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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1952
Page
9
Bartletts shine for home canning with other varieties also good. Select ripe pears, wash, core, cut, and pack in light salt water before boiling in sirup. Fill hot jars, remove air, seal, and process 25 minutes in a boiling water bath.
Farm news discusses corn cultivation depth, noting shallow tillage and weed control via 2 4 D can yield similar or better results than deep plowing in drought. It cites Pattengill observations, experiment stations, and legume nitrogen effects, plus practical notes on farm floors for equipment and future fertilizer practices. It also covers Salcedo and Catham Extension Club meetings with lessons on pressure cookers refinishing furniture and preserving democracy, plus a Rural Telephone Service meeting in Vanduser.
Scott County visitors at the University of Missouri field days saw new varieties being tested and the County Extension Office issued crop variety recommendations for New Madrid County. Crops include cotton Deltapine 15 Fox Stoneville 2B Paula C Coker 100 Wilt Fusarium Wilt resistant. lespedera Climax Kobe. soybeans Wabash Ogden Rassey S-100 Perry. winter barley Mo. B-400. wheat Clarkan Vigo Royal. oats Mo. O-205 Mo. 0-200 Andrew. For questions contact County Extension Agents in Court House.
Mrs. A. R. Boswell led the June 11 Vanduser Extension Club meeting detailing steps to reclaim good furniture and refinish surfaces. A display of recommended refinishing aids was shown while Ruth Dennis held a cooker gauge testing clinic. Mrs. John L. Watkins reported on community committee activities.
The Planning Committee for the New Madrid County 4-H Fair and Farm Bureau Barbecue will meet Thursday July 3 at 7 45 p m in the County Extension Office New Madrid. Members were appointed by Charles Gardner 4 H Council and Farm Bureau President. Members are invited to join to help plan the big 4 H event with demonstrations grooming judging and dress revue for August 8 and 9.
Friends and relatives announce the birth of a son Mark Anderson to TiSgt and Mrs E M Trotter in El Paso Texas on June 12 first child Joy May is his mother’s maiden name Mrs Robert Blakenbeker and baby visited Texas Mrs Fred Keifer discharged from St Francis Hospital Morley Baptist Church W M S met June 18 the program Meet the Alaskans by Mrs Tutre Leslie anniversary picnic June 20 Felder Park Morley Study Club annual picnic June 20 at Felder Park M C Chaney of Detroit visits Hiram Warner home
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