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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1913)
PAGE FOUR RECIPES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Honey Gingerbread. Heat one cupful of bouey and half a cupful of butter together; just be fore it begins to boil, remove from the fire and add half a cupful o( sour milk, two well-beaten eggs, two ciipfuls of floor, half a teaspoonful each of cin namon, salt and ginger, and one and three-fourths teaspoonfuls of soda. E. LL Log Cabin Sandwiches. Select large loaves of 4read, rut off bottom crust, then slice in thin even slices along that side of loaf. Now place together two slice at a time, and trim off all crust evenly, spread with butter and any dexired filling, then cut across into strips about one and one-half inches wide, place in log cabin fashion on plates. Mexican Chowder. One pint boiled Mexican beans, two quarts beef stork, one-fourth pound noodles, one-half cup diced celery, one tablespoon minced parsley, one-fourth cup minced onions, salt and pepper. Cook the noodles, celery and onions in the beef stock. Add leans, let become very hot, Benson to taste, and serve with corn bread I. 0. Ft. Allen. Honey Muffins. Sift two cnpfuls of flour with two level teaspoonfuls of Inking powder and half a teaspoonfu) of salt. Rub in two level tablespoonfuls of butter, add two well-beaten eggs, two-thirds of a cupful of honey and five tablespoon fuls of milk. ' Mix well and pour into well-buttered muffin pans, filling half full, and bake in a moderate oven. Elma Iona Locke. Favorite Cake. Sift 1 cupful of sugar, 2 teaspoon-, fuls of baking powder, i, cups of flonr, and teaspoonful salt in a bowl. Add cupful of shortening and work into the ingredients as in making pie crust. Beat 2 egs and add gradually with 1 cupful of milk. Make into a Btiff batter. Spread about Vj inch docp in buttered pan, sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake one-half hour in moderate oven. If desired may be iced with chocolate or orange and nut icing. Makes a delicious cake. Miss Tille lluromski. De Pue,.IlL Tried and True Cookie Recipe. Two-thirds cup butter or lard mixed, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, flavor with vanilla, lemon or nut meg. Flour enough to make stiff bat ter just as stiff sb can be stirred with a spoon. Flour the board well. Pour ont tialf the dough on board, sprinkle floor on top of dough and roll one-eighth inch thick. Cnt out, place . in the bake pan with a pancake turner, 8prinkle either red, white or blue sugar on top. The recipe can be doubled, as these cookies keep well. Aunt Loo. . . Cranberry and Eaisiu Pie. Seed a cupful of raisins and chop them fine. Cut into halves 2 cupfuls of cranberries, and mix them with the minced raisins, add 2 even cupfuls of ugar, a cupful of . water, 2 table spoonfuls of flour and a few drops of lemon juice. Line deep pie plate with puff paste, fill each with the mixture, put on a thin upper crust and cut slits in this for the escape of the steam. Bake nntil a golden brown. When cold serve with sugar sprinkled lightly over crust. Mrs. Bessie Og den, 26 South Kline street, Oklahoma City, Okla. The Real Culprit. The Duke of Sutherland, at a din ner in New York, praised ardently the jcy and delicious watermelon. "I better understand now," he said, "a story that I heard on the voyage over. "This story was told me ly an in teresting Southerner. He said a col ored preacher in his town cried vehe mently one August Sunday in the course of his sermon: "'Breddern and sistern, Ah warns yo' against de heinous sin o' shootin' craps. Ah charges yo' against de brack rascality o liftin' pullets. But above all else, breddern an' sistern Ah demonishes yo' at disher season against de crime of melon stealinV " 'Ch ' "A brother in a back seat made an odd sound with his lips, rose and snapped his hngcrs. I hen he sat down again with an abashed look. "'Whuffo, mah frien',' said the preacher sternly, 'does yo' r'ar up an' snap yo' fingahs when Ah speaks o melon steahn r "'Yo, je reminds me, pahson,' the man in the back seat answered quick ly, 'whar Ah lef mah knife."' Coun try Gentleman. Shake ' this space into your memory and watch it Dry Farming in the Great Basin Problems Vary With the Location and Result From Scientific Application of Known Principles Bring Wonderful Results Students of history 25 veara a were taught that between the Mis souri river and the Rockv moun tains there stretched a mighty plain peopled only by wandering herds' of buffalo and the smaller animals of the rrairie. School histories of that period treated this country as the great American desert, and pictured the waste that never would be brought to use. And while that same idea still prevails in the minds of a few who have not seen the wonders devnlnned on the sagebrush plains, the govern ment nas seen lit to send its ex perts into this vast country to deter mine the best means of nrnducintr . crop without the aid of rainfall, hith erto considered essential, and to in duce Bettlers to enter and possess the land. While much of the country west of the Missouri river was in cluded in the old conception of the great American desert, the part most particularly referred to was the sage- Field of Alfalfa, Showing brush lands of the great basin, whose barren appearance gave anything but the assurance of productivity, and whose tillage now is a matter of won derment to the average man of the rain-soaked East. The practice of dry farming proba bly had its inception with the gold rush into California in 1847. Men who crossed the plains during those days of meager transportation facilities knew well the nature of the country through which they passed and some of them were observant enough to recognize the possibility of producing a crop without water. The extent to which dry farming was carried on, however, was not great, for the set tler, quick to realize the value of water, siezed upon tho stream most available, diverting its waters to his fields by means of canals and produc ing astonishing results. Such, too, was the experience of the Mormon im migrant in the early '50s. Indeed, the truth about dry farming is re lated to have been discovered in the Malad river case in Utah in 1855. In Mothers Will Be Pensioned ( Continued from page one ) open to welcome the woman driven to desperation by the pangs of hun ger and cold. And if she is employed for the major portion of the day she is hardly in condition to accept the risks and responsibilities of mater nity. Yet the falling off of birth rate is not confined to the poorer classes. Sta tistics in England show that among the well-to-do, thrifty class 'of arti sans, taking 10,000 members of this class as a basis, the number of births fell from 2472 in 1880 to 1105 in 1004. while among the extremely wealthy families tho average number of children to each family was 5.2 prior to 1870 and only 3.08 since that year. Very much the same ratio exists in America, the love of bubb and the migratory disposition of tho wealthy tending to interfere with the raising of a family. In fart, the size of wealthy families is far less than that of the poor. And why! Mother love !b not obsolete, nor are paternal in stincts dead. There can be but one answer; the poor man gives less Develop tbis instance wheat had been grown on an irrigated tract years with excellent results. In the summer or 18o5 the water failed, and the farmers were confronted with the possibility of no crop. An attempt to raise wheat on the irrigated land failed and some was planted on the adjoining tract where water had never been used. To the great sur prise of the farmers, the wheat on the dry land drew rank and healthy while that on the irrigated piece was wilted and stunted. The continu ous watering of the soil had destroyed its water-retaining power and the moisture evaporated too rapidly. From then on dry farming was a successful reality. It was not until the 'AOs, however, that the Btates began to take up the matter of experiments in dry farm ing, Colorado leading in 1894. Now experimental farms are to be found in all of the great dry farm states and Abundant Yield Under they have successfully demonstrated that by a proper method of tillage practically three-fourths of the moist ure can be retained and a large per centage of it carried over from one season to the next. The area of dry farming is being annually extended by the introduction of drouth-resisting cereals. The chief basis for the difference of methods to bo employed in the handling of dry land lies in the depth of the soil and the subsoil. It has been found that in the sagebrush country the . top soil is very deep, while in the Mississippi Valley a de cided line of demarkatiou is noted be tween the top1 soil and the subsoil. It is a general rule that the roots do not penetrate beyond tho subsoil, honce the necessity of long-rooted plants in the dry farming areas, where no line of deniarkution is apparent. The roots of the sagebrush are found to extend to great depths and, because of their woody fiber, do not docay readily. Herein lies the socret of the dry farming plant, and it is to thought to the family conditions than does the wealthy. Ho suddenly finds himself, with a large family and with insufficient means of supporting them and his only remedy is to put them t) work. The child thus robbed of its childhood becomes dwarfed in mind and body under the life-sapping toil in stuffy sweatshop or damp coal min France stands as the one prominent example of this great national men ace. That once conquering nation is, more than any other, threatened with extinction. Millions of dollars have been spent to make perfect highways, yet the traveler marvels as he motors over the peerless roadway at the in frequency of children along the way. The change has been very rapid dur ing recent years. In 1902 the excess of births over deaths was 84,000; in 1906 it was 27,000; the following year the death rate passed the birth rate, and iu 1908 the latter fell 20,000 short. The shortage is increasing annually, while across the border in Qermany the population is growing by leaps and bounds. So startling is this dis tinction that it is freely predicted that unless the other nations awaken to their condition, the world will fall into control of the German and the Slav. Lincoln prophesied that by this time the population of the United States would be 200,000,000. But he was basing his prophecy on the birth rate and increase in population as he knew it. We have not reached the 100,000,000 mark. Yet wo would eas ily have fulfilled Mr. Lincoln's hopes but for the turn the birth rate has taken iu the last generation. , At the opening of the nineteenth century Thomas Robert Malthus be came alarmed at the apparent ten dency of population to increase iu a higher ratio than the means of sub sistence. He prophesied the pauper ism of England unless the enormous increase in birth rate should be stopped, warning the nation against over-population conditions such as prevail in India. .And why should not the British government undertake to repair con' ditions that tend to make her a van' isbing race. Societies are formed for the protection and preservation of vanishing species of animals. Is the human species less Important that some steps should not be taken to keep a nation from decayf find plants that will adapt themselves to the soil that experiments are now being carried on. So well has wheat adapted itself to these districts that instances are on record where a stool of wheat had rootB six feet long. Thus does Nature, when properly - encour aged, provide the necessities of its creatures. Experiments in these Btates have proven that the continuous cultivation of these dry lands has had little ef fect upon the quantity of humus and nitrogen in the soil. Many tracts have been examined where cultivation has been carried on continuously for 45 years without' any appreciable decrease in the amount of these essential elements in crop production. In fact, an increase is noted in many cases. A summer fallow every fourth year, how ever, has been declared by experts to be necessary, while fall plowing and a rarefnl attention to the mulch on top will give the farmer the advantage the 'Dry -Farming Process of three farms in one, owing to the great depth of the soil in most of the districts. The Boil is not uniform, either in depth or productivity, in the entire dry farming area of the West. In fact, so varied is it that governriient experts have sent out a warning that "110 definite system of dry farming lias been established that is of gen eral application to the entire dry farm area of the country," Depth and composition of the soil have been found widely at variance in several sections and no set general rules can be followed with success. But with the facilities now at hand in almost every section, advice is available that will guide the settler in the proper handling of his particular piece of land. The ability of plants to absorb water and resist transpiration are vi tally important to the dry farming problem. The percentage of clay and sand in the soil will have much to do with its capillary powers. For this reason each individual section must receive its own individual study. An Open River for the Northwest ( Continued from page one ) prise, since both are vitally interested iu its development. With the plant completed it is estimated power can be furnished at the very low figure of $9 per horse power per annum, less than one-tenth of the present, cost of power in the City of Portland. Al ready the plan has been communicated to European capitalists with the re sult that a coproration for the manu facture of fertilizer is ready to take 240,000 horse power per annum at $9 per horse power. The balance would find a ready market In the North west. An idea of the enormity of this project can be had from the fact that 300,000 horse power is approximately one-tenth of the developed water power in the United States. At present the largest project in operation is that on the Mississippi at Keokuk with a capacity of 200,000 horse power. What that project has done for the people of the Mississippi valley the proposed project will do for the Northwest. It is not difficult to picture a gigantic power plant that would furnish power foi an interstate railway. It is easy to imagine great transcontinental rail ways terminating at the power plant, from which point ooean-going Vessels would carry their cargoes to the ports of the Orient, while inland-bound boats would distribute the products of the world to tho furthest confines of the great Northwest. And as for the limit to the number and varieties of products that could io turned out from a single great factory at the power plant there is no limit. 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