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on the farm. Mrs. Charles Blackmore of Akron had used the following 

 recipes with excellent success : 



For Canning Peas. — Fill the can as full of peas as possible. Shake them and 

 fill full of cold water. Screw the tops of the cans on tight. Put the cans into a 

 large boiler and allow the water to boil for two hours around the cans. There 

 should be enough water in the boiler to completely cover the cans. 



Another plan for canning without steaming is as follows, and several 

 woman in the audience said they had been successful with this method : 



For Corn. — Cut the com from the cob and pack tightly in cans, using a small 

 wooden potato masher to cram the corn intO' the cans, thus getting all the air out. 

 Use Vz teaspoon of salt for each can. Screw the tops on tight and place in th?-. 

 boiler. This recipe requires boiling for three hours. Others had tried the method 

 of placing the corn into jars with a large amount of salt in the corn, packing it and 

 covering it tight. The corn while quite salty when ready to use on the table is 

 cooked when it loses much of its saltiness and has a very excellent flavor. 



Water-supply. — One of our readers has asked an interesting question 

 regarding the water-supply on the farm. This is one that will interest 

 many persons, inasmuch as every farmer has to work out this problem, 

 lacking the public supply of water and a sewer system as is found in the 

 city. The reader says : 



" Our house is built on the lowest point on the farm. Our water 

 from a spring some distance from the house is on a level with the floors. 

 How can a drain be satisfactorily arranged? How can the water be 

 brought to the house? We have tried a pump, but it is easier to bring 

 the water by hand than work the pump. Could flowing water be arranged 

 in the kitchen? Would a cess pool be sanitary? These are questions 

 over which I have pondered for four years. Can you give me a satisfac- 

 tory solution ? " 



Another member of the Farmers' Wives Course says : 



*' I am contemplating a sewer system, getting water from a mountain 

 about 300 feet elevation. What pressure can I get from one and one-half 

 inch pipe? What kind of pipe would you advise using, lead or iron? " 



These questions were submitted to Prof. Ogden, College of Civil 

 Engineering, Cornell University, who replied as follows : 



" It is very difficult to solve a topographical problem without a map 

 or levels, or without having seen the ground and the topographical condi- 

 tions. It does not seem possible to me that the house can * be built on 

 the lowest point of the farm ' because if it were so there would be a pond 

 of water accumulated there. There must be a depression running out 

 from this low place in some direction, although perhaps on to another 

 person's land, but, even so, giving drainage to the farm. With the water 



