Mind and marriage duties and child diet study insights
A reflective note argues women should assert themselves and seek validation to avoid timidity. It cites a Journal of Home Economics study of 385 elementary students linking better diets with higher marks, health, attendance, and social adjustment, suggesting well adjusted children cope with disappointments without overindulgence.
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Journal of Home Economics
Martha Potgieter
Viola Everitt
Keeping Healthy Mental Health Care Progress and Shortages
The article notes a prewar demand for beds in mental institutions and how shock therapies helped many patients return to work. It cites the National Association for Mental Health on rising care quality and outpatient facilities amid a nationwide shortage, with one in ten people needing psychiatric care. The association funds hospital inspections to raise standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association For Mental Health
Association
Health Notes on Weight, Exercise and Diet
Reducing weight lowers high blood pressure and a physician can help with motion sickness prevention. Exercise benefits persist long after sessions end. Quick weight loss methods are risky without medical supervision. Obesity clusters in some families while underweight may harm youths. Start exercise slowly and build up gradually. Small changes in eating yield big health and happiness gains.
Pasture Renovation Shows Dramatic Gains on Minnesota Farm
On the John Fleischerheim farm near Watkins Minnesota a renovation using lime fertilizer and seeding a brome and alta fescue mix transformed worn land. The upper field yielded little before, while the lower field produced two brome crops in year one and 80 tons of hay in reserve by year two. Fleischerheim managed 33 dairy cows mostly Holsteins through the summer on the improved pasture.
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John Fleighenheim
Watkins, Minn
Fleischeriem
Fleischenhiemn
Fleischenriem
Food Outlook for 1952 Sees Higher Prices and More Meat
The Department of Agriculture reports 1952 will bring larger food supplies and higher incomes, with beef and veal output rising to meet demand. Fish will be similar to 1951 with more fresh and frozen stock, and eggs, chicken, and turkey rising. Fluid milk and ice cream up, butter slightly down, dairy supplies steady, with fresh vegetables possibly short but spring plantings encouraged.
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Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Shade for Swine
Farmers seek easy movable shade for hogs using an upright skid frame. A top of old wire fence supports straw and weeds, creating an inexpensive shelter adaptable to individual pen sizes.
Well Managed Acre Supports a Dairy Cow Pasture
An acre and a quarter of well managed pasture can feed a dairy cow in summer and keep it well fed with high protein grass silage in winter. Ohio Experiment Station agronomist J L Haynes advises seeding a legume grass mix and adding soil nutrients to achieve high yielding pasture.
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J. L Haynes
Ohio Experiment Station
Patterns for Skirts Available at Madison Square Station NY
Patterns ready to fill orders immediately at Madison Square Station New York 10 New York. Foreseal handling adds 5 cents per pattern. The vaudeville pair Samson and Delilah delivered a hit show. Their act drew the house.
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Toa
Madison Square Station
New York 10
N.Y
Samson and Delilah
World Population Up In Postwar Period
Postwar resurgence of births and lower mortality boosts world population. In the United States births exceed deaths by over 15 per 1 000, higher than after World War I and about twice the 1930s. Canada and New Zealand show similar gains. France, Ireland also report rising natural increase since 1946 and mid-decade.
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United States
Canada
New Zealand
France
Ireland
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