. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. HOME AND SCHOOL EXERCISES 79 Flours of diSerent kinds may be tested as to the relative amounts of gluten by the plan used in this exercise. Wheat flour containing much holds together better when made into the form of dough. Bread made from it will be "lighter " than if made from flour containing more starch and less gluten. Flour with little gluten is best for pies and other pastry, as the dough will be tender when
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. HOME AND SCHOOL EXERCISES 79 Flours of diSerent kinds may be tested as to the relative amounts of gluten by the plan used in this exercise. Wheat flour containing much holds together better when made into the form of dough. Bread made from it will be "lighter " than if made from flour containing more starch and less gluten. Flour with little gluten is best for pies and other pastry, as the dough will be tender when baked. 19. Better Seed Potatoes.—When potatoes are bein^'dug, l&t some student keep a rpcord of the yields of good marketable potatoes. Via. 51. -In selecting seed potatoes the hills that yield the most marketable tubers are the best. (U. S. D. A.) fpoTu each hill. Potatoes from the largest yielding hills shoiild'jtie kept separate from the rest to use for seed. These may be puf'ih sacks and a record of yield placed upon the sack or label. They may be stored in the usual way and used for seed next season. Some hills of potatoes yield several times as much as others (Fig. 51). By selecting in this way, the future yields may be greatly increased. If the seed, potatoes from the best hill are planted together in a row, or, portion of a row, and labelled with a stake, the best may again be selected the next year. Thus, improvement may be kept up indefinitely. This. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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