Show TIMELY HINTS FROM THE IT II S DEPT OP OF agriculture crisp cookies are wholesome in the lie school lunch box it if you a recipe send tor for farmers bulletin 1450 F home baking you will also lind find in it good recipes tor for dough for biscuits muffins rop overs and various kinds ot of cake rs ea well as directions for or making east bread two glass measuring cups one for wet and one tor for dry ingredients are a great conven convenience lel ace tin nn cake making probably fewer sandwiches would be discarded from childrens lunch boxes it if the bread was always ot of the best quality children will eat more bread it if different kinds are served sometimes so simple a change as baking the bread in a new forni form a twist or roll instead of r loaf or cutting the sandwiches in to fancy shapes with a cookie cutler I 1 or will increase interest in it the change ot of flavor given by added rais raisins inEp knifed tied currenti current curren tV pl dates or nut meats is another inducement to like the lunch bread the pullets in the poultry flock that lay persistently Persistent lk in late summer and tall fall slid and molt late in the season are likely to make the best breeders bleeders bre eders next spring says the U S department of agriculture pullets that molt early in their pullet laying year are usually poorer layers than the ones that molt late in the fall the early also stops producing eggs early in the summer or fall whereas the late persists in laying well throughout that period and makes a good annual record difference in persistency of production of 0 birds is also shown by the bleached appe ance of their beaks and shanks the color of the beaks and shanks of the tha best layers usually bleaches more quickly than is the casewitz case with birds that lay only intermittently thorough plowing under in the fall of crop residues Is the most practicable means ot of controlling two widespread tomato diseases early blight and leaf spot when properly done spraying and dusting are effective in controlling these diseases but the necessary applications are expensive and are difficult under some weather conditions these two slights are caused by fungi that live chiefly on dead plant materials and complete destruction ot of crop debris is the most economical means ct cf depriving the fungi ot of food ex E x reri regiments ments conducted by the U S department of agriculture indicate that tomatoes grown on tall fall plowed land are freer from blights baights than those grown on spring plowed land feed rows cows all the roughage they will eat either in the form ot of pasture grass soiling crops hay bay or silage the nutrients in these feeds ore are dually cheaper than those in concentrates and cows fel fed chiefly on roughage rather than concentrates are less legs to digestive disturbances however it if both hay bay and grain are bought bought and the hay bay costs more than anhalt on halt or two thirds as much as the grain the quantity ot of hay may be limited and nore more L grain fed this applies to the medium or low producing cows in feeding high producers cars care should be taken not to throw the cow oft off teed feed by giving too much concentrates |