thuhauay sbptratbgr 7th 1m the acton ifrbe iftttbss fitaliiststsufcir jfafia hemranfiboiivl amsattaa aest hello homeraakers our fruits par ades thlr luscious wealth each in their turn throughout the entire sum mer in spite of inexperienced help gardeners have displayed an excel lent quality of produce and an ample quantity for our needs too it is then up to us to make the best of truefla vored foods keep the flavor of late summer fruits by storing them in a 4x1 placepreferably the refrtcerat- or do not store too much raw fruit for a long period use the ripest ones first it is wise precaution to keep ny strong flavored foods away from fresh fruit in the preparation of trait such as peaches pears and apples drop in salted water as soon as peeled to prevent discoloration mix with citrus fruits if these fruits have to stand for some time peach ooffee cake cream 2 ibsp shortening and u cup sugar add 1 beaten egg sift to gether 1 cups flour tap salt and 3 up baking powder add alternate ly to creamed mixture with u cup milk mix just until blended pour into greased pie plate arrange sliced peaches over top crumble 3 tps butter cup sugar and 1 tsp cinna mon together sprinkle over peaches bake in electric oven at 375 degrees lor 35 minutes canned peaches scald peel halve slice or leave whole pack raw in sterilized jars and cover with boiling hot syrup 1 cup sugar to 1 cup water adjust lids process in boiling water bath for 35 minutes process 35 minutes if peach- s are firm open kettle method boll in syrup adjust lid and process 20 minutes in boiling water bath canned peara peel leave whole or cut into halves and cow cook gently in a boiling light syrup 4 to s minutes according to size and firmness pock hot and cover with boiling syrup adjust lldu and process 20 minutes in boiling wa ter bath open kettl method same as for peaches peabh in haladrt use equal amounts of diced row pears and apples when you make wal dorf salad stuff the cavities of peeled pear halves with salmon salad mix diced pears cubed canteloup and mar aschino cherries with a light syrup peachea olt peaks with doqee for a dessert type salad fill cavit ies of peeled and cored halves at fruit with cream cheese or cottage cheese and apple jelly or old cheese und pea nut butter dressing isnt necessary pw- pbiht put slices of peaches and puars on a grill drizzle with honey und mint and broil for 5 or g minutes take a til 1 before fastening corku into bot tles boll them for five minutes to soften them then while hot press them into bottles the corks will fit tightly when cool 2 clean plaster vases by dipping into a thick liquid starch when dry brush off the starch and dirt will van ish with it 3 try adding a pinch of nutmog to creamed corn a different but blending flavor for a change the question box mrs d w says is it true that you should sprinkle sliced cucumbers with salt and allow them to stand some time before serving answer there is no evidence that salt makes cucumbers easier to digest salt would draw water from the cells and moke the cucumber limp and un appetizing this water contains val uable minerals and vitamins which would be tost crlspness would be lost too mrs e c says mould formed on some extra fruit juice i had in covered bottle in the refrigerator could x use it answer such mould is not injuri ous to health but may change the flavor usually the mould can be skimmed off and the syrup boiled will be all right to help avoid it pour hot syrup into a sterile jar cover at once and place in the refrigerator as soon as cool if syrup is kept for an extended period reheat it occas ionally and always- keep in airtight container mrs g j m has a suggest inn for r b to make red chill sauce peel and core tomatoes put in pan mash with wooden potato masher cut up onions bring tomatoes and 2 on ions to a boll then take off lid of pan and let cool till chill sauce thick neat than put in sugar salt spices mixed with the vinegar and let cool for a few minutes longer stir well dinger farm kked1ng more wbrax tofajrmuveotgck ws something seems to tell me that farmers were not included in the pro vincial governments plan for a forty- eight hour working week for us a fortyeight hour sleeping week would be nearer the mark and not always hat this week for instance there were threshings to go to but no possible chance of getting a man that meant partner was up several mornings at 430 and it is more likely other farm ers without help are having to do the same thing that is where there are a good number of cows to milk just as i v as beginning to wonder how long partner would stand the pace young john appeared on the scene and was ready and willing to come back and work for us john you may remember is the young lad we had living with us a year or two ago isnt that a fair sample of the way things often happen you get to the place where you cant see any sol ution to your many problems and then suddenly the way is clear in this instance we have even better luck than we had hoped for steady help at last help with the milking the chores the held work and last but not least the threshings partner be gins to look better already we may not set down to a fortyeight hour week but we shall at least get some thing better than a fortyeight hour sleeping week and that will be some thing to be thankful for last week i spent most of my tlmo pickling and canning since there was only one day on which we were able to draw in i knew i wouldnt have to run to the barn just utt a kettlo of tomatoes hail come to the boll i brought in beets from the garden by the pailful now they arc uafoly stow ed away in the form of beet pickles one day i had a friend helping mo and we had more fun thuit a picnic making tomato juice i had u bottle capper which i had borrowed neither of us hnd over used one before or seen such a thing in operation how- over it didnt look too complicated so wo tacklod the job with the utmost confidence wo experimented first by capping an empty bottle pressing down hard on the bottle thon 1 tested the cap it lifted off quite easily without the use of an openor we tried again press hard press real hard said my friend but i was scared i thought if i pressed any harder the battle would fly to pieces however my friend was less nervous so she tried this time with a bottle of julco she pressed hard all right so hard we couldnt release the bottle afterwards so we took the bottle off the stand with the cappor sthklng to it then we hud ii tup ofwur i had hold of tho bottle of juice my friend the cup per we were almost helpless with laughter hut eventually cot the two things separated and the cap stuyed put as did those on twentyfour other bottles isnt it wonderful how laughter lightens the work and what a bless ing it is thut we can often und some thing to laugh at what a world this would be if there wore no fun and no laughter dear knows there is little enough to laugh at in the world to day but thank heaven the capacity is still there daughter is home this weukend and she had some harrowing stories to toll concerning the return of wounded men from the battle fields and repatriates from tho far east true stories that she had learnt of at first hand from relatives or friends of the returned men and women stor ies that are better not published but which make one realise that tho sacri fices and hardships of this war ore anything hut equally shared that is inevitable but when we hear of in stances of unbelievable suffering we should at least hove the grace to re mind ourselves that only the force of circumstances have made other people victims rather than ourselves the news from all the battle fronts today u almost too good to be true what i like to hear best is stories of our own men being released after long years of prison life and of people in former enemy occupied countries being free at last to lead their lives as they see tit the feeding of wheat to live stock and poultry has exceeded the use of wheat for human consumption in can ada during four of the five years of war and during the crop year 1943- 44 animals ate twice as much wheat as did human beings states the quart erly review of coarse grains this conversion of wheat to live stock feed ing has been a wartime development of note not only in canada but also in the united states during the five years before the war the average amount of wheat fed to live stock and poultry annually in canada was 32000000 bushels against human food requirement of approx imately 44000000 bushels in the crop year 1d4344 human consumpt ion of wheat is expected to total 90- 000000 bushels and the animal con sumption more than 100000000 bu shels buzz co woht japtf montread cp fit lit buzz beurllng expects to leave in midoc tober for the far east in soarch of aerial combat with the japs beur llng whose resignation from the r c a f was accepted would not say what air force he expects to be with it was revealed previously he had of fered his services to the chinese milk producrticwa up in piraiises in 1s80 the total production at milk in canada was 157 billion i pounds and by a1m3 it had increased to 075 blukinidqundx an increase ollbtbu lion pounds or ilxa per cent while it may ibe observed states the econ omic annalist that an increase in total production of milk was g in all parts of canada the moat strik ing change has taken place in the prairie provinces where the i product ion of milk in four years increased more than 12 per cent this was due in part to more favorable prices of dairy products in relation to grain prices since the start of ithe war many prairie farmers have changed from straight sraln growing to mixed farm ing with the result that creamery but ter production particularly has in creased to such an extent that in 11043 production in the three prairie prov inces made up more than 38 per cent of the total produced in canada with the increase in grain prices during the last year u is expected that there will be a levelling off of dairy prod uction in the prairie provinces oanoshe twin8 fccoha onl cp twice within a short time mrs john hoaklng of elora found an egg within an egg in her supply of hen fruit the outer egg was nine inches long and seven inches around and tho shell was thin and rough when it was broken an other complete egg was found along with the usual yolk and white afewmcnentflee i when bar wtfe ran away vwlth an other man a city druggist inserted the following notice tin ithe inews- paper this is ito nottty ithe iparty who so kindly relieved me of my jvlfu that ll tart simply hum with i lin iment bandage arnica healing aalve absorbent cotton iodine sleeping powders and crutches at rockbottom prices a doctor was trying ito check an ep idemic in a village visltlng a family he asked are you itaklng iprecau tlons to iprevent the spread of con tngint v yes sir doctor replied ithe head of the family twe l have bought a sanitary cqp and we all drink rfrom it first visitor my dear ithese cakes are as hard as stone second visitor it iknow idldnlt you hear her say take your jplck when she passed ithem around t no extension of theiltferfrfttfasttp- sent parliament lis ito the itnatfte 09tttna minister ixing made clear ito ipahhv- ment- ilntthe co ithe fflttna minister said ithat fthere may the satt olaotlon thlsiiar ur next but ext- alnly tbefore duly it iiats sdtnn ritt parliament expires inext spring kh prime minister said tthat ifamlly suv lowances will mot ibe i brought itn itm- tll after ithe election as the did mot want cheques igotrtg out ito i justibefore an appeal iko ithe a had 1 been done thy a conservative oam- etnment ih ab hewno afdcaf mi lliuiey lenglond op the jslc- arage in tthis south luncolnshlre wll lag a ihouse with ho irooms lis dor sale lit con ibe 1 had for 425 jghost and ol ibut shores ithe catch ithe ibuyar must take it away with ihlm because the site ils wanted for a moreimodera vicarage itoscti esqjoy w orange pekoe blend salam halted stowaway montreal cp police lent 15 yearold norman may back to hu homo in midland ont after he had been thwarted in an attempt to tow- way on a tnuupart liberator at dorval airport the young adventur er said he wanted to get ovaraea to avenge hu brother who died in the inking ol the canadanewfoundland ferry caribou two yean ago 1otl i2si 4fdl ebt bbc milk is our most valuable ifood it must provide us with irtulk ito drink with butter cheese evaporated and concentrated milk and a score of other products canadian farmers have done a magnificent jab ifheyihave increased milk iproduction un 11943 iby imore than 540 mulhon quarts over 1938 htney lhave done this un tthe iface of a 25 reduction un ifanni ihelp eqmpment shortages and ithe ifact that at takes two ito tliree years to bnng a calf unto mulk production in finite of greater production the demand tor milk and milk products luis risen even more because a theres more money to upend b more people are working with chanffed food habits and in creased food needa c our armed forces und allies make lieavy demands it has therefore been mcessary by rationing by aubsltlies by careful plunntnk and by other controls to divert our milk sup ply into cluinnela moat suited to our various food needs because fluid milk is recorded by nutri tiomsts as the most nearly perfect food nouiinit has been allowed to interfere with its sole today canadians are drinking more milk and a stealer peruajntoiie of our milk supply ia beuut consumed as fluid milk than ever before j- luld milk jbflfl the rtitht of wuy but dont waste a drop of it n rjucat ouaats ctm ssauf in the fust three years of war our butter consumption increased 10 u 0 so ration ing was established to prevent too much milk jpuntf into butter at tlie expense of other important milk products and to insure a bur share to everyone the rationing of butter was influenced by the tact that it has less nutritive value than some other milk products and be cause we set a generous supply of fats or their food equivalent in other iorms to rt a proper frulmmt of ccsv sumption between various milk products hattawaat mwdi-c- and to ensure that butter a put into filpjf flf storage for winter use when production ii i mhu mm drops it is necessary to reduce the ration m from time to time the manufacture of iae cream is restricted to the 1941 level because milk is needed for other purposes milk fowder and osdrnsnd milk art tak canada s annual lhucse production lias one up by about h7 million pounds uinoe tlie war cheese is a concentrated iood product easily shipped and stored that is one reason why we send larue quantities to great britain to hcp rnoet its jpruiaing food needs while m tlie lust year we ported four of every five pounds of cheese we made our production has been so increased that we lutve left for domestic use about three million pounds a year more than before the war mure than twice as much 152 million lbs 4 was used by canadians this last yearasin 1u8 74 million lbs and yet there has not been enough where has it all hone it a an important food for babies and there are 50000 mure of them a year larger ouantitie have k to areas here fresh milk is not available armed services have added new demands in spite of this our exports of evaporated milk to creat britain mew foundland and the west indies etc are maintained at prewar level r- sugar i cilun a manufacture of penicillin and for other wartime purposes casein a milk byprod uct is used m making jue for aeroplanes