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PAGE SIX Will Discuss Home Making Of Tomorrow On Farm Night Radio Program Of WOSU, Monday, July 8 Dial 570 Kc. 8:00—Music, weather forecast, gram preview, student farm porter. 8 15—Interview of High School cational Agriculture Teachers tending Ohio State University. Sociologist. Ashland. 9:45 to 10—Music. re- at- Also: 4-H Club News, Miss Eva Kinsey, Ass’t State 4-H leader. 8:30—Columbus WPA Salon Orches tra. 8:45—“Homes on the Land ”, Dra matization. 3:00—Our Homes Have Fostered Democracy What of Tomorrow?, Mrs. Vivian Hickman, Franklin Co. Farm Homemaker, and Miss Nellie Watts, Ass’t State Demonstration leader. 9:15—Report on Ohio Rural ters Camp, R. Bruce Tom, Hx. iie Minis Rural Farm Sec’y- 9:30—Farm Finance and the Family, Harold G. Olin, Treas., Production Credit Ass’n, Need New Style Hogs On Higher Lard Price Until Ohio farmers adopt a dif ferent style of hog, the price they receive for hogs will be influenced to a considerable extent by the amount the packer can get for lard, and lard prices in the early part of have not been encouraging to producers. 1940 pork Ohio A committee of people from State University and representatives of Ohio farmers made an investiga tion of the outlook for lard in the months immediately ahead. The committee says 22 per cent of Ohio’s farm income is derived from hog sales, lard exports have dropped more than 50 per cent, the 1939 pig crop was the largest in 17 years, and the amount of vegetable oils used as cooking fats since 1935 has equaled the amount of lard used for the same purpose. Columbus grocery stores were ad vertising lard at three pounds for 20 cents and two lard substitutes at three pounds for 48 cents on the same day. The army post at Colum bus bought lard for 7.25 cents a pound and lard substitutes for 8.77 cents a pound during the same month in 1940. A survey among city consumers showed that about one-half use both lard and substitutes, one-fourth use only lard, and one-fourth use sub stitutes only. Two-thirds of the rural homemakers use lard only, one fourth use both lard and substitutes, and about 6 per cent use only sub stitutes. It is reported that manufacturers spent $2,250,000 in advertising vege table shortenings in general mag azines and over the radio in 1938. The products have been offered to buyers in attractive packages in con venient sizes. Meat packers insist on selling lard in large containers from which the retailer dips the amount wanted by the buyer. Home economics specialists say that lard has a higher shortening power than hydrogenated fats used as substitutes. Lard has a flavor and substitutes are flavorless, and the soft fat of lard is more easily digested than hard fats. Lard sub stitutes are affected by too high cooking temperatures. Out of 500 Ohio and Pennsylvania farmers primarily interested in pork production who were would be willing to selves five cents per fund for advertising ported willingness to pay such an assessment, 25 were unwilling, and 25 did not decide. There are two national associations which could conduct an advertising campaign if funds were available. asked if they assess thenl hog sold as a pork, 450 re- It appears from the study made by the Ohio committee that hog raisers and meat packers now’ are flattering themselves w’hen they call vegetable uils substitutes for lard. Consumers have reached the point where they are willing to pay con siderably more for the substitute than for the original product. It also appears that to counteract this trend, there should be an im provement in processing, packing, and packaging lard. Half of the domestic market for shortening and cooking fat has been taken by manufacturers willing to advertise their product and package it to meet consumer demands. It is to be ex pected they will take a larger share of this market unless they have more competition from pork produc ers and the packing industry. NOTICE! The Amstutz Cannery will operate every Tuesday and Friday until further notice. Amstutz Cannery North of Bluffton on College Rd. Bluffton Phone 635-Y Words by Francis Scott Koy. Sow os Qvabtet. I (O’.. ban nec long may tri umph tri umph it (WNU Service) 1 tee Vegetables Follow Streamline Trends Vegetables have gone along with the modern trend of streamlining and now appear with new shapes, new’ sizes, and new have higher quality form size and color, ialists at Ohio State these changes have promoted marked increase in the consumption of fresh vegetables. varieties that and more uni Nutrition spec University, say a One of the newcomers in the vege table fashion parade is the stringless green bean. It is long, slender, and much easier to prepare for cooking than the old-fashioned stringbean. Carrots and cucumbers have im proved shapes. The new carrot has rounded tops, and smooth sides that taper gradually, w’hich make scrap ing easier. Brighter color and less core give carrots a higher popular ity rating. Cucumbers are more “sylph-like” and yield more slices because they are longer and less pointed. The tomato has improved quite a bit since it was knowm as a “love apple”. Now it is firm and meaty, smooth, round and shiny and is much better for cooking or salad. The new iceberg lettuce has a firm compact head, and crisp, tender, curling leaves just about the right size for cups to hold salad. This lettuce makes a perfect salad by itself when sogdlkirrlly streaming THE.STAR' SPANGLED:BANNER: can yon see, dim ly seen to that band 2. On the shore 3. And... where 4 Oh,... thus hailed host in si lence bat tie’s and and home fight, steep, more! land night fleet flight, mot O'er the ram As it fit Their... blood Praise the Pow’r per il out tow er ing lure us no hear’n-res cued And the rock et? red Nov it catch es the No. ref nge could Then.... eon quer we must. that of of of of land land laud land wave ware doth shall How well do you know “The Star Spangled Banner,” America’s national anthem? Here before you is your opportunity to memorize the thrilling words, to sing the inspiring song, and to play its music. What day more fit than on Independence day to get better acquainted with the deep, inspiring Americansim Francis Scott Key put into his masterpiece as “Oe’r the ramparts” he watched and saw the flag still proudly waving. dom, we shall continue to see our flag “so gallantly streaming." ODAY, as from the very foundation of our nation, Liberty is the American ideal, come down to us these many years purified by the blood of martyrs. It is this great doctrine of Liberty which distinguishes Americans from any who have not had our long tradition of political and human freedom. And were it preached by tongue most elo quent, the philosophy of repression and oppression, of class against class, of creed against creed, and of human thralldom to a dictatorship, shall ever remain alien under the Stars and Stripes. Never shall Americans exchange Liberty and Democracy for the slavery of authoritarian ideology. “O'er the ramparts we watch," wrote Francis Scott Key. “O'er the ramparts served with dressing. Home economics experts say cel ery also has succumbed to the mod ern trend. A new variety, with less stringy fiber is being developed. Some varieties are crisp and tender all the way through, from the green ish outer stalks to the heart. THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO Music by John Stafford Smith. by the dawn s ear ly light. What so proud- ly w. thro’ the mists of the deep. Where the foe’e haugh ty who so vaunt ing ly swore That the hav .• oc of er when free-meu shall stand Be tween their loved the twi- light's last gleam- ing, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the dread the wild Jr re pcs es, What is that which the breeze, o’er the ccn fu eion A. home and a conn try should tion Blest with vic t’ry and peace, may tha parts we watched, were ful ly blows, half has washed out that hath made glare, gleam so gal- lent ly stream ing? con-coals, half dis clos es? foul foot-steps* pol In tion, pre served us na tion. their and in air, the bombs burst ing of the morn- Ing’s the..........hire ling when our cause it first and beam, slave just. Cnoacs. still the the our there, stream: grave. trust our• flag Dow shines the gloom "In God on of to erts. thro the ry ror be Gave... proof In full gio From the ter And.... this of ocr that gl«d gird gled Oh,.... say, does "Tto the star- span And the star span And the star span sUr span gled ban ner, ban ner ban ner in the home the home the home the home free free free free the the the the O'er the O'er the O'er the O'er the the the the the and and and and of of of of watch" today, too. And as long as we hold to the American ideals of free brevet breve, brave, brave. in in is Along with the new styles vegetables have come new ideas marketing. A thin coating of wax used on rutabagas, cucumbers, pep pers, and egg plants to make them look better when they reach the market. Another sound idea is packaging less perishable vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in con sumer-size containers, which may be conveniently stored at home. Some fancy vegetables are wrapped in transparent paper. Before the home-grown vegetable season begins, housewives may buy fozen foods which are packed and frozen where grown, and shipped in refrigerated cars. They are ready for cooking, and come to the con sumer’s table garden-fresh with no loss of food values. While refrigeration was lengthen ing the fresh vegetable season, nu tritionists were finding out about the food values of greens. They found greens to be important for their calcium and iron, the greener the leaves, the better the source of iron. In some vegetables, as cabbage, cal cium also is related to the depth of green color. Vegetables are rich in vitamins. All green vegetables, and carrots, sweet potatoes, yellow squash, yel low corn, and yellow turnips provide vitamin A. These along with to matoes, furnish vitamin C, and most vegetables contain some vitamin Bl, or G. While the per captia consumption of all vegetables has increased in the last few years, the greatest gain has been made by the more succulent vegetables such as lettuce, aspar agus, celery, tomatoes, onions, broc coli, and carrots. Warfare against the Japanese beetle in eastern states continues by means of spreading a disease fatal to the larvae of the insect and by introducing insects that prey on the beetle. No experiments made in the Com Belt indicate any advantage to corn yields by plowing more than seven inches deep. Each inch depth of soil plowed means moving 150 tons of soil per acre so unduly deep plowing is a real waste of power. In planning for better use of farm lands in 16 counties in southeastern and in western Ohio, 1,518 local people devoted all or part of 4,378 days at meetings to study farm practices in use and to make recom mendations for changes. F. In one test, a storm with high winds occurred while a block of trees was carrying fruit sprayed 15 days earlier. Check trees in the block receiving no spray dropped 55.1 per cent of their fruit in the 15 days before the storm and 64.7 per cent of the remainder during the storm. Sprayed trees lost an aver age of 9.4 per cent of their fruit in the 15 days and 33.3 of the remain der during the storm. The spray material may be mixed with water alone or a small amount of oil may be added. The effects of the spray become most apparent five or six days after spraying and may continue for two weeks or longer. The most benefit in holding the fruit on the trees is obtained when the fruit is sprayed about the normal picking time. New Spray Will Hold I Plan Better Meadows Ripe Apples On Trecl If Hay Crop Is Light Storing apples on the tree for sev-l The present time, when the lack eral days or weeks after the normal I of good meadows is most apparent picking date and improving the color I to Ohio farmers, is a fine time to of the fruit appears to be made pos-1 resolve to remedy this lack. Resolu sible by spray methods developed by I tions made on January 1 make little F. E. Gardner, United States Bureau hay the next June, of Plant Industry, working at Belts ville, The two most effective chemicals I wheat, the manure should be applied in preventing the normal drop of I on the steeper slopes and the less mature fruit are naphthaleneacetic I productive parts of fields during the acid and naphthaleneacetamide. Other I fall and early winter. chemicals were tried but had less I The mulching should be continued in effect in checking fruit drop. I the spring until all parts of the field Early McIntosh and Red Duchess I where the wheat is not likely to apples sprayed at the period of rip-1 lodge have been covered. Farmers ening and picked from 12 to 20 days I who postpone the mulching until late after spraying dropped an average I in the winter will find it impossible of only 19 per cent of their fruit, as I to get on the field and are likely to compared with a drop of 70.9 per I have poor success with the seeding, cent of the fruit on unsprayed trees. I The manure should be applied at Other tests on summer and fall I the rate of from four to eight loads apples give equally conclusive evi-lper acre. Results are better if the dence of the ability of the spray to I mulch is applied with a spreader so hold fruit on the trees. I the application is uniform, but near The spraying can be repeated to hold apples on the tree longer if this is desirable. A Gallia Beauty tree was sprayed seven time at weekly intervals starting October 12 about 50 per cent of the fruit still on the tree December 7 though temperatures were so in the latter part of the period that I the final sprays probably had little or no effect. and was al low Repeated sprays of these chem icals cause fruit to be so firmly set on the tree that fruit spurs may be broken or the stem pulled out of the apple before the stem will part at its normal breaking point. Color is in tensified in the apples to such an ex tent that it must be due to some effect other than the extra days of exposure to the sun. Mr. Beach repeats that this spray ing procedure is too expensive for commercial use now but expects that manufacturers can reduce prices for the chemicals when enough growers use the method to make quantity manufacture feasible. Mr. Gardner is continuing the experimental work! in an attempt to find other effective! compounds and better ways of apply-1 ing the sprays. I Armorsville Recent callers at the Rayl home were Mrs. Jesse Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ruggley of Kansas Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Robnolte of Find lay Betty Klingler. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wolfley and Wilson and visitors at Afternoon Mrs. Robert were Sunday son Kent the H. O. Hilty home, callers were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ream I of Lima. Mr. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Klingler called at the Ivan Irwin home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Hilty called at the Ivan Montgomery home Monday evening. Miss Clarabel Ow’ens, Mrs. Sarah Oates and son Mrs. Ruth Anderson and son Jimmy and daughter Ann Marie spent Sunday at the O’Shau ghnessy Dam of near Columbus. Mrs. Delbert McGinnis and daugh ters and Miss Elizabeth Fisher call ed Monday evening at the Owens home. Burr Harding of Denver, Colo., called on C. E. Klingler, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Williams visited at the home of the former’s sister, Mrs. Eva Montgomery. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore and family of Detroit are visiting at the W. I. Moore home. Several vegetables automatically are included in the list of foods pur chasable by the stamp plan when those vegetables become available in maximum quantities in areas of large production. In Ohio spinach and peas will be listed at the peak of the growing season. Farm boys who are given the Ear) Jones, extension agronomist, Maryland. I Ohio State University, says that H. Beach, specialist in horticul-1 Ohio farmers on land use committees Ohio State University, says I have emphasized the need for apply experimental work has pos-ljng lime to soil where clover is to ture, this sibilities of wide application when I be seeded but the farmers also re cost for the spray materials is I port lack of money to buy limestone, brought down to practical levels. I There is one method of helping seed Mr. Gardner reports quantities of I ings which does not require spending the chemicals used as small as one-1 money. half teaspoonful to 100 gallon of I A mulch of manure is very effec water are effective but the cost still I tive in getting seedings started well, is too high for commercial use. I Where seedings are to be made in Take a goad look at it then insist on genuine insects. Per bale I backbreaking task of removing suck-1 ers from corn will get great relief! from reports of experiments which show this practice actually decreases corn yields. I I THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1940 ly as good results can be obtained by hand if an attempt is made to do a good job of spreading. Straw and old hay can be used as substitutes for manure if they are spread as thinly as possible at a rate of not more than two tons to the acre. In this case, these substitutes are less effective than manure but are much better than no mulch. The mulch has at least two w’ays of aiding the new’ seeding. Extra plant food in a quickly available form is provided in the surface soil where the plants can get it, and the ground cover helps to keep the soil moist enough so the plants can make a steady grow’th. The mulch can be applied effec tively w’here seedings are made in spring grains or where the seed is sown alone. Manure can be applied in these cases just before or after the grass seed is sown. Entry of Italy into the war re moved another market for United States cotton and for important quantities of a few food products. The United States War Depart ment announced June 4 that invita tions for bids on 10,000,000 yards of wool cloth and on 500,000 blankets would be sent out in the immediate future. Contracts, when made, will require delivery on the blankets within four months and on cloth within five months. 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