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BETTER FRUIT 



May 



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BEESUPPLIES 



THE GOVERNMENT EXPECTS YOU 



To increase your honey supply. You cannot do it unless 

 you provide yourself with the necessary 



HIVES FRAMES SECTIONS* 



FOUNDATION SUPERS MISCEL. EQUIPMENT 



Ask us to quote on your wants 

 Ask for our complete 1918 catalog 

 Ask for our latest price supplement 

 Ask us anything you want and if 

 possible we will cheerfully answer you 



HJ£§ Seattle & Portland 

 Western distributors of LEWIS BEEWARE 



BewareWhereYouBuyYourBeeWare 



parking place for automobiles will be 

 in charge of a watchman. 



Everyone in the Northwest who is 

 interested in agriculture and is follow- 

 ing the rapid development of modern 

 farm power machinery with its won- 

 derful time and labor-saving possibili- 

 ties should not miss the great oppor- 

 tunity of seeing this machinery at work 

 side by side in one large field. For 

 other information communicate with 

 the Department of Agricultural Engi- 

 neering, State College of Washington, 

 Pullman, Washington. 



Get That Canning Impulse 



Make your hoe this summer keep 

 your can opener busy next winter. 



Get ready for canning season now. 

 Regrets are the only things ever canned 

 in the jars you forgot to order. 



Can nothing that can be kept with- 

 out canning. Dry such vegetables as 

 corn, siring beans, navy beans, mature 

 lima beans, okra, etc. 



You can brag about your garden all 

 winter if you have your canned evi- 

 dence on the dinner table. 



Concentrate products, especially soup 

 mixtures, so that each container will 

 hold as much canned food and as little 

 water as possible. 



Really there is nothing to canning 

 fruit and vegetables except care, clean- 

 liness, fresh products, jars and heat. 



diverted from the Cuban trade. The 

 consumer is asked to estimate his needs 

 and fill out a certificate which will be 

 furnished him by his grocer. The 

 dealer is required to forward this cer- 

 tificate to the Federal Food Adminis- 

 trator within one week after it is turned 

 in to him. This plan puts the question 

 up to the individual, and the Food Ad- 

 ministration asks the assistance of every 

 householder in bringing about a prac- 

 tical distribution. The success of the 

 plan depends on the good sense and 

 good will of the American citizen. Co- 

 operation, prompt action and a demo- 

 cratic sense of fair play will prevent a 

 sugar shortage in America during the 

 fruit season. 



J. E. Larson, well known in every 

 county of Oregon as a seed and crop 

 expert, has been engaged by the Port- 

 land Seed Company to give practical 

 help to farmers and gardeners in seed 

 selection and in solving problems of 

 planting, cultivation and harvesting. 

 Larson resigned as county agriculturist 

 of Polk County to enter the broader 

 field. For four years he was in charge 

 of the crop extension work of Oregon 

 Agricultural College. Before coming to 

 Oregon he was seed expert for Okla- 

 homa and South Dakota Agricultural 

 Colleges, and was field editor for one 

 of the Orange Judd farm papers in the 

 Dakotas. Mr. Larson was born and 

 raised on an Iowa farm, and knows the 

 practical as well as the scientific side 

 of the farmer's problems. His engage- 

 ment by the big seed company should 

 prove of inestimable service to Pacific 

 Northwest farmers. Besides visiting 

 the rural districts he will reply to in- 

 quiries by mail. — Adv. 



Sugar Supplies for Home Canners. 



The submarine has forced fighting 

 Europe to a very strict sugar ration and 

 compelled America to look the situation 

 squarely in the face. There is only so 

 much sugar, there are certain definite 

 needs, and the problem before us is 

 finding a practical plan of distribution. 

 The Food Administration has adopted a 

 certificate system to meet the household 

 needs during the coming fruit season, 

 and to guard against temporary short- 

 ages that may occur if more vessels are 



New Flours in Old Recipes. 



Many housekeepers have experimented 

 with the substitute cereals and know 

 just how to use them in muffins and 

 other breads. Weight for weight, these 

 flours and brans absorb the same 

 amount of moisture and require the 

 same measure of baking powder to raise 

 raise them as wheat flour. You can use 

 the new flours in old recipes if you sub- 

 stitute equal weights for the wheat flour 

 called for. A cup of wheat flour sifted 

 and measured lightly weighs 4 ounces. 

 The equivalent of 4 ounces of substi- 

 tutes expressed in cups is as follows: 

 One cup (4 ounces) wheat flour equals 

 1% cups barley flour, 1 cup corn flour, 

 1 cup fine corn meal, % cup coarse corn 

 meal, % cup buckwheat, % cup rice 

 flour, % cup hominy grits, % cup rolled 

 oats (ground). The above equivalents 

 represent an average on these flours, 

 but different mills turn out different 

 grades of flour and weight is the safest 

 guide. If you have no scales, sift flour 

 and measure lightly in a measuring cup. 



War Savings Certificates, modeled on 

 the English plan, were introduced in 

 India in the summer of 1917. The price 

 of issue was 7 rupees 12 annas (7% ru- 

 pees) for a certificate worth 10 rupees 

 at the end of five years. On December 

 '31, 1917, this issue has brought nearly 

 $100,000,000, and in the central prov- 

 inces, where the number of subscribers 

 to previous Indian Government loans 

 had never exceeded 100 people, more 

 than 600,000 people have bought War 

 Savings Certificates. 



Good business as well as patriotism 

 urges support of the Government in its 

 financial needs. There is no class of 

 Americans more than the farmers of 

 the nation whose own welfare is so 

 indissolubly bound up with that of the 

 United States Government. Buy Thrift 

 Stamps. 



"The one sure way to supply the 

 supreme need for food," reads a proc- 

 lamation by Governor Bickett of North 

 Carolina, "is to man the bread line with 

 the woman power, the boy power and 

 the girl power of the state." 



"Farmers are sometimes the last to 

 heat up; but they stay hot; and in a long 

 fight they are always found sturdily 

 carrying the battle across No-Man's 

 Land to the foe, in the last grim strug- 

 gle." — Herbert Quick. 



For two years not a single new pleas- 

 ure motor car has been made in Eng- 

 land. Luxury business has ceased. The 

 English are leading strenuous lives, but 

 are prospering. 



"Make your acres tote double," says 

 the Progressive Farmer. 



We'll substitute corn for wheat and 

 victory for defeat. 



NOW is the time to send to 



Milton Nursery Company 



MILTON, OREGON 



FOR THEIR 1918 CATALOG. 



FULL LINE OF NURSERY STOCK. 



"Genuineness and Quality" 



