THE SEMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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J About Patterns for Kitchen Aprons
MANAGEMENT OF SMALL APPLE ORCHARD
Sho who works, then rtopa ti pluy,
Will llvo lo work full iminy n day;
Hut slio who never plays at nil.
Iter dnyn for work will prove but
small
YcMcrdny Is koiic. ' Wo can't chango
It. Hut today Ih hero. Lot's Improve
It ami put plfMtit tlilnga In our liank
of life that we may draw upon In after
years.
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In January tho order of the year
brings about the making of now un
dormusllns, houso drosac3, kitchen
aprons, and all tho whito work re
quired by tho household and the house.
And in tho annual Jnnuary sales, all
over tho country, of whito goods, mer
chants present tho stocks of cotton
fabrics which thoy have assembled In
anticipation of tho demand for thorn.
There is no better season in which
to buy cotton products than at, tho
beginning of tho year.
There has been a steady advance
in tho standard of qunlity in many
linos of cotton goods, and in tho in
troduction of high-class novelties, tho
mills are making a rapid progress.
A kitchen apron that may bo made
of cotton crepe, as well as of tho
usual percale or gingham, is shown in
tho picture, and hardly needs de
scription. It covers tho llguro and
fastens at tho back, unliko many of
tho lato patterns, which fasten at
ono side. Dluo is tho favorito color
for tho apron of cotton crepe, and it
is finished with white braid bindings.
If you would sco tho best of milli
nery loolc for It at tho afternoon con
cert or other afternoon affairs. Tho
box party, or club program or lunch
eon, and the cafe dinner, call out
tho smartest hats, for thero they aro
subjected to close scrutiny by discrim
inating eyes.
The fancy of tho designer has much
to Inspire it this season, and millinery
Is brilliant In two senses, both in color
and In design. With gold and silver
laces and metallzed flowers, with fur
and velvet and Jot and Jowels, heads
are splendidly crowned ovon wheu
such materials aro put together sim
ply. The blue and gold turban shown
In tho picture Is an example of this.
It la a small, chic, Jaunty shapo
draped with turquolso bluo satin bro
caded with a gold flower. This covers
tho frame mid forms a largo wing ef
U'ct at tho left sldo. Tho only orna
ment used is a flat rosetto mado of
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Tho chief claim to attention is based
upon tho fact that this kind of apron
requires almost no Ironing.
Although tho subject of kitchen
aprons is not ono to arouso a great
nmount of enthusiasm, it is not by
any means without interest. Many
aprons manage to bo attractive, whilo
thoy cloverly fill all that Is required
of them in tho way of usefulness.
This means that thoy must cover tho
llguro, bo plain and easily adjusted,
good looking and shrpoly. Thoy must
bo neatly finished and provided with
at least ono pocket and inado of ma
terial that will stand any amount of
tubbing.
All of tho new aprons aro mado
with elbow sleeves except thoso that
aro sleeveless. Very shapely and at
tractive models have a largo bib at
tho front of tho body fastonod by Hat
bands of the material to tho belt at
the back. A favorite finish for all
edges is a fiat baud of material in
contrasting color. All tho fast col
ors aro used with white, and striped
effects prevail.
gilded leaves that aro cut from some
light metal.
Afternoon hats having crowns of
velvet or fur and brims of gold or sll
vor laco aro usually finished with
small nosegays of beautifully colored
flowers. A very handsome model Is
mado with a crown of light brilliant
green satin, brocaded with silver, and
a brim of silver laco. A silver cord
Is tied about tho crown, tho ends fin
ished with small silver halls. Tho
cord and balls aro mado of very small
beads.
Thero nro many fur turbanB
trimmed with wreaths of small flow
ers which aro very rich looking, and
tho all-feather turban, although rather
rarely seen, Is nearly always a hat of
much distinction.
SHELL FISi! AND OTHERS.
Oysters should bo as carefully
cooked as eggs, as thoy too contain a
largo per cent of
albumen,
Oysters and
Veal Chops. Sen
son a cupful of
finely chopped
veal or chicken
with salt, pepper,
celery salt, cay
enne, lemon and onion Juice; moisten
with a thick whito sauco; cool; par
boll a pint of oysters; drain, and cov
er each oystor with tho chopped mix
turo. Dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs,
and fry in deep fat.
Oyster Sausage. Chop lino a half
pound of cooked veal; ndd a cupful of
oysters, also chopped and an eighth of
a pound of suet; ml- with thrco table
spoonfuls of bread crumbs which havo
boon soaked In the oyster liquor; ndd
tho boaten yolks of two oggs; popper,
salt and maco to taste. Stir and mnko
Into croquettes, fry as usual.
Sea Turtle. Take a two-pound can
of turtlo meat, cut In pieces; cook jln
a quarter of a cupful of butter with n
bit of chopped onion; add a pint of
cream, two hard-cooked eggs, cut fine,
thou thicken with a tnblcspoonful of
flour, mixed with a llttlo cold milk.
Season to tasto with salt and paprika;
add a small glass of grapo jelly and
sorvo on squares of toast with sliced
lemon.
Shrimp Salad. Cut In small bits,
ono quart of celery, add two cans of
shrimps, washed and picked in pieces;
ono dozen minced olives, ono-fourth
of a pound of grated cheese, ono pint
of mayonnaise, and ono head of let
tuce. Lino a salad bowl with tho lot
tuco and mix tho Ingredients. Gar
nish with parsley and plain olives.
Fried Sardines With Hot Mayon
naise. Dip the sardlneB In boiling wa
ter to remove skins and oil; dip In
batter and fry In dcop fat. This sauco
Is not n mayonnaise, although called
so. Mako a cupful of rich white
sauce; add chopped capers, pickles,
parsley and olives, a teaspoonful of
lemon julco and a quarter of a cupful
of mayonnaise. Stir tho dressing in
when the sauco is hot hut do not boil.
WINTER GOOD THINGS.
Ono need not deny herself these
flays, becauso of tho season, of many
good things which years
ago wero only in tho au
tumn markets. With
ouch easy transporta
tion wo havo tomatoes,
fresh and ripe, green
poppers and fruits of all
kinds from tho southern
clime.
A most tasty salad
dressing which will keep
tor several weeks Is this:
Sherry's Salad Dressing. Take
three-quarters of a cupful of olivo oil,
a fourth of a cupful of vinegar, two
lablcspoonfuls each of green pepper
and red popper, chopped; a small
Spanish onion, also chopped; a table
spoonful each of powdered sugar and
shopped parsley, a teaspoonful or salt
and a fow dashes of cayenne pepper.
Shnko in a pint mason Jar for five
minutes, then stand an hour before
using. Servo on head lettuce.
Prune Salad. Wash, soak nnd
steam ono pound of prunes until ten
Jer, Do not sweeten them. When
cold remove tho stones nnd fill tho
savltles with chopped walnuts. Ar
range on leaves of lettuce (five prunes
ire sufficient for one serving), sprlnklo
with lemon julco and placo a spoonful
of mayonnaise on top of each. Serve
vory cold.
Date Charlotte. Stone a half-pound
Df dates. To a cupful and a half of
wator ndd threo tablespoonfuls of
honey, the julco of an orango and a
heaping tablospoonful of gelatin; add
tho dates, simmer until tho dates are
soft, pour Into n ring mold and set
away in a cool place. Turn out and
(111 tho center with sweetened whipped !
cream.
Date Loaf Sift threo cupfuls of
flour, a half-tcaspoonful of salt Into a
warm basin, add a cupful of chopped
iates and half a cupful of sultana ral
Blns. Warm half a cupful of milk, add
a half-cupful of butter, cool and ndd
one compressed yeast which has been
softened in a llttlo warm water. Pour
Into tho flour, add two boaten eggs,
knead lightly and allow to rlso ono
hour. Knead ngain and put Into a
buttered tin. Allow it to riso for half
nn hour. Bako in a modoratn ovnn hum
hour. '
CONDENSATIONS
Cannon loaded with sand have been
found effective in breaking up swnnns
nf locusts that frequently appear In
Coat. Rica.
Tho dust raised by automobiles hnH
been blamed by medical authorities
for an increase in pulmonary diseases
In tho Philippines.
Troo planting on tho sandhills of
Nebraska has been successful. Jack
pines planted thero ten years ago aro
if 'ret In height
FANCY CAKha FOR OCCASIONS.
When oggs nro high thoso cakoa will
be rather expensive, but If used only
occasionally thoy aro
most dainty nnd satis
fying. The following cookies
nro well liked by tho
llttlo people;
Sand Tart3. Tnko a
cupful
and a
sugar,
whites
of butter, ono
half cupful!) uf
throo eggs, tho
and yolks beat
lablcspoonful of
en separately; ono
water, a teaspoonful of baking pow
der and flour enough to roll. Sprlnklo
sugar and cinnamon over tho cakes,
cut with a doughnut cutter and deco
rato with three almonds placed at
equal distanco from each othor. ISako
in a moderuto oven. These cakes not
only look very pretty, but nro ulso
good to cat.
Almond Fringe. Take a pcund of
blanched almonds, cut lengthwise,
making shreds. Dent the whites of
seven eggs Gtiff and dry, fold In a
pound of powdorcd sugar, tho almonds
and a tenspoonful of flavoring, Spread
powdered sugar on n board nnd shapo
tho mixturo into rings. Placo on but
tered paper nnd bako a light brown
In a slow oven.
Lunch Cake. Horo Js cako for tho
busy mother take a third of a cup
ful of soft butter, ono nnd a third
cupfuls of light brown BUgar, two
eggs, a half cupful of milk, thrco tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, n halt
teaspoonful each of cinnamon and nut
meg, a half cupful of raisins and ono
nnd three-fourths cupfuls of flour. Put
Ingredients all Into a bowl and bent
togother for threo minutes; bako
40 mlnutos In a modcrato ovon.
Spice Cakes. Tako two cupfuls of
brown sugar, ono cupful of buttor,
ono cupful of sour milk, throo egggs,
two and one-half cupfuls of cinnamon,
ono of cloves, a half teaspoonful of
grated nutmeg and a pinch of salt.
Mix as usual and bake in individual
tins. Cover with a maplo frosting
and Borne with plain whito.
SEASON OF SUCCULENT PIG.
When cold weather Is upon us wo
turn to fat meats to supply tho heat
needed in hooping
up tho body tem
perature. Pork is
ono of our most
satisfying meats,
and thoro is nono
more delicious if
tho animal has
been well fed on
good corn and Is properly fattened.
Pork Salad. This is a3 good an
chlckon salad If carefully proparcd.
Chop roast pork, freed from fat, rather
lino; to two cupfuls of ment add two
cupfuls of celery nnd a half-cupful oi
chow chow, threo hard-cooked eggs
chopped; season with salt and popper,
and a teaspoonful of grated onion.
Servo with boiled dressing op lottuco.
Goulach of Pork. Fry a tablespoon
ful of minced onion In ono tablospoon
ful of fat until n goldon brown, then
add two cupfuls of diced cold pork,
salt, popper and paprika to tasto, Toss
over the heat until the meat is hot,
then add a cupful of hot stock, flour
and milk to thicken. Cook llvo min
utes, ndd minced potato, cover and
cook 15 minutes. Then servo.
Escallopcd fPork. Put a layer of
cold boiled pork, chopped fino In a
baking dish, season with salt and pop
per nnd minced onion, then a layer of
crumbs; inoiflton with a llttlo milk;
add another layer of moat, finishing
off with a layer of crumbs. Cover
closely and bake; ton mlnutos beforo
serving uncovor nnd brown.
Pork Rolls. Cut cold roast pork in
thin slices, season well with popper,
salt, minced onion and parsley; roll
up tightly nnd fasten with a woodon
toothpick. Dredgo each in Hour and
fry In u little buttor. To tho gravy
in tho pnn add stock or milk; boll up
once and pour over tho rolls.
Pork chops to bo Juicy und tendor
should bo laid In tho frying pan with
just enough boiling wator to cover tho
bottom of tho pan. Parboil, turning
tho chops, and when tho water has all
ovaporated thoy will brown, being
thoroughly cooked without bolng dry.
Rechauffe of Pork. Proparo a sauco
of a half-pint of meat or poultry stock,
ono tablespoonful of buttor and flour,
a tahlcspoonful of grated onion. Heat
slices of pork in thlB sauco and servo.
iseariy :i0O cities and towns havo
adopted tho standards of flro-hoHo
couplings established hy tho United
states hureau of standards.
t, .,....
vuiiuiuiing apparatus that auto
matically changes tho air In a toln
phono booth each tlmo It Is used has
been pntanted by an Illinois inventor.
A combination rulo and trianglo has
boon invented by an olghtoon-ycar-old
uoy, u. j, irishman of Ogden. Utah
It Is used In solving problems In trig
onomotry, geometry and mechanical
drawings.
IIP
II
Heavy Load of Snow Apples
!By M. C. nimiUTT, United States Do.
parimont ot .Agriculture, in i armors juiu
leiln 491.)
Throughout tho humid regions of
tho United States thero nro largo
.lumbers of small applo orchards. In
many sections thoro Is senrcoly a
farm which ban not its small homo
orchard. Thoso orchards vary in slzo
from a few trees to soveral acres.
Thoy wero planted mainly for tho pur
pose of having a homo sourco of sup
ply of this excollont nnd popular fruit.
In most cases thoy wero not Intend
ed as commercial plantings nor was
tho fruit grown for salo. Thoy woro
planted in order to havo apples to cat
during tho long winter evenings, to
mako tho famous applo pics, and to
lay In n stock of sweet elder nnd
vinegar.
Farmers of earlier days know llttlo
of scientific orchard management nnd
cared less. It was sufficient for thom
to know that tho trees lived, grow,
nnd eventually boro fruit. Not bolng
a sourco of incomo, tho orchard was
naturally left to tako care of Itself.
As a result, whoro tho conditions wero
favorable somo very good trees woro
grown, but whero they woro unfavor
able tho trees bocamo stunted, scrub
by, diseased, and unproductive As
a rulo sot too thick, thoy grow
up in tho nlr, tho lower limbs
died or woro pruned off to got thom
out of tho way, and lilgh-hcadcd, al
most unreachablo trees wero tho re
sult. Tho trees usually stood In sod,
and in most of thoso orchnrds tho
hay was cut and removed or tho grass
pastured off. In mnny places tho
regular rotation of crops was fol
lowed In tho orchard. Too often It
was planted on tho poorest soil, slto
Apple Tree Killed by Meadow Mice.
and location on tho farm, and ro
coiveu nttio or no caro. is it any
wonder that thcao orchards havo be
come unprofitable, not to say un
sightly?
Tho old applo orchard, bo It 20
trees or 200, may form an Important
aoiirco of Incomo on tho gonornl farm
An effort should bo mado to mnko this
unit a productlvo ono nnd so to ro
Juvcnato and caro for thoso old trccB
that thoy will contribute as much as
they aro nblo to tho net farm in
come.
Profitable Renovation.
It usually will not pay to ronovato
orchardB composed lnrgoly of worth
loss or very poor varieties. Nothing
Is to bo gained Vy Increasing tho yield
or grado of a variety which cannot
readily bo sold In tho open mnrkot at
n good prlco. When trees of such va
rietles, however, aro not too old not
moro than thirty years and nro In
fairly good vigor, thoy ofton may bo
top-worked to advantage The boat
method of doing this is by cleft-graft'
ing In early spring. Undor favorable
conditions a treo i3." bo changed from
n poor variety to n nesirnblo one, and
mado to bear fruit in from thrco to
llvo years.
Thoro Is oorao quostlon as to whoth
or It will pay to renovate aummer
apples In tho northern Btates. To
mako renovation of thoao trees profit
In Michigan Orchard.
nblo requires cither a good domnnd
In tho local markot or exceptionally
good transportation to and demand
in a moro distant markot. Much tho
sarao Is true of odd or uncommon vari
eties.
Some tho tho chnractorlstlcs which
mako a variety poor aro unntiractivo
ncss in shape, slzo or color; lnforior
quality; lack ot hardiness In treo or
fruit, making thom subject to disease;
small production; nnd being compara
tively unknown In tho marketB and
thcreforo not in good domnnd. To
mako a variety worth renovating, then,
It should bo fair to good quality; at
tractive; a fair or, bettor, prolific pro
ducer; a good kcupor and shlppor;
and In good domnnd at good prlcoa
in tho markot. All theso factors should
bo conBldorcd beforo renovation Is at
tempted. Unfavorable Conditions.
An applo orchard cot on a wot soli
which cannot bo readily drained 1b
worthless. Trees sot on poor oolla
rcqulro too much fertilization to get
them in shapo to allow of much profit.
TrocB growing on boIIb that aro too
dry or leachy aro loss amenable to
renovation. In Hko manner orchards
located In frost pockets, at olovatlons
too low or too high, or Bites too much
exposed, or on olopca too warm or
too cold will not pay returnB on tho
money spont In ronovntlng thom equal
to tho returnB from thoso hotter situ
ated. Tho renovntlon of orchards at
a considerable distanco from tho rail
road, with poor highways and poor
shipping facilities, and In Isolated and
lnaccesaiblo placoB will not prove aB
prolltablo as tho ronovntlon of or
chards in better locations. In short,
orchards in sites or locations which
nro naturally unfavorable to applo
growing will bo moro oxponslvo to
ronovato and less prolltablo in tho
end, and, in fact, may not glvo any
prolltablo returns becauso of thoao ad
verso conditions.
Four Important atops must bo takon
In tho improvement of tho general
farm orchard. Theso atops aro practi
cally tho samo as thoso which would
bo employed In tho avorago orchard
under normal conditions. With but
llttlo modification, tho methods to bo
outlined may bo continued after rono
vntlon. Th3so nro: (1) Pruning, (2)
fertilization, (3) cultivation, and (4)
spraying.
A general outllno of work or a plan
of campaign may bo briefly summa
rized as follows:
(1) If tho orchard la and has been
in sod for a number of years, plow In
tho fall about four inches deep. If
not, plow cither In Into fall or early
spring.
(2) During tho winter put on from
12 to 15 loads of barnyard manuro
per ncro, or ono load to from throo
to five trees. Another plan lu to ap
ply In tho spring 100 to 244 poundB oE
nltrato of soda, 300 to 500 pounds of
acid phosphate, and 150 to 300 pounds
of sulphnto or murlato of potash.
(3) In tho winter or in early spring
boforo growth starts, cut out all dead
and diseased wood from tho treo, head
back tho highest limbs, and then
tho branches to admit sunlight,
(4) Apply 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of
llmo per aero and work it nnd tho
manuro or fertilizer into tho soil thor
oughly with a disk harrow or spring
tooth harrow. Kcop up this cultiva
tion until midsummer.
(5) After cultivation ceases for the
season, sow a cover or groon-manura
crop to plow undor tho following
spring. Clover is ono of tho best lei
guminous crops In tho North, while
cowpeas aro widely uarl In middle
latitudes and In tho South. For a
nonlcgumlnoua crop ryo Is tho most
extensively used, though buckwheat
is commonly used in soma sections of
tho North.
(0) Spray tho troca In accordance:
with tho diroctlonB given In govern
ment and stnto publications on this
Bubjoct.
Cleanliness Wi Dairy Barn.
Tho milker should romembor always
that ho Is handling a human food
which is vory easily contaminated,
Soap, clenn wator and towels must bo
readily acceaslblo lu tho dairy stable.