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r' V. THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Pasture and Forage Important This Year Lime and Fertilizer Booit Crop, Improve Quality Tb* supply of feed grains rela te livestgck and poultry num- 9B promises to be less favorable t tS44 than it has been for several As a result, farmers shoifld to take every possible advan- of pasture and forage crops in to produce the volume of and poultry products needed teas year, according to the War Fend administration. One of the best ways to increase •seduction of pasturage and forage, aad at the same time to improve tee quality, the WFA says, is to more lime and superphos- on pasture and hay land. The conservation program of the Agricultural Adjustment agency is designed to stimulate increased ■ae of both these materials. b most of the United States east af the Great Plains, and in some of tee higher mountain areas and the aseas of heavy rainfall in the Pacific ■erthwest, the WFA says, it is necessary to add lime to the soil b order to grow such legume crops alfalfa, red clover, and sweet r. The legumes are considered ible for two reasons. They pro- heavier crops of more nutri- hay than most of the non- petition from war crops has the legume and grass seed problem a serious one. es have gone and it will be ry to conserve all present :e as well as provide in some for additional seed. grasses. Also, because of ability to absorb nitrogen from ter air and, through their roots, transfer it to the soil, they increase aril fertility. When superphosphate is used as tep-dressing for pastures and hay tend, it enables the more desirable, ■rare nutritious, and more palatable legumes and grasses to crowd «art the poorer varieties. In a num bs of tests, pastures supporting mostly poverty grass and broom- *dge were top-dressed with super- Bhoephate. Kentucky bluegrass and white clover then tended to crowd ant the poorer plants. Keither lime nor superphosphate do the job of the other, nor can i together take the place of other elements of good land management, tee WFA warns. But on soils which require both, each adds to the uttectiveness of the other. Kght-Year Old Boy Is Tractor Driver A I3-year-old boy was seen oper- 3mg a tractor on his father’s farm b Greene county. It was his fifth season as a tractor operator, which ■•cans he began at the tender age of eight, according to T. L. Davis, University of Illinois. The farm consists of about 160 acres. The boy’s father has been a tenant on it for many years. Father and son comprise the man- pmrer. Mother and two sisters da their part. The boy takes great Pride in his work, and when school b m session he even gets in a few Acts mornings and evenings. The amnmer vacation gives him a great apportunity for his favorite occupa- I* is not unusual to see women farm work in this county, the wives doing a turn. A recent showed about 75 of them in - fields. Fifty boys and girls were doirg field work, many of the bps being less than 12 years old. Killing Poison Ivy IT the poison ivy plants are W**7ed with a solution of sodium chlorate in the proportion of one quart of crystals to three gallons of water, the plant will usually die aAer the first application. If life is ■tiB evident, however, a second ap- •ibation may be given ip a few weeks. Food in Brick Form What is said to be the largest ro- oury press in the world was installed at the Boughboy Mills at New Rich- WMnd, Wis., for forming bricks of dehydrated food for the civilians treed from Nazi subjugation. The bricks are actually one-half tec bulk of dehydrated food, meas- wring 6 by 3 by 2 inches. Four cargo planes, loaded with 5,000 pounds each of these bricks could fieed a million for one day. The mill is making 250,000 daily Fruit Preparation Required Processing M Natal ThM hi M mates Promt Sis.-Tim ia Mantes Apples Wash, pare, core, cut in pieces. Drop in slightly salted water. Pack. Add syrup. Or boil 3 to 5 minutes in syrup. Pack. Add syrup. 25 10 Apricots Wash, halve and pit Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Berries «se«of Strawberries and Cranberries Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 8 Cherries Wash, stem, pit. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Cranberries Wash, remove steins. Boil 3 minutes in No. 3 syrup. Pack. 10 Currants Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 10 Figs Put in soda bath 5 minutes, rinse. Pre cook 5 minutes in syrup. Pack, add syrup. 30 10 Grapes Wash, stem, pack. Add syrup or water. 20 8 Peaches Peel, pack, add syrup, or precook 3 minutes in syrup, pack, add syrup. 20 10 Pears Select not overripe pears, pare, halve, precook 3 to 5 minutes in syrup. Pack. Add syrup. 25 10 Pineapple Peel, remove eyes, cut or slice. Pre cook in No. 2 syrup 5 to 10 minutes. Pack with syrup. 30 15 Plums Wash, prick skins. Pack. Add syrup. 20 10 Quinces Wash, pare, cut in pieces. Precook 3 minutes in syrup. Pack, add syrup. 35 15 Rhubarb Wash, cut into pieces. Pack. Add syrup. 10 5 Strawberries Wash, stem, precook gently for 3 min utes in syrup. Remove from syrup and cooL BoU syrup 3 minutes. Add berries and let stand for several hours. Re heat Pack. 20 8 Tomatoes Scald 1 minute, cold dip 1 minute, peel, core, quarter. Pack. 35 10 Fruit Preparation and Processing Guide (See Directions Below) Canned Fruit If you want to assure your family of its basic seven fruit requirement, then busy yourself with putting up fruit at home. Fruits, commercially canned, have carried a high point value and this v has made their serving in many families prohibi tive. But lucky indeed are those homes in which there are ample stocks of home- canned fruits. Fruit canning is infinitely more simple than vegetable canning. The reason for that is that fruits are acid and, therefore, can be sterilized more readily. A hot water bath is ideal for proc essing the fruit once it is in the jar. If you cannot obtain one, use a regu lar wash boiler, fitted with a rack to keep the jars a half inch from the bottom. A cover that fits tightly over the canner helps keep the steam in and does not waste fuel. Steps in Canning. 1. Select fruit in the peak of con dition. Your can will yield only what you put into it. 2. Wash fruit or berries carefully, pare and pit according to directions for fruit in the fruit canning chart given in this column. 3. Fruit is pre-cooked for several minutes in certain cases to shrink it, and to give you a better looking pack with as little floating as possi ble. 4. Use a light or medium type of syrup in which to pre-cook the fruit or cook in its own juice. 5. Pack fruit into hot, sterilized jars and add boiling syrup or fruit juice with which to cover the fruit. Most juice or syrup is added to with in one-half inch of the top of the jar. 6. Adjust the cap according to the instructions furnished by the manu facturer. He knows the type of seal ing it will need. 7. Process fruit either in the water bath or the pressure cooker accord ing to the time indicated on the can ning chart. For a boiling water bath, see that the water boils during the entire processing period. 8. As soon as the jars finish proc essing, remove them from the can- Lynn Says Canning ’Rithmetic: If the jars and fruit don’t come out even when you’re canning, better sit down and do some figuring before you start to can. Here are tips to help you: Apples—1 bu. (50 lb.) cans 17-20 quarts. Apricots—4 basket crate (1 bu.) cans 20-25 quarts. Berries—24 quart crate cans 15- 24 quarts. Cherries—1 bu. (56 lb.) cans 20- 25 quarts. Grapes—1 bu. (48 lb.) cans 16- 20 quarts. Peaches—1 bu. (50 lb.) cans 18- 20 quarts. Pears—1 bu. (58 lb.) cans 20-24 quarts. Pineapples—15 pineapples yield 30 pints. Plums—1 bu. (56 lb.) cans 24-30 quarts. Tomatoes—1 bu. (56 lb.) cans 15-20 quarts. Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Menas Frankfurters with Hot Potato Salad Relish Buns Butter Cole Slaw in Tomato Cups Raspberry Cobbler Beverage ner, set on several thicknesses of paper or cloth and allow to cool. All jars should not be inverted, so watch the manufacturers’ instruc tions on this point. Oven Canning. This year, I’m not recommending oven canning of fruits because war time restrictions in equipment have caused many changes to be made in jars and caps, and this method is not safe. Many women had acci dents last year and much fruit was spoiled. Play safe, and use the wa ter bath. Sugar Syrnps. As long as sugar is still rationed, you’ll want to use it sparingly so there’s enough for peaches as well as for plums and grape jelly in the fall. Wise homemak ers are using the thin or medium syrups, as these will mellow and ripen the fruit but still not consume too much of the precious sugar sup ply. Thin Sugar Syrup. 1 cup sugar 3V4 cups water Bring to a boil, stirring only until sugar is dissolved. Keep hot but not boiling. Medium Sugar Syrup. 2 cups sugar 4 cups water. Follow directions above. Open Kettle Canning. Women who have canned years on end, still prefer the fashioned, open- kettle method for canning fruits. It gives a luscious product, and if the canner is careful, no spoil age will develop. Care must be taken to wash and sterilize all uten sils carefully so that no bacteria will be introduced into the jars to work spoilage later. Unless you are experienced at can ning, I do not suggest you try this method, but if you do, here are the directions to observe: 1. Wash and sterilize all equip ment. This means jars, rubbers, spoons, spatulas, funnels, in fact, anything that comes in contact with the food. 2. Make sure the food has reached the boiling temperature before fill ing jars. Fill each jar to the brim as rapidly as possible. 3. Run a spatula down the sides of each jar after filling. Refill with more juice to the rim of the jar. 4. Seal completely, at once. If you wish additional instruction foi canning fruit or berries, write to Miss Lynn Chambers, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6,Jllinois. Please enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope for yout reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. for old- IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. X The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for July 16 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF ISRAEL LESSON TEXT—Judges 1:8-1#. GOLDEN TEXT—Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin Is a reproach to any people. —Proverbs 14:34. The success or failure of both na tions and individuals is ultimately determined by their attitude toward the law of God. He is always right and true. The constant factor in a world order that swings wildly from one extreme to another, is His law, which is perfect and eternal. God is no respecter of persons. Even Israel, His own chosen nation, found that observing God’s law meant blessing, and failure to do so brought judgment and sorrow. No man is great and powerful enough to ignore this rule—and none is ex empt from its operation. I. Remembering God Brings Bless ing (w. 6-9). Although Israel had not fully obeyed God’s command, and had been rebuked by an angel of the Lord for their failure (Judg. 2:1-5), they had come into a measure of their inheritance under Joshua. They now possessed that inher itance and entered into enjoyment of it (v. 6). It is one thing to have an inheritance, but another thing to claim it and make use of it. Count less Christians have never taken out their inheritance in Christ. All they have is the earnest (Eph. 1:14) or “down payment.” God never meant that any child of His should live a poverty-stricken spiritual life, or should go halting on first one side and then the other. He has made provision for a full- orbed, strong and joyful life. _ Why not enter upon your full inheritance in Christ now? As the people of Israel took pos session of the land, they went for ward in the way of blessing as long as Joshua, and the elders who re membered God, kept them steady and true. We have here an excel lent illustration of the power of a godly example. It is far stronger Sian we think. II. Forgetting God Brings Back sliding (w. 10-13). The fact that a people has been highly privileged and has been ex alted to a place of power and honor will not save it in the day when God is forgotten. Israel no longer had God-fearing men to bring it back to God, and so began its awful drifting away from God. We Americans are rightly proud of our great land, its mighty re sources, its fine past and promising future. But wait—what is the future to be? Oh, we say, the most glori ous days are ahead. They may be, but only if we, like our forefathers who established this nation, recog nize God. If we do not, America will go the way of the forgotten em pires of centuries past, and that in spite of all its past achievements and its present promise. Let us always remember that America is not some vague entity apart from us, for we, you and I, are America, we determine what it shall be, and how it shall relate it self to God. Let us be sure that no one we know ever forgets God. It is a significant thing that the leaders of our nation so often come from Christian homes, but it is sad that they are so frequently not Christians themselves. Their lives are shaped by the teaching and in fluence of godly parents who reared them, but what will their children do if they are not brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord? Forgetting God is bad enough in its immediate results, but just ahead there is great and certain disaster. HI. Forsaking God Brings Judg ment (vv. 14-16). God not only will not hold a back sliding nation guiltless, but will bring judgment even if He has to turn over His people to a despoiling nation. He has instruments of indi vidual and national chastisement, and He is ready to use them. Notice that wherever they went the Lord’s hand was against them. There is no place to flee from the presence of God. Anyone who thinks he can do it, should read Psalm 139:7-12. It can’t be done. That is a comfort to the believer, but it is not a little disquieting to the un believer. God, however, always remembers mercy in the midst of judgment (Ps. 101:1). He sent judges to deliver Israel, when He was sure of their repentance (v. 16). “If there was ever a time when nations needed deliverers, it’s now. The systemat ic looting of subjugated peoples, the deliberate murder of multitudes of Jews, the mass executions of many innocent people in reprisal for some patriotic act of resistance, are evils that cry to heaven. “If men would call on God not merely for deliverance but in real repentance for sins committed ‘per haps the God who delivered Israel’ would send deliverance to suffer ing people still” (Arnold’s Commen tary). Well—why not call on Him now, in earnest repentance and faith. Will you do it? For Sheer Prints VAAKE a pretty and cool-looking ‘•’'■^afternoon frock for the hot test days in one of the new sheer rayon prints in ice-blues, frosty pinks and lavenders, in lime greens and soft dull yellows. The simplicity of the lines of this frock are a “natural” for soft fabrics. • • • Pattern No. 8008 is In sizes 38. 38. 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. 50 and 52. Size 38. short sleeves, requires 3% yards of 39-inch materlaL For Summer Days POMFORTABLE play clothes '■ J make life just that much pleasanter for the very young 1 This three-piece set of overalls, sun-suit and matching bolero con stitute a whole play wardrobe. Use lightweight blue denim, seer sucker, chambray or pique in cheerful colors. To remove face powder from a satin or velvet dress, brush lightly with a woolen cloth. • • • A bit of flour sifted into hot fat will put a stop to spattering in a jiffy. • • • For cleaning a coffee-stained percolator, put in a cup of salt, fill with water, and let the mixture percolate as for coffee. • • • Squirt kerosene on nuts and bolts that are to be loosened, once each day for several days, before the machine is to be worked on. They’ll come off much easier. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1960 la de signed tor sizes 1. 3, 3, 4. and 8 years. Size 2, short sleeve jacket and slacka. requires 2% yards of 35-inch material: sun suit, l*,i yards. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time required In filling orders for a tew of the nk>st popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago Enclose 20 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address DELICIOUS J FROZEN f] /far) 1 DESSERTS/I I ml 6 tag LiNE 1 ® TONIC BOTTLE-25« Calox Toot" that shine- TOOTH r.mox r \ Mighty Good Eating/ i mk&tpb l ( CORN FLAKES j “The Gralas art Grsat Foods”— pORiii fuites H •Kellogg’s Com Flakes bring you S nearly all the protective food elements B of the whole grain declared essential to human nutrition. EILL BEE! She's a disease-carrying DEMON! 1 Quick! Get the FLIT. Save yourself from the bite that \brings burning-chilling miseries of malaria. Yea! Flit kills Anopheles, the malaria mosquito, os surely as it mowa down common household mosquitoes. So why take a chance? Help protect your family from this winged acourge . . . buy a big supply of Flit, today! kills flies, ants, moths, bedbugs all mosquitoes. Copr. 1944, BE SURE W'S FLIT! ASK FOR THE YELLOW CONTAINER WITH THE SLACK BAND!