Important Vitamins in Low Cost Foods
The USDA subcommittee on nutrition reports a list of affordable foods that maximize vitamins, protein, and minerals. The guide supports nutrition workers advising drought affected families facing limited variety and cash, helping them meet dietary needs within budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
National Drought Relief Committee
Co-Operative Extension Service
Bureau of Home Economics
Modern Kitchen Tools Can Ease Household Labor
A ten year housekeeper uses a paring knife for fried eggs and declares she never owned a pancake turner. A committee urges checking kitchen tools to reduce drudgery and suggests adding time saving devices and replacing worn utensils. It lists foods essential for a balanced diet including milk eggs lean meat fish vegetables fruits whole grains and molasses.
Household Tips For Safe Cooking And Cleaning
Practical advice covers cooling cakes after folding in egg whites and rolling pastry with light strokes to avoid ruined pies. It stresses honest answers to children's questions and keeping overshoes and raincoats clean. It also notes rubber deteriorates in heat and sun and gives methods for laundering and jar reuse for canning season.
Plaid Fashions in Limelight for Women
Styles favor printed silks with plaid designs in heavy and sheer weaves. Women highlight plaids along fashionable routes as they explore versatile patterns and moods in the latest attire.
Bananas and Paisleys Dominate Spring Fashion
In a playful contrast the tale of the Fairy Queen and laughing banana leaves highlights a harvest motif while fashion notes praise plaid and stripe patterns. Paisley prints, bold accessories, and a plaid silk afternoon dress showcase modern yet conservative styling with black accents and blue backgrounds.
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Western Newspaper Union
Salsify or Oyster Plant as Winter Food
In winter markets salsify, also called oyster plant, appears. When cut it may darken but the value remains. drop into cold water to prevent discoloration. It is often served in white sauce or fried in flour.
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Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Tasty Confection May Be Made of Pumpkin
A confection made from 1 inch pumpkin squares plus sugar, soaked overnight, then simmered with lemon and preserved ginger. Drain, cook until clear, then roll in sugar and pack in jars.
Use of Chemicals to Remove Stains of Agriculture
The guide lists common stain removing chemicals to keep at home including javelle water potassium permanganate oxalic acid ammonia and carbon tetrachloride. It warns some are poisonous and should be kept high and out of reach and outlines safe handling and step by step stain treatment using dilute acids peroxide and rinsing. It notes permanganate for many stains including ink and curry turmeric and cautions on storage.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Airplane hunting migratory birds banned by treaty act
Regulations under the federal migratory bird treaty act prohibit hunting migratory game birds from an airplane. Violations carry a fine up to 500 dollars or imprisonment up to six months, or both.
Banana Feast Among Fairies and Queen
The story describes waking fairies who enjoy a banana feeding party. After eating and talking, the Fairy Queen returns to Fairyland and shares banana tree history with the others. She brings a large bundle of bananas gifted by banana trees to Fairyland.
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Fairyland
Western Newspaper Union
Spider Web Strength Inspires New Engineering Dreams
The author contemplates future engineering where science reproduces the spider’s web strength. If ropes and cables matched that strength, suspension bridges could span great distances with light, easily anchored lines, suggesting no limit to bridge length.
Manners makyth man quote framed on college doors
The quote from William of Wykeham graces New College doors and reflects Hopkins view that citizenship requires sacrificing self for others. It argues a society or generation lacking concern for manners would also lack unselfishness, underscoring civic virtue.
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William of Wykeham
New College
Ernest Martin Hopkins
Delectable dessert ideas from 1931 Western Newspaper Union
A compilation of recipes includes Orange Cream and Tapioca Cream desserts with whipped cream and fruit, Club Cookies requiring sour cream and pastry flour, Bermuda Soup and Vegetable Chowder as savory options, Pimiento Pinwheels with cheese and pimiento, Frozen Cheese Salad with cherries and olives, and Virginia Corn Dish variations. The items showcase period pantry ingredients and methods, including double boilers, folding in whipped cream, and baking in moderate ovens.
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Virginia
Western Newspaper Union
Bacon Drippings Add Flavor to Food
Bacon drippings add flavor to every food cooked in them or in which they are used. They are especially good in sauces for meats and vegetables. When added to dressings for fowl and other meats, a particularly rich flavor is produced.
Ancient Ophir origin and sea trade debated in biblical context
The article notes Ophir as a seaport or region supplying gold to Solomon. Its exact location is uncertain with theories placing it in India or southern Arabia. The scriptural references imply water access from Red Sea coastal towns.
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Ophir
India
Arabia
Red Sea
Greenhouse Delight Balanced by Restraint
A quotation notes a greenhouse is pleasing when not excessive, reflecting a cautious harmony between abundance and restraint in home life.
Fattening feeder lambs for market profits debated
Farmers in this region weigh the risks and rewards of fattening feeder lambs for market. Transport from Texas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana can cause weight loss and appetite surge, so initial feeding uses troughs and small grain portions to prevent overeating. After three to four days, self feeders may be used with gradual grain increases to balance appetite and labor.
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New Yorker
Texas
Arizona
Idaho
Montana
Pasture Readiness And Hog Carrying Capacities From Forage Types
Red clover alone or with al sike will be ready to pasture in six to twelve months and supply pasture for four to five months while supporting ten to twelve hogs per acre. Sweet clover sown in March or April will be ready first year by July 1 and in year two by April, supporting four to six months of pasture and about ten to fifteen hogs per acre. Sudan grass yields feed in five to seven weeks, sown May to July 15, at ten to twenty pounds per acre, providing three to four months of forage and carrying fifteen to twenty hogs per acre.
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Sudan
Emergency Pasture for Swine Is Much Favored
An emergency pasture blend of rape oats and clover is recommended by W E Carroll of the University of Illinois for pig grazing. Oats begin forage first, followed by rape, with clover as a future option. Sudan grass was noted as a good last summer but must not be allowed to overrun.
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W. E. Carroll
University of
Beef Silage Use For Oat Crops Improves Steer Gains
Tests in Illinois show average daily gains of 2.88 pounds for steers fed shelled corn, cottonseed meal, and alfalfa hay with oat silage. Similar steers fed the same ration but with corn silage instead of oat silage averaged 3.08 pounds. The result points to a profitable use for badly lodged oat crops.
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Illinois
Push Pigs for Market In Late Spring Finish
The article advises crowding early fall pigs for the late April market and notes feed shortages may cause a pig pileup in late May and June. It suggests growing late fall pigs and finishing them for next summer's market when prices are expected to be favorable.
Indefinite Teacher How Big Is a Cubic Foot
A fragmented item from an Exchange page questions size comparisons for a cubic foot and asks if a little Cuban or an adult body is being measured. The readable text is sparse and lacks clear context or confirmation.
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Tommy
Avoid Burns from Mustard Plasters
An advertisement promotes Hoff's liniment as a safer, cleaner alternative for rheumatic and muscular pains and colds. It advises rubbing, applying a cloth soaked with Hoff's, and promises warming relief with a quick blood flow increase. A 8 ounce bottle costs 60 cents with a money back guarantee if relief is not found in 30 minutes.
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