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1943 Linn County 4 H Show and home front notes
The St Joseph 4 H Show runs September 28 to 30 with entries in food preservation preparation clothing home service poultry and vegetable exhibits through the Linn County Extension Office at Linneus. Seed samples show scab and seedling diseases urging smut treatment cleaning heavier seeding and fertilization. Ant control remedies use home made bait with sugar water and sodium arsenate in labeled cans. A farmer taxed under income law faces December 15 1943 filing. Oven canning non acidic vegetables is unsafe. Government reports show 4 293 000 cases of catsup bought for servicemen and 50 billion quarts milk forecast for 1943. Victory Gardens hit a record twenty million this year and aim for 22 million next year. Discharged soldiers return uniforms by mail to nearest installation or via Railway Express Agency. Mrs Ellis Cordray departed for Camp Ellis Illinois with Sgt Ellis Cordray.