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Farmers Have
Less to Worry
Them This Time
Washington, D. C.—Farm prices
stand at 200 per cent of the 1909-1914
average—higher than the prices of
1918—and will drop again but not as
sharply as in 1921 because the Gov
ernment is required by law to main
tain support prices of at least 90 per
cent of purity for two full calendar
years following the year in which the
r ends, The Department of Agrl
Iture lias announced.
The announcement Indicates the
mer will not be a victim of a drop
in prices similar to that which fol
lowed the last war jyn. 1921 when
prices hit the low of 115 per cent of
the May, 1920, level which was 235
per cent of the 1909-1914 level. Thus
the farmer will have more money
than after the last war.
War Finance Committee officials
said that in addition to the main
tenance of the price level for two
years, that non-farm families already
have, and are accumulating, weekly
savings through the Payroll Savings
Plan of the War Finance Division of
the Treasury. This, they claim is
proof the non-farm front will be much
better able to support itself than nfter
the Inst war during the normal lull of
reconversion. Buyers of farm prod
ucts will have the money to buy, it
was said, and farmers should avail
themselves of the opportunity to ac
quire War Bonds during the Victory
Loan so as to have the money with
which to modernize and handle the
non-farm market demands that will
be backed with cash to pay sustained
prices during the two years after
lighting ceases.
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WSA Establishes Fair
Commissary Aboard Ski.”5
Longstanding abuses in the sale)
of personal goods to seamen iboarel
merchant ships have been elimi I
nated and provision made for them j
to purchase standard quality goods i
at fair prices Early in 1945, steps!
were taken to overcome exorbi-j
tant prices being charged for in-!
ferior merchandise supplied to |
"slop chests"—traditional term for
a merchant vessel’s retail store
similar to any army unit’s post
exchange. Numerous complaints
had been lodged with the WSA by
unions and individual seamen.
First step toward a modern slop
chest for an efficient and up-to-date
merchant marine was to overcome
archaic law's dating back to 1884
and 1898. Through co-operation with
the coast guard a waiver was
signed January 17. 1945, on the out
moded laws and a standard list of
Items was specified.
The WSA established minimum
specifications for the standard
articles in greatest demand by sea
men and ranged from razor blades,
all items of clothing, to peanuts
and candy bars. To make standard
merchandise available for all ves
sels in all ports, the WSA through
its procurement division arranged
with reputable manufacturers to
produce for the direct account of
slop chest dealers. Certified slop
chest dealers in all continental
United States ports agreed to han
dle only merchandise obtained
from WSA-approved sources and to
sell that merchandise to the ves
sels for slop chest use at rates not
higher than prices established by
the WSA.
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Satisfies Finicky Customer
—Invents Potato Chip
In 1853 George Crum was the
head man in the kitchen of the
famous Moon’s Lake House at
swanky Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,
and as such catered to the palates
of the eplbures of the day. He was
good, else he wouldn’t have had the
job. And as all good cooks, he was
a proud man, boasting of his abil
ity to please the fastidious gour
mets habitually gracing the tables.
That is, all but one, who, through
some eccentricity, continually re
turned his french fried potatoes with
the terse comment: “Too thick."
Crum took it for a while, then de
cided to fix the persnickety one’s
buttons—job or no job. He sliced
the gentleman’s potatoes wafer-thin,
fried them in deep fat and with an
air, dusted his hands and sent in
the chips.
None was more surprised than
George Crum at the furor they
caused and none more pleased and
delighted. That was the origin of
the potato chip.
Television
Chemists pointed out that one
reason the development of television
for home use has been delayed is
that the image seen at the receiv
ing end was very small. Here In
dustrial chemistry gave an impor
tant helping hand with a plastic.
The problem of magnification has
in part been solved by utilizing the
optica] properties of "Lucite” acry
lic resin. NoV television pictures
can be five times the size they used
to be—big enough, in fact, to fill a
home movie screen. This has been
made practical at relatively low
cost by a “Lucite” lens which Is
molded to the required optical cur
vature, correct to the ten-thous
andth of an Inch, It is part of a
projecting system employing the
optical principle of the Schmidt
astronomical camera, but exten
sive development was required to
adapt it to short-throw television
projection.
Insect-Killing Bomb
Aerosol—the insect-killing bomb
that helped the army win its war on
Pacific diseases—is being success
fully adapted to civilian household
use. The aerosol consists of a small
steel container the size of a highball
glass which contains an insecticide
dissolved in a liquefied gas under
high pressure. When a valve is
opened, the sudden change in tem
perature allows the insecticide to
disperse into the air in the form of
a fog or fine mist. Developed by
two government scientists, Dr. Lyle
D. Goodhue and Capt. W. N. Sulli
van of the agriculture department’s
bureau of entomology and plant
quarantine, Beltsville, Md., the
bomb is said to be most valuable for
killing household insects which are
in the flying stage. Closing the
rooms for several minutes after ap
plication is advised.
Rare Books
Repairing rare books can only be
entrusted to the finest craftsmen.
Some books are valuable on account
of their artistic merits and fine
craftsmanship; some because of
their historical contents; and still
others solely on account of their
rarity. It is the business of a good
book binder to see that nothing is ,
done to decrease the value of the j
volumes he repairs. All repairs |
should be as little noticeable as pos- '
sible. The leaves of old books are
often soft, and these can be strength- I
ened by passing them through a bath [
of size made with animal glue which i
has been the standard adhesive for I
sizing paper. This treatment re- !
stores the original size that has
been lost, generally through damp- j
nqss. In addition, It takes out many I
stains and gives life and freshness
to the paper.
Big Industry Grows
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tion point nut lr nimmsri.'n bo |
development of domestic stig.nr beet |
seed production
This sturdy oak sprouted from
the little acorn of a chance dis
covery at the New Mexico agri
cultural experiment station in 1922,
say Dr. G H Coons and A. H Mose
man of the department's bureau of
plant Industry Workers there ob
served that fall-planted sugar beets
remained alive over winter and pro
duced abundant seed the following
summer.
The former method was to grow
the roots one season, dig them for
storage over winter and replant
them the following season to pro
duce the seed. These operations
required much hand labor, and
since they could be done cheaper
in Europe, seed was imported
there. During World War I Euro
pean seed shipments to this coun
try were reduced to a trickle. But 1
by the time of World War II, the •
United States could produce its own |
requirements a d more. By 1941 j
seed production had spread to nine
southwest and Pacific northwest
states, and now aggregates between
16,000,000 and 17,000,000 pounds an
nually, of which about 3,000,000
pounds are used by farmers in
Michigan. Ohio, Illinois and Wiscon
sin, according to the Farmers and
Manufacturers Beet Sugar associa
tion.
Inexpensive Safeguards
Protect Farm Crops
Plant pathologists have learned
a few simple, inexpensive safe
guards to protect farm crops against
the ravages of plant diseases brought
on by fungus.
First, the county agent, teacher
of vocational agriculture, or experi
ment station can recommend many
high-yielding, well-adapted varieties
of farm crops that are resistant
against important crop diseases. If
you don't know whether your seed
comes from a healthy field, plant
certified seed from inspected fields,
to avoid the diseases that are seed
borne but do not show in the seed.
There are effective protective
seed treatments for nearly all crops,
with the cost slight, but the advan
tages great. In each area, tests
have shown that disease control and
better yields result from planting
each crop close to the time and at
the rate recommended by the ex
periment station. Crop rotation,
weed control, and destruction of
crop residue by thorough plowing
(or, in some cases, burning) are
practices that protect crops by de
stroying the germs and fungi of
plant disease.
Cooking Giblets
The giblets are some of the least
appreciated yet most valuable parts
of chicken or turkey, say food sci
entists of the department of agri
culture. Too many home cooks
know only of their use In giblet
gravy and do not realize their pos
sibilities for delicious main dishes.
Chicken or turkey livers especially
offer rich value in iron and all vita
mins. Some retail markets today
sell giblets—hearts, livers and giz
zards together—or livers alone by
the pound. Giblets also are canned.
In preparing giblets an Important
point to remember is that gizzards
and hearts need long slow cooking
by simmering to make them tender,
but livers are tender to begin with,
so need only brief cooking. In gen
eral, gizzards and hearts of older
birds take about twice as long to
cook as those of young birds. Gib
lets cook more quickly if they are
cut in pieces first.
Citrus Fruits
While most people know that or
ange juice is a high-powered drink
for vitamin C, nutritionists say that
all of the familiar citrus fruits are
bountiful sources of this vitamin.
A half glass (4 ounces) of orange
or grapefruit juice will go far to
ward supplying a day’s needs of
vitamin C. So will half a grape
fruit, or a whole orange, or a cou
ple of tangerines or lemons. Be
cause pulp, as well as juice, con
tains vitamin C, there is vitamin
thrift in serving juice unstrained, j
and even higher vitamin economy in I
eating citrus fruit simply halved,
sliced or sectioned. So destructive
are heat and air to vitamin C in cut
or juiced fruit that the vitamin
thrifty homemaker takes special
care to keep them under control.
To this end, the nutritionists advise
cutting or slicing citrus fruit as |
near as possible to serving time.
Growing Vegetables
To have high quality and good |
yields, vegetables must be grown :
quickly. This means that the soil j
must have plenty of plant food and
be of a nature to hold the moisture
needed to make that plant food
effective. The best way to provide
plant food and condition the soil
is with stable manure. Stable ma
nure makes vegetables grow to tops
because of its high proportion of
nitrogen (ammonia), hence it needs
to be balanced with superphos- j
phate. The amounts per acre are j
10 to 15 tons of manure and 400
pounds of 20 per cent superphos-1
phate, broadcast and plowed un-1
der together. |
Colorful Decorations
New Trend in Homes
Fifty VPirs « 'o thf> "plush rttfp"
w»* st i»s b,. ■ t Bulky ulush fl'r
ll’lMi.. ilflHU tn HITH H*- ,*i h -t :•
UhiiimI t» • unrltirs nt ®im« ['•
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ii*i 1*1.i*stum turn h«HM>i . . ..
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homes, catir'ns somhei > ■ ’I ; ••
and draperies to be in vuiuie Ti
was followed by veh.it h is he*
called the "Taupe A«e " Fuiiutun
draperies and other a ere&s on <
were in a monotonous yellowi
gray color. (The word taupe, u
cording to Webster, means s mol
—the little dirty yellow anim-il th«
hates the light and burrows in th*
ground.) At thia time the ten ibh
"oatmeal” papers were used extei.
sivoly for walls.
Then came the monotone period
which still lingers. Fatigued by the
colorless taupe, many women re
placed the taupe in their homes with
weakly colored plain rugs, plain
draperies, plain walls. The mono
tone effect of such decoration is fa
tiguing, boring and monotonous.
Now there seems to be a very
definite trend towards the use of
more color In American homes.
Women are overcoming their fears
against the liberal use of cheerful
colors in pleasing combinations, and
are turning a deaf ear to those
prophets who preach the use of neg
ative colors, such as resulted In the
taupe and the monotone styles of
decoration.
Grinding Utility Grade
Meats Improves Quality
The busy homemaker who can’t
find any kind of meat to buy except
utility and commercial grades
should give special attention to cook
ing It. This grade of meat is less
tender and has less fat than the
higher grades. It is not satisfactory
for broiling and roasting without a
good deal of extra preparation.
By grinding this kind of meat, the
connective tissues are broken and
the meat is made more tender. The
homemaker can broil, pan broil, or
bake the ground meat. It Is good if
it is made into patties and served
with gravy, tomato, or mushroom
sauce, or if it is baked as a meat
loaf.
Pot roasts, swiss steaks and stews
from this quality of meat should be
covered and given a long, very slow
cooking time. Water or another
liquid should be added. By brown
ing the surface of the meat a few
minutes In fat before the long, moist
simmering, you can give the dish
a better flavor and a rich brown
color.
Southern Transport
Transportation facilities of the
south are excellent. It has about
33 per cent of the country’s rail
road mileage, a slightly higher
share than its proportion of either
area or population, and its main
railway systems are adequately sup
plemented in general by branch
lines and feeders. Capacity of
southern railroads to handle in
creased volume of freight incident
to continuing industrial develop
ment is indicated by the vastly
larger volume of freight carried by
all United States railroads during
the war. An extensive system of
surfaced roads spreads throughout
the south, comprising about 48 per
cent of the state highway system
mileage in the United States. Cost
of construction is low and the roads
are usable in all seasons. In 1940,
about 30 per cent of the motor
trucks registered in the country
were operated in the south. As for
water transportation, all but five
of the states in the group border
on the Atlantic ocean or the Gulf
of Mexico.
Keep Floor Shining
Here are three tricks to preserve
your shining floors from the wear
and tear of winter weather. First,
make a shoe scraper by nailing two
scrub brushes to a flat piece of
board, bristles facing each other
and far enough apart so that shoes
can slide back and forth between
them to remove dried mud. Keep
this outside the door used by the
children. Keep a large size desk
blotter inside the door so that rub
bers and galoshes may be placed to
drip there, instead of making a pud
dle in a corner or tracks to the
closet. And keep a box with wash
up equipment for galoshes in the
basement or near the back door.
Teach the children to wash their
own rubbers and galoshes, using a
cloth and plenty of warm soap suds.
An old toothbrush will help for the
most stubborn spots, and is also the
best tool for removing mud which
has stuck to the sole ledge or heel
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