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?ROAD * jgOlMS EFFECTIVE WORK ON ROADS Pulling a Drag Through Mud When Soil Is Sticky ie Waste of Time Farmers Work Together. We have a road drag club of 33 members that has been in existence! ifor nearly two years. About a third ? lof the members own drags and these ?are in use nearly all the time. It is 'understood that any member has a perfect right to hitch to anybody's drag that is not in use. We have learned a good many things about road dragging since we ?started, writes W. D. Dennis of Mis souri in Farm Progress. Dragging a road ls not quite as simple as it looks j and there are some kinds of dragging that are not worth doing. For in stance we have found that pulling a drag through the mud when the soil is sticky enough to cling to the drag ls >a waste of time. Nor do we ever drag a road that is bone dry. All the good that does is to heap the dust in the center of the * highway. Of course, we have no one lin the club whe has authority to send a man home if he wants to drag a road in dry and dusty weather, but it lis understood that such road work is foolish and no one does it. Drive the team at a walk, always, .is another of our unwritten rules. You don't want the drag bounding and hopping along, leaving the road sur Harriaburg Road, Near Houston, Texss. face dragged in places and skipped in -oihers- Slow aniLs>eady does the best ?work. We have no heavy drags. A few months' experience showed us they were not what we wanted. We use light drags, pulled over the road at about the regulation angle of 45 de grees. This pulls a small amount of .earth over to the center of the high way and firms the whole wheel path, v We have a 60-foot highway. "Natur ally we do, got try to drag all of that surface. What we try to maintain is a roadway of about twenty feet In width. We begin in the center and try. ito fljst get a good^ whee] track width in fair shape. As soon as this 'if done "the drags are lapped a little farther J over into the undraiged roadway at the sides. r We drag the roads as soon as pos sible after every rain. The best work is done after a rain and just before the road surface begins to harden as it dries. One side of the wheel path ls taken going in one direction, and the other side is smoothed up on the re turn trip. Half a dozen drags on a road after a spring rain will work wonders. Keep this up a few weeks and you are able to build the center of the road up to a height of from ten to twelve inches above the level of the edges. This gives a good drain age and makes the future dragging easier and much more effective. Road dragging is something that must be kept up continually. Eternal dragging is the price we have to pay for dirt roads- that are above the av erage. If we paid for the work put on them it would probably cost us all of $10 and maybe 112 a mile for the year. Some years the roads will re quire much more work than in others because of the weather conditions. The amount of traffic and the nature of the soil on which the road is built aro other faotors that affect the ?mount of dragging necessary. There are socio spots in every road that should be graded and filled be fore roo can expect to do very much with the drag. A drag will not help these bad spots touch. Get them fixed np once, though, and you won't have much trouble tn keeping them in shape with the drag. Reduce All Grade?. Reduce all gradee to at least five per cent If possible. In som* states roads are laid out on section linea and hills must be gone over, bot where possible ?void steep grade?, as these are a con stant cost for maintenance and danger ous to travel. Werk Systematically. The way to build a good road 1? to work at ft sjvtom&tlcally and con tinuous^. You cant do a little new and then and have it ooma out the war roa want U ia the IWff rm FOR THE SUCCULENT CARROT Six Ways of Serving Vegetable That Should Be of More General Consumption, Creamed Carrots.. - Scrape and wash the carrots, cut in thin slices crosswise; boil in salted water until tender, drain off the water, cover with sweet milk, add salt to taste and a small piece of butter. Thicken *ith a spoonful of flour to the consistency of good cream. Carrot Croquettes.-Boil four large carrots until tender; drain and rub through sieve, add one cupful of thick white sauce, mix well and season to taste When cold, shape into cro quettes, and fry same as other cro quettes. Carrot Soup.-One quart of thinly sliced carrots, one head of celery, three or four quarts of water, boil for two and one-half hours; add one half cupful of rice and boil for an hour longer; season with salt and pepper and a small cupful of cream. Carrot Pie.-Scrape and boil the carrots until very tender, then mash thoroughly, and to one cupful of car rot add one pint of milk, one-half tea spoonful each of salt, cinnamon and ginger, one well-beaten egg, sugar to sweeten to taste. Bake slowly in one crust like squash pie. Carrot Preserve-Boil the carrots until tender; peel and slice them and to each pound add one pound of gran ulated sugar and one-half cupful of water; flavor with lemon. Simmer slowly until rich and thick, then seal. Carrot Marmalade.-Boil the carrots until perfectly tender, then mash to a fine smooth pulp, and to each pound allow one pound of sugar, six almonds, the grated rind of one lemon and the juice of two and a few drops of al mond flavoring. Bring to a boil grad ually, and let boil, stirring constantly for Ave minutes; then pour into jars and seal. DAINTY 8ASKET OF MACARONI For the Luncheon Table or the After noon Tea This ls a Delicious Confection. Take two cupfuls sugar, one cupful boiling water and one-eighth teaspoon ful cream of tartar. Put ingredients In a smooth saucepan, stir, place on range and heat to boiling point. Boil without stirring until sirup begins to dissolve. Remove from fire and place in larger pan of cold water to instant ly stop boiling. Remove from cold water and place in a saucepan of hot water. Now dip macaroni in sirup at regular intervals close to edge and put two together. When firm add a third macaroni and so on until a circle ls formed large enough for base of basket. Over these fit another layer of maca roni and over the second layer a third one. Make a handle of stretched candy twisted, and adjust same. Ar range basket on small plate, fill with ice cream, garnish with whipped cream, flavored and sweetened, aiad surround with holly.-Exchange. Wash Chamois and Doeskin Gloves. The secret of success in washing chamois and doeskin gloves lies in using lukewarm or cool water-better cool than even a few degrees too warm That, at least, is one of the secrets; the other is io use soapy water. The soapier the water, providing it ie of the right temperature, the silkier and softer the gloves will be. They should first be freed from all dirt in a soap bath, and then put through another soapy bath in order that they may be rinsed from the dirt set free. They should then be pressed and squeezed in a thick towel until they are free from soap and water as nearly as pos sible. Then they are ready to be hung to dry in a cool, dry place. Nev er hang them near a fire, and nevi?r hang them in the sunshine if you would have them soft and pliable af ter laundering. Date and Peanut Pudding. Dates and peanuts make an excep tionally good combination. Beat two eggs well, add one cupful of granu lated sugar, one cupful peanuts finely chopped, one-third of a cupful of flour sifted with one teaspoonful baking powder, and one-eighth teaspoonful of salt Turn into a large layer cake pan, buttered and bake in a moder ate oven about one hour. When cool turn out upon a flat serving dish, sprinkle with two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and cover with whipped cream. Heavenly Hash. Beat yolks of four eggs until very thick; beat into them gradually one cupful powdered sugar and one-half teaspoonful of salt. Beat until sugar is dissolved. Add juice of two lemons and beat again. Peel and slice thin six bananas and four oranges, put in a deep dish a layer of bananas, then a layer of dressing, then of oranges, and so on, having the bananas on top, and pour the remainder of dressing over iL Serve very cold. Soup for Invalids. Cut into small pieces one pound of beef or mutton or a part of both. Boil it gently in two quarts of water. Take off the scum and when reduced to a pint strain it and season with a little salt Give one teacupful at a time. Odd Use for Coffee Grounds. Needles and pins will never rust If kept in a cushion filled with coffee grounds. Rinse the grounds in cold water, spread on a sheet of paper to dry thoroughly, and then stuff th? cushion. I SWEETS AND SUZANNE By DOROTHY DOUGLAS, (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) Suzanne, enveloped in an apron, stood over the gas range stirring fudge. "It seems such an odd thing to1 s?nd to the army," she said to her mother. "Chocolate is very nourishing and sustaining, dear," replied Mrs. Adams. "The boys can carry it along with them on a march and, when they feel hungry or fatigued, eat a piece with out stopping. Don't you see?" Suzanne nodded. "Oh, I'm more than willing to make it, and since the cali for it bas been sent out I'm sure it is required." And then she W6nt on with her candymaklng, thinking and wonder ing as she stirred where and by whom it would be eaten. "I-I wonder if any of the boys will get a whole box, by any chance," she said to herself. "I-wonder!" When a trainload of wounded sol dier boys arrived at the big city, of which her home was a suburb, Suz anne was anxious to Join the volun teer workers who were 1:o care for tho soldier laddies. "I am not a trained nurse, but I could help," she told her mother. "All right, dear," her mother said.' "It is a noble work and you have my permission to go-so long as you go chaperoned by Mrs. Greene." Mrs. Greene was a matron of the community who was going to help with the nursing of boys who had been brought home, and she had of fered to take Suzanne with her. It fell to Suzanne's lot to be sent ' to the home of a soldier boy whose motlier was an invalid. At his home she was to assist in taking care of him, and from the young man she .'cerned much of the life of soldiers in battle. "But we had much to be thankful for," the wounded soldier told her one day when she sat by his invalid chair, which was drawn out on to the sunny porch beside that of his moth er. "We had wonderful Red Cross service. We were not left to suffer on the field, but were given the best and quickest of attention at all times and sent home to mend up. And the good people all over the country even saw to lt that we had candy chocolate sweets-on our marches. It was great!" the boy said. "Did-did you have any fudge?" Suzanne asked timidly. "Fudge? The best ever and one of the fellows in our regiment has gone 1 clean daffy over some girl who sent a box with her name written all over it. He pieced it together, taking our candy out of our very mouths al most-" the soldier laughed-"and managed to make out her name and where she lives. He swears if he lives he's going to find that girl, and. -well, you know how such thl??Ek \ always turn out" When her charge was well enough ! to be about she left him, but not be fore she had promised his mother to go each summer to visit her at their cottage by the sea. It was three summers later that she went down to the cottage at the invitation of the old lady and her ex soldier son to spend a fortnight. The 1 war was ?ver. i "Mr. Henry," Suzanne asked of the boy she had nursed, "did you ever j hear again of your comrade who ate the girl's fudge and was bound to win j her. Did he ever find her?" ."Funny I He's coming here tonight to sp?na "the night with three other fellows, and you caij. ask him for yourself. I hope he's either found her or forgotten her," Henry added. "This love business gets me-I'm heart | whole for one," he laughed. i It all seemed so natural when Sus anne shook hands with Robert Moore -so much as if it had meant to be. "Suzanna Adams," he said. "Suz anne-it's not an ordinary name and j I've been searching for it." I "Why so?" asked the girl, blushing ' furiously. "Because she made some fudge and , wrote her name upon it to give me j hope through many a long march, j that's why, and you know it. Later ! on I'll tell you more," he said, dar-1 ingly. "Will you listen?" Suzanne choked with emotion and , could not answer, but she knew that ' she would listen-that she had been . waiting for three years to listen. "Home, Sweet Home/' It was dark and cold and the gaunt and leafless trees were swayed by fit ful gusts of wind that Bpoke of com ing rain. Plodding Pete and Weary Willie quickened their pace in order to reach a place of shelter ere the storm should overtake them. This sudden burst of energy seemed to excite con versation. "Wot's up with yer, Pete?" inquired Willie! "Yer look as if yer goin' ter cry." "I dunno," was Pete's reply. "I dont feel the joy o' livin* like I used to. 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