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preservation, chiefly fruit and vegetables. 
Professor Chenoweth, the head of it, is 
particularly practical, approachable and 
progressive. One of the latest experi¬ 
ments is in the use of small, immature 
apples, which have been thim. vl out for 
the benefit of he main crop. These un¬ 
attractive little apples are sliced in cir¬ 
cles so as to have them practically the 
same thickness, cooked five minutes (to 
cook means to boil) in water in the pro¬ 
portion of three pounds of apples to three 
pints of water, in covered vessel. Do not 
stir. Remove from fire, let stand 10 
minutes. Strain juice through cheese¬ 
cloth, three or four fold if necessary. Meas¬ 
ure for sugar. Boil juice till reduced 
one-half, add sugar in the proportion of 
one-half or even one-fourth of the bulk 
of the syrup before it was reduced. Cook 
till stiff enough when tried, strain through 
single cheescloth into a vessel of con¬ 
venient shape for filling the jelly glasses. 
Do not stir after sugar has dissolved and 
do not skim after sugar has been added. 
It will be noticed that the pi’oportion of 
sugar is much smaller than the old stand¬ 
ard recipe. Not only is this more econom¬ 
ical, it is also more palatable, for the 
more pronounced apple flavor is much 
pleasanter than the cloying sweetness of 
much jelly. 
The pulo may have the same amount 
of water added again, and the jelly pro¬ 
cess be repeated exactly. It may be pos¬ 
sible, too, to repeat, the process even a 
third time with the same apple pulp. 
This may be determined by testing a little 
of the syrup with an equal part of grain 
alcohol, shake in tube, and if there is 
any pectin it will show white and cloudy. 
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Carriage Cover. Blue transfer. Brice 15 
cents. 
As long as pectin shows to the extent of 
one-fourth the bulk of juice and alcohol, 
the syrup may be depended upon to jell 
with the addition of one-half its bulk of 
sugar, in the third extract. The pulp 
should never be stirred or mashed, the 
syrup just gently drained off. 
Following the four weeks’ Summer 
school came Farmers’ Week, which was 
oxciting and inspiring. The poultry in¬ 
dustry is being much developed and prom¬ 
ises to atkl much to the prosperity of 
many farmers. A recent appropriation 
enables the college to send experts to dif¬ 
ferent parts of the State to examine 
chickens for the purpose of culling out 
the poor layers. This will surely add 
greatly to the profit of the tested flocks. 
In the poultry lectures we had the privi¬ 
lege of hearing men from Cornell, Yale 
and Storrs, in addition to the very cap¬ 
able M. A. C. faculty. The splendid en¬ 
thusiasm was worth going miles to see, 
while the information was invaluable. 
One would wish never to forget the 
wonderful five weeks spent on the beauti¬ 
ful campus, the five courses given by the 
enthusiastic faculty, the reading of 
Freneh-Canadian stories by Dr. Mac- 
Kimmie, Irish poems by Dennis Mc¬ 
Carthy, the address by Dr. Payson Smith, 
Commissioner of Education, and the vivid 
description given by Ray Stanuard Baker 
of his experiences before and during the 
signing of the Peace Treaty. Lastly, the 
pleasant intercourse with the two hun¬ 
dred or more eager, earnest, genial, stu¬ 
dents is indeed a pleasant memory. 
It seems, perhaps, unfair to single out 
in this way some of those who worked 
so hard and willingly for one benefit, but 
it must be understood that one person 
cannot be expected to describe success¬ 
fully the whole live weeks’ experience. 
These are but a few little points which 
appealed to the writer with special force, 
and are offered in the hope that others 
may be reminded of this ideal way to 
spend a vacation, where every physical 
need and comfort seem to be anticipated, 
and every detail of the organization 
worked out more successfully than one 
could have thought possible. 
Massachusetts is truly a wonderful 
State, and its sons and daughters are 
worthy of their ancestors. a. E. F. 
Neglected Rural Graveyards 
On page 1102 I saw a pitiful appeal to 
have the rural cemeteries fenced, by act 
of legislature, and the resting places of 
the dead and gone pioneer settlers other¬ 
wise cared for, and would like to say 
a few words concerning the same. On 
the farm where I now live, in a conspicu¬ 
ous water hole on the flat top of a hill, 
is one of those same “resting” places, 
until I moved here, overgrown with wlid 
thorn bushes, weeds of various kinds, 
and inhabited by numerous woodchucks 
which had burrowed into every grave, 
not excepting that of an infant buried 
there a.- recently as 1002. Within one 
mile live several relatives, including the 
parents of the infant and a granddaughter 
of one couple, some cousins of others, and 
an uncle and aunt. For my own self- 
respect, I cut and burned those bushes, 
weeds, etc., and straightened the grave¬ 
stones, which were lying flat amongst the 
rubbish, but never but once in the eight 
years of my residence he're have any of 
the relatives visited this “sacred” place, 
and that was on Labor Day, 1918, when 
we had a picnic here. In crossing from 
one field to a desired place in another 
we unavoidably passed this place, when 
one of the relatives grunted out that he 
supposed that place was all grown over 
with brush long ago. On the farm join¬ 
ing me is another “sacred resting place” 
°f the dead where two children were 
buried in 1910 and 1911, the parents 
living less than one-quarter of a mile from 
the spot. Said spot is surrounded on one 
side by a stone wall, overgrown with 
goldenrod and wild berry bushes, said 
bus-lies and goldenrod also furnishing a 
hedge on the remaining three sides. In 
the cemetery, shading the graves, are 
thorn bushes and wild apple trees which 
have never been pruned, and stones too 
large to handle for other purposes also 
find a “resting place” there. 
On still another farm, relatives told the 
new owner of the place to pull out the old 
stones and plow the ground, which, it is 
said, he proceeded to do, but as that was 
before I came here I cannot say, but I do 
know there is no “resting place” visible 
where it is said one once existed, and I 
do know that I have been told by de¬ 
scendants of my pioneers that I could do 
the same if I wished. About two years 
ago some Southern people bought farms 
in this locality, and I judge felt the same 
about these old cemeteries as does your 
correspondent Lillian Trott, for they 
made a public appeal at church once to 
arouse the interest of those descendants 
to club together and clean out the rub¬ 
bish from these old grounds and plant 
flowering plants and shrubs, restore the 
“stones” to an upright position, and make 
these places attractive as they were de¬ 
signed to be. offering, though strangers 
themselves, to give their time and help in 
the restoration for the sake of the commu¬ 
nity, but the motion was voted down by 
'these descendants, who do not care enough 
about themselves, their posterity or fore¬ 
fathers. to overcome their indolence and 
make the rubbish holes presentable. So 
it looks as though there would be no need 
for a legislative act where family affection 
fails to.act, hut perhaps I am wrong, and 
legislation will have more pride and af¬ 
fection than mere relatives. jesste. 
Some Easily Digested Dishes 
My family, while not invalids, do not 
possess that type of stomach that can 
digest comfortably very much fried food. 
We get tii'ed of boiled and stewed vege¬ 
tables and other food, so that I have had 
to exercise some ingenuity to vary the 
method of cooking them. In the days 
when I had an unlimited supply of butter 
that had a very low market value, I felt 
it was no extravagance to uhc it, so I 
fried most of our food in that, and found 
it was very much easier digested than 
when fried in any other fat. But today 
butter is an ointment “very costly and 
precious,” so that I daye not take' liber¬ 
ties with it and am forced to use it in 
limited quantities for cooking. 
I suppose there are many people situ¬ 
ated as we are who are not fortunate 
enough to be able to digest everything 
that is set on the table and they may be 
helped by my experience. Here are some 
of the ways I have imitated fried foods, 
not as “good as the genuine article,” but 
a welcome change for those who cannot 
have their food cooked in that manner. 
For eggs, I merely grease the pan with 
butter, let it get hot, .break in the eggs, 
let them cook slowly for a minute, then 
turn with a cake turner and cook a 
minute lougei’. They are vei-y palatable 
and not at all hard to digest. I aim not 
to cook them at a high temperature for 
that makes the albumen very indigestible. 
We like the Summer squash vei'y much 
prepared in this way: Pare and slice 
squash, sprinkle with salt and a tiny 
sprinkle of sugai*, roll in flour, place in 
a buttered pan and set in the oven. When 
cooked it will be browned beautifully 
on both sides, have a delicious flavor, and 
can be eaten freely by anyone. 
Cabbage I cut ou the slaw cutter, boil 
till tender in salted water, drain, and 
brown in a pan, using a lump of butter 
about the size of a walnut. 
Potatoes I boil in salted water, slice 
cold, and brown in a pan with a little 
butter. Usually I use cold potatoes that 
have been left from another meal. If I 
do not have quite as many as I need, I 
soak a few bread crumbs in milk and add 
to the potatoes. Over these, when thor¬ 
oughly heated, we like several eggs broken 
and stirred for a moment until cooked. 
For any of the above recipes butter 
substitute can be used in place of the 
butter with fairly good results, but, of 
course it is not equal in flavor to the 
real article. However, 1 find it a more 
easily digested fat than any other aside 
fx’om butter itself. 
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