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Show 3 FARO IIOTSS jl I v uvu'.-'-i -; i ::s ll. ai. r ( . e.-.L Mil ? 2 Extension Specia!:.-t Says Women Accept Wartime Challenge Women of rural Utah, with whom the extension service works, have accepted tne wartime challenge chal-lenge to "m:.ke the most of what . you have-,' Mrs. Effie Barrows, extension home furnishings specialist, speci-alist, declare. upon her return from a demonstration tour. Mrs. Harrows, with trie aid of local demonstration agents, has been, or will be in the near future, in nearly every county in the srtate, showing housev:ives how to make their furniture last for the duration. "One activity that is now in full swing is furniture re-conditioning," Mrs. Barrow explained. "Schools of about four days duration dura-tion are held, at which women learn how to overcome mechanical defects and remove objectionable features in worn out furniture." Farm women have been learning learn-ing how to rebuild even large scale upholstered furniture from a "mere frame to professionally and artistically designed articles." As an example of the work being done throughout the state, Mrs. Barrows reported that at two of the most recent furniture reconditioning re-conditioning schools held in Carbon Car-bon and Salt Lake counties, work has been completed on one davenport, daven-port, one studio couch, four over, stuffed chairs, one morris chair, five occasional chairs, five bedroom bed-room chairs, one ottoman, one dresser bench and three wicker chairs. Most of the smaller chairs and ottoman had seats made from old automobile seat springs. "Moat of the women report that these articles cost only about one-fourth one-fourth of the price charged by a professional upholsterer, yet are covered with better material,'-declared material,'-declared Mrs. Barrows. The extension home furnishings specialist also stated that many of the women had declared their intention of using the money saved to buy war bonds. Husbandman Suggests Sanitary Measures To Stop Hog Losses If one more pig could be saved and grown to market size out of each litter born in the United States each year, they would produce pro-duce enough meat to feed eight million soldiers for 3G5 days. That is the declaration of Professor Pro-fessor Harry H. Smith, animal husbandman at the Utah State Agricultural College Extension service. He adds that a little more attention to sanitation could easily accomplish this objective. Proper sanitation is the only way by which pigs can be kept free from round worms, states Professor Smith. The little pig gets worms by rooting around in filth on grounds where pigs have been before. To prevent this, Professor Smith recommends .that the hog house be cleaned thoroughly a few days before the sow is due to farrow. far-row. All old manure should be scraped out and the house washed, with a solution of boiling hot lye waiter. Also the sow should be 'brushed and washed with soap and water. Wlhen the pigs are three days to a week old, the sow and pigs should be moved to a clean individual indi-vidual house situated in a pasture which has not had hogs in it for at least a year, suggests Professor Profes-sor Smith. The extension animal husbandman husband-man also states that pigs are very likely to become infested with lice. To kill the lice, he recommends crowding the hogs together in a small pen and throw- ing some used crankcase oil over I their backs. I Mange, a condition which shows as a rough, cracked, grayish, thickened condition of the skin, is caused by the manke mite. Again common crankcase oil is an ef-1 ef-1 fective treatment. If the crank-; crank-; case oil seems a little too thick, a small amount of kerosene about cne pint, to a gallon may be added. J "Parasites mean unthrifty pigs, I and due to thorn the pigs often become infectc-1 with pneumonia. thumps, anemia, diarrhea and ! other diseases. And unthrifty ! pigs no matter what the cause, 'are, of course, unprofitable," con-j con-j eludes Professor Smith. i The wartime cook js wise to ! make soup one of her specialties. j for she can thus use parts of food that otherwise might go to waste. You've heard about saving every bit of fat. How about using every bone? Bones and vegetable trimmings trim-mings can be made into soup stock, foundation for many soups. Bones srive to the stock f':aror. some calcium and protein; vegetables vege-tables add some vitamins and minerals. If you add tomato, that , will help dissolve even more calcium cal-cium from the bones. I v |