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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
8
A guide to summer vegetable canning highlights preparation, equipment, quality, cleaning, pre cooking, and pressure canner use. It stresses organizing kitchens, selecting mature produce, and following safe processing times and venting practices for reliable preservation.
A critique of R Westbrook Pegler's Forrestal criticisms, arguing readers should understand the journalist’s rebuttal in a legal suit. The author cites Forrestal's illness, Navy responses, and the need for psychiatric treatment, noting press influence, political figures, and the risk of public checks on government.
The article traces tobacco’s central role in American history from the Virginia colony to postwar mass consumption, noting the cigarette as a global currency after World War II and detailing production, taxes, and cultural shifts. It also warns on careful tree moving practices to protect orchard growth, citing Dr. A Lee Schrader on root loss during shipment and the need for new root formation to prevent tree death and poor growth due to soil mineral deficiencies.
The European corn borers reduced the 1948 field corn harvest by 85 million bushels, announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington. Entomology reports show the loss more than doubles 1947, based on surveys by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine with cooperating agencies.
M. W. Forth, engineer at University of Tinos college of Agriculture, urges including a mechanical barn cleaner in new barn designs or remodeling plans. He says provisions should be made even if not immediately needed.
Crochet pattern offers a chair set to refresh living room chairs. Includes chair back 17 by 13 inches and arm pieces 9 by 9 inches. Provides complete instructions and finishing directions upon sending 20 cents with name address and number to Treasure Circle 5800.
The 1949 Britannica Book of the Year notes 1948 yielded record crops across corn wheat and cotton with prices peaking in January then falling as crops were harvested. Despite high production costs, gross farmer income approached 35 billion dollars, though net income declined since 1947.
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