach crop was a bumper one, some 395,000 tons, and of this, the immense amount, of 350,000 tons wis canned. Naturally, such a crop kept prices low—so here is your opportunity. Both Are Economical Whether you buy the sliced or the halved peaches depends somewhat on the use you intend to piake of them. However, it is interesting to know that in cans of tfce iSpie size there is apt to be •wore Meshes and less syrup in the can of sii&ed fruit than in the can of halved. 'Ftois L due to the

height. There are farm hands all the time for cultivating the crops, but when harvest time arrives the number of extra hands —and mouths —becomes immense. Think! you city ladies, of serving twenty people three . times a day for maybe a week! Would there be much time left for canning? Will, that is the conclusion that the farm women have been coming to. Another reason for preferring the commercially canned food is that it is more uniform. Grown from selected seed, cultivated by the most modern, scientific methods, the resulting vegetable is as nearly uniform as is possible in this imperfect world. But the farm woman. buying seed of doubtful value, seeing that it is cultivated, to be sure, but wholly as a side line, can never be sure that the result will be perfect. And she may even have a crop failure which will cost her the summer’s money and labor. Cool Canning People who have never done it are apt to speak lightly of peeling a couple of boxes of peaches or tomatoes. But the woman who has stood by a stove-inferno while the blinding sunlight outside raised the temperature up in the nineties has no illusions about the work it take*

roast with tomato sauce. The roasl consists of canned peas, walnuts and bread crumbs combined with a thick white sauce and egg, and baked until brown and attractive. It is then sliced and served with tomato sauce. Canned peas may be combined equally well with a fish or meat salad to form the foundation of a cold meal. A salad composed of water-cress, tuna fish, peas and celery, could be served with fruit muffins or baking powder biscuits and would form almost a meal in itself. For breakfast or luncheon, an egg omelette may be spread with creamed peas just before folding over, and surrounded with creamed peas on the serving dish. A small amount of minced pimiento also adds an enticing note of color when the bits are sprinkled over the omelette.

fact that the smaller pieces of sliced fruit fit into each other and ' necessarily leave smaller spaces to be filled with syrup. Here is a suggestion for using the sliced fruit: Peach and Nut Tarts: Add two tablespoons sugar and threeeighths teaspoon cloves to contents of a number 1 can of sliced peaches and cook five minutes or until peaches are very tender and syrup somewhat thickened. Remove peaches, and, when eoid, arrange in baked tart shells. To the syrup add one-half tablespoon cornstarch smoothed with one tablespoon cold water and cook again until thick. Cool and pour over the peaches. Sprinkle nut meats (about half a cup) on top and garnish with whipped cream. This recipe makes eight to ten tarts.*

to prepare the food for the cans—not to mention the weary hours of watching and edre before they are at last ready to be put on the shelves. All this toil is taken away from her when she buys her food canned. Purchasing by the case, as she should, she can get a substantial reduction in price which will further aid economy. Then Home Again Just what canned foods are used on the farm depends largely on the circumstances. If there are a few trees of good peaches and cherries and some berry bushes, these products are probably home canned. But : f there are none, such fruits as reaches, pineapple, pears and apricots will surely he purchased. For •egetables, the standard peas, corn, tomatoes and stringless beans certainly figure on the list. The purchase of canned fish, salmon and tuna particularly, should be more prevalent than it is. So when the farmer sees a load of corn or tomatoes, or peaches or apricots starting off to the cannery he looks at it with an affectionate*, proprietary interest, for he knows that before so very long some of this food will follow the advice of our present-day economists and literallv “come back to the farm.”*

INDI AN A FURNISHES PART OF CAPITOL’S SUPPLY OF APPLES Results of a study made to determine the place of the various commercial apple states in supplying the Indianapolis market are contained in Bulletin No. 322 of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, the facts collected and published in the bulletin indcating that there is a possibilty for Indiana growers to supply Indianapolis with a larger part of the apples consumed there if attention is given to improving quality, condition and pack. Trade and consumer preferences for apples of different varieties, grades and sizes, and the outstanding advantages and disadvantages of the various packages, are all contained in the bulletin, which is entitled “The Indianapolis Apple Market.” Copies of the publication may be secured by addressing the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station at Lafayette, Ind. It was found that in a full crop year, such as 1926, Indiana furnishes only 30 to 35 per cent of the Indianapolis apple receipts. However, apples from Indiana and adjacent districts in Illinois are largely of the same varieties which are shipped in from some of the important distant producing sections. o CLUB RE-ORGANIZES FOR COMING YEAR The Junior Ladies of the Round Table met Thursday evening at the home of Irene Shock. There were thirteen members present and one visitor. The occasion was the reorganization for the coming year. The new officers elected are as follows: President, Erin Fleming; vice-president, Henrietta Brunjes; Secretary and treasurer, Velma Fleming. Three new members were admitted to the club. *Dainty refreshments were served by the hostess. o Remember the old fashioned youngster whose mother wouldn’t let him go in the water during dog days? It is said that only thirty per cent of American familjes have radios. But some nights we are confident that all of them are in our neighborhood. Over in Europe they are stewing about reparations and other things, but over in the United States, since we kept out of the League of Nations, all we have to worry about is whether the Athletics or the Cubs are going to win the World Series. The mean man who used to starve his horse nearly to death and still make it work has found that he can’t do the same thing with his automobile.

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Gyp Artists At Work In Indiana Warning to motorists that gyp artists are working in Indiana is given by the Hoosier State Automobile Association in a bulletin issued today. As an instance of what is going on, a letter from one of the victims states that “ a man from Chicago, claiming to represent the American Automobile Association, was soliciting a membership from a garage to become an official service station for the Hoosier State Automobile Association, and that their dealings would be through the Indianapolis branch. This station was to be the only one within twenty miles. In this case $14.50 was paid in cash, and they then sent,” according to the letter, “a cheap home made sign nothing like the AAA sign, and about a dozen maps, all obsolete. “A letter to the address t this party gave as being the Indianapolis branch was returned “unclaimed” and a special delivery letter to the Chicago address — 1344 Eighty Ninth Street—had not been heard from. “ A receipt signed per “J. Miller, representative” was left with the victim. The receipt was not worded to correspond with the sales conversation, and the very slick salesman managed to leave the receipt without the deceit being discovered until after he was gone.” This party representing himself as J. Miller is described as being medium in heighth, dark complexion and approximately forty five or fifty years old. o ATTACHMENTS DEVISED TO CUT OFF STALKS In the battle being waged against the European corn borer, it has been found that the removal of all corn stalks from the field for later shredding, ensiling, or burning, is one of the most effective means for controlling this destructive insect. The United States Department of Agriculture says this requires cutting the stalks off at ground level leaving no stubble. As the standard corn binder will not cut closer to the ground than 5 or 6 inches, special attachments are required to cut off the stalks at the surface 6f the ground. As a result of exhaustive tests made under a wide variety of field conditions, the Bureau of Public Roads of the department has developed such devices for four makes of corn binders, and also a low-cutting hand hoe, either of which can be made at little cost. The devices are described in Miscellaneous Publication No. 56-M, Low-Cut-ting Devices for Harvesting Corn just issued United States Department of Agriculture, and while the supply lasts, this publication may be obtained free from the Office of Information, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The publication describes and illustrates special low-cutting attachments for the four makes of binders and gives the bill of materials for each. Instructions for making and installing each attachmetrt are given. Most of the parts can be made in the farm shop from material purchased at a hardware store, if a forge, drill, and some common tools are available. 0 STATE INCOME TAXES In 1918 there were but nine states that had state income tax laws. In 1918 income taxes supplied one-eighth of the state tax revenue. In 1927 it supplied one-fifth —that is, in those states in which is was being used. In some states the general property tax has been completely replaced by the income tax. In 1918 Mississippi received only one per cent of her total through'her income tax. In 1927 she collected in income taxes almost 90 per cent as much as the Federal government. Massachusetts collected $20,000,000 in income taxes in 1927, as against $15,000,000 in 1918. This was more than ten per cent of the total tax assessed upon perconal and real property. Wisconsin increased her tax income receipts from $6,000,000 in 1918 to almost $19,000,000 'in 1927. Professor I. C. Bingham, recently, after a survey of the situation, made this statement: “First, the state income tax is a success. Second, it is growing rapidly in importance. Third, it is a success now in all states using it except Oklahoma, and Missouri. Fourth, the income tax rates have been steadily moving upwards since 1918." And it does not look as though the top had been reached because the basic principle of all taxes should be the protection and benefits derived to the individual. / ■ .

LET YOUR AIRPLANE DO YOUR DUSTING IS LATEST SUGGESTION The "airplane is coming to the front as a farm “implement,” says the U. S. Department of Agriculture, for dusting cotton and other crops. In 1927 about 500,000 acres of cotton in the U. S. were dusted by airplane. Most persons think airplane dusting is only for large scale farmers who can afford to buy a machine, but this is not so. Airplane dusting is sold by contract. The operating company provides the plane, pilots, poison and everything needed, and the farmer merely contracts for the application he needs, whether his acreage is 10 or 10,000. The service may be used by small farmers cooperatively. The general price of airplane dusting, says the Department of Agriculture, is no greater than half the cost of a farmer’s making the application himself with an ordinary dusting machine, and prices will undoubtedly be lower as the industry develops. Airplane dusting can only be done on fairly level land, however. Its greatest advantage is that it can be used regardless of conditions of the soil. o— Next to the speed maniac, deliver us on the, open road from the fellow who drives like he was making a slow motion picture.

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