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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1943
Page
8
Auburn Alabama reports a bumper crop of sweet potatoes with up to five to ten pounds per acre this year. Nutritionist Mildred Simon highlights vitamin A and C benefits, energy value, and wartime diet importance. Readers are shown several preparation methods including boiling, baking, and a potato and apple scallop option.
Conservation notes from J C Docking report Houston County farmers advancing a winter cover crop drive led by local business groups and agricultural agencies. The Agricultural Conservation Program last week moved 60 000 pounds of Austrian peas 15 000 of blue lupine and 35 tons of beans through the county effort mainly for peanut land. D F Snell of Dethan Route 1 plans to plant cover crops on every acre of harvested peanut land using Austrian winter peas blue lupine and oats with initial plantings already under way on 12 acres of blue lupine ahead of digging runner peanuts.
Auburn Alabama Polytechnic Institute Prof Le M Ware reports a process to make breakfast cereals candies flour and confections from sweet potatoes. He notes products are fully prepared highly nutritious and concentrated and outlines many potential uses from cereals and cookies to bars and spreads with partnerships sought for commercial production.
Auburn area report shows a new quarterly allotment of copper wire for farmstead wiring, with state and county quotas raised by the War Food Administration to cover unfilled P-144 wire certifications and new applications through September 30. Farmers may apply through their County Agricultural Board if their use meets essential permitted standards.
The Board will issue him a Copper Wire Allotment Certificate which the farmer presents to his local dealer to buy wire. Allotments are released only for essential food production and labor-saving purposes under the copper wire distribution program.
A farm Q and A advises changing knives every four hours of continuous use to save power, maintaining 2 clearance between knife and shear plate, and reversing or replacing worn shear plate edges. Do not exceed the speed needed to move material through the blower to prevent power waste and improper chopping. Extension agronomists say oats barley and rye may be seeded until October 15 with wheat follow-up.
Auburn special report shows hog cholera serum production rising by over 25 percent with more than 1.7 billion cubic centimeters manufactured July 1 2542 to June 30 under licensed federal supervision. Officials call the surge a national asset aiding protection of hog herds nationwide against hog cholera.
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