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■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Song of the Wheat 
Here we are growing cool and still 
Out of the earth of our native land, 
Green in the valley, green on the hill, 
Endless regiments, here we stand ! 
Thrusting our heads to the sunshine gay, 
Lifting each sweet, rich, ripening grain ; 
Whispering soft as we swing and sway, 
“Sow us again, sow us again !” 
Give us, lavish us, stint us not I 
Send us over the 'briny sea. 
Not by their own home be forgot 
Who give their all so Splendidly! 
Reap us and fill the big ship’s hold 
Who fight for Honor without a stain! 
Send them great Nature’s purest gold! 
Reap us and sow us and reap again. 
Hearts like the wheat-grain, firm and fine 
Beat in those brave forms far away; 
Souls in those dauntless bodies shine. 
Growing still Stronger day by day! 
Earth defiled by the hideous shell. 
Death and horror and wearying pain— 
Plough the mountains! Harrow the plain ! 
Sow us again! Reap us again! 
We are but children of Earth, we grow 
For children of Heaven to do the deed! 
Humble brothers are we, but so 
We meet their need! We meet their 
need. 
Give us, lavish us, leave no lack. 
Send them all of us—then in vain 
Death shall challenge! They will come 
back. 
Sow us again! Sow us again ! 
—Coralinn Daniels, in 2^eic York 
* 
DiSTRinxJTiON of sugar to meet this 
Summer’s canning demands will be under 
a modified certificate system, the United 
States Food Administration has an¬ 
nounced. This is done in order to make 
sure that home canners may obtain suf¬ 
ficient sugar to preserve perishable fruits 
and at the same time to place a check 
upon those who would endeavor to obtain 
unreasonable quantities for household con¬ 
sumption. The check on consumption will 
be exercised through the retailers—con¬ 
sidered a much more satisfactory method 
than the card system adopted in other 
countries—chiefly to guard against tem¬ 
porary shortages that may occur if more 
vessels are diverted from the Cuban trade 
and at the same time to assure a supply 
adequate to meet the extensive demand 
hoped for from home canners. 
Retail dealers in all States will be pro¬ 
vided by their Federal Food Administra¬ 
tion with certificates which must be signed 
by the consumers before they obtain the 
amount of sugar needed for home can¬ 
ning. Each certificate, bearing the name 
of the dealer, the signature and address 
of the consumer and the amount of sugar 
needed for canning and presierving pur¬ 
poses only must be returned within one 
week after it is signed to the Federal 
Food Administration for the State in 
which the purchase is made. 
♦ 
The XT. S. Food Administration, in the 
following table gives the sweetening value 
of corn sirup as compared with sugar: 
Sugar Corn Sirup 
1 cup equals 1 3/5 cup 
% cup equals 11/5 cup 
Yz cup equals 4/5 cup 
1 tablespoon equals 13/5 tablespoon 
With a cup of sirup one-fourth cup 
less liquid should be used than when 
sugar takes its place. * This table will 
serve as a guide in attempting to save 
sugar in one’s usual recipes. In most 
recipes where sirup is substituted for 
sugar it is found that half sugar and half 
sirup give better results than all sirup. 
The Food Administration also gives a 
useful table of weight equivalents, which 
will be found helpful in making breads, 
muffins, etc., with the various wheat sub¬ 
stitutes. The varying weights of the un¬ 
familiar flours are often puzzling to the 
housekeeper. A cup of wheat flour sifted 
and measured lightly weighs four ounces: 
One cup (4 ozs.) wheat flour equals 
Barley flour. 11/3 cup 
Corn flour. 1 “ 
Fine corn meal. 1 “ 
Coarse corn meal. 4'5 “ 
Buckwheat . 445 “ 
Rice flour. 4/5 “ 
Hominy grits. 4/5 “ 
Rolled oats (ground). 2/3 “ 
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A RECENT Farmers’ Bulletin, No. 754 
(U. S. Department of Agriculture), is 
devoted to that terror of the housekeep¬ 
er, the bedbug. It tells us that this dis¬ 
gusting parasite was well known to the 
ancient Romans, and that there are sev¬ 
eral closel.v related injects, ordinarily 
living on bats, birds and poultry, that 
sometimes become human parasites. The 
remedies given in this bulletin are in 
the main already familiar. Insect pow¬ 
ders are said to be of little value, large¬ 
ly from the difficulty of getting them into 
cracks. The fumes of burning sulphur 
will destroy the insects or eggs in any 
stage, but special precautions must be 
taken in its use. Fumigation with hy¬ 
drocyanic acid gas is most efficient, but 
this gas is highly poisonous, and must 
be used with caution. Farmer.s’ Bulle¬ 
tin 699, “Hydrocyanic-acid Gas Against 
Household Insects,’’ tells how such fum¬ 
igation is done. Under ordinary house¬ 
hold conditions, among simpler methods 
of control, the liberal use of benzine or 
any of the other lighter petroleum oils, 
introduced into all hiding places, is effi¬ 
cient with slight or recent infe.stations. 
The liberal use. of hot water, whenever 
it may be employed without danger to 
furniture, etc., is also effectuaL 
Com Bread; Cleansing Old Cans 
The enclosed recipe for sour milk corn 
bread fs the best johnny cake w'e ever 
ate. It requires no white flour and is 
far better than the ones usually made 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
9027. Coat Dress, ai. 
to 42 bust. Price 9.594. Oirl’s Dress. 10 
15 cents. to 14 years. Price 
and Small Women, 9021. Dress with Side 
16 and 18 years. Closing, 34 to 42 
Price 15 cents. bust. Price 15 cts. 
wdth it. It was originally sent out by 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture: 2 
cupfuls corn meal, 2 cupfuls sour milk, 2 
tablespoon sful butter. 2 tablespoonstful 
sugar, -white or brown; 1^ teaspoonsful 
salt, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 table- 
spoonful cold water. Cook the meal, milk, 
salt, butter, and sugar in a double boiler 
for about 10 minutes. When the mixture 
is cool, add the eggs well beaten and the 
soda dissolved in the ivater. Bake in a 
shallow iron or granite pan for about 80 
minutes. 
I think my way of disposing of salmon 
cans is easier than that of M. S. on page 
587. One doesn’t always have time to 
bury them as soon as opened. I put them 
into the fire, and when I remove them 
there is nothing left to attract flies, cats 
or anything else. They can then safely 
be put in the junk barrel to be removed 
at any time. I read once of a cat found 
dead wdth a salmon can tightly over its 
head, and since I have never thrown one 
out with a trace of salmon about it. 
E. B. s. 
Peanut Butter; Linoleum; Pickles 
1. Will some one give mo a I’ecipe 
for making peanut butter? 2. I have 
read in The R. N.-Y. a treatment to 
lengthen the life of linoleum, but I mis¬ 
laid it. Will you repeat this? I expect 
soon to take mine up and lay it away. 
3. Imst Fall we pickled a barrel of cucum¬ 
bers, all salt, and thoroughly covered 
with brine. Out of the barrel -we could 
only use about a gallon, all Soft and 
squashed. Can you tell why? E. G. 
1. Toi make peanut butter, shell roasted 
peanuts, removing the inner skin, then 
run through a food grinder several times, 
until the nuts are as fine as powder. 
There is a regular nut grinder to do this 
work. There is an abundance of oil in 
the nuts to form a smooth paste -when 
packed in small jars, but some house¬ 
keepers mix a little cream, melted butter 
or olive oil with it, to hold it together. 
If the nuts are really powdered this will 
not be necessary, as the oil will soon rise 
through the whole mass when packed in 
the jar, but sometimes the nuts are not 
ground sufficiently fine, and then other oil 
or fat is necessary to form a paste. The 
butter may be salted if de^red, but noth¬ 
ing else is added to it 
2. When linoleum is on the floor, its 
wearing qualities are greatly improved 
by giving it a coat or two of floor varnish. 
This certainly lengthens its life of wear, 
but we do not know of any application 
for linoleum that is taken up and laid 
away. 
3. No details are given here, but the 
pickles may not have remained under the 
“thin” covering of brine, or perhaps the 
brine was not strong enough. XXTiere 
cucumbers are held in vats at pickling 
stations, the brine is four to Six inches 
deep over the weighted lid, and more salt 
is added after the first pickling, as the 
brine becomes weaker from the juices of 
the cucumbers. Salt is added to the fir.st 
brine, so as to make it about the propor¬ 
tion of five pounds of salt to a bushel of 
cucumbers, and more salt is added later, 
so as to keep the brine about 55 degrees 
Beaumd. In domestic practice, a barrel 
of pickles is quite likely to deteriorate 
through weakened brine, and this is a 
very probable cause in this case. 
A Box Party 
Now that Summer seems to be on the 
way, a sfuggestion as to outdoor parties 
may be useful. We wished to entertain 
about 25 friends of all ages and “ladies 
only.” We asked them to a “box party.” 
The lawn was made tidy, seats of various 
kinds placed in the shady places, and a 
corner im'^r the house curtained off. This 
provide< space for a gallery of wonders, 
a scratch collection of curios. Each ex¬ 
hibit was explained by a card, on which 
the special point of the object wa.s de¬ 
scribed in showman’s style—large words 
and any puns or jokes that came handy. 
This is, of course, a matter of the special 
company or subjects of interest of the day 
“The turkey -trot,” a large turkey jump¬ 
ing about, drawn on brown paper; 
“Bryan’s grape juice fad,” “A golden lion, 
the only one in captivity,” “Washington’s 
original headquarters’” (a small baby 
pillow), were among our collection. 
Each guest was escorted through and the 
labels read by the escort. 
The amusements were those which 
might be found at a country fair, three- 
legged races, sack races, croquet and a 
balloon ascension—which did not come 
off as the balloon failed to materialize. 
The refreshments were served in pound- 
candy boxes. Each one held a pink bor¬ 
dered napkin, two tiny pickles, a sand¬ 
wich, an apple-turnovei’, and a small 
frosted cake. Ice cream was served in 
small, thin glasses half filled with pink 
gelatine, and followed by coffee. 
Nearly -'verything could be made ready 
in the morning, and the serving was easy. 
Small tables set about made the eating of 
the luncheon pleasant. The eatables 
might be served from a small booth, and 
emphasis placed on the various new kinds 
of food-saving ideas. mary Fircir. 
Seen in New York Shops 
Soldiers’ boxes for shipping food by par¬ 
cel post to men in camj) cost $1 and $1.25, 
and are convenient and secure. There are 
also metal egg crates for the same pur¬ 
pose, having individual compartments for 
packing eggs and other perishable food 
without danger of breaking. Crates hold 
two, three or four dozen eggs, also com¬ 
bination styles for holding eggs and but¬ 
ter. These cost 85 cents to $3, accord¬ 
ing to size. 
Boys’ tents, 5x7 feet, complete vrith 
May 25, 1918 
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EVERYWOMAN’S 
CANNING BOOK 
The A B C of Safe Home Canning and Preserving 
MARY B. HUGHES 
This book has b4on ezamtnod before jpublieation and {a 
found to conform to the principlea of the United Statea 
Food Adn\inxatrai%on in rtoard to the eonaervation of foo^* 
E very housekeeper is planning for renewed 
effoi-ts in canning this year, and there is a 
wider Interest in modern practice than 
ever before. Methods have changed greatly 
within a comparatively short period, and many 
women feel the need of up-to-date recipes, brought 
together in convenient form. “Everywoman's 
Canning Book'* is calculated to meet this need ; 
it is practical, modern and complete. 
Fruits, vegetables and meats'aye discussed from 
^the liousekeeper's standpoint, aud the condensed 
form and moderate price meet popular demands. 
The inexperienced canner will find it a safe guide, 
and the experienced worker will And something 
new and helpful between its covers. Bound 
attractively in cloth, 91 pages, five pages of index. 
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