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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31,. 1940
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AILING HOUSE
ly ROGER B. WHITMAN ^
. (• Roger B. Whitman—WNU Service.)
Smoking Fireplace.
./"kUESTJON: What can I do to stop
|VJ xny fireplace from smoking?
Answer: There are many reasons
why a fireplace smokes. One is
that the area of the flue is too small
for the fireplace opening. The open*
ing of a fireplace should be about
10 to 12 times the area of the flue;
that is, for an 8 by - 12-inch flue
the size of the opening should be 960
;square inches or thereabouts.
Other reasons are:
( More than one fire connected to
.the flue; each fire should have its
own flue, and the walls of the flue
should be air-tight. '
| Chimney too low; the top of the
chimney should not be less than
fpur feet above a flat roof, or two
feet above the highest point ot a
gable roof—higher yet if there are
, nearby tall trees or buildings. The
jflue should be the same size to the
very top. *
Flue clogged; the condition of a
| fireplace flue can often be exam
ined from the fireplace by the use of
a mirror, with or without a flash
light.
j Wrong construction of throat and
wind shelf.
Throat damper closed.
I Opening of the fireplace too high
for the width, which can be cor
rected by setting a sheet of metal
across the top of the opening, or
laying firebricks on the'' fireplace
floor. The proper height for the
width can be found by experiment
ing with boards held across the top
of the opening.
Sealing Paint.
Question: What should be done to
my house t6 make the paint stay on?
The house, when new, was given -
two coats of white paint. Three
years later it was given two more
coats. A year later the paint
checked, curled and fell off. The
paint scaled off down to the wood.
The clapboards on the north side
are affected worst.
Answer: Remove the old paint
down to the wood. Thin out the
paint according to manufacturer’s
directions for each coat. Aluminum
paint makes an excellent priming
coat. The surface must be thor
oughly dry before painting. Several
days* drying time must be allowed
between coats. Paint is applied in
thin coats well brushed out. A thick
' application of paint, will.not dry out
quickly and is apt to cause trouble
later on.
Removal of Flow Wax.
Question: I have tried a commer
cial solvent for the removal of ac
cumulated wax on a linoleum floor,
but it has nq£ produced satisfactory
results. I have also tried using a
steel scraper, but with little success.
Is there anything you can suggest
that would do the job more effl-
cienitly?
Answer: A mild soap, warm water
and steel wool rubbed gently on the
surface of the linoleum will usually
remove most forms of wax. In stub
born cases turpentine instead of soap
and water may be used, but the
turpentine must be wiped off as soon
as the wax is taken off. Are you
sure it is wax and not varnish that
you are trying to remove?
Size of Hot Water Tank.
^ Question: I am having an auto
matic/gas water heater installed in
a two-family house, three persons in
each family. I do my own launder
ing. Would a 40-gallon tank be
large enough? Is it advisable to have
a copper tank? Are all automatic
gas heaters made of copper?
Answer: Much depends on the
customs and habits of the occupants
of the house. A 52-gallon storage
tank would be more satisfactory
than a 40-gallon. Copper tanks are
long lasting and eliminate rust in
water. Gas water heaters are made
with copper or galvanized steel
tanks.
Painting Metal Window Frames.
Question: I intend removing all
the old paint from the metal win
dow frames on my house. Please
advise me if you know of a good
primer paint which will prevent
peeling.
Answer: Remove all of the paint
that is loose by rubbing with sand-
paper or steel wool, smoothing the
surface as much as possible. Then
wipe with benzine (inflammable!)
or turpentine. For a priming coat
apply top quality aluminum paint.
When thoroughly dry and hard, fin
ish with a good quality outside paint.
Stains on Siding.
Question: Brown stains are show
ing on my siding, which I am told
are due to sap. They show through
the paint. Before repainting this
spring, can I do anything to pre
vent them?
Answer: You can seal in those
dark stains on your siding with top
quality aluminum paint. Begin by
sandpapering the stains, and then
wipe them with benzine, being care
ful of fire. Aluminum paint makes
an excellent sealer as well as a
good priming coat.
Powderpost Beetles.
Question: I have several pieces of
old furniture that are infested with
powderpost beetles. What can I do
to exterminate these insects?
Answer: They can be destroyed
Household Neuis
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THE COVERED DISH CHURCH SUPPER
(See Recipes Below)
As I sit here thinking about church
suppers, my mind wanders back
several years to the suppers I at
tended in my old home town. There
was always a feeling of congeniali
ty, of hospitality and fellowship. The
annual church supper was some
thing that couldn’t be, and wouldn’t
be, missed.
Many times it was a covered dish
supper. There was usually a great
variety of food. The menu was di
vided up into the main dish, the sal
ad, the bread and butter, and the
dessert. Each lady of the church
was made responsible for one item
of the menu; and she, no doubt, pre
pared her own favorite recipe.
Can you pass a table containing a
tempting assortment of foods with
out wanting at
least a taste of
everything? Can
you decide wheth
er or not you
want the cocoanut
cream pie which ,
is heaped with
fluffy «whipped
cream, or the
rich-looking chocolate cake with the
thick fudge icing, when you know
that you are entitled to only one des
sert? Of course not! Instead of hav
ing such a wide selection of food for
a xJovered'dislv supper, why not plan
a well-balanced menu so that every
one gets exactly the same?
Hot Water Cheese Pastry.
(Makes 30 tarts)
1% cups shortening
% cup boiling water
4 cups general purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups American cheese (grated)
Place shortening in warm bowl,
pour boiling water over it and cream
thoroughly with a fork. Place floury
salt, and baking powder in flour
sieve and sift gradually into the
creamed mixture. Add cheese. Mix
thoroughly. Make up into dough
ball, then chill in refrigerator. When
ready to bake remove from refrig
erator, divide dough and roll out.
Cut into rounds and bake.
Tuna Cracker Pie.
(Serves 4 to 5)
1 tablespoon onion (chopped)
2 tablespoons green pepper
(chopped)
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 can cbndensed chicken soup
6 tablespoons milk
1 can condensed cream of mush
room soup
1 can (7-ounce) tuna fish
Crackers for bottom and top of pie
Cook the onion and green pepper
in butter until soft, but not brown.
Then add flour
and mix well.
Add the chicken
soup and cook un
til thickened. Stir
in the milk. Add
this to the cream
of mushroom
soup. Put the
tuna fish in a
strainer and pour a cup of hot water
over it to take off the excess oil.
Then add flaked tuna fish; heat to
blend flavors. Cover the bottom of
small casserole with crackers
(round) and put tuna mixture into
the casserole.
For top: 12 crackers
% cup hot milk
Soak the crackers in the milk un
til soft. Then arrange crackers on
top of pie and bake in a moderately
hot oven (375 degrees) for 20 to 25
minutes.
Chocolate Fudge Cake.
(Serves 25)
1 cup shortening
3 cups light brown sugar
3 eggs (slightly beaten)
3*6 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
1 Vi teaspoons soda
% cup sour milk
% cup cocoa
1 cup boiling wat^r
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream shortening and add sugar
gradually, blending well after each
addition. Add slightly beaten eggs
, , and mix well. Sift together the flour,
by the liberal application of kero- taking powder, salt, and soda. Add
sene. This should be brushed and
sprayed on the parts that are at
tacked, and should be forced into all
holes and crevices with a fine-spout
-oil-can or medicine dropper.
Road Surfacing.
to the creamed mixture alternately
with the milk. Blend cocoa and boil
ing water. Add to the cake batter
with the vanilla, and mix just until
the batter is smooth. Pour into 3
8-inch square pans, which have been
greased and lined with wax paper.
Bake in a moderate oven (350 de
grees) for about 30 minutes.
Macaroni and Cheese.
(Serves 90-100)
8 pounds macaroni .
4 pounds cheese (grated)
' 2*6 gallons white sauce (medium)
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
2*6 cups butter
3 quarts soft bread crumbs
1. Cook the macaroni in boiling,
salted water until tender. Drain
and rinse in cold water.
2. Grate the cheese, and add *to
white sauce, with the prepared mus
tard.
3. Combine the macaroni and the
cheese sauce. Place in greased
baking pans.
4. Melt the butter and mix lightly
with the crumbs. Sprinkle over
the macaroni and cheese.
5. Bake in a moderately hot oven
(400 degrees) for about 30 minutes.
Clam Chowder.
(Serves 50)
IV* quarts carrot (chopped)
IVi cups onion (chopped)
3 quarts potato (chopped)
7% cups celery (chopped fine)
5 quarts clams
5 quarts water and clam liquor
Salt and pepper to taste
5 quarts milk
1% cups flour
1% cups butter
1 cup parsley
2 tablespoons paprika
1. Chop the vegetables in small
pieces and place in large kettle.
2. Chop the clams and add togeth
er with the clam liquor, water, salt
and pepper. Cov
er and cook about
% hour, or until
vegetables are
tender.
3. Scald milk.
4. Make a
smooth paste of
the flour and wa
ter. Add half of this flour paste to
the clam mixture and half to the
scalded milk.
5. Cook each, stirring constantly,
until the mixture thickens.
6. Combine and add butter, pars
ley, and paprika. Serve very hot.
Chocolate Nut Drop Cookies.
(Makes 4 dozen)
Va cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
116 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Va teaspoon salt
% cup cocoa
% cup milk
. % teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup nut meats (broken)
Cream butter and add sugar slow
ly while beating constantly. Beat
egg and add. Mix and sift all dry
ingredients and add alternately with
the milk. Blend thoroughly. Then
add vanilla and nut meats. Drop
by spoonfuls on well-greased baking
sheet and bake in a moderate oven
(350 degrees) for about 12 minutes.
Baked Sweet Potatoes.
(Serves about 25)
20 medium sized sweet potatoes
2 teaspoons salt
3 cups cream or rich milk
216 cups brown sugar
% pound marshmallows
Peel potatoes and boil in salted
water until tender but not soft.
Slice potatoes in half and place
in a glass baking dish. Add cream
and sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake
approximately 10 minutes in a hot
oven (400 degrees) or until sugar
has melted and caramelized with the
cream. Then arrange marshmallows
on top. Return baking dish to oven
and brown marshmellows.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Miss Eleanor Howe’s book of
“Household Hints” is just what
the title implies. It is a book
written to help you homemakers
in doing the ordinary things about
the home in less time, and to add
a bit of interest to those menial
tasks.
Before your fall housecleaning
and refurnishing campaign gets
under way, send for a copy of
this clever, helpful book.
You may secure your copy by
writing to Eleanor Howe, 919
North Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, enclosing 10 cents, in
coin.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Farm
Topics
LEGUMES RAISE
SOIL FERTILITY
Nitrogen-Rich Crops Need
Special Handling.
By C. B. WILLIAMS
. (Head. N. C. State foliage Agronomy
Department)
Legumes plus proper fertilization
hold the key to fertile, productive
soils.
The most practical method in
building up the productive power of
soils calls for the proper growth and
handling of suitable legume crops in
rotation with properly fertilized ma
jor crops.
The mere growing of legumes does
not assure added fertility unless
these crops are handled properly.
If the legumes are removed from
the field, leaving on the land only
the stubble and roots, their use in
this manner alone will prove a delu
sion so far as being an effective
means of increasing the producing
power of the soil in a permanent
way is concerned.
Effective methods of increasing
the fertility of soils must be those
that will leave the soil at the end of
each year fairly well supplied with
thoroughly decomposed organic mat
ter and an increasing amount of
readily available plant foods. This
will be the effect which the proper
growth and handling of legumes will
have on the land.
Anyone at all familiar with the
simple principles of soil manage
ment knows that fertility cannot be
maintained when the crops removed
take off the land more plant foods
than are returned to it. That’s why
it’s so important to turn under some
of the legumes.
The best time to apply ground
limestone is from three months to
one year before seeding legumes.
This gives the stone sufficient time
to contact acid in the soil particles
and counteract it.
The application of lime to culti
vated land should be made after
plowing, and the material should be
mixed with the topsoil. Little bene
fit may be expected if lime is plowed
under before being properly mixed
with the topsoil. On pastures it is
only necessary to scatter the lime
on top of the sod; however, better
results will be obtained if it can be
worked in by light harrowing.
Good Laying Hens
Do Not Die Young
The hen that lays the golden
egg, and lays it regularly, can
live as long as her less produc
tive sister, according to a five-
year study made at the Penn
sylvania State college by Dr.
Dean R. Marble, associate pro
fessor of poultry husbandry.
“Many poultrymen believe that
the high mortality of laying hens
is due to breeding for standards
of egg production which are so
high that the bird’s physique is
weakened,” Dr. Marble stated.
“However, during a five-year pe
riod we cut the mortality of se
lected poultry in half and proved
that we can breed longer-lived
poultry without any loss in egg
production, egg size, or body
weight. Selecting and breeding
for all these characteristics is
practical.”
During the past decade mor
tality has been increasing. Dr.
Marble claims. He believes that
careful breeding could help to
solve the problem.
Sheet Erosion Destroys
Fertility of Farm Land
That crop yields decrease as soil
erosion increases is shown by tests
made on farms last summer by the
Soil Conservation service.
In tests made on five farms, it
was found that fields with less than
25 per cent of the topsoil gone pro
duced 51 bushels of oats or 47 bush
els of barley per acre; fields with 25
to 50 per cent of the topsoil washed
away yielded 42 bushels of oats or
28 bushels of barley per acre; fields
with 50 to 75 per cent of the topsoil
gone produced 35 bushels of oats
or 23 bushels of barley, and land
with more than 75 per cent of the
topsoil washed away yielded only
23 bushels of oats and 17 bushels of
barley.
“There is an evident relation
shown here between topsoil losses
and crop losses,” says M. A. Thor-
finnson, soil conservationist. “Sheet
erosion removes the top, or most
productive layer of the soil. With
each inch that washes away, there
is left a material that is not only
less productive, but that is more
subje9t to erosion.”
New Worm Treatment
Phenothiazine, a new and power
ful drug which is now being used
experimentally for treating sheep
and goats for worms, has been giv
ing splendid results on flocks around
Columbia. Flocks that have been
treated twice have been doing splen
didly. It takes about five days after
treatment to clean the animals of
worms, and all worms are killed, ex
cept possibly some tapeworms. Even
the nodule worms are killed.
V'OUNG as a giggle, gay as a
* football tea when the home
team wins, this shorty coat and
full skirt form a very important
chapter in the school life of ev
ery junior who knows her fash
ions—and her public. And every
junior who knows how to thr,ead a
needle can have two or three ver
sions, inexpensively and easily, by
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Always add a little melted but
ter to uncooked frosting. It im
proves the flavor and also pre
vents cracking.
* * *
The color and flavor of roast
beef gravy is improved when a
tablespoon of brown or white
sugar is added to it.
* * *
A small quantity of leftover pie
crust may be rolled thin, cut into
squares, sprinkled with sugar and
cinnamon and baked until crisp.
These are very good served with
lemon sauce for dessert.
* * •
If the juice from an apple pie
runs out into the oven, shake salt
on it. It will bum crisp on the
bottom of the oven and may easily
be removed.
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Cookies and cajtes in which
honey is used need about two
weeks for ripening. They improve
with age, provided, of course, they
are stored in covered jars in a
cool place. Regular fruit jars with
rubber rings make good contain
ers.
making this new design (No. 8772)
for herself.
And she couldn’t choose a smart
er style! The casual coat has an
inverted pleat in the back, and is
trimmed with saddle-stitching.;
The collar turns back in becoming,
pointed revers. Gathered onto a
wide belt, the skirt is delightfully
full. Corduroy, flannel, wool crepe
and thin tweed are smart for this.
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Pattern No. 8772 Is designed for sizes
11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Size 13 requires life
yards of 54-inch material without nap for
short-sleeved jacket; 1% yards for long-
sleeved; 2% yards for bias skirt;
yards for straight. Send order to;
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