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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1921)
Ihe mcnm GWfeS<l Copyright, 1921, Western Newspaper Union. The winds rage and howl my cabin about. With ghoulish glee they clamor and shout. They roar down the chimney and shake the walls, They try to appall me with shrieking calls; But serene, in warmth and peace I hurl Defiance to their deafening whirl. In anchorage firm, my house and I Fierce storms and threats forever defy. For my house and 1 are types of thought To which earth’s shocks became as naught. —Hattie d’Autremont. MORE ABOUT CANDY MAKING Most candies are made from fondant or fudge mixture. Fudge, as it is known, has more often H chocolate or maple fla vor. A delightful change is made by adding can died cherries to a beau tiful white fudge, flavor- Fudge Foundation.— Take two cupfuls of gran ulated sugar, one-third of a cupful of white corn sirup, one-lialf cupful of milk and one tablespoonful of butter. Boil to the soft-hall stage. Set away to become slightly cool, then add flavor and any desired nuts or fruit. If chocolate fudge Is desired, o square or two of chocolate or an equal quantity of cocoa should be add ed when put on to cook. Fondant. —Put two cupfuls of granu lated sugar and one cupful of water into a saucepan, stir until the sugar is dissolved, then add one-eightli of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Cook very gently without stirring. As sugar begins to form around the sides of the pan, wipe down with a brush dipped in water, or with a small rag fastened to a skewer. As soon as the sirup makes a soft ball In cold water pour out carefully on a large but tered platter or marble slab. Do not drain the dish, as one or two grains of sugar will form a chain which will spoil the whole mass. Cool until it can be dented with the finger, then work from the edge toward the cen ter until it can be kneaded like bread. After it is blended to a creamy mix ture, put away, covered with waxed paper, until ready to make up into bonbons. It Is much better to make fondant In small quantities than to risk spoiling a large amount of ma terial. Be sure to make fondant on a bright, clear day. If the fondant crusts over when cooled, add a little water and boil again. Peanut Candy. —Shell one pound of freshly roasted peanuts and roll until like narse crumbs. 801 l for eight minutes, from the time the bubbles ap pear. two pounds of brown sugar and twelve level tablespoonfuls of butter. Stir in the nuts and pour at once into a greased pan. Mark off In squares before It gets too hard. This is the best of peanut candles. Other nuts may be used if desired. After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again. And touching all the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon’s ring Drops down Into th« nig-ht. —Longfellow. EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS Many fanners and small town women “put down” sausage, pork chops and other parts Bof the freshly butchered pig for winter use. Sausage prepared from the family’s cherished recipe, made into halls, rolled In flour and fried brown on both sides, then packed close in quart jars and covered with hot lard and sealed, will keep perfect ly. This sausage may he cooked with cabbage or served simply reheated and covered with gravy. The following ways will be only suggestive: When using the sausage set the Jar into a pan of hot water, then when the lard is melted the cakes may he removed without breaking. This Is the advantage of putting up the suasage In quart Jars, cs one will be used in a few days or. If the family is fond of sausage, at one meal. Boiled Dinner. —Cut a small firm cabbage head into eighths, four car rots into slices; put all into a ket tle of boiling water with six medium sized onions, place one-half a Jnr of sausage cakes on top and boil briefly for half an hour. Then add eight medium sized potatoes and salt and pepper needed to season. Add water from time to time as It Is needed. There should be one cupful of broth or less when the vegetables are cooked. TVWtcelC. RTIFICIAL LIGHTS FOR FOWLS INCREASE PRODUCTION OF EGGS (I repared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Artificial lights properly operated •vili materially increase the winter egg production of pullets, the United States Department of Agriculture believes. The use of lights may also slightly In crease the yearly egg production of Individual hens, though not to any marked extent. The opinion of the de partment’s poultry division Is fully cor roborated by many of the state experi ment stations, particularly those in California, Indiana, Ivuusas, Washing ton, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York and New Jersey. County agents working in New York and New Jersey report considerable activity In this project, in which the Department of Agriculture usually co operates with the state agricultural college through the county agent. Lighting as a Feeding Measure. It should be well understood that ar tificial lighting is intended primarily as a means of getting the hens to feed longer than they otherwise would dur ing the short days of fall and winter. An extra feeding of scratch grain should he provided, so that the flock is induced to eat not only enough for maintenance hut an amount compar able to what is eaten In the more ac tive laying seasons. Lights are used soon after Septem ber 1 In New Jersey, hut in most local ities they are' started November 1 and The Use of Artificial Light Has Produced Satisfactory Results In Egg Pro duction of Flocks in a Number of States. continued to April 1 Conditions vary In different states. What may be good practice in New Jersey may not work in Kansas. In the latter state elec tricity is considered the only practi cable kind of light, while In other states kerosene lamps and gasoline mantles are sometimes used. Electric ity is the most practical method to use vherever it is available. How to Use Artificial Light. The total daylight, real and artifi cial, should be about fourteen hours. There are three ways of increasing the apparent length of the day—by turning on lights very early in the morning, or by keeping them going several hours at night, or by using them both morning and night. While all three methods have given good re sults, the first is usually found most convenient, because the lights merge into daylight and no 111 effects result if they are not turned off promptly. In using the second method some dimming device is needed with electric lights to lower the illumination gradu ally. The hens do not get to their roosts if the light is suddenly extin guished. Gasoline and kerosene lamps have to he turned down. Artificial lighting can be abused, with disastrous effects on the flock. If they are run for too long a day, the FARM VALUES HURT BY CHANGES Certain Crops Have Ceased to Be Profitable. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Many farmers, before buying a farm, have saved themselves future losses by looking well into the matter of a probable change in the type of farming practiced in the region they have under consideration. Certain crops may cease to be profitable owing to the development of other regions more favorably situated for their pro duction and marketing. Some crops may have to he abandoned because of disease. Insect pests or other causes. The United States Department of Ag riculture suggests the test question: Is the farm selected adapted to such possible changes? * For instance, the farm selected may now be growing beans, potatoes, com, oats, clover and hay, with the pros- HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. McDONOUGH, GEORGIA, hens may produce well for a short time and then begin to moult. If the laying passes 60 per cent, or, in the opinion of some poultry authorities, 50 per cent, there is danger of moulting and consequent cessation of iaying. In the spring the lights should never be stopped abruptly. The length of time they nre run should be shortened about ten minutes a day until they can be entirely abandoned. Other Points With Lights. Fresli water should he given the flock the first thing in the morning when the lights are turned on. Birds of different ages should not be housed together or lighted in the same way. They should lie properly graded and flocked according to age. Lighting makes it possible to carry February hatched pullets through the first full and winter producing period with less moulting. Yearlings and two-year-ohl hens are better if started with artifi cial lights in January, and the method is not as profitable as with pullets. It is considered a questionable practice to turn lights on culled hens to stimu late egg production. In New Jersey, where the largest amount of work has been done with artificial lighting, It is thought better to sell the culls and buy good birds. Artificial lights should be suspended from the ceiling so that the entire floor space is lighted. If the roosting closet partition casts a shadow on the roosts, the chickens will go to sleep in the shadow. Results in New Jersey show that In general the use of lights nearly doubles production during the period of high prices of eggs and greatly increases the usual net return over the cost of lights and feed In the lighted pens. The lighted flock showed better health than the unlighted ones, and the subsequent laying was as good among the birds which had had winter lights ns with any of the birds. A record was kept of 14 New Jersey flocks for five months. The birds aver aged 3,802 in number and laid 280,511 eggs altogether. This was a 41 per cent production, whereas a 22 per cent production was usual before the experi ment. This meant nn increase of 12-7,- 158 eggs. An experiment was made at the agri cultural experiment station, New Brunswick, N. J„ in which 600 unlight ed pullets made a profit of $3.20 per bird, hut 500 lighted birds cleared $5.07 each. The lights were turned on In the morning. Where an evening lunch was given to 100 pullets the profit per bird was $5.48. The fuel and operating cost for 1,100 birds was 4.4 cents per bird. An Increase of a single egg per bird pays this cost. pect that beans and potatoes will soon cease to be profitable. The question then arises—can some other crop or crops be found to replace them? Very few regions have a wide range of crops, especially In general farming, and adaptability to new crops Is a very Important consideration. Can the beef-cattle farm be made over into a dairy farm? Can the dairy farm he made into a “sheep farm? Can the fruit farm be made Into a hay, grain or live stock farm? In many Instances it will be found that the farm in question demands a type of farming that cannot be easily changed to meet the needs of chang ing conditions. When making a selection, look back and follow the local economic changes that have occurred In the last 30 years, and then Judge for yourself whether the farm you have under con sideration has the adaptability neces sary for meeting the changes that ar« hound to come In the future. YOU CAN'T TRUST CALOMELAT ALL It’s Quicksilver, Salivates, Causes Rheumatism and Bone Decay. The next dose of calomel you take may salivate you. It may shock your liver or start bone necrosis. Calomel is dangerous. It is mercury, quicksil ver. It crashes into sour bile like dynamite, cramping and sickening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put Into your system. If you feel bilious, headachy, consti pated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get a bottle of Dod son’s Liver Tone for a few cents which is a harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and If it doesn’t start your liver and straighten you lip better and quicker than nasty calomel and without making you sick, you just go back and get your money. Don’t take calomel! It can not he trusted any more than a leopard or a wild-cat. Take Dodson’s Liver Tone which straightens you right up and makes you feel fine. No snlts neces sary. Give it to the children because it is perfectly harmless and can not salivate. —Advertisement. Not for a While. He was a bachelor in the forties and she was a sweet young thing of twen ty, but he loved her and was courting her vigorously in all the ways an old bachelor knows how to woo a young maid. Then one night lie decided lie would sing to her. Going to the piano, he picked up some loose sheets of music and began to play. Finally he came to one which pleased him and began to sing: “Grow old with me — The best of—” But the sweet young thing had In terrupted him very forcibly. “I won’t do It,” she tossed back Impudently, “at least, not for 25 years.”—Brooklyn Standard Union. MOTHER! MOVE CHILD’S BOWELS WITH CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Hurry, mother! Even a sick child loves the ‘fruity” taste of “California Fig Syrup” and it never falls to open the bowels. A teaspoonful today may prevent a sick child tomorrow. If con stipated, bilious, feverish, fretful, has cold, colic, or if stomach Is sour, tongue coated, breath bad, remember a good cleansing of the little bowels is often all that is necessary. Ask your druggist for genuine “Cali fornia Fig Syrup” which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! You must say “California’ or you may get an imitation fig syrup.—Advertisement. The Height of Deception. “Why were you not suspicious of that thief who grabbed a tray of dia monds and darted out of the door?” “He disarmed suspicion,” said the jeweler. ““Yes Y* "He said he wanted to look at some engagement rings, and the fellow acted the part so well he actually stammered and turned red.” —Birmingham Age- Heraid. Her Only Chance. Inconse —Does she dance badly? Quential —Yes, if the chaperones aren’t looking.—Pelican. Never say “Aspirin” without saying “Bayer.” WARNING! Unless you see name “Bayer” on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 21 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proper directions- Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets —Bottles of 24 and 100 —All druggists. Aspirin Is U* trade nark of Ba/er Manufacture of MoDoaoatlcacldeatar of Sallcjllcaclff THIN, FLAT HAIR GROWS LONG, THICK AND ABUNDANT “Danderlne” costs only 35 cents a bottle. One application ends *1» all dandruff, stops itch- gt| ing and falling hair, and, in a few moments, you have doubled the JEK inS9\ beauty of your hair. JU Whjks It will appear a mass, f Sofia so soft, lustrous, and easy to do up. But whnt ( WF- <Jpilp will please you most will be after a few J weeks use, when you J*jjm paMHE see new hair —fine and downy at first —yes —hut really new hair growing all over the scalp. “Dan derlne” Is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots. Invigorates and strengthens them. This delightful, stimulating tonic helps thin, lifeless, faded hair to grow long, thick, heavy and luxuriant. —Ad- vertisement. DIFFERENT, OFF THE STAGE Master Crook Had to Seek Ordinary Mortal to Perform What Would Seem Simple Task. Dareham Drake, the world-famous film villain, had had a very busy day at the studios. In the performance of part nineteen of “The Master Crook” ho had deftly cut open with his electric saw five formidable safes, mastered swiftly the mysterious combinations of nine more, and with a nonchalant air had picked the lock of his prison cell. And now, his day’s work finished, lie breathed a sigh of relief as lie alighted from his car and reached the door of Ills flat. It was locked. Anxiously he searched every pocket of Ills for the latchkey, hut failed to unearth It. “Here’s a tlx!” he groaned. After another vain search the Master Crook walked around to the nearest locksmith’s shop, flung a S2O hill into the counter and begged the unshaven man in charge to come and open his “blessed” door! No Labor Saver. A traveling man was eating In a stuffy little restaurant one very hot day where there were no screens at windows or doors. The proprietress herself waited on her customers and “shooed” flies from the table while do ing so. Her energetic but vain efforts attracted the attention and roused the sympathy of the traveling man, who said: “Wouldn’t it he better to have your windows and the door screened?” “Well, yes, I suppose that would help some,” she replied, after a mo ment’s reflection, “hut don’t you think It would look kinder lazylike?”—Har per’s Magazine. The fourt Understood. “You admit you were speeding?” “Yes, your honor.” “A frank confession goes n long way in this court. What excuse have you to offer for exceeding the epee;! limit?” “A man In a little old rattletrap fliv ver drove up behind me and bawled to me to get out of the way and let somebody use the street who could get more out of one cylinder than I could get out of six.” “Umph ! I do a little motoring my self. I’ll let you off with the minimum fine this time.” —Birmingham Ago-TTer ald.
