Kitchen
Few family dietaries contai*
enough fruit. It usually is served
only at breakfast. Consequently th*
practice of serving fruit salads an<
fruit desserts is decidedly commend
able from a health standpoint.
Fruit salads seem to be a®
especially happy choice for fall
menus. They fit in equally well
for luncheon or dinner and ar*
generally popular.
Children ordinarily are fond of
fruit salads and they are a whole
some and thoroughly satisfactory
concoction for the juniors. Car*
should be taken that any lnedibl*
portions, such as the seeds of
grapes and raisins, are removed.
Very often a salad can be mad*
up of odds and ends of fruit that
otherwise might go begging. On*
orange, one banana and two pear*
or an equal quantity of some other
fruit will make enough salad for
four persons, but used alone th*
fruit would be inadequate for a
meal.
Fresh and canned fruits also
can be combined with good re
sults. The dried fruits — dates,
prunes and raisins — are availabl*
and are an acceptable addition to
many fresh or canned fruit com
binations.
Avoid Too Many Fruits
The perfect fruit salad does not
use too many fruits in its com
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4 TOMORROW'S MENU 4
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4 Breakfast — Grapes, cereal, ♦
4 oream, baked sausage, bran ♦
4 muffins, milk, coffee. 4
4 Luncheon—Scalloped oysters 4
4 and macaroni, pineapple-pear- 4
4 and-peach salad, toasted muf- 4
4 fins, brownies, milk, tea. 4
4 Dinner—Fresh ham steak, 4
4 baked bananas, succotash, to- 4
4 mato and sweet pepper salad, 4
4 cup cakes filled with ice 4
4 cream and covered with fresh 4
4 peach sauce, milk, coffee. 4
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position. However, when it's a
“family affair” and a matter of
economy, variety can be used
with good effect.
Always be sure to include ont
tart fruit in the salad combina
tion. This prevents a tasteless,
uninteresting mixture and insures
a pleasingly piquant and appetiz
ing salad.
The dressing is of utmost im
portance. A delicacy of flavor is
essential in order not to over
power the taste of the fruits. Th*
dressing must be just tart enough
to blend with the fruit, the salt
and sugar bring out the distinctive
fruit flavor, the fat light and
pleasantly noticeable, and pepper
and mustard used sparingly
Whipped cream is often used with
standard dressings to gain th»
blandness so desirable, or special
dressings can be made. The cus
tom of combining whipped cream
with a mayonnaise or rich cooked
dressing makes a dressing that i!
exceedingly rich, a bit too heavy
for the dinner salad.
The following rule is for a
dressing especially adapted to fruit
salads. It uses the juice from
canned fruit to advantage with
lemon juice added for piquancy.
Slightly salted whipped cream can
be added as a garnish when thf
salad is ready to serve.
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* Fruit Salad Dressing
Four tablespoons pear, peach of
pineapple juice, 4 tablespoon!
lemon juice, 3 tablespoons sugar,
% teaspoon salt, 2 eggs.
Beat eggs just enough to blend
whites and yolks. Add sugar,
salt and fruit juices. Cook in a
double boiler, stirring constantly
until thickened. The mixtur*
should coat a metal spoon. Cool
quickly in a pan of cold water.
French dressing made with
lemon or orange juice in place cj
vinegar is always delicious ove»
fruits.
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Nebraska Opens Bird
Reserve on River Island
Niobrara, Neb. — (UP) — Oj
Niobrara island, in the Niobrar*
river, wild birds abound under pro*
tection of the Nebraska law.
Three hundred acres of land ha*
been set aside as a bird reserve
and the propagation of wild bir*
life is encouraged. Wild turkey*,
Hungarian partridge, bluebirds, th®
scolding flicker, the blood-red card
inal are among the 22 varieties that
may be found on the bird paradise.
Robert Cash, deputy game war
den who watches over the reserve,
has planted 50 acres to grain—corn,
kaffir, millet, sunflowers—and the
birds will do their own harvesting.
The Real Sufferer.
Prom Passing Show.
Little Boy (looking at his moth
er’s new fur coat): How that poor
beast must have suffered that you
could have such a fur coat.
Mother: Hush, Roscoe You
shouldn’t talk so of your father.
Advice for Future.
From Tit-Bits.
Small Boy (to father): The world
fs round .isn’t it, dad?
Father It is.
Boy: Then if I wanted to go east,
I could get there by going west,
couldn’t I?
Father: Yes, and when you grow
up you’ll be a taxi driver.
A Chilly Dream.
He: I had a dream of you last
bight.
She (coldly) Really!
He: Yes; then I woke up, shut
the window, and put an extra
i blanket on th* ►
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When the Wheel of a Sulky Acts Sulky
He s tipping over! Hold it! Can t be done; his <
right wheel’s collapsed. The camera caught this
thrilling one in a sulky race at Portland, Me.
Perry D. Nelson, driving “Maggie Knight” was the
► luckless driver. He was dragged several yards
but escaped serious injury. And good old “Mag
gie Knight” stopped as soon she sensed the
accident. “Horse sense” we calf it.
SAMUELSQNS FARMING METHODS
PROVE BENEFIT AGRICULTURE
BY FRANCIS T. MARTIN
Men who get to the top of the
ladder of scccess in the improvement
of a breed of livestock are actuated
wholly, and entirely by high ideals,
and not by any stretch of imagina
tion by ulterior motives.
Moreover, It can’t be said of
them that they are “copyists”, that
they follow where others lead. As
a rule livestock improvers in justice
to the merits of their accomplish
ments can’t be rated under such a
classification, for they are born to
the business, they have a peculiar
adaption to the business, which is
the sole, and underlying reason for
their success.
The Duroc breed has many
fanciers, many improvers and many
champions, men who stand cut
boldly in the front ranks of the
breed’s progress, and the breed’s
advancement. B. A. Samuelson and
son of Sac county, Iowa are reckoned
among these. B. A. Samuelson
wasn't born in Iowa but he missed
it by a year, his parents bringing
him to America from Sweden in
1870. They first settled in Craw
ford county, and then to Ida
county where they lived until 1887,
and a few years later they moved
across the road into Sac county,
and which has been Samuelson’s
home ever since.
Sauelson married early, and as
oon as he started farming in 1895
on his own hook, he started in the
Duroc breeding business. Today in
retrospection, Samuelson can say
that he has been a firm friend of
the Duroc, he has seen it in all the
stages of its development, he has
witnessed changes that comes to all
breeds during a long period of
years. In the matter of improving
the Duroc no Iowa breeder can
surpass the Samuelson record, no
The Young Man With a Pull.
From the Chicago Journal of Com
merce.
In every group of young men in
every business organization there
are always a few who are being
studied in every department by the
executives of the company because
they have given evidence of excel
lence in their work. They are the
men who will be considered for pre
ferment when changes are made.
There is a fiction that floats
around in almost all business enter
prises that this or that fellow has a
“pull” with the management, and
that he will get promotions based on
favoritism or relationshiD. No doubt
barnyard more high class specimens
Iowa breeder has turned from his
barnyard more high class specimens
of the breed.
Breeding Durocs for 41 years
without a skip or break, adding
porcine wealth to the state, and
nation, distributing a class of boars
that has given the limit in satis
facton, that has pleased customers,
and that has made them lasting
customers is the Samuelson record.
The herd on the Samuelson farms
today near Kiron, one of which is
operated by a son, Joe, are the
kind of farms that prove of lasting
and permanent benefit to progress
in agriculture, the mainstay of
agriculture, and the basis upon
which it rests.
The Samuelsons produce annually
from 400 to 500 head a year, and
usually they hold 3 public sales a
year. They’ve gotten their herd to
a point where there is no guess
work about the probable demand
that they will have when these
sales are held. The public knows
the kind of hog it can expect to
see and consequently, there’s no
disappointment. The Samuelsons
are master minds in the Duroc
business. They know the art of
producing the right kind and when
men in such a calling know these
fundamentals, no chances are tak
en.
The Samuelsons have not fol
lowed the fortunes of the show ring
much during their long connection
with the business. They’ve shown
some in the early days of the In
terstate fair at Sioux City, and
some at county fairs, but that hasn’t
been their policy. But, other breed
ers who have bought their stock
have won much honor with it at
the country's most important shows.
This is proof of the merit of the
many are given a chance because of
this, but that is all. Ultimately, if
unfit, they will have to step down
instead of up, and somebody will
take their places who have earned
promotion.
Now and then some inferior fel
low. lacking steadiness of character
and not trained to concentration on
his work, thus advances because of
the financial Influence of his father
in the business. and discourages
more deserving men in an organi
zation. But he is an exception to
the rule. The man whose daily work
demonstrates his ability and fitness
usually gets the promotion on his
merits. The whole course of Amer
ican hiisinesa oroves this fact. The
Samyejson Duroc, and clinches the
claim that they are capable of
meeting any kind of competition
that they are called uupon to face.
The herd is kept at a high peak ol
permeation in individual qualities
because of the fact that none but
the best sires are used. No breed
ers in the entire fraternity are more
careful in the selection of sires
than the Samuelsons. The boars
that are purchased for use in the
herd have got to conform to Sam
uelson ideals, or they find no place
in their program. They take no
chances in the matter, and that’s
why the Samuelson Duroc is in high
favor throughout the country. __
Years ago, the Samuelsons had a
noted herd of Red Polls, but 2
years ago they dispersed it, and put
a herd of Holsteins in its place.
They figured that a special dairy
breed and the raising of hogs for
breeding purposes would go well to
gether, and that’s the reason for
the change. Their herd of Holsteins
is a well known collection. It has
milk and butter records that are
highly creditable. The Samuelsons
are friends of good livestock, that’s
their lifework, and they’ve made the
most of their opportunities.
The production of good livestock
with them is not a fanciful idea.
The man who stays with one breed
for more than two score years, and
who today is just as appreciative as
ever of its needs, and merits knows
where he is. It is a fine thing to say
of any man that he has been with
a certain breed of livestock Tor more
than 40 years. It shows his stead
fastness of purpose, it shows that
he has settled, and fixed notions in
regard to the agricultural way of
doing things. The Samuelsons are
sound, conscientious, constructivi
business men. The country needs
more such men upon the farms of
the cornbelt.
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“four-flusher” is always a transient.
He never has staying qualities. He
always gets • hat's coming to him
sooner or laiSr.
Merit is always the highest rec
ommendation-industry, sound char
acter, straight thinking, good habits
and close attention to the dailj
work. The young men who do a lit
tle more, who have just a little
better Judgment, who are found to
be just a little more trustworthy
than those around them, will bi
chosen for the promotions in tha
constant changes that go in all busi
ness organizations. Why? Because
business is a constant sifter is
which the wheat is separated fro*
the chaff
| OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
MODERN HOMES FOR HENS
A good poultry house must pro
vide certain fundamental condi
tions. Fresh air is the most essen
tial. The house must be well venti
lated, bringing in fresh, pure air,
and carrying out the impure, mois- |
ture-laden air, without any drafts 1
to blow directly upon the birds, es- i
pecially when they are on the perch
es at night. Birds have a high body
temperature, which means that
;helr oxygen requirements are great
er than those of most other do
mestic animals. The poultry house
must also be dry. Dampness breeds ,
disease and poor production. Mois
ture from three sources must be i
guarded against. The houses must
be placed on well-drained soil and
sufficiently elevated to prevent
surface water from seeping in. Ven- i
tilation must be sufficient to take
care of the moisture breathed out
into the air by the birds and also
the moisture voided In the drop
pings. Such moisture Is especially
heavy during the winter months. It
will appear as spots condensed on
the walls and roof, and In addition
the litter will be damp. Then, lastly,
the poultry house must be provided
with windows, shutters or a pro
tecting overhang in front to keep
out storms. It must have sufficient
opening in the front to insure
ventilation, and so placed that
during the day sunlight will strike
all parts of the interior. Size will
be determined by the number in the
flock. It is best to allow four square j
feet of floor space per bird. With
the light Mediterranean breeds
this can be reduced, under ideal
conditions, to three square feet; |
but with the heavier American 1
breeds four square feet is none too
much. There are threq practical
types of roof—the shed roof, the
broken or two-thirds span, and the
even-span roof. The first is some
vvnui tacujjQt iuuuu, uuk u
so attractive nor does it give suf
ficient head room for convenience
and ventilation. The broken-span
roof has about one-third of the roof
area sloping to the front and two
thirds to the back. This is an ideal
type. TTre even-span house is the
most costly and usually provides
more head room than is necessary.
The front wall, seven or eight feet
high, with the back at least six feet,
gives adequate head room. The
house should always face the south.
It is wise to build a concrete floor
for it is permanent, rat proof, easily
cleaned and, if properly constructed
perfectly dry. A concrete floor
should be two inches deep and laid
on a foot of very coarse gravel, cin
ders or crushed stone. In the
Northern states, about one-third of
the front should be provided with
openings equipped with sliding
frames and there covered with a
good glass substitute which admits
the ultra-violet light These frames,
sliding up and down, can regulate
the size of the opening to meet
changing weather. The bottom of
these openings should be three to
three and a half feet above the
floor and should extend well up
toward the ceiling at the front. In,
the south, where the weather is
much milder, the entire front of
the house can be left open, but
covered with wire so that the birds
may be confined if desired. A much
cheaper type of construction can
be used, for, under those condi
tions, the poultry house becomes
nothing but a roosting shelter, the
year round. The modern poultry
house should be provided with port
able fixtures which may be easily
taken out for cleaning. All of them
should be elevated so that they
give the entire floor space to the
birds. As a time saver the house
should be equipped with automatic
watering devices. In the north some
method of heating should be pro
vided to keep the water from
freezing. Droppings boards and
perches are best placed at the back
of the house about three feet above
the floor so that the birds do not
have too great a height to jump
from. The hens should be kept off
the droppings boards by placing
heavy wire—say two inch mesh
under the perches. Plenty of hopper
space should be provides at least a
foot for each three birds. A poultry
nouse can uc '****'• —
more uniform in temperature i'
the ceiling is insulated with some
good coarse fiber board or other
insulating material. In recent tests
wtih identical houses one with an
insulated celling and one without,
the insulated house showed a winter
temperature of from 5 to 12 de
grees warmer whereas in summer
an equal amount of difference in
coolness was noted. The state col
leges and experiment stations issue
plans and lists of material of poul
try houses. Before starting to build
one should secure such bulletins.
Two new developments in housing
are showing considerable possibil
ities. The first is the heating of
laying houses in the northern
states. The object is not to keep
the house warm, but to hold it at
a constant temperature that does
not fall below 35 to 40 degrees.
Birds kept under such conditions
apparently lay better, keep in bet
ter health and utilize their feed
more economically than do flocks
which have to fight against ex
tremely cold temperatures. The dan
Her of heated houses is that oi
keeping them too warm and allowing
wide fluctuations in tmeperature.
the whole question of heating is in
an experimental stage, and one
making heavy investments in heat
ing facilities. One of the most as
tonishing developments in recent
experiments is the housing of lay
ers in individual coops or batteries,
each hen to herself having a com
partment about two feet square.
Running on a wire floor, with auto
matic devices for watering, feeding
and for cleaning the droppings
pans, these batteries of coops are
arranged one above another, five
LEGUMES ESSENTIAL
The many farmers in the com
belt who are operating with no
legumes or with a very small per
centage of them in their rotations,
may be taxing themselves as much
as $7.50 an acre or more for the
“privilege” of farming this way.
This is revealed in the results of
the 10-year period recently ended.
Under a rotation of corn, oats and
clover the average annual income
an acre wtis $22.03. In ’ contrast,
tlie annual acre income under a
two-year rotation of corn and oats
was only 14.44, or $7.50 an acre
less than under the three-year
rotation containing the legume.
There was even a wirier difference
or six tiers high. Such an arrange
ment seems to induce health, in
that it prevents coccidjosis and
other filth-born disease. It further
keeps the birds from developing
vices such as cannibalism and
feather picking, and reduces very
materially the housing space re
quired, because under this indi
vidual coop system three or four
times as many birds can be kept
in a given cubic space as is pas
sible where they run as a flock on
the floor. The whole success of this
new development depends on hav
ing a house or room properly built
and insulated. This is the newest
idea in housing and handling the.
laying flocks, but from preliminary
tests It seems to possess unlimited
opportunities. It has been suggested
that it may mean the establish
ment ef what we might term ‘ egg
factories" in and near our large
cities. It will probably never apply
to breeding flocks or to rearms
practices. The whole question of
poultry-house construction is going
through a period of evolution, sa
It Is Important that the poultry
man study the subject carefully
and thoroughly before starting
building operations The next two
months arc the bert time of year
to build poultry houses for next
winter’s layers.
C'llIC KEN POX IN POULTRY
If chicken-pox was prevalent in
the poultry flocks in your commun
ity last year, you will do well to
vaccinate your pullets during the
month of August. Vaccimitlon
against chicken-pox has proved to
be quite effective and has often
avoided discouragement for the
better poultrymen. Many of the
state experiment stations have been
doing some very constructive work
on the use of virus in successfully
vaccinating pullets against this
infection If the treatment is given
to the pullets while the weather is
still fair, and before the pullets have
fully mntured. their growth and
development and the time of com
ing into egg production will not be
afrected very materially. In some
states, the agricultural experiment
stations are preparing the material
for vaccination, and poultry breed
ers can obtain th« materia, trough
the experiment stations. If the
station is not preparing this ma
terial. In most cases the poultry
or veterinary department of the
state agricultural college can usually
refer poultrymen to reliable labor
atories from which the material
may be obtained.
TO SECURE * BEST LAWN
Lawns planted in late summer
or early fall develop a sod before
freezing weather and are able to
compete with next springes weeds,
much more favorably than when
sprig sown. Frequent sprinklings
will be necessary after planting in
the fall, to keep the grass ahead of
the weeds and to assure a good
grass stand, but the presence of
obnoxious wepds in the lawn should
be no cause for discouragement,'for
most of the weeds are not at ail
serious and will not persist after
mowing begins. The foundation of
most successful lawns is Kentucky
blue grass, which, when mixed
eight parts with one part white
clover forms a good mixture for
average conditions on homo giunds.
When fall planting is impssible,
the next best time is.early spring,
about March, if the ground can be
thoroughly prepared. Good Ion' soil
will assure a good sod growth. Three
ystem of soil improvement proving
popular are: The sowing and sub
sequent plowing under of a soil
improvement crop, such as oats;
the working into the soil or addi
tion after sowing of well-rotted
manure, peat or other materials fo
high humus content; and the use
of commercial fertilizer.
MIDDLINGS AS PIG FEED
When such feeds as rye and
wheat middlings are considerably
cheaper on the ton basis than corn,
wheat, barley, or rye and one de
sires to take advantage of th’s, he
is confronted with the problem oft
how to feed the middlings. Ordin
arily, corn is not ground for hogs
and one con not successfully feed
s.ye or wheat middlings with shelled
corn in a self-feeder because the
hogs w’ill pick out the corn and eat
very little of the middlings. The
problem is not so difficult, with ths
small grains because these should
be ground and when the middlings
are mixed with ground grains, pigs
muct eat all of the feeds in the
mixture. One very good way to get
some middling into the mixture is
to put it in with tankage and lin
seed meal for the protein supple
ment. Right now we can think of
nothing cheaper or better than to
make a slop of middling, either rye
or wheat, with skimmilk. This
would be a splendid supplement
with corn and ground barley.
FEED VALUE OF GRAINS
As a general rule, farmers who
make the most money from hogs
are those who keep their feed costa
low without interfering with rapid
gains. They are the farmers who
know the relative feeding values
of the various grains and by-pro
ducts suitable for feeding hogs.
They are the men who know how
to make the various combinations
of these feeds Into well balanced
rations. At the present time, rye
middlings and wheat middlings
are relatively cheap feeds for hogs
when fed in limited proportion of
the ration. When we think of basal
feed for hogs, corn comes first but
ground wheat is worth as much as
corn; ground rye and ground barley
are, on the average, worth about
90 per cent of the value of com.
There is a wide range in the value
that may be returned from oats
depending on how they are fed.
PROFITABLE COMBINATION
A fertile soil is evidence of a fer
tile brain in the farmer’s head.
of $9.23 in the average annual acre
income between the three-year
rotation and a system of contin
uous corn cropping
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“EFFORT” BREEDS HAPPINESS
The average farmer doesn’t make
money enaugh, he doesn't have fun
enough, he lacks faith in himself.
He will never get justice at tne bar,
of public oinion by unjust attacks!
on other interests. He will coin-j
mand the respect of every ciassi
when he does the best things of
which he is capable, and when he
does that his average will have,'
more golden hues and his satlafac-,
tion will burv his discontents