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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1976
Page
11
Garden writer John L Russell Jr describes daylily magic in the American South. He urges investing in a good bed, describes planting and mulching, watering, and fertilizing schedules, and notes daylilies' toughness, color variety, and low maintenance once established.
Elinor Guggenheimer, New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner, unveiled a nationwide campaign calling for a 50 percent cut in coffee consumption to pressure producers to lower prices. She described her own cold turkey quit from heavy coffee use and urged supermarkets and eateries to promote tea and soup as alternatives. Prices have risen from $1.11 in 1973 to about $2.55 per pound in New York, while industry officials warned a boycott could affect supply and pricing. A network of 300 consumer groups would organize the effort nationwide.
The piece discusses New Year resolutions and urges sincere commitment to better communication with family friends and coworkers. It notes many families suffer from parents talking at children rather than with them and mentions television as a major modern stimulation.
White gold in the West comes from snowpack. National Geographic notes how moisture controls crops, hydro power, wildlife, and flood readiness. Surveyors log 90,000 miles yearly across 1,600 snow courses, extracting cores to gauge water content and predict melt.
Burlington notes explain the federal and Vermont investment tax credit for depreciable property with at least three years life. Credit scales with asset life from seven years to three or four years and may be carried back three years and forward seven years. The piece ends with reflections on listening and communication as a New Year theme.
Vermont farmers turn to picket dam systems to store livestock manure with less odor and effort. Extension expert Grant Wells explains the design uses vertical six inch planks with three quarter inch gaps in earthen or concrete storages, letting rain water drain into a separate pond.
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