Uncluttered furnishings for cool home atmosphere
In warm weather, use uncluttered decor with cool colors and simple designs. Remove nonessentials, store magazines, and choose cotton fabrics for easy laundering. Keep walls light, use minimal warm tones, and apply cheerful accents to kitchens and porches for a cool, neat look.
Porches and Bedrooms in Summer Home Decorating Tips
Practical, era style guide on decorating porches with light colors and movable cushions, plus keeping bedrooms cool by minimizing curtains and using venetian blinds. Advice covers fabric choices, DIY sewing, and shrinking materials for drapes.
Bruising Causes Great Meat Waste
National Live Stock Loss Prevention Board reports 1949 bruising and crippled animals led to losses of 631,914,677 dollars in cattle and hogs. Meat waste from dead animals totaled 4,472,871 dollars, with 14,310,468 pounds of meat lost. Government and industry programs urge safer handling from farm to market.
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America
National
Good Farm Practices Improve Soil Productivity
Dr. Charles E. Kellogg of the U S department of agriculture notes that initial soil fertility varied, with some lands resembling the black soils of the Midwest. He explains that productive soils result from liming, fertilization, drainage, irrigation, legume introduction, and other practices.
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Middle West
Eurasia
Charles E. Kellogg
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Kitchen Table Stool Hinged to Table Leg Design
A simple one leg stool with a wooden arm hinged to a table leg lets the stool fold under the kitchen table when not in use. The mechanism uses an eighteen inch wooden arm attached by a hinge to the table leg and nailed to the stool leg.
Restaffing of Agricultural Experiment Stations Noted
Gradual restaffing of agricultural experiment stations with science staff resumes after wartime shortages. New hires are young men who completed advanced training during the war. The report also notes closer integration of research and extension work.
Relish Tray Ideas and Traditional Preserves from Home Canning
Page offers guidance on making relishes and preserves to brighten meals. It details grape conserve currant and raspberry jam rose petal jam and mustard and mixed pickles with quantities and steps for preparation, cooking, sterilizing jars, and sealing. The tone reflects practical home canning instructions for everyday meals.
Kitchen tips for peeling pecans and chocolate curls
Soak pecans in one quart water with one tablespoon salt to loosen shells and remove meats whole. Use a potato peeler to shave bitter chocolate into curls for cake or pie garnishes. use fresh soft chocolate to avoid gretaed results.
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Lynn
Seal baby adopted by Long Beach boys refuses to return
In Long Beach California three boys who found a baby seal ashore from Alamitos Bay brought it aboard their sailboat and could not feed it. They tried to release it to its mother at sea but the seal followed the boys ashore each time, prompting a local keeper to take control of the animal.
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Long Beach
Calif
Nu-Pike Zoo
Alamitos Bay
Oil the fish to keep it from sticking
A tip suggests oiling the fish rather than the pan to reduce sticking. A light dusting of flour or cornmeal on the fish helps further.
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Walter K. Marks
BO Steers
Lynn Chambers
Vaughn Monroe
Kellogg's
Rogers Mfg.Co
Meriden
Saat
Cornwall
Dept. FF
Wallingford
U. S
Doan