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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Twelve Elements
Control Fertility
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Vital Soil Chemicals
Determine Growth
Fertility was described as tha
“fourth dimension” of the soil by
Dr. William A. Albrecht, chairman
of the soils department of the Uni
versity of Missouri, in a recent state
ment.
“The soil has taken on a new
meaning in the light of present war
conditions,” he pointed out. “Ra
tion points on food and the scarcity
of items like meat, milk and butter
are giving soil a significance be
yond that of mere dirt.
“Soil has long had two dimensions
—length and breadth. As land, it
has commonly been measured in
terms of acres. The Soil Conserva
tion service first emphasized that
our lands have a third dimension—
depth. Erosion studies as early as
1914 by Dean Miller and Dr. Duley
at Columbia made us see the soil
profile with its rich surface being
scraped away and washed to the
sea.
“To these three dimensions, how
ever, should be added a fourth—fer
tility—for food production essential
ly depends on this factor.
“Crops are a form of creation.
Like the Biblical story of creation
itself, crops must also begin with
the soil. About a dozen different
chemical elements are required of
the soil by any crop. These make
up the ash, amounting to approxi
mately 5 per cent by weight of the
dry matter. Yet, it is this small
amount contributed by the soil that
determines whether the plant can
gather from the air and water, by
means of sunshine power, the other
95 per cent of its total content.
The Controlling Elements.
“These 12 chemical elements mak
ing up by 5 per cent by weight are
thus able to control the other ele
ments which make up 95 per cent of
the total weight of the plant. Conse
quently it becomes evident that the
soil rather than the weather wields
the controlling hand in crop produc
tion.”
In discussing further this “fourth
dimension” of the soil, Dr. Albrecht
pointed out that in a series of tests
for producing soybeans as a seed
crop, plots without fertilizer treat
ment on one farm yielded 20 bushels
of seed, whereas adjoining plots sup
plied with extra soil fertility plowed
down as fertilizers, yielded 25 bush
els, or an increase of 25 per cent.
“When it is considered that both
plots had the same weather,” he
concluded, “there should be little
doubt that the crop depends on the
soil fertility more than on the sea
son. We thus need to see our re
sponsibility to the soil more, and to
blame the weather less.”
More Machinery Being Made
Sulfaguanidine Saves
Chickens and Calves
A new addition to the sulfa drugs,
all of which are derived from coal,
will soon be used to increase the
nation’s supply of poultry and dairy
products by combatting cecal cocci-
diosis, deadly disease of chickens
and dairy calves, which costs farm
ers millions of dollars every year,
according to the Bituminous Coal in
stitute.
The drug is sulfaguanidine which,
in tests supervised by the United
States department of agriculture,
not only prevented development of
the disease in healthy birds but cut
the mortality rate among infected
poultry to 12 per cent of the former
figure, the announcement said. In
each case, the chickens were fed a
mash containing from one-half to
one per cent of the drug.
“One of the advantages indicated
by the experiments is that the treat
ment builds up immunity against re
infection,” the institute pointed out.
“Instead of killing all of the infect
ing organisms, the sulfa compound
merely arrests development of the
disease, thus enabling the body
mechanism to build up an im
munity.”
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Can What You Can
Markets are becoming green dot
ted with new vegetables like aspara
gus, spinach and peas. There are
bits of bright red too, a welcome
sight, those strawberries, raspber
ries and cherries.
They’re good fresh, so use them
in every way you can. But plan to
put up some of
the best produce
in jars. Jams and
jellies will come
in mighty handy
when you’re point
conscious about
butter next win
ter. Jars of vege
tables will put nu
trition into those winter meals when
canned food points are at a pre
mium.
There’s one rule about canning
that you’d best remember when
you put up those jars of fruits and
vegetables: “Two hours from garden
to kettle.” That means using only
foods at the peak of condition, for
you get out of your can only what
you put into it.
If vegetables turn brown in their
jars and look unattractive as com
pared with the fresh produce, it’s
probably because of overprocessing
(overcooking) or lack of fresh vege
tables when you started canning.
When you overcook those bright
red berries, they can’t possibly be
fresh looking or taste like a reason
able facsimile of the original prod
uct. Follow directions and cook just
long enough, and the result will be
well worth the effort.
Save Used Fats!
Now’s a good time to put up con
serve like grandmother used to
make. This contains a mixture of
fruits popular now:
Strawberry-Rhubarb Conserve.
(Makes about 10 glasses)
1 quart prepared strawberries
1 quart prepared rhubarb
6 cups sugar
Wash and hull strawberries. Wash
rhubarb and cut into %-inch pieces.
Mix strawberries, rhubarb and sug
ar. Cook mixture slowly uhtil it is
thick and clear. Pour into hot, ster
ile glasses.
Three-Fruit Preserves.
2 pints raspberries
2 pints strawberries
1 to IVs pounds cherries
Equal amount of sugar by weight,
of all fruits
Combine all ingredients and boil
25 minutes. Add V4 cup lemon juice
and boil 2 min
utes longer. Re
move from fire
and allow to cool.
When cool, pour
into sterilized
jars and seal. Al
though the pre
serves look thin
when you finish cooking, they will
thicken upon standing.
Lynn Says
Popular Observations: You like
certain foods, but you’ll like them
better if you don’t let them fall
into a rut. Instead of serving
these favorites the same way all
the time, try these variations:
When the milk sours, use it in
muffins. It spells extra lightness.
Rice pudding is good with
cream, but better still with chilled
fruits in season—cherries, straw
berries, raspberries and peaches.
Spread lamb or ham patties
with mustard before frying or
broiling—you’ll get good results.
Orange juice and grated orange
rind in place of milk in baking
powder biscuits is something to
cheer about.
Good accompaniment with fish:
Tiny beet cubes mixed with sour
cream.
Tomatoes stuffed with cucum
bers, cottage cheese and sour
cream is something new by way
of a tomato surprise.
Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving
Menu
Slice Leftover Ham
Potato Salad ‘Spinach
Grapefruit-Strawberry Salad
Whole Wheat Bread
Rhubarb Dessert
Beverage
‘Recipe given.
Sunshine Strawberry Preserves.
8 cups strawberries
9 cups sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
Wash berries and put into pre
serving kettle with alternate layer
of sugar. Add lemon juice and heat
slowly to boiling. Boil gently 10
minutes. Pour into sterilized jars
and set in sun for three days. Seal
with paraffin. While in the sun, a
sheet of glass should be placed
over jars to keep out foreign matter.
Save Used Fats!
Raspberry-Cherry Conserve.
3 cups cherries
3 cups red raspberries
414 cups sugar
Cook cherries in very little water
until skins are tender. Add rasp
berries and sugar. Cook until thick
and clear. Pour into sterilized jars
and seal while hot.
Commercial pectin shortens the
jelly-making process considerably
and preserves the fresh fruit color
and flavor in the finished product:
Ripe Sour Cherry and Currant Jelly.
4)4 cups juice
7 cups sugar
V4 bottle fruit pectin
To prepare juice, stem but do not
pit and crush about 114 quarts fully
ripe cherri»«. Crush about 114 quarts
fully ripe currants. Combine fruits;
add % cup water, bring to a boil,
cover and simmer 10 minutes. Place
fruit in jelly bag and squeeze out
juice. Measure sugar and juice into
a large saucepan and mix. Bring
to a boil over the hottest fire and at
once add bottled fruit pectin, stir
ring constantly. Then bring to a
full, rolling boil and boil hard 14
minute. Remove from fire, skim and
pour quickly. Paraffin while hot.
Early spring vegetables are com
ing out in the markets and in the
gardens. They should be canned as
soon as they are best, so that you
will have the best possible results.
Since pressure cookers are unra
tioned this year, every homemaker
should be able to get one for her
self or the use of one as they are
the best method for processing non
acid vegetables:
‘Spinach.
Wash carefully and precook with
just the water clinging to the leaves
until wilted. Pack into clean, ster
ile jars, being careful not to press
too tightly. Add 1 teaspoon salt to
each quart. Fill to within % inch
of top with boiling water. Put on
cap, using manufacturers’ directions
and process 60 minutes at 10 pounds
pressure or 3 hours in boiling wa
ter bath.
Asparagus.
Wash thoroughly, removing scales
from stalk. Cut in jar lengths. Tie
in bundles, place tips up in boiling
water to cover lower tough portions.
Cover vessel tightly. Precook 3 min
utes. Drain, pack into clean, sterile
jars, tips up. Add M teaspoon salt
to each pint jar and fill with water
to within % inch of top. Process 40
minutes at 10 pounds pressure, or 3
hours in hot water bath.
Green Peas.
Shell and grade peas, using onlj
young, tender ones. Precook three
to five minutes. Pack loosely io
clean sterile jars to within 1 inch ol
top, adding 14 teaspoon salt to each
pint jar. Fill with water in which
peas were precooked to within 1
inch of top. Process 60 minutes at
10 pounds pressure or 3 hours in
boiling water bath.
Get the most from your meat! Gel your
meat roasting chart from Miss Lynn Cham
bers by writing to her in care of IFestern
Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago 6, III. Please send a stamped
self-addressed envelppe for vour reply.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for June 18
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
A GOOD SOLDIER. OF
CHRIST JESUS
LESSON TEXT—H Timothy 2:1-4. 8-12;
4:5-8.
GOLDEN TEXT—Suiter hardship with me.
as a good soldier ol Christ Jesus.—II Timo
thy 2:3.
"A good soldier”—what a wealth
of meaning there is in that simple
phrase. We think of our own home
town boys who have distinguished
themselves in the service of their
country, who have proved again that
there is that in American life which
can meet a crisis and do it well.
“A good soldier of Jesus Christ”
is an even more significant phrase,
speaking of that fine loyalty and de
votion which Christians of all ages,
yes, and of our day, are giving to
the Captain of our salvation, our
Commander-in-Chief in the great
spiritual warfare going on in all the
earth.
In our lesson we note that the
soldier is—
I. Obedient (2:1, 2).
There is something to be done,
and the soldier is enlisted for the
purpose of doing it. In the case of
the Christian soldier, it is to see that
the gospel message which he has
received is passed on to others.
Personal work is God’s method,
one man telling another, and an
other, and another. This is to be a
continuous matter, not just now and
then, and each one is in turn to be
come a soul-winner.
As each one wins others and the
witness is multiplied by the law of
arithmetical progression, the total
result is tremendous.
Why, then, has the entire world
not been long since completely evan
gelized? Because we who are Chris
tians are not all obedient soldiers of
Christ.
II. Loyal (2:3, 4).
No soldier can serve well with a
divided loyalty. He cannot be run
ning a business back home, or taking
on outside interests to divert his
attention. Being an efficient and
useful soldier is his first and only
business.
Have not the military authorities
in this war asked those who are at
home to keep the problems of the
home and business out of the letters
to men in the army? Do they not
require a man to leave home and
family and give his all to the serv
ice?
The soldier for Christ must please
the Lord, even though it involve
bearing “hardness.” It is no soft
and easy business to be a soldier.
“Blood, sweat and tears” are the
order of the day. Shall we not do
as much for our Lord?
III. Prepared (2:8-12).
Training is of highest importance
for a soldier. He must know what
to do, and why he is doing it. He
must understand the reason for obe
dience and the purpose of the war
fare. In other words, he must be a
disciplined man, prepared to serve
effectively.
The soldier for the Lord is to “re
member Jesus Christ,” his resur
rected Lord and victorious Com
mander. He knows for whom and
under whom he fights.
He also knows (w. 10, 11) that
the message he bears is God’s Word,
and will succeed even though the
bearer of it suffer and die. He is
prepared to die, if need be, before
he will deny his Leader (v. 12).
IV. Faithful (4:5-7).
Watch, endure, work, be faithful
to the very end. Such is the obliga
tion, yes, and privilege of the soldier
for Christ. Paul was able to ad
monish young Timothy to such com
plete faithfulness because he had
himself exemplified these virtues in
his own life.
Those who are called upon to com
mand men must themselves be good
soldiers. There is an encouraging
note from the battlefields of this
great war. One learns that the com
manding officers are at the front, not
hidden away in dugouts far behind
the lines. The men take courage as
they see the bravery of their officers.
What that meant in Paul’s case
may be learned from the story of
his life, which is condensed in a
brief statement in II Corinthians 12:
23-33. He really endured affliction
for Christ’s sake.
V. Victorious (v. 8).
A nation at war can stand the
strain and bear the agony if it can
be sure of ultimate victory. The
grave disappointment of losing a bat
tle, or the deep sorrow of heavy
casualties, can and will be borne
for the sake of the final triumph of
the righteous cause.
In the battle for Christ, we know
that the result will be victory. The
faithful soldier shares the fruits of
victory. The Christian soldier shall
one day receive from his Lord and
Leader a crown of righteousness.
When will that great day come?
When Jesus Christ returns (Matt.
16:27). He is coming again; first
for His own, and then in glorious
revelation of Himself as the judge of
all the world. His victory over all
His enemies will then be complete,
and He shall reign forever and ever.
Making Slipcovers
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coming expert home-decorators
and upholsterers—the slipcover
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covers for your chairs and sofa.
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SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
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lubrication before being in
serted in a casing. Partially
inflate the tube and usn ordi
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aration. Dry synthatic tubas
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just thumsalvus properly.
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our synthetic rubber Insurance
policy after the war hold that fungi#
growth on the rubber plantations
and the probability of the Japs
wrecking the plantation equipment
may mean a loss of two years
before normal levels of rubber
production can bn realized.
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