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Spilyay Tym oo Idea Article February 26,1981 Pao» 9 Buying Cheese For many people, cheese is just cheese. But there are many kinds of cheese and by doing a n in e comparison shopping you can save money the next time you buy. Prices vary widely for different types of cheese. The way to save money is to compare the price per pound. But you still may want to buy a more expensive cheese if it fits your needs. Natural cheese like cheddar or gouda may be the best choice to serve with fruit for dessert. But if you’re m a k in g g r i l l e d c h e e s e sandwiches, a process cheese— ablend of fresh and aged natural cheese—may be your best buy. If you’re looking for a really econom ical cheese, you might try process cheese food. It contains less cheese and more water than process cheese. Also, be aware that mild cheese will cost more than aged or sharp natural cheese, and you’ll pay more for sliced or grated cheese. Using wood for home heating What kind of wood should the home owner use for fuel? Usually whatever fuel wood is readily available, because it may not be possible to be selective about the kind of fuel wood available. However, the greater the wood’s density or w e ig h t, d is re g a rd in g its moisture, the greater the wood’s heating value. Favored woods in terms of heating values are oak , m aple, madrone and Douglas-fir. A more important consider ation than the species of wood may be the amount of moisture in it. Before wood will burn, the water must be removed. This causes some of the fuel’s heating value to be consumed Don’t start garden too early Beef cattle seminar Feb. 26 and March 5 Are you interested in making your cattle herd return more money in starting a new herd? Then mark February 26 and March 5 on your Calendars. Concepts of beef cattle production and how to make from Pennle Little termites or other insect pests. It’s very important to keep the and Clint Jacks wood covered while it’s drying. Exposure to rain and snow will negate the effort of seasoning the wood. An excellent cover for a standard 4-by-4-by-8 foot cord of fuel wood can be When it comes to vegetable provided by a sheet of heavy gardening, getting too early a gauge polyethylene 5 feet wide by 9 feet long. Attach the start often doesn’t earn the polyethylene sheet to a light home gardener anything but wooden frame and place it over frustration and frustration and wasted effort. the stack. This protects the some It’s much too early for wood, from rain or snow and seeding vegetable transplants permits air to circulate through the stack. Sticks of wood in the home. Instead give some should be placed on top of the attention to preparing garden protective sheet to keep the soil, checking through seed wind from blowing the cover catalogs and getting ready for the spring rush to plant away. bedding plants. Most gardeners tend to plant seeds too early, both in the home as transplants and later in the garden before the soil facilities for foaling, nutrition additional information can be warms. If you plan to grown of the foal, early training of foal obtained from the Extension transplants, don’t plant the to 2 year old, management of office. The conference is sponsored seeds indoors until a month or foals for racing and common by Washington and Oregon so ahead of when the seedlings veterinary procedures. Cost for the two day State University Extension can be planted outdoors. This means that cool season conference is $40.00 and pre Services and mid-Columbia crops such as cabbage, lettuce re g istra tio n is req u ired . veterinarians. and early spinach, which R e g is tr a tio n fo rm s and should be transplanted outside in April can be started indoors in March. Peppers and tom atoes, them return more money will distributed so tnat livestock- which cannot go into the be the topics of this year’s Beef men can begin building a garden until after the last frost in mid May and, would not Cattle Seminars conducted by library of useful ideas. The seminar will be held in need to be started indoors until Clint Jacks, Warm Springs th e O ld A d m in is tr a tio n April. Extension Agent. Growing your own trans In addition, notebooks of Building in the Tribal Court useful information will be room starting at 7:30 p.m. on each evening. in evaporating the water. Green wood freshly cut from the woods usually required six months to a year for drying. Completely seasoned, afr dried wood still contains about 20 percent water. To air dry wood, it should be stacked outdoors where it is exposed to the sun and wind, preferably in an area where it w ill be ex posed to the prevailing winds. Wood should be stacked on bedding stringers which are used to keep the wood off the ground. Split pieces should be stacked round side up, slit face down—for best drying. The wood should be stacked away from buildings to prevent infestations of Horse production conference Care of the pregnant mare and young colt is the theme of the M id-C olum bia Horse Production Conference. The conference will be held March 6th and 7th at the Portage Inn, in The Dalles. Topics for the conference are nutrition of the pregnant mare, Extension Notes plants is a good way to get the varieties you want to and exciting to watch the young plants grow. But when started too early, the seedlings become leggy and spindly before they can be planted outside. As a result, they are peak and poorly prepared to survive in the garden. February is a good time to prepare soil for seeding transplants. One of the most serious problems with growing transplants in the house is a disease known as “damping off.” The disease attacks germinating seeds and small seedlings. Using a pasteurized soil mix will help prevent damping off. First make a soil-mixture combining one part loam soil, one part peat moss or screened compost, and one part sand or perlite. To pasteurize, stir the com ponents together,place them in a two or three inch deep baking pan and bake in a 180 degrees F. oven for 30 minutes. After the soil mix has cooled, store it in a closed plastic bag until it is time to start the transplants. Food shopping know how-------- ------------ The new year of 1981 is upon different brands. us, and never have we seen so m any g lo o m y e c o n o m ic Shopping for Meat About one-third of the food headlines. We can postpone buying a budget is spent on meat items, new car, new furniture and including poultry and seafood, television sets, but we have to so “know-how” counts a lot eat. However, even though when you are buying in this food prices are forecast to department. increase 10 to 15 percent in 1981, this doesn’t mean oui* ♦Cost per serving to know individual food bills have to much meat to buy. An easy rule increase that much. of thumb for figuring servings How can we cope? By being per pound is: informed food buyers who Boneless meat yields 4 insistently use our food buying jservings ppr pQUnd (ground “know how.” - meat, flank" steaks; stew meat, Some o f'th e “know how” - liver,- boneless ham, fish fillets that’most uif us have but may aré all in this category).. ¿ not always use iocLude^ £ » Bone-jn meat such as roasts,' Gene/aLShopping Hints ' ' steajt^ ánd poultry gives-2 to 3 ♦A s'; you plan menu«; check servings per pound; >.5,. C ■. newspaper- ads. for weekly' Meat with substantial fat “specials.” The radio and TV and bone provides only one to are also sources for this kind o f" tw o servings p er p o u n d information. Make a shopping (sparerjbs, short rjbs, breat of list, writing downitems as you, lamb, chicken wings, lamb ihinkof them during the week*-, _ chops? etc .f *- X ’ ♦Read food ' wheri'*; ihrtishes. pf -extreme shortages* ' meat' is 'wroaHy ingredients and the weight o f specialied quite Tegularly, and the food products. Other useful ' the savings are considerable. If information oh preparation, you have a freezer and enough number of. servings, type of grocery money to invest in the pack and nutrients is often future, you can very profitably included on the label. buy enough for later use. ♦Use unit pricing in the stores ♦Use the less-tender and less- as an aid in comparing prices of different size containers and demanded cuts Only about *4 of the carcass ♦ Check different forms of of protein and the B vitamin, food canned, fresh, dehy riboflavin. drated, frozen -to see which is ♦ The most economical source the best buy. This time of year highest prices. The remaining is non-fat dry milk, purchased processed items are sometimes 34 of the carcass is less tender, in as large a package as you can less expensive than fresh. usually lower priced, just as store and use. If your family nutritious, but requires more doesn’t like to drink this milk, ♦ Try lower priced brands. time to cook. Long, slow try mixing it half and half with Chainstore and other less cooking in a covered container fresh milk or use it for cooking. advertised brands may be can make any cut of meat ♦ Milk containing only two similar in quality and usually tender. Seasonings such as, .percent milkfat costs a little less cost less than nationally onions, celery, carrots and than whole milk and helps not advertised products. Generic various herbs give it extra only the food budget but labeled products which are flavor. A little’wine can add a w eig h t-w atch ers as well. usually standard rather than B u y in g m ilk in l a r g e r gourmet touch. fancy quality will cost less and can also, save you;, may fit a particular use. ♦Don’t overlook variety meats containers ♦ You cart save money by doing Befcf liver-is a bargain both mopèy? from the nutritional and cpst ♦ When richer milk is desired , your own seasoning and sauce—making foF.vegetables. standpoint^: H eart, and 1 oftgye fôr cooking, evaporated milk is > ' i^jsJ,,;^t^ estm g ^ B ^m a tio n s alspnutrujous and add less¿xpensjvje than whole mdk ; ” o f vegfeta b1es" cin Mjfc/eooked Varietyt<? ■ •- $ ¿ . ¿tor cream.?' together .nt libnte^iQ U pay - Fruits and Vegetables . - - ‘-V-- ♦Remember and uSe meat ♦ Buy thç fruits and vegetables - estrafd f those which are mixed which are in peak season. This- already when bought. alternates Eggs; Cheese, cpttag? cheese, is the time when quality is best ¿ Breads and Cereals ' dry. peans, peas, lentils, nuts," and cost is lowest. soybeans, nJlfiaVeltigh protein ♦ Learn to select good quality . ♦ Look for discounts on day— old baked g o o d s » " ’. Cóntenf: 4l ówever, when'ifsmg fMsM^prddtffie: Here you - nuts-«# see, ^melland hold a product. ■ Check The^sde ^ g^— breads. - pXrt icwht«! y / ^ t ^ p b ia h d -.before h 11 y them "With --»iik, cheese;'- or ■ Avoid wilted and tired-fookihg.* * b f few a s; h t ; ; advertised at good grices. perhaps ,add small am ountsof produce. meat tQ the recipes. Vegetable ♦ Think about how you are - ♦ Pre-sugared, reidy-to-eat protein is incomplete and needs going to use fruits and. cereals c o st th ere th a n unsweetened ones. They add to be supplemented with some vegetables. Small apples and more calories but less food bananas are usually a better animal protein. value than the ones you buy for children’s snacks. Little sweeten. Cereals you cook are Milk potatoes are often cheaper and usually always less costly than Milk is the main source of are fine for boiling in their the ready-prepared ones. calcium and an excellent source skins. ends up as tender cuts and these tender steaks and roasts get the
