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Newspaper
Bedford Times Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1977
Page
6
A short piece extols birdwatching as a versatile hobby with no season limit and broad access. It highlights watching redwinged blackbirds, benefits of binoculars and field guides, and how amateurs study bird behavior from backyards and in campsites.
Harvesting of vegetables has begun in many Midcrest gardens despite scant rainfall. Peas should be picked while pods are well filled to ensure tenderness and flavor. store best in the pod. Green beans appear and should be harvested when pods near full size before seeds bulge. Beet greens and tops provide vitamins and help thin rows. beets and broccoli emerge for cutting as they mature.
Blue green flower heads six to seven inches across with small yellow buds opening soon. Do not pull plant after central head is cut as tender side shoots will develop. CAULIFLOWER delays harvest until heads six to eight inches and must be blanched at two to three inches by tying outer leaves. Swiss chard spinach harvested when outer leaves reach eight inches. June bearing strawberries harvested and renovation advised with mowing one inch above crown within a week after harvest.
A chemist at the 2nd Joint Conference argues that about a quarter of U.S. energy could come from agricultural wastes and idle lands with present tech. Biomass conversion to methane via anaerobic digestion is touted as economical and scalable, with idle lands and crop wastes forming major potential.
A plant producing 50 million cubic feet of methane daily needs 4460 tons of biomass per day. Each pound of dry crop waste yields six cubic feet of methane gas, indicating substantial feedstock requirements to sustain output.
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