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"Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Dried Pumpkin 
James J. JI. Gregory ouce wrote that 
he would say nothing in regard to the 
pumpkin except to discourage its culti¬ 
vation, as much as possible, because, for 
every purpose for which the pumpkin can 
be used, the squash is a great deal bet¬ 
ter adapted. But Gregory was mistaken. 
"Whatever may ^ e the respective merits 
of the two fruits, pumpkin pies cannot 
be made from squas’ies, and any attempt 
along this line will result in u squash 
j)ie and nothing else. There are many 
varieties of pumpkins, and they vary in 
size, from the Yellow Gem, which is 
scarcely larger than an orange, to the 
Big Tom, which often weighs more than 
one hundred pounds. 
As a rule the pumpkin is not a long 
keeper, generally going by as early as 
February, although some varieties may 
be kept as late as April, but, at best, 
there is a long period during which 
fresh pumpkins cannot be had. There¬ 
fore, it is best to take measures while we 
have them to preserve some of them, at 
least, against a time of scarcity. This may 
be done either by drying or by canning, 
with no appreciable difference in the 
product, when used for making pies. If 
fried or eaten raw, the dried product is 
decidedly superior. And dried pumpkin 
as an article of diet is, by no means, to 
be despised. 
The most common method of drying 
it at the present time is to slice it, re¬ 
move the paring and the pulp, cut the 
slices into small cubes, and proceed ex¬ 
actly as in drying apples. If a little 
sugar is .sprinkled over it while drying 
the product may be oaten uncooked with 
considerable relish. In former days the 
custom w'as to slice the pumpkins, trans¬ 
versely, in rings, string them on poles, 
and dry them in the sun, and there is a 
historical record of the family of one of 
the early settlers of t^’ermont subsisting 
for several weeks upon an exclusive diet 
of pumpkins dried in this manner. An¬ 
other method is to jn-eparc the slices as 
for drying, and then to stew them in 
as little water as possible and avoid 
burning them, "^’’hen soft the product is 
rubbed through a colander, and then, 
either canned, or spread upon plates and 
dried. In the latter instance, it was 
fonnerly sprinkled with maple sugar, 
and thus formed the pumpkin leather 
which was an esteemed article of con¬ 
fectionery among our ancestors of a cen¬ 
tury and a quarter ago. C. o. oemsbee. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—An anarchistic revo¬ 
lution having for its object the over¬ 
throw of the United States Government 
tiii-ough the fomenting of strikes and the 
seizure of all agencies of production, 
distribution and storage facilities was 
planned by the I. W. W., according to 
the belief of Federal officials at Chicago. 
Evidence O'! this project was obtained 
in the I. "W. W. raids throughout the 
Ignited States made several weeks ago, 
which have resulted in the ari-ests of 
seventy members of this organization 
following their indictment by the Federal 
Grand Jury. Additional aiTests are 
expected. The Bolshevik in Russia and 
the I. W. W. in America have been 
woi-king in close sympathy, according to 
Federal officers. Documents sliowng this 
connection are said to have been con¬ 
fiscated in the recent I. "W. "W. raids. 
The plan of seizure of food supplies in 
the United States, it is explained, also 
embodied the further plan to distribute 
all these products among the people in 
proportion to their material needs. 
Agents of the Ttuited States Govern¬ 
ment Oct. 4 raided the office of the 
New Jersey Fi*eie Zeitung in Newark, 
whose publishers wore ordered by the 
Post Office Department to show cause why 
the newspaper should not be excluded 
from the mails. Five men were arrested 
and later released for hearing in_ $5,000 
bail each by United Stares Commissioner 
Samuel I. ' Kessler. All were charged 
with violating section of the espionage 
law. The agents seized a quantity of 
papei"S, records, books and correspond¬ 
ence and carried them to the post office. 
Those arrested were Benedict and Ed¬ 
win S. Prieth, owners of the newspa¬ 
per; William J. von Katzeler, managing 
editor: Henry Waechter, city editor, 
and Frederick J. Hartmann, business 
manager. 
Motorman Wesley Negus of the Shore 
Line Electric Railway extra car which 
ran into a regular passenger car at North 
Branford on August 13, causing nine¬ 
teen deaths, was sentenced in the Su¬ 
perior Court, New Haven, Conn., Oct. 4 
to from one to one and a half years in 
October 20, 1917 
prison. Conductor William ,T. Tryon 
of the extra got a year term. 
Ten of the negroes on trial at Belle¬ 
ville, III., Oct. 5 as alleged accessories 
in the murder of I’olice Detective Cop- 
pedge of East St. Louis last July 
were found guilty, and the penalty of 
each was fixed at fourteen years im¬ 
prisonment. Three negroes were ac¬ 
quitted. 
Talcum powder made by a New York 
chemical manufacturer caused a poison¬ 
ous rash to break out on his body when 
he used it, according to a declaration 
made at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 9, 
by Thomas A. Cook, representative of 
a New York check protector company, 
in causing the arrest of Herbert W. 
Soherr on suspicion that he is a Ger¬ 
man agent, f^(>heri’, who is 20, admits he 
is a native of Mannheim, Germany, and 
that he was employed in New Y’ork for 
some time by the. manufacturing concern 
accused by Cook. Soherr had a card 
showing hr rr'gisiered in N?w York and 
had a pram it to work within a barred 
zone of that city. He claims to have 
taken out first n;* ralization papers 
here. 
FARM AND G^ RDEN.—For the 
first time the United States is sending 
vegetable seeds abroad O- t. Vy a carload 
was sent from southern t.alifonaia, the 
first instalment of 500 tons that will be 
sent to the Allies to aid them in feeding 
themselves. The seeds sent are endive, 
radish, carrot, lettuce, tomato and other 
garden varieties. It is estimated that 
the initial carload will plant from 50,000 
to 00,000 acres of truck. If the entire 
tonnage reaches Europe it means nearly 
1,000.000 acres may be planted, for 
which otherwise there would be no 
seed. 
The American Bornological Society 
holds its thirty-fifth bienni.al meeting 
at Boston, Mass., October 30th-Novemher 
3rd. The same week there also will be 
in session the National Congi’ess of 
Horticulture, the Massachusetts Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, American Society for 
Horticultural Science, and the New Eng¬ 
land Fruit Growers. The five programs 
of these bodies will make an exceptional 
treat. Send request for exhibit space 
and for cold storage for fruit, to F. 
Howard Brown, 800 Mass. Ave., Boston; 
prepay the shipping charges. Big pre¬ 
mium lists may be obtained of Win. P. 
Rich, Secretai'y Massachusetts Horticul¬ 
tural Society, at the above address. 
The Seventh Ohio State Apple Show 
will be held in Music Hall, Cincinnati, 
November 37-2.3, under the auspices of 
the Ohio State Horticultural Society 
with the assistance of the Cincinnati 
Chamber of Commerce, the Ohio State 
Department of Agriculture, the Ohio 
State Experiment Station, and the Ohio 
State University. The show is Ix'ing re¬ 
sumed after a lapse of two years at the 
urgent request of the fruit growers of the 
State. 
INCREASED POSTAL RATES.—The 
Pos Office Department, Oct. 5, issued 
these instructions: “Postmasters shall on 
and after November 2 see that postage 
is paid at the rate of 3 cents an ounce 
or fraction thereof on letter’s and other 
first class matter, exce])t drop letters 
and foreign mail. Pos-tal cards are re¬ 
quired to be prepaid 2 cents, and, there¬ 
fore, the 1 cent postal cards must have 
a 1 cent postage stamp affixed to them 
in addition to the 1 cent stamp imirressed 
on such cards. I*ost cards (private mail¬ 
ing cards) bearing written messages 
must have 2 cents postage prepaid on 
them.” 
YEAR TO PAY 
"WASHINGTON. — Secretary Baker 
authorized the statement Oct. 4 that 
work has begun on more than 20,900 
aeroplanes, which are to be the vanguard 
of America’s aerial campaign against 
Germany. I’ractically the entire num¬ 
ber of aeroplanes and motors for which 
provision was made in the $640,0()0.()00 
appropriations bill already have been 
contracted for. The Government is as¬ 
sured now that the American forces in 
France will be amply equipped with air¬ 
craft. 
Detailing of skilled mechanics in the 
National Army to the war industries 
without discharging them from military 
service was urged upon President Wil¬ 
son Get. 4 by Representative Madden of 
Illinois, who pointed out that hundreds 
of employers holding war contracts are 
handicapped by scarcity of workmen. 
The I’resident promised to ask Secre¬ 
tary Baker to investigate the question 
after receiving reports from the Labor 
Commission. 
The cost of making money has risen 
more than $2 per thousand sheets, the 
Federal Reserve Board announced Oct. 
4. “Changing labor conditions and 
material costs” at the Bureau of En¬ 
graving and Printing are responsible. 
The conference report on the last of 
the big war appropriation bills for this 
session of Congress, the .$7,758,124,000 
deficiency measure, was adopted by the 
House Oct. 4 after brief discussion. 
Washington, Oct, 9.—Additional loans 
of .$40,000,000 each to Great Britain 
and France were made to-day by the 
Government. With this transaction the 
total thus far loaned to our allies is 
$2,013,400,000. 
Herbert C. Hoover announced Oct. 9 
that after November 1 all persons en¬ 
gaged in the import, manufacture, storage 
or distribution of about twenty of the 
basic food commodities, which include 
practically all of the fundamental food¬ 
stuffs, will be required to procure li¬ 
censes from the National Food Adminis¬ 
tration. I’resident Wilson will issue a 
proclamation designating the commodi¬ 
ties to come under the definite control 
of the food administration and will out¬ 
line in detail the regulations which will 
be in force. In general the control will 
affect meat packers, cold storage ware¬ 
housemen, millers, canners, elevators, 
grain dealers, wholesale distributors and 
retailers doing a gross business of more 
than $100,000 per year who handle the 
commodities designated. Some of the 
foodstuffs which will be included in the 
list will be fresh meats, poultry, canned 
meats and vegetables, eggs, butter and 
milk, and other dairy products. Grain 
and sugar, although they will be in the 
President’s lists, already are under 
license control. The result has been a 
drop in the price of flour and sugar. 
“That fellow was an impudent fraud. 
How did he manage to wheedle money 
out of you?” Oh, John, he told me such 
a sad pitiful tale about his poor wife 
who was a widow with six little child¬ 
ren .”—Baltimore .4 merican. 
^ “For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
, those who till it.”— Adv. 
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