Farm Wife and Family Cookie Recipes Reprinted
A collection of vintage cookie recipes with instructions and ingredients including butterscotch cookies and nut date treats. Recipes list butter sugar vanilla salt nuts dates and flour with steps to cream mix bake and dust with sugar. Mentioned locations Lancaster Norristown Hanover and various bake times and oven settings.
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Poinsettia Bloom Requires Darkness At Night
The poinsettia blooms when days shorten and nights lengthen. Keep the plant in a room not used at night to avoid exposure to light which delays blooming. If leaves drop after blooming, it may be entering rest or require repotting due to congested roots.
Keep Cattle Away From Stale Water
Stagnant water near dairy cattle can cause mastitis lepto spirosis and other diseases. Rutgers extension specialist Edward Oleskie notes ponds and streams serve as sources of contamination. Dairymen should drain or fence stale ponds to prevent cattle access.
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Edward Oleskie
Rutgers University
Hatcheries Produce Seven Percent More Chicks in October
Commercial hatcheries produced 13,991,000 chicks in October up seven percent from a year ago and 44 percent above the long term average. For the first ten months total output reached 1,820,283,000, down three percent from 1956. Broiler chicks made up 88 percent of October hatchings, up nine percent from October last year. Heavy breed poults hatched in October totaled 378,000, down six percent from October 1956, while light breed poults were 169,000, a 48 percent drop from last October.
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