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3. Ditto for vegetables, as green corn, asparagus, mushrooms, etc.
4. Preserve or jam or marmalade, twelve pints fruit.
5. Make three dozen glasses of jelly (without any artificial jelly maker).
6. Three quarts of two kínds of fruit canned uncooked in cold water.
7. Can successfully three kinds of fish (such as salmon, clams, mussels).
8. Can successfully a chicken.
9. Can successfully three pounds of beef.
10. Be a member of a Corn and Tomato Canning Club, canning a dozen quart jars of food stuff – raised by yourself.
11. Win a prize for canning, jelly making or preserving at any important fair.
12. Three pounds (any kind) glacé or candied fruit (fruit boiled and then dríed in syrup), cherries, cranberries, pineapple, orange, etc.
13. Make four kinds of tomato preserve and pickle (two ripe and two green).
Colonial Housekeeper
(Gaiat)
May be conferred on any who take fifteen (LL. 10) of these tests:
1. Bayberry Candle. Gather Bayberries and make half a dozen candles dipped or moulded, each six inches long.
2. Maple Sugar. Gather the sap and make of it a pound of Sugar, either from sugar maple or ash-leaved maple.
3. Soap. Leach the ashes and make a pint of soft soap.
4. Dyeing. Dye evenly four pieces of dress goods not less than half a yard each of four different colors or four skeíns of yarn. Dyes may be bought.
5. Wild Dyes. Dye twelve squares of felt or White flannel each about 4 x 4 inches, each a diiferent color with stuff found in the woods such as butternut bark, golden oak, sassafras, goldenrod tops, pokeberries, etc.
6. Lavender. Make a lavender box, i. e., grow, gather, dry and use the lavender in a. clothes Chest. Same for lemon verbena (tripolium).
7. Cherry Balm. Make Cherry Balm of Black Cherry Bark.
8. Gumbo. Gather sassafras leaves and make a gumbo soup.
9. Knit or Crochet, stockings, sweater, or leggings.
