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fever? This always breaks out in midwinter when the catalogues begin 

 to come with their gorgeous pictures of the things one is going to raise. 

 What more fun could one ask on a blizzardy day in January than sitting 

 with ruler and pencil poring over the catalogues and making a maj) of 

 the garden that is to be, putting down every tomato plant, pepper, hill 

 of cucumbers and in her mind's eye seeing just how they are going to 

 look? They may never look that way but the pleasure has been oure. 

 The thi-ill of deciding what thing you have never raised before you will 

 try this year! Be sure to have at least one such thing. 



No matter how hot and dry the summer, how fast the weeds grow or 

 how tired we get, the woman Avho has aided Nature in perfecting a 

 beautiful fruit, flower or vegetable has aided in an artistic effort, if she 

 cannot draw a straight line or tellone note from another. Then the good 

 healthful meals on our tables, the rows of delicious finiits and vegetables 

 in the cellar amply repay us all our efforts. 



"In the midst of duties, in these busy days, don't fail to grasp each 

 moment of life and pleasure and let us not put off enjoyment until we 

 can find leisure to enjoy the big things, or time will pass and we shall 

 find that we have never lived at all". 



Q. Do you think it is necessary for the wife to take an interest in her 

 husband's work on the farm? 



A. I think a certain amount of interest — perhaps not an interest in 

 all the annoying things. 



Q. Does the fireless cooker shorten our work in the home? 



A. I have a fireless cooker and it was one of the finest made at 

 the time it was purchased. I think the newer ones are more assistance. 

 I seldom use mine in the winter but sometimes do in. the summer. 

 ] do not like it for quick cooking. 



Mrs. Chappell: I have a fireless cooker and it is one that I use a 

 soap-stone with. I like it very much for things that need long cooking, 

 such as meats, some breakfast foods and suck things. I think that 

 potatoes cooked in it have a very peculiar tasie. I put my meat in the 

 cooker in the morning and do not open it until dinner and it is the 

 most tender and delicious meat I ever ate. 



Mrs. Smythe: We use our fireless only for cereals because we like 

 those that need long cooking. We put them in the cooker and let them 

 stay all day. 



Q. I would like to ask if von know anvthing about the iceless ice- 

 box? 



A. I presume the gentleman has read the same as I have about 

 them. I think they are used in California and other places where it is 

 not so very warm. It is kept in the shade, over which there is a circu 

 lation of air. The sides are made of some porous material and water 

 runs over it continuously. 



Q. Perhaps, I ought to explain. I have for twelve years been a 

 milkman and if anyone can suggest a new method for cooling milk 

 and keei)ing same, I shall be glad. I have found that to place same 

 on north side of the house in a hole is the most satisfactory way of 

 keeping milk outside of a good old-fashioned cellar. I saw this sug- 

 gestion in an agricultural paper and I have told most of my customers 

 and they have found it very satisfactory in keeping milk. I 1 bought 

 there might be some other wavs that I had not heard of. 



