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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1944
Page
8
The babassu palm yields nut kernels containing oil used as olive oil substitute, in pork lard, margarine, soaps, medicines, lubes and varnishes. Brazil exports shelled kernels since 1934, rising to about 50,000 tons yearly by 1999, yet demand outstrips supply amid wartime controls.
Since ancient times popes and kings sought to drain the Pontine marshes near Rome. Beginning in 1926 Italy, aided by the Rockefeller Foundation, reclaimed bogs and lakes, recut old canals, built roads, and moved colonists to transform fields. Large farms emerged with crops, vineyards, and livestock encouraged.
The guide recommends selecting young, tender meats and poultry and slightly immature vegetables for best freezing. After harvest, prepare promptly or refrigerate, wash in cold water, scald at high heat, and blast chill to 50 degrees. Package in moisture-vapor proof wrap, then freeze at 0 F or below with air space for circulation.
The Solomons host few snakes including burrowing bind snakes and small boas up to three feet with prehensile tails. Harmless green and black yellow tree snakes are common in New Guinea, while three land snakes are venomous but rarely bite. Sea snakes laying eggs in rock crevices are deadly but only prey on eels.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes abaca or Manila hemp is becoming a permanent crop in the Western hemisphere. Harry T. Edwards led early Philippine plant imports to Columbus Island Panama, where 500 survived and enabled planting across 26 000 acres in Panama Guatemala Costa Rica and Honduras. Hard fiber shipments rise to offset Manila hemp imports from the Philippines.
The war effort boosts grease conservation through thousands of interceptors in hotels restaurants schools and hospitals. Interceptors save grease used for munitions antiseptics and dressings and trap about 93 percent of grease in drain water.
Public health experts push modern science to accelerate development of the Rio Doce valley in Brazil. They prepare the way for homesteaders and mine workers at iron and mica sites and on the railroad as the valley spans over 50 000 square miles north of Rio de Janeiro.
J F Wilson of UC Davis reports that heavy fleece ewes produce lambs as good as light fleece ewes and add about 2.78 to grower revenue. His experiments with Rambouillet ewes show heavy fleece weights of 13 to 14 pounds raised heavy lambs under the same conditions as lighter fleece, with wool at 46 cents. This extra profit comes without extra cost, boosting total band revenue.
A humorous exchange features Elmer Twitchell proposing drastic tax blank simplifications. He suggests removing the Form 1041 header, dropping full name and address fields, eliminating parentheses and many terms, and letting taxpayers provide only a first name and street address to ease filing. The dialogue shifts to a fishing scene with humor about echo-sounding devices and misheard gear.
Easy to make a curved chair with added comfort using one inch lumber. A pattern and full instructions for curved pieces, reinforcing squares, and the tufted cushion are provided as pattern 265, sent postpaid for 16 cents. Includes dimensions and materials list.
The record notes that there are at least 5,006 orchid species. This fact highlights the vast diversity within the orchid family and underscores botanical richness in horticultural studies.
A quirky survey notes animals and feats with speeds from ostriches at up to 60 to cheetahs around 70 mph. It cites London sightings and mentions a 818 mph deer fly and fleas leaping two hundred times their length, plus a human would need a quarter mile jump to match.
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