Farm Wife and Family Caning and Pickling Guide
The article provides step by step home canning instructions for vegetables and fruits. It lists ingredients for cauliflower pickling corn peppers onions cabbage tomatoes and a chili sauce with spices. Directions cover washing preparing jars boiling vegetables simmering mixtures and sealing for preservation.
Making a Chili Sauce in a Boiling Method
Combine tomatoes sweet pepper onion hot pepper ginger and nutmeg. Put a spice bag of celery seed mustard seed bay leaf cloves and cinnamon in the mixture and tie loosely. Boil until reduced by half then stir often. Add sugar vinegar and salt boil ten minutes then fill hot sterile jars and seal. Wrap jars if no dark storage to preserve color.
Pickled Seckel Pears and Pepper Relish Recipes
A historic notice presents two recipe blocks for pickled Seckel pears and a sweet pepper relish. It lists ingredients such as pears sugar vinegar and spices for pears, and peppers cabbage onions mustard and horseradish with brine steps and canning directions. It ends with a note requesting a baked squash recipe from readers.
Poisonous Halogeton Threatens Sheep Across Ranges
The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association reports Halogeton, a toxic weed, spreading across intermountain ranges and posing year round danger to sheep. Animals may salivate, show low mood and weakness, and die within 24 hours after exposure, with fatalities rising when over a quarter of feed is plant material.
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Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Simple electric device tells irrigation need
USDA researchers test a simple electrical device to gauge plant moisture needs. Two stainless steel prongs insert into the stem and connect to an ohmmeter to measure resistance. In cotton, resistance dropped as moisture rose, suggesting a practical tool for farmers to decide when to irrigate.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Agricultural Research Service
Excess Arsanilic Acid Poisoning in Swine Herd
A herd of 30 pigs fed a grower ration with 15 times the recommended arsanilic acid became blind and uncoordinated over a week while 70 brood sows fed a starter ration were unaffected. After switching to veterinarian recommended feed the herd reached market age and was sold. several pigs remained blind. Organic arsenics can accumulate with prolonged high intake.
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Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
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