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ihumdjur afro lmk imt the acton free press pace of interest to women mr- grocer he has lot tags but colin have not been buy them recently perhaps we are tired of the same drted fruit every week but we ahould he grateful remember when there were no dried rrulta on the grocer ahcleas figs exe known as one of natures beat laxative foods and a food which la rich in mineral their nutritional value oca an unusually good savor and much to any dlah in which they are incorpora in preparing flax first wash them in hot water rinse them in water and soak in water to cover for 2 or 3 hours then cover the saucepan and stew for 30 minutes prepared in this way theyll keep their shape and retain their own good flavor 1 figs are sweet of themselves but if you wish to add sugar use the brown in preference to white and add a slice of orange or a dash of lemon juice or a few drops of flavor ing these figs are perfect on lite breakfast menus as the fruit course or may add extra food value to a cooked cereal 2 steamed or stewed figs make a helpful addition to muffins and hot breads r c- 3 combined with cooked ride you have a hearty dessert ose cup cooked rice and u lb cooked chopped figs fold in together with tap van illa and one stiffly beaten egg white pour into serving dishes and chill serve with top milk c salads of figs stuffed with ika- nut butter or split and put together with cream cheese are served on a bed of finely shredded cabbage 5 scrumptious steamed tig pud dings require a semisweet sauo which saves the sugar steamed rig mould 1 cup chopped figs 2cups bread crumbs h cup chopped suet uaken from roosts hi cup honey eggs rind and juice of 1 lemon 1 tbsp molasses vi cup flour h tap baking powder vi cup milk combine ingredients pour into a greased pan cover with waxed paper steam 2 hours fig custard with meringue scald x quart of milk ml 2 tbsps cornstarch cup imgar u tsp salt with hi cup water stir slowly into scalded milk and cook for 10 minutes add yolks of 3 eggs aughtlv beaten and continue cooking 3 mlns cut mt lb washed figs and put into double boiler add v cup hot water 4 tbsp kugar and 1 tsp lemon flavoring cover and cook until tigs ore ten der combine mixture and let cool pour into casserole cover with meringue made of 3 beaten egg whites with 2 tbsps sugar folded in set in oven at 350 for 10 minute the question bo d j asks why does pastry shrink t answer you may be using all- purpose flour instead of pastry flour since there is a limited supply of the latter in this case use 2 tbsp more fat for 3 cups flour use about k cup cold water sprinkled into fatflour mixture ample water should be used to make a dough that can easily bo moulded together the importance of chilling the dough rolling out lightly and pricking before baking will prevent shrinkage t caays to make a hew broom last longer soak in a strong solution of hot salty water before using it tbls toughens the straw and make it more dur able mrs a i asks why do bread crumbs become musty even when dry answer crumbs need a little air put crumbs in a jar and tie a double layer of che over top oittmatc b they started according to a german broadcast picked up by the bbc a big football match arranged to take place the other day between the champion croat gradianskl club and the champion hungarian magyvaradl athletic club was prevented from taking part because partisans bald up the arrival of the hungarian lawn their train stood uroughout ilil urday and the saturday night at the railway station of brod on the main agram belgrade una because fight ing with pa l wmm taxing place along the una and the rhtasna had torn up the rails of afnm jirowudes ol gngcr farm wtawaswfssetsassy see this is the morning attar you know what t mean the morning after easter houays and wcm and guests and the usual let down feeling- that follows all au ocrsshms the weather over i holiday was not the beat good on friday but wet and foggy saturday and sunday howe we get around did we have any trouble entertain ing our guestst none at all part of the time we put them lo work and no one objected yoii see we had a very nice utile job on hand that i had been rather dreadlng it was moving about eighty pullets from one pen to anoth have you tried catching yearling pullets and carrying them about six at a time from one place to another you have yea i thought so then you know how hot you get and how tired of trailing through the mud that u ir there are only two of you to do the work but many hands make light work so after dinner i hunted old coats and overalls and the four of us went to work i did the catching with a hook and the other three did the carrying after the pullets were in their new pen we stood looking at them and i said something about r tbe bird lo hot daughter- aldumno why should they look hoi they didnt have to carry themselves the next afternoon we went to fiuelph all of us that is except par tner nothing we could say would convince him that the trip win worthwhile for him and no doubt he was right because instead of hov ing a holiday he hod extra work for the weekend two cows hod calved in one day and a third had serious in tenttons along the same line warm drinking water to carry calves to be taught to drink cows to i watched in can of complications and to be milked just so much and no more but i was glad of an oppor tunity to go to guelph or any city for that matter there was shopping i just had to do and then too x was hoping there might be a chnnc to pick up n good puppy in fact i thought of so many things to do it is more than likely our visitor wished they had left me behind wo even went to a dog place and saw pome of the grandest dogs one of them was lnule come- home in real life i would have loved a puppy from that place but we didnt get one for one reoium there werent nny and if there had been the price was 25 after all we are not think ing of raising a show dog sunday morning partner had trouble at the barn the expectant heifer got hooked mofct of our cows are ayrshire and their horns however although the heifer was torn she teemed to be alrlgh but of course we couldnt be sure after supper x was getting ready to drive our departing guests to the station when partner camo for me to help him move thehelfor to an other stall put on ono of my smocks and hats so you dont scare her said partner so i dressed ac cording to instructions and went to the barn the heifer still seemed to be alright then away i went to the station the train was late and it was an hour and a half before x got home partner came in just af terwards how is the heifer was my first question its all over aid partner the calf has arrived just about the slickest calving i ever saw so that was that three heifer calves in as many days very nice of course splendid for milk prod uctlon and all that but why did they have to arrive just now when partner would have liked a little more time to visit t dut thats the way it goes time and tide wait for no man neither do cows that decide to calve when daughter comes i like her to have something from the farm to take hack with her this time what do you think her small extra parcel contained no not eggs o a chicken something far more exciting xt was onions x was almost afraid to let her take them i was afraid if ever the aroma made itself notlcesble on the train or streetcar there might be a stampede daughter al ao carried with her a big bouquet of pussywillows gathered right from a nearby swamp it is possible that other passengers may have given her a wide berth rather than risk a poke in the ay from a pussywillow branch london over tan million jud dvtuan messages from all over ttw werm have now pa aid through ge tinea the beginning of the canada 1944 ts annua nciil by the dominion bureau of statistics of the ism edition of the official hand hook canada 1944 covers the present sit nation in the dominion from atlantic to pacific uw weight of etnphasto being placed on those aspects that are currently off most importance skttar space permits all phases of the eountrya e organitatksa ara dealt with and eta tittles are brought up to the latest possible date the text is accompanied by a wealth of illustrative matter that adds to the interest of the subjects treated the introduction reviews canadas war program covering the growth and activities of her armed forces the financial steps that have been taken and the governmental organ isations that have been created with their principal activities it also r vlews canadas economic condition at the dose of 1943 this introduction is followed by a special article deal ing with the effects of the war on canadian forestry this article des cribes the extant of the countrys forest resources the present rata of depletion and how our forest prod ucts have aided the cause of the unit ed nations the chapter material reviews in detail economic conditions under the various headings listed on the follow ing pages au sections of the hand book are well illustrated by up-to- date halftone reproductions check ration books those who have obtained ration book no 4 are urged to carefully check the number of sheets in the nrwook tbe ahould conlajn 11 sheets consisting of one sheet of green teacoffee coupons one sheet pink ulgar coupons one sheet orange preserves coupons two aheets purple butter coupons four sheets brown meat coupons and one each of it ami jk coupons if the book does not contain this number it should bo re turned immediately to the local ration board western butter output increases since the con the prairie provinces bad incre to a much gre extent ta relation in the other sis butter- prov inces of canada said j f snutfeton dominion department of agriculture at the interprovtedal dairy confer- held recently la saskatoon production of butter in the throe prairie provinces during ims was 49 3 per cent greater than during 1938 as compared with an increase of obis 25 per cent la the ctberidv provinces and with an increase of isa pri cent in all canada during 1938 the three prairie prov inces produced 30 per cent of all the creamery butter produced in canada as compared with 383 per cant in 1943 that meant said mr single- tan tjtat the geosraphlcal centre of creamery butter production westward rather rapidly certainly mora rapidly than if the movement had not been accel eraled by circumstances arising out of the war of course the small increase of 2 j per cent between 1938 and 1943 in creamery butter production of the other six provinces continued mr singleton reflected diversion from manufacture of butter to other pur poses such as manufacture of c and concentrated milks and to meet ing increased fluid ntllk requirements that applied particularly to the trov- inces of ontario and quebec lh two greatest butter and concentrated milk producing provinces and the two most populous provinces of the dominion about 62 per cent of canadas popu lation was in those two provinces andy king buys estevan mercury estevan cp andy king hat hwyedjf roni jtouknusask where he resided for more than 34 years to estevan following acquisi tion of the estevan mercury his poster printing plant known from quebec to british columbia will remain at houleau he announced but later it will be brought here for is years he was a member of the houleau town council 10 of them ns mayor science beats the sugar beet a bbxtkelet ar beet doesnt cp theeug- rowda and wont it has plenty of puller knows who baa nulled beets un til be has what makes the sugar beets hab its inlobrshle is that it sprouts from a seed that la a- cluster of eu which anslt comes up in clusters some what tike a bunch of grass every year armies of workers have to kneel down and thin the little can by hand thats a lot of work and the country didnt have the labor to spare when it came lo beetthin ning time last year whereupon prof rain balaer of the department of agricultural eagln- eertng at the untverstly of california rigged up a sheering bar which s the seed into a lot of little seeds it couldnt be done by band because the seed la tiny but tough sheared aaed was distributed ex tensively for the first time in 1943 and agricultural engineers figured that- more than sjooojooo roanhours were saved planted at intervals the berts can be thinned with a hoe wakttmk innovation the local board of tradesvcom mendatlon that manufacture and sale of oleomargarine be legalised in can ada to offset the butter shortage would be aimed only at taking up the breach between capacity produc tion of butler and wartime require ments such legislation would cease to be operative once the position of supply was such that the substitute longer was serving its intended purpose powell river bc news hettatfl a tobalaama i strange things can and do happen in operating the largest system oa the continent the canadian national railways and some of them can be included la the believe it or riot at here la an example practic ally two and a half million to one a recent payday produced no pay cheque for aa expert morse op erator on the staff of the montreal terminals the reason for its noo- wearanoe was that the precious doc ument was swallowed up to the last cent by payroll deductions for la ne tax unemployment insurance and the final payment on a five hun dred dollar victory bond nearly 2300000 pay cheques are issued by the can national railways during a year and the possibilities of such an incident occurring again in a mans lifetime la astronomically scant home town enthusiasm some good folk are perpetual jhavters for their itame towns wher ever they go they carry the word of the advantages given in the place in which they live and the work and business opportunities to be found there in an age when so many people are self centered and dwelling so largely on their own interests it la admir able to see these loyal home town folks who arw so concerned over public cause of progress and welfare they help their own home folks to hve the home town better and work for it and bock up its organizations and movements u spreads the re putation and influence of their home town over a wide ares iamous for flavour since 1892 ihesaiada name assures yon ofttmifmmhlendof quality teas salada z bobihioh of umu- lirhisim of mmionm iiviiim income tax division c mum mum