FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



HOME MAKING 



WHY CAN TOMATOES? 



The tomato was at first called the 

 "love-apple," and although we know of no 

 love charm which it exerts, modern 

 scientists have found that it is one of the 

 most important vegetables in the Ameri- 

 can dietary today. 



When we are being urged these days to 

 use raw vegetables whenever possible, it 

 is consoling to know that canned tomatoes 

 are almost as valuable in the diet as the 

 fresh ones. Besides adding color to a 

 meal, tomatoes contain minerals, organic 

 acids and Vitamin C, so necessary in pre- 

 venting scurvy. This vitamin is general- 

 ly quite easily destroyed by cooking, but 

 the acid in the tomato helps to preserve 

 it even when cooked or canned. 



Of course every housewife will want to 

 use fresh tomatoes when they are in sea- 

 son and plentiful, but in the winter when 

 the fresh ones are beyond the reach of 

 most of us, it is comforting to know that 

 this vegetable canned has an impoi-tant 

 place in the diet. It may be substituted, 

 either fresh or cooked, for orange juice, 

 and is given to very young babies. To 

 be certain that enough Vitamin C is con- 

 tained in the diet, orange or tomato juice 

 should be served to children and adults 

 at least twice a week. 



Now is the time to prepare for next 

 winter's supply. There is no vegetable 

 more easily canned than the tomato, and 

 none which will give you more health and 

 satisfaction next winter. 



MISS KNIGHT PREPARES 



LIVING ROOM PROJECT 



A new project which promises to be 

 very popular has just been prepared by 

 Miss Bertha Knight, State Clothing 

 Specialist. It is a study of the living 

 room and includes four outlines of sub- 

 ject matter and requires four all day 

 meetings. 



1. Organization Meeting and Score 

 Card. 



2. Color and its Application to Walls 

 and wall coverings. 



Floor and Floor Coverings. 



3. Curtains and Draperies, selection, 

 making, hanging. 



4. Furniture selection and arrange- 

 ment. 



5. Pictures, selection, framing, hang- 

 ing, and detail furnishings. 



The subject matter has been organized 

 for leaders and we hope we can have a 

 leader training group in Hampshire 

 County. We would like to hold the meet- 

 ings in a home and have this home used 

 as a demonstration. In this home we can 

 make changes and carry on a demonstra- 

 tion so that the women can see actual re- 

 sults. 



If you are interested in this project 



AGENT SPENDS INTERESTING 

 MONTH VISITING KITCHENS 



Many Women Make Changes 



The Home Demonstration Agent visited 

 the kitchens of the following people this 

 last month. 



Bdchertoivv; Mrs. Cora S. Newman, 

 Mrs. E. F. Shumway, Mrs. J. W. Hurl- 

 burt, Mrs. F. O. Lincoln, Mrs. D. C. 

 Randall. 



Prescott ; Mrs. H. A. Reed, Mrs. Alice 

 Doubleday, Mrs. Harry A. Upton, Mrs. 

 Charles Turkey, Mrs. Grace Grout, Mrs. 

 Ruth R. Allen, Mrs. Ethel .J. Davis, Mrs. 

 H. P. Pierce. 



Enfield; Mrs. H. O. Stevens, Mrs. H. C. 

 Web.ster. 



Pelham; Mrs. William Chaffee. 



Gonhen; Mrs. Claude Hill, Miss F. H. 

 Boltwood, Mrs. Florence Beals, Mrs. Her- 

 bert Bissell, Mrs. Sears. 



Williamsburf) ; Mrs. Frank Thayer, 

 Mrs. Harold Packard. 

 , Some of the changes that have been 

 made in these kitchens since the extension 

 schools held in .January are: 



3 oiled floors 



3 waxed linoleum 



2 purchased new congoleum rugs 



3 new floors laid 



-5 papered and painted kitchens; bufl" or 



grey were green or brown 

 1 in.stalled delco system-had light over 



sink 

 1 had drain board built 



1 had drop leaf table built for drain 

 board 



2 had zinc covered table or drain board 

 1 had castors on kitchen table 



1 had purchased new Maytag wa.shing 

 machine (gasoline motor) 



3 had re-arranged small equipment. 



TRUTHFUL DEATH CERTIFICATES 



Some day we will tell the truth in the 

 death certificates and the reports will be 

 made out like this: 



"Died after thirty years of overeat- 

 ing." 



"Smothered himself to death ; worked 

 and slept in unventilated room." 



"Poisoned by his wife; who used wrong 

 cooking methods." 



"Burned out; slept only six hours a 

 night." 



"Killed by high living." 



Good health is a luxury that all of us 

 can enjoy if we are willing to play the 

 game on a long law of averages. 



— London Life Magazine. 



and would like to have it in your com- 

 munity program this year, talk it over 

 with your friends and get in touch with 

 the Home Demonstration Agent at 

 Northampton. 



HOME HAPPENINGS 



Some of the people who have been re- 

 ceiving the bulletins on vegetable gar- 

 dening, and have fine gardens to show 

 they used the information, are: Mrs. 

 Fred Parsons, Enfield; Mrs. G. H. Rus- 

 sell, Huntington; A. H. Streeter, Cum- 

 mington-; Mrs. William Boetcher, South 

 Hadley Center. 



Ten of the girls and women in Plain- 

 field wanted to use their hands and rest 

 their heads this summer, so they have 

 been reseating chairs for their recrea- 

 tion. They have been using the barn of 

 Miss Clara Hudson for their work.shop 

 and have found it an ideal place to do 

 such work. One young lady mu.st have 

 used her head as well as her hands be- 

 cause she caned a whole chair with the 

 exception of putting on the binding, in 

 one afternoon. 



The Packardsville ladies are going to 

 make felt hats this month. They will 

 meet at Miss Alice Collis' home for an 

 all day meeting Aug. 11 to start their 

 work. 



WHERE TO GET HELPFUL HINTS 



This is the season when women raise 

 the despairing wail — "What on earth 

 shall I cook?" We have had quite a 

 flood of attractive booklets recently in 

 which you will surely find that some- 

 thing new and "diff"erent." Among 

 them are: 



"Famous Cooks' Recipes for Raisin 

 Cookery" and "The Story of Raisins" 

 from Sun-Maid Raisin Gi-owers of Cali- 

 fornia, Dept. B-4704 Fresno, California. 



"Salads, Suppers, Picnics" — Francis H. 

 Liggett and Co., North River, 27th and 28 

 St., New York, N. Y. 



Heinz Book of Salad.s — H. J. Heinz 

 Company, Pittsburg, Pa. 



.50 Ways to Use Tomato Flavor — Cur- 

 tice Bros. Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



100 Delicious Foods from 4 Basic Rec- 

 ipes — Pillsbury Milling Co., Minneapolis, 

 Minnesota. 



Round Oak Recipes — Home Economics 

 Dept., The Beckwith Co., Dowagiac, 

 Michigan. 



Health, Growth, and Happiness for 

 Boys and Girl.s — Ralston Purina Com- 

 pany, St. Louis, Missouri. 



"Foods from Sunny Lands" — Hills 

 Bros., Co., Dept. 42, 375 Washington St., 

 New York, N. Y. 



Miss May McDonald, Monarch Home 

 Service Department, Malleable Iron 

 Range Co., Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, has 

 some interesting material on ranges and 

 how to get the most out of them which 

 will fit in with either food preparation or 

 home management projects. 



