HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARM BUREAU MONTHLY 

 HOME MAKING 



FIRELESS COOKER 



ON DUTY EVERY DAY 



Southampton Woman Makes Use of it 

 in Many Ways 



Mrs. Ida W. Strong of Southampton, 

 has made a fireless cooker and used it to 

 good advantage. She writes enthusi- 

 astically to the Home Demonstration 

 Agent as follows: — 



"The fireless cooker you helped us 

 make is cei'tainly a great success and I 

 want to tell you what a help it has been 

 to me during the past week. You were 

 here Tuesday. That night I put oatmeal 

 in for breakfast and it was so delicious, 

 we have to cook it that way all of the 

 time now. Wednesday noon we enjoyed 

 boiled onions for dinner with no disa- 

 greeable odor in the house. At supper, I 

 served macaroni and cheese from the 

 fireless. 



"Thursday afl'orded a cream of potato 

 soup. Friday I was scheduled for Red 

 Cross all day, so Thursday evening, ham 

 and cabbage accompanied the oatmeal; 

 in the morning I reheated the ham and 

 cabbage and added the potatoes to the 

 cooker, so that when I came home at 

 noon, a fine dinner was waiting for me. 

 Saturday noon I made an old-fashioned 

 hasty pudding in it and for dinner Sun- 

 day, the cooker furnished a fine dinner 

 of boiled cod and potatoes and chocolate 

 steamed pudding, and for supper, a split 

 pea soup. 



"I wonder why I didn't have a fireless 

 cooker long ago, and it is with many 

 thanks to you now that I have one." 



WASHES BY ELECTRICITY 



Middlefieid Woman Neither Breaks Her 

 Back Nor Turns a Wringer 



Mrs. E. H. Alderman relieves the de- 

 pressing eft'ects of Blue Monday by using 

 a washing machine, run by electricity. 

 Middlefieid, like many other towns never 

 gets acquainted with electricity except 

 during a thunder storm, but a Delco 

 Lighting System in Mr. Alderman's shed 

 furnishes juice enough to light his house 

 and run the washing machine. 



This machine seems to be a handy con- 

 trivance. It consists of the regular 

 washing machine in which the clothes 

 are washed. From this first tub they 

 pass through a wringer into a second 

 tub for wrinsing, and from this tub they 

 pass through anothe r wringer into a 

 third tub for further treatment, and fi- 

 nally they go through the third wringer 

 and di'op into the clothes basket. 



The machine and all the wringers are 

 run by a small electric motor, the power 

 for which comes from the Delco system. 

 Mr. Alderman, himself, designed this 

 particular system of laundering and the 

 Bluffington Washing Machine Company 

 made the outfit for him for .$38. The 

 Delco system cost $300. These, of course, 

 were pre-war prices, but the combination 

 is a worth-while investment for any 

 farm home. 



CUMMINGTON CHILDREN 



TO BRUSH TEETH 



Order Tooth Brushes from Florence 

 Company 



"A Clean Tooth Never Decays," is the 

 slogan of over sixty Cummington chil- 

 dren who have ordered tooth brushes 

 fi-om the Florence Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. 



The teachers of Cummington have ta- 

 ken a special interest in this particular 

 line of child welfare work, and what 

 promises to be a thoroughly worth while 

 campaign has just been begun. The 

 Florence Manufacturing Company has 

 made it possible for the children to ob- 

 tain good brushes at a reduced price. 

 Much interest is being taken in the pro- 

 ject. 



To Demonstrate Use of Milk 



On March 26 and 27, Miss Belcher of 

 M. A. C. has been asked to go to the 

 Easthampton Mothers' Club, the First 

 Church Mothers' Club (Northampton) 

 and to the women of Florence, and dem- 

 onstrates "Ways of Using Milk in Chil- 

 dren's Diet." The State Department of 

 Health Exhibit of Foods for children 

 will also be shown. 



Prune Recipes 



PRUNES BEFORE BREAKFAST 



Take 4 large-sized prunes. Soak over 

 night. Eat while dressing. 



PRUNES AND APRICOT SAUCE 



12 prunes, 8 dried apricots, '^ c. Karo 

 syrup or I4 c. sugar, 2 cups hot water. 

 Put into boiler and keep simmering for 2 

 hours. Better still, cook in fireless cooker. 



BAKED APPLES STUFFED WITH PRUNES 



Core 6 large apples. Fill with 2 un- 

 cooked prunes stoned. Add water while 

 baking. 



PRUNE JUICE FOR BABIES 



Cook ,H lb. prunes in lU cups of water 

 for 6 hours slowly. Give juice to a 9- 

 months to a I'^-year-old baby — 1 to 2 

 tablespoonfuls once a day. Prune pulp 

 may be added to juice when child is ll< 

 years old. 



PRUNE SANDWICH 



4 prunes, 6 slices of bread, '/, teaspoon 

 lemon juice, '_, cup Karo syrup" or '-^ cup 

 of sugar. Boil prunes in i_i cup Karo, fill 

 cup with hot water. Stone, add lemon 

 juice, and reduce to a paste. Use as fill- 

 ing for sandwich. 



Concluded on page 7 



BUYS SANITARY DRINKING TANKS 



For Use In Public Schools 



The old-time water bucket is no longer 

 in use in Southampton as a container of 

 drinking water for school children. The 

 adult Home Economics Club has bought 

 water coolers for use in all the schools 

 in town. This is a note-worthy ac- 

 complishments, along lines of community 

 betterment, and may well find a place in 

 the program of similar clubs in other 

 towns. 



Mrs. Reed opened the Clothing Exten- 

 sion School in South Amherst, February 

 2.5, with a lecture on "Better Dressing on 

 Smaller Expenditures." The better dress- 

 ing meant line, color, and individuality, 

 and the smaller expenditures included 

 time, energy, material and money. Miss 

 Belcher and the Home Demonstration 

 Agent carried on the practice work of 

 the school for the balance of the week. 



Notes on the Care of Clothes 



Mend your clothes as soon as they tear. 

 Air your clothes before putting them 



away. 

 Hang your clothes up so they will not 



become wrinkled. 

 Sponge and press woolen dresses and 



skirts and coats. 

 Launder shirt waists at home if you can. 

 Keep all buttons and hooks and eyes 



carefully sewed on. Avoid pins. 

 When skirt bands wear out put on new 



ones. 

 Put new ruffles and facing on old petti- 

 coats. 

 Make your own corset covers at home. 

 Clean your own corsets; remove the 



bones, wash and dry the corsets, re- 

 Concluded on page 7 



Both clothing experts, Mrs. Reed and 

 Mrs. Woolman, will speak at the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College on Thurs- 

 day, March 20, during Farmers' Week. 

 It is hoped that many of the women of 

 the County will be able to go to Amherst 

 for that day. 



The Southampton Clothing group finds 

 that it can carry on Mrs. Reed's 

 work to fine advantage, by meeting in 

 small groups during the month. Last 

 month five women report that they helped 

 others to complete the work to date. This 

 means that they are getting ready for an- 

 oher advanced school in Clothing Effi- 

 ciency. 



Many women in the county find the 

 Household account pamphlet very helpful 

 in keeping track of expenditures. Miss 

 Gifl'ord will be in the County the first 

 part of March and will be glad to give 

 help to any individual or group that de- 

 sires assistance along that line. 



