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Optimistic views regarding the
nation’s food outlook for the coming
year received a jolt last week with
release of a crop report from the
Department of Agriculture telling of
serious delays in spring planting
throughout most of the country
similar to those experienced in the
Bluffton area.
Delay In Spring Planting May Reduce
Food Supply For Next Fall, Winter
In the report, government authori
ties acknowledged that hoped-for
1944 acreages no longer can be ex
pected because of excessive rainfall,
floods and unseasonably cold weather,
all of which have critically delayed
spring work on farms.
Most farm planting is said to be
three to four weeks behind schedule,
and labor shortages, lack of new
equipment and inability to repair
some farm machinery are aggravat-
ing the situation.
This spring’s planting situation,
however, is not expected to have
much effect on present food dis
tribution programs because supplies
The News presents another in
the series of important but less
er known sidelights on South
America.—Editor
In the forests of a secluded re
gion of South America—that of the
Upper Parana river, where Brazil
and Paraguay meet—there grows a
bushy, everygreen tree which pro
duces the favorite drink of over ten
million people. The tree is the yerba
mate plant and the drink, an in
fusion of its leaves, bears the same
name.
Known to the Guarani Indians
long before the Spaniards and Portu
guese landed in America, the plant
and beverage got their present name
from the fact that the yerba (herb)
was prepared in a dried gourd called
mate.
The botanical appellation of the
tree is Ilex Paraguayensis and its
appearance is somewhat like that of
holly, with glossy leaves, small flow
ers and purplish berries. The height
of the tree is between twelve and
twenty-six feet and the pickers often
MUNSON R. BIXEL, M.D.
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New Summer
STRAWS
just in time for
Memorial Day
at the moment are in excess of
demand and storage facilities.
A poor crop this summer, however,
would result in reduced supplies for
the next year, with the curtailment
beginning to be felt in the fall. Of
ficials concede it would be wise to
hold some of the present stock for
the future, but they say there is
not sufficient storage facilities, par
ticularly for perishable foods.
Crops that most seriously may be
affected by delayed farm work on a
nation-wide basis include oats for
livestock feeding, corn, cotton, rice,
tobacco, beans and vegetables for
processing.
Yerba Mate—South America’s Tea
Is Drunk As Pledge Of Hospitality
However, 1944 crop production
prospects also have a brighter side.
April weather brought an indicated
60,000,000 bushel increase in
prospects for this summer’s import
ant wheat harvest. Reserve sup
plies of wheat virtually have been
exhausted and an increase expected
in production of wheat this summer
will be badly needed.
have to climb almost to the very top
to strip the leaves.
Efforts to cultivate the plant failed
during many years due to the fact
that the seeds seemed to dry up be
fore germination. It was the Jesuits
who, by discovering a new method
of treating the seeds, made possible
the cultivation of yerba mate on a
large scale.
They intensified this cultivation
through the 17th and 18th centuries,
but did not divulge their secret meth
od which disappeared with them
when they were expelled from South
America.
In recent years, however, large
plantations of yerba mate have
sprung up both in Brazil and Para
guay, while the old method of gath
ering the leaves of the wild species
growing in the forests still prevails
in many regions.
The picking and curing of this
wild yerba mate is quite a compli
cated process. A sort of camp is
generally established near the for
est and gatherers set out from it to
pluck the leaves, carrying with them
small axes and provisions.
On their way back to the camp
they load the product of their day’s
work on their backs and heads and
walk back looking like ‘‘great green
balls with legs”.
You'll want to enjoy their light weight comfort
right from the start of the season and
especially on Memorial Day and rain will not
affect these waterproof straws.
Delightful recreation these spring evenings for roller
skating from 8 to 11.
And next Wednesday night, May 31, will be Col. Grove
and Pandora night—so be sure to attend and meet the
Col. Grove-Pandora crowd. They will be our guests and
will skate at reduced price.
You don’t have to be from Col. Grove or Pandora to
gkate—skating is open to everyone.
Skating every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday night
8 to 11 p. m.
Kids session Saturday afternoon 2 to 4 for those 11
years and under.
BLUFFTON ROLLER RINK
Ray Clark, Prop.
Meanwhile the other members of
Flexible, easy-fitting soft straws in Panama styles
also some genuine Panamas.
And we have priced them low right at the start
of the season $1 $1.50 $2 $2.50 —$4.50.
Steiner & Huser
Vacation Time Skating
at Bluffton Roller Rink
Masri
the small settlement have been pre
paring a plot of ground, clearing and
pounding it until it becomes hard.
Logs of wood are piled on this
"tatacua” and the newly-gathered
leaves are given their first scorching
on it.
Later, these semi-processed leaves
will be further treated on a “bar
bacua”, sort of trestle or platform
under which a burning fire dries the
plant without burning it.
The next step is to puverize the
leaves and then to pack them
tightly into hide sacks that weigh
over two hundred pounds. These
sacks are then shipped from these,
as well as from more modern and
improved centers of production to the
markets and seaports.
The three principal countries
where yerba mate—or Paraguayan
tea, as it is sometimes called—is con
sumed are Paraguay, Brazil and Ar
gentina, although it is also extensive
ly used in Chile, Bolivia and Uru
guay, and even in some European
countries.
The Indians prepared the drink by
placing a small quantity of the pow’
dered leaves in a receptacle, usually
a clean dry gourd from w’hich the
stem has been cut—thus leaving a
round aperture at the top—and then
pouring in very hot or boiling water.
After being allowed to steep for a
few minutes, a little lemon juice or
sweetened water was added and the
decoction was ready for consumption.
This is still the traditional way
to drink yerba mate, from a gourd,
sipped through a combination of
“straw’” and strainer called “bom
billa”. In olden times both the gourd
and the bombilla were often, in
wealthy homes, inlayed in silver and
gold.
Mate is not only the drink but
the “pledge of hospitality” of many
country districts of Sbuth America,
the custom being to have the bever
age made as soon as the visitors ar
rive and offering it to them, passing
the gourd from one to another as a
colorful if unsanitary proof of
friendship.
Yerba mate is, however, also con
sumed in refined homes where it re
places tea and is taken as frequently
as the latter is in Great Britain.
Chemists and physicians who have
made a special study of the effects
of mate on the human system are all
loud in its praise they recommend
it both as a tonic and a stimulant,
although it is less of an excitant
than tea or coffee.
Such is yerba mate, the favorite
beverage of a large portion of the
Western Hemisphere, a drink deemed
“one of the best in the world” by
over ten million inhabitants of our
continent.
Pre-Ministry Draft
Deferments Available
National Selective Service head
quarters last w’eek authorized the
deferment of students preparing for
the ministry regardless of whether
they are attending theological or
divinity schools.
Revised regulations stipulate, how
ever, that students in other institu
tions must be under the direction of
the specialized schools and “pursuing
a specific full-time course on an ac
celerated basis.”
Heretofore students in pre-theo
logical seminaries were eligible for
deferment, but students taking pre
liminary training in secular colleges
and universities were not.
Those who claim to be preparing
for the minstry in other than theo
logical schools must provide a state
ment of their intention to enter the
ministry a statement that the
church organization they will serve
is in need of ministers and a state
ment from a recognized theological
school that the registrant has been
accepted for admittance.
Bluffton Area Men
In Hancock Draft
A number of Bluffton area men
were among 200 selectees sent by
Hancock county draft board No. 2 to
Cleveland for pre-induction physical
examination, Tuesday.
Men on Bluffton rural routes in
cluded in the call were:
Herbert Bormuth, Ernest Bosse,
Donald Harris, Clyde Hartman, Ray
mond Kimmel, Harvey Niswander,
James Oberly and David Slusser.
New Potato Ceiling
Prices 5% Higher
New ceiling prices for 1944 early
white potatoes will result in an aver
age retail increase of five per cent
over last year’s cost, OPA officials
announced this w’eek.
New prices, effective May 22, and
extending through June 30 were
recommended by the w’ar food ad
ministration to stimulate production.
OPA said the new’ scale will give
growers a sufficient return to com
pensate for the loss of incentive
payments made in 1943 to encourage
production.
Regulations on the construction of
frozen food locker plants have been
amended so applications for con
struction after June 1, 1944, will be
accepted only when the locker rentals
have been obtained from actual farm
ers or from urban residents who
supervise the operation of a farm.
Materials are available in 1944 to
build only 550 plants with an aver
age capacity of 400 lockers each.
Ohio grain elevator operators last
week charged that out-of-state truck
ers are making heavy purchases of
corn from farmers at prices consider
ably above government approved
ceilings.
So far no out-of-state buying has
been apparent here but shortages
are resulting in the district because
of truckers’ activity elsewhere.
Office of Price Administration of
ficials promised immediate investiga
tions, since the charges included in
formation that many of the proces
sors of the state may have to close
because of a lack of supplies.
Worst offenders were said to be
truckers from West Virginia and
Kentucky, altho some buyers have
been from Michigan and Pennsyl
vania.
Out Of State Truckers Aggavate
Com Crisis By Black-Market Buying
The yield of potatoes is likely to
be very disappointing even though
certified seed is used unless the new
leaves as they develop are protected
with copper dust, or spray. Potato
diseases, such as early blight, tip
blight, hopper-burn, and late blight
develop during the summer and cause
yellow’ing, wilting, or killing of the
foliage, w’hich naturally result in
poor yields.
Thorough and timely dusting, or
spraying with copper fungicides will
keep these diseases in check, which
naturally result in poor yields.
Thorough and timely dusting, or
spraying with copper fungicides will
keep these diseases in check. To
be effective applications should begin
when the plants are three to four
inches in height and must be repeat
ed every 7 to 14 days, depending on
how rapidly the plants are growing.
A good rule to follow is to apply
copper dust, or sprays as fast as
Plenty Of Gasoline
Available For Farms
Bluffton district farmers will re
ceive all the gasoline and motor fuel
they need for full prosecution of
their agricultural program, it w’as
announced this week by the various
county ration boards serving the
area.
For Best Potato Yield Use Disease
Control Fungicides Early In Season
Ration officials explained in the
announcement that some farmers had
been confused by the first issue for
the period April 1 to October 1,
fearing that it would have to take
care of their needs for the entire
year.
It was pointed out that the first
issue represents only 60 per cent of
the total estimated requirements.
There still remains 40 per cent of
the year’s estimate which may be
obtained either by applying in per
son or by letter at board head
quarters.
If more gasoline is needed to har
vest crops after the 60 and 40 per
cent allotments are used, an addi
tional amount may be obtained by
signing an application establishing
actual needs.
Farmers were assured they all
would receive the gasoline or fuel
oil actually needed for farming pur
poses.
Rockport
Mrs. Milton Downs of Lima was
a guest when Mrs. F. C. Marshall
entertained the Profit and Pleasure
club last Wednesday afternoon. A
very enjoyable program was heard
with Mrs. F. C. Marshall giving a
biography of Victor Herbert and
playing several of his compositions
and Mrs. Isaac Neuenschwander read
an interesting paper on the life and
travels of Marion Anderson. Contests
were enjoyed under the leadership
of Mrs. D. C. Campbell.
Mrs. Orlo Marshall accompanied
the Misses Ruth Sutton and Ida West
of Bowling Green to Newark, Friday,
where they were the guests of Miss
Feme Sutton until Monday.
Lieut. Delmar Reagan who was
sent to Florida a couple of weeks
ago is being transferred from there
to Buffalo, N. Y.
This community was well repre
sented at the various events of Com
mencement week in Beaverdam which
closed with the alumni reunion Sat
urday evening.
Sgt. Glen Price of Camp Grant
in Illinois, visited his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Price a few days
last week.
Miss Irene Snyder of Fort Wayne,
Ind. and Martin Burkholder of
Beaverdam were supper guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Freet and
daughter Ruth, Sunday evening.
This community was well repre
sented at the Baccalaureate services
at the U. B. Church in Columbus
Grove, Sunday evening. Alice Lentz
and Franklin Mayberry are graduates
from this vicinity.
The Decoration services May 30th
to begin at 9:30 a. m. by the decora
tion of soldiers graves followed by an
address by our County Auditor Floyd
B. Griffin.
The Annual Memorial Day and
Decoration Service have been planned
for Rockport and vicinity. The
Corn is in demand in those states,
as here, because farmers are finding
it more profitable to feed it to hogs
and market the fattened animals than
to sell the grain at the ceiling price
of $1.10 a bushel paid by elevators.
It is estimated that farmers can
realize about $1.35 per bushel for
com by feeding to hogs, accounting
for the black market activity.
Im
Truckers, it is charged, are paying
as much as $1.25 to $1.40 a bushel
for corn, with the result that much
of the flow of grain has been diverted
from elevators. This is serious since
more than half of Ohio’s elevators
process feed for livestock and poultry
raisers.
Many of these processors may be
forced to close unless more corn is
available, and the out-of-state drain
on the supply is stopped.
new foliage develops.
Prepared copper dust containing
6 to 7 per cent metallic copper in
cluding an insecticide for the control
of the Colorado potato beetle will be
generally available in 1944. Dusts
will be more effective if applied in
the late evening or early morning
w’hen the air is still. If sprays are
used the sprayer should have suffi
cient pressure to force a fine spray
mist into the foliage so that all
leaves are covered with each applica
tion.
Packaged bordeau mixture already
to mix with water or fixed coppers
would be the most convenient to use
in sprays. Calcium arsenate can be
added at the rate of four level table
spoons to seven gallons of spray to
kill Colorado potato beetles. It is
uneconomical to buy the best seed
available, prepare the soil, add ferti
lizer and then neglect spraying or
dusting to control foliage diseases.
Memorial sermon to be preached at
union services in the Methodist
church Sunday morning, May 28, at
9:30 fast time by the Rev. E. W.
Bigelow.
Mrs. Delmar Reagan of Dayton
was a week end visitor of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Camp
bell.
Mrs. Joe Parker has been on the
sick list the past week. Mrs. Dean
Myers of Mansfield has been taking
care of her this week.
Arthur T. Marshall of Lima died
Tuesday morning at Memorial hospi
tal after a brief illness, age 70
years. He was born in Monroe town
ship the son of James H. and Lerene
Lippincott Marshall. He taught
school in his young manhood in
Monroe township. Late years he has
been associated with the Mohler
Green House in Lima. He is sur
vived by his wife the former Miss
Eunice Early and seven children.
Two sisters, Mrs. Ben Kidd of Lima
and Mrs. W. R. Mayberry of Col
umbus Grove. Funeral services were
held at the Miller, Davis Funeral
home in Lima at 3:30, Tuesday
afternoon. Burial in Memorial Park
Cemetery.
The supply of nitrogen materials
for direct application to crops was
greater than the demand for them
the first of May. Ammonium nitrate
is more plentiful than the other
nitrogen carriers.
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May 15, 1919
If you think the Yankee soldier
left his appetite in France you have
another guess coming. Here is the
amount of provisions it took to feed
the 440 men of the Rainbow Division
who stopped here last week.
Seventy-five loaves of bread, 5
pounds of coffee, 600 small ass’t
cakes, $6 worth of butter, $7 worth
of ground ham for sandwiches, and
an almost unlimited amount of
pickles. These were provided by the
Red Cross. The Community Ass’n
provided cigars and cigarettes to the
amount of $28 after lunch to the
men.
Harry Swick has landed safely in
Newport News, Va., and is expected
home this w’eek. He served the past
year in an evacuation hospital in
France.
Mrs. Geo. Bailey received a check
from Washington to the amount of
$37(2 on account of the death of her
son w’ho was killed in France.
extra pie plate. Three
Bluffton In First World War
Charlie Davis of Camp Sherman
spent the week end with his parents.
What Happened Here Twenty-five Yearn Ago Thia Week
He will return to camp again where
he is helping take care of the wound
ed.
A great number of friends and
neighbors gathered at the home of
E. E. Slusser to spend the evening
with them in honor of their son
Paul who had returned from over
seas.
Ray Staater who recently returned
from overseas arrived home from
Camp Taylor, honorably discharged
from the service.
Rell Potee was in Columbus Satur
day to witness the parade of the
166th infantry of the Rainbow divi
sion of which his son Wilbur is a
member.
Jerome Herrman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Herrman who was
stationed at Camp Taylor returned
home, honorably discharged from the
army.
Albert Badertscher of St. Marys
and Leonard Schoenberger of Camp
Grant, Ill., spent the first of the
wreck in Bluffton.
Sgt. A. D. Painter has returned
from overseas. Sgt. Painter was in
the final drive on the Italian front
with the 332 Reg’t. He has a
souvenir of an enemy rifle taken
from an Austrian soldier whom he
shot while lying in ambush.
Wilbur Smith of Beaverdam who
has been in Camp Taylor returned
home honorably discharged.
H. P. Owrens brings in a letter
that is amusing. The letter written
to his granddaughter Miss Marjorie
Ward by a British soldier. An
excerpt of the letter says: “Speaking
of the United States, I cannot under
stand your customs. First you go
“dry” by order, then you forbid a
certain dance, then the exhibition
of lingerie in a shop window’, and
your rules and regulations for bath
ing dresses are a perfect scream!”
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This is a good time to list your properties and farms
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