736 Popular Science Monthly 



Dry Your Fruit and Vegetables at 

 Home with an Evaporator 



THE evaporator method of canning 

 fruits and vegetables takes from one 

 and one half to five hours. Peas, corn, beans, 

 cherries and strawberries can be dried on 

 the evaporator in from 

 two to three hours 

 Apples cut with parer 

 corer, and slicer wil 

 dry in one and 

 half hours. The 

 water chamber 

 is filled about 

 half full of water 

 to generate 

 steam, and heat 

 the surface upon 

 which the fruit 

 and vegetables 

 are placed. 



Or you may 

 accomplish the 

 same result by 

 slicing your fruit 

 and vegetables 

 and forcing air 

 at room tem- 

 perature across them with an electric fan. 

 This process is slower than the one described 

 above, but it is equally as successful. 



A home-made evaporator can be made 

 similar to the one shown. Five or more 

 racks of wood with wire bottoms can be 

 placed on top of each other and the wind 

 forced against them. 



Steam is generated in a water chamber and 

 heats the pan in which the fruit is placed 



A curious feature of the great volume of 

 business which has been done in horses and 

 mules is the fact that the extraordinary de- 

 mand made by the war has not caused the 

 prices of these animals to rise. Indeed, horses 

 sold at an average of $109 per head on 

 January 1st, 1914, and at $103 per head on 

 January 1, 1917. 

 This is the effect 

 the war has had 

 on the prices of 

 farm animals. 



There are in 



the world 100,- 



000,000 horses, 



one fifth of 



which are in the 



United States, 



which accounts 



for the great 



number of horses this 



country has exported 



since the war began. 



Russia has 30,000,000 



horses while the United 



States numbers its 



available horses at 



22,000,000. 



Carry Your House Key in Its Own 

 Private Mesh Bag 



A 



Business Is Booming in War 

 Horses and Mules 



DESPITE the fact that the great 

 war is being waged largely by 

 means of mechanical devices, horses and 

 mules have played an important part 

 in it. Up to the present time 920,000 

 horses and 330,000 mules have been 

 sent to the theater of war from the 

 United States. The value of the 

 horses which have been exported is 

 $194,000,000 and of mules $66,000,000. 

 The number of mules being sent to 

 the war is increasing from year to year. 

 The sagacity of the mule makes him 

 very valuable in war work. Most of the 

 horses and mules shipped from this country 

 go directly to France. Others are sent to 

 Great Britain and Canada and a few to 

 some of the other European countries. 



MESH bag for the door key has been 

 invented by Mrs.Olga Berghorn, of Jer- 

 sey City, N. J., so that the key need not get 

 lost among the contents of the pocket book. 

 The bag may be made of any size to 

 conform with any shape of key. When it is 

 desired to use the key, the bag is turned 

 upside down, exposing the key to view. 

 The inventor made her 

 key-bag to correspond 

 with her purse. 



The mesh bag for the door- 

 key. It fastens on the usual 

 purse as if a part of it, 

 and keeps the key separate 



