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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1930
Page
22
A agricultural guide by R M Soule outlines farming scale, crop yields, and income, stressing efficient labor and equipment use. It warns July droughts, advises garden and poultry care, pest control, and soil moisture, and notes melon market issues and the need for grower advertising and organized distribution.
The article describes a watermelon surplus threatening growers as market buyers raise costs and delay unloads. In New York, prices fell from 425–655 per car to 150–440, with most around 150, triggering possible auction disruption and unused cars. Terminals fill with unsold fruit while consumers still see high prices.
The Cotton Cooperative outlines plans to sell the balance of its cotton crop through the Stabilization Corporation. Cooperatives expect to transfer all cotton in hand, enabling the stabilization body to hold supplies until fair prices prevail and prevent price depressions on the 1930 crop.
South African chincherichee, famed for beauty and keeping quality, is being established in the United States with bulb growers and USDA support. Propagation from imported seed, now grown in East greenhouses and California fields, allows flowering by Easter when potted in November. Blooms are white, about three quarters of an inch, on 8 to 18 inch spikes. plant is a lily family member with unique appearance.
Four meetings of the Georgia swine producers were conducted at strategic points in the state during that week. Sponsored by the state college of agriculture in cooperation with the state swine committee, the sessions featured open forums with participants from the Agriculture Department and local leaders.
The ia Association of Future Farmers of America calls all officers to the annual Vocational Course week at Statham High. About 200 boys will participate in state speaking contests and vocational livestock teams with trips to the National Dairy Show in St Louis and to Kansas City for the national FFA congress. Lectures by Paul W. Chaman and other leaders will accompany candidate initiations, elections, and awards for top schools and district winners.
Directions outline a banana based filling recipe using ripe fruit lemon juice sugar pectin and butter. Steps include crushing bananas boiling with sugar and lemon juice adding pectin to reach a rolling boil stirring constantly and cooling before sealing in paraffin covered jars. Makes about nine eight ounce glasses.
Readable text outlines a marmalade recipe using citrus, carrot, and pectin with steps to boil, pour, and seal in jars. Ingredients include 8 lemons, carrots, sugar, and optional ginger or cinnamon. yields about nine eight ounce glasses.
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