I \merican Agriculturist, July 12, 1924 
File Cases for Records 
< J OTHER, where’s that copy of the 
1V I Agriculturist that had the ar¬ 
ticle on whitewash in it? I was going to 
I sa ve that piece and now when I want it 
it’s gone.” # . 
How many times a day is such a query 
[heard around your house? Haven’t you 
I wished for some simple way to keep track 
of things printed in the paper so you could 
Lse them when you need them? Some 
folks keep all the copies of the paper in 
order, but they take a lot of space and it’s 
hard to remember just when the particular 
thing you want was printed, so you usu¬ 
ally have to look through several num¬ 
bers to find it. 
One easy and sure way to keep informa¬ 
tion you want to save is to cut it out and 
file it in pamphlet boxes made of card-, 
board, a piece of soft wood, and a few 
tacks. > • 
Put pencil marks around articles that 
vou want to save when you read them, 
and once a month or so go through the 
papers and cut out what you have 
marked. Fold these clippings once if 
they take a whole page, put a word or 
two on the outside that will tell you what 
they are about, and put them into their 
own filing boxes, made as follows: 
To Make File Boxes 
Cut a piece of heavy cardboard 17 
inches long and 10 inches wide, and a 
piece of soft wood j/2 inch thick, three 
inches wide and 7 inches long. Measure 
seven inches in from each end of the card¬ 
board and put pencil lines across the 
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The File Boxes in Working Order 
short way parallel to the ends. Bend the 
cardboard at right angles on these marks, 
and tack the edge around three sides of 
the piece of w’ood, which should just fit 
inside the cardboard. This will make a 
box shaped like a book with the top and 
one edge open. Set up on edge it takes 
three inches of shelf space seven inches 
deep, and is ten inches high. It will hold 
fifty or more single pages of the Amer¬ 
ican Agriculturist folded through the 
middle, together with bulletins and other 
material you collect. 
Label Them Clearly 
A piece of white paper pasted on the 
front makes a place to label the box so you 
will know what particular branches of 
knowledge it holds. When one box is 
full, make another, subdivide your 
classifications, labeling each] with^ the 
general topics it holds, such as Ma¬ 
chinery,” “Spray Mixtures, House¬ 
hold Hints,” “Patterns” or any other 
subject you want to keep information on. 
Passe-partout tape to bind the corners 
gives the boxes a finished look and longer 
wear, or you can buy them ready made 
and nicely finished in this size for about 
thirty cents apiece. 
Smaller boxes that hold fewer clippings 
may be made from common cigar boxes. 
Nail down the cover and remove one 
side and one end. Paste paper for label¬ 
ing along the edge where the cover 
hinge is fastened, and stand them up¬ 
right on the shelf.—H. A. Stevenson. 
There are thousands of women who 
are literally slaves to their kitchen 
because the food upon which they 
lavish so much care and attention 
is likely to spoil if the fire is too 
hot, or not hot enough. 
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It adds immeasurably to personal 
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Ask your dealer to demonstrate the 
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very pretty. The plume cockscombs, 
while not so popular as the comb sorts, 
are attractive especially for background 
planting.— Rachel Rae. 
Oregon Gingerbread 
1 cup molasses 
1 cup boiling water 
Cockscombs Still Popular 
I HAVE always liked the cockscomb. 
Big, odd-shaped, bright red combs 
of such mammoth size for such short stems 
always appeal to people, I guess, for I saw 
them growing from Kansas to Minnesota 
last summer. There are some very de¬ 
sirable new sorts, and all colors are repre¬ 
sented now. The Chinese woolflower 
is a novelty recently introduced and one 
1 cup sugar 
1 cup butter 
1 teaspoon soda 
Mix well and let cool; then add 1 tea¬ 
spoonful ginger, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 
1 cup of raisins, 1 cup nuts and 3 cups 
flour, add lastly 2 beaten eggs.—M rs. 
J. W. Ray. _ 
The paper ice cream pails which are 
usually thrown away are worth saving. 
Rinsed out well with hot water and 
quickly dried, they are just the thing for 
packing a small lunch. 
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