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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1951
Page
2
A homemaker guide touts salads as the zest of spring meals. It covers Citrus Salmon Salad, Baked Seafood Salad, Continental Salad Bowl, Chow Mein Salad, and a Salad-Dessert Loaf, with prep tips and serving suggestions for light, chilled dishes.
Grantland Rice discusses why the Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn Dodgers mystify fans with supposed flaws. He notes Red Sox hitters and pitching depth but unresolved clutch performance, cites Joe McCarthy, Tom Yawkey, and comments from Eddie Sawyer on Dodgers strength. He warns sport and business now blend, impacting amateur athletics across college football and basketball.
A poultry farmer showcases a three story chicken house innovation using a tall flue that runs top to bottom. Electric fans on each floor vent air while litter is swept via a modified lawn mower into a manure loader at the feed lot end.
A historic clipping lists Lynn Chambers menu items including Potato Chips or French Fried Potatoes, Pickle Fans, Celery Hearts, Olives, Crusty Rolls, Spice Cake and Beverage Recipe. The lineup showcases era specific food offerings and suggests a community dining event or household menu note. Eyewitness readers recognize familiar pantry staples and a likely social gathering context.
The U S department of agriculture urges fungicidal seed treatment for wheat oats barley and corn sorghum to prevent smuts seed rats and blights. Treating at source helps, and farmers hiring others should ensure proper chemicals and correct per bushel rates.
Farmers plan for next year by seeking hybrids that will ripen sooner due to a year of soft corn. Local corn demonstrations are reviewed to guide selections and inform decisions.
A simple vegetable washer uses a sturdy wooden box with wire mesh inserted as a bottom. Place the box screen side down on the lawn and rinse vegetables with a hose to remove dirt efficiently.
The American Veterinary Medical Association journal reports DDT is losing ground to methoxychlor lindane and chlordan as safer parasite killers for livestock and pets. Farmers should receive instructions on their use.
Sewing circle pattern 8611 offers a two piece pinafore with soft eyelet ruffling and twin pockets. Sized 12 14 16 14 24, requires 3 3/8 yards of 35 or 49 inch fabric and 1 1/4 yards eyelet embroidery. pattern copy available for 25 cents with Spring Summer Stylist magazine.
A collection of practical cooking hints and meal ideas. Tips include using eggs and orange juice as seasonings, mashing pulp and returning to shells, brightening aluminum with tomatoes, soaking clothes pins, making a curry dip for chips, walnuts in salads and rice, cabbage with sour apples, texturing surfaces in plating, serving crisp sides with fish, and boosting pea soup with bacon and olives.
Mrs. Henry Schmidt of Kimball Nebraska won cooking ribbons at Kimball County Fair Nebraska and Laramie County Fair Wyoming for years. In 1950 she stayed in Nebraska and won ribbons there. She credits Fleischmanns New Improved Active Dry Yeast for prize winning results.
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