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BETTER FRUIT 



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BEFORE using Cement Coated Nails 



Western Cement Coated Nails 

 for Western Growers 



Our Cement Coated Nails are always of 

 uniform length, gauge, head and count. 

 Especially adapted to the manufacture of 

 fruit boxes and crates. In brief, they are 

 the Best on the Market. 



Write for Growers' testimonials. 



Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. 



DENVER, COLORADO 



Pacific Coast Sales Offices 



Portland, Spokane, San Francisco 



Los Angeles 



AFTER use of C. F. & I. Co.' 

 Cement Coated Nails 



Save the Home Garden Surplus 



THE crop of vegetables from home 

 gardens promises to be unusually 

 large in practically all sections of the 

 country this year, says the United 

 States Department of Agriculture in a 

 statement just issued. Home gardeners, 

 therefore, it is pointed out, should begin 

 now to plan so that the products raised 

 by them will be used to the best pos- 

 sible advantage, without waste. The 

 statement says: 



"There is likely to be an unusually 

 large production of vegetables from 

 small home gardens in most communi- 

 ties this year. Home gardeners, there- 

 fore, should lay their plans carefully so 

 that they will be in a position at the 

 appropriate time to make efficient use 

 of their garden produce, both by imme- 

 diate consumption and by preservation 

 by canning, drying, or in other ways, 

 so that no good food will be wasted. A 

 very material saving can be effected in 

 the food bill in many instances by hav- 

 ing the meals consist more largely of 

 the fresh home-grown vegetables and 

 less extensively of the non-perishable 

 foods bought from grocery stores. By 

 following this plan, also, garden own- 

 ers will relieve somewhat the demand 

 for the non-perishable foods. 



"Even with liberal use in the family 

 diet in a fresh state, however, there will 

 be considerable surpluses of vegetables 

 from many home gardens. These should 

 be saved in some way. Canning is the 

 method most usually employed, but it is 

 possible that cans and jars cannot be 

 obtained in sufficient quantities this 

 year to pack the surplus perishables. 

 In such cases many products easily can 

 be preserved by drying. By this method 

 surplus water is driven off by placing 

 sliced products on trays in the sun, over 

 a stove or before an electric fan. The 

 dried foods can be kept perfectly in 

 paper bags or boxes sufficiently tight to 

 exclude insects. Soaking in water will 

 bring the products back practically to 

 their original texture and they may 

 then be cooked like fresh vegetables. 



"In putting up vegetables and fruits 

 for future use the home gardener may 

 find the following suggestions useful: 

 If you can obtain cans and jars only in 

 limted numbers, can tomatoes and other 

 vegetables which cannot be dried 

 easily, and such fruits as you prefer 



in a juicy form. Wherever possible 

 concentrate succulent foods, such as 

 tomatoes. Preserve or jam the fruits 

 and berries which you prefer in that 

 form, and put them in glasses sealed 

 with paraffin or in wide-necked bottles. 

 Put fruit juices in ordinary bottles. 

 Dry practically any common vegetable 

 except asparagus, egg-plant, radishes, 

 lettuce and the like, and most fruits 

 except strawberries and native grapes. 

 The more importnat of the vegetables 

 that are usually dried are sweet-corn, 

 snap and string beans, shelled beans, 

 shelled peas, and the root crops. Toma- 

 toes, though consisting in large part of 

 water, are dried successfully by many 

 immigrants from Southern Europe. If 

 a considerable number of cans or jars 

 are at your disposal so that vegetables 

 may be canned be sure to include the 

 more nutritious such as green beans 

 and peas." 



"Corn Flour-Plus" Biscuit 



You can give up the use of wheat 

 flour and still enjoy hot biscuit for 

 breakfast. Corn flour is the answer. 

 This is a new product to most house- 

 keepers, but it promises to be well 

 known before wheat harvest, as the 

 production of corn flour has increased 

 500 per cent in the last eighteen months. 

 Corn makes a beautiful white flour, 

 delicate enough for a perfect sponge 

 cake or, what is more to the purpose, a 

 fine biscuit flour that browns like 

 French pastry. Corn flour combines 

 well with any of the substitute cereals 

 in making hot cakes, muffins and 

 biscuit. 



Corn Flour and Wheat Biscuit. — 2 

 cups corn flour, % cup wheat flour, 6 

 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon 

 salt, 3 tablespoons fat, 1 cup milk. 



Corn Flour and Buckwheat Biscuit. — 

 1% cups corn flour, \Vi cups buck- 

 wheat, 6 teaspoons baking powder, 1 

 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons fat, 1 cup 

 milk. 



Corn Flour and Rolled Oats Biscuit. — 

 1% cups corn flour, 1 cup ground oats, 

 6 teaspoons baking powder. I teaspoon 

 salt, 3 tablespoons fat, 1 cup milk. 



Sift dry materials together. Work in 

 fat well. Combine liquid and dry ma- 

 terial, handling lightly. Roll or pat 



one-half inch thick and cut as biscuit. 

 Bake in hot oven. The ground oats in 

 the last recipe are prepared by putting 

 rolled oats through the food chopper. 

 All measures are level. In measuring 

 the baking powder, level the spoons 

 with a knife. Drop biscuit require less 

 baking powder than rolled biscuit. 



Wheatless Loaf Bread 



Counties, towns, hotels and schools 

 have gone wheatless until next harvest. 

 Households are giving up wheatless 

 days for wheatless weeks and months, 

 while kitchens have been turned into 

 experiment stations to see just what 

 can be done with other cereals. Muf- 

 fins you know and cakes you know, but 

 have you made any wheatless loaf 



ladmilton] 



■ BANK ■ 



Fifty-nine Years 



of. continuous service to 

 the Northwest is the 

 record of this pioneer 

 bank. 



Today, as always, it 

 bears the reputation of 

 being at once conser- 

 vative and progressive 

 —a wise combination. 



We solicit accounts, 

 either personal or bus- 

 iness. 



Ladd & Tilton Bank 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



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