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LADIES, ATTENTION! DON'T FAIL TO SEE OUR LINE OF
Spring Suits, Coats, Dresses, Skirts, Waists and Millinery
KESSELS . 135 N. Main Street, MARION, OHIO The Store That Saves You Money
Marion Co-operative Co. For Marion and County
Everything in Groceries at as near cost-as possible. . Furni -: ture, Farin Implements etc. to order direct from factory. to man, with small precent added for hauling.
Attention Farmers: We want Butter and Eggs to supply 1500 families in Marion. Bring n to us. It's Carb
THE FUNERAL HOME
M. H. GUNDER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR Prompt Service with Moderate Prices to AM
MARION, OHIO
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beside the mixing board and placed on the concrete with a bucket.
If you are at all in doubt about the purity of the water that you contemplate 'using, it would be well to make up a .block of concrete as a test, and see whether the cement "sets" properly.
For ordinary work a very satisfac- tory concrete mixture is 1 part of Port- land cement, 21/2 parts of clean sharp sand, 5 parts of broken stone. In heavy foundation work. the quantity of . cement can be considerably less. The important thing is to have the sand and cement thoroughly mixed, and to use only. clean sand. . Use only as much water as necessary. It is not well to work con- crete in freezing weather.
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Cold Storage Without Ice
W.Why not have a cold storage room somewhere on the farm? Winter apples may be kept in such a place until spring. thus avoiding the necessity of. market- ing the fruit at unprofitable times. A ·Pennsylvania farmer has such a place built in one part of his barn a double- walled, double-doored, paper-lined space 3wherein he stores many hundred bushel ;crates of selected fruit. He says that the main essentials are to keep out heat .and - frost from the room. : Op . cool nights he leaves the doors open, shut- ting them again when the sun begins to: warm things up in the morning-the idea being to use cold air instead of ice for reducing the . room's temperature. He aims'to get the temperature in the room as low as .possible without freez. ing the apples, and then hold it . there. Night air is cheaper than ice, he says, and about as good.
How to Make and Use a Fireless Cooker
A saver of time, fuel and labor is . the fireless cook stove, which can be made' at! home, absolutely without ex- pense, and, though not adapted to all . kinds of cooking answers well for food
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. that requires long, slow cooking to soften tissues, bring out flavors and conserve the juices, such as stews, pot roasts, soups, cereals, rice, tapioca, dried fruits, vegetables, etc. It consists of a kettle of agate or tin, inclosed in a box with insulating material between them to pre- vent the heat of the kettle from escap- ing. Food brought to the boiling point over a fire, and inclosed, still boiling. continues to cook. This is the whole
principle. Choose a kettle with tight- fitting lid and a box large enough to allow six or eight inches of insulating material. Line the box, bottom, sides and hinged-on lid with stout packing paper, or several thicknesses of news- paper. Make a firm, cylindrical shape to fit easily around the kettle and fasten a circular bottom to it. This might be of asbestos paper, or paper soaked in alum water and dried. Then no matter how hot the kettle there would be no danger of scorching. Fill the bottom of the box with packing. which can be of . cotton, wool, ground cork (in which im- ported grapes are packed and which grocers are usually willing to give away ). Hay will answer, but does not pack so closely as these. Pack hard to a depth of three inches, place the cylinder, con- taining the kettle in the middle and pack tightly around it, even with "tbe top. The insulating material can be covered neatly with cloth, or a thin board with a round hole in the middle. A thick cushion will insulate the space between this and the lid, which must be fastened down tightly. If desired to cook several things at once it is best to have two or three . such cookers, as the box should not be opened after the. food is put in, except to reheat. Some persons prefer using a sort of double boiler, the inner kettle, containing the food, being placed in a larger one, partly: filled with hot water .. In this case- the: water in both kettles must be. actually bolling. An additional vegetable can be put in the outside kettle, or water kept hot in it for dishwashing.
Ready-made cookers can be bought, but are rather expensive. Some of these will also bake and roast by means of thick disks of concrete which must be made very hot on the stove, then put under and over the kettle containing the food. The idea might be applied to the home-made cooker by beating soapstone griddles. These might be heated at the same time with a large iron pot. The meat or chicken, which should be sea- .soned, can be put in a kettle, a hot disk put in the bottom of the pot, the kettle sct on this; the other disk put on top, then put the lid on the pot and bury in the cooker. The pot, however, should be inclosed in asbestos paper to avoid pos- sible ignition. It would be interesting for each housekeeper to experiment and invent improvements on the central idea. The time required for cooking vegetables varies according to thei: age and fresh-
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"Get the Cash Habit "
New York Store
Marion's Economy Center for General Dry Goods Women's, Misses' and Children's Ready-to - Wear
Cor: Center and Prospect Sts. MARION, OHIO
SCHOENLAUB & STAFFORD REAL ESTATE AND FARM LOANS
139 E. Center St. - MARION, OHIO
SEITER'S GARAGE
BENJ. SEITER, Prop.
Overland Autos, Supplies and Repairing 'A telephone call will bring us to your service
Phono 87 WALDO, OHIO House 82
HOUPT MONUMENTAL WORKS
179 E. Center St. Marion Ohio
MONUMENTS, ·MARKERS, · VASES AND SETTEES
We operate the finest pneumatic carving tools money can buy. Never do cheap work, but good work cheap.
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ness, so only the approximate time neces- sary can be given. There is little danger of their being overdone, or at least in- jured by long cooking. and if under- done it is always possible to take out the kettle, reheat, and return to the cooker, or if needed quickly, to finish on the range.
It is not worth while to use the cooker . for food that takes but a short time to cook such as corn, spinach, young peas. asparagus, etc., since the water for these must be brought to the boil anyhow. they can as well be cooked on the stove. Do not place the kettle next the flame but always have a lid under it.
POTATOES
Five minutes over fire, an hour in the box. Potatoes must not be left overtime in box or. they become watery.
·RICE PUDDING
Mix together in the kettle 1/2 a cupful of rice, a quart of milk, a tablespoonful of butter, 1/2 a cupful of sugar, a little salt and grated nutmeg. Boil on stove five minutes, in cooker six hours.
BREAD PUDDING
Soak. 1/ a pint of bread crumbs in a pint of milk, add -a beaten egg, 2 table- spoonfuls of sugar and a pinch of salt .: . Beat with a spoon; heat on the stove till just short of boiling, stirring all the time .. "Pat in the cooker an hour. and . ser.ve. with vanilla sauce :..
CHICKEN FRICASSEE
Disjoint a chicken, roll in flour and brown in a, little fat; as the pieces brown pack them in the kettle, and make some gravy in the skillet. Put this and a little water to cover the chicken. Boil twenty minutes, then put in cooker over night.
BOILED HAM
If wanted for. 6. o'clock dinner, put ham weighing six pounds in kettle at 9 a. m. Cover with cold water and bring to a boil; boil briskly fifteen min- utes. Put the lid"on the kettle when it begins to boil and don't take it off till it is taken out of the hay box, in which it should be put while still boil- ing. At 2. o'clock . take out, .boil up again, put in a few cloves and 2 or 3 peppercorns. At 5.30 take out, skin, put in a pan. fat side up, stick in a few cloves, sprinkle slightly with sugar and plentifully with bread crumbs and bake in the oven till well done.
ONIONS
Of moderate size, boiled ten minutes on the range, should be tender after four hours in cooker.
STRING BEANS
Cut off the strings and slice down the middle; give five minutes over the fire, four hours in cooker.
CAULIFLOWER AND YOUNG CARNAGE
Five minutes over fire. five hours in cooker.
Cereals started over the fire at sup- per time and placed in the box should be ready for breakfast with just re- heating. Half a cupful of cereal poured into three cupfuls of boiling water, with a teaspoonful of salt is about the pro- portion.
A fireless cooker can be used for, things to be kept-cold as well as' hot. Ice cream, if frozen, then packed in a kettle with ice and sunk in the box will not melt, and butter if put in it cool and hard will keep in the same condition, as the air is practically excluded.
BOSTON BAKED BEANS
Soak 2 cupfuls of beans in cold water a whole day. At supper time drain, cover with fresh water, put over the fire and simmer slowly for half an hour ; pour off the water, scrape a y4 pound of salt pork, cut off a slice and push :it down through the beans to the bottom of the pail; score" the rest and put, rind side up, in middle of the beans. Mix a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoon- : ful each of sugar and molasses, just a dust of mustard, a half teaspoonful of baking soda and a cupful of boiling water. Add enough more water to come to the top of the beans. Cover, and boil ten minutes; then put in cooker. In the morning reheat for ten minutes, re- . turn to the box and about half past five in the afternoon take out, sprinkle a tablespoonful of sugar over the top. leave off the cover, put in bot oven for half an hour.
POT ROAST
Season the meat with salt and pepper, brown on all sides over a flame, and put in a stone jar, dry, no water whatever. Cover tightly. Put the jar in a kettle of hot water. Boil fifteen or twenty minutes. Place in a cooker for six hours. Even tough meat becomes fender and the juice at the bottom is very rich.
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May Hardware Company HARDWARE and STOVES Roofing, Spouting, Aluminumware, Tinware, Paints, Etc. CALEDONIA, OHIO.
CHAS. E. GOMPF
Real Estate Broker,
Buys, Sells, Exchanges and Rents Real Estate of Every Description
Phone 2866 Office: 1154% South Main St.
MARION, OHIO
J. NICHOLS
Staple and Fancy Groceries and Cured Meats PHONE 2124 734 E. CENTER ST. MARION, OHIO
Dowler Bros.' Reliable Piano House HOME OF. HALLET and DAVIS -BUSH and GERTS- PIANOS AND OTHER LEADING MAKES Everything in Music and Musical. Merchandise - ALSO - TUNING AND REPAIRING
MARION, O.
Opp. C. D. and M. Station
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Handy Things to Know
A rod is 161/2 feet, or 51/2 yards.
A mile is 320 rods.
A mile is 1,760 yards.
A mile is 5,280 feet.
A square foot is .144. square inches. A square yard contains 9 square feet. A square rod is 2721/4 square feet.
An acre contains 43,560 square feet.
An acre contains 4,840 square yards. An acre contains 160 square rods. A quarter section contains 160 acres.
. An acre is 8 rods wide by 20 rods long.
An acre is 10 :rods wide by 16 rods "long.'
An acre is about 20811 feet square.
:A solid foot contains . 1,728 solid. pinches.
"A pint (of water) weighs 1 pound. "GA solid foot of water weighs 6275 bounds fler) hold: 231 solid: uche's:
A gallon of milk weighs 8 pounds and O. ounces.
barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds. A barrel of salt weighs 280 pounds. A barrel of beef weighs 200 pounds. barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds .: barrel of fish weighs 200 pounds.
"of powder equali 25 pounds.
Stone of leid or iron equals 14.
pigi of. lead: or iron equals .21%
in cite con cbroken cubic ; foot, -. retages 54 pounds
Aston loose occupies 40-43 cubic feet. Bituminous coal broken cubic foot -. averages 49 pounds.
Cement (hydraulic) Rosendale, weight . pounds; in Virginia, 60 pounds. per bushel, 70 pounds.
"A ton loose occupies 40-48 cubic feet. Cement (hydraulic) Louisville, weight per bushel, 62 pounds.
Cement (hydraulic) Portland, weight per bushel, 96 pounds.
Gypsum ground, weight per bushel, 70. pounds. .
Lime, loose, weight per bushel, 70 pounds.
Lime, well shaken, weight per bushel, 80 pounds.
Sand at 98 pounds per cubic foot, per bushel, 1221/2 pounds.
18.29 bushels equal a ton. 1,181 tons cubic yard.
MEASURING HAY AND CORN
Hay is often sold in the mow or stack where the weight has to be estimated For this purpose 400 cubic feet of hay is considered a ton. The actual weight of 400 cubic feet of hay will vary ac -: cording to the quality of the hay, time of cutting, position in mow, etc. For making an estimate in a given case multiply together the length, breadth and height of the mow or stack in feet and divide the product by 400. The quotient will be the number of tons.
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Corn is measured by the following rule: A heaped bushel .contains . 2,7.48 cubic inches: To find the number of bushels of corn in a crib it is therefore necessary merely to multiply together; the length, width and height in inches and divide the product by 2,748. The' number of bushels of shelled corn will? be two-thirds of the quotient. ; If they sides of the crib are alantin "'n.m be necessary to multiply together rond: half the sum of the top and bottom. widths with the height and length.
The legal weight of a bushel of shelled corn in Pennsylvania, New . Jersey, I. Maryland and Virginia is 56 pounds.
In Pennsylvania, Virginia and: Mary- land. 32 pounds constitute a bushel of oats; in New Jersey, 30 pounds.
A bushel of wheat is placed at 360 pounds by most of the states of the Union.
Pennsylvania recognizes 56 pounds a. bushel of white potatoes .... In Mary land,"New Jersey' and Virginia the leg weight .is .60 pounds.
A bushel of clover seed in. Pennsyl, vania must weigh 60 pounds; in Mary land, :60 pounds; in, New Jersey,. 164
A bushel of timothy seed in Pennsyl- vania must weigh 45 pounds, and the ft same weight in most adjacent states.
To estimate the amount of land in different fields under cultivation use these following table:
5 yards wide by 968
yards long. 1 scre"
10 yards wide by 484' yards long, 1 acre
20 yards wide by 242 yards long, 1 acre
40 yards wide by 121 .. yards long, 1 acre
70 yards wide by: 69 1/7 yards long, 1 acre 80 yards wide by 60% yards long, .1 acre
60 feet wide by 726 feet long. 1 acre
110 feet wide by 396 feet long, 1 acre
120 feet wide by 363
feet long . 1 acre
220 feet wide by 198 feet
long. 1 acre
240 feet wide by 18136 feet
long, 1 acre
440 feet wide by
99
feet
long. acre
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Seed Per Acre
It requires less seed per acre to sow in nills or rows than to sow broadcast. The hill or row system permits of after cultivation, which is not possible with a broadcasted crop. In all calculations for hill and drills it must be remembered that. an acre of land contains 43,560 square feet. A square piece of land, 209 feet on a side, contains about an acre. The following figures are merely suggestive, as practice varies with locality :
. ALFALFA, 25 to '30 lbs, broadcast.
ASPARAGUS, 4 to 5 lbs. in drills ; . 1 oz. to 50 feet of row.
BARLEY, 11/2 to 2 bushels drilled; 2 to 212 bushels broadcast.
BEANS, bush, 175 bushels in drills.
BEANS, pole; 10 to 12 qts., in hills.
BEETS, S to 6 lbs .; in drills.
BUCKWHEAT, 1 bushel, broadcast.
CABBAGE, Y: Ib. in seed bed, to be trans- Eplantedin
Cor 3 to 4 Thì, in dri
CELERY, about '1 oz. for 2,000 plants; 1 1b. per acre.
CLOVER, red, 8 to 10 lbs., broadcast.
CLOVER, crimson, 15 lbs., broadcast.
CLOVER, white,. 6 lbs., broadcast. GORN, feld and sweet, 8 to 10.qts. CORN, ensilage, 12 qts., in drills.
Cow Pras, 1 bushel, in drills; 11/ bush- dels, broadcast ..
Cucustas, 2 lbs, in drills.
EGG PLANT, 1 oz seed for 1,000 plants: 1 lb to the acre .
GRASS, Lawn, 2 to 4 lbs., broadcast.
Lafuc , 1 oz of seed to 1,000 plants : Ib to the acre."
MELON,'musk, 2 to 3 lbs,, in hills.
MELON water, 4 to .5 lbs., in hills.
MILLET, 1: bushel, broadcast.
OATS, 3 bushela, broadcast.
ONIONS, 5 to 6 lbs., in drills; for sets. .30 to 50.lbs., in drills.
PARSNIPS, 4 to 6 lbs., in drills. PEAS, 1 to 2 bushels, in drills. POTATOES (cut) 8 to 10 bushels. PUMPKINS, 4 to 5 lbs., in hills. RADISHES, 8 to 10 lbs., in drills. RYE, y. to 11/4 bushels, in drills. SPINACH, 10 to 12. 1bs., in drills; run- ning sorts, 3 to. 4 lbs.
SQUASH, bush, 4 to 6 lbs., in hills. ...
TIMOTHY, 15 to 20 lbs., broadcast, if used alone: less if sown with other grasses. TOMATOES, 1/ 1b. in seed bed, to be transplanted.
TURNIPS, 1 to 2 lbs., in drills; 2 to 3 lbs., broadcast.
WHEAT, 11/2 bushels, broadcast.
Suitable Distance for Planting Trees
Apples-Standard .. 25 to 35 feet apart each way Apples -- Dwarf
(bushes) 10
Pears-Standard . . . . 10 to 20
Pears-Dwarf
10 ..
Cherries-Standard . 18 to 20 ..
Cherries-Dukes and Morrellos :16 to 18
8
Plums-Standard
. 16 to 20
Peaches
16 to 18
Apricots
16 to 18
Nectarines
16 to 18
Quinces
10 to 12
Currants
3 to
4
Gooseberries
3 to
4
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Blackberries
6 to
7
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Grapes
8 to.12
Shingles Required in a Roof
Double the rafters and multiply by length of building. Multiply this by if exposed 4 inches, by 8 if exposed 4y5 inches, and by 7 1/5 if exposed 5 inches to the .. weather.
One thousand . shingles,la
to the weather, will cover , 100 squares feet of surface.
Eight hundred shingles, 5 inches to the weather, will cover 100 square feet. One thousand shingles . require . 5. pounds of four-penny nails." Five to ten per cent. should be al-' lowed to these figures to cover waste and shortage .:
One thousand laths will cover 70 yard! of surface, and take . 11 pounds of nails Two hundred and fifty pickets, will make 100 lineal feet of fence
Nails Required
For 1,000 shingles, 3% to 5 pounds 4d., or 3 to 31/2 pounds 3d. For 1,000 laths about 7 pounds 3d. fine, or 8 pounds 2d. fine. . For 1,000 feet clapboards (siding), about 18 pounds 6d. box.
For 1,000 feet covering boards, about 20 pounds 8d. common, of 25 pounds 10d.
Nails-Common
Size
PE 4d 6d . : 88 10d 12đ
Length
No. to 1b.
.500 . 300: 165
50 * 62 : 45
Size
16đ 20d 30d 40d Sod
60đ
Length
3 1/4 4 4% 5 5% 6
No. to 1b .. 35
24 18 13 10 8
Eighteen to twenty-five pounds of nails are required per 1,000 feet of lumber.
Grease a nail and it won't split wood.
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Raspberries
3 to 5
Buckeye Dairy Co.
Buyers of Farm Cream Manufacturers of Gilt Edge Butter
Your Patronage Solicited Satisfaction Guaranteed
UNION STREET MARION, OHIO
TELEPHONE 2202
THE LANDE'S DAIRY LUNCH AND CAFETERIA
It's The Place To Eat When You Come to Marion
PRICE RIGHT-ALL RIGHT
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Home Cooking Courteous Treatment
Make This Your Headquarters
PHONE 2796 198 E. Center St., Marion, Ohio
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HOLLAND FURNACES Make Warm Friends
Patented Direct-Indirect Dampet
Water . Cont
Patented .Come- Shaped · Grate
Patented . Air-Admitting . Fire Pot
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The Holland Furnace® is not like other makes
It has fewer joints, smaller joints, is simpler and easier to operate and more economical. It will burn any kind and all grades of fuel-hard coal, soft coal, lignite or wood-without waste of gases, without internal explosions and without opening of joints.
Estimates cheerfully given-INVESTIGATE
HOLLAND FURNACE COMPANY
MARION
OHIO.
SALES AND DISPLAY ROOMS 119-121 East Church St. Phone 2873 6151
The Isaly Dairy Company
Branches BUCYRUS, OHIO LARUE, OHIO PROSPECT, OHIO CALEDONIA, OHIO CHATFIELD, OHIO NEW WINCHESTER, OHIO EDISON, OHIO
MARION,
OHIO
Mr. Cream Producer : We want your cream
Accurate tests and weights guaranteed at Our Plant or at any of our Stations.
THE ISALY DAIRY CO.
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HUBER
HUBER THE
Lightfour
It turns an acre an hour.
Sooner or later you will buy a Tractor-A Huber Light Four.
Every other Tractor you see in Marion County is a. Huber. Our farmers appreciate Huber quality and Huber service.
The Light Four is "made in Marion" and used the world over.
Make us a neighborly call when you are in town and we will talk it over.
THE Huber Manufacturing Company MARION OHIO
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