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NEW SEED ACT
AIDS GROWERS
Latest Federal Law Requires
Additional Labeling.
By MISS JESSIE FISKE
The passage of the new Federal
Seed act early last fall brings into
operation a piece of agricultural
legislation which is of great impor
tance to all the farming sections of
the country. This became apparent
after a study made of the law at
Rutgers university.
It is the product of two years of
study and preparation by the United
States department of agriculture, all
farm organizations, seed analysts,
and the seed dealers of the United
States.
Regulations are now in the hands
of the U. S. secretary of agriculture
and the law is expected to be put
into effect in the near future. The
most outstanding change from pre
vious legislation seems to be that a
larger percentage of seed shipments
will be subjected to the require
ments of seed control than has been
the case in the past.
The provision of the new act re
quires that all interstate shipments
of seeds be labeled if transported
for seeding purposes, or properly
identified if transported for seeding
purposes, or purveyor will be re
quired to make representations con
cerning every interstate shipment of
seed. This regulation overcomes one
of the glaring weaknesses of the old
law, which provided that penalties
for misrepresentation should be
made, but failed to require that a
representation be made. z
There has been introduced into
the new legislation another depar
ture in the seed control program as
it has developed in the past 30 years.
All persons transporting seed in
interstate commerce will be re
quired to maintain a system of rec
ords which will carry through all
the steps from production to con
sumption.
Another feature of the law which
offers added protection deals specif
ically with the noxious weed seeds.
Henceforth all interstate shipments
of seeds must meet the noxious
weed seed requirements of the seed
law of the state into which the ship
ment is destined.
Group Machine Buying
Benefits Small Farmer
Small farmers, forced to compete
with larger, mechanized units op
erating on a scale big enough to
afford expensive equipment, have
banded together in recent years to
purchase heavy equipment and ex
pensive services which none of them
could afford to buy individually, the
Farm Security administration re
ports.
The FSA makes group loans to
its’ rehabilitation borrowers and
other low-income farmers who can
not get adequate credit from other
lending agencies, public or private,
to help them finance the purchase,
of machinery, live stock, equipment,
and services which none of them
could afford alone.
The loans are repayable in from
one to five years, according to the
amount of the loan, the type, and
the life of the service. Three per
cent interest is paid on loans for
equipment and service and 5 per
cent on loans for purchase of sup
plies and materials which are con
sumed during the year’s farming
operations.
The list of equipment and services
Obtained by such group, loans is al
most limitless. It includes com
bines, silage cutters, purebred sires,
cold-storage plants, bulldozers, ter
racing equipment, syrup mills, hay
balers, hatcheries, tractors, health
services, and veterinary services.
During the past four years, Farm
Security has made more than 10,000
such loans involving over $6,000,000
and benefiting more than 180,000
participants.
Farm Facts
Poultry sires and dams can be
tested through their offspring not
only for egg production, but for size
and hatchability of eggs broodiness,
and other characters.
* * •
The number of horses on farms is
now the smallest in 60 years and the
number of mules is estimated to be
the smallest in 30 years.
• * •
The use of canned milk has in
creased steadily for a number of
years, but American consumers still
get less than 10 per cent of their
milk in cans, an economist says.
• * •
For electricity in poorer farm
homes, the REA is developing a
small transformer and accompany
ing equipment which will permit a
power line to be tapped for a charge
as low as $1 a month. Such equip
ment will permit use of an electric
'ron, a radio and a few light bulbs.
• • •
That American farmers are using
more machinery is indicated by fig
ures showing that farm machinery
sales were 350 per cent higher last
year than at the bottom of the de
pression.
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VEGETABLE SALAD BOWL
(See Recipes Below)
‘V’ Stands for Vegetables
Vegetables are not apt to be prime
favorites with men; practically ev-
ery man has a
little black list of
his own—vegeta
i bles he just will
not accept gra
ciously. Father is
apt to be as chary
of spinach and
other vegetables
as his own eight-year-old, and to
look upon salads as mere woman’s
nonsense! It isn’t strange, if Jun
ior, who adores his Dad, begins to
proclaim his likes and dislikes in
no uncertain terms. Like father,
like son! So coax father to keep his,
“I-don’t-likes” to himself—at meal
time.
But there are salads and vegeta
bles that father really enjoys. You’ll
find suggestions in my booklet,
“Feeding Father,” for preparing
them, and recipes, too, for his fa
vorite meat dishes and desserts.
But to get back to vegetables,
have you ever wondered why the
very people who love to nibble on a
raw carrot, fresh from the garden,
are the ones who need to be coaxed
to eat them once they’re cooked?
You’ll find one solution to the prob
lem of getting Dad and Junior to
eat their carrots, right there. Why
not serve them crisp, raw carrot
sticks for a vegetable? Or make a
crisp, colorful salad by combining
shredded raw carrots and shredded
raw beets with the tender young
leaves of raw spinach? Mix lightly
with sour cream salad dressing or
french dressing, and serve from a
salad bowl so that the boys may
help themselves.
Perhaps just changing the meth
ods of preparing and serving them is
all you need to do to arouse family
interest in vegetables. Here are
some recipes that are just a bit out
of-the-ordinary—recipes I think your
family will enjoy.
Onions Baked in Tomatoes.
(Serves 4 or 5)
2% cups canned tomatoes
% bay leaf
% teaspoon salt
2 cloves
Ya teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
6 onions (small)
Combine tomatoes and seasonings
and cook for 10 minutes. Then re-
move bay leaf
and cloves. Melt
butter, blend in
the flour, and add
to tomato mix
ture. Cook, stir
ring constantly,
until mixture
thickens. Peel on-
ions, place in a casserole and add
tomato mixture. Cover and bake
in a moderately hot oven (370 de
grees) for 1 hour.
Golden Potatoes.
Pare potatoes and cut into cubes.
Add sliced raw carrots, using about
equal amounts of potatoes and car
rots. Cook in boiling, salted wa
ter. Drain and set over a low flame
for a few minutes to dry out. Force
through a potato ricer or mash thor
oughly. Add hot milk and beat un
til the potatoes are light and fluffy.
Add a tablespoon or two of butter
and season to taste.
Pennsylvania Dutch Spinach.
(Serves 4-5)
4 slices bacon (diced)
3 tablespoons flour
1% cups water
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons vinegar
1 egg yolk (beaten)
Y 4 teaspoon dry mustard
% teaspoon salt
Few grains pepper
4 cups raw spinach (chopped)
2 hard cooked eggs
Cook bacon until crisp. Remove
from the pan. Add flour to bacon
fat and stir until smooth. Mix wa
ter, sugar and vinegar and add to
the flour mixture; cook until thick.
Combine beaten egg yolk and sea-
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
We’re Sorry
In a recent article on home
made bread which appeared in
this column, the recipe for Yeast
Bread should be corrected to
read “seven to eight cups bread
flour.”
soning and stir into the first mixture.
Cook for about 2 minutes over a
very low flame, stirring constantly.
Combine hot sauce, cooked bacon
and chopped raw spinach. Serve
warm, garnished with slices of hard
cooked egg.
Lima Beans en Casserole.
1 pound lima beans, dry
% cup brown sugar
% teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons onion (minced)
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
1 tablespoon vinegar
2 cups water
1 pound pork sausage
Cook beans in boiling water ap
proximately 1 hour—or until nearly
tender. Pour in
baking casserole.
Meantime, place
sugar, salt, on<
ion, prepared
mustard, vinegal
and water in
saucepan and
bring to boiling
point. Pour this heated mixture over
the beans. Make sausage up into
small cakes and place on the beans.
Bake approximately 45 minutes in
a moderate oven (350 degrees).
French Fried Asparagus Tips.
Cooked asparagus tips (short
and thick variety)
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
% cup soft bread crumbs (very
fine)
% teaspoon salt
Fat for deep fat frying
Drain asparagus. Beat egg and
add water to it. Dip the drained
asparagus in beaten egg. Roll as
paragus tips in bread crumbs—pat
ting them on so as to cover aspara
gus tips thoroughly. Place care
fully in a deep fat frying basket and
fry in fat heated to 370 degrees.
Fry until tips are golden brown;
drain on unglazed paper. Serve very
hot.
Busy Day Salad.
(Serves 5)
1 cup cooked beets (diced)
1 cup cooked carrots (diced)
% cup green peas (cooked)
1 cup cauliflower flowerets
(cooked or raw)
3 tablespoons sweet pickle
(minced)
1 teaspoon onion (minced)
% teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
Mayonnaise dressing.
Drain the vegetables thoroughly
and mix lightly. Add pickles, onion
and seasoning. Serve from lettuce
lined bowl with mayonnaise dress
ing.
Send for Copy of ‘Feeding Father.’
For just 10 cents in coin you can
add to your kitchen library, this
very practical and clever book.
You’ll find in it recipes for quivery
custard pie, for spare ribs with ap
ple stuffing, for oyster stew, and rec
ipes for all the other good “home
style” dishes that men like.
To get your copy of this cook book
now, send 10 cents in coin to “Feed
ing Father,” care of Eleanor Howe,
919 North Michigan Avenue, Chica
go, Illinois.
About this time of year the
family supply of jams and jel
lies runs very low and we begin
to hoard the few remaining jars.
Next week Eleanor Howe will
give you some of her favorite
recipes for mid-winter jams and
marmalades, which can bq pre
pared right now, to supplement
your stock. She’ll give you, too,
a recipe or two for delicious hot
breads to se.rve with them.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for December 31
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
FRIENDS AND FOES OF THE
KINGDOM
LESSON TEXT —Matthew 13:54—14:4;
15:29-31.
GOLDEN TEXT—Ye are my friends. If
ye do whatsoever I command you.—John
15:14.
Inventory time has come, and it
seems that our lesson for today, al
though it does come in the middle
of our study of the Gospel of Mat
thew, comes too to sort of a pause
to consider what has been the re
sult of that which Jesus had said
and done thus far in our study.
The answer we find is that He had
both friends and foes, both love and
hatred. His foes apparently out
numbered His friends, and the ha
tred was evidently fierce and the
love none too warm. So Jesus was
defeated? No, far from it. As we
know, He won the victory over His
enemies.
The situation is not different to
day. Those who follow Jesus and
love Him truly are quite evidently
in the minority and all too often it
seems that hatred for the cause of
Christ has the upper hand. Are we
defeated? No, Jesus will ultimately
win the victory again. We are on
the winning side.
I. Dishonored Because of Jealousy
(13:54-58).
One would have supposed that the
people of the little, almost unknown
town of Nazareth would have been
thrilled at the return of its native
son whose fame had also spread its
name abroad and whose name was
on the lips of thousands because He
went about doing good.
They were astonished, but they
were not ready to accept Him. They
could not deny the fact either of His
person or His power, but they could
and’did permit their personal pride
and jealousy to lead them to deny
Him. “This story teaches us the un
utterable folly of refusing to accept
fact because it is astonishing, yet
there are thousands of people stand
ing in that position today concerning
Jesus Christ. It is utterly unscien
tific, not to say irreligious. Here is
an astonishing thing. They say
we cannot understand how this man
hath this wisdom. Has He the wis
dom? Why, yes, we cannot escape
it. Then in the name of God and
common honesty obey the injunc
tion and postpone the investigation”
(G. Campbell Morgan).
11. Hated Because of Sin (14:1-4).
The pride of heart which causes
many to hold themselves too good
to follow the lowly Nazarene is sin.
There is also that which even the
world recognizes as sin which sep
arates men from Christ. D. L.
Moody is said to have written on
the fly leaf of his Bible, “This book
will keep you from sin, or sin will
keep you from this book.” That is
true, and it is also true that sin
will keep a man from Christ.
Herod, living in sin, had been re
buked by John and had silenced his
accuser by the simple expedient of
imprisonment and ultimately by be
heading him. But one does not thus
put away sin, and when this man
heard of Jesus, he at once assumed
that John had risen from the dead
to plague him still. So Herod also
took his place with the enemies of
our Lord.
If a man shows his opposition to
Christ, whether it be by indiffer
ence, or by jealousy, or in outright
hatred, be sure there is sin in that
man’s life. Those who love right
eousness love the righteous Lord.
111. Accepted Because of Serv
ice (15:29-31).
“The Son of man came not to be
ministered unto but to minister,”
even to the giving of “his life a
ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28).
We have so overemphasized and
misused the word service that one
almost hesitates to speak it in con
nection with the name of the Lord
Jesus. Yet it does summarize His
earthly life and ministry. He served
the needy with His teaching and
preaching, with His provision for
their daily needs, with His healing
touch, and we read that they won
dered and glorified God (v. 31).
We said above that the majority
of men appear to reject Christ, but
that does not mean that He has no
friends. "The communion of saints”
is made up of a great and almost
numberless host, including in its
ranks the finest and most distin
guished men and women of all ages
who gladly stand side by side with
the humblest of believers to be
counted for the Lord Jesus.
As a means of encouraging men
and women everywhere to follow
Christ as they find Him in His Word,
the writer of these notes will send
without charge a folder, “The Why
and How of Bible Reading,” includ
ing a Bible-reading calendar for
the entire year. Use the name and
address at the head of this column
and if possible enclose a stamped
addressed envelope or a three-cent
stamp.
There He Learns
When the devil wants to learn
something about the difficulties of
the Christian life, he makes a visit
to some hypocrite.
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A GOOD deal has been said
_ 1 about children having to live
in a giant’s world where all the
furniture is made for grown-ups.
Furniture stores are now selling
chairs; tables; beds and dressers
made for children. Here are all
the dimensions needed for making
a child’s chair at home. It is of
1-inch material and the sketch
shows clearly how it is screwed
together after the pieces have
been sawed according to the
measurements given. The chair
is painted deep blue; the back,
seat cushions and full skirt are of
red and blue cotton print with blue
bindings. All dimensions for the
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Fat Side Up.—Put the roast in
the pan with the fat side up so
it will baste itself.
• e e
Plan meals in advance, with con
cern for the use of leftovers, which
will aid in saving energy in prep
aration.
• e e
For Dried Fruits.—Try soaking
and cooking a thin slice or two of
lemon with your dried apricots,
peaches or primes.
e • e
When baiting the mousetrap, re
member that foods mice prefer to
cheese include chocolate, peanuts
and pork chops.
• • •
Chocolate and orange flavors
blend well. Add orange extract to
chocolate frosting or candy. Try
covering a chocolate cake with
orange frosting.
• * •
Stored Potatoes— Potatoes stored
in too cold a place change some of
their starch to sugar, and when a
potato has accumulated consider
able sugar it won’t fry well.
• • •
Cane-bottomed chairs that have
sagged can be tightened by be
ing well scrubbed with a soapy
mixture containing a handful of
salt. Allow to dry, then paint with
a strong solution of salt and water
and dry again, if possible out of
doors.
Prosecutor Had Grounds
For Objection, It Appears
Counsel for the defense was
cross-examining the witness, a
lovely blonde with big blue eyes.
“Where were you,” he thun
dered, “on Monday night!”
The blonde smiled sweetly.
“Out for a run in a car.”
"And where were you.” bel
lowed counsel, “on Tuesday
night?”
“Out for a run in a car.”
Counsel leaned closer.
“And what,” he said, "are you
doing tomorrow night?”
Prosecuting counsel leaped to
his feet.
“Your Honor,” he protested, “I
object to that question.”
“And why do you object?”
"Because I asked her first!”
Aisle of-
Woman's Dreams
Suppose you knew that one aisle of one floor in one store
had everything you needed to purchase!
Suppose that on that aisle you could buy household neces
sities, smart clothing, thrilling gifts for bride, graduate, voy
ager! How much walking that would save! How much time,
trouble and fretful shopping you would be spared!
That, in effect, is what advertisements in this paper can do
for you. They bring all the needs of your daily life into review
... in one convenient place. Shop from your easy-chair, with
the advertisements. Keep abreast of bargains, instead of chas
ing them. Spend time in your newspaper to save time—and
money—in the stores.
cushions and skirt are also given
in the sketch.
NOTE: If you enjoy making
what you want from next to noth
ing, don’t miss Mrs. Spears’ new
est Sewing Book (No. 4). It is
full of information for making
useful things. Books No. 1, 2
and 3 contain a fascinating array
of things to make for the home.
Mrs. Spears has made three pat
terns for Early American quilt
blocks which she will send FREE
with your order for four books at
10 cents each. Quilt block pat
terns only—lo cents for set of
three. Send order to Mrs. Spears,
Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New
York.
Items of Interest
I to the Housewife
Washing Shirts.—To loosen the
dirt on cuff and collar bands of
men’s and boys’ shirts, scrub them
with a soft brush frequently
dipped in warm soapy water be
fore putting them in the laundry
tub.
• • •
When making a meringue have
the egg whites very cold and beat
them until stiff enough to stand
alone. If baked in too hot an oven
meringue will be tough and shrink
when set away to cool.
* • *
When washing a white silk
blouse or jumper to which you
want to give a little stiffness, add
a few lumps of sugar to the rinsing
water, roll tightly in a clean towel,
and iron while still damp.
[QUICK. HUB ON SUPER-MEDICATED PENETROL
LET IT GET IN ITS GOOD WORK.FASTER.
BECAUSE IT CONTAINS 2 TO 3 TIMES
MORE MEDICATION THAN
ANYOTHER SALVE SOLD
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NASAL MISERIES.
Means of Utterance
Utterance is not confined to
words. Our souls speak as signifi
cantly by looks, tones or gestures
—the subtle vehicles of our more
delicate emotions, as they do by
set words and phrases. Indeed,
the soul has a thousand ways of
communicating itself.—Turnbull.
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