Sullivan County Agents News Highlights Home Jam Making and Cattle Advice
The bulletin covers simple strawberry jam making with steps for small batches and lemon juice for flavor, plus guidance on beef cattle management noting high prices and selective reductions over 18 months. It also advises vaccination of horses and mules against sleepy sickness and outlines a method to pack cherries with syrup for freezing.
Canning and Preservation Notes for Cherries and Grains
Guidance on hot and cold packing cherries with sugar syrups, processing times, and sugar replacement options. Advises on ripe fruit, honey or syrup substitutions, and flavor effects. Also covers vaccination for sleeping sickness in Linn County horses, pasteurization of milk, and late season corn and soybean variety selection for Missouri soils.
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Ralph Rogers
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Dunfield
Illini
Scioto
Chief
Egg candling and fertility tips for laying flocks
An article explains candling to judge egg age and quality, noting air space, yolk movement, and germ development. It covers handling infertile eggs in hot weather, separating males, and keeping layers productive. It also advises culling nonlayers to save feed and labor, with market or home use for culled birds.
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Aes
Eli
Homefront guidance and wartime rationing appeals
Wartime notice urges Americans to protect mail to service members, replant victory gardens, and salvage tin. It highlights home accident risks with 1944 fatalities and injuries, explains production impact, and outlines rationing rules for B ration holders with renewal forms OPA 353.
Returning soldiers and para troopers in postwar joy
Wounded and prisoners of war from Germany begin to come home as families welcome them back. Local men bear discharge papers and the community resumes normal life amid laughter and relief. Many have asked to remain in service and high ranking officers have demanded further actions.
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Germany
Duty to the Pacific War Effort Remains Steady
The message urges continued U S wartime mobilization to the Pacific front with a draft ahead and a strong salvage drive. It stresses replacing and training troops, preserving resources, and keeping up war bond sales until victory is achieved.
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Pacific
Seletive Service
Town and Farm in Wartime
The government calls on citizens in the 184th week of the war against Japan to ensure overseas letters are correctly addressed and properly packed. The notice urges accuracy in mail handling to support military communications and morale during wartime.
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Japan
More Gasoline For 3 000 000 B Ration Users
The OPA raises monthly gasoline ceilings to 650 miles for eligible B ration holders from June 11. Eligible drivers must show essential occupational needs exceed regional ceilings of 825 east 475 midwest and 400 far west. Max McCullough explains increases vary with actual driving. Farmers gain AA-2 extendable priority for farm supplies, aligning farming with other war industries.
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OPA
Midwest
Far West
Max McCullough
Office of Civilian
WPB
OCR
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