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ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
JIN EXPERT ON POTATOES
Lou D. Sweet.
Farmer in the Crystal river irrigated
iSstrict on the western slope of the
JLscky mountains near Glenwood
Springs, Colo., who is now potato ex
pert of the United States food adniin
loSxation. Mr. Sweet is president of
iS Potato Association of America and
22ss Colorado State Potato Growers' as--scrclatioii.
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Mother's Cook Book.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
Ve think with bnef thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives forever;
That dead rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Swinburne.
Economical Dishes.
Onddle cakes for breakfast may be
irgared by using a cupful of bits of
icssd soaked over night in sour milk.
iL&i .'nough white flour to thicken to
2: griddle cake batter, soda and salt in
ii amount of half a teaspoonful to a
rcjKIuI of sour milk. A little cornmeal
2Z? be added to give variety and
vhen nicely browned on a hot griddle
2s cakes are most appetizing.
Oatmeal Macaroons.
Cream one tablespoonful of fat with
auif a cupful of sugar, add a beaten
"jgg and a cupful and a half of rolled
Hit, mixed with a teaspoonful each of
taSt and baking powder.
Cornmeal Fish Balls.
Mir a ..ful of shredded fish with
oduo cup: - of cornmeal muh, add a
isziea mil a teaspoonful of bak-
. 2 pow .-. mix well and fry in deep
. Wlua UMiig .s.ilt fi&h it will need
-. be freshened.
Curried Chicken.
Take one three-pound, tender chick-
.ia, ix small onions, one clove of gar-
Miz, 1 alf a pound of any good shorten-
,isg, wo teaspoonfuls of curry powder,
.. a. U-1 spoonful of salt, a cupful of
- rre3 1 or rich milk, either sweet or
. iTosyu' and half a cupful of shredded
boco dt. Chop the onions and garlic
er ine and mix with them the curry
jww. t and talt. Fry the chicken in
iSe J ot fat and wlien half done add
ih.c urried onions ; let all cook until
5tJie .Mu;at is tender. Add the cream
ted the coconut and cook slowly.
. Serw with boiled rice.
Roquefort Celery Sticks.
Wash and dry short stalks of celery.
' 3r a half' pound of Roquefort cheese
srfth a tablespoonful of olive oil, six
irops of Worcestershire sauce, a
fourdi of a teaspoonful of paprika,
snd . tablespoonful of butter. When
esio' h, till the stalks and serve with
iot tasted crackers with coffee, for
Jess- -t.
.Grinding Wheels Must Do
The Very Finest of Work.
' Grinding- wheels have fine work to
do, writes Ellwood Hendrick in the
Scientific American. Limits of irregu
larity as low as 0.0003 inches and 0.-
30024 inches are often given. And It
Siowtd Lf remembered that when 0.
023 of an inch is being ground, the
Jwavy slide that carries the wheel and
r- 5hei' spindles moves forward only
Jiall that distance.
If a piece of tissue paper were split
Iscelve times consecutively, it would
?23L.ve the thickness under which these
juachines have constantly to work.
And yet, when we consider the
forces present in a wheel weighing 200
pounds rotating at a speed of 1,200
ss7olutions per minute, we are not re
minded of a watchmaker's lathe, de
.3ilte the exquisite precision of the op
itraiion. War Surgeons Work Wonders.
la. J. E. Goldthwalte, a surgeon of
Se United States army, has been tour-
i2 the war hospitals in Europe. In a
Londoa hospital, out of a batch of 1,-
rS59 'wounded soldiers who had been
- -crushed and fearfully maimed by
Shells, he said 1,000 were so skilfully
rjeched up they were able to return to
-ifcty. Capper's Weekly.
Food Which Will Provide the
Most Protein at Smallest Cost
(From the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
Because protein is so Important to
the health of the body, it is not con
sidered desirable in diets consisting of
the ordinary combinations of food ma
terials to cut down the quantity in the
daily food below 3 ounces per adult
man and proportionate amounts for
women and children.
How then can the housekeeper re
duce the cost of food and still provide
enough of this necessary but expensive
material? The best way is to learn
how much protein is provided by dif
ferent kinds of food and then choose
the kinds which will furnish what the
family needs for the lowest cost and
w itli the least waste. This task will be
easier if the housewife will group in
hr mind the foods which are ricli in
protein and then consider ways of sub
stituting le.ss expensive for more ex
pensive ones.
The lists given below include some
of the more common foods in which
protein is abundant and .show in a gen
oral way the amounts and proportion
of protein in the different kinds as
they are purchased; that is, including
refuse, sucli as bones and gristle, egg
shells, etc.
Approximate amounts of protein in
common food materials:
Fresh meats:
Beef contains from 2 to 3 ounces of
protein per pound.
Veal contains from 2 to 3 ounces of
protein per pound.
Mutton contains from 2 to 24
ounces of protein per pound.
Lamb contains about 2i ounces of
protein per pound.
Pork contains about 2 ounces of pro
tein per pound.
Poultry chicken, duck, goose, tur
key, etc., contain from 2 to 2 ounces
of protein per pound.
Game squirrel, rabbit, wild birds,
etc., contain from 2 to 2V1 ounces of
protein per pound.
Prepared meats:
Corned beef contains 21 ounces of
protein per pound.
Dried beef contains 4 ounces of pro
tein per pound.
Poi sausage contains 2 ounces of
protein per pound.
Canned chicken contains 4 ounces of
protein per pound.
Fresh fish cod, haddock, halibut,
mackerel, perch, salmon, shad, etc.,
contain from 1 to 21 ounces of pro
tein per pound.
Dried fish contains from 2 to 3
ounces of protein per pound.
Eggs contain 2 ounces of protein per
pound.
Dairy products :
Whole milk contains about 1 ounce
of protein per quart.
Skim milk contains about 1 ounce
of protein per quart.
Buttermilk contains about 1 ounce of
protein per quart.
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Cockerels for Breeders.
The specialty of an Eastern back
yard poultrykeeper is cockerels for
breeding, which lie sells for $2.50 each
and up. His flock is small, seldom
numbering more than 75 hens, and
his houses represent a small invest
ment. By occupation a brickyard
owner and manager, he started keep
ing Rhode Island Reds several years
ago, utilizing some idle land back of
his residence. He had good success
in egg production, and being Inter
ested in the fancy side, also, bought
stock from winners at the shows.
In breeding each spring, he uses
eggs from selected hens mated with
good show cockerels. Beginning in
late winter, all the available broody
hens are given eggs. Sometimes as
many as 25 are sitting at once.
All the eggs he cannot handle with
hens himself, he "lets out," as far as
possible, to farmer friends. They pay
him no cash for these, but the under
standing is that in the fall he shall
visit the farm and take his pick of the
hatch, one cockerel or pullet for every
egg setting furnished.
He sells as many as 100 cockerels in
a season. Most of them are sold
through newspaper and farm period
ical advertising. He ships on a satis
faction guaranteed or money back
basis. The shipping cases are boxes
2 feet by 2 feet by 1 foot, and are
bought at a store for 15 cents apiece.
One" of these cases, which are light but
strong, will carry two cockerels.
Big, good-looking cockerels are the
kind sent away. This man has a good
laying strain, but he does not claim
the cockerels have extraordinary rec
ords back of them. Cockerels which
do not come up to his standard he sells
as roasters.
Steel Glasses for Soldiers.
Steel spectacles are the latest addi
tion to the equipment of the Nether
lands army for modern warfare. The
commander In chief has ordered that
they shall be supplied to all the machine-gun
sections of both Infantry,
hussars and fortress artillery, as a
protection against splinters of projec
tiles, flying chips of stone and the like.
Stocks of the glasses will be kept In
readiness to serve out to Infantry in
case of war.
Condensed milk contains about 1
ounce of protein per 12-ounce can.
Whole-milk cheese contains about 4
ounces of protein per pound.
Cottage cheese contains about 3
ounces of protein per pound.
Dried legumes:
Beans contain 3 ounces of protein
per pound.
Cowpeas contain 3 ounces of protein
per pound.
Peas contain 4 ounces of protein per
pound.
Peanuts contain 3 ounces of protein
per pound.
Nuts :
Almonds contain nearly 2 ounces of
protein per pound.
Walnuts contain a little over 1 ounce
of protein per pound.
Cereal foods :
Wheat flour contains 2 ounces of
protein per pound'.
Cornmeal contains 1 ounces of pro
tein per pound.
Oatmeal contains 2 2-3 ounces of
protein per pound.
Bread contains l1 ounces of protein
per pound.
In considering the amount of pro
tein supplied by certain foods, one
must make a distinction between the
cooked and the uncooked state. Dried
legumes and cereals, for example,
usually take up considerable water
during cooking, and thus become more
bulfcy and dilute. A pound of baked
beans supplies the body with about
one-third as much protein as a pound
of raw beans. Oatmeal takes up so
much water in cooking that a pound
of boiled oatmeal has only about one
eighth the food value of a pound of
raw. A pound of raw beans or oatmeal
would have practically the same total
food value after cooking as before, but
their weight would be greater. In the
same way, a cupful of raw beans or
oatmeal would make several cupfuls
when cooked.
When eggs are beaten, as in making
omelets and meringues, air is forced
into them and they become more
bulky. In this way a given number of
eggs can often be made to serve more
persons than if they are prepared with
out beating; but each person gets less
eggs. If meat is made into stew, it
goes further, because the water adds
to the bulk of the dish ; but the finished
dish has much lower protein and fuel
value than the original meat. When
meat is cooked without water, as in
roasting, broiling or frying, there is not
much change in its composition.
A housekeeper in choosing foods at
market rightly compares them in their
raw state ; but when s,he is considering
them as they are actually served at
meals, she must remember these differ
ences in cooking. They should also
be considered in choosing dishes at
restaurants. Changes in cooking
cereals are discussed in another bulle
tin of this series.
Window Boxes, Which May
Be Started at Small Cost,
Make Home More Cheerful
Window boxes made up of flowering
plants, give an added touch of bright
ness and pleasure to the home life and
may be started at a small outlay, ac
cording to il. F. Ahearn, professor of
landscape gardening in the Kansas
State Agricultural college.
"Both indoor and outdoor boxes may
be used to good advantage," said Pro
fessor Ahearn, "and the most satis
factory outdoor window box may be
had by using evergreens such as red
cedar, arbor vitae, and white and blue
spruce.
"These plants should be from G to
IS inches in height and may be ar
ranged effectively by keeping the
taller ones in the center and back, and
the smaller ones in the foreground.
Such a box, after being well started,
will require little attention and need
not be protected from wintry weather.
"For the indoor window boxes, Bos
ton fern, German ivy, variegated peri
winkle, red geraniums, nasturtiums,
snapdragon, and vinca alba may be
used with good effect. All the flowers
should be removed from the plants as
soon as they begin to fade. In order
to obtain the best results the box
plants should be given an application
of fertilizer once or twice a month.
An east or south exposure will be
found best for most window plants."
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S Wise and Otherwise. I
When the boss Is away the
clerks get gay.
Too many touches will harden
the easy mark.
Better an Impediment In the
speech than In the brain.
This world remembers the
man who dies game for a day.
It's advice when you give It
and a lecture when you receive
It.
A man doesn't have to wear
good clothes if he can afford
them.
Too much cannot be said In
favor of the person who hasn't
much to say.
A woman's Idea of economy is
to buy a 5-cent loaf of bread In
stead of a dollar sack of flour.
Optimistic Thought.
Quiet minds are generally the most
happy.
Odd Department Store of ,
a Rip Van Winkle Type Is
Auctioned at Dobbs Ferry
The oddest mercantile establishment '
In America ceased to exist, the other
day, when an auctioneer sold out the
curious and time-worn stock of "The
Moser Dry Goods Emporium" in Main
street, Dobbs Ferry, just 14 miles from
Herald Square, writes a New York cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Times-'
Star. It was a Hip Van Winkle shop. I
Most of the articles in its stock were '
of the fashions of by-gone day a half (
century or more old. More than eighty
years ago John Moser opened the "em-'
porium." At first it was merely a tail-'
or's shop, but as the proprietor pros
pered he added departments for "dry
goods and notions." Forty years ago
he died, rich, and left his business to
his two maiden daughter-. There was
no need that it should bring in a profit.
The income of the two Misses Moser
from other investments was far great
er than their necessities. They lived
in looms behind the shop and kept a
surly old dog tied to the front door so
that liis growls might summon one of
them when a customer entered. They
made no additions to the stock of
goods which the shop contained and
they looked with suspicion upon all
new customers. The truth is well es
tablished of a story that they refused
to have any commercial transaction
with a little girl who wanted to buy
some cotton stockings because she was
not a regular attendant at Sunday
school.
Some months ago, when neighbors
noticed that neither of the sisters had
been in the shop for several days, an
investigation was made and both were
found in their rooms critically ill with
pneumonia. One sister died and the
other, now ninety-three years old, was,
taken into the charge of relatives.
Terrapin Now Successfully
Bred at Biological Station
At flie United States biological sta
tion, Beaufort, X. C, they are breeding
now 1.G00 terrapins in the pounds, be-diamond-back
terrapin. There are
now 1.C00 terrapins in the pounds, be
sides the young of 191G. The experi
ments prove that this most delicious
of all the turtle tribe can be grown
and kept in vigorous condition in cap
tivity. In a report to Science Samuel H.
Ilildebrand, the director, says: "It
has been known for some time
that a female terrapin may lay
twice in a single season, but during
the past season through the discovery
of 12 nests, averaging eight eggs
to a nest, in a pen where only four
females are confined, it is evident that
a female may lay as often as three
times in a single season."
Cook Book
How sweet the quiet when the day is
done
The hush that follows after wind and sun.
How calm the felumber after weary toil
The gift to tho&e who brae life's long
turmoil.
Sandwiches for Var.ous Occasions.
Sandwiches are always in order for
the lunch basket, for light refresh
ments und for picnics.
Luncheon Sandwiches.
Cut very thin slices from round
loaves of brown bread and spread on
them a generous amount of cottage
cheese' which lias been well seasoned
with salt and pepper and made pink
with beet juice or preserved currant
juice. Scatter over each a small
amount of chopped chives before press
ing two slices together.
Salamagundi Sandwiches.
Wash, skin and bone one Holland
herring, chop very fine, add the
chopped breast of a roasted fowl, two
hard cooked eggs, one-third of a cup
ful of chopped ham, one minced an
chovy and two teaspoonfuls of chopped
chives, ilix together and blend with
French dressing and spread on but
tered bread, sliced very thin.
Date Sandwiches.
Stone dates and chop, to one cup
ful add a teaspoonful of orange juice,
mix well and sprinkle with powdered
cinnamon. Use whole wheat bread
spread with butter for this filling.
Sweet Nut Sandwiches.
Chop together one-half cupful of
seeded raisins and a cupful of English
walnuts, add four tablespoonfuls of
grated coconut, and one tablespoonful.
of grated chocolate. Mix well togeth
er, moistening with sweet cream.
Fig Sandwiches.
Chop fine one cupful of figs, cook tq
a paste with a half cupful of frulti
juice, add a teaspoonful of lemon juice
and set away to-get cold. Spread on
buttered bread and sprinkle with,
chopped nuts.
Ripe Olive Sandwiches.
Stone half a cupful at ripe olives,
add one sweet green pepper, chopped,
combine with cream cheese which has'
been softened with French dressing.
Spread on slices of rye bread.
Pimento Sandwiches.
To one-fourth of a pound of cream
cheese add a teaspoonful of chopped
chives, a pinch of mustard, and two
tablespoonfuls of minced pimento. Add
cream to soften and spread on thin
slices of buttered bread.
Mother's
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ROOFING
-sphalt, Gravel, Rubber, Galvanized
and Painted.
Also Ellwood and American Fence. .,f
Steel Fence Posts
DEHLEP BROS. CO-
Incorporated
I Mi Cast Maihei Mreei Between First and Broofc
Louisville, Ky.
Woodson
GREENSBURG
is Offering all Farm Machinery at
Very Attractive Prices.
W a irons
I Grain
I Pulverizers
"VSTOODSOiSr lewis
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Brook U A. Streets
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"WHOLESALE
Doors,
Windows,
Mouldings,
Porch Columns,
Stairways,
General Building Material.'
Will Send Catalog On Request
WW IS
KENTUCKY
Drills
SsSELaF
DibC Harrows
Smoothing Harrows
Turning Plows at from 10
to 33 per cent, below
to-day's cost
Call and see us or write for
our prices.
I We also sell Dry Goods
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Shoes and Clothing at less
than Cost
Calico 10c
Best Dress Ginghams 18c
Outing 15c
Bed Blankets worth 84.75
for $3.50.
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