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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
2
A Western Newspaper Union feature guides home jam makers to start with early berries and use commercial pectin. It outlines several recipes including Strawberry Jelly, Raspberry Jelly, and Strawberry Pineapple Jam, plus rhubarb relish and strawberry lemon jam, with steps for juice preparation, boiling times, and sealing jars. It notes sugar amounts and emphasizes safe canning practices.
After victory, U S planners foresee rapid recovery through farm chemistry uses and expanded building and aviation sectors. A broad postwar program stresses plastics from crops, timber construction, public works, and revived consumer manufacturing to absorb returning labor and sustain growth.
The article notes honey bees mainly aid wartime production through pollination of crops for seed and fruit. While honey and beeswax have grown in importance, domestic bees pollinate most fruits as wild bees are scarce in early spring. In cultivated regions, wild bees lack nesting sites, so domestic bees are essential for seed crops like clover and alfalfa. Beekeeping complements seed production by supplying nectar and food for bees.
Lynn offers practical tips for small scale jelly and jam making at home. Plan a dedicated jelly day, avoid multitasking, and prepare jars in advance. Wash berries before canning to reduce water uptake and ensure sterilization remains the main task on jelly day.
Pirates or smugglers ignore wartime rail limits on flowers as spring blooms move from the Scilly Isles to Penzance and on to London in private steamers. An ordinary suitcase can hold 60 dozen daffodils.
Three Canadian navy doctors announced an icebox treatment for immersion foot a form of chilblains among seamen in open lifeboats. The method uses a fan cooled ice box with two leg openings to prevent rapid rewarming and reduce amputations among survivors of a ship picked up in European waters.
A Royal Navy surgeon lieutenant aboard a British destroyer, with both legs broken, attended more than 50 Weyburn survivors and wounded for over 12 hours after an explosion in the Mediterranean. He rode the deck in a chair between examinations, directing care until Gibraltar before accepting quiet.
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