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Show WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE s IS DOING l ' ' ( FOOn-SAVINd LESSON RW. MAINS. The "gospel' of the clean plate" was preached so thoroughly during war that youngsters In the United States still have a guilty conscience If they waste food. The home demonstration de-monstration agents sent out by the United States Deartment of Agriculture Agricult-ure and the State colleges emphasized emphasiz-ed fn their talks last year the need i of conserving food. In Washington Tarlsli, La., a llttlo girl recently took more food on her plate than sho could eat. Valiantly she strove for a , clean plate, In accordance with the teachings of the home demonstration ' agent In that parish but in the end failed. Thcroupon she folded her hands, closed her eyes, and said, "Oh, Lord, please don't lot Mr. Hoover or Miss Wolff hear this. I want to go to heaven It I've got to go any place. jr uwjks kquiitJiknt von milk ANALYSIS. A letter has been sent by the Dairy Division of the United States Department Depart-ment of Agrlcultuio to 1,500 health officers in cities having over 5,000 f population urging the city govorn- ,' ments to supply tho health officers with propper laboratory equlptment so they can adequately guard the city milk supply. A heulth department without a laboratory equlptment Is as helpless as a soldier with out anna , says the letter. A city government , Has no right to hold Its health depart , ment responsible for tho health of tho community unless It has provided the department with tho equlptment 1 necessary to wage the fight against disease. '; The work of supervising the safety cleanliness and purity of its city milk supply Is one of the most lm-i lm-i portnnL. duties of the modern health department. Bacteria, dirt added water, and preservatives In milk can not bo determined without chemical and bacteriological apparatus. The letter gives a list of the equlptment necessary to furnish a laboratory for t milk analysts. SCHOLARSHIPS RESULT FHOM JBL 'club work. " 2Jk The Legislature of Oklahoma has Just passed a law creating two schol arshlps at the Oklahoma Agriculture College for each county in the State The bill as originally drafted provld-y provld-y t ,'Cd that applicants for scholarships must bo members of boys' and girls' fa clubs In agriculture extension work. , A, This provision was later eliminated. ' , The examination for applicants, how- 3 K; ever, Is such that only those who have gfc received a training In agriculture ''"' equivalent to that given in tho coop- t ' Mvo club work can hopo to pass. the county farm demonstration i . and homo demonstration ecomo head Tnastors of the iry work in which boys and trained for entrance to tho Vlculturo collego on scbolar- , The sentiment Uiat resulted Jw has been a direct out- of tho cooporntlvo extension lf the United States Dopnrt- ' mf ' '0t ABrlculturo and tho Oklnh- it ?Jf Ouui' Agriculture College. 'P' Tho scholarship aro available to I, both young men and young women I without discrimination as to sub- I Jects. That is, girls are not required 1 to take an examination In domestic sclonco, but may bo examined In I agriculture, as many of them very I likely will. For' schollarshlps hereto fore glvon by bankers and others In Oklahoma girls have won oror the young men applicants In ngrlcutlural examinations. ' LESS TROUBLE WITO TRACTORS It takes about 2 and one half gallons gall-ons of fuol an acre to run ft tractor for plowing In the-Dakotas, according 0 to reports form several hundred farm ers received iy the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture. The report summarized In Farmers' Bulletin 103$, cover 2, 3,4 and 5 plow tractors trac-tors of various makes. Slight differences In fuel consumption consum-ption are found between machines of dttforent makes, and thero Is usually us-ually a slightly lower consumpntlon where gasoline Is used than weio keroseno Is used. These differences, however, are so small that the average aver-age of 2 1-2 gallons may bo taken as coming very closo to tho actual acre-consumption acre-consumption for nny typo or slzo of machine. The more recent reports received In tills regard lndlcato that farmers aro having much less troublo than formerelly In handling koroseno-hurnlng koroseno-hurnlng tractors. Nearly two-thrlds of the tractors on tho Dokatn farms 'reporting burn kerosene, and tho re sults are appearentlly satisfactory, particularly in viow or tho fact that tho present price of keroseno Is but half that of gasoline. However, tho advantngo of gasoline In ease of operation and In tho additional ns"sur anco yglves that tho cnglno will men prefer tho more expensive fuel, keep runlng steadily makes many HUSH VKH3T BEAN A SKW VARITEY. The bush velvet bean, a selection from the Alabama variety now being producced on a commercial scale In Georgia ,1s being distributed in 'trial lots by the United States Department of Agriculture. This differs from all other velvet beans In cultivation, as it is much a bunch bean Instead of a vinlng varlty. It grows to an average aver-age helgth of about 3 feet. It makes rather less growth than either the Alabama or Geargla varieties, while Its character of growth Increases In-creases the difficulty of harvesting seed. The amount of herbage Is somewhat less than the average production pro-duction of the velvet bean family. m o |