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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Make Plans for Winter Harvest During the Warm Weather Great Quantities of Milk Spoil for Lack of Ice. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) SHE EXPLAINS Mabel arable. Yoa and Harold seem insep- Gertrude We are together a great deal ; you see, Mabel, I take a peculiar Interest in him. Mabel Oh, yoa do? Gertrude Yes. I was engaged to him at one time, and In love with him at another. Efficiency Hr . . . Peters on passing the servants hall today I am under the impression that I er saw you ah embracing one of the maids. Yes, madam what time would that be, madam? About three o'clock. Oh, yes, madam. That would have been Ellen, madam! Show. Pa.-sin-g HAD UTILIZED THE FAT Fall is the time of harvest, but winter Is coming, and then there will be opportunity for another harvest, in the ice on ponds and streams. Every summer great quantities of milk are spoiled, or so impaired by high temperatures that the owners are forced to accept smaller prices on account of products. This milk might be saved by the use of Ice. Ice is so useful that it is made artificially for consumption In cities. Farmers too often do without it, when they might just as well have it at no expense except that of labor at a time of year when work Is commonly slack provided there is an ice house ready. If there Is no ice house, one can be built at moderate expense. Where plenty of ice is used farmers are able to deliver practically all of their prodnct sweet, though some of It travels several hundred miles to market Other foods besides milk often spoil in hot weather, especially meats. Many farm families do without fresh meat in the summer unless they are near enough to a meat market to buy it in small quantities. They might just as well keep several days supply in the home ice low-gra- de box. but Is more expensive. Wooden houses insulated with sawdust or mill shav- NOT CONVENTIONAL ings should be ventilated. Houses with AT CHURCH SERVICE commercial Insulation and a cement finish need no ventilation. The bureau of dairying. United French and Belgians Differ States Department of Agriculture, From English. W ashington, D. C., has further information about Ice houses and the The French, because they are foruse of ice on the dairy farm. mal, have more religious style than the Belgians, but considerably less than the English. There is too mnch thrustHome-Grow- n ing of money boxes under ones nose in Brussels, and I was terribly disturbed by hearing the jingling of coins almost at the moment of elevation. In France there Is still style in the Correct Labeling and Storfaith. The money boxes are there, too, and must of necessity be there, age Are Essential for the churches have no endowments, but the collecting is more decently (Prepared by the United State Department of Agriculture.) I could wish that the The correct labeling and proper done, although collectors would not give sibilant n storage of seeds are of thanks to each who contributes. vital Importance if the best yields are When a man person surrenders himself to the to be obtained. Seeds of satisfactory mysteries, he dislikes to hear a perquality when harvested often, through sistent hissing, Merc! bien, making a neglect, are worthless at planting monotonous chorus to his prayers. time. Cloth bags are the best conOne must be on his guard against tainers for large seeds such as peas, the habit of assuming that a thing Is beans, and corn and for large quantibecause it is unusual or differties of small seeds. For smaller lots wrong ent from what he is accustomed to, ordinary letter envelopes, either home- and I acknowledge freely that I find made or purchased, if gummed to the French on easier and, I think, close completely, are satisfactory. terms with their faith than the happier Every container should be labled to English are with theirs, St. John Er-vlshow the kind and variety of seed, writes, in the London Observer. the exact date when harvested, and Behavior which would seem irre er-ethe place where grown. For the cloth in St. Paul's or in Westminster bags, in addition to the label on the cathedral is perfectly respectful In outside, a slip of paper bearing the Notre Dame or the Madeleine, because above information should be Inserted the Frenchman, oddly enough, is more with the seed. individual in his religious expression Many seeds, especially beans, corn, than the Englishman. and lettuce, are subject to injury by We are very individual about the a number of insects, most of which foundations of faith, but very convenmay be destroyed by fumigation with tional and corporate about the ritual carbon disulphid. This liquid can be of It. In a Devonshire village well purchased in tin cans at drug stores. known to me there are four different Carbon disulphid. when exposed to the sects flourishing among a population of air, as when poured out into a dish Just over a thousand people, ranging produces a gas that Is from the established church to the Plyheavier than air. Therefore, in fumi mouth Brethren. Theres Individuality gating seeds it is necessary to place for you, and refusal to submit to the liquid in a receptacle above the domination ! But Inside that seeds in order that the gas formed b' priestly great and Indubitable individual evaporation may sink into them and there is an equally indubitable conreach every part of the container. A vention that the services, however distight tin pail, box. or barrel make similar they may be from each other, an excellent container for fumigating shall resemble in this, that they shall seeds. For a tight barrel full of seeds be done with seemliness and in a corone-hacupful of carbon disulphid is porate manner. sufficient. For smaller containers a The Frenchman cares less for this proportionate quantity should be used ritualism and organized devotion than Immediately after the fumigation has we do. He makes his private profesbeen started the container should be sion of thanks to the Almighty in comcovered with several thicknesses of plete disregard of any general service heavy paper, or other tight cover, and that may be proceeding when he enters allowed to remain covered from one to the church. He has no sense of horror two days. A longer fumigation in tin at No one being late for church. pails is apt to injure the germinating ever hears in a French home the drend-fu- l power of the seeds. Seeds to be fuml exclamation, There, the bells gated should be dry. ! stopped d gas is highly InNo Frenchman ever turned away flammable. Therefore, no lights or fire into an from the church door or of any sort should he allowed near obscure seat because the crept equivalent of while fumigation is in progress, or an I wlliarise and go to my Father" explosion may occur. The foul odor of bad begun before he could reach his the gas disappears after the seeds accustomed place. For him, the servhave been aired for several days. ice begins precisely at the moment After the seeds have been packeted when lie enters the church and ends a suitable place should be found for precisely at the moment when he storing them. Cellars are too moist, leuves it. His business is with God, attics usually are too hot. but a second-stor- y not with the community. room ordinarily is an ideal place It is somewhat disconcerting to providing the temperature does not those who have been brought up in fall below freezing and the seeds are the English tradition of churchgoing dry when stored. to observe French men and women Seed can be protected from mice If drifting in and out of church during woodkept in tin boxes or mouse-proo- f a service, but the imagination, wl it en boxes, or if suspended in cloth is used, quickly informs us that there bags. is devotion in these apparent drifters, and that their business with God is not carelessly conducted. Market Finish Poultry One is told that France is atheistic of to buying feed The advisability and faithless, but I doubt if there are a good finish market poultry depends many of complaints there, such as we also feed, deal on the availability hear in England, of empty churches. market as a If well outlet ns prices, you' are so situated that you can seLittle Things cure a good outlet for poultry rangtng five the to chances four pounds, around Keep the drawers of the bureau are that you could take this bunch of and dresser closed tightly when not Wyandottes, crate fatten them, pur- In use and remember to keep the winTwo apparently chasing your fattener, and market at dow shades even. small things, but what an appearance a fair profit The best plan of fattening poultry is the crate fattening of orderliness they add to the Care of Seeds Is Important home-grow- ne nt Ice Cream Is Delicacy. Then again, ice cream is a delicacy which everyone appreciates. It has become an important article of food for city and village people, but farmers often do without it. They might just as well enjoy ice cream as anyone else. Ice cream is not bard to make, and the freezer to make it with can be purchased at a small cost. But Ice is indispensable. When planning to use a given supply of water for ice, says the United States Department of Agriculture, make sure beforehand that the water Is pure. Clear the pond or stream of vegetable matter; otherwise it will be frozen in the ice. Protect the water supply from drainage from contaminating sources, such as privies, barn yards, and refuse heaps. Keep the ice surface clear of snow, as it retards freezing. Mark off the surface into cakes of the desired size, being sure that the lines form rectangles. Cut out a strip of ice the width of the cake desired. Force this strip under the surface of the Ice field, thus opening a channel to the landing. Saw off large cakes and float them to the landing, where they may be cut into smaller cakes. For the average farm, the only tools of required are two saws, two pairs one bar, hooks, ice pointed two tongs, one straight board for marking. Where cream only is to be cooled, alton of Ice per low at least one-hatons cow. For cooling milk, allow 1 should be per cow. These quantities houseenough to leave a margin for have to hold use; but it is better Whenever too much than too little. house in the practicable, build the ice 45 cubi feet form of a cube. Allow Ice. of space for each ton of Best Location. Locate the ice house In a shady and where place near the dairy house, wathere Is good natural drainage. If renot Ice is ter from the melting a more moved, melting will proceed at on is built house rapid rate. If the drainnatural sloping, porous ground, but if on a age should be sufficient; should be clay soil, artificial drainage provided. Use plenty of insulation. If sawdust see that or mill shavings are used, Is insulation they are dry. Commercial than either. method. more efficient and durable lf What attraction can you find in that fathead you go with, Maud? That fathead has made soap enough to net a million, my dear." Hopeless Crudity We turn to vitamins so strong As a nutritious means. Yet in our secret hearts we long For plain old pork and beans. Development They were having one of those little spats so common among married couples. And to think, sniffed the wife, that when you married me you used to call me a little dear. Perhaps I did," hubby grimly replied, but since then youve developed Into a big expense." . Carbon-disulphl- lf Bad Start I love you with my whole heart, averred the young man. "No, you dont, said the girl. Huh? One does not love with his heart, but with his brain. Well, do you mean to Imply that I have none? Honesty Mrs. Hoyle course? Mrs. Doyle Mrs. Hoyle Mrs. Doyle on the trolley You have a car, of Yes. 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