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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1916
Page
6
This Farmers' Bulletin summary advises on fat in children's diets, noting fat from human milk and dairy fats is wholesome. It recommends limited salad oils, gradual introduction to new fats, and serving on greens. It cautions against fatty pastries and fried foods, and suggests cooking bacon to avoid burning fat while collecting drippings for safer use.
A recipe for spice cake notes it keeps well. Cream sugar and butter, add coffee and eggs, dissolve soda in boiling water, add spices and grated nutmeg, salt, raisins, then flour. Mix thoroughly and bake about forty five minutes in a moderate oven.
Homemade candied grapefruit rind yields a tasty treat. Cut rind into one inch by half inch strips, brine 24 hours in salt and water, boil until tender, then simmer in a sugar syrup, dry and roll in granulated sugar.
A historical recipe describes mixing one quart milk with one pint sugar, then cooling and adding a quart whipped cream a teaspoon vanilla and freezing to mush. After removing the dasher, fold in sherry a coffee cup of ground macaroons and color with vegetable coloring to a green shade, pack and harden as a pistachio substitute.
Collect one chicken or fowl one carrot one onion one turnip two celery stalks one teaspoon salt two tablespoons flour two tablespoons barley three pints water. Chop vegetables and place in a stewpan. Add joints of fowl water and barley. Simmer slowly two and a half hours. Moisten the flour with water, add with salt to broth, stir till thickened. Strain and serve.
A simple cake recipe uses one egg one cup sugar one half cup butter one and a half cups flour one and a half teaspoons baking powder half cup milk and vanilla. Bake in round tins fill with Jelly and frost with butter powdered sugar milk and vanilla.
A blistering August drink idea uses fresh cider boiled to half and sealed in bottles. When served with carbonated water it provides sparkle and taste similar to champagne, considered unexcelled.
The watermelon, native to Africa, now widely grown in the United States, thrives on rich warm sandy loams with good drainage. Rotate crops, use clover or cowpeas, and practice thorough land preparation and shallow plowing to curb weeds. Anthracnose disease, worsened by wet weather, blights leaves and fruit. control with Bordeaux mixture applied precisely and at recommended intervals.
The piece warns in brief that during a thunder storm the first concern is shelter for chicks and poults. Rain can drench them and a single storm may destroy a whole flock in about two minutes. Chicks can drown easily if exposed.
Col. O Shields president of the League of American Sportsmen says boll weevil costs the United States about a billion dollars yearly. Cotton growers lose 100 million annually as quails prairie chickens and other birds vanish due to human actions. Chinch bugs cost wheat growers 100 million and Hessian fly 200 million. He notes tiny insects per ounce and cites quail stomach contents including chinch bugs and Hessian flies. He adds potato growers spend 17 million on spraying poisons and cites a quail stain with 27 potato bugs. Mrs. Margaret M Nice estimates that four quail destroy 75 thousand bugs and 6 million weed seeds annually.
Italian scientist Constantino reports discovery of a new bacillus in milk that aids rennet formation and milk coagulation. It thrives in an udder at milking time and can cause inflammation if cows are not milked dry. The bacterium alters milk differently from ordinary fermentation and requires special tests, highlighting the need for clean milking practices.
A local farmer describes a homemade fly repellent for cattle. The article notes a daily spray helps cows tolerate pests, detailing a kerosene based mixture mixed with two tablespoons of several ingredients to be applied where flies gather.
W F Quackenbush of New York City explains in Popular Mechanics how a pasture stake built from an old carriage wheel and axle prevents rope tangling. As animals walk, the wheel rotates on the axle, keeping the tether line neat and free from snarls.
Farmers should cover cream cans with a simple wet burlap to protect cream from sun exposure during transport. This inexpensive method keeps cream cooler, reducing heat gain by up to about 20 degrees, and negates the need for jacketed cans on typical hauls to the creamery or market.
A promotional note from High Point Milling Company touts Good Wholesome Flour as the best for baking. It highlights white frost and luxury flour made from top wheat, claiming superior bread, cakes, and pastry results for customers.
Schedule in effect October 14 1914 shows southbound and northbound trains with daily departures from High Point Thomasville Gordontown Denton and High Rock stations. Times indicate expected arrivals and departures but are not guaranteed and subject to change without notice. W E Price agent.
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