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BETTER FRUIT 



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PAINTS 



FORMULAE 







Thosp neglected fruit trees— you will find them everywhere— perhaps you 

 have them in your own yard or out in the orchard, that for some reason or 

 other you have failed to take care of in years gone by and now class them as 

 non-producers, worthless except for shade. 



You are surely going to give them attention this spring, as well as every other tree, vine, shrub, 

 I,,,!™ D Unt about the place, on which you depend for your fruits, berries and vegetables^ Start 

 SSvt will t hi, v ■> >(.f ire Hardening and planting time. Trim up your trees and plants and put 

 new lift 'into them, so thej 'will amount to something and do their bit when the tune eoraes. 



whether vou raise fruits or vegetables, you will need a spray pump of some kind so Wf recom- 

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Pa where vou will vou will And these Spray Pumps doing things in the spraying world— spraying 

 ,J p° lr ", ,,h,,s "iVewash g and painting, disinfecting and innumerable other ,obs-because hey 

 trees and Plants. » ™- '7,„',i, ,, SDe ed capacity and ei-ononiical use of mixtures, and for these 

 ££f%^V*£«%^i™6Vri™<& everywhere-veteran or novice, you will appreciate 

 the elli.-ieul rprailng servhv of Myers Spray Pumps. 



Ask vour dealer or write us immediately about than—time is limited until you must get busy, and 

 when sou start we "want you to have a real lighting machine .., a Myers Spray Pump. 



Beautiful catalog by return mail on request. 



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April 



short time by the regulation of the ven- 

 tilators; the temperature ranges from 

 '.VI to 40 degrees. On examination of 

 several boxes of Winesap and Rome 

 Beauty apples a few days ago I found 

 them in excellent shape. 



Savory Stews 



Try them. They can be a whole meal 

 ami a nutritious one. These recipes 

 serve live people. Here is an English 

 stew that is especially good: 



Hot Pot of Mutton and Barley.— 1 

 1 pound mutton. Vz cup pearled barley. 

 1 tablespoon salt, 4 potatoes, 3 onions, 

 celcrly tops or other seasoning herbs. 

 Cut the mutton in small pieces and 

 brown with the onion in fat cut from 

 meat. This will help make the meat 

 tender and improves the flavor. Pour 

 this into a covered sauce pan. Add two 

 quarts water and the barley. Simmer 

 for \Vi hours. Then add the potatoes 

 cut in quarters, seasoning herbs, and 

 seasoning, and cook one-half hour 

 longer. 



Beef Stew. — 1 pound beef, 4 potatoes 

 cut in quarters, M peck peas or 1 can, 

 1 cup carrots cup up small, 1 teaspoon 

 salt. Cut the meat in small pieces and 

 brown in the fat from the meat. Sim- 

 mer in two quarts of water for one 

 hour. Add the peas and carrots and 

 cook for one-half hour, then add the 

 potatoes. If canned peas are used, add 

 them ten minutes before serving. Serve 

 when potatoes are done. 



Meat Pies. — Another good way to use 

 a little meat. Have you ever used rice, 

 cornmeal mush or hominy for a crust? 

 This is less work than a pastry crust 

 and saves wheat: 4 cups cooked corn- 

 meal, rice or hominy; 1 onion, 2 cups 

 tomato, Vs teaspoon pepper, 1 table- 

 spoon fat, 1 pound raw meat or left- 

 over meat cut up small, V-i teaspoon salt. 

 Melt the fat, add the sliced onion and, 

 if raw meat is used, add it and stir until 

 the red color disappears. Add the to- 

 mato and seasoning. If cooked meat is 

 used, add it with the tomato and season- 

 ing, after the onion is browned, and 

 heat through. Grease a baking dish, 

 put in a layer of the cereal, add the 

 meat and gravy, and cover with the 

 cereal dotted with fat. Bake for half 

 an hour. 



square and equipped with two shutters 

 spaced two feet apart in the ventilator, 

 which are opened or closed by a single 

 rope from below. 



The sides and roof being covered with 

 wire netting, they were then covered 

 with a heavy layer of straw, evenly dis- 

 tributed, and then covered with four or 

 six inches of dirt. The dirt was hoisted 

 by the use of a hay derrick and a spe- 

 cially made box with a trip buttom, 

 which facilitated the work. 



The floor of the storage was con- 

 structed with 2x4's laid in rows on the 

 dirt floor flat, with 8-inch pieces of 2x4 

 set upright for posts and another row 

 of 2x4's laid flat on top. There is about 

 20 inches between these rows, which 

 allows us to tier the packed boxes so as 



to economise in space. This flood con- 

 struction raises the apples a foot from 

 the dirt floor and allows free circula- 

 tion of air under and up through the 

 tiers. With plenty of room in such a 

 storage, the tiers would be six high and 

 fourteen deep for convenient handling. 

 There is room in the above described 

 storage for seventy-two tiers of eighty- 

 four boxes. However, this year we 

 tiered eight and nine high and utilized 

 all the space in the ten-foot driveway 

 through the building. Two sets of doors 

 are provided at each end of the storage 

 and three thermometers, one near each 

 end of the building and one in the 

 middle. 



We are able to raise or lower the 

 temperature several degrees in a very 



Get rid of the rats and gophers and 

 all unnecessary pests that destroy the 

 crops. 



Do not fail to spray for fungus, com- 

 monly called scab. In some sections 

 two sprays are enough, but in wet cli- 

 mates of the Northwest it is usually 

 necessary to put on the semi-dormant, 

 the pink, one in the calyx, one in two 

 weeks after, according to weather con- 

 ditions. 



Many do not understand why the 

 Allies do not eat some flours and meals 

 which we are asked to eat. One reason 

 is that many of them are apt to become 

 wormy in shipment abroad. 



The food situation among our Allies 

 is grave, yet there will be plenty in 

 America to spare, if we conserve more 

 and increase production. 



