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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1944
Page
4
A farming guide stresses early digging before frost and careful handling to prevent injury and decay. It covers field grading, crate storage, and vented banking with straw or stalks, noting crates should move directly to storage and ventilation must stay secure as cold weather approaches.
A garbled message discusses two good ideas for modifying material to become a brandable item. It mentions a dress and a plan to make the wearer look neat and presentable for a specific date or event.
Auburn reports the Fat Salvage Campaign collected about 760 million pounds of fats in the last year. The effort captures about one tenth of inedible animal fats, which make up roughly one fifth of total fats and oils. Recovered kitchen fats join the inedible tallow pool and greases, with 20 to 25 percent used for lubricants and fatty acids, while the remainder funds soap production for civilian use and war needs.
Glycerine from fats and soap by products powers explosives. About 500 million pounds of fats wasted yearly in homes and eateries. Housewives can receive four cents and two red pots per pound of salvage fat turned in to the butcher.
C E Clapp of Alabama Polytechnic Institute argues wood is vital to war needs. More ships require timber and wooden crates for food and supplies, but lumber supply is not the bottleneck. He warns against over-cutting and urges farmers to help now while safeguarding timber future.
Auburn, Als. fish is a good food and plentiful. The WFA with Fish and Wildlife Services promotes a special eat more fish campaign through November 18 to address abundance and storage limits amid meat shortages.
A farm and home Q and A column offers pantry based fruit cake directions using substitutions, plus guidance on pork sausage mix, sharpening sewing machine needles with sandpaper, serving peanuts and peanut butter, and notes from Extension specialists at Auburn Alabama.
Timber operations plan to cut and haul their own timber when feasible during slack periods, selecting only the larger trees for saw logs, thinning crowded areas to produce sawlogs or pulpwood, and ensuring woodland fires are kept out of the forest.
Auburn Alabama officials announce 1945 winter cover crop goals for seed production totaling 12 500 acres hairy vetch 10 000 crimson clover 3 000 caley peas and 3 600 blue lupines. Purchase prices and loan rates for saved seed are also set by CCC with dairy vetch at 33 cents per pound certified Willamette vetch 7 crimson clover 125 and rye grass 85 cents. Loan rates include Austrian winter peas 4 1/2 blue lupines 5 and Tough peas 6 cents per pound. All purchases or loans require clean seed fumigated if needed and bagged in approved quality sacks.
Elizabeth Forney state name agent of the Alabama Extension Service was elected chairman and Mary Ling Hayley supervisor Home Economics Education Montgomery vice chairman of the Alabama Nutrition Council. Some 1100 practical farmers in Alabama and other states are cooperating with county agents in checking land values and other agricultural facts in preparation for service as personal advisers to veterans returning home.
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