HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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SCHOOL CHILDREN DISPLAY 



SKILL IN POSTER DESIGNING 



"Milk, the life saver," which showed 

 a milk-bottle lighthouse, with a coffee- 

 pot floating on the angry waves and near- 

 ly ready to sink, was the title of a well- 

 drawn poster submitted by a fifth grade 

 child in the poster contest held during the 

 Madison, Wis., milk campaign. A poster 

 which won the sixth-grade prize showed 

 a baby lying in a hammock slung between 

 two milk-bottle supports marked "His 

 foundation for the future." 



A football hero in his fighting clothes, 

 with "Si»-boom-ah, he drinks milk," was 

 a close second in this class. 



In the seventh-grade competition the 

 prize was won with another football hero 

 wearing the cardinal, which is the color 

 of Wisconsin University, and booting the 

 ball over the goal. A milk bottle, also in 

 football togs, follows him, the title being 

 appropriately, "On, Wisconsin". In the 

 eighth-grade a poster entitled "Nature's 

 Best", a very realistic reproduction of a 

 dairy cow, won the prize. Uncle Sam 

 viewing a billboard which showed in large 

 letters, "Use more milk", was a close 

 second. 



The imagination and wealth of ideas 

 posses.sed by our American school boys 

 and girls have been brought out very 

 strikingly in the milk-poster contest held 

 in the schools of various cities and towns 

 throughout the United States, says a 

 milk specialist from the Dairy Division, 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture 



In the school-poster contests which 

 were held in connection with the 40 or 

 more milk campaigns in which the Dairy 

 Division has cooperated many clever de- 

 signs were worked out, and it seemed 

 after each contest that all the available 

 ideas on the food value of milk must 

 surely have been exhausted. In each con- 

 test, however, the children brought in a 

 surprising number of new and clever 

 ideas, as shown by the contest mentioned 

 above. 



"The milk-utilization work in the 

 schools, of which the poster contest is a 

 part, and which includes milk talks and 

 essay contests, has proved a very effec- 

 tive means of increasing the use of milk," 

 says the department specialist, "and is 

 now considered one of the most important 

 features of the milk campaign. 



Note 



HOME PREPARED 



CLEANING AGENTS 



All surfaces should be polished with a 

 smooth, fine substance to avoid the 

 sci-atching which gritty cleaning agents 

 often produce. 



SILVER POLI.SH 



5 pounds whiting, 1 quart boiling 

 water, 2 ounces castor oil, .1 package 

 pearline. Mix the whiting and pearline 

 together; add the boiling water and stir 

 until all lumps are removed. La.stly add 

 the castor oil and mix well. Store in 

 covered jars and in a cool place. 



FURNITUREPOLISH 

 1 pint linseed oil, 1 pint turpentine. 

 Combine the oil and tuipentine and mix 

 thoroughly. 



DUSTLES.S DU.ST CLOTH PREPARATION 



1 cup linseed oil, 1 cup turpentine, 1 

 cup kerosene. Saturate a piece of cheese 

 cloth in the mixtui-e above. Shake the 

 cloth out well, iron it and expose to the 

 air for a few hours. Dust cloths .so pre- 

 pared may be wa.shed several times with- 

 out retreating. 



DUSTLESS MOP 



1 cup kerosene, 1 cup melted paraffin. 

 Dip the mop into this until it is thorough- 

 ly saturated. To keep the mop moist it 

 should be enclosed in a large paper bag 

 when not in use. 



The Home Making Page is necessarily 

 made up of extracts from other papers 

 and bulletins this month. This is due to 

 the fact that Miss Carpenter, the Home 

 Demonstration Agent, has been confined 

 to her bed practically all of -July. 



The Editor. 



Continued from page 1, column :i 

 who bought their tobacco could not buy 

 the average crop in the neighborhood at a 

 price whereby he could get his money 

 back. 



The grower should get the type of to- 

 bacco best suited to his soil — either 

 Havana or Broadleaf. The so-called 

 "Mongrel" tobacco does not give satis- 

 faction to the manufacturers and brings a 

 low price. Seed beds should be sterilized 

 as it is insurance for healthy plants 

 necessary for a good crop. Do not at- 

 tempt to grow more than you can handle 

 properly as damage of any kind lowers 

 the value of the crop. 



Dr. Jenkins of Connecticut recommends 

 180 pounds ammonia, .50 pounds phos- 

 phoric acid and 200 pounds pota.sh per 

 acre with or without a light coat of ma- 

 nure. This formula should be made up 

 from cottonseed meal, fish and nitrate of 

 soda for ammonia ; acid phosphate or per- 

 cipitated bone for phosphoric acid; and 

 potash in sulphate of potash. 



In topping get down to a good sized 

 leaf. High topping detracts from the 

 weight and value of the leaves. 



Now for the harvesting. If you hang 

 your tobacco on the lath, which most of us 

 do, and you haven't low down racks, get 

 them, and when you get them, have them 



JELLY FAILURE MADE 



SUCCESS BY USE OF PECTIN 



.Jelly which will not "jell" may some- 

 times be reclaimed by the use of pectin. 

 A (luart of grape-juice which had re- 

 fused to become jelly was recently 

 brought into the experimental kitchen of 

 the Home Economics Office, United 

 States Department of Agriculture. By 

 the addition of a small amount of apple 

 pectin a firm, fine-flavored grape jelly 

 was obtained. Because of this success a 

 whole shelf full of jelly failures, from 

 which the sample was taken, can now be 

 redeemed. 



Many fruits, such as most berries and 

 certain grapes, peaches, and pears, con- 

 tain a comparatively small amount of 

 pectin, unless taken at exactly the right 

 stage of ripening; that is, before they are 

 fully ripe and ready for eating; or in 

 some cases they may be deficient in pectin 

 even when unripe. In such cases the re- 

 sult of adding the proportion of sugar 

 ordinarily used in jelly making and of 

 cooking by customary methods is a heavy 

 fruit syrup rather than a jelly. 



Pectin may be easily extracted from 

 apples, also from the citrus fruits, and 

 kept ready for use with juices that lack 

 this ingredient. 



built so that a man may stand on the 

 ground and hang the tobacco on the rack. 

 This requires a rack, the top of which is 

 about 5i ft. from the ground, and should 

 not have any bed pieces or reach. Such 

 racks are commonly used by the best 

 growers in Connecticut and should be 

 part of every good growers equipment, 

 and if you are growing good tobacco they 

 will pay for themselves the first year in 

 the amount of tobacco you will save from 

 breaking, because remember every wrap- 

 per leaf you break or bruise either in 

 harvesting or stripping has to go into 

 either a filler or binder and the difference 

 in price between fillers and wrappers to- 

 day is at least one dollar per pound. 



And speaking about fillers, the two or 

 three bottom leaves on the plant are not 

 good for anything else and it costs from 

 10 to 13 cents to sort them out and they 

 are only worth 5 to 7 cents. The best 

 thing to do is to leave them in the lot 

 when you are cutting the plant before you 

 lay it on the ground. Now then, sti-ing 

 your tobacco on the lath, and immediately 

 hang it on the wagon. This is the 

 method of all the best growers in Con- 

 necticut and it pays. 



When it comes to taking down and 

 stripping, don't be in such a hurry as to 

 take it down before it is properly cured. 

 A large portion of canker tobacco is 

 caused by taking down before it is prop- 

 erly cured. Also do not take it down too 

 Continued on page 5. c_-olumn 1 



