HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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Can Fruit without Sugar
Low Prices of Fruit Make Preserving Profitable Even With
High Sugar, Says Department of Agriculture, But Telia
How to Can Without Sweetening.
AKKETINGr specialists of the De
partment of Agriculture who
have been following the fruit
situation call attention to the fact
that in almost all wholesale markets
peaches for canning and preserving are
very bountiful and are being sold at
pricos advantageous for canning in
spite of the increased price of sugar.
While the peach crop has been some
what short in some sections, heavy
crops from other states have been
shipped in and have tended to keep
prices at a figure which eneourages
canning. .Later, after the height of
the crop movement, prices for fruit
have a tendency to rise. Retailers are
urged to enable their customers to ob
tain fruit for canning at prices com
mensurate with the present low whole
sale price.,
A great many housewives are now
being deterred from canning and pre
serving their usual supply because of
the increase in the price of sugar.
There is no indication, however,, that
the price of sugar will fall materially
during the present .fruit season. It is
-estimated, though, that with peaches
at their present prices the combination
of peaches and Bugar necessary for
preserving will not make a prohibitive
total cost. Moreover, there are success
ful methods of canning fruit which
call for much less sugar than that
usually employed in this process by
home preservers. The Department rec
ommends the following method of put
ting up peaches and apples without any
sugar fur those who find their local
sugar prices prohibitive for canning
Canning Peaches Without Sugar.
"If the price of sugar is prohibitive
North Bank.
THE Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Railway system has put up premi
ums at the following Northwest
fairs: -
Oregon State Fair, Salem, Septem
ber 28th to October 3rd Eight-day
clock, with metal case, to be given for
the best display of grains and grasses,
kind and quality considered.
Crook County Fair, Prineville, Ore.,
September 22-26 Two prizes, one po
tato digger for best individual farm
exhibit, and one cultivator for best dis
play of vegetables.
Washington County Fair, Forest
Grove, September 23-25 Clock, ma
hogany caso, with engraved presenta
tion plate, for best farm exhibit, com
prising articles grown on one farm,
owned or rented by the exhibitor.
Sisters Fair, Sisters, Ore., October
1-3 Harrow for the best general agri
cultural display and most products
grown in that neighborhood.
Redmond Potato Show, October 16
17 Agricultural implement, value $25.
Western Klickitat County Fair,
White Salmon, Wash., October 15-17
Second competition for North Bank
silver cup, given for best three va
rieties of apples, ten boxes each vari
ety. Competitor winning cup twice be
comes permament owner. '
Great Northern.
President Louis W. Hill, of the I
Great Northern Railway, has donated
silver trophies at the following Oregon j
fairs: '
Crook County Fair, Prineville For
best individual exhibit of grains,
grasses and vegetables.
Bedmond Potato Show, Redmond
For 36 largest potatoes.
Pumpkin Show, Junction City For
best individual exhibit of grains,
grasses and vegetables.
Clatsop County Fair, Gearhart For
best dairy herd of four leading breeds.
Lane County J? air, Eugene For best
Individual exhibit of grasses and vege
tables. Benton County Fair, Corvallis For
best individual exhibit horticultural
and agricultural exhibit.
Oregon State Fair, Salem For best
individual farm exhibit.
At nearby Washington fairs, trophies
will be given, as follows:
Columbia Biver Interstate Fair, Van-
one may can peaches so that they will
keep indefinitely by using plain water I
instead of syrup. The following recipe
may be used:
"Remove skins from peaches by im
mersing in boiling water for about
one minnte and then dipping in cold
water. Place whole peaches in glass
jars or tins and fill jars with hot wa
ter. Place rubber and top in place
and sterilize for 15 minutes in hot-water-bath
outfits, 12 minutes in water
seal, 10 minutes at 5 pounds steam
pressure or 5 minutes at 10 pounds
steam pressure.
"Of course the peaches when re
moved from the jar will not taste so
sweet as those canned in syrup. How
ever, if sweetening is desired it may
be added when the fruit is to be eaten.
"This same method is good for can
ning with syrups containing varying
amounts of sugar. A very thin syrup
may be used if the housewife does
not wish to dispense entirely with the
sugar.
"Apples may also be canned (for
apple sauce, pie filling, etc.) using
plain water instead of a sugar syrup,
Department specialists have repeatedly
canned them by this method. In the
case of apples, jars should be sterilised
16 minutes in hot-water-bath outfits,
12 minutes in water-seal, 10 minutes
under 5 pounds of steam and four min
utes under 10 pounds of steam."
The department, therefore, advises
housewives to consider carefully the
total cost of preserving, with sugar
high and fruit low, before determining
to wait or not to put up their usual
pantry supply.
oonver For grange getting the first
award.
Fair Hesperides, Wenatchee For
best district display general farm pro
ducts. Washington State Fair, North Yaki
ma For best individual agricultural
exhibit.
Western Klickitat County Fair,
White Salmon For best individual
agricultural display.
Columbia River Valley Grape Carni
val, Kennewick For best individual
display of grapes.
Spokane, Interstate Fair, Spokane
For best individual exhibit of grains,
grasses and vegetables.
Whitman County Fair, Colfax Best
individual farm products.
Southwestern Washington Fair, Che
halis Best exhibit grains, grasses and
vegetables.
Trophies will also be given at fairs
at Burlington, Colville, Ephrata, Lyn
den, Rosalia, Riverside, Snohomish,
Twisp, Watcrville, Chesaw, Duvall,
Moscow and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Northern Pacific. '
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany has donated prizes in Oregon as
follows:
Oregon State Fair For the best sow
and litter of pigs, either pure breed,
grade or otherwise.
Clackamas County Fair, Canby Best
general display farm products by in
dividual exhibitors.
Benton County Fair, Corvallis Best
agricultural exhibit from any school
district in Benton County.
Lane County Fair, Eugene For best
general exhibit of agricultural pro
ducts by any one school district.
Pacific International Livestock Ex
position, Portland For grand cham
pion Holstein bull.
At Washington Fairs, Northern Pa
cific will give premiums, as follows:
Southwestern Washington Fair, Che
halis Petaluma incubator for largest
and best display poultry.
Interstate Fair, Spokane Clock for
best five bundles of wheat.
Columbia Biver Interstate Fair, Van
couver $50 . silver pitcher for best
dairy cow thres years old or over.
Walla Walla County Fair, Walla
Walla For best general farm exhibit
Washington State Fair, North Yaki
ma $50 silver pitcher for best dairy,
cow, any breed, over four years old;
also $10 cash for best 10 ears corn
highest scoring, solid colors, and $10
cash for best exhibit pure poultry.
Kennewick Grape Carnival, Kenne
wick $50 silver pitcher for best indi
vidual display of grapes.
Chehalis County Fair, Elma Silver
trophy for best general farm exhibit
by one exhibitor.
Kittitas County Fair, Ellensburg
Silver trophy for best dairy cow, any
breed; also $5 cash for best ten po
tatoes and $5 cash for best 10 ears of
eorn.
Trophies also will be given at fairs
at Davenport, Lynden, Prosser, Pull
man Hog Show, Puyallup, Rosalia, Boy,
Snohomish and Wilbur.
RAISING LAMBS FOB THE WINTER
MARKET.
. By O. A. Chote.
1DO not often feed my lambs much
grain before November the first.
Of eourse, however, this depends
upon the time I expect to sell them.
Usually I feed for the January and
February market.
With lambs in thrifty condition
weighing from 20 to 35 pounds I can
put them on the market in 75 days.
In order to make gains for the early
winter market, lambs must be brought
to the barns at night by the first of
November and fed some small grains in
yards.
About the twentieth of November 1.
begin to keep them in yards and in
ereaso their feed of grain and hay,
gradually decreasing their ration of
grass. By this method I have made
them weigh 25 pounds more by the first
of January than they did the first of
November.
I feed corn and oats half and half,
giving them all they will eat of the
mixture, and by December the first I
feed a quart of oats by measure and
try to have them eat one pound per
head. '
By the first of January I feed all
corn and from one to one and one
fourth pounds per head, or as much as
they will eat up clean in a day.
' They are kept in the barn all the
time except when they are fed grain in
the morning at 7 o'clock at night and
at 4 o 'clock in the afternoon when they
are allowed to go into the yards.
The hay is put into the racks indoors
and water is kept before them constant
ly. The one who has charge of the feed
ing should be very careful to keep
everything scrupulously clean.
SUMMER DATS.
Oh, the dear hays I Oh, the sweet days.
How the summer loves the land,
How the lavishes her riches, giving them
with eager hand;
Green of graaa and rainbow glory where the
bright (lowers blossom free.
Gold of grain and feathery foilage where
bare hillsides used to be.
Calm, clear water with the wonder of the
skies imprisoned fast,
Vagrant south winds bearing fragrance on
their pinions wander past.
Oh, the warm days! Oh, the long days I
Each a sequence of delight
From the early morn till noontime, from
the noontime till .the night.
Earth seems joining in our gladness while
we drink at Nature's spring.
And time passes us so swiftly that we
scarcely hear his wing. -Iu
the foreBt, by the lakeside, on the
heaven aspiring hill.
New delights and joys are waiting, we mar
take them if we will.
We may find nepenthe's waters, drink and
Bet our spirits free
From the shadow of past sorrows, from
the fear of griefs to be;
For the golden cup of summer overflows
each happy day;
In your heart enshrine its gladness, for it
soon will pass away I
Ninette M. Lowater, In New York Sun.
The Middle Course.
Senator Root, at a reception, was
discussing the Mexican situation.
"Steer a middle course," he said
to an extremist "These extreme ideas
are always wrong."
Thus, at a tea, one young girl
asked another:
" 'And where are you going this
summer, deart"
" 'Fran the way mother talks,' was
the reply, 'you'd think we were going
to Newport; from the way father
talks you'd think we were going te
starve. But I suppose we 11 steer a
middle course, as usual, and put in a
fortnight at a $12 Atlantic City boarding-house.'
"
Feed plenty of charcoal as it Is one
of tho beBt things for keeping the poul
try healthy.
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Mr.Cattleman!
Mr. Hopgrower!
Mr.Fruitgrower!
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