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Show FARM NOTES BY HYRUM STEFFEN j Beaver County Agent t 1 :By losing their tops, cairots may make a contribution toward relief of the transportation shortage, short-age, the United States Department Depart-ment of Agricluture reports. Tests by agricultural research adminis- tation investigators brought out j differences between shipments of i carrots with and without tcps j which were altogether favorah'.e I to cutting off the tops. I The carrots shipped with the tops left on, lost 50 percent more water than the topless ones. Another point in favor of the carrots car-rots without tops was that in six trial lots they had slightly higher sugar content that the lots shipped ship-ped at the same time with tops. The investigators point out the possibility of a considerable saving sav-ing this way, since the weight of the tops amounts to approximately 15 percent of the total weight of carrots as ordinarily shipped. It's not enough to raise a Victory Vic-tory garden and can for next winter. Right now we are cooking- and eating lots of vegetables fresh from the garden, and their immediate conservation is important, im-portant, too," declares Miss Elna Miller, extension nutr'tionist at the Utah State Agriculoiral college. col-lege. Miss Miller stresses that there is more to cooking- vegetables than ' just putting them on the stove ar.d letting them boil. "The way we take care of vegetables before we cook them makes a great deal of difference in the vitamins and palatability they will have when they come to the table," she explains. ex-plains. If fresh vegetables must be stored, store them in the refrigerator, refriger-ator, suggests the extension nutritionist. nu-tritionist. She points out that (Continued on last pnge) V FARMNOTES (('ontinued Troin page I) tents show- that spin.u-h store. at room temperature hm- om'-tui'.f of the vitamin (' in (hive days and nearly nil of its vitamin ( content in seven days. Stored in the re-frigerator, re-frigerator, it lo-o-s almot non,. in three days. "Preparing vegetable nc.d letting let-ting thern Mand in water tak-? a heuy toll of their minerals," warn Miss Miller. "The common practice of peeling vegctal'lc. keeping them crisp by covering with water nnd letting them stand until tune to rook them, may he a convenience, hut is very wasteful waste-ful of the minerals t.hi-y might otherwise furnish." The way the v-get uhle is cisik-ed cisik-ed is another important factor In determining whether vegetables will fnrni.'ih "filler" and calorics or vitamins and minerals s well, states Miss1 Miller. To save the latter, cook the .shortest time pos. slide H ml in the least water. In response to numerous (jiieries, llynwu Kleffen, leaver county agent, advises the use of P H H as n fumTgant for ant colon ies in Victory gardens or on home grounds. P I) I! s the popular abbreviation abbrevia-tion of the nmi of the chemical paradichlorolienzene, often used for control of do! lies moths. For control of moflt spivies of ants that, are active in gardens, lawns-and lawns-and on trees and shrubs, relief depends de-pends on exterminating the lint colony in the ftoil, explains Mr. KtefTen. "P I) II crystals aw obliainablc at drug stores, lire not ex.pimsive. and tho fumigating gas which they reUvaso In the soil is not in flamablo or ex'phmlve, us 'is the gas frrm carlisin disulfide. To treat, an ant colony, puncih holes in the noil anil pour inlo oai"h two or three te-aHpositi-sful of P H It and fill the holes with wnil," IP I) II eWiorales during the eoiirse of ns'venil days lo free a gas Unit will kill ii ii t n or make them uncomfoi't'n.bhi so that. Ihey will move ehu'where. The win liner lin-er the soil, tho nion. rapidly will evaporation take place. It is not necessary to rover the surface with ft gua-proof cover. (For ants living in galleries in decayed wood of trees and shrulbs, carbon disulfide injected into the holts from a small oil can is like-,ly like-,ly to be the most convenient remedy. rem-edy. J Either carbon disulfide or PDB -may have an injurious effect on ! gro-wing plants, hut if there are only one or two ant hills in the garden it is advisable to treat them, even though a few plants are killed, states Mr. Steffen. In lawns the injury to grass usually is not severe enough to offset the gain from eradicating the ants. One way to make meat tender is to let it stand for a few hours in a mixture of oil and an acid like vinegar or lemon. The acid softens the tough tissues and the oil gives flavor and tenderness to lean meat. , v I |
