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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
2
Scott County notes urge home canning as a key wartime and peacetime practice. It covers sugar limits, beets canning steps, sorghum baking tips, and parsley planting while promoting garden surplus and federal guidance for Missouri Food Preservation Budget. It cites Circular 467 and Hazel Evans as sources and blends practical how tos with patriotic rationale.
Sugar substitutes for frozen desserts include honey replacing up to full sugar in ice cream, with guidance from Mrs Hazel B Evans. Corn syrup should be limited to one third of sugar to improve texture. Okra preparation emphasizes selecting young pods, cooking briefly, and serving with lemon juice and butter. alternative methods include boiling with tomatoes or frying in corn meal.
Wartime dairy drive urges farmers to hit 1945 milk output target of 120,582,000,000 pounds with peak efficiency. Notes eight key practices including high quality roughage, breed balance, record keeping, disease control, quality milk, labor saving methods, land care, and sound breeding. Whole milk rates align with 1944, and higher butterfat payments encourage butter production in separated cream regions.
The Missouri pig crop for June shows 3,036,000 pigs saved this spring, down from 3,112,000 in 1944 and the 10 year average of 2,597,000. Farrowing totaled 470,000, below last spring and the 410,000 average. Average pigs per litter rose to 6.46 from 6.09, with 49 percent of sows farrowing in April and May.
The sole rail route spanning the continent runs from Buenos Aires Vigentina to Valparaiso in Chile, providing the present coast to coast connection. It represents the only direct cross continental link by rail in the region.
The 1945 census report shows average farm size up 10 percent since 1940 while the number of farms fell from 499,376 to 488,149 in 300 counties. Total farm acreage rose, with the trend most evident in Western states. The counties reflect only the first returns received, not a cross section.
Missouri ranked ninth among states for fishing licenses and 12th for hunting licenses in the 1943 41 fiscal year, with 336 868 fishing permits and 201 258 hunting licenses. Michigan led in both fields with 701 310 licensed anglers and 732 459 nimiods.
The first American city to integrate Kindergarten into its public school system was St Louis in 1879, marking a milestone in early education reform and public schooling expansion led by local officials and educators.
A section of Leonardo da Vinci s Last Supper in Milan has been examined after war damage. Only a four inch square area on St James the Greater tunic shows plaster dust beneath swollen plaster. restoration has occurred multiple times. The fresco, painted 1494 1497, is on the refectory wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent where walls and roof were bombed in Aug 1943 and subsequent strengthening work followed.
The USS Guadalcanal crew buys war bonds to fund a new flight deck. With about 15 000 landings on the present deck and 800 crew members, a $25 bond per person in the Seventh War Loan would cover the cost of a single plank, aiming toward a $15 000 deck replacement.
British naval experts say Nazi plans for a submarine that could also fly were uncovered at a U-boat plant in Travemunde on the Baltic Sea. The London Evening Standard dispatched a report on the discovery and its implications for naval warfare.
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