Beekeeping: Start Plans Now With Simple Hives
Vermont expert Enoch Tompkins outlines a beginner friendly path to beekeeping. Start by May with three pound packages and budget about 85 dollars for initial setup. Enjoy cut comb honey first, expect 40 pounds per hive on average, and learn proper bee handling to minimize stings.
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Burlington
Enoch Tompkins
University of Vermont
Tom
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Brand names cost more
Brand names cost more by Gerald Gold discusses supermarket house brands versus national brands. It notes Pathmark prices on sugar bleach salt oil and compares to top brands like Domino Purex Diamond Kraftco and Wesson. The piece argues house brands often equal national products but cost less and highlights price gaps.
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Gerald Gold
N.Y
New York
Pathmark
Jack Frost
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Purex
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Ten Ways to Insure a Scarce Food Supply
Dear Editor, a letter warns of a looming food shortage amid an energy crisis. It advocates policy shifts: suppress prices, import more, boycott foods, ban pesticides, support illegal pricing, export feed below domestic costs, raise farm fuel prices, foster monopolies, reject fair pricing formulas, and allow corrupt practices to harm farmers and end free enterprise.
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America
Thanksgiving Turkey to Soup and Casserole Ideas
Clara of Hoolick Falls New York shares cooking notes from a holiday kitchen. She describes a turkey dinner with rice tomato celery and onion in broth and offers a turkey casserole and turkey chow mein recipe plus a classic turkey bone soup.
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Hoolick Falls
N.Y
Oysters Fight Pollution as Sewage Treatment Aid
Marine scientists at Woods Hole report oysters can clean municipal sewage in a pilot plant. The system treats water through stages, feeding oysters with algae grown from polluted effluent, while seaweed aids filtration. potential perk includes 900 tons of oyster meat annually.
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Environmental Systems Laboratory
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Massachusetts
National Geographic Society
Woods Hole
Britain
Europe
Susan Constant
Jamestown
Chesapeake Bay
China
Rockefeller
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