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JSfit! RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 21, 1017, 
Has been lighting Farm Homes and furnishing power for Water Systems, 
the Cream Separator, Churn, Washing Machine, Etc., for over Five years. 
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Saves 2 Horses 
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Farm Women’s Experience Club 
fipRTxr: OuKKNS. —.Tiist .ts surely .'is 
fxpi’iiiK roll.s around, as soon as the snow 
goe.g off, we start hunting for the horse¬ 
radish jilants that were such a nuisance 
last Suinnier. Did you ever try putting 
the cleaned roots through the iiut but¬ 
ter culler of the meat-chopper? And how 
good the parsnips taste, if we are for¬ 
tunate enough to have any in the garden ! 
Hut best of all is when, some bright 
.‘’tjiring morning, we take a good-sized 
market basket and a sharp knife, and go 
to the woods for a mess of cowslip greens, 
.Sometimes rhe creek is so high that we 
must edge around to get where the plants 
are thickest, and so letimes we make a 
misstep and get wet feet, but greens we 
must have, even if we take father’s hoots 
along to wade with. The children help 
for a few minutes, but they have urgent 
business among the Ilejiaticas, Spring 
beauties and Jtutchmen’s breeche.s. 
AVheu the basket is packi’d so full of 
reaching the jilace. As we drew nearer 
and saw the numerous teams and the 
crowd of men our spirits began to drop 
and we were reminded of what our 
neighbor predicted. However, the auc¬ 
tion hill had mentioned household furni¬ 
ture, and surely the women folk belong¬ 
ing to all these men would not trust, 
them to bu.v household furniture and not 
he within frowning or nodding distance! 
T’he jiroblem of _ what to do with our 
team was beginning to trouble us when 
someone suggested that we try to cat eh 
up with a I’ouple of neighbors who wore 
afoot and offer them a ride. It worked 
out all right—they very kindly looked 
after the horses. We found plenty of 
women in the house, and the auction .just 
started. Among other things were some 
Sanborn ehairs. Probably no one out¬ 
side of tliis p.-irtieular locality knows 
what Sanborn chairs are. Half a cen¬ 
tury ago there lived a man of that name 
Going to the Auction in Northern New York 
greens that we Inive to tie an ajiron over 
them or leave a leafy trail all the way 
hack, and the children are at least 
Iiartially satisfied with picking tiowers, 
we go home and look over and wash 
(‘iiough greens for dinner. A big kettle 
of boiling water, half-a-dozen thin slices 
of salt pork streaked with lean, and 
then the cow.^lips, with just a few buds 
left on, make in a little over an hour 
just the linest Spring dkili in the world. 
Ham and Bacon Fat. —What to do 
with the fat from ham and bacon is 
something of a problem. 'Some house¬ 
keepers are thrifty enough to make good 
soft soap, but we never had soap that 
was good <‘nough to pay for tlie bother 
unless we used the lye from wood ashes 
instead of concentrated lye; and when 
coal and oil arc the principal fuels us(‘d, 
it takes a long time to .save enough ashes 
for the leach. Pe.side.s, when lard i.s JO 
cents or more a pound, it seems waste¬ 
ful to u.s(‘ good fat tor soap-makiiig. 
Heretofore' we have used the best of the 
smoky fat for shortening in cake or 
cookies containing molasses and siiiecs. 
Poeently, however, an old honseke(‘i>er 
told us' to boil the fat with jilenty of 
water, and most cif the smok.v llavor 
would he removed. .After tlie lioiling, 
let the grease, cool and then iiour oil the 
water; repeat, if necessary. _'l'he smoki¬ 
ness <lisap|»ears, so that tlie fat is wliite 
and lit for iiie-criist or almost any cook¬ 
ing wliero lard is u.sed. One should he 
careful not to let the fat scorch when 
flying meat. Oven-frying is .'sia'cially 
good for that reason. 
Homemade Bakixcj PoivnER. — Here 
is .a reelin'' for baking-powder tliat I <’an 
recommend, having used it for over 
year. It was given to me by a domestic 
science student from (’ornell. One ])ound 
and two ounces of cream of tartar, one- 
half pound of baking soda, 'one-fuiirth 
p.Hind of cornstarch. Sift together I- 
times and pack lightly in tin or glass 
cans. This makes a pound and 34 ounces 
of the very best baking-powder. 
A 
t ion 
Farm 
might 
At'CTiON. —Going to an auc- 
s(‘em like rather an unusual 
exporienee for several women to at¬ 
tempt, but any diversion is welcome alter 
a Winter remarkable for deptli of snow 
and iirolonged cold weather.^ St. \ :den- 
tine’s day brought the first hint ot 
Spring—warmer temperature, sunshine 
and that faint blue haze that makes you 
furtively wat.’h for robins and crows, 
though'you know that they pn;hahly 
will not appear lor a niontli yet. Imne 
was an aiu’tiim some live or six miles 
awav, a team and sleigh at our_ disposal 
and'some neiglibors willing to risk them¬ 
selves with a woman driver. So we 
started olV happily, though a neighbor 
assured us we W(.uld be the only women 
there. With watching out for teams 
ahead, for while the track was tairly 
it would bo Ji serious mutter to 
turn out in two or three feet ot 
and pniiienlly going a mile or two 
our way to avoid a doubtiul-looking load 
thr<jUgh tlie iields, we weri' a long tune in 
snow, 
out (»f 
wlio male kivcheu chairs, and surely no 
memorial could so well eommemorato 
good v.'orkmanshij) as these i-hairs which 
have served iwo generations and give 
sturdy promise of keeping on indefini¬ 
tely. One of our party bought a butter 
jar that had been brought from England 
more than one hundred years ago. Auc¬ 
tions like this often bring to light many 
curious old relies. Most of us have old 
keepsakes tucked away sonu'where, and 
though they are not of much value, they 
remind us of i)ioneer days, when our 
grandmothers were weaving those wool¬ 
en blankets that wore better than any 
we can buy nowadays, and the him' and 
v.’hite spreads that one finds in nearly 
every old country home. l’i’omptly_ at 
noon Winters appeared with interesting^ 
looking brown paper hags and cups of 
eoll'ee. In each hag was a lunch <’on- 
sisting of two very nice large h.am sand¬ 
wiches, a doughnut and a pii'ce of 
cheese, and you M’cre welconu' to morci 
if you wanted it. As the honsc'hold stull 
was all sold in the fori'iioon, we collected 
our juii’chases and started for home. As 
wo were leaving, a group of a dozen or 
more men were bidding eagerly on a 
small lot: of very small seed potatoe.s, 
“.$1.50”—“.$1.75,” etc. On the way home 
tlie sh.’idowy visions of diliieulties ^ at 
liome became moi’o real and the driver 
was quite certain that the eliildren might 
liave cut themselvc's or fallen down¬ 
stairs or set the house afire, though no 
smok(> Could as yc't lie si'cn. Put, curious 
to relate, father and daughter had man¬ 
aged things <niitt“ irreproachably, no 
smell of burnt food greeted the nostrils 
as we mitered the house, everything was 
quiet and daughter Iiad saved a .sample 
of dessert for us. 
“How did you manage to cook it so 
nicelyV” I asked. 
•’( »h, I don't know. I guess I like to 
cook better when there's no one else 
areund.” MRS. A. G. DOKEN. 
Bits of Experience 
I call lard my “culinary cosmetic.” 
When I am making biscuit, I grease my 
liands first with lard; theii the Hour 
comes olT at once when I wash my 
liands, instead of forming a sticky, glue¬ 
like ma.ss. When that annoying smear 
of stove-black or soot is discovered on 
arm or forehead just when dinner is 
served, a little rub with lard and soap 
and water take it off in a jiffy. Finally, 
if I have to put my hands in strong 
.soapsiid.s, I rub them fir.st lightly with 
lard, thus avoiding “chaps.” 
I'liexpectcd company for supper and 
only a cupful of mashed potato left from 
(linner ! I added a cupful of warm milk, 
slowly, till the potato was creamy, a 
beaten egg, salt and pepper, a tuble- 
s|)oonfiil of melted butter and a cupful 
of ll(»ui’ with lt/4 teaspoonful of baking 
powder sifted in. Baked in greased pat¬ 
ty-tins and si'i’ved with milk gravy, the 
Iiotato liiiffs were very attractive and, 
what, is more, imiiortant,* delicious. 
X<*W YfJl’k. -MUS, C. K. MARTIX, 
