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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
12
Nutritionists outline that a standard man, 67 inches tall and 143 pounds, and a standard woman, 62 inches and 121 pounds, reflect optimal health at age 25. Calorie needs decline about 5 percent per decade, with activity as the main variation. bread provides notable portions of daily nutrients.
The AVMA warns hardware disease in cattle rises from farm neglect. Most cases occur in cattle over two years old with wires and nails as chief foreign bodies. Magnets help reduce processed feed metal but fail against fence and barnyard debris. Regular farm cleanups are urged to cut incidence.
Swine growers can improve market hogs by a crossbreeding system. S. W. Terfill of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture notes experiments favor cross breds over non crossbreds. Use a rotation of three or four boar breeds, advancing to the next breed as gilts enter breeding, while retaining older boars for dam breeding.
A description explains a metal welded tractor seat assembly with a telescoping pipe system and spring support. The text also notes the Shinkolobwe uranium mine as the richest and most closely guarded deposit, located in the southern Belgian Congo.
Arthur F. Weiskopf of the Illinois Master Plumbers Assn says the near future will see baths in each bedroom as aging homes without enough bathrooms become common. He notes about 70 percent of American houses are over 20 years old and traditionally have only one bath.
Penny's Small Homes outlines a three bedroom with basement ranch style home and a two bedroom variant with no basement. It features a brick exterior with vertical trim, a double fireplace, a snack bar between kitchen and dining room, and a large living room facing the yard. Blueprints plus 60 design portfolios available for purchase with postage and handling details.
Observers praise combining flowers with a vegetable plot for beauty and practicality. The article notes flowers tolerate sun and care, suggesting borders with alyssum petunias and zinnias, while keeping flowering plants out of the vegetable rows. It presents a layout plan balancing ornament and edible crops.
Newer houses are larger and more likely to have three or more bedrooms. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes two thirds of homes started in the first quarter of last year had three bedrooms or more, with an average floor area of 1149 square feet, five percent larger than 1951. Frame construction dominated one family homes at 82 percent, varying by region from 76 to 89 percent, with 38 percent of frame homes wood faced. Only 40 percent of new five or more family apartments had more than one bedroom, and frame construction accounted for 45 percent of such apartment units started.
D. C. Everest of Marathon Corp. told the 42nd annual convention of the National Association of Waste Material Dealers that Americans are salvaging less waste paper in proportion to production than at any time since 1909.
In Buffalo New York Dorothy Prell was found near death from carbon monoxide fumes after her aunt Helen Weber asked her to check her washing line. Prell was revived after rescue.
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