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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1932
Page
5
Home Demonstration Agent Lenora Anderson outlines canning methods for berries and beans amid a good berry crop. Advice covers jar types, avoiding crushed fruit, sugar syrups, and water-bath processing times to preserve color, flavor, and safety. Includes jam and juice prep notes and guidance on selecting tender beans for canning.
Vegetable crops are maturing rapidly and require placing in the garden by other matings for continual harvest. June garden hints emphasize regular cultivation, shallow cultivation to protect soil surface, timely planting for fall crops, and methods to reduce storage losses. Also notes pest control for Mexican bean beetle with arsenate dusts and lime mixtures and a lead arsenate spray.
April egg production figures show low prices but strong results for small, well managed flocks in Taylor County. 4-H members among top earners report eight month net incomes around 480 dollars, with one breeder expanding housing and tied to local feed markets. New growers join long time pioneers, urged to start with brick brooders and a few hundred chicks for promising returns.
The Land Grant College Radio program set for June 15 was canceled due to the Republican National Convention and rescheduled to June 22. It will cover sanitary methods, heat sterilization, and the use of sugar or salt for flavor. County home demonstration agents offer public demonstrations on canning preserving and related methods to conserve high quality food.
The article urges farm families to can surplus home grown fruits and vegetables this summer to balance the diet through winter. It warns against harmful preservatives such as boric acid salicylates and benzoates while stressing proper canning methods and the health benefits of a balanced year round diet.
The article explains dusting cotton with superfine sulphur in three applications at four to five day intervals, eight pounds per acre each, to control the cotton flea. It notes potential plant rebound after control, warns against use after serious damage, and mentions calcium arsenate mixes as an alternative. It also reports steel feeding trials showing white corn matches yellow corn for 12 weeks, then yellow corn cattle gains stay strong while white corn gains decline, linked to vitamin A stores and need for green roughage or vitamin A supplementation.
The Mexican bean beetle an insect pest from Mexico has become a major threat to snap and lima beans in Georgia. It also attacks lima beans cowpeas soybeans alfalfa clover velvet beans corn okra eggplant potato and squash. The pest spread from Alabama to Georgia between 1920 and 1921 and now covers much of the state except a small southern area around Thomasville. Adults are brown with 16 black spots on wing covers. Larvae are orange and spiny. Control focuses on spraying and dusting underside of leaves. burn beetle harborages in spring and plow under plant residues after harvest. Spray schedules urge repeated applications and careful timing. arsenicals should not be used on bearing beans unless washing is possible.
An essay by Mary McCarthy, 2 year old stenographer from Asheville, argues Americans lack Washington's leadership. It laments partisan politics, debt, apathy, and foreign entanglements while urging a return to Washingtonian unity and the Farewell Address ideals. The piece contrasts past glory with present policy missteps and calls for renewing American patriotism.
One cord of oak ash elm locust hickory beech birch hard maple equals one ton of coal in heating value. Two cords of cedar cottonwood catalpa basswood white pine and spruce equal one ton of average coal.
A sidereal year is the period for Earth to complete one orbit around the sun. It comprises 865 days 6 hours B minutes and 9 seconds and is stated as never varying.
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