Build It From A Pattern Outdoor Furniture Sale Pitch
An ad promotes affordable lawn furniture for porches and lawns using patterns that show full size pieces and exact join locations. It claims no special tools are needed and urges readers to mail 25c to order Lawn Chair Pattern No. 56 35c for Lawn Settee Pattern No. 55 and 35c for Lawn Table Pattern No. 75 from East Bird Pattern Co in Pleasantville New York.
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East Bird Pattern Co
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Pleasantville
N. Y
Swine Vaccination Campaign Surpasses Eight Million Pigs
Swine erysipelas vaccination has reached over eight million pigs in ten years in the largest animal disease control experiment in U.S. history. The live culture vaccine, conducted since 1938 under federal and state supervision, is reported to be entirely satisfactory by the American Foundation for Animal Health. The disease spreads quickly through hog herds, killing animals and reducing market profitability, and can spread to other animals poultry and humans.
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American Foundation For Animal Health
Your Vegetable Canning Guide
Step by step tips for selecting fresh produce and preparing vegetables for canning. Guidance covers asparagus beans beets corn carrots and greens with farm to can timing and safe processing using a pressure cooker. Includes Lynn Chambers menu plan and home kitchen prep instructions from wash jars to sterilizing and proper sealing.
Lynn Says Tips on Canning Vegetables at Home
The article explains enzymes in vegetables affect color flavor and texture during canning. It notes darkening on top of jars signals enzyme activity and advises selecting fully red beets with intact skins taproots and stems and precooking without breaking any part.
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Lynn
Home canning tips for better color and quality
Beets with uneven color improve if pared cut and precooked five minutes before canning. They reabsorb color after this. Brown cast in canned corn comes from caramelization. Prevent it by using juicy corn plenty of water and correct processing. Careful vegetable selection and handling yield desired results.
Four Measures Listed To Curb Elm Disease Spreads
The Dutch elm disease is spreading widely and threatens many trees. University of Massachusetts specialists cite four control measures: prune and burn all dead elm material, remove bark before storing or dumping elm wood, store wood in a dry building, and burn promptly any elm trees killed by the disease. Signs include woodpecker work, stripped bark on limbs, and twisted shepherd's crooks. Early detection aids control.
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University of Massachusetts
Electricity Ends Mold In Virginia Egg Storage
Electricity uses two germicidal lights in a Virginia farm egg storage room to battle mold and odors. The room has stayed mold free for three years and eggs stored there are rated top quality and fetch premium prices. Electricity also aids incubating, brooding, cleaning, grading, ventilating, lighting, debeaking, watering, feather removal, and freezing for home or commercial use.
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Virginia
Virginia Farmer
Farm Saw Frame Construction Highlights Scrap Metal Use
The table for this saw frame is an all steel welded job not damaged by heavy poles. The frame at the back of the table and the safety guard were made from scrap pieces. The guard on the back of the saw is an example of fabricating useful equipment from metal scraps with an arc welder.
Wisconsin Dairy Cow Numbers Decline in 1948
Wisconsin, the nation’s top dairy state, opened 1948 with 2,580,000 milk cows and 1,015,000 heifer calves two years old or more kept for milk. Compared with the previous year, milk cows fell by 51,000 and young stock kept for future milk cows decreased by 16,000.
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Wisconsin
America
Woman's Frock With Dainty Tie Leads Summer Sewing
Pattern No. 8315 features a softly styled afternoon dress with dainty scalloped neckline and surplice closing sleeves. Sizes 32 through 46 offered. fabric length 4 yards of 39 inch for size 34.
Spring and Summer FA SHION sewing ideas presented
A note highlights sewing ideas for home dressmakers in the Spring and Summer FA SHION guide with free knitting instructions and free ears printed inside the book, priced at 25 cents.
Two New Hybrid Tea Roses Win National Title in 1949
Forty-niner and Tallyho, two hybrid tea roses, won the All-American Rose Selection title after two years of trials in 18 official test gardens. Forty-niner features chrome yellow buds with red interiors and a vivid bi color blend, while Tallyho shows weather and location driven shifts from crimson outside to various pinks inside, both earning near perfect scores from the National Rose Jury.
Field Trials Highlight Upland Game Bird Competition
Field trials have played an important part in advancement of a higher degree of sportsmanship in upland gaming in America. They serve as proving grounds for dog breeding blood lines stamina and performance.
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America
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