Babv Duck Applique
For That Play Frock
5600
POUR buttons, a wisp of soft
1 striped cotton and a gay little
duck parade—they all add up to
make the nicest little play frock
in town! Use bits of yellow and
brown scraps for the baby-duck
appliques. The pinafore frock in
cludes sizes for 2-3-4 years.
• • •
To obtain complete pattern for the Play
Frock (Pattern No. 5600) applique' Baby
Duck and finishing directions, send 16
cents In coin, your name and address and
tiie pattern number.
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one-third rubbor and two
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GR-S, the synthetic rubbor now used
In civilian tiro manufacture, roqulro*
more time in being fabricated at
factorio*. With the equipment and
labor shortage, this means that the
Industry has a tremendous problem
ahead of it to make the 30 million
new tires scheduled for 1944.
Back in 1B23, when rubbor
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Brasil, they wero not nsado
according to tiles or for toft
and right feet. Just thick
rubber coverings that wero
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leather shoes. They wero
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New Revolution Stirs China as Farmers
Learn Modem Methods From U. S. Expert
PrimitiveTools,Hand
Cultivation Limit
Yield of Tiny Plots
By BARROW LYONS
Western Newspaper Union
Correspondent
Probably no man has
planned practical farming on
so vast a scale as Dr. Walter
C. Lowdermilk, assistant
chief of the U. S. soil conser
vation service, who has just
returned from a year in China.
His plans envisage revolutionizing
the agriculture of Chinese provinces
the size of several states; of freeing
several hundred millions of farmers
from the soil so that they can build
new industries for China; of seeding
30,000,000 acres of eroded hillsides
with grasses, legumes and hardy
trees; of educating the masses away
from the farming traditions of many
centuries through demonstrations of
what can be done.
Dr. Lowdermilk has a record of
solid achievement behind him. With
other experts of our Soil Conserva
tion service, he has helped Amer
ican farmers increase the yields of
their own fields. The average in
FARMERS WATCII a demonstra
tion in American agricultural meth
ods in Ilwang Lung Shan region of
Shensi province. At first skeptical,
they became interested when larger
harvests proved superiority of
Yankee ways.
creased yield in the last 10 years
in this country, due to soil and wa
ter conservation has been about 20
per cent, in some cases running up
to 300 per cent. It was this realistic
demonstration which led the Chinese
to borrow him for a year.
The basic reason China has re
mained a backward country is that
it requires four farm families to
support five families of the popula
tion. In the United States, one farm
family raises enough food for live
families—itself and four others.
Let's put it differently. In China
210.000. 000 acres of cultivated land—
and that is nearly all that China can
find to cultivate—supports, after a
fashion, about 400,000,000 people. In
other words, less than half an acre
per person is used to grow food for
the Chinese. In the United States,
365.000. 000 acres of cultivated land
are used to support 133,000,000 people
—about 5V4 acres per person, or 11
times as much land per person for
food as in China.
Freeing Workers for Factories.
Better use of China's land for
farming would free millions for oth
er pursuits. China must industrial
ize. China can do so by freeing
men and women from growing food.
When Dr. Lowdermilk went to
China, the Chinese government gave
him a staff of eight agricultural ex
perts. For several months he taught
them from field manuals in soils,
agronomy, irrigation engineering,
WITH A BENT STICK for a plow,
and two donkeys for power, this
man turns the silty sofl near Tlcns
chui in southern Kansu province.
forestry, hydraulic engineering and
farm economics, the methods by
which the United States in recent
years has made gains in soil con
servation and productivity. Then
they went out into the land and got
to work.
One of their first surveys looked
toward improving irrigation along
the banks of the Peng river where it
runs through fertile plains between
high hills in Penghsien. The unit of
land measurement in China is the
"mow”—about one-sixth of an acre.
REFUGEES RETURN to their
home city, t'hangteh, Hunan prov
ince, in the heart of the "rice bowl"
section of China. Japanese troops
were driven out after bitter fighting
on December 9, last year, after
holding it about a week.
The city of Changteh is especially
important because through it great
quantities of rice move annually.
Freeing of these "rice bowl" cities
is one of the most important tasks
in the grave problem of feeding the
great Oriental uation in wartime.
About 2,000,000 mow on the outwash
plain along the river is fertile with
plenty of available water. The Peng
river is diverted to this land by ir
rigation dftches of carefully laid
stones without cement or other bind
TERRACED 8L0FES, built with
much painful labor, are being ruined
by erosion, as gullrys cut through
the steep lands. This scene is in
the province of Shensi. Dr. Low
dermilk is standing in the fore
ground, making a survey.
ing. The spring floods generally
wash out many of the stones and
wreck the diversion works, so that,
on the average, only one-third of
the area can count on a water sup
ply each year.
Another 2,000,000 mow on the sides
of the lower mountains consist of
steep slopes, some of them 80 per
cent slopes, which are cultivated, but
suffering rapid soil erosion. About
3,000,000 mow are too high for agri
culture, but are capable of growing
forests, if properly cared for, and
now produce abundant water supply.
Concrete Highway Needed.
The farmers have cleared the in
termediate slopes and are raising
meager crops upon them. These
slopes can be used for growing grass
upon which sheep can pasture. But
there is at present no means of
marketing the sheep from the lower
hills, or lumber from the higher
hills. Concrete highways will be the
answer.
But in handling the land sur
face the lessons learned from the
Tennessee Valley experiment point
the way to reclamation. Penghsien
is to be a model guinea pig county
for China. Dr. Lowdermilk and his
experts laid the foundations for a
vast demonstration of replacing loose
stone diversion ditches with cement
channels and making over the face
of the valley so that its crops will
never fail.
Near Sian, in the Province of
Shensi, an actual demonstration was
begun. Bench terracing that would
conserve both soil and moisture was
put in with improvised plows and
tools; grass was planted along the
A BULLOCK DRAGGING a stone
roller is the threshing machine for
these people in Shensi.
ridges and crests to stop erosion;
nut and fruit trees were planted on
steeper slopes seeded with grass.
Over an area of some 10,000 mow the
yield was increased between May
and October, and erosion was virtu
ally stopped.
Chinese farmers from miles around
watched at first with deep skepti
cism—but in the fall, when the crops
were gathered, they came to praise
—even to ask that similar work be
done on their own farms.
Three-Acre Farms.
One of the great handicaps to
modern farming in China lies in the
fact that farms are all small. The
average farm in most of China is
about 3.3 acres. In the Northwest the
farms are larger—about five acres
each. This means that modern
machinery cannot be used econom
ically unless villages can pool their
land, and farm cooperatively.
This is the pattern that is being
advocated by the Chinese govern
ment, and is beginning to find ac
ceptance. As the tremendously In
creased efficiency and profit of
the use of modern machinery be
come evident, there is no doubt that
this type of farming will spread as
rapidly as machinery can be ob
tained. (Farm machinery manufac
turers take note.)
But there, resistance arises from
the intense individuality of the Chi
nese farmer. He is even more in
dependent and individualistic than
the American farmer. He likes to
work his little farm by himself with
out even hired labor, in most cases.
When fanners try to work together,
they generally get to quarreling, he
feels. He is likely not to like the
way his neighbor does things.
Just the same, when he sees the
village next to his, which has adopt
ed the new ways of farming, pros
pering as he never thought possible,
he is moved to giving consideration
to the advantage of cooperative ac
tion. Then, too, he has heard of
the strange things that are happen
ing in the cities, where cooperative
industries have sprung up to make
implements of war for Chiang Kai
shek’s armies. And when he thinks
about it for a while, cooperation be
comes worth trying, although at first
the hazards seem extreme.
’Bombing' With Grass Seed.
Perhaps the most spectacular of
the plans developed by Dr. Lowder
milk and his experts is the project
for reclaiming almost a third of
China, which has been ruined for
cultivation by deforestation and ero
sion. These intrepid pioneers pro
pose that after the war, when air
planes and pilots become available,
this land be seeded .vith clay pel
lets which contain the seeds of grass
and leguminous herbs and hardy
trees.
After the war the Chinese hope to
drop millions of seeds upon the
washed out slopes of China when
they are damp and soft after rains,
so that the pellets will sink in and
stick, and the seeds will grow. The
chief difficulty will be to obtain
enough seeds. In one year the Unit
ed States Soil Conservation service
managed to get 800,000 pounds of
grass seed for soil reclamation in
ANOTHER VIEW of terraced land
from a greater distance shows the
character of this type of cultivation.
As much of China is hilly, this meth
od must be used.
this country; but much more will be
needed, if the job is to be done
quickly in China.
Cattle and Sheep Land.
Beyond the Great Wall of China,
built to keep out the nomad tribes
that wandered over the great
grassy areas of the west and north,
still other food possibilities are open
for the Chinese. Here they can raise
blooded cattle and sheep for beef
and mutton in great quantities.
So the program shapes up like
this, 1. soil conservation through
bench terracing and the plant
ing of grass; 2. fruit and nut
trees for the steeper slopes that
should not be farmed with grain
or row crops; 3. better irriga
tion; 4. reforestation of the
mountains and development of
water power; 5. improvement in
fertilizers; 6, cooperative farm
ing, which makes possible the
introduction of modern machin
ery; 7. cement highways to
make possible the exchange of
products; 8. reclamation of erod
ed lands with soil saving dams
and revegitatlon; and 9. beef
raising for the grassy plains and
sheep for the hillsides.
"I have utmost faith that the Chi
nese will do these things and solve
their own problems,” said Dr. Low
dermilk. “They are the best farm
ers in the world, in the sense that
they understand the nature of grow
ing things and are extremely hard
working. Their government is led
by men determined to rehabilitate
their country and develop its re
sources, agriculturally and industri
ally.
“Let the rest of the world watch to
its laurels when the Chinese have
achieved their goals. Americans
need not be smug. In our country
we have the greatest area of fine
farm land that exists on the face of
the earth—not even excepting the
rich farm lands of the Ukraine. If
we believe that no other nation is
envious of this richest of all heri
tages, we are living in blissful igno
rance.
“It would be easy for us to take
out of cultivation the poorest of our
farm lands and still support a popu
lation of 300,000.000 from the best of
our farms. Some day we shall need }
that many people to defend our !
shores from young, strong nations
envious of our wealth. That is a
thought for our farmers and busi- j
ness men and industrial workers to
think about. It is also worth mak
ing the Chinese our allies."
Keep to Low Point Foods on Lunches
(See Recipes Below.)
Luncheon Aids
If you don’t have the points for
traditional staples to make up the
children s mid
day lunches, then
glance over the
suggestions I'm
giving you today.
They’re low on
points, good on
nourishment and
high in health
giving vitamins ana minerals.
Homemakers with growing chil
dren who must feed them at home
during lunch, and then feed a very
hungry husband at dinner, frequently
find themselves low on points for
these two important meals. They
must be well balanced and satisfy
ing or the family will suffer in days
lost at school or at work and that’s
sabotage on the home front.
Sandwiches are an old stand-by
and children look forward to them.
To give a well-balanced lunch, they
should be served with soups or sal
ads.
It is smart to save bits of leftover
vegetables from dinner, even If they
amount to only a quarter of a cup,
and then to use them for a soup for
luncheon the next day. Think of the
colorful soups that you can create
from green peas, spinach and car
rots. And as for nutrition, that’s
there in vegetables without saying!
Creamed Soup.
(Leftover Vegetables)
(Serves 4)
(4 cup pulp (onions, carrots, celery,
peas, string beans or lima beans)
1 tablespoon flour
2 tablespoons butter or substitute
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
2 cups milk
Add milk and seasonings to vege
table pulp. Blend butter with flour
and add to milk and vegetable pulp.
Bring to a boil and cook slowly for
4 minutes.
•Cream of Corn Soup.
(Serves 6)
2 cups corn (canned or leftover)
2 cups boiling water
2 cups milk
1 slice onion
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and pepper
Place corn, boiling water, milk
and onion in a saucepan. Simmer
for 20 minutes. Rub through a sieve.
Brown flour and butter together.
Stir in corn mixture. Simmer 5
minutes. Serve very hot.
When making sandwiches, there’s
a tendency to fall into the same pat
tern and create
real monotony.
New ideas can
quickly pep up
lunches whether
they’re at home
or in the lunch
box. It's easy to
achieve variety if you use low-point
cream cheese or some of the wedge
cuts flavored with pimiento, relish
and chives. These furnish nutritious
butter fat too, and you can take it
easy on butter for spreading:
Lynn Says
Escort Ideas: The little things
you do for food are as important
as the big things you do for them
in cooking correctly. For exam
ple, the bread pudding may be
good, but it will be better with a
spoonful of spicy apple butter on
top, or a dab of grape jelly.
Make your meat casseroles in
teresting by leaving the vegeta
bles in larger pieces. When you
make a biscuit topping, use dif
ferent types of cutters for bis
cuit dough—hatchets, diamonds,
cloverleafs, etc.
Apple slices fried in bacon add
fragrance to your kitchen, and
have that hard-to-resist flavor
when served with old fashioned
griddle cakes.
Sate Those Used Fats;
Take Them to Your Butcher.
Luncheon Suggestion
•Cream of Corn Soup
•Cream Cheese and Peanut Sand
wiches on Boston Brown Bread
•Date and Orange Salad
•Recipes Given
•Cream Cheese and Peanut
Sandwiches.
(Makes three)
H six-ounce wedge cut of cream
cheese
% cup chopped salted peanuts
H teaspoon lemon juice
Yt teaspoon salt
6 slices white or whole wheat bread
Cream the cheese until soft. Add
nuts, lemon juice and salt. Spread
between slices of bread.
The other half of the wedge can be
mixed with 2 tablespoons of lemon
juice and pulp and 2 tablespoons of
finely chopped nutmeats. This will
give Yt cup of sandwich spread.
Devilled Cheese Sandwich Spread.
% pound mild cream cheese
1 small onion
3 canned pimientoes
3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
V4 teaspoon salt
M teaspoon paprika
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
Grind the cheese, onion and pi
mlento. Add chopped eggs, season
ings and mayonnaise and mix well.
Liver Sandwich Spread.
1 chopped onion
1 tablespoon butter
2 hard-cooked eggs, minced
% pound liver
H cup cream
Salt and pepper
Brown onion in melted butter. Mix
well with liver, blend in cream and
seasoning and mix well. Keep
spread in cool place until ready to
use.
Cottage Cheese Spread.
1 cup well-seasoned cottage cheese
1 cup finely chopped peanuts
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
Vi teaspoon salt
Combine all ingredients. Use ei
ther white bread or Boston brown
bread.
Cheese and Dried Beef Spread.
W pound American cheese
cup drained canned tomatoes
% cup butter or substitute
% pound dried beef, chopped
Melt cheese in top of double boil
er. Add tomatoes gradually, stir
ring occasionally. Add butter and
blend thoroughly. Add dried beef
and mix well. Store in refrigerator.
Chopped Meat Spread.
1 cup leftover meat, chopped
1 teaspoon mustard
2 finely chopped hard-cooked eggs
Chopped pickle or vinegar
Mayonnaise to moisten
Mix all togeth
er. Spread gener
ously on buttered
bread.
A fruit salad all
quivery and de
lectable with fruit
makes a perfect
foil for a sand
wich luncheon
and gives your
menu plenty of variety:
*Date and Orange Salad.
(Serves 4)
1 package orange-flavored gelatin
1 cup boiling water
% cup cold water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
12 pitted dates, quartered
2 oranges, sectioned
Lettuce
Salad dressing
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
Add cold water and lemon juice and
chill to the consistency of thick syr
up. Fold in dates and orange sec
tions. Pour into lightly oiled mold
and chill until firm. Serve on let- I
tuce with salad dressing mixed with
lemon or orange juice, or both.
Are you looking for salad ideas?
Send a stamped, self-uddressed enve
lope to Miss Lynn Chambers at West
ernNewspaper Union, 210 South lies
plaines Street, Chicago 6, Illinois.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
HOUSEHOLD
rnirnm
Work clothes will keep clean
! longer if they are starched. Fac
l tory managers recommend a hard
1 finish because it is safer around
machines.
• • •
After washing cooking utensils
used for fish, rub with orange or
lemon rind to remove any linger
ing odor of fish.
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Do not paint over whitewash.
Wash off the whitewash with clear
water and allow the walls to dry
thoroughly before applying the
paint.
• • •
Two pounds of waste cooking
fats will produce enough glycerine
required to fire five 37-mm. anti
tank shells. Save waste fat.
• • •
Keep the leather of your shoes
soft and pliant. That means pol
ishing your best shoes and greas
ing or oiling your work shoes with
neet’s foot oil, castor oil, tallow
or wool grease, slightly warmed.
RUB FOR COLD MISERY
Spread Penetro on throat, chest, back
—cover with warm flannel—eases mus
cular aches, pains, coughs. Breathed
in vapors comfort irritated nasal mem
branes. Outside, warms like plaster.
Modern medication in a base contain
ing old fashioned mutton suet, only
26c, double supply 35c. Get Penetro.
Flies With Young
When frightened, the mother
woodcock often flies off with a
chick between her legs.
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Threads in Greenbacks
The threads in our paper money,
formerly made of silk, are now
made of dyed cotton.
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