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THE PERKINS JOURNAL
II
Is Good I
N CONTRAST to the drouth devastated regions in other parts of the state and country is this scene of
plenty on the farm of Allen Engler in Shawnee county, near Topeka, Kan.. showing wheat being
teshed. The locality is enjoying a banner wheat crop with an average yield of 25 bushels an acre, sell-
ing at one dollar a bushel.
EVEN SUMMER
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
HO has not seen a summer
rain
Sweep swiftly o'er a sunlit plain7
Bright was the morn
And soft the breeze,
Yet gales are horn
Of even these,
And suddenly the sky is gray,
Yes, even on a summer day.
Who has not seen some summer
hour
Grow darker with a sudden show'r?
Yet shall your own
Be alway fair,
And loss unknown,
And hurt, and care?
Shall life be always joy to you,
The sky the same all "summer
through?
Who has not seen the rain appear?
Who ever lived a cloudless year?
The dripping leaf,
The fallen nest,
So comes some grief
To ev'ry breast--
And even so to you it may,
Yes. even on a summer day.
Douglas ]blalloch.WNU Service
Long Puff Sleeves
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.Bedtime Story for Children
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By THORNTON W. BURGESS
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KKY'S FEABS ARE ENDED
[€OR a week Jerry Muskrat con-
" tinued to find good things to eat
nt several of his favorite eating
places, things of which he was very
fcmd,.and which had been put there
It.,,ghe Istranger, who visited the
Laughing Brook and the Smiling
Pool every day. At first, as you
know,: Jerry had been very sus-
clous. He had feared a trap at
each of those places where the
Seed things were. But he had
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Bad the 8trsager, Bad a Gins Jerry
Would Have Kept Out of SigM
ound rare ot a trap, and by
the eYith week he had ceased
to th(Of:traps:.at all.
The:reSLlt wa that now Jerry
thought of nothing but the good
thing!O@at and scrambled up on
the b,lnd the old log which lay
partly)n water, as carelessly
u he had ben in the habit of do-
ing bee the stranger appeared.
His o tl?0.ght was to get those
good : stranger so thought-
fully 4Ltb.ere or him
"I 'tbeve that this is the
trapp Billy Mink and
BobbyLon warned me," thought
Serry: tmust have been some
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one else who set those traps for
Billy Mink. This is s friend. I
don't know why he takes so much
interest in me and brings me all
these good things, and I don't care.
I hope he'll keep right on bringing
me apples, carrots, and such things.
They certainly do taste good to me."
Sometimes the stranger came
early in the morning and sometimes
he came late in the afternoon. Al-
ways he left something for Jerry
and Jerry was very grateful. Those
feasts saved him a lot of time and
trouble hunting for food. This gave
him more time to work on his house
and make it ready for winter. Jerry
had a feeling that the winter was
going to be a hard one, and he in-
tended to be fully prepared for it.
So he worked hard making the roof
and walls of his house thicker than
usual and making his tunnels in the
ANNABELLE'S
ANSWERS
By RAY THOMPSON
SUCH A RUN OF
PLAYS RICENTLY
ROW A.
A" : POS$|BLYTO
banks of the Smiling Pool so that
no matter how hard the winter
might be, he would be quite com-
fortable.
Jerry so lost all fear of that
stranger that sometimes he would
work when he knew that the strang-
er was watching him. However, he
always took care to see that the
stranger had no gun with him. Had
the stranger had a gun Jerry would
at once have been suspicious and
would have kept out of sight. As
it was, he would keep right on work-
ing until the stranger left, and then
hurry over to see what he had
for him. Jerry was very happy and
quite without fear.
T, W. BUrWNU Sarvio
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* MOTHER'S *
COOK BOO (
THREE GOOD RECIPES one-half cupful of butter and one
cupful of powdered sugar and add
ERE £$ a good ice-box cooky, to the cooled custard. Lastly fold
which is always a good one to in the stiffly-beaten whites of the
keep ready for any occasion: eggs. IAne the bottom of a pan
Sugar Cookies with lady fingers and pour in the
orange mixture. Set aside to cool
Cream one cupful of butter, add and serve garnished with cream.
two cupfuls of sugar, add two tea- ® wastrn N.wsp,r Unoa.
spoons of vanilla, one of lemon
extract, two teaspoons of nutmeg, Worth-While Things
one-hal teaspoon of salt, three eggs There are so many worth-while
well beaten and four tablespoons of things to talk about, if onlywewould
cream. Beat three mflutes then turn our attention to them. Books.
add four and one-third cups of for instance. What fruitful time
flour, one teaspoon of cream of tar- friends can have talking over the
tar well blended. Shape into two books that they have been reading.
rolls two inches in diameter and Music and art make good topics of
roll in waxed paper. Place in the conversation. If each of us would
ice chest 24 hours. Cut into thin resolve to lift his talk a little, the
slices and bake in a quick oven. level of gossip would rise and every-
- body wolfld be better "off.
Caramel Selly
Soak two tablespoons of gelatin .......
in one-half cup of cold milk for five
minutes. Pour one-half cup of
sugar into a smooth iron frying pan.
Heat slowly, stirring constantly un-
til a light brown sit'up is formed,
add one cup of boiling water and
cook five minutes, stirring frequent-
ly until well dissolved. Add the
gelatin mixture and one cup of boilo
ing milk. Cook slowly until the gel-
atin is dissolved. Add one-half cup
of cream, pinch of salt, one and
one-half teaspoons of vanilla and
pour into molds to stiffen. Turn out
and serve sprinkled with shredded
almonds.
Orange Cream
Cook together the juice and rind
of a lemon, one cupid of orange
juice and four tablespoonfuls of
flour mixed with one-half cupfuJ of
sugar. Add the beaten yolks of fot
eggs and cook until thick. Cream
For dining in town, a tunic o
navy blue net with long puff sleeves
is glamorously transparent over a
simple gown of navy blue silk crepe.
Flat white carnations trim the low
neckline and a matching ostrich
plume trims the blue hat of mous-
seline de sole.
Little Walled-in Cities
Greatest attractions of all in
Ghent, Belgium, are the lay Be-
guinages, or nunneries. Only a few
of these can be found in Europe.
Here they are little walled cities
within the city and in them live
some five or six hundred Beguines,
women who take no vows, but re-
tire thus from the world for a time,
The little cities of walled-in quiet
are scrupulously tidy and neat, and
each has its little parks, squares
and churches. The Beguines them-
selves pay taxes just as other citi-
zens do, and each of them is free to
to the life and business of
the world at any time. It is not un:
common for Belgian women to go to
these nunneries for a few months,
spending their days in making lace
and carrying out rehgious devotions,
then to return home to their old
household tasks.
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Sanitation Pays
in Raising Hogs
Quarters, Feeding, Handling
Are Important Points as
Economy Measure.
By PROF, JOHN P. WILLMAN, N@w York
fftste Collelge Of AErleultur,--
VNU Service,
The hog has been called "an ani-
mal that deserves its name," but
when it comes to economy in con-
vetting feed into edible meat, the
hog excels all other farm animals.
As one of the best housekeepers,
a hog will keep his quarters clean
if given a chance. He should not
be criticized too severely for dig-
ging holes in the ground or for wal-
lowing in the mud, because this is
the only way the hog has to cool
himself.
Swine are not equipped with so
many sweat glands as are other
farm animals, and for this rea-
son they like to dampen their bod-
ies to become cool.
Many farmers would undoubted-
ly fund that their hogs would be
more profitable with more sanitary
quarters and better feeding and
handling. Every breeder should
aim to produce the type of pig
that feeders, breeders, and butch-
era demand, and he should do his
best to enable his swine to convert
as economically as possible the va-
rious feeds suitable for swine into
food for human use.
Plenty of Water, Salt,
Life-Saver for Horses
Sudden hot weather, intense and
continued for days, usually brings
reports of horses being lost from
over-heating. This is unnecessary.
Good horsemen do not lose horses,
no matter how hot the weather
may be.
The Horse and Mule Association
of America advises taking a cou-
ple of barrels of water, on a wagon
or stoneboat, to the field, and al-
lowing the horses opportunity to
drink at the end of each hour. If
this is done, and the animals are
allowed access to all the salt they
want in stables, or in pastures
when turned out at night, heat
losses will not occur.
The same p]anplenty of water
and all the salt they want--allowed
to men who work about coke ovens,
where the temperature is about 135
degrees, has stopped heat prostra-
tions among men. It works, with
men or with horses, and is so sim-
ple, so easily adopted, that there
is no excuse for losing horses from
overheating, no matter how hot the
weather is.
Common sense in working ani-
mals, water every hour and all the
salt the animals want, is all good
horsemen use in handling their
work animals in hot weather. It
will save work stock from heat
prostrations.
Foot Rot in Sheep
Foot rot in sheep is a chronic .
Infectious disease of the tissues of
the foot, and remains more or less
localized to that area. The eco-
nomic importance of foot rot lies
in the severe losses which the own-
er sustains from a long period of
inactivity of the ln/eeted animals'
from the loss :of body weight, from
decreased wool clip, from the di-
minished milk production at lamb.
ing time, and finally from the prob-
able infection of the newborn and
others.
Music for Milk
"Music hath charms to soothe the
savage breast"--and to make cows
give more milk. A farmer in a vil-
lage on the German-Czechoslovaki-
an frontier plays the concertina
every morning to his cows. He
first noticed that one refractory an-
lmal became docile when it heard
the strains of the concertina, and
applying this lesson to the 0ther
cows found that they submitted
more readily to milking and gave
increased yields.: •
Agricultural Hints
Potato varieties do not cross in
the field. New varieties are pro-
duced from real seeds.
Agricultural conditions in Great
Britain are much better than s
Year ago.
Yellow corn meal has more of
vitamin A than white meal, but
otherwise the food value is about
the same.
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Trees grow best on well cUltivat-
ed soil which slopes to the north or
east, Loose, porous sell much
better than hard clay.
Probably no subject has taken
more space in the bee Journals or
caused more study and discussion
among beekeepers than SUb-
ject of swsm control
