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thubsoat stawch 11th 1m3 the acton free press pace themixankiiowl r- hllo itainasnakxxsl the official nutrition dolor oiart dwn vesj- rubln on orally evrry plate of food why because theyre beano boost ers trilfa vitamin and mineral or bodytmlldlnc and repair wun stare for energy the trees and yellow wcetablee alsnal healtb tiltilltilwr vitamin a and cnlnerala so lets rnpare our vegetables properly in our kttetu so w can be sure of keeping tlia unportant food valnea intact irani market to table theyll look better and taste better too here axe a few simple dos and dotvts in vegetable cookery choose your vegetables for freshness and brightness of color then prepare and cook them tight much nutrition value lies just under the skin so keep your parings thin dont pre pare your vegetables till the last mo ment for either cooking or your aslad cook them with the least pos sible water in ughuy covered sauce pan be sure to use any leftover liquid to enrich soups stews and sauces vegetable plate meals call pr accompanying dishes c cheese milk or eggs and a richer des sert and remember to serve some vegetables raw some cooked but in large quantities for conveni ence and economy and find a stor age corner where your vegetables will neither freeze nor shrivel from heat 4 cups celery cut in 1lnch pieces 3 tbs butter of at 2 lbs flour 2 cups tomato juice m tap worcester shire sauce salt and pepper make sauce of fat flour and to mato juice season and cook celery in sauce until tender using electric ele meat on low or use double boiler french style oa 5 cups small suversklnned onions peeled 1 can condensed consomme or 2 cups soup stock 1a tap pepper 3 tbs grated nippy cheese heat consomme to bolung add on- ions and cook until tender about 40 mlns then add cheese and serve tamips with osoese 2 yellow turnips 2 lbs fat 2 tbs flour hi cups milk 1 tap salt i tsi pvpper s cup crated cheese peel the turnips cut in shreds and cook in salted boiling water for 20 minutes make a while sauce with fat flour milk salt and pepper pour this over drained turnips and sprinkle with erated cheese place over hot water and continue cooking for 15 minutes or if electric oven is on place in moderate oven tor 15 minutes devilled corn 2 tbs fat 2 tbs flour is cups milk 1 tsp salt m tsp mustard paprika 2 cupfc corn 1 egc 1 tb wor cestershire sauce crumbs moistened with fat make a sauce of fat flour milk and scasonlnc add com eec slleht- ly beaten and worcestershire sauce pour into a baking dish cover with crumbs and bake in a moderate elec tric oven 35o100 decrees fifteen to jhlrty minutes ttke a iip j parsnips that ou will like put boiled mashed arsnls throuuh n sieve season with salt ami pepper add a dash of nutmeg and a little top milk form into little flat caks ll in fine cracker crumlui and fr in hot fat 2 cabbage tliol leaves aroma in the pot hove a small quantity of boiling water on the element turned high add shredded cabbae nnil l tablespoon fat cov r tightly anil turn iow cook only io minutes nml silt then drain 3 serve leftover vegetables as a medley and add rice or noodles thick ening the water- used in cooking the rice with cornstarch season left overs with celery seed thyme minced onion or sliced mushrooms the question- box mrs d e asks- should i add soda to dry beans your reclrns call for it but in topic information said soda killed vitamin content answer adding soda to dried beans and lentils prevents gas formation in the stomach there is minute vita min content in these vegetables com pared to leafy vegetables but as you know they are good meat substitutes mrs all asks- why does my pastry never flake answer cut in i of the required fat sprinkle in the water and pat into mould roll out half inch thick daub on pieces of cold fat islio of bean and fold up in about 4 lops chill and roll out for pie plate anne allan invites you to write to her care of tna aero pass passe send in your questions on homemak- ing problems and watch this column war 25 years ago chronicles ol cingerfarm a for repuaia bviiil ookoom nmi r rww stair writ march om in like the pravcxtkial m on the weoern front 23 yean atgo in the first great war the ger mans preparing with 1 haste rr their spring offensive took every op- port unity to feel out the british le- cenoes with artillery boenbardment and raida up and down the lines the tuna corps ta th arrasvlmy sector after its brilliant ehlevtoeot at pastcheadaele la no vember 1917 wu u prepared euber far attack or defence in the minor rations of the first 10 week of uis the dominion soldiers not only repulsed german raids but made a era successful inabdons into enemy territory the area oocupled fay the nad i had been coristdrabty improved during this time nnd n complete ya torn of trench railway toads and water aupply put in operation com nehcntlve defence had aim been p and partially executed with the extension of the british front to the south vmy ridge had become the centre sector of the brit ish army behind the ridge lay a reat coal mining area loss of which night have crippled france preser vation ol this highly productive les ion to the allies depended on the om and this was uppermost in the mind of their commsader sir arthur ciirrle as he made his plana to meet the german drive which started march 21 the first german attack on the tanas f lines was made in the lens aector on march 4 for is minutes the enemy directed an intense artil lery and trench mortar barrage against the whole of the lens front and this was followed by an attack at five am armed with liquid fire some 250 germans succeeded in pene trating a portion of the line after handtohand fitting but they were quickly routed when the 3rd toronto battalion organiz ed a counterattack the germans failed to obtain either prisoners or identification and during their re treat suffered severe losses from ar tillery trench mortar and machine- gun fire fctesarted to gas the following morning the 3rd bat talion made a retaliatory raid on en emy lined in the southern part of lens returned with a prisoner and estimated german losses at 30 on march 9 the germans began tt concentrated bombardment of canad ian lines uest and south of merlcourt in uo hours they flrad about 2000 rounds of en shells at the same time the germans carried out n light gas bombardment of cite st pierre nnd repeated the attack the following night the canadian corps then resorted to gnsshelling and on march is the canadian mounted rifle made a suc cessful raid on the merlcourt front in 25 mlnuts they cup turn 19 pris oners klllvl 20 germans blew up a number at enemy dugouts and in flicted mnriminorcasualttpif atna chinegun un nlw raptured the canadian raiders ilio strong wer forced to crows nlwut half a mile of no man jmil in tin- fiice of heavy machinegun fire itefore taking up thtlr positions for the assault last jlctas iym i wkktjotxrar- i sunday march 7 a day of rest weu bnva how partner in common with most other fanners rested lie started out by dlggang his way horn the bouse to the bam as the anow was away over his knees wberever be went before he could start to milk oversocks and long rubber boots had to be removed ma they were full of anow and his feet were starting to freeze milking over he went to feed the hens more digging snowdrifts halfway up each door made an effec tual barricade then came a hurried breakfast alter that there was the milk to take to the road and that job was not ao easy as it sounds a bank of anow as high as the gate itself had to be dug out before the gate could be op the were also buried finally the were hitched up and partner drove through the worst part of the lane to break the road before be pufvthe milk on but at long last the mluc were at the road just as the sleigh to collect came along then partner went over to bring our neigh bors cans out not much sense in two teams being hitched up if one ran do the work anyone not living on a farm might think fay that time most of the work was done far from it the trough from which the cattle and horses drink was buried under a five foot drift that had to be dug out and of course all this digging had to be done with the thermometer standing at kero and a terrific wind blowing i could see all this going on from the kitchen window and wished there was something 1 could do to help but probably had v gone out it wouldnt have been long before partner would have been digging me out of a snow drift so the best i could do was to busy myself in preparing a good hot dinner but it was quarter to two be fore partner came in to eat it lie stayed in about an hour and a half that was his concession to sunday as being a day of rest when he went out again he found the trough and the pathway leading to it had nil filled in again and was once more level with the top of thetfence partner was in to supper about seven oclock after that there was milking to do but at ninethirty he was in for good and had the rest of the day to himself that was our experience during the storm and i imagine it was fairly av erage of course where there was more than one man it would he easier or if n farmer were not n milk shipper he wouldnt have the milk to take to thcroad but on the other hand there are also many farms where brooder houses are already oc cupied by baby chicks and belle e me you cant take any chances with baby chicks in such weather not only does it mean many trips during the ns advanced the ability to earn and wtapkox ix r no i tttornlor ont uear friends and gentle hearts this seemed sue a fuuag saluta tion wtten i read it tliat i thought how weu it fitted my particular vo cation of writing letters to both dear friends and so many of them with gentle hearts also to the many many folk both in our own well be loved country and now ever so rnany across the seas in many foreign lands uycstse aotne may iiot know the history or origin of those five words i will fluote they were found anwmg tjhat great author stephen col lins fosters few earthsy belongings after meeting a mysterious sod un timely end before reaching 4x1 year of age but he like john bunyan or charles dickens or tkanlel defoe or g a i tint y or ralph connor and many others left a great heritage to all people in the words my old kentucky alome massns in de cold cold ground x3h susanna and hard times come again no more lie also wrote- beautiful drramer and old dog tray and gentle annie and m3osne where my love lies dreaming these pieces have been sung as long as i can remember and are still among the best for years and years every concert company touring the country for garden parties and lawn socials used them and the person who doesnt the one jeanle with the light brown llalr either has no radio in the home or is atone deaf i venture to think even the boys far from home on africas shore or in burma or the solo or in some vca hut will whistle or hum some part of one of these refrains as he thinks of the folks at home lleulcol torace hartley of fjagelhart a veteran of the first great war and since then running m garage in tdnglehart and well known there wrote to mayor weeks recently until then it had not been known horace had received such notable promotion being anx ious to get into the thick of it and had experience paid his own fare to britain over two years ago he writes in part 1 have had three trips a istanbul and it was rather a sensa tion entering europe the back way v was there six weeks and was up the bosphorus and had several trips to the islands in the sea of marmora the most noticeable thing about istanbul u that all the hotels have bedbugs and x dont mean maybe proceeding he writes there are no people in canada who know what poverty is compared with what is to- be seen here and begging is an hon orable profession we have not had any snow so far but x have seen the trees covered with nearly an inch ot frost at ankara now we can get all the tea we want at 435 per pound sugar about 190 lb butter 150 a pound the only food actually rationed is bread half a small loaf per person per day of other eatables men tioned jaffa oranges were costing eight to ten cents each plenty of raisins to be had at 40 cents per lb but no currants ami fairly good choco lates can be bought for 525 per lb no uhlte flour is available nnd ho says just while he had been there the cost of living had advanced about 33 per cent a letter of this kind gives us some idea of conditions away on vhe other side of the world while the cost of living in canada bkm iv kivkk 4avk name to tdun noted a the home of university of not iv dame and tho site of a manu facturing plant turning out a unlver- kall known motor car this indiana city is an important point on the chicagotorontomoot real route of the canadian national itallua h mainline point 100 miles east of chi cago marquette and lasalle on tholr evplorator journeys from canada wsited the site uhen it was peopled by miami indians in 18jo the place became an important fur trade post and in 1r31 rose up to the dignity of u tounslte taking its name from the where it turns northwards towards luke michigan radio last saturday thut eggs may quite- possibly he rationed the in formant said that cnnadian people were just about on the hmlorllm and that rationing of eges might have to he introduced if canadas quota to britain were to in- maintain ed well at least that is one product that cannot he hoarded for very long of course every farmers wife is asked to raise more chickens that more eggs may be produced but there is a snag the extreme weather this win- south bend of the st joseph illver fer ha lowered the fertility of hatrh- dny but it is also necessary to get up in the night to mnke sure that the fire is all right nnd the chicks neither too hot nor too cold here is n ktory i heard the other day a farm r was receiving n shipment of a thous and chicks th truck could not get through so the farmer took the ship ment from the truck at the highway of course he imd to use sleighs the going was pretty rough aftfr he had tteen home some little while a neluh- ttrir phoned to say there were chick ens in the now on the road the poor wee thing- a box hnd dropped off unnoticed the hd hnd come off nnd some of the chickens were ac tually in the snow t havent hoard how many survived and speaking of chickens did ou which said that it had been made by hear the warning given oier the men who took pride in tholr work produce more is available so no ono suffers in the least unt lotting seems to bo the fairest method of distribut ing the senrcer necewkltlett hut seems to breed dishonesty bootlegging nnd black markets have sprung up and like days of old people refrain from exposing conditions of tliu kind the same as prevailed with booze joints years ngo tluinkful to say uo have no black marketing in this country that 1 have heard of there weems sufficient meat produced to supply the niwd and the farmers who at tend public mnrketu all have permit to butcher nnd sell conservation though is the necessity take n common nxe on the bla 1e of n now bought recently uos a stick on the 20th of november 1942 h x clarke proprietor of the citizens dairy belleville appeared before the police magistrate at belleville and pleaded guilty to having in possession for sale butter containing more than 16 per cent of water and less than 80 per cent of fat a fine of 10 plus costs of 1x75 was imposed and paid the charge was laid by an officer of the dairy products division domin ion department of agriculture ot tawa ing eggs and hatcheries report shortage of baby chicks i dont know when we shall get our chicks the order has been in since january for the end of april but our man says he will be two to three weeks behind schedule all spring radio mobilization stockholm iqf mobilization of swedish conscripts by radio was tried for the first time in a news broadcast of the commandinggeneral of swedens armed forces ordering certain classes to report to their war stations n ttuse men beg the user of the nxe to treat it fairly and the axe will ivo long and faithful service under ordinary conditions n great many people seem to smash their way through life destroying tools furni ture machinery clothing cars tires and even food and say when they are chastized for behavior of that kind oh theres lots more where that came from but that isnt the cae how the age of abundance ha vanished and we are being made to feel the pinch as promised in one of mr ilsloys speeches all the money irt the world will not get you a nov model of an article which is no longer being made nor even a spare part tor the one you now have so we must etpect our materials rgsjjse a good recipe for conerva- tlow is eat it up wear it out make it do or db without the pity of i all is that the farmers are being made tty stumbling block of the whole food situation first they talk about the interned japs as a solution to the labor shortage then it isjhe italian nnd german prisoners tjcn it is the draftee for home defence this seems most feasible as about sos are already farm born and bred and would steed no teaching as is the case with students and p on a farm there are things every where xni cant tell a roan lie has to know them out of experien ilorses cow pigs sheep and poultry are so valuable that tt comes to be almost a necessity that if the nation is to survive practical and indlvidus judgment is nece in the p rare of theue farm marhines a parts are almost unobtainable so farmer hesitates to entrwt his equip ment to unexjsrrieoced hands spare lime ltel for arasotisl work such as haying irvesting otto and veg etable cultivation nd itt is no doubt vauable and a great help but a great dl nvtv than this depends on tlte farm f if hired r unexperi- ecwed help lias to be euatinually waterier to ee that the cows are milked or the pigs were fed or lite f- oriahan lambs were rfveo a sock at their fo4r mothers side tbat hat to be held or the kindling ut or the water hole down at the pond covered or tin- chickens fed their water and math or the sucking colt with the sore foot doctored well is better without that kind of help so if the farmer or his sons are drafted then the farm almost necessarily has to shyt down but really i dont need to remind farmer of these conditions most everyone knows it tor themselves during the past week it has been simply beautiful mild weather the sun shone and even tiny flies came to life but then the wind got up whipped around from south to north and tbs- temperature dropped to 11 degrees elow that hlght and last night down to 4z below but it is calm toot so hard to take cold clear weather is healthy and a person is never- in- dob4about howomrec consequently good health predomin ates tor which tee are thankful lloyd reorge was once asked how iw kept fit with so many worries lie replied with me a change f trouble is as good as a vacation so then to take an optimistic view of rationing and define it its less and less of more and more 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