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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRA8KA. The Housewife and the War Helping the Meat and Milk Supply (Special Information Sorvlce, United Htntos Department ot Agriculture.) ACCOUNTS FOR THE FARM HOME. ' (Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) . GOOD FOR YOUNG 'AND OLD . SPENDING MILLION A WEEK Dairy Products Essential for Growth DAIRY PRODUCTS K VERY ESSENTIAL America Depended Upon to Meet the Needs of All Allied and Neutral Countries. COW IS EFFICIENT PRODUCER Great Law of Food Conservation Ib to Turn Inedible Feeds Into Edible Foods In Cheapest Manner Pos sible Cleanliness Urged. Dairying one of the largest of the agricultural enterprises of this coun try has a big war job. Dairy prod ucts are essential to the well-being of the nation, nnd It has been urged by the United States department of agri culture that every effort be made to maintain the supply in this country, nnd so far as possible, to meet the in creasing demands of the allies. Before the war the United States received dairy products from 24 for eign countries, Now these supplies have been largely stopped and it has become necessary not only to replace them at home but to export large quantities. Turns Feed Into Food. Two facts stand out prominently as reasons for tlio Increased production nnd use of milk. The first Is that milk ns purchased on the market usually supplies food material together with the growth-producing elements, more economically than cither meat or eggs. The second reason Is that the dairy cow Is the most economical producer of animal food. One great law of food conservation Is to turn inedible feeds Into edible foods In the cheapest possible manner. Th dairy cow will utilize coarse materials, inedible by humans, such as grass, cornstalks, hay, etc., and will turn them Into milk, which Is suitable for human food. Other farm animals also are convert ers of coarse roughage Into edible food, but are not so efficient as the dulry cow1. So much for the war duty of the producer. To get the full benefit of the milk, care and attention ou the part of the consumer Is necessary. Consumer Must Be Careful. If the milk producer and the milk dealer have done their duty there Is left dally at the consumer's door a bottle of clean, cold, unadulterated milk. By improper treatment In the home the milk then may become unlit for food, especially for babies. This bad treatment may consist of placing it in unclean vessels, exposing It un necessarily to the air; falling to keep It cool up to the time of using It; or exposing It to flies. Milk absorbs impurities collects bacteria whenever It Is exposed to the air or placed In unclean vessels. Some of these may be the buctcrla of certain contagious diseases; others may cause digestive troubles which in the case of infanta may provo fatal. Cleanliness and cold are imperative for good milk. Here are some suggestions from specialists of the United States de partment of agriculture: Avoid milk kept in a can, open much of the time nnd possibly without refrigeration, at the bakery or grocery ptore. The best way of buying milk is in bottles. Dipping It from large cans nnd drawing It from the faucet of a retailer's can aro bad practices. Take the milk into the houso as soon as possible after delivery, especially In hot weather. Keep milk In the original bottle un til needed for immediate consumption. Keep the refrigerator cool and sweet. A single drop of spilled milk or a email par(iel of neglected food may of Children and Health of Adults, contaminate a refrigerator lo a few duys. All utensils with which milk comes In contact should bo rinsed, washed and scalded every time they are used, When a baby is bottle-fed, every time the feeding bottle and nipple are used they should bo rinsed In lukei warm water, washed In hot water td which a small amount of warhlug soda has been added, and then scalded, Never use a rubber tube between bot tie and nipple, or n bottle with cor ners. If a case of typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria or other contagious disease breaks out on the family, do not return any bottles to the milkman except with the knowledge of the nt tending physician nnd under condl tlons prescribed by him. While efficient pasteurization de stroys germs nnd affords a safeguard against certain dangers, It should nol be regarded as an Insurance against future contamination of milk, and the foregoing suggestions should bo ob served in the case of pastucrlzed milk as well as with ordinary milk. Do not keen milk over 24 hours, even If it seems to be sweer, as milk may be come unfit for human food before it sours. MILK GOOD FOR ALL : Drink milk. Drink more milk. ! Pure, fresh rich milk is n food ; fit for the gods. Babies cannot 1 live without milk; and growing ; children grow the faster for It. It gives vitality to youth, pow- ; er to middle life, and to old age It brings a goodly portion of the health and strength of former years. It should be used moro largely by people of all ages, classes and conditions. Milk steadies the nerves nnd adds to the health, physical strength and mental energy of those who use It. It excels coffee, and with It tea is not to bo com pared. Wo may drink it at meals and between meals. It Is delicious, refreshing, invigor ating. It Is one of nature's best gifts to man. Gome, let us have another glass of milk. Bread and Milk. What sunburned child, when hours of play have made him tired nnd hun gry, does not delight In n bowl of bread and milk? What student, whose brain is weary from long hours of con Htant sttudy, does not desire a lunch of bread nnd milk? The overburdened housewife, tired from her dally tasks. can quickly regain her strength by eating bread und milk. The man who labors with his hands, who works from early morn till night, can find no better food for his tired body than a supper of bread and milk. After hours of mental strain In a downtown office, the man of business mny renew his strength nnd vitality by a single meal of bread nnd milk. All who are weary and over-burdened with work or worry mny find life and strength nnd pleasure in a good old-fashioned bowl of bread and milk. Silage Valuable for Sheep. A good quality of silage Is extremely palatable and can be fed to all classes of sheep with good results. It must be remembered, however, that silage which Is cither very sour, moldy or frozen should not be fed. Use of this succulent feed for sheep hns attracted the attention of most farmers only during the past few yenrs; Much has been said of Its bad effects upon sheep, but these have been due cither to an inferior qunllty of silage or carelessness of the feeder nnd Improper feeding. Late summer and early fall Is trying on sows and late-farrowed pigs. Un less there Is green food It Is likely to cost the feeder considerably. Think of having the job of raising $50,000,000 nnd, on top of that, the job of spending that $50,000,000 at tho rate of about a million n wcckl William J. Mulligan has such a job, and ho is making good nt it. William J. Mulligan Is tho chair- man of the Knights of Columbus com mlttce on war activities, which has charge of the supply of comforts nnd attentions for the spiritual, physical nnd mental needs of the million nnd moro American soldiers In this coun try nnd overseas. Mr. Mulligan Is a lawyer, and be fore he devoted his tlmo exclusively to K. of O. war relief work practiced his profession in Hartford, Conn.; he resides In Thompsonvllle, Conn. Ho is a graduato of Yale law school. Among tho many Btrong features that enter Mr. Mulligan's makeup, the predomi nating one is perhaps the power of organization. Ills ability In this di rection has been proved by tho accomplishments credited to him ns a result of his tour abroad. In France it only required GO dnys for Mr. Mulligan to put tho entire K. of C. overseas organization in smooth working order. Be sides contracting for n grcnt number of K. of O. huts, ho ordered that there be constructed 50 barracks, and In addition purchased a great quantity of tents which K. of C. secretaries and their attaches nro using. DEAN OF WAR then we wero 'up in the nlr.' Wo felt hero was a now thing and n bigger thing than we had ever tackled and we weren't Just euro of ourselves, but we know what we ore up against now, It Is merely a question of rounding up "It will be done in the nlr, I am sure. For years I have predicted that this war would be settled In the air, nnd today I am surer of it than ever. Why they don't send ah Immense fleet of battleplanes over Berlin I can't understand. Three days' unlimited slaughter there, sparing only cats and dogs (I like tho German cn.ts and dogs, for they, aro friendly animals), would settlo tho matter." QUICK IN NAME AND ACTION Quick In name, thought nnd ac tion, Sergt. Maj. John Henry Quick of the United States marines is one of that noted organization who, after be ing cited for bravery on the battlefield years ago, again comes to tho front by performing vnlorous deeds In France and ngnln being cited for bravery. He was awarded tho congressional medal of honor for his conduct In fighting ut Cuzco, Cuba, in 1898. Tho nemy was hiding in ambush and ho volunteered to stund against tho sky on a high crest and slgnnl firing direc tions to the U. S. S. Dolphin. He stood with his back to tho enemy and, al though bullets were cutting all about him, sent the signals ns nonchalantly us If he were In camp. On June 0, 1018, he volunteered and assisted In taking u truck load of ammunition and material Into the town of Bouresches, France, over a road swept by artillery and machine gun fire, thereby relieving a critical situation. commended and cited by General Pershing. NEW CORPS was declared in 1017 Bundy was malic a brigadier general and ordered to France. A quiet man is Bundy, but sociable, no is a' student f military subjects und was for u time un Instructor In the Infantry schoel ot the lino at Fort Leavenworth. .nssMtff HEvisiiflisiiiiiiK REPORTERS Tho king of Bulgaria, on tho bnt tlcfleld of Mustapha Pasha, beforo Adrlanoplo in 1012, said to his chief of staff as his troops wero going into action: "Observo that Englishman passing up with tho artillery. Ho has seen mora fighting that any soldier alive." Ho meant Frederic Vllllcrs, nrtlBt and correspondent for tho Illustrated London News, who, from 1871 to 1018, has seen all tho world has had to offer in the way of warfare Ho ve- cently turned up In Now York, after two nnd a half years on the western front and a trip around tho world that led him to the frontiers of India. "Tho end Is quite a bit off, yet," said Villlers. "now can It bo other wise when the German still thinks he Is 'top dog'? It may last several years. "Since tho Alsno I havo had no doubt of tho ultimate end. Tommy, took Fritz's measure there. Until nnd there Is nothing moro to rear. tho Germans. For this deed he wus highly COMMANDER Brig. Gen. Oman Bundy, who hus been placed in command of tho Fifth American army corps In France, was born at Newcastle, Ind and was n student at Do Pauw until ho entered West Point in 1878. He first won dis tinction ns a fighter In the Philip pines at the battlo of Bud-Dajo Mount Dajo when as a mujor he led a column of men, up the sldo of nn extinct volcano to attack 1,000 Moros In' the crater. Fifty-two per cent of his men in one company fell, 50 in an other; still the line kept moving for ward, held to its courso by the com mander, and cleaned out tho enemy. In 1015 Colonel Bundy was de tailed as adjutant genfral at San An tonio, Tex. In connection with Per shing's expedition Into Mexico unusual administrative responsibility fell on him, and the manner in which he dis charged this no doubt mudo a furthei impression on Pershing. After war .falTr V-mj eut ttZ ClraJt iZLCJAaa 'J2 "' tSi 1 ZZZ r . ifL a& tte i- JvS-cAs. ilc U r jtyjfit LU Ut t xl""3"- ,Jlf , 20&u. , 1A1 r r. us Jj. g.-ft n . z - ' Records May Be Classified When FARM HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS URGED Two Simple Methods of Making and Classifying Records of Expenditures. USE ORDINARY BLANK BOOK Details Encourage Economy and Show Relation of Home Expenses to Farm Business Ten Divi sions Satisfactory. Tho modern farmer's wlfo Is no longer satisfied with tho old accepted Idea that "the farm gives us a liv ing." but sho gets out her pencil nnd paper nnd asks "now much of a Ilv- ( lng does It give us7" Generations ago neither tho farm I nor the farm household had any but minor dealings with the outsldo world. Under such conditions tho need for accounts was Blight. But those con ditions no longer exist The farm household, though still in many cases receiving Its major support In farm products consumed ut homo, purchases far more extensively than over be fore from, outsldo sources. Farm house hold accounts hnvo becomo essential to economy. Household expenses on the farm are very Intimately associated with the business of the farm Itself. The fnrm normally Ruppllcs much material wnlch otherwise would becomo n household expense. The household, In turn, very often furnishes bonrd for farm labor, which would otherwise bo n farm expense. Merely from the standpoint of keeping track of house hold expenses ns related to the farm business, household nccounts are de sirable and should servo to supplement and round out farm accounts. Ways of Keeping Records. There are two methods of keeping n record of household expenditures. One Is to record tho purchases or money paid out without classifying tlio expenditures. Tho other Is to clas sify when the record Is made. Tlio first method Is "very simple, re quires no special form, and gives all necessary Information regarding ex penditures. At tho end of tho month or nt tho end of tho year the total expenditures rendlly may bo deter mined. In order, however, to know tho totals for each kind or class It will bo necessary to mnko up a monthly summary, In which tho Items will be distributed in different columns, by classes. This extra work at the end of each month (or nt tho end of the yenr) may cause discouragement and neglect of classification, with the result thnt the greatest good that could he derived from tho records Is not realized. Under the second method, In addi tion to being entered all together In one column, tho items are classified In separate columns. This method has the samo advantages us the first meth od nnd tho nddltlonnl advantage of al lowing for the distribution of the Items of expenditure to tho proper classes without tho Inconvenience of turning to Borne other pngrf. The distribution mny bo left to moments of leisure If tho farmer is busy'nt tho time the entry Is made. When the page Is filled tho next page is begun, the top lino next to tho heading being reserved for the total carried forward from preceding pnge. The Items may be totaled at the end of the month and these totals carried (o tho nummary page nt the end of the book. Book Not Important. Tlio kind of book to use Is not Im portant. An ordinary blank day-hook or ledger book with a stiff cover may Mado or at tho End of Each Month. bo bought ut a rcaBonnblo price. If tho vertical rulings in 'the book do not servo tho purpose others may bo Inserted with a pen or pencil. Ac counts aro sometimes kept In a book having small pages. A smnll page, however, is soon filled, Is often crowded, and tho Information is scat tered over too many pages for conven ience in recording nnd studying tho expenditures. In order to simplify accounts it In well to group expenditures. If all in dividual Items wero llBted In separate columns, It would requlro n great amount of detail work. Tho distribu tion of tho different household expen ditures Into groups Is largely a matter of Individual viewpoints. Tho follow ing ten divisions should bo satisfac tory for tho nvcrago farm family : An imal food, fruits nnd vegetables, cercol products, other groceries, clothing, household furnishings, running expen ses, advancement, incidentals nnd sav ings. BE THRIFTY Accounts will show you how. T Know whero every dollar comes irom anu wucro it goes. Study your record book nnd plan nhend. Buy carefully today and give to Undo Sam tomorrow. Save food, fuel nnd clothing. Peppers and Celery In Brine. Green peppers and celery can bo preserved for futuro uso by brining. If properly dono peppers so prepared can be used as substitute for fresh peppers In pickles or salads, or after freshening In water can bo used for stuffed pepper. Properly prepared they can hardly bo told from fresh poppers. Tho method of brining Is ns follows : Itcmovo tho stems and seed and pack nose down Into n water-tight, non-metallic receptacle, such as a keg, barrel, crock or glass fruit jnr. Cover with n brlno mndo by adding two pounds of snlt to each gallon of water. If u keg, barrel or crock Is used, sus pend n wooden cover In tho brine so that It will keep tho peppers well below the surface. If tho cover Is placed on tho peppers and weighted without sus pension, It will crush the peppers and mako them loso their shape. Add moro salt to tho cover until no more will dissolve. If put in fruit Jars or other containers thnt can be sealed, no moro Bait need bo added. In this case, allow to stand for three or fonr days to allow gas to escape, then fill per fectly full with brlno and seal tight. Kegs or barrels that havo a good head can bo filled full with peppers and brlno and headed up. Fresh peppers can bo added from tlmo to tlmo or they mature. Beforo uso, freshen In water to remove salt and then uso like fresh peppers. Celery can bo preserved In the same manner, and after freshening Is ex cellent for soups, creamed celery nnd for flavoring purposes. I Save Sugar. Use "ono tcaspoonful to the cupful." Servo moro fruits for dessert Mnko fruit Juices and sirups. Use sirups In general cooking. Can without sugar. Dry your fruits nnd vegetables. Tlavo less cako and frosting. Eat less candy. Increase In Corn Flour. It Is estimated that during the last 18 months the output of corn flour has Increased 500 per cent. Thcro Is now enough comment being turned out to care for nil demands In tho United States. The rcmarkablo Increase in output, which Is certain to become greater ench succeeding month, Is due in considerable part to tho conversion of much wheat-milling machinery Into corn-milling mnchlnerv.
