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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1976
Page
11
County Agent offers guidance on seed starting in Vermont. Wait six weeks for tomato transplants, plant common vegetables by calendar cues, and avoid early starts. Light, temperature, and watering affect seedling health. cabbage and peppers need different lead times. melons require about three weeks.
A dozen Bennington County 4-H teens stayed with host families in Franklin County Massachusetts near Greenfield. They toured the Pioneer Valley Historical Museum and the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield. The trip exposed youths to city life and renewed friendship plans, with a county demonstration day set for March 6 at East Arlington Federated Church.
Nancy Harvey Stearts, special assistant for consumer affairs to the secretary of agriculture, says home canning lids for 1976 will be nearly double 1975. Over four billion replacement lids will be available, with three billion regular lids, 0.33 billion wide mouth lids, over 0.5 billion regular caps, and about 150 million wide mouth caps. Shipments will start in the southern states and move northward as the season nears, with some manufacturers shipping nationwide.
National Geographic notes most spiders live under two years with males dying after mating. It recalls Civil War troops in 1863 surviving on a Thanksgiving spread bought by a $40 000 appropriation. It also identifies St John’s Newfoundland as the easternmost North American city 1600 nautical miles from Ireland.
Maine farmer Jack Hicks, 51, operates a 77 cow dairy on 258 acres in Canaan earning about 3300 monthly with 1600 for feed, 250 for gear, and 300 mortgage. He fantasized a processing plant and returnable bottles but high costs and milk prices thwarted the plan. He still sells bulk to Hood but worries over Maine Milk Commission changes. Hicks also recruited Russian journalists to gain public and political interest in dairy.
The Vermont Milk Control Board announces Area II price changes effective March 1 under the milk pricing formula. Discounts apply to home deliveries from 40 to 75 quarts at 1 cent per quart, 76 to 120 quarts at 2 cents, and over 120 quarts at 3 cents per quart. A wholesale store discount is 0.5 cent per quart. Gallons at stores and wholesale are double the half gallon price.
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