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PLANNED FOR NAVY
Naval Board Urges Building of
Six Sea Masters.
APPROVAL Of PROGRAM IS PROBABLE
Fast Vessels Declared to Have Fully
Proved Their Usefulness-Experts
State Their Views.
Washington, D. C. The building
program of the general board of the
navy will call for at leaat Bix big
ships, it was learned Saturday from
authoritative Bources at the Navy de
partment. At least one, and possibly
two, of these will be battle cruisers,
and the rest super-dreadnaughts.
At present the navy has no battle
cruisers, but experts of the general
board are convinced that the develop
ment of this type by nations against
which the United States is obliged to
prepare makes it necessary to provide
chips of this type without delay.
Japan, Great Britain and Germany
have experimented with the battle
cruiser and have amply demonstrated
its usefulness. It has been shown that
GEN. NELSON A. MILES
I New portrait of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, grand marshal of the G. A. R.
parade at the national encampment In
Washington.
there is no effective way of combat
ting a battle cruiser except with ships
of the same type, and for that reason,
experts say, it is absolutely necessary
for the United States to construct
them. Submarines are considered as
auxiliary only.
The board is at work on a compre
hensive battle cruiser program, which,
it is hoped, can be followed from year
to year until the navy is equipped with
an adequate number. Certain mem
bers of the board favor building two a
year, beginning at once, and continu
ing at that rate until the required
ratio to other navies is. reached.
"It is all a question of what nation
we are going to fight," said a high
naval official. "If we are preparing
for defense against a first-class naval
power we might as well have no navy
at all as a little one."
The secretary of the navy will rec
ommend substantial increases in the
navy, but it is generally believed he
will not go as far in this direction as
the general board will recommend.
Members of the board refuse to be
lieve there is any considerable senti
ment among the chiefs of the adminis
tration for keeping the naval esti
mates down to the customary level.
8-Year-Old Mill Starts.
Marshfield, Or. A sawmill which
had been built eight years, equipped
fully and prepared to operate, but
never sawed a stick of timber, Btarted
Monday, September 20, on regular run
after having been improved and over
hauled. The mill was erected in 1907
two miles from Marshfield by A. A.
Courtney, who was then secretary of
the Pacific Coast box combination.
Just at the time the mill was com
pleted, the panic of 1907 came on
and Courtney and his associates
failed.
High Peak Finally Scaled.
New York Dr. Andrew J. Gilmour
announced Saturday on returning from
Alberta that he and Professor Edward
W. D. Holway, of the University of
Minnesota, had climbed to the summit
of Mount Geikie, in Alberta. It was
asserted that they were the first to
attain the summit, which is 11,016
feet nigh.
The final ascent, was made August
6. The physician added that 6000 feet
of the way was up a nearly sheer wal
of ice and snow, in which the explor
era had to cut steps.
Army Airmen Loop Loop.
San Diego, Cal. Sergeant William
Ocher and Corporal Albert Smith, at
tached to the United States Army avi
ation cm-os at North Island. Saturday
made 15 loops each while engaged in
flights, shattering all army ana navy
aviation records. Both officers used
the same machine. As it is of the
heavy army type, designed solely for
long-distance Hying, the reats oi tne
two army aviators are considered re
markable in aviation circle.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS
Portland Wheat Bluestem, 89c
bushel; fortyfold, 86c; club, 83Jc; red
Fife, 80c; red Russian, 78c.
Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $25
ton; shorts, $ 26; rolled barley, $27
28.
Corn Whole, $38 ton; cracked, $39.
Hay Eastern Oreeon timothy. $15
16: vallev timothv. J12rffil3: al
falfa,' $12.5013.50; cheat, $910;
oats and vetch, $1112.
Vegetables Cucumbers, Oregon,
15(S!20c dozen: artichokes. 90c? toma
toes. RFifnidftp VinY pnhhntro 1 n nminrl
beans, 2J4c; green corn, 1015c
dozen; garlic, 15c pound; peppers, 4
5c; eetmlant. 4 (fi) 5c: sm-outs. 8c:
horseradish, 12Jc.
Green Fruits Cantaloupes, 60c
.50 crate: Deachea. 40 O 65c box:
watermelons, 1 ljc pound; new ap-
les, 7bc $1.60 box; pears, 90c
1.26; graces. 60c(ffi$l. 30 crate: huck
leberries. 6c Dound. casabas. He:
quinces, $1$1.25 box.
Potatoes New, 7086c sack.
Onions Walla Walla. 75c sack :
Oregon, $1.
Eees Oreeon ranch. Olivine nrices :
No. 1,- 30c dozen; No. 2, 25c; No. 3,
17c. Jobbme nnces: No. 1. 82c.
Poultry Hens. lllfffllSlic nnnnd-
V 1 . V . I ,
Serines. 16c: turkevs. nominal: ducks.
white, 12 14c; colored, 8 10c;
geese, 810c.
Butter Citv creamery, cubes, ex
tras, selline at 3Uc Dound: firsts. 29c:
prints and cartons, extra. Prices paid
to producers Country creamery, 22
29c pound; butterfat, No. 1, 33c; No.
sic. ,
Veal Fancy, llj12c pound.
Pork Block, 8J9c pound.
Cattle Choice steers. $6.50 Gil 7:
good. $6(316.25: medium. S5.75rtS6:
choice cows, $5.255.75; good, $6
i.zo; medium, 4.ouo; heifers, $5
i! 5.85; bulls. $4.50 (Si 5: stairs. $5.50
6.25.
Hogs Light. $6.50 01 6.65: heavv.
$5.605.65.
Sheep Wethers. $4.75(5)6: ewes.
$45; lambs, $5.507.
Hop Crop Estimate 100,000 Bales.
Salem, Or. Oregon's hop crop for
1915,': according to the average esti
mates of growers and dealers, will
equal 100,000 bales. To pick the
state's crop of hops and for other ex
penses, incidental to labor, growers
have paid approximately $1,000,000.
In figuring the hop output, growers
and dealers vary in their estimates.
The Oregon Hop Growers' association
officials announce that the crop will be
about 80,000 bales, while independent
dealers place their figures higher.
Offsetting the partial failure of the
crop in the St. Paul and Gervais dis
tricts is the increase in the production
of the yards in the Independence dis
trict. Conditions in this section were re
markably good, growers declare, and
nearly all the yards bore heavily.
Fourteen prominent growers in the In
dependence district this year have a
total output approximating 20,550
bales. In 1914 these growers had a
total production of 16,000 bales.
Reports received here by dealers are
to the effect that in Lane county the
crop will be about 6000 bales, practi
cally the same as last year. In Wash
ington county advices are that this
year's yield will approximate 10,000
bales.
With 5200 bales, the E. C. Horst
company, of this section, leads all
other growers. The Horst yards last
year produced 3800 bales. C. A. Mc
Laughlin s crop this season is 2360
bales, as compared with 1657 bales in
1914. Because of disastrous fires
which destroyed seven kilns belonging
to T. A. Livesley & Co., at Livesley
station, south of this city, this firm
has approximately 800 bales, while
last season the production equaled 1800
bales.
Fall Plowing Nearly Finished.
Following is a summary of the crop
conditions in Oregon and Washington
for the week, as reported to the office
of the weather bureau by special cor
respondents throughout the JJorthwest :
Ine past week has been dry and in
interior Western counties unseasonable
warm weather has obtained. Freezing
temperatures in extreme Eastern coun
ties on the 13th and 14th did some in
jury to tender vegetation, but as a
rule weather conditions were quite
favorable.
Threshing has been completed in
some sections and a few farmers have
begun hauling their hay and grain to
market. Irrigated crops are doing well.
Wool Selling in East Slow.
Portland The wool selling move
ment in the East has slowed down, but
prices are not materially changed.
Among the sales at Boston in the past
week were 200,000 pounds Soda Springs
half-blood at 29 cents; 50,000 pounds
fine and fine medium Utah at 24 cents;
about 100,000 pounds Montana at 27
cents; 60,000 pounds three-eighths
blood Wyoming at 32 cents; a good
sized parcel of half-blood Montana at
30 to 31 cents. Another Boston house
reported sales of 600,000 pounds of
various grades and prices.
Corn and Tomato Packs Short.
Portland Estimates covering the
1915 corn pack have been reduced by
conservative factors to 6,200,000 cases.
Early estimates were for a pack of
8,000,000 cases. The 1914 pack was
9,789,000 cases, and the average for
the three years 1912, 1913 and 1914
was 10,060,000 cases. Cold and un
seasonable wet weather during the
critical growing period for making
sweet corn played havoc with the pros
pects in all sections of the country,
The tomato pack for 1915 promises
now not to exceed 7,500,000 cases.
Cheese Prices Tending Upward.
Portland With cheese stocks at the
Coast well cleaned up and the fall sea
son at hand, the market has developed
an upward tendency. Prices have ad
vanced three-quarters of a cent to the
13 ecnts f. o. b. basis, and further
advances are looked for. No change
was reported in the butter market.
Eggs are firm with light local re
ceipts and withdrawals from storage
are larger.
The poultry market continues weak.
ALLIES BATTERING
GERMAN TRENCHES
300 Miles of Front Attacked by
Defending Armies.
TEUTON POSITIONS fILLED WITH DEAD
French and British Capture 20,000
Prisoners and Many Cannon
Allies in Perfect Unison.
Paris By a combined, simultaneous
onslaught with overwhelming forces
on every sector of the battle front,
stretching 800 miles from the North
Sea to the Vosges mountains, the
French and British armies have cap
tured more than 20 miles of German
trenches and fortifications for a depth
in many instances of two and one-half
miles, have seized various villages and
vantage points and have taken more
than 20,000 prisoners and many guns.
The battle, iwhich began Saturday
and which raged with undiminished
fury all Saturday night, still continues
with the forces in death grip in hand-
to-hand fighting, in which bayonets
are being used.
In the number of troops engaged, in
the terrific havoc wrought by countless
batteries of the heaviest artillery and
in the magnitude of the new offensive
drive begun by General Joffre, com
mander-in-chief of the French, and
Field Marshal Sir John French, commander-in-chief
of the British, to ex
pel the Germans, the vast conflict now
under way exceeds even the battle of
the Marne, which halted the invasion
of France in its momentous bearing on
the fate of the warring nations.
The terrific assault, begun Saturday
and now being pressed with unabated
vigor and determination, came after
ten months' of patient preparation by
the French and British commanders.
The battle was preceded by prepara
tory thunder of the hundreds of huge
new cannon built for the supreme con
flict and which, for 50 hours, literally
rained fire on the German fortifica
tions, both explosive and incendiary
shells being hurled into the positions
held by the Teutonic soldiers.
The German war office pays tribute
to the ruin caused by this bombard
ment in its reference to the fact that
the French "penetrated our battered-
down trenches-"
Bulgaria Denies Any Intention
of Entering Great World War
London Dispatches from Sofia Sep
tember 23 to Reuter's Telegram com
pany quote the following semi-official
statement issued on that day :
The entry of Bulgaria into a state
of armed neutrality is, according to
the view in government circles, ex
plained by changes which occurred re
cently in the political and military sit
uation. "Bulgaria has not the slightest ag
gressive intention, but is resolved to
be armed to defend her rights. Fol
lowing the example of Holland and
Switzerland, Bulgaria is obliged, in
view of the movement of troops effect
ed by her neighbors and danger threat
ening her from the fact of the Austro
German offensive against Serbia, to
proclaim armed neutrality, while con
tinuing conversations with the repre
sentatives of the two belligerent
groups."
A telegram from Athens says that
mobilization of the Greek forces is
proceeding rapidly and that the people,
while bewildered by the kaleidoscope
of events, appear to welcome the pros
pect of war as a relief from uncertain
ty.
It is assumed that Greece will resist
any aggressive action that Bulgaria
may take.
Hill Liner Kills Whale.
San Francsico To not many trav
elers on the deep is it given to see a
whale killed by a modern steamship,
but that was the treat given the 325
passengers on the turbiner Great
Northern, which arrived from Flavel
Sunday. Just north of Point Arena
the Great Northern struck a huge
whale fair amidships and cut the levia
than in two. The shock jarred the
whole vessel. Rushing on deck the
passengers beheld only bloody spume
in the track of the vessel and two
huge pieces of whale.
Women Will Study Law.
Cambridge, Mass. Some 25 young
women, graduates from Radcliffe, Bar
nard, Bryn Mawr and Smith colleges,
have applied for admission to the first
graduate law school in America de
voted exclusively to the instruction of
women, which is to be opened this
fall. Joseph Henry Beale Royall,
professor in the Harvard Law School,
is the head of the new institution,
which is called the Cambridge Law
School for women.. Lectures will be
delivered in buildings belonging to
Radcliffe College.
Canal Closed for Week,
Panama It will be another, week
before the canal is reopened. Fifty-
five ships have been delayed so far,
and some of them have turned back
The recent Blide is the worst in the
history of the canal. Eighteen
months will be required to remove all
the earth that slipped into the canal.
Surveyors have begun on Taboga Isl
and, in Panama bay, in anticipation of
appropriations for increasing the de
fenses of the canal.
Storm Rages in Italy.
Rome, via Paris A great storm is
raging throughout Italy, causing floods
and landslides. Trees have been up
rooted by the violence of the wind, and
the wide overflow of rivers has drown
ed cattle. Thus far, however, no loss
of human life has been reported. The
telephone and telegraph services are
greatly deranged.
SYMPTOMS OF HOG CHOLERA
Among Other Things Animal Will Lose
Appetite, Have Gaunt, Unthrifty
Appearance and Become Inactive.
If the animal has cholera theso
ather symptoms will follow within a
tew hours or a few days, depending
upon whether the disease Is acute or
chronic:
Loss of appetite. partial or com
plete.
Inaction, the hog lying hidden In
(he tall grass or weeds in Bummer or
staying In the shed or house in win
ter.
A gaunt, unthrifty appearance and
roughened hair.
Labored breathing, commonly known
5 "thumps." if the luncs are affect-
ad; also a coueh.
Some diarrhea if the intestines
e affected, but In many herds con
stipation with lumpy, hard excretions,
A Typical Cholera Pig.
sometimes covered with mucous or
blood and offensive in odor, thoueh
this may not be true in all cases,
Discharge of pus from . eves and
nose; eyes may be glued shut.
A weak, wobbly eait. eRneninllv In
the hind legs, the animal often reel
ing as it tries to walk.
Dark red, blue or nurnlish discolora.
tion of skin under the body, neck and
Inside of thighs. '
When the disease is acute, death
may come in four to seven dava.
Sometimes, however, the attack Is nn
virulent that hogs are found dead be
fore the owner knows thev are nirlt.
At other times the dlseaso tnlraa nn a
chronic form, the animals dying at In
tervals through a period of several
months.
QUALITY COUNTS WITH EGGS
Annual Loss Runs Into Millions
Through Marketing Poor Article
During Summer Months.
"Quality counts, not sometimes, hut
always," and is as true with raarket
eggs as with any other commodity.
The farmers' annual loss throiieh thn
marketing of poor eggs during the
summer months mounts into the mil
lions in the aKtrreEate and is wholly
unnecessary. Because of the presence
oi bo many spoiled eggs coming from
tne farms the buyer is compelled to
pay lower prices as the poor eggs
are sorted out by him and must be
disposed of at figures far below the
market price of good eggs.
Why should not the farm Droducer
flrBt endeavor to produce ennrl ee-irn
and then sort them himself and know
positively that he is selling only first
quality eggs? Tne candling of eggs
is the final test and can be easily done
by anyone. Arrange a common paste
board shoe box to stand on end over
a small lighted lamp. Make a hole
slightly smaller than an egg in one
side of the box directly opposite
the lamp flame and give ventilation
to the lamD by removine the end nf
the box over the lamp and you are
ready to candle eggs accurately.
To produce good first quality eggs
the essentials are healthy hens; good,
wholesome food; clean nests; dally
gathering of eees and the removal
of all males from the laying flock.
After this the eggs must be kept
in a cool, moist temperature. Given
tliese conditions of production and
handling, with a careful candling be
fore marketing, any farm poultryman
may be certain that he iB offerine
only a first quality product that may
command the best prices.
HANDLING THE MOLTING HENS
Critical Time In Life of Every Fowl Is
In Late Summer and Fall
Birds Need Attention.
(By P. MOORE. Idaho Experiment Sta
tlon.) The critical time in the life of every
fowl Is the molting season. Nature
has provided that they change clothes
once a year, and that the time of
change is late summer and fall. The
time depends largely upon the per
formance of the hen.
Heavy laying hens usually molt late.
Early molters have but little else to
do; they lay but few eggs, while the
late molter Bpends her time and en
ergy producing eggs and her feathers
do not ripen till late.
These late molters are the fowls
that require much attention and
should be prized very highly, for they
are the birds that make the flock prof
itable, and should be the breeding
stock to reproduce the flock.
They should be provided with com
fortable, clean quarters, but allowed
the liberty of the yards. Clean straw
should be on the floor and ventilation
perfect with ample protection from
draft. Housing principles should be
very carefully applied in general.
Nourishing feeds, clean wuter, grit,
charcoal, bono and plenty of green
food should be provided.
Forced molting is not a good prac
tice. Look well to the wants of na
ture and results will be much more
satisfactory.
Saves Time and Labor.
By having a stout pole lying right
under trie nay rack on the upper tlm
bers In the barn for the hay to drop
on when it is tripped from slings or
forks, It saves a man in a mow. It
also saves the hay from pounding
flown in tne center which sometimes
causes it to mold. As the bay drops
on the poles it rolls to either side and
spreads. The slings are a great labor
and time saver.
Mischief in Handling Stock.
The greatest mischief In handling
farm stock come from Improper food.
filthy or Impure drinking water, lack
of exerctBe and poor sanitary condi
tions.
WHEN TO WEAN LITTLE PIGS
Many of Best Hog Men Take All
Young Animals Away at Sams
T me Good Plan Outlined.
Should the pigs be weaned at six to
eight weeks ot age, or should they be
allowed to run with the sows until
the sows wean them?
Sows which raise two litters a year
had best wean their spring litter at
six to eight weeks of age. Some farm
ers who keep sows only for one litter
are In favor of early weaning so that
the sows may be dried off rapidly and
fattened.
If the pigs are to be weaned early,
they must be taught to eat grain long
before they are weaned. Two or three
weeks old pigs will learn to nibble a
little. A good grain mixture Is 60
parts of corn, 20 parts ot middlings,
10 parts of tankage or wheat meal,
parts of oats and 5 parts of oil
meal. If skimmed milk may be had
it should certainly be fed, especially
just after weaning time.
Many of our best hog men now wean
their pigs early and wean them all at
the same time. The day before wean
lug they put the sows and pigs to
gether in a pen by themselves and give
the sows little or no food that day.
The pigs are allowed to drain the
sows' udders and the next day the
pigs are put in a good pasture by
themselves and given a nutritious ra
tion, skim milk being fed it it is
available! The sows are put on short
pasture and for the first day or two
are given plenty to drink but little to
eat.' In a short time they are dried
up completely and they may be given
a good ration to get them In condition
for breeding or for market
WIDE TIRES ASSIST HAULING
Do Not Cut Deeply and Make Better
Tracks on Roads Which Are Trav
eled While Soil li Soft.
(By P. A. WIRT, Kansas Experiment Sta
tion.)
Wide-tired wagons pull more, easily
than narrow tired ones 90 per cent of
the times when they are used. Pro
fessor Wirt has just, completed ex
periments with wide and with narrow
tired wagons.
Narrow tires pull harder tl-an wide
tires because the narrow tire cuts
deeper into the top soli. The wide
tire does not cut so deep and makes a
better track on roads which are
traveled while the ground Is soft. The
wide tire packs the surface into a firm
roadbed.
The tests show that in corn fields,
plowed fields, field lanes and on pas
ture and alfalfa land, the draft on the
wide tire Is considerably less no mat
ter what the condition of the soil.
In places where the mud is deep and
rolls up on the wheelB, in ruts made
by narrow wheels, or in a surface ot
mud with a hard ground beneath, the
narrow tire will pull more easily. The
narrow wheel fits the rut, on the hard
bottom of which it runs, and it col
lects less mud than the wide tire.
Were only wide tires used, however,
this condition hardly could occur.
KEEPING FEED OUT OF MUD
Arrangement Illustrated for Preserv
ing Corn Fallen From Trough
Stock May Eat in Comfort.
Around, every feed , bunk there
Bnouia ue some arrangement for pre
serving the feed and keeping the cat
tle out of the mud. If the bottom ot
the feed trough is made with one-quar-
Good Feeding Floor.
ter inch cracks between the boards
much loose corn will fall through
which hogs following the cattle will
make good use of.
HOUSE FOR LAYING PULLETS
Old Hens Keep Young Ones In Con
stant State of Fear, Which Will
Retard Egg Production.
The pullets that have begun to lay
or give promise of early laying Bhould
be housed away from the old stock
Pullets require more food than old
hens, and if the hens and pullets are
kept in the same house and fed to
gether, either the old hena will eat
too much and thus get too fat to lay,
or the pullets will get insufficient food
to keep up egg production and main
tain bodily growth at the same time.
If housed together, the old hens will
fight the pullets and keep them in a
constant state of fear which will
diminish or retard egg production.
If the farmer has but one poultry
house, the young stock can be sepa
rated from the old by merely running
a wire partition through the middle
of the house.
Control of Cabbage Worm.
Poison bran mash, such as is in
common use for cut worms, is said
to be effective in the control of the
cabbage worms. Hellebore Is also ef
fective, particularly when the cab
bage is just about ready for market.
There is a possibility that the tobacco
compound, commercially known as
"Black Leaf 40," would control cab
bage worms.
Improve!
Just now the agricultural press and
country publications too for that mat
ter, are calling everybody's attention
to the importance of pure and lm
proved seeds. Poultry raisers, why
not take the hint and pay special at
tention to Improving your flock of
fowls. This Is equally as Important
as seed grain, if not more so, for there
Is a mighty difference between the
dunghill kind kept by too many and
the graded-up kind kept by too few.
Steer-Feeding Experiment.
In steer-feeding experiments made
at Purdue corn silage In the ration de
creased the cost of gain (1.47 per hun
dred pounds when clover bay waa fed
and $2.30 per hundred pounds when
alfalfa hay waa ted.
EACH DAINTIES OF MERIT J
Many Ways of Preparlnq Fruit Which
All Appreciate for Its Per
fect Flavor.
For peach cobbler, prepare plain
pastry from three pints of flour and
three-fourths of a pound of mixed lard
and butter. Line the baking dish with
this and pour in two quarts of freshly
stewed peaches, covering the dish with
a pastry lid, pierced here and there to
let out steam. Bake until brown and
then cover thickly with powdered
sugar and serve steaming hot with rich
cream.
Here is another peach pie recipe:
Bake a rich pastry crust until brown
and crisp and then cool. Just at serv
ing time heap it high with sliced
peaches, sprinkle with sugar and pile
whipped cream on top. A variation
of this recipe is this: Cut short pastry
into squares and fold the four corners
to the center. Moisten them with
milk, press them down so that they
will remain In place, prick the pastry
with a fork and bake one square for
each person. Brown in the oven, chill
and serve piled high with peaches cut
Into large pieceB, stewed just until
tender and sweetened to taste. Top
with a big spoonful of whipped cream.
Still another peach pie, the favorite
of a very good cook, is this: Sift to
gether a cupful and a half of flour, a
quarter of a cupful of sugar, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and a
pinch of salt. Into this cut half a cup
ful of butter and add enough milk to
make a stiff batter. Use as little milk
as possible. Roll into a thick sheet,
line a deep pie pan with it and slice
peacheB into it. Sweeten them well
and cover them with sour or sweet
milk, then bake until done in a mod
erate oven.
A '.emptlng d'issert is peach whip.
To make it press ripe peaches through
a vegetable press, sweeten to taste
and mix immediately with whipped
cream or whipped egg whites. Pile In
tall glasses and serve very cold.
Another tempting dessert is a peach
sandwich, one for each person. Slice a
stale sponge cake and dip the slices
quickly in milk. Then brown in but
ter. Between each two slices pile
freshly sliced, sweetened peaches and
pile on whipped cream.
METHOD OF PICKLING ONIONS
Writer Makes Some Suggestions
Which Seem to Be Worthy of
Consideration.
Peeling the onions is a decidodly pain
ful task, but it is made less bo it they
are done in cold water. Some poopla
even put them in boiling water and
allow them to come to the boll before
peeling them. I prefer the former
plan. With small silver pickling onions
to oach quart of vinegar allow two
tablespoonfuls of black peppercorns,
two teaspoonfuls of allspice, two level
teaspoonfuls of salt, two bay loaves.
Remove the outer skin with a silver
knife; if a steel one is used the onions
will turn black. If liked, peel them In
a basin of cold water, for, besides
making the operation less painful, it
helps to whiten them by removing
some of the essential oil. Dry them
lightly in a cloth. Put the vinogar,
spices and bay leaves in a saucepan,
boil them until the vinegar Is well
flavored, and lot it get cold. Put the
onions In Jars or wide-nocked bottle,
fill them up with the vinogar, adding
a little spice to each bottle. Cork
down tightly. They will be ready for
use,ln about a month. Boston Globe.
Apple and Suet Pudding.
Two cupfuls of chopped apples, two
cupfuls of chopped ralsIiiB, one cupful
of sour milk, one cupful of molasses,
one cupful of suet and flour enough to
make a Btlff batter.
Begin by putting one toaapoonful of
Boda in the milk, then add a little
grated nutmeg and cinnamon and a
pinch of salt Stir the suet into this
mixture and then put in the flour a
small quantity at a tluio. Boll tied up
in muBlln.
Chocolata Pie.
Put one and a hnlf cupfuls milk on
stove to heat. When hot thicken with
following mixture: Weil-beaten yolks
of two eggs, half cupful sugar, two
level tablespoonfuls corn starch, one
tablespoonful cocoa, a pinch of salt,
half cupful milk. When cool flavor
with vanilla, put in pie shell, cover
with a frosting made of the whites of
the eggs and ouo tablespoonful of
sugar. Brown In oven.
Saao Custard Pudding.
Wash and soak one cupful of sago
In one pint of water for an hour. Then
take three eggs and beat them up with
one cupful of sugar; add threo pints
of sweet milk, a little grated nutmeg
and the soaked sago. Beat all to
gether and bako slowly. Serve cold
with cream or rich milk and sugar.
Chartreuse of Peaches.
One-half dozen peaches, peeled and
stoned, one heaping cupful ot Bgar,
small glass of brandy, a little water,
Cook together some time, then pass
through a sieve. Stir Into it one-half
ounce of gelatin, dissolved In water,
add one pint of cream. Pour Into mold
to harden. Serve very cold.
Baked Prunes.
Wash large French prunes and put
them in a bean jar, barely covering
them with hot water; add sugar to
taste, three cloves and the rind of half
a lemon. Bake slowly, with the cover
on the pot until the prunes have be
come almost candled. Serve cold with
whipped cream or rich milk.
Imitation Eggnog.
Thoroughly beat up an egg with a
slack teaspoonful of sugar doing this
in the glass in which the "nog" is to
be served. Then fill the glass with hot
milk and grate nutmeg on top. This
is very nourishing and almost always
inviting to the children, who at times
take a distaste for solid foods.
Basket Salad.
Remove seedB and membranes from
green peppers, cut in form ot baskets.
Fill with chopped wax beans, cubes of
red beets and stuffed olives. Use your
favorite salad dressing;.
SOME COOKERY HINTS
IDEAS THAT MAY BE OF VALUE
TO THE HOU8EWIFE.
How the Ideal Custard 8hould Be
Made Mayonnaise With Just the
Right Flavor Best Way to
Serve Cucumbers.
The best custards ever made have
not been baked on the oven floor. The
tried-and-true method to make the de
licious custard is one quart ot fresh
milk, scalded In a double boiler. No
more nor less than four eggs beaten
and stirred into one cup of granulated
sugar. Always lemon extract with a
pinch ot nutmeg for the delicate cus
tard. It kills the egg flavor. Now,
horn unn. o,l !,. It I. . -
of boiling water in the oven, cover
your baking dish, bake it just one-halt
hour in a warm but not too hot oven.
Insert a silver knife in the middle ot
the custard is done, otherwise the in
gredients stick to the knife.
Ot all the professional secrets hard
est to obtain for the delicious mayon
naise this was the hardest. That un
mistakable "tang," the tasty snap,
though hidden with other condiments
was found to be nothing else but cu-,
cumber. No, you could not taste it,
for It was blended with the mayon
naise. The cucumber is grated for
the purpose. Then, think of It, the
vinegar used. Ordinary vinegar? Yes,
but prepared with brown sugar, boiled
with, spices and churned into a white
foam with one-half its bulk ot olive
oil. For potato salad this mayon
naise, mixed with the cucumber rnd).
hard-boiled eggs is, really, one of the
finest flavored salad dressings known
to the chefs who dislike to make
known their professional secrets.
Have you seen the cucumber sliced.
but in half and decorated with slices
of red radish? Very pretty. Score
the rounded sldec of the cucumber
into one-eighth inch sections, but do
not cut through the cucumber. Place
the flat or cut side of the cucumber on
the dish, slice the red radishes, leav
ing on the red rim. Insert these slices
of radishes between the slices of cu
cumber, alternating the red and white;
garnish with parsley,, small pickles,,
small flecks of beet, and Berve with
salad dressing.
A delicious luncheon dish la known
as "Devils on Horseback." Plump car
dines are used. Each has a little
blanket ot bacon pinned around his
'tummy turn turn" and all is fried In
deep fat and served on buttered toast.
Don't Lose the Pie Juice.
To keep the juice In the pie, Instead
of using the cloth strips, which spoils
the edge of the pie anyway, have the
bottom crust larger than the pan. Cut
the apples Into sections. Before put
ting them In, cover the bottom of the
pastry with halt the sugar. One cup
ful ot sugar to a good-sized pie will
not be too much If the apples are sour.
Lay sections ot apples all around the
edge. Then fill Jn the middle. Add
the rest ot the sugar. Roll out the'
top crust to fit and lay on. Wet the
edge all around and turn up over the
top crust the surplus of the under
crust PresB down with the fingers,
then mark all around with a fork.
Make a hole In the top ot the pie and
wet all over with cold water. The
oven should be fairly hot for the first
15 or 20 minutes. Then the heat may
be reduced bo that the apples may
cook thoroughly. It will take about
40 minutes to bake a good-sized pie.
Beef Cutlets.
Put the beef through the chopper
(as for hamburg steak), season with
sage and pepper, moisten with cream,
then mold in cutlet form and broil.
Serve with a brown sauce made by
browning a slice ot onion in two table
spoonfuls ot butter, adding a little
salt, pepper and two tablespoonfuls of
stock. Boll until smooth, then add a
hard-boiled egg, chopped in small
pieces.
Marshmallow Pudding.
Take two dozen marshmallow drops
stale or fresh and put them in the
bottom ot a baking dish. Pour over
rich cocoa, made as tor breakfast ex
cept for a thickening ot cornstarch;
put the dish on the stove and bake
for half an hour. Then take It out,
add a meringue and brown this. Serve
cold. The cooking melts the marsh
mallows, which give the cocoa pud
ding a most delectable taste.
Indian Huckleberry Pudding.
Boll one quart of milk, remove from
the stove and stir into it a email cup
ful of Indian meal. When cool add two
well-beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls
of finely-chopped suet, one tablespoon
ful ot molasses, a pinch of salt and one
quart ot huckleberries. Fill a mold
two-thirds full and steam three hours.
I use a five-pound lard pall. Use any
sauce you care to make. Exchauge.
Brown Betty.
Put a layer of white bread crumbs
in a baking dish and then a layer ot
sliced cooking apples, and so on until
the dish is almost full. Sprinkle each
layer ot apples with sugar and a little
spice, if the taste is liked, and also
mix small nuts ot butter through the
layers, being sure to have some of the
seasoning on top of the dish. Bake
i light brown.
Ice Cream Hint
Ice cream is sometimes frozen so
hard that it does not come out ot the
mold easily. When this happens let
the cold water run over the outside ot
the can. The water is so much warm
er than the ice cream that it melts It
sufficiently to start It out and does not
melt it enough to spoil the shape of
the mold. i
Frosted Coffee.
Frosted coffee is delightfully Invig
orating on a tot day. To prepare,
make a strong, clear drip coffee.
Sweeten to taste, and chill thoroughly.
Just before serving drop on each
glassful a heaping teaspoonful ot
wnippea cream wnicn nas oeen faint
ly sweetened and slightly flavored
with vanilla