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v thursday may 1i1ih the acton free press of interest to women he mixing bowl hello homemakcrs owtaf to the pi l nut conditions such as overtaxed transportation facilities labor short ages and otber wartime difficulties green vegetables might well be ex pected to be highpriced in tact we could expect these summer vegetables to be scarce and also be beyond the poat thimirs of the average flood bud- get however there are plenty of nut ritive teens available now within the reach of many of us we all know dandelions and watercress they are good and you can obtain them free of chaise picking them yourself the favorite busyday dish is not potato salad to serve with these greens cheap too you make it this way peel and cube potatoes cook in a small amount of water mean while fry a cup of diced salt pork carefully pour in onequarter cup of vinegar and onequarter cup of water add salt pepper and any other sea aonlng auch as onion watercress or celery tops this is enough dressing for four cups of potatoes drain pota toes and pour over the dressing mix lightly and serve hot potato salad and cooked greens are delicious with welners or veal chops a good milk pudding will top this easy to prepare dinner youll agree caauuyr loaf 2 cups cooked rice 2 cups of sliced young raw carrots 1 small v dry onion a cup celery leaves 3 eggs 1 cup evaporated milk undiluted 2 teaspoons salt few grain of pepper 116 tea spoon chill powder green peas for filling cook the rice and drain put car rots onion and celery leaves through a food chopper using the fine knife beat the egg well and mix oil the in gredlents except peas fold in tho rice and pour into n greased mould bake until mixture is set nt 350 de- prees p for about forty minutes loosen gently and turn onto a heated pmtter pill the ring with peas or diced brown potatoes dandelion greens wash greens in several waters swishing each stalk through the- wat- or and looking it over carefully for dirt cut off and discard the tough stem ends the washing is really the most timetaking stop iri tho pre paration i to cook drain tho greens carefully front the last washwater pack into a large kettle cover and place over a low heat until the stems wither and water collects in the bottom of the pan then remove the cover turn up the heat and cook quickly five to eight minutes no longer sea son with salt during the last five min utes of cooking onehalf teaspoon of salt is sufficient for one pound of greens stir it into the vegetables well drain the greens by lifting them up with a fork letting them drip in the kettle a second then transfer at once to a hot vegetable dish serve immediately plain or garnished with wedgeshaped pieces of lemon hpinacii ttmabaleh 2 cups cooked spinach or greens 2 eggs 1 cup milk j tablespoons butter u cup grated cheese s teaspoon salt drain spinach well and chop llnu separate eggs beat yolks ndd milk melted butter grated cheese and salt and mix well stir in the spinach beat egg whites stiff fold into the first mixture 1 urn in greased mould set mould in pan of hot water to a depth of one inch bake in a mod erate electric oven 350 degrees until firm to test for doneness insert t clean knife in the center osotnouul if it comes out clean thcqcxistahlja baked o take a tip 1 use the heavy frying pan to hake topstove scones 2 if ou can spare a little fruit juice pour over spare ribs cover and bake in a moderate oven for ivi hours 3 make a thin creamed aauoe for scalloped potatoes 4 make commercial mayonnaise go further by using some condensed tomato soup or a relish or cream cheese with it the question box mr w a asks how do you store maple syrup ours has a mould on it already answer sterilise small jars with rubber rings thoroughly heat some syrup in a large kettle stirring it frequently pour into the jars just before it comes to a boll seal tightly and store in a cool dark place mrs g s says i plan to steam a couple of puddings when i boil up soup bones the batter la put into two greased baking powder tins cov ered with waxed paper and tied on securely then puced in the stock mixture talks pkoduckb joan yvonne dangelcer is a young canadian who bears natural allegi ance to britain and prance she was born in engand during the first world war in which her french father gave his life she spent her childhood in british columbia received training hi american and french universities to day she is producing talks for tlu cbc ecngtsh network from the mont real studios being equally at home in tne french and english tongue a mothers prayer almighty father make me worthy of the infinite trust in my babys eyes let me never fall him when he be comes perplexed and discouraged by lifes difficult questionings help me to give him the understanding and sympathy that will enable him to choose always that which is right and good in thine eyes and above all give me strength that i may ever instill in him a constant faith in thee so that he may turn to thee in prayer for the help courage and guidance which thou alone canst give bless thy child keep him always in thy sight and bring him at last to thy heavenly kingdom 1 ask this for the sake of thy only son our saviour jesus christ amen in ottawa circles almost evory canadian has run across the expression in ottawa clrclcu nt one time or another per haps the clearest conception of just what this can mean comes through recounting what happens some hion- recountlng what happened uame months oro a senior official in one of had been asked to provide an editor with a photograph of himself for publication he called in his sec- rotary and told her to send one over to the waiting editor it must be admitted that this par ticular official was no publicityseek er and after an unsuccessful search of the flies the secretary discovered she just did not have a picture an enterprising girl she called this gov ernment corporations publicity de partment and asked for a print of mr b right away came tlu ready response the fact that the of ficial was a particularly retiring fel low must have dawned on tho public ity department when tney founj that even they had no picture on file but they were full of action they got he wartime information board an tho phone immediately and asked them to rush one right over a scant ten minutes inter the phono jangled in the records office of the national film board it was the wib ask ing for a rush print of the official thoy did not seem to have him cov ered in their flics when the film board man turnod up a bank in his own records lie took tho one course of action that would occur to any exnewspaper man he grabbed the phone and cal led mr b wonder if we could have n photograph of you sir its a rush ordor mr b- was regretful that they did not appear to have one available in his office ut the moment but ho said ive got one on ordor for another chap and as uoon as hes through with it 1 ii pans it along to you thanks very much sir the printed word horse supply int us lower new york cp ihe supply if horset on united states farms de clined during 1041 for the 29th con secutive year according to a national survey the number dropped from 9675000 head in 1042 to 0 330 000 at the beginning of 1044 the peak wus 1015 with 21431000 head mules on farms slumped from 1 704000 in 1042 to 35559000 last year the 19th annual decline mule popu lation was highest in 1025 with 5018 000 work on florida farms nassau cp with the active encouragement of the bahamas gov ernment some 5000 workers have been recruited in the colony by the us labor administrator for ser vice on the land in florida chronicles ot ginger farm we had a surprise this week and a very pleasant one a telephone call from toronto and our sons voice saying he was on his way home we knew hewas due for a furlough but had notexpected hunsosoon and he arrived just as partner wa ready to start on the land ao we had someone to drive the tractor tor us after all of course we thought our seeding would be finished in doubl quick tune but no one field wai too wet to work and then before it had a chance to dry it rained again so here we are with one field partly sown and that is all on monday son bob leaves for quebec he has feeling that if the- invasion get under way it is quite possible men on furlough may be recalled and when a visit to your best girl is at ke there is ho sense in taking chances imagine a fellow being re called before he had had a chance see his girl being a soldier is a tough business sometimes isnt it by the way bob was very much amused at his sister and i thinking him safe as long as he was on van couver island and not overseas by the tlroe he had finished telling mo a few things i realized that all the casualties are not on the battlefield it put me in mind of a stupid little rhyme i used to say as a child es pecially if i were up to some sort of mischief if my mother only knew her heart would surely break in two our boys in training and on op erational duty as bob is might often think that and with some reason our spring flowers are just coming into bloom with more buds showing than x have seen for a good many years we have daffies and narcissi along the edge of the border from one end of the garden to tte other and they are really lovely then come the flowering shrubs but after they are done our garden bos little to commend it because x have so little time to attend to it yesterday i visited a nursery in search of orna mental evergreen and shrubs but it was ralnng and too wet for digging ho i just had to go catalogue chopping and that didnt get me very far as what i wanted was growing but not listed wont it be nice when everyone lus time again to do the things he or she wants to do to get lulp when it is needed and to spend a few hours in the garden at will as it is one can only take time to do what is abso lutely necessary for ordinary tidiness to cut the grass and keep the weeds from developing into a miniature forest even that takes considerable time i realised that yesterday as i laked and mowed the lawn for tho first time this year our new puppy helped me with the job he is get ting to be quite a dog and losing a lot of his timidity there x go again calling it he i am afraid i shall nover remember to call it she however whether i call it he she or it you will know it is still the same little dog oh and by tho way we are going to call it tlp or tippy not lassie because partner thinks lassie is a hard name to call so tip it will be on account of ihe llttte vvhlto tip he has on the end of his tall and it is a name applicable to either sex so that lots me out on that score the chickens are having a great time they have the run of the farm for the first time today they have been limited to an outsldo scratch imn until now but am i going to have a problem from now on to see that tippy treats the chickens with rutpect last night we were feeding the hens tippy and x and all at once she started growling and barking she that time i looked around to see uhal all the fuss mas about and there was a neighbor dog in the yard a big full groo collie he stopped tippy stood rigid still growl big presently the big dog turned tail and fled it was too funny for words it ou could only have seen the dif ference in the size pf the two dogs dignity and impudence and impu dence won out i am typing and talking to bob at the same time he just told mo that ho ran into major paul trlquet vc in bc quite by accident and was talking to him for a few mln utes quite interesting eh anonymity london cp paymaster lieu tenantcommander lor seby nam is not in the white paper list of peers serving in the forces because he joined the navy as thomas gil ly his family name british farmers hear blnnt talk on cattle herds aggscssuawb urges sa hewa fa ovaw says opvor- tsrnhy may nat com asafa tonbrxdge fnglbnd cp i hate to have to admit it said robert hudson ut from what x nave heard from competent obser recently returned from the united states and canada we no longer lead the world in the general standard of our cattle herds either in breeding tn type or in performance a few minutes before he had said i am not going to say that british agriculture is efficient today when i doat believe it is it has increased its efficiency compared with prewar more than otber industries but x am only interested in results from the united kingdoms minis ter of agriculture these were blunt and challenging words from robert hudson they came as the beliefs too of a millionairefarmer to a mass meeting of kent fanners land own ers and farm workers in quick succession he came out with these statements agriculture has had four years and now tt has another four years 4a reference to a fouryear production plan he has outlined before to jut its house in order that opportunity may never come again the ministry of food is losing 9730000000 a year there was a slight loss on empire wheat but a bigger one on homegrown wheat which represented about 60 per cent of the loaf the ministry made a small profit on foreign meat but were losing more than s30 a head british cattle slaughtered and 10 cents a pound on british mutton these he said represent definite subsidies to the farmers mr hudson recalled that a year ago he had urged farmers in their own interests as well as in that ot minimizing the meat shortage that seemed bound to occur in 1946 and 1947 to rear as many calves as they could imagine then my feelings when i find that instead of responding to my appeal actually fewer calves have been reared in the past six months than in the corresponding period last year the figure of calves sent for slaughter were no less than 57 per cent higher than two years tcfore my appeal was made the urge to get milk has led mny farmers to ignore the progeny of their cows and use cheap and un suitable bulls in many cases quite ir responsibly as a result tho average herd is far too often a nondescript collection of animals of varying broods and crosses one retort to mr hudson came the next day from the glascow herald with the observation on his reference to subsidies that surely it is both imprudent and inaccurate to talk of money spent by the government on food subsidies as lost by the ministry of food and even to describe such expenditure as subsidies to british farming it is the deliberate policy of the national government to hold the cost of living during this emer gency prom the representatives of an in dustry that has long been critical of the government and himself the min ister drew a large barrage of heckl ing the farmers of kent threw at him a series of questions but mr hudson brushed them aside with hlir innlutence that they should be put in wrltingi audience critical his words throughout the farming world were bound to fall on resentful ears because men to whom quantity has been preached as a wartime creed would listen with no pleasure to crltl- x chans of their quality the chairman of the meeting amid as ranch with tho statement that it is time that lass mas amid about the inefficiency of agriculture and more about the in creased efficiency that is now la evid- i the number of calvt mr hudson frequently criticized because the government of which he is a member had laid down no agri cultural policy for the peace had this to say jay discussions with the national farmers union on the possibility of relating the system of fixed prices and an assured market more closely to the fouryear production plan in cluding the harvest of 1947 are pro ceeding in a cordial and helpful spirit i am very hopeful that it will be possible for arrangeme to be made which will ensure economic stability to the industry over the next four yearx there are views on the shortage of calves other than he expressed c hlbbard chairman of the njtu a livestock committee sees these as rea sons government insistence that as much milk as possible be used for human consumption rather than calf- ralswg ploughlngup of crass mean ing less pastures a big increase tn with the difficulties and costs of rear ing to make it mcawjr to sen more lack of good quality feeding attttts after they were six months old other experts said small farmers had been unable to improve stock be cause pedigree bulls fetched fantas tically high prices j ah terms fob six in gas coupon ring six men have been sentenced to prison terms and two more are await ing trial in toronto courts on charged of traffldng in loose or counterfeit gasoline coupons heaviest penalty went to david mcdowell of windsor who was convicted of distributing counterfeit coupons mcdowell went to kingston penitentiary for two years two men convicted of pur chasing loose coupons received sent ences of three and six months terms of nine month and one year went to two others for selling loose coup ons one man was sent to sail for one month when he was found guttty of having loose coupons in his the bank of nova scotia o sioc from cocnt to cootf u berlin the whirlwind raf drops bombs the german capital is learning the full meaning of the words germany has sown the wind she will reap the whirlwind spoken by atr marshall harris british bomber command chief some time ago at rotterdam and warsaw coventry and london th luftwaffe sowed the wind in a series of raids described as the heaviest of the war a a f hombjra have dropped thousands of tons of explosive and mncendiary bombs at the rate of 77 tons a minute or berlin the vital railways war ministries factor ies of the big industrial city are devastated fire has laid waste ope third of the city and this is not the end y picture taken during the night on the return to a heavy bomber station in britain of soma of the crews that took part in the greatest raid of the war on berlin shows just after midnight on the dome d for donald with landing lights on and guided by the flight sergeant nolstlng torch in either hand taxis up the runway after a perfect landing on the return from berlin