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GROWING DASHEEN IN SOUTHERN STATES
lie da sheen is a vegetable which
*' 11110,1 -States department of agri
culture ha. recently introduced into
tins country, and which is already be
ing grown quite extensively in some
or the southern states.
ibis \egetahle is a tuber that may
*' ma , <le a ver y satisfactory substitute
' or Irish Potato, yet different
nough from it to go on its own mer
■ s and that the plant producing the
tuber rosp. • les a lily ln manner nnd
growth and shape of leaves and stalks,
he agricultural department bulletin
<“ ing about the daslieen states that it
belongs to die botanical family of Ara-
to which also belong the ealla,
die Indian-turnip and caladium, or ele
phant’s-ear.
The people of the United States are
Just beginning to discover the food
value and the agricultural, industrial
and commercial possibilities of the
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DASHEEN CORM, FORCED FOR ITS SHOOTS.
dasheen. Investigations of the depart
ment of agriculture indicate that
some one or more of the varieties of
this plant have been cultivated in
China, the West Indies and other trop
ical countries for centuries. In Cuba
and parts of tropical America the
dasheen has long been cultivated and
FARM SADDLE-HORSES
Animal Has His Place for Both
Utility and Pleasure.
Affords Country Boy or Girl Some
thing More Exciting Than Daily
Chores—Would Come in Use
ful at Harvest Time.
(By J. M. BELL, Virginia.)
I don’t know of any form of exer
cise that gives more real pleasure
than horseback-riding. Men, women
and children are all helped immense
ly by it.
There are times when it is easier to
saddle a horse and go on an errand,
either of business or pleasure, than it
is to hook on to a buggy.
You will say, probably, that the or
dinary farmer and his family have but
little time to ride around on errands
of pleasure and that if his errand is
one of business, he’d better hook up a
[V \vagon or carriage and either haul
H«omething to town or bring something
back.
Also that the telephone and the ru
ral route have almost precluded the
necessity of going on errands. Well,
these are some mighty strong tfrgu
ments I admit; still, I contend that the
saddle-horse on the farm has his place,
for both utility and pleasure.
In (he South, horseback-riding has
always been popular.
The city is offering all sorts of pleas
ure to the boys and girls, too many
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Saddle-Horse on Virginia Farm.
of them leave the farm to go there;
and I believe in giving the country
boys and girls on the farm something
more exciting in the form of pleasure
than chores morning, noon and night.
A cheap saddle-horse or stout pony,
costing say SSO or probably $75 would
make many a boy or girl feel like a
millionaire.
utilized under the name of mnlanga.
A plant that furnishes the daily
food of a people must be one of no
little value. But it is yet a question
to what extent the food value of this
plant will he utilized in the United
States, as yet comparatively few peo
pie are personally acquainted with it,
and generally it may be said to be al
most unknown in most localities of the
North.
But for large portions of the South
it is probable that this crop could be
made a much more successful and
profitable one than Irish potatoes. For
family use it could nearly or quite
substitute for the potato. The culls
and surplus—if no market is found for
ther —can be fed to live ctock, pigs,
cows, or poultry. Pigs especially have
been found to thrive on dasheen with
almost no other food, a ration largely
of dasheens producing both growth
and fat. If the crop could be sold at
an even price per bushel with pota
toes in the South, the dasheen crop, in
many localities, would no doubt bring
returns of twice as much as an Irish
potato crop; for from 200 to 300 bush
els per acre is considered only a very
moderate yield.
They could use this animal for rid
ing, driving, and in the busy season
they would be mighty glad to let him
help in hay harvest, working the ted
der or gleaner and also let him prove
his usefulness in some valuable work
around the garden.
K\ er.vbody on the farm likes a horse
back ride occasionally. Even the boss
himself, although he may be nearing
the three-score-and-ten mark, feels
like a boy if he can mount a horse
and ride to see a neighbor.
The good wife, mnny times, would
come back from a horseback ride feel
ing like the young girl she was, when
to ride to school, church, or sociable
was something to talk about and look
forward to with pleasure.
Automobiles are good in their way,
so are wagons, carryalls, surreys, bug
gies, each and everyone of them in
their place, fraction engines, steam
plows and nV up-to-date things have
their place in the great movement of
agriculture. Every modern conven
ience or contrivance will no doubt con
tribute its share of usefulness to the
general welfare of the farmer, but
just let me say that there are thou
sands of farmers who will be con
fronted with the fact that some of the
children want to go to the city for a
change, at least, leaving out pecuniary
advantages.
If a good cheap saddle-horse or pony
will make them love farm life better,
don’t begrudge the small price neces
sary to secure one.
ALL FARM MANURE UTILIZED
Farmers Can Save Millions in Pur
chase of Fertilizers If Little
Precaution Is Taken.
When the farmers of our country
thoroughly appreciate the actual
amounts of fertilizing constituents
which are contained in farm manures,
and intelligently care for and utilize
the manure produced on their farms,
they can save millions of dollars in
fertilizer purchases; and the necessity
of depending upon the purchase of
these fertilizers, followed by the oc
curence of crises in the fertilizer sit
uation such as now exists in some sec
tions, will be largely decreased.
FLASHLIGHT ABOUT STABLE
Safer, Cleaner and More Convenient to
Carry Around Than Troublesome
Old Lantern.
Carry a good flashlight in the pock
et about the barn these wintry
evenings, when one is sure to be
caught in the dark while choring.
It is safer, cleaner and more con
venient than the troublesome old lan
tern which is apt to be upset and start
a tire in the hay or straw.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS. GEORGiA.
EASY DISH WASHING
IMPROVED METHOD OF CLEAN.
ING TABLE UTENSILS.
Does Away in Large Measure With the
Unpleasant Work Which All House
wives Dislike—Saving of Both
Temper and Labor.
After each meal spoons, knives and
forks are gathered, dropped into a pail
of clean soapsuds and immediately
wiped dry, a simple matter of two or
three minutes. The plates and dishes
are scraped and set in a tub of soap
suds, hot or cold, as convenient, the
cups and saucers into another tub or
pan likewise.
Then the cooking things are thor
oughly cleaned when emptied, and
rinsed and wiped and put away imme
diately, which is much easier and more
quickly done than at any other time.
One's hands need not be wet during
the whole process, and there is nothing
unusual in the neat kitchen except
three bright pans or tubs of neatly
piled dishes covered with water.
When ready to attack them the wa
ter is poured off and fresh, hot suds
poured over the panful. Then the
clean pieces are lifted out into the
drainer, set in a large pan to fit, hot
water poured over them and the drain
er set on the back part of the* range or
in the sun and air for a few minutes
until they are ready to set away.
Piled in open order, with hot water
poured over them, and set in a current
of air, dishes dry of themselves better
than anyone can wipe them.
Pitchers and jars are washed out
with a mop, scalded and turned upside
down to dry. They dry more thorough
ly and with less danger of breakage
than in the ordinary way, and why is
this method not as good for all china?
If you will try drying china in this
way you will find that it comes out
glossy enough to suit the most exact
ing housewife —and with a great sav
ing of temper and labor. —Chicago Her
ald.
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
When boiling a leg of mutton inclose
it in a muslin bag. Cooked in this way
it will keep a much better shape.
To make red tiles a bright color, rub
with lemon dipped in fine salt. Leave
for a few minutes, then wash with
soap and water.
A soiled photograph mount may be
cleansed by rubbing with dry bread
crumbs; the photograph should be
wiped with clean cold water.
For removing tea and coffee marks
from linen glycerine is excellent. Pour
it over the stains, rub it well in, and
wash in the usual way.
Indiarubber gloves ore better than
leather ones to wear when doing
housework; they are more flexible, and
in addition are much easier to keep
clean.
Where oil lamps are used a pailful
of dry sand should always be kept
handy. Nothing is so effective for ex
tinguishing burning oil in case of acci
dent.
When making suet dumplings, wheth
er sweet or savory, always prick them
w-ell before putting them in the pan.
If this is done they will not stick to
the bottom.
Fried Maryland Chicken.
Merely split a young chicken In
halves, sprinkle over with flour and fry
in deep hot butter, allowing 20 minutes
for each side, 40 minutes in all. Sea
son well, turning chicken and also pan
frequently. Have it covered, for steam
of the moist meat and butter aid in
cooking it. When thoroughly done, lay
on a hot platter and put as much flour
into a gravy pan as there is fat remain
ing, and let brown for an instant. Add
nearly a cupful of cold or warm w r ater,
gradually, and one heaping teaspoon
ful of sugar and allow to boil, thus
making a delicious brown gravy, thick
ened, and pour on chicken. Serve at
once.
Vegetable Roast.
Take one-half cupful of boiled corn,
either canned or cut from the cob;
one-half cupful of baked beans,
mashed to a pulp; one-half cupful of
boiled rice, one-half cupful of strained
stewed tomatoes, one-half teaspoonful
of minced onion, two tablespoonfuls of
melted butter, one-quarter cupful of
sweet milk and salt and pepper to
taste. Mix this together and add
enough stale breadcrumbs to make a
stiff dough, roll and bake in a greased
pan. Serve wffh tomato sauce.
Appetizing Breakfast Dish.
A “different” cornmeal mush. Make
the mush in the usual way, using about
one quart of water well salted (one
teaspoonful); stir in one cupful of yel
low cornmeal and cook in double boiler
about one hour. When done stir in
one to one and one-half cupfuls of
chopped cold meat (any kind) and sea
son slightly with sage. Pour into pans
and when cold slice and fry in bacon
drippings or butter.
Beet Relish.
One quart cooked chopped beets,
one quart chopped raw cabbage, one
cupful chopped raw onions, one cupful
sugar, one tablespoonful salt, one tea
spoonful black pepper. Mix well and
add to vinegar which has been boiled.
Good Habit.
If you have never formed the habit
of washing cereals before cocking, try
putting them in a basin and lilling it
with cold water. You will find much
trash and husks rise to the top, and it
is better to strain this off.
New Discovery! Takes Place, of Dangerous Calomel—lt Puts Your Liver To
• Work Without Making You Sick —Eat Anything—lt Can Not
Salivate—Don’t Lose a Day’s Work!
1 discovered a vegetable compound that docs
the work of dangerous, sickening calomel and I
want every reader of this paper to try a bottle
and if it doesn’t straighten you up better and
quicker than salivating calomel just go back to
the store and get your money.
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson’s
Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work
and clean your thirty feet of bowels of the sour
bile and constipation poison which is clogging
your system and making you feel miserable.
I guarantee that one spoonful of this harmless
liquid liver medicine will relieve the headache, bil
iousness, coated tongue, ague, malaria, sour stom
ach or any other distress caused by a torpid liver
as quickly as a dose of vile, nauseating calomel,
besides it will not make you sick or keep you from
Lost in Wonder.
“Can you tell me what part women
played in the recent presidential elec
tion?”
“No,” answered Mr. Twobble. “I
was so excited over Mrs. Twobble’s
first visit to a voting booth that I did
not notice what other women were do
ing.”
Don’t Neglect Kidneys
Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Prescrip
tion, Overcomes Kidney Trouble
It is now conceded by physicians that
the kidneys should have more attention
as they control the other organs to a re
markable degree and do a tremendous
amount of work in removing the poisons
and waste matter from the system by
filtering the blood.
The kidneys should receive some as
sistance when needed. We take less ex
ercise, drink less water and often eat
more rich, heavy food, thereby forcing
the kidneys to do more work than nature
intended. Evidence of kidney trouble,
such as lame back, annoying bladder
troubles, smarting or burning, brick
dust or sediment, sallow complexion,
rheumatism, maybe weak or irregular
heart action, warns you that your kid
neys require help immediately to avoid
more serious trouble.
An ideal herbal compound that has had
most remarkable success as a kidney and
bladder remedy is Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-
Root. There is nothing else like it. It
is Dr. Kilmer’s prescription used in pri
vate practice and it is sure to benefit you.
Get a bottle from your druggist.
* However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. Adv.
Same Idea.
‘The man over there plunged in
deep and apparently unpleasant
thought, and the dog with him chas
ing his tail, are both bent on the same
thing.”
“What’s that?”
“Trying to make both ends meet.”
YOU MAY LOOK YOUNG
By Keeping Your Complexion Young
With Cuticura. Trial Free.
The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. These
super-creamy emollients do much to
keep the skin clear, fresh and youthful,
as well as to keep the hair in a live,
healthy condition and the hands soft
and white.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
To Be Engaged.
“Waiter, how long will my omelet
be?” '
“I'll ask the cook to measure it, sir.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that it
In Use for Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Business Head.
Small Girl (to butcher) —Three
cents’ worth of dog meat —for an un
usually large dog!
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few —a beautiful
bead of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
store it to Its former beauty and lus
ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dress
ing. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
No man lias a right to expect bis
wife to be a good cook unless lie is
that kind of a provider.
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
a laxative —three for a cathartic. —Adv.
Those who have nothing to lose are
quite willing to lose it.
No Foolishness.
“My boy.”
“Yes, dad?”
“In wooing success —”
“Yes dad?”
“Remember, tlint's a girl you gotta
sit up nigrlits with.” —Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
MOTHER. ATTENTION!
Gold Ring for Baby Free.
Get a 25c Bottle of Baby Ease from
any drug store, mail coupon as di
rected and gold ring (guaranteed),
proper size, mailed you. Baby Ease
cures Bowel Complaints and Teething
Troubles of Babies. —Adv.
Refutation.
“Women have no practical appre
ciation of science.”
“Haven’t they? What’s the matter
with chemical blondes?”
SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with “La Creole” Hair Dressing,
and darken, In the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. SI.OO. —Adv.
Pension funds for municipal em
ployees have been established in 159
cities in this country.
Tf your ryes smart or feel scalded, Ro
man Eye Balsam applied upon going to bed
is just the thing to relieve them. Adv.
How some women do chuckle when
a pretty girl begins to fade.
Uric Acid Poisoning ?
The most eminent physicians recog
nize that uric acid stored up in the
system is the cause of rheumatism,
that this uric acid poison is present In
the joints, muscles, or nerves. By ex
perimenting and analysis at the In
valids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute in
Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. Pierce discovered a
combination of native remedies that he
called Anuric —which drives out the
uric acid from the system, and in this
way the pain, swelling and inflamma
tion subside. If you are a sufferer from
rheumatism, backache, pains here or
there, you can obtain Anuric at any
drug store and get relief from the
pains and ills brought about by uric
acid; or send Dr. Pierce 10c for trial
pkg. Anuric which you will find many
times more potent than lithia elim
inates uric acid as hot water melts
sugar. A short trial will convince you.
Sold for 47 years. For
1 I'l? Malaria, Chills & Fever.
I|| J Also a Fine General
(hill Tonic s rf„s.!r
Drug Stores.
When You Follow ”
The Trail
~ Go
.• -' " Equipped With -
Winchester
Guns an d Ammunition
Made for all kinds of
shooting
SOLD EVERYWHERE.
■ ASK FOR THE BRAND
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a day’s work. I want to see a bottle of this won
derful liver medicine in every home here.
Calomel is poison—it’s mercury—it attacks the
bones, often causing rheumatism. Calomel is dan
gerous. It sickens—while my Dodson’s Liver
Tone is safe, pleasant and harmless. Eat any
thing afterwards, because it can not salivate. Give
it to the children because it doesn’t upset the stom
ach or shock the liver. Take a spoonful tonight
and wake up feeling fine and ready for a full
day’s work.
Get a bottle! Try it! If it doesn’t do exactly
what I say, tell your dealer to hand your money
back. Every druggist and store keeper here knows
me and knows of my wonderful discovery of a
vegetable medicine that takes the place of danger
ous calomeL —Adv.
TENNESSEE FOLKS
Mitehellville, Tenn. —“We have used
nearly all of Dr. Pierce’s medicines.
..rMm—vji.-,' Commenced us
ing them in my
• ! l \l' family over 30
•HiH years a &°- The
‘Favorite Pre
•iilx * iufLi crlption’ saved
fft ijyfl the life of my wife
■Ji MPp/' \ and daughter 25
Mi ji I! years ago and I
1 JmL. have scarcely
wßSSLfijkvdrmff ever been with
out them in my
home since. Recently I had occasion
to use Anuric, that Godsent remedy
for kidney and bladder troubles, and 1
I can truthfully say It has done me
more good than any remedy I ever
used, and they are legion. No
one will make a mistake in using any
preparation sent out by Dr. Pierce. I
have had many years’ experience with
his Institution and know whereof I
speak.”—E. W. BAGSHAW.—Adv.
A Bad Case.
The proud mother was showing off
her son to a neighbor.
“He grows more like his father
every day,” she said.
The neighbor, being a man and ono
of tlie father's former pals, did not ex
pand with appreciation.
“Dear me,” lie said. “And have you
tried everything?”
IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on “La Creole” Hair Dressing—t
it's the original. Darkens your hair In
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price SI.OO. —Adv.
All Kinds.
“What is it, lady?”
"I want some needles.”
“Yes’m. Quitting, sewing or graph*
ophone?”
Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills are not)
a “coal-tar product” nor a "confection,”
but a good, old-fashioned dose of medicine
for regulating the stomach, the liver and
the bowels. Get a box and try them. Adv.
Would Be Kept Busy.
Most of ns would have to work 24
hours n day if we loved our neighbor*
as they love themselves. -
THIB IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look tea years younger if yon
darken your ugly grizzly, gray hairs by
using “La Creole" Hair Dressing. —Adv.
Once in a great while you meet U
man who thinks original thoughts.