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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1944
Page
5
A long list of visitors and residents appears from Browning and nearby towns including Purdin Milan Linneus and Kirksville. People such as Dr Grace Simmons Dr Mundell J N Mundell and many local families are mentioned visiting traveling and neighbors.
Local notes list Wanted Timothy Seed at $2.50 per bushel from L C Wykoff Produce Co Browning MO. The column also records visits, family news and travel between Browning Milan Purdin Linneus and nearby communities with multiple relatives and returning soldiers.
The highway patrol urges drivers to slow down on curves and keep their vehicles as far to the right as practical for safer rounding of bends.
Miss Sue Bennett arrived with her parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Bennett. Lieut Charles Bethell from Pensacola Florida came to join his wife visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J N Neet. Miss Wanda Quigley of Gary Indiana and Mrs Myria Sutter of Valparaiso Indiana came to visit Miss Quigley's parents Mr and Mrs John Quigley and others.
Information from the Agriculture Department shows 98 percent of 1944 corn plantings were hybrid varieties, up from 93 percent in 1943 and 85 percent in 1942. To prevent melding of mildly cured ham stored in a fridge wrap the meat in vinegar-wrung cloth and waxed paper.
The article urges locating milkweed plants now to harvest floss for life preservers and similar equipment with about 1 million pounds needed. Five pounds of pods yield one pound of floss and two pounds of floss make one life preserver. It notes pod ripeness, sale locations, and 20 cents per bag for milkweed pods, plus storage and preparation tips for rice and poultry. It also cites August 1944 projections for feed carryover and livestock counts, and mentions convoy capacity for meat and dairy surplus.
The guidance recommends seeding alfalfa in the last half of August to secure a good seedbed. Start plowing and working the ground early, and use Grimm alfalfa varieties for this area. Ennoculate, fertilize, and seed 12 to 18 pounds per acre.
Guidance on using cocoa instead of baking chocolate to save ingredients. For each one ounce square of baking chocolate use 3 tablespoons cocoa and 1/2 tablespoon fat. Melted chocolate goes into fat sugar and eggs. sift cocoa with flour in cake making.
Early hatched pullets should be housed when 3 eggs a day are obtained from 100 pullets. Pullets that have been growing and grooming for winter profits are about ready for permanent laying quarters.
Baking soda in a chocolate mixture reddens the batter. In sour milk chocolate cake the right amount of soda leavens with a slight reddish hue. Excess soda dulls flavor and produces an unpleasant taste.
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