HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 

 HOME MAKING 



SCHOOL DAYS MEAN 



SCHOOL LUNCH AGAIN ^ 



School days with us again mean five 

 lunches to be packed every week. But 

 that school lunch is just a little different 

 from the lunch to be packed for the adult 

 members of the family. For that lunch 

 must take the place of the noon meal at 

 home which it is .safe to say is warm and 

 often more nourishing. An occasional 

 cold lunch is a matter of small concern 

 but a cold lunch every school day of each 

 year for the number of years the child 

 is in school is a matter of no small con- 

 cern. Teachers and parents are co- 

 operating to install equipment for a hot 

 lunch at the noon hour, or at least one hot 

 dish to supplement the cold lunch carried 

 from home. 



It has long since been proven that a 

 well chosen lunch supplemented with a 

 hot dish — any one of a number of milk 

 soups, scalloped dishes, cocoa or other 

 nourishing hot dishes — which may be 

 easily prepared at school are of definite 

 benefit to the school child. Did we but 

 know the facts many a delicate child of 

 those "good old times" was injured for 

 life because the cold lunch was either in- 

 digestible or not nourishing. Whatever 

 slows down the growth of the body also 

 interferes with the operations of the mind. 

 Health and proper development are the 

 inherent right of every boy and girl. Is 

 your boy or girl receiving his or her in- 

 herent right? 



Coopiralioa is the first prerequisite of 

 a hot lunch at school — and that coopera- 

 tion must include the parents, the 

 teachers, and the school children. It is 

 the exceptionable teacher who will not 

 lend her influence and eff'orts toward or- 

 ganizing a hot lunch if she knows the 

 parents and pupils want the hot lunch. 

 Ask your teacher or teachers about the 

 hot lunch, talk with your neighbor about 

 it, and see what interest and real action 

 you can arouse. Your child will be bene- 

 fited by having the better school lunch — 

 a hot lunch. 



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 quality are all reported. Added historic 

 interest, at least in New England, is lent 

 to the report by the inclusion of Roxbury 

 Russet, one time favorite New England 

 apple, with Baldwin, Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Gravenstein, in the varieties for test. 

 In total yield, through all the years, and 

 in the sum of all the plot treatments, 

 Roxbury Russet yielded only slightly less 

 than Baldwin and far more than Graven- 

 stein. The Greening led all the way. A 

 very striking result of the long test under 

 differing treatments is the picture of the 

 Russetts trees leading all the others on 

 those plots where the very worst kind of 

 treatment was given. It supports the 



Suggestions for the Children's 

 Lunch Basket 



1. Sandwiches with sliced tender meat 

 for filling, baked apple, cookies or a 

 few lumps of sugar. 



2. Slices of meat loaf; sandwiches, 

 stewed fruit, small frosted cakes. 



3. Crisp rolls, hollowed out and filled 

 with chopped hard cooked eggs 

 seasoned and mixed with salad 

 dressing, orange or apple or a mix- 

 ture of sliced fruits, plain cake. 



4. Cottage cheese sandwiches, celery, 

 jelly sandwiches, fruit cookies. 



5. Raisin bread, sandwiche.^, apple, 

 maple sugar. 



6. Celery sandwiches, jelly sandwiches, 

 cup custard, fruit. 



Add to each of the above suggestions 

 a bottle of milk. 

 "handy helps" i.x p.^cking the lunch 



1. The container. 



Well ventilated to prevent a staly 

 odor when opening the lunch. If a 

 tin bucket is used perforate the top 

 or sides by small nail holes. 



2. Use wax paper. Wrap each part of 

 the lunch se|*arately so flavor will not 

 intermingle. 



3. Include in the lunch box an individual 

 drinking cup. Many cold, and other 

 contagious diseases are spared the 

 child by so doing. 



4. Place the lunch in the container care- 

 fully — heavier articles and those to be 

 eaten last should be put in first so 

 all the lunch will not have to be taken 

 from the container in order to get 

 that part desired first. 



contention of old fashioned orchardists 

 that a Russet will stand more abuse than 

 any other apple, which perhaps accounts 

 for its popularity — or for the extinction 

 of its rivals. But Russets led only where 

 there was no fertilizer and no cultivation. 

 But under conditions of modern orchard 

 management, it yielded to both Baldwin 

 and Greening. 



Except for the rather interesting study 

 in varietal differences, attention must 

 center upon the eff^ects of the fertilizer 

 treatments during their four distinct 

 periods in the growth of the orchard. The 

 fertilizer treatment remained constant; 

 the management changed. For four 

 years the orchard was intercropped. 

 Then for eight years it was in sod, and 

 the hay was harvested twice each sum- 

 mer. For the next cycle of eight years 

 it was in sod mulch, the hay left on after 

 cutting. For the final ten years it has 

 been strip cultivation. 



During all the time down to 1916, con- 

 sistent applications of ten tons of manure 

 were fed to one plot ; one ton of ashes to 

 another; nothing at all to the third; 600 

 pounds of bone and 200 pounds of muriate 



AMERICA'S GREATEST 



LIVING WOMEN 



Who Are They ? 



Who are the twelve greatest living 

 American women? Women who have 

 achieved unqestionable successes attribu- 

 table to their own eff'orts, rather than to 

 wealth, or position, or chance? This 

 question, recently set in motion by the 

 National League of Women Voters, has 

 caused considerable stir. The idea was 

 originated by Senorita Mandujano, a 

 South American woman who came to the 

 United States as a delegate to the recent 

 Pan-American Conference. This South 

 .American woman was greatly impressed 

 with the achievements of the women of 

 the United States and asked for a list 

 of about twelve of the "greatest". Mrs. 

 Maud Wood Park, President of the 

 National League of Women Voters, 

 readily consented to furnish the list and 

 at first it seemed an easy task but when 

 it came to the actual selection of the 

 twelve, Mrs. Park called upon the public 

 to suggest names. The idea appealed to 

 women leaders everywhere and lists were 

 sent in from all over the country. The 

 names filed in the League's list include: 

 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Maud 

 Wood Park, Miss .Jane Adams, Miss Ida 

 Tarbell, Miss Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Mar- 

 garet Deland, Mrs. Edith Wharton, Mrs. 

 Mary Roberts Rhinehart, Miss Julia 

 Lathrop, Mrs. Helen Gardner, Miss Maud 

 Adams, Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. 

 Anna Ernberg, Miss Alice Paul, Mrs. 

 Harriet Taylor Upton, Miss Alice Robert- 

 son, Miss Jeannette Rankin, Dr. Alice 

 Hamilton of Harvard, Miss Abby Mar- 

 latt. Miss Anita Loos, M. Carey Thomas, 

 Miss Anna A. Gordon and a hundred 

 more. 



Since women are more and more 

 coming into prominence it behooves us to 

 know who our most prominent women are. 

 How many of these can you tell who they 

 are and what they are doing? If you 

 can't place them, look them U]) at your 

 own library. 



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Just as the paper goes to print we are 

 able to announce that the new Home 

 Agent has been appointed. Miss Mildred 

 Boice, of Conway, Mass., who is now the 

 agent in Washington County, Vt., will 

 join the Hampshire County staff on Dec. 

 1st. 



of potash to the fourth ; and the same 

 weight of bone with 400 pounds of sul- 

 fate of potash and magnesia to the fifth 

 plot. The various responses in the difl'er- 

 ent cycles make reasonably clear that .soil 

 management as well as plant food appli- 

 cations have material influence on yield 

 and growth. 



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