Izmm.k 5 fc. 1 ^W *H. •*.f- -v C: INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS A E E I *•, FOOD AND WAR 8R6ANIZE STATE ttLAST RESORT the solid heads, that have had all modate one or two rows of heads.As the loose outside leaves removed, in the cold weather comes on the HOW TO HAVE VEGETABLES moist sand or excelsior. This keeps trench is covered with straw or other*V DURING THE WINTER IB them fresh and prevents the spread litter to prevent freezing. Stored in ft 30# of decay should any start. Needless this way, however, the heads are Shortage in Raw Materials Gives Rise Plans for Making the Summer to say, -only perfectly sound heads more likely to decay than in a good to Alarm Among Manufacturing Interest*—America Abundance Reach Through should be stored and those only in Must Apply Every Winter cellar and they are more difficult Resource to Meet World's Demandfor a cool place, the nearer the freezing to get when wanted. If cabbage is to^ While most farmers have an abundant Food—Labor Saving Machines point the better. Decaying cabbage be stored in trenches it is better to1 COUNTIES GUIDED BY SPECIAL* supply of fresh vegetables and Man Power on the Farms Vital has an unpleasant odor and should select heads which are not too solid I8TS SENT OUT BY FOOD Factors in Economic Crisis—Appeal during the summer, late fall usually be removed from the cellar. Another as the very solid ones are likely to COMMITTEE. 7' for Government Action. finds this supply nearly, if not quite, method of storing cabbage is to pull split open because of the nourishment exhausted. Enough has not been the plants late in fall, trim off the they receive from the stem.— Government action ensuring the raised for use during the winter. loose outside leaves and then stand V. R. Gardner, Professor of Horticulture. farmers of America aimple supplies of COMMISSION OF PUBLIC Fresh, crisp vegetables during the the plants up in trenches about a farm implements and competent farm SAFETY APPROVES PUN winter months are a luxury, yet they labor is virtually necessary to this are in reach of nearly every one who country's future participation in the war, declare the manufacturers of owns a garden. There are very few farming tools and machinery in the of our vegetables which cannot be Vigorous Efforts 'Will Be Made |q United States. This action must be immediate preserved in one way or another for Smooth Out Marketing Difficulties and radical, they say, or in winter use. The most common method and Assist in Preventing 1918 the United States will fail to produce of preserving them is to- put Losses. foodstuffs necessary to feed the "My husband proposed to me forty them up in cans or pickle them. civil population of our allies and to times before I accepted him," declares However, it is not thq object to discuss keep the allied armies in fighting trim. ((Prepared by the Market* Division the lady with the oversupply of rings. here the possibilities along that M. E. CHURCH This declaration is made in a public of the State Committee of Food Production "He did?" purrs the listener. statement by the National Implement line. There are many vegetables and Conservation.) 1! "Yes, indeed. Why, he courted me and Vehicle Association, whose members that may be had all through the The entire state of Mitindfeota is being for ten years!" manufacture most of the farming organized for such h&ndliWg of the winter without the aid of canning "Well, to look at him one naturally implements used in and exported from surplus crops, crops that' iriifefct glut and it is to these that attention is would think that you waited until every the United States. It is the Association's the usual channels, particularly of perishables, other chance had gone by," smiles called. answer to an anxious inquiry as will elimin'ate a's far as the listener, in whose breast a bridge about reports of a prospective implement The Root Crops. possible any waste of foddstutts this defeat rankles. ,\ shortage addressed to it in behalf That most of our root crops like fall and winter. of the country's farming interests by The work of organization-'isf being beets, carrots, rutabegas and turnips THE LIMIT' ex-Governor W. D. Hoard of 'Wisconsin, pushed by a group of sp&i!idlists, chosen can be stored during the winter is EVENING, one of the leaders of American agriculture by the Markets Division if fee State well known yet the best "methods of Committee of Food Production1* and and publisher- of Hoard's keeping them fresh and in prime Dairyman. The statement, which is Conservation, in co-operation with the condition are by no means always swBcs^i. AUGUST signed by Charles S. Brantingham, Courrty Directors of the 'Commission employed. Where wanted for home! Chairman of the Association's Executive of Public Safety. Thei doia©4ttee of ||L cm Committee, says: use only, one of the most satisfactory Public Safety last week^sentr-word to each county director to appoint in hia Unless prompt action is taken by ways of keeping these vegetables county a markets committee representing the Government, our country will make is to pack them in a box of each trade center. The''following the same mistakes that have result-, clean, sharp sand that has been Wednesday the markets dhrision of the ed in compelling our allies to appeal slightly moistened. If sound when state committee of Food Production to us to save them from famine. Ice -Cream, and Cake, stored there is nothing in the ?and and Conservation called in the following fl#1 Unless we protect the production of to start decay and the moisture it group of men for instructions-as ta labor-saving farm machinery and the holds prevents "their wilting.. Glean the work of organization:' supply of skilled farm labor we, too, Home Made Candles, C. G. Seivig, Crockston. sphagnum moss, such as is used by must soon face. a shrinkage of food H. W. Leindecker, Bird Island. supplies. florists, or even excelsior, that has Samuel Nelson, Luverne Without such action as is here suggested been dampened will answer nearly Pond and Frank Millard, Canby. and urged,v the farmers of Fish Menagerie, a.s well as sand. I Leslie Welter, Moorl»ea4. the United States will not have enough There is a mistaken idea entertained R. C. Mathvig, Warren'. machines or men in 131S to meet the by many that parsnips are R. A. Wilkinson, Lake Elmo.s demands upon them. not good unless left in the ground "all Frank W. Murphy, Wheaton. "We are now confronted by shortages iiiaqvomw- winter and allowed to freeze. Such George M. Peterson Duluth. of raw material and factory laborthat Forest Henry, Dover is not the case. They ma}- just as will begin to4be manifest in shc#£*Alges Sl^e—And so you think you would Come and Bring Your Friends and J. B. McLaren, Wrenshall. -, of certain lines of farm machinery this well be stored in the fall and stored tntike a model husband? To each of these men has been assigned 'fall and will result In serious shortages, for use any time during the winter He—I'd do anything but play pinochle a group of counties jn which to in many vital lines next year. Stocks as left in the ground and had for Enjoy the Carnival of Fun. with my wife's ex-beau. work. Others may be added to the list on hand in important kinds of tools 011I3' a couple of weeks in the spring. later. In each county assigned to him, THE TROUBLE and machines are snyiller than in normal Their quality is probably improved every man will meet with the County years, because of earlier scarcity by. slight freezing, but they may be Director and his county markets Under Auspices of the N. E. Epworth of factory labor and a rapidly tightening League committee to organize the work of the dug after one or two sharp freezes. scarcity of all raw materials. county and its communities. He will They may be stored in the same way "Farmers have deferred during the direct: as recommended for other roots. last three years the replacing of old That farmers growing potatoes and fi and badly worn tools and machines. Horseradish is another vegetable ADMISSION FREE ?i other vegetables he urged to construct Now, confronted by the practical certainty that is often left in the ground until i, storage facilities at home if ptelcticable, that the war is to continue indefinitely, spring. It too may be dug in the so that they may not fee forced S with attendant assurance of fall and stored. to rush such .produce to market,^ causing a heavy demand and high prices for all waste and a sacrifice of prices. Another vegetable that may be their products, and by an inevitable The establishing of marketing and grown and stored in the same way shortage of farm labor, they cannOt put shipping facilities at points in the as parsnips and that is found in few off longer replacements of worn out state where marketing facilities do home gardens is salsify or vegetable machines and the additions to equipment not already exist, and the use of every necessary to increase acreage oyster. It is used in a number of practicable means of assisting the farmer and production. -ways and makes a valuable addition in marketing surplus products "It is also essential in meeting the to the winter diet. v/ith a minimum of waste. demand of the farmers for implements Still another vegetable with which The elimination of delays in loading that there shall be preference in transportation and unloading cars, in order that there the average farmer is whooly unacquainted for raw materials to the factories may be no shortage of cars, and care is the winter radish. and for finished goods from the to avoid shipping out of any community There are a number of varieties of ft- factories to the farms. products of a kind that may have radish suited to growing in the fall "For the last ten years farm labor The Press Office to be shipped back in order to meet the that may be stored likerf any other has been more and more difficult to local demand. Miss Knowsitt—Mrs. Scads doesn't secure, and now with an enormous increase root crop. Nearly ^very seed catalog A study of the livestock, the forage, «eem to be making a hit in society. in the demand for labor in munitions mentions them, yet their culture the fuel, the machinery, and other Miss Tellsit—But he's very rich. factories, and the withdrawal Stationery Store needs of the county in order that they here is almost unknown. Even Miss Knowsitt—Yes he has lots of of many young men from productive may be met without loss. the tender spring and early summer occupations, there is bound to be a coin, but h6 doesn't know how 'to act Every county director and the mem« varieties may be grown in favorable shortage of farm labor such as this as if he had lots of money. bers of his markets committee will locations in the fall and stored in country has never known. In Kansas be given a schedule of definite things THE BRIGHT SIDE damp sand for a couple of months. alone a vast number of fertile acres on that need to be done, and they will Greenhouse grown radishes are sufficiently which the wliaut crop failed will lie see that these things are done without GEORGE P. WATSON, Proprietor idle this summer, chiefly for lack of prized by the city resident delay. labor and partly through lack of machines to bring a high price in the winter. The campaign is to be intensive, so to replant to corn. that the work of handling the surplus An equally good product may had bp "We regard it as vital to keep on the crops that might otherwise overcrowd as much less expense by any farmer. farms the men now there who know the usual channels may be expedited Squashes and Pumpkins. che business, especially the men in every way. This is the best place to trade for trained in the use of labor-saving machinery. Squashes and pumpkins, if properly It would be wasteful and matured when gathered, may be HOW TO SAVE LIVESTOCK SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME foolish to let them go and afterward kept tiB late in the winter. They try to replace them with unskilled* men. STATIONERY SUPPLIES should be placed in a dry room. If "We seek no advantage for our industry Markets Division of the State Food they can be kept both cool and dry over any other, but we realize jCaoimi-iee Is Seeking Solution— so much the better, but dryness is and we want the public to realize that Two Ways Open. tdQ99$iiSL*e essential. Most cellars will be found without this product and without sufficient too damp. 'Atfctgs or vacant rooms labor the farmers of'TRe Ifnited (Prepared by the Markets Division States cannot increase or even maintain that can be kept free from frost will tf the State Committee of Food Production Pens their production of foodstuffs next be found most satisfactory. They and Conservation.) year. To avert the calamity that such A mighty effort will be made to prevent should not be piled on top of each Pencils a condition will surely produce, our industry the slaughter of breeding cattle other, but should be placed one tier Tablets and the farming industry which and other livestock this fall. Ways deep on shelves. In contact v/ith It chiefly supports must oe put upon and means for this prevention were each other thejv are liable to decay. Rubbers the same preferred basis as the making discussed a few days, ago at a meeting Only perfectly sound fruit should be of war munitions, even if other less Mucilage of the markets division of the state "Does Mr. Stars try to look on the put in storage. Bruised specimens vital industries suffer thereby for materials committee of food production and conservation bright side of things?" Letter F'iles are almost sure to decay. Care with a group of men from and men. should say so. He's never cona-iK "I the South St. Paul stockyards and from "These are the measures that we declare should he .tsaken in harvesting to unless he is staring the spotlight Carbon Paper the farms of MinnesotaA 4 tl be vital to the feeding of thia cifjht in the face." leave about one inch of stem- attached Library Paste The situation Is really very grave. nation and its allies next year: to each fruit. If the fruis is otraw nat ror ourm&. The drouth in parts of northern Minnesota, "1. That the manufacture of farm Fancy Stationery broken away from its stem decay A straw, hat which can be taken out materials be given equal preference in North Dakota, and in Mon* in the fiercest storm with impunity is will set in at this point. If a long Typewriter Ribbons tana Js already sending large numbers with the manufacture of war munitions described in the Populjfr Science stem is left it is apt to be used as a oi% cattle to the stockyards. The farmers as regards supplies of necessary Monthly. There is nothing exceptional handle and eventually be broken shipping it simply cannot hold it raw materials. about the straw. The top of the hat, because' they have no feed. away. With proper "care in harvesting "2. That service to the country In however, can-be turned 'inside out. Two methods have been suggested: machinery factories be considered and handling these vegetables farm The folded waterproof covering that Urging the farmers in regions where of equal importance with service and with a suitable placievfor storing is thus exposed can be drawn over the ttfcere is a supply of forage to keep in* munition making plants, Governmentor them, little difficulty should be found WRITING PAPER CHEAP entire upper surface of the hat. their fodder, and buy more cattle, thus private. in keeping them all through the Ordinarily the waterproof cover is saving at least a part of the cattle from We have a large amount of. the best "3. That labor ott the farms be considered winter. concealed beneath a cloth lining under the block persuading the railroads to grade bond paper in white and various as of equal importance with the top. An elastic band keeps grant special tariffs -on forage, in order Cabbage. the" production of war colors, in tablet form but without munition.-. the lining drawn up tight. that supplies may vbe shipped to "4. That raw materials As coarse a vegetable as the cabbage the covers, that we are selling out N 4 formers having cattle but no feed. ing machinery and the is hardly to be regarded as a fin is! A at 5 cents each—a third of a pound In this connection the utmost need Important Point. be given "equal preference bjv luxury. Yet most people like it occasionally of good paper in each one. Also a of saving every ounce of straw in the She—Would you marry a woman portation agencies of the.country -v and would appreciate it large number of scra.tch pads at 5 state and in the northwest was urged. who had sued another man for breach munitions of war. more if it could be obtained during of promise?''• for S cents and 2 for 5 cents: The possibility, even of legally forbidding "Theise measures""must be taken im-. the winter when other vegetables are the burning of strawstacks was He—Howmuch did the" court award mediately be because the to effective, discussed. One of thB group suggest' vegetables to store, yet it may be use and demand for farming machinery «d that the burnltag of a stack ou^ht tm-jl scarce. It is not one of th'e-easiest are seasonal. We must have right now Her Reason. 1 this year to be punishable by a sentence kept until the holidays without any '/C-5 1 mfttorinifl and the men to make the He—But why, darling, do you insist of at least thirty days in jail. farm that the farmer at difficulty and under favorable on keeping our engagement secret? machinery great Subscribe for THE PRESS—The Popular Hone Weekly The markets division of the stale J* home and abroad must use this Fall circumstances it will keep until She—Because, you silly boy, if It Mmmittee of food production and can* and* next Spring. Delayiin will were made public people would think spring. One of the most satisfactory serration has tbs whole subieet ua4tf be as disastrous failure to act at I really lntended to marry you.—Bus* as ONLY $150 PER YEAR^f ways of storing cabbage is to pick ttftisemtnL *. toa Evening Transcript 4*$" foot deep and wide enough to accoth- fc