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ty ty ?J. .J. .J. .J. og* ty ty ty ty ty .{.OANNIXG AND DRYING FOU ?|* .J? WINTER USE. ty .J? J-TT- .J. 4? Hy F. F. Rockwell. ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty Sixth Article. The biggest source of loss in the average rall garden is not insects or diseases or dry weather, as bad as theso things are, but the waste of products which are not gathered in time and go to seed or get too old and tough to use. The abundance o*" rain which wo have had so far in most sections has kept the emergency gardens planted green and growing; but tho hot, dry weather we are likely to get for the next few weeks will cause-crops to mature very rapidly. Consequently only the gardener who is prepared will be able to keep up with the sup ply and prevent a great deal of un necessary waste. Even in the garden that has been very carefully planned there is sure to be a surplus of some things. If one has made a big planting of beans or corn especially for winter use, provision is naturally made to take care of them, but lt is tho small sur pluses for which no such provision is made, and which go to waste before one realizes lt, that make a total loss of very considerable amouut even iu the small garden. To utilize the garden's products to the fullest extent you should be pre pared to save every extra quart of beans or dozen ears of corn that ls likely to bc produced. Two ounces of dried string beans will supply that part of a meal for live people. lt takes but two ounces of dried apples to make a large apple pie. So it is evident that even the odds and ends are well worth saving, and to do this saving with the least possible trou ble the apparatus and containers nec essary should be kept on hand and ready to use at all times. With the use of up-to-date methods this does not mean very dilllcult work. "Up to-date methods" do not necessitate any elaborate or expensive equip ment.^ The ordinary kitchen uten sils, with a few conveniences which can easily be made at home, answer every purpose where only small amounts are to be handled. Improved (^anning Methods. Tile modern method of canning, ?which is being qpite universally ad opted everywhere with good results and with a great saving in work, is called the "One-Period Cold Pack Method." Th? vegetables or fruits aro put In the jars or cans while they are cool instead of being dipped out of a steaming hot kettle with the cer tainty of a good deal of hot and dis agreeable work and the risk of badly scalded fingers, if not a telephone call to the nearest doctor. In the one-period cold pack rae tohd there are four general rules to be obeyed. They may seem so obvi ous as to be hardly worth mention ing, but any failure In results can usually be found to be due directly to carelessness in ono of these four points. First, each product to be canned should be absolutely sound and per fectly clean; it should ?Iso be as fresh as it ls possible to get it-pref erably gathered the same day that it is to be put up. _ Second, tho utensils and all equip ment and containers should be not only carefully washed, but thorough ly sterilized before work with each "batch of stuff" ls begun. Third, after being put In the con tainers the "processing" should be continued the full length of time that ls required for the particular pro duct that is being put up. The time required for different things varies j greatly, and one should be sure of having correct information on this point before beginning work with any fruit or vegetable that has not been handled before. Fourth, after the "processing" has been completed, tho cans or jars must be made absolutely tight. The "processing" mentioned above consists in placing the jars or cans of vegetables or fruit, after the lat ter have been packed in sterilized, hot containers and covered with boil ing liquid, in hot water or in steam for a certain length of time before they are finally sealed preparatory to cooling off and putting away. This time varies from twelve minutes to two hours for different kinds of vege tables and fruits where tho jars are sterilized In a "hot water bath," such as a wash boiler with a bottom or tray to keep the jars from coming into direct contact with the metal over the fire, and to facilitate putting them in and out. Whore they can be sterilized in a steam cooker, or under slight pressure, much less time ls required. ALFALFA GROWN lust ss proflUbly In Georgia, tho Carolinas ?nd Alabama, as in tho Wost If you lime your land wim LADCO GROUND LIMESTONE. Cosu a trino. Insures good stand and vigorous n'rowtl? of alfalfa, votcli, clovors and ?rain. Wrlto for dollvorod price, valuable booklot ami roports. Attractive proposition to morr-hante ar.i? f?rmor ?tonts,_w . ADO LIME & STONE COMPANY 940 Ht ALKY D Ul LOI NO, ATLANTA? GA? i* HH HU There is not space here to give itemized data on these points for the several dozen products which can be put up. If you want the most au thentic information regarding thom, write to the Department of Agricul ture at Washington, D. C., Division of Publication, tor Farmers' Bulle tin 839. There is no special reason why it should be called a "farmers' bulletin" except that it comes In that class of tho department's publi cations. It is for every housewife In city and town, as well as In the coun ' try, who wants to make her table ex penses a little less than they were last winter. (AIBO send to Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, for their book on Best Ways to Cook Vegetables, re questing at tho same time a Hst of their free publications on garden and food topics.) While "drying vegetables" has been In use for a great many years was, in fact, used more years ago than lt has been lately-a nev/ nie thod of drying has just been devel oped which will be particularly use ful to those living in cities and small towns where there ls little space for the string of canned goods, but where electricity ls available. This new method of drying is, In brief, simply this: You cut up or slice your vegetables or fruits In ra ther small pieces so that they will dry out rapidly. Place them tn thin layers in open trays, stacked one above tho other and placed before an electric fan, which is kept running until they dry out. "Nothing to lt." But lt seems to answer the purpose most admirably. If the market ls flooded with string beans, you can get a bushel of them and blow all tho water you can out of them nt a cost of ten to twenty cents for electricity. In the winter you put tho water into them again by letting them soak over night, and you have fresh string benns. Some things, like beans are "blanched" before drying by being lowered into boiling water or placed in steam for a few minutes before drying. They should be dried until no water can be pressed out of a freshly broken piece-that ls, until tough and leathery; but not until crisp and brittle. To be sure of get ting them evenly dried, and suffi ciently dried, each "batch" of dried material should be mixed and "con ditioned" by pouring lt from one con tainer into another two or three times during the first few days after drying. If too moist, it can he put back and dried out more. The dried products should be 'kept from the light after ;drylng,-as othewlse-they | lose their color. For full particulars and detailed directions for this new method of drying, send to Washing ton for Farmers' Bulletin No. 841>| "Drying Fruits and Vegetables in the Home." PREPARING THF GARDEN FOR WINTER. The old saying that "you cannot eat your cake and have it, too," does not altogether apply in the garden. Or, to put it differently, if you han dle your garden In tho right way in the fall you can get a lot of the raw plant foods which it contains "cooked-up" and ready for your crops to use next season, and also save for next season's use the "left overs" that otherwise would go to waste from the plant foods you ap plied this year. The plant food in the soil exists In two forms-called "available" and "unavailable." This simply means that the plant food that ls termed " available" is in such forms that the roots of growing plants can make Im mediate use of it, while that termed "unavailable" is in such condition that lt has to undergo chemical changes before the plant can take lt up. To make the matter plain for the beginner, we may say that tho unavailable plant foods In the s'oll correspond to the materials of vari ous kinds which tho cook may have in tho kitchen cupboard-flour, rico, lima boans, spaghetti, etc. These aro all "foods," but not available for human use until after they have been changed by cooking. The par allel may bo carried a step farther in that, after they have been pre pared, they cannot ho kept Indefinite ly, and unless made use of a large percentage of them will be lost or wasted. How to Keep Hendy-to-Uso Plant Food from Going to Waste. During the fall, winter and early spring a great deal of tho plant food in soil that Is left bare is carried away in the surface washing and in the drainage water resulting from rains and from molting snows. In the case of nitrogen, which ls the most valuable of the three plant foods moat likely to bo "short" in any soil-nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash-further loss is occasion ed by Its passing off Into the air. Ono of tho gardener's most Important problems, therefore, ls to save what there may be left of these available plant foods at tho end of tho season for another year. And, Uko tho sur plus foods In the kitchen they may be saved by "canning." j T? It may at first glance seem a ra ther difficult problem to can an In visible something hidden away in a foot or so of garden soil which it would take an export chomlcal analy sis to find. But In reality lt is much easier than the kind of canning you do in the kitchen. By planting a crop that will grow through tho win ter and early spring tho surplus available foods will be stored up in tho roots, stems and leaves of the growing plants, and when these are plowed or spaded under in the spring and decompose, you got your plnut foods back again, ready for use by the vegetables you plant next spring. In addition, you fill your garden soil with "humus," or vegetable matter, which is almost as essential for the healthy, vigorous growth of your plants as having plenty of plant food in the soil. Humus keeps the soil broken up and porous and absorbs tho surplus moisture, storing it up for the futuro needs of the growing plants during dry weather. For these reasons you can readily see that tho sowing of winter or cover crops on every square foot of your garden left uncovered before freezing weather is not merely a hobby, but just about UB important as putting manure on your garden in the spring. In latitudes north of Philadelphia, the best crops to sow for this purpose are rye and winter vetch. South of Philadelphia either these or crimson clover may be used. Both tho vetch and the clover are "legumes" and not only conserve plant food as described above, but gather nitrogen from the air, actu ally enriching the garden soil on which they grow. Tho earlier these can bo sown the more growth they will make before tho ground freezes up. The best way is to have enough seed on hand and sow each patch of ground ns soon as lt is available, in stead of waiting until you can clear off all of the garden. Next spring tho parts which wore sown last can be left for late crops, such as melons and beans, so that the cover crops will have more of a chance to grow. The clover can be sown any time up to the first week of September, and the rye and vetch until early frost. Clean the Carden Up Now. Too many gardeners make the mis take of leaving all the cleaning up there may be to be done in the gar den until spring. Dead vines, bad fruits, brush, tomato poles, etc., are left where they are. This not only makes a disreputable looking gar den through tho winter and early spring, but furnishes tho very finest kiud.-of a.winter resort for every bug, beetle and blight spore on the Hst that requires special quarters for "wintering over." Make the slogan of the last week's work in tho gar den out-of-doors before freezing weather comes-"Clean up and Burn." Don't ho tempted, as it ls sometimes advised, to use the leaves, weeds and refuse from your garden for the compost heap. It is true they will help make humus, but they may also help make trouble. Pieces of sod, fallen leaves and ma terial of that kind may bo rotted up with manure if you have it to in crease the fertility of your garden next spring, but burn everything which by chance may carry over trou ble for another year. Fall Trenching to Increase Fertility, There ia another opportunity to make your garden for next year bet ter by giving lt an extra deep spad ing up this fall. If it is a small one and usually spaded or fodked up, you can go over it now and dig it several Inches deeper than usual by throw ing the soil out of the first row and then digging up the soil below that, turning lt over and breaking it up where lt is. The soil from the next row, If thrown on top of this, will leave another strip of the subsoil un covered so that lt can be broken up. This "trenching" or subsoiling of the garden not only gives more room for the roots of your plants to gather their food in, but also makes it pos sible to work it much sooner in tho spring, ns the improved drainage en ables it to dry out more rapidly. *********** READER'S COUPON. * This coupon, when properly . filled in will entitle any reader * of The Keowco Courier to one . copy of tho "Mid-Summer Gar- ? den Book." * Mail to W. Atlee Burpee & ? Co., Philadelphia, Pa. * Name Address 1 I * St. or R.F.D. ? What is LAX-FOS LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA A Digestive Liquid Laxative, Cathartic mid Liver Tonic. Contains Cascara Bark, Blue Ping Koot, Rhubarb Root, Black Root, May Apple Root, Senna Leaves and Pepsin. Combines strength with pala table aromatic taste. Does not gripe. 50c Rats oat every kind of human food -grain, dry groceries, meats, fruits and vegetables. NAVY 1 >EPAKTMENT IS ACTIVE. Th08. A. Edison mid Associa tos Ave Completing Big Inventions. Washington, Aug. 23-There wore two developments of importance af fecting the Ainorlcaa naval program to-day. Thoa. A. Edison, accompanied by Secretary Daniels, went to tho White House and laid before President Wil son an outline of a serios of inven tions that may be of great value to the navy. Thc conference lasted for 45 minutes. For military reasons lt is impossi ble to divulgo the projocts which Mr. Edition and lils assistants have been laboring with and which ho belloves may have a far-reaching effect upon warfare on the son and in the air. lt may bo stated, however, that ho has already turned over to tho Navy Deportment ono invention which of ficers bGlieve may bo adapted to na val 'usuages with excellent results. Only a few navy officers have had an opportunity to see tests of the In vention. They are satisfied lt will prove valuable If Its nature ls kept secret until lt is taken into action. It ls probable that as a result of to day's conference a board of naval offi cers will inspect Mr. Edison's other inventions within the next few days. The second development Indicat ing that the Navy Department 1? de termined io push the war more ag gressively was a conference between Secretary Daniels and approximately 25 ship and engine builders repre senting plants which have been turn ing out destroyers. Mr. Daniels told these builders frankly that tho United States was not satisfied with the results from the light submarine chasers and that he desired the yards of the country to turn out destroyers as rapidly as possible. He explained that tho chaser type serves to protect harbors and coastwise shipping, but is not of great value in disposing of subma rines at sea. For this reason the United States has decided to build destroyers as rapidly as possible. They are the one type of ship which submarines fear to encounter. The ship builders were asked to report just how many destroyers they could turn out on standardized patterns. It 'is the in tention of the Navy Department to work three shifts In destroyer build ing yards If possible so that they may be tUrned out literally by the huu dWs. A report from the shipbuild ewfolvlng their maximum capacities iByk&^cted within a few days. The great difficulty which thi* country has experienced itt building has been the shortage of engines. Mr. Daniels informed the engine build ers that the government would make lt well worth their while to build en gines fast enough to keep up with tho destroyers turned out by the shipyards. If the engine builders report that they are unable to keep up the pace the Navy Department probably will arrange to take over at least one of tho great automobile factories for engine construction. The depart ment appears satisfied that such a plant can readily bo adapted for the construction of destroyer engines. YES ! LIFT A CORN OFF WITHOUT PAIN. Cincinnati Authority Tells How to Dry Up a Con? or Callus so It Lifts Off With Fingers. " You corn-pestered men and women need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes that nearly killed you before, says this Cincinnati authority, because a few drops of froezone applied direct ly on a tender, aching corn or callus, stops soreness at once and soon the corn or hardened callus loosens so it can be lifted out, root and all, with out pain. A small bottle of freezone costs very little at any drug store, but will positively take off every hard or soft corn or callus. This should bo tried, as it is inexpensive and is said not to Irritate the surrounding skin. If your druggist hadn't any free zone tell him to got a small bottle for you from his wholesale drug house. It ls fine stuff and acts Uko a charm every time.-Adv. Real Highland Slickers. (Bosley Progress.) Thomas Watson meets his neigh bor, Mr. Jones, on the street. Wat son is picking his teeth. Says Jones: "Good morning, Mr. Watson! You mu*! have had something good for breakfast?" "I did," replied Watson. "What was lt?" asks Jones. Fish!" replied Watson. "Suck ers- nice, young and tender." "Where did you get thom," says Jones. "They came from Cedar Rock, S. C.," says Watson. "But," says Jones, "I didn't know there was a stream near that place." "They are highland suckers," re plied Watson. And ho walked on, still picking his teeth. ALCOHOL-3 TER GJSNT. j AVc^ct?bteTrcpartt??fcrAs ' s?milntin^meRod by Regula . Tl\crcbyr^ra??nt^i4?^ j Cheerfulness and RcstCo?tote i neither Oelum.McTphlne nj ! Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC J>nsjU?>Smt JBocAtikJmKk nam Strd AhelpfulRcmedyfor (JonstinaSoftoiKi Diarrhoe? and Feverishness ona LOSS OF SLEEP resulting tej?ti^M&S*!* rae^lmiteSi?nBtore0* THE CEHTAun Uowwnf* AlOnionili? ; 35*>? Exact Copy of Wrapper. Fire and Bomlfs Visit. Saloniki. London, Aug. 23.-First dotailed re.?ort of the disastrous Ure at Sa loniki Sunday ls contained In a dis patch from that city, fi says 00, 000 are homeless and the properly loss is enormous. Insurance compa nies are interested to Hie extent of two or three million pounds. Scar city of water made it almost impos sible to subdue tho flames. The destitute aro being cared for by entente military authorities. Tho British have 30,000 tn their charge. Frosh water and food are scarce. Enemy airplanes dropped bombs, on the city while the Aro was burning. Health About Gone Many thousands of women suffering from wpmanly trouble, have been benefited by the use of Cardui, the woman's tonic, according to letters we receive, similar to this one from Mrs. Z.V. Spell, ofHayne, N.C. "I could not Stand on my feet, and lust suffered terribly," she says. "As my suf fering was so great, and he had tried other reme dies, Dr.- had us get Cardui. . . I began improving, and it cured me. I know, and my doctor knows, what Car dui did for me, for my nerves and health were about gone." TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic She writes furtherr *r} am in splendid health.. . can do my work. 1 feel 1 owe it to Cardui, for I was In dreadful condition." If you are nervous, run down and weak, or suffer from headache, backache, etc., every month, try Cardui. Thousands of women praise this medi cine for the good it has done them, and many physicians who have used Cardui successfully with their women patients, for years, endorse this medi cine. 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