Summertime Follies Elevate Outdoor Shows At County Fair
Outdoor productions at the Great Jones County Fair have shed the mud opera label as advances in stage design lighting and sound lift entertainment value. Wartime innovations in materials paints and spotlights enable larger, faster erecting sets and stronger amplification. Casts feature top stars with high salaries, and musical fare favors popular tunes with humor enhancing a gay pace.
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Jones County Fair
Cline
Sour Milk Recipes Offer Varied Uses and Cheese Making
Iowa State College nutritionist Jewel Graham outlines practical uses for sour milk or cream in dressings sauces and baked goods. She details a fish sauce from sour cream a substitution ratio for baking powder and a method to make cottage cheese from soured skim milk including curd heating draining rinsing and salting for flavor.
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Jewel Graham
Iowa State College
Miss Graham
Graham
Adjustment Of Hogs When Pastures Dry Up
E. L. Quaife Iowa State College extension swine specialist recommends a mineral mix for hogs on pasture or in drylot when pastures fade. The mix includes iodized salt steamed bone meal limestone ferric sulfate and manganese sulfate with optional black salt and small mineral additions with grain or protein supplements. Fattening pigs on drylots consume little minerals per weight gain and pasture hogs even less.
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E. L. Quaife
Iowa State College Extension
Pigs At Fair Offer New Look For Better Meat Cuts
At the Jones County Fair swine exhibit Ed Helgens notes a shift to intermediate hogs weighing 200 to 240 pounds. The smaller pigs, while less imposing, yield leaner meat and better cuts such as hams bacons chops for the dinner plate.
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Jones County Fair
Ed Helgens
Helgens
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