Home canned tomato spoilage linked to weather in 1954
Reports to the Fruit and Vegetable Products Laboratory at Morden note more spoilage in home canned tomatoes during 1954 due to cooler September temperatures and lower tomato acid levels. Varieties vary in acidity, with Earl Chatham Early Lethbridge and Mustang highest. Monarch medium. Meteor lowest. Commercial canning uses 130 degrees F for 30 to 40 minutes to counter spoilage.
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Fruit and Vegetable Products Laboratory
Morden
Manitoba
Earl Chatham
Lethbridge
Mustang
Monarch
U.S. Wheat and Corn Crops Estimated Higher
The U.S. wheat crop increased by 50 million bushels to 910,985,000 this month, up from last year’s 860,231,000. The corn crop is estimated at 3,477,711,000 bushels, compared with 2,964,639,000 last year. The 19 year average is 3,080,115,000. Today is yesterday's pupil.
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United States
Pioneers honored at Indian Head Jubilee ceremony
The Territorial Grain Growers Association the first farmer organization in the North West Territories was honored in a Golden Jubilee Year event in Indian Head with Dominion and provincial officials attending. The ceremony featured a cairn unveiling by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board and a marker at the Indian Head Dominion Experimental Farm noting its status as the first experimental farm in the North West Territories.
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North West Territories
Territorial Grain Growers’ Association
Dominion
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Ottawa
Dewdney Avenue
A. Dunning
Saskatchewan
T. A. Crerar
J. Oberholtzer
Alberta
Ean Protea
Mahitoba
R. Douglas
Indian Head
Violet McNaughton
Richmond Mayson
Historic Sites and Monuments Board
Gardiner
Indian Head Dominion Experimental Farm
Selecting Fruits and Vegetables for Canning Methods
The guide advises choosing ripe firm produce with good color and flavor, suggests blanching and peeling tomatoes, and outlines canning times. It notes processing in boiling water bath or pressure canner and provides headspace and salt guidance. One bushel of tomatoes yields 18 to 22 quarts.
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George Bernard Shaw
Mahatma Ghandi
Shaw
Random Facts and Vignettes From A Century Ago Side Column
The column surveys varied trivia and reminiscences from history and culture. It notes the Aga Khan’s bodyguard of sons, famous presidents’ lifespans, Ireland's Curragh sires Nasrullah Khaled and Alibhai, Gandhi and Shaw vegetarianism, the origins of Auld Lang Syne, a used car mechanic adviser, and a child's haircut request with humor.
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England
France
Blue Grass
Kentucky
Ireland
Nasrullah
Khaled
Alibhai
Curragh
County Kildare
Nasrallah
Nashua
Swaps
Dinosaurs Roamed Alberta's Red Deer Valley Ancient Jungle
In Alberta's Red Deer river valley between Steveville and Big Valley paleontologists reveal 45 dinosaur species from 400 world-wide types. Chasmosaurus Brontosaurus Tyrannosaurus and Gorgosaurus once inhabited steaming swamps and dense jungle as the sea receded. Fossil beds yield hundreds of tons of bones now in major museums.
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Great Central Plains
North America
Alberta
Red Deer River
Steveville
Big Valley
Witn
British Museum
Berlin
University of Toronto
Victoria Memorial Museum
Ottawa
Smithsonian Institute
American Museum of Natural History of
New York
Red Deer
Proud blisters mark tense Slave Lake catch
Magis trate A E Pearce displayed blisters and cuts from landing a 42 inch northern pike in Slave Lake using light tackle and a blue and bronze Swedish spoon hook.
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Athabasca
Alta
A. E. Pearce
Slave Lake
Blondies With Bran And Nuts
A compact recipe for blondies mixing bran powder flour baking powder and soda with nuts and chocolate pieces. Butter and brown sugar are melted then cooled before adding egg vanilla and dry ingredients. Batter spread in a greased pan and baked about 15 minutes yielding 24 bars.
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U.S
Shannon Motherwell
W. R. Motherwell
James Sanderson
W. H. Ismond
John Burrill
Pioneers First Farmer Organization
N.W.T
Canada
Justice. M. Culliton
T. C. Douglas
James G. Gardiner
Charles
Australia
Sealer
E. i
Aga Khan
John Adams
Madison
John Quincy Adams
van Buren
Jackson
Buchanan
Monroe
Herbert Hoover
Robert Burns
Wicklow
The
Children’s Hour
Institutes of Science
Badlands
Drumheller Valley
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