How to Figure Canning Costs
Burlington offers guidance on whether freezing or canning saves money. Miss Anna Wilson, Vermont extension nutrition specialist, explains to divide produce cost by yield and add packaging, with jars costing about 32 cents each. A bushel of tomatoes at $2 yielding 20 quarts equals 8.5 cents per pint, allowing home preservation to compare with grocery prices.
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Burlington
Anna Wilson
Vermont
Miss Wilson
Morrill Hall
UVM
Edgerton
Dorset
Midgley
Agronomy
Special Care Prevents Residue On Berries
A Vermont gardener faced two spotted mites ruining raspberry leaves. The farmer used a highly effective, food-authority cleared pesticide with a 300 percent safety margin, allowing harvest the next day. The example shows growers prioritize residue-free fruit and consumer safety.
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Burlington
Vermont
Food and Health
Transparent Woman Heads to Germany For Surgery
The Museum of Science in Boston will fly its transparent woman exhibit to Cologne, Germany for medical surgery after attracting about 750000 visitors since 1955. The display’s lighting malfunction linked to her heart and gall bladder caused confusion during viewing.
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Boston
Museum of Science
Cologne
Germany
Heifer Auction Aids 4 H Camp This Saturday
Nine Bennington County dairy farmers consign ten heifers for the 4 H Field Day auction at Camp Ondawa Sunderland on August 4. Holsteins Jerseys and Ayrshires will be sold to the highest bidder starting at 1 p.m. with proceeds benefiting 4 H camp improvements.
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Bennington County
Camp Ondawa
Sunderland
Ondawa Association
Farm Bureau Hosts Youth Camp at Camp In galls North Hero
The New England Young Peoples camp drew over 80 youths from New York New Jersey New Hampshire Connecticut and Vermont at Camp Ingalls North Hero. Leaders from Farm Bureau offered training in perception motivation and communication. Pakistani farmers on a Vermont visit joined the event with farmer hosts Mr and Mrs Ray Allen Jr.
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Farm Bureau
New England
Camp Ingalls
North Hero
New York
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Vermont
John Clough
American Farm Bureau
Claude de St. Paer
T. C. Peterson
Chicago
Ill
Pakistan
Farmers and World Affairs, Inc
Ray Allen Jr
Allen
Growing Birdsfoot Trefoil Seed in Vermont
The article explains birdsfoot trefoil as a nitrogen fixing legume suited to Vermont soils, with varieties Empire Viking and Mansfield developed for pasture and hay. It outlines seed production challenges, harvest timing, seed size, and profitability, noting Edgerton's 160 acres and 30,000 pounds harvested, plus associated labor, equipment, and certification steps.
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Gershoy
UVM Botany Department
Empire
Cornell
Viking
Mansfield
Vermont
Champlain Valley
Leon Edgerton
Dorset
West Haven
Edgerton
Ring Returned After 1915 Date Found in Garden
Madisonville Kentucky report: a housewife digging in her garden unearthed a gold ring engraved with 1915 and the initials S S. A check of a 1915 high school annual revealed the name Sam Sights. a call to his widow confirmed the ring belonged to Sights, lost in the snow in 1920.
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Madisonville
Sam Sights
Sights
August ReRun Aims To Promote Vermont Milk Campaign
Vermont dairy groups plan an August re run of their June Silver Dollar Campaign. Mystery volunteers in each county award silver dollars to waitresses who offer milk before other drinks, with the option to distribute in June August or both.
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Barre
Vermont
Juliane Eastman
Dairy Month, Inc
Embarrassed Housewife Returns Library Book
In Oak Ridge Tennessee a housewife appears at the public library with an overdue notice in one hand and the book titled Techniques for Efficient Remembering in the other. She jokes that her husband has struggled to recall returning it for weeks and admits the book didn’t help much.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Oak Ridge Public Library
Field Day and 4 H Exhibit at Ondawa Saturday
County Field Day and 4 H Exhibit at Camp Ondawa in Sunderland features a chicken barbecue noon meal for 1.50, hosted by Ira Whitney and Anna Whitney with 10 to 12 helpers. Exhibits include agricultural machinery, 4 H displays, and floral arrangements amid cooking tips for backyard pits and barbecue safety.
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Camp Ondawa
Sunderland
Farm Bureau
Ira Whitney
Anna Whitney
Ira
Anna
Confederate President Jefferson Davis Attended Transylvania College
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, studied at Transylvania College in Lexington from 1821 to 1824 before West Point. His grandson Jefferson Hayes-Davis of Colorado Springs donated 101 Civil War books to the college in 1962.
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Lexington, Ky
Jefferson Davis
Transylvania College
Lexington
West Point
Jefferson Hayes- Davis
Colorado Springs
Colo
Comfort-Loving Al Slashes Gas Price One Cent
Arizona service station operator Al Rehbein cut gas prices by one cent a gallon for customers at a row of pumps nearest his office. He sits there to stay cool in summer and warm in winter.
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Tucson
Ariz
al Rehbein
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