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those just out of the garden than cold-storage 

 fish with trout just out of the water. 



The best trout I ever ate were three that I 

 caught one summer in Yellowstone Park, and 

 then promptly killed and cooked without taking 

 them off the hook. One I boiled, another was 

 steamed, the third baked on a hot stone. The 

 boiling water, the steam, and the hot stone 

 were those of a geyser on the edge of a cool 

 stream. If you think this is a "fish story" let 

 me recall the fact that General Grant performed 

 a similar feat on a geyser cone in Yellowstone 

 Park. 



HOW CORN LOSES ITS SWEETNESS 



A cooking cone like that would be a fine thing 

 to have in your garden, for really you cannot 

 get your own peas and pod beans, your young 

 carrots and beets, and above all your corncobs, 

 into the pot too soon. It is only from our own 

 garden, says a writer in the Country Gentle- 

 man, that sweet corn can be depended on to 

 be at its best, as it loses its sugary content soon 

 after pulling. "It has been proved that at the 

 end of twenty-four hours following pulling, 30 

 per cent of the sugar will have disappeared, and 

 in the next twenty-four hours about 25 per 

 cent. This leaves precious little sweetness in 

 our sweet corn if it has been kept for two 

 days." Yet that is the condition in which most 

 of the corn is eaten in our cities! 



