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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
Soil Conservation
Steps Up Yield 21%
Big Advance Was
Made in Last Decade
Looming large among factors con
tributing to the American farmers’
record production job on food and
fiber for war is the notable increase
shown in acre yields of vital crops.
Pet acre yields of major crops
during the years 1334-43 were 11.8
per cent greater than yields in the
pre-conservation practices decade of
1923-32, according to government fig
ures. In the period 1937-43, the seven
years during which conservation
practices have been carried out
as a part of the Agricultural Adjust
ment agency’s program, crop yields
per acre averaged 21.2 per cent
above the 1923-32 figure. Yields in
1943 were higher than in any year
since 1923, except for the phenome
nal 1942 acre yield which was 36 per
cent above the average for the
earlier decade.
Comparison of acreage and total
production figures shows that while
total acreage in 1937-43 was about
8 per cent smaller than the 1923-32
average, total agricultural output in
creased 14.5 per cent. The increased
yields since 1937, due primarily to
the employment of conservation
practices, have been responsible for
this high output figure from a
smaller acreage.
The 1944 AAA conservation pro
gram, emphasizing practices that
will immediately increase yields,
seeks expansion of the use of lime,
phosphate and other fertilizers, pro
motion of legume, hay and grass
seed harvest, continuance of ero
sion control and water conservation
measures and expansion of range
and pasture practices.
With increased needs for food and
fiber expected in 1945, when most
of this year’s crop will be con
sumed, U. S. farmers are looking to
the Agricultural Conservation pro
gram to maintain the land’s produc
tivity for the current crop while pro
tecting its fertility for future
plantings.
“It also keeps reminding me to
meet my production goals.”
Fertilizing Tomatoes
Nearly Doubles Crop
Two research men of the soils de
partment at the University of Wis
consin, found that tomatoes need a
lot of fertilizer and pay a big profit
on it, even on land that already is
quite fertile.
They report that compared with
unfertilized tomatoes the best treat
ment increased yields enough to net
$244 extra to the acre above fer
tilizer cost. This was on the basis
of the 1943 cannery price; actually
these tomatoes were sold on the
Milwaukee market at a higher price
and greater return for the fertilizer.
Most profitable of the fertilizer
programs tested was a broadcast
application of 500 pounds 6-6-20
to the acre 500 pounds 3-12-12 at the
side of the row. At a fertilizer cost of
$20.80 to the acre, this treatment in
creased yields by 69 per cent.
Row applications alone were not
able to bring out top yields and were
less profitable on the acre basis.
The 6-6-20 fertilizer which was
broadcast gave just as good results
as more expensive formulas con
taining larger amounts of either
nitrogen or phosphorus.
These results were secured on a
Miami silt loam soil which contains
medium to high amounts of phos
phorus, a fair amount of potassium,
plenty of boron and has a reaction
ranging from just below neutral to
slightly alkaline.
The variety of tomatoes grown
was a rather late one named J. T. D.
Berger and Truog think it is possible
that an earlier variety would have
paid off even better on fertilizer,
since about one-third of this crop
was caught by frost before it
ripened.
Rural Briefs
When the average U. S. civilian
gets into the army he consumes
three times as much cotton per year
in terms of cotton goods as he did as
a civilian—75 pounds. In combat he
uses several times this 75 pounds.
• • •
Soybean acreage has increased 44
per cent since 1941, according to
War Food administration statistics.
About 78 per cent of the national
soybean crop is grown in the North
Central states.
Keep Cool With Frosty Ice Box Pudding
(See Recipes Below)
Summer Favorites
If appetites are dawdling, a real
Job confronts the cook. Summer or
winter, the body
needs nourish
ment, and the
basic seven foods
must be included
in the diet.
What, then,
must be done?
Well, for one tiling, the appetite
must be coaxed with new and dif
ferent combinations of food. Even
in summer there should be one hot
food in the meal, but the cold ones
should be very cool and tempting.
Attractive serving can help con
sumption, too. If there are cool,
crisp looking tablecloths, napkins
and dishes, the appetite will natur
ally perk up. Add to this, green,
crisp garnishes, pleasing color com
binations and well prepared foods,
and there need be no difficulty in
having the food eaten even on the
warmest day.
Sav* Vied Fats!
Today’s round-up of recipes will
help in planning palate-pleasing
menus for hot summer days:
*Veal-Cheese Sandwich.
(Makes 6 sandwiches)
Vi pound prepared veal loaf
Vi cup cottage cheese
6 stuffed olives
1 teaspoon grated onion
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
Butter
12 slices bread
Chill veal loaf and slice thinly.
Mix cottage cheese, chopped stuffed
olives, onion and mayonnaise. Place
veal slices on buttered bread. Top
with bread spread with cottage
cheese mixture. A leaf of lettuce
may be placed in between. Serve
with pickles and potato chips for
lunch.
Jellied Chicken and Vegetables.
(Serves 6)
1 tablespoon nnflavored gelatin
Vi cup cold water or stock
IVi cups hot chicken stock
Vi teaspoon salt
1 cup chicken, chopped
1 cup cooked vegetables (peas,
string beans, beets, aspara
gus, carrots)
Vi pimiento or green pepper
Soften gelatin in cold water. Add
to hot stock and stir until dissolved.
Rinse a square
Gr'^P mold in cold wa-
M (■ ter, pour a thin
V V layer of liquid jel-
j ft ly. Let stiffen
w /=^ slightly and dec
orate with pepper
and other vegeta
bles. Arrange the
thickening jelly,
chicken and vegetables in layers
and chill. Unmold on lettuce.
Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving
Menus
•Veal-Cheese Sandwich
Pan-Fried Potatoes Carrot Salad
Pan Rolls Marmalade
•Fig Ice Box Pudding
Beverage
•Recipes Given
Lynn Says
The Score Card: Potatoes and
onions are coming into the mark
ets. They are very much usable
in summertime menus.
Plan to use plenty of peaches,
apricots and melons this year.
Crop supplies look plentiful.
Ice cream consumption has in
creased from eight pounds per
person in 1924 to sixteen pounds
in 1942.
Homemakers are urged to can
as many fruits and vegetables
this season to give themselves
point-insurance for the winter.
Last year, more lard was pro
duced than at any time during
the nation’s history.
Egg supplies are still plentiful.
Use at least one a day to fortify
your diet.
Sugar stamps 30 and 31 (book
4) are each good for 5 pounds of
sugar. Sugar stamp, number 40,
will give you 5 pounds of sugar
for canning. An extra 20 pounds
of canning sugar is available with
stamp 37, upon application to
your local board. This will give
you 10 pounds now and 10 pounds
later.
Barbecued Frankfurters.
(Serves 6)
1 medium-sized onion, sliced
3 tablespoons salad oil
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
Salt and pepper
Vi cup catsup
Vi cup vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Drop of tabasco sauce
12 frankfurters
Lightly brown onion in salad oil.
Add combined remaining ingredi
ents, except frankfurters. Simmer
15 minutes. Split frankfurters and
place in shallow baking dish. Pour
over barbecue sauce and bake in
moderate oven (375 degrees) 30 min
utes, basting several times.
From main dishes and salads we
go to desserts. These are designed
to be perfect foil, light endings to
meals. You’ll find them flavor-per
fect and easy to make:
Red Currant and Raspberry Ice
Cream. (Makes ZVi cups)
2 pounds red currants, stemmed
1 pint red raspberries
1 cup granulated sugar
1 pint cream or evaporated milk,
whipped
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon vanilla
Stem currants, wash and drain.
Wash, pick over, hull raspberries.
Combine both
fruits, crushing
coarsely. Sprinkle
sugar on fruit,
then let stand 1
hour. Then turn,
mix in enamel
saucepan, cover
and cook over low flame 10 min
utes, stirring occasionally to pre
vent scorching. Remove, squeeze
through double cheesecloth. To this
add the following syrup:
Vi cup granulated sugar
Vi cup cold water
Stir sugar and water, bring to
boiling point and boil 5 minutes.
Remove, stir into first mixture,
then strain again through cheese
cloth. Chill, fold in whipped cream,
salt and vanilla and freeze in hand
freezer. Use three parts ice to one
part rock salt. Freeze until solid,
then pack in four parts ice and one
part rock salt and let mellow for
two hours.
•Fig Ice Box Pudding.
(Serves 10)
2 cups dried white figs
IVi cups water
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Few grains salt
1 tablespoon plain gelatin
Vi cup cold water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
IVi cups cream or evaporated
milk, whipped
Lady fingers
Cornstarch custard
Cover figs with boiling water, let
stand about 10 minutes. Drain, clip
stems and grind or chop figs fine.
Add IVi cups cold water, bring to a
boil and cook about 5 minutes or
until water is evaporaffed. Remove
from heat, add gelatin moistened in
Vt cup cold water. Stir to dissolve.
Cool, add lemon juice and blend.
Whip cream and beat into fig mix
ture. Line sides of a IVi quart
ring mold with lady fingers. Pour
fig-cream mixture into mold. Chill
until firm. Unmold onto serving
plate and fill center with cornstarch
custard or serve plain.
If you wish more detailed instructions
on vegetable canning, write to Miss Lyrnt
Chambers, Western Newspaper Union, 210
South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6, Illi
nois. Please don’t forget to enclose a
stamped, self-addressed envelope for your
reply.
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SUNDAY I
School Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for July 9
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se-
ected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
TAKING POSSESSION OF
' CANAAN
LESSON TEXT—Joshua 14:8-14; Judges
1:20. 21.
GOLDEN TEXT—Thou hast wholly fol
lowed the Lord.—Joshua 14:9.
Companions in battle usually
means friends and comrades for
life. Joshua, of whom we studied
last week, had such a friend in
Caleb. Together they had faced the
crises of life.
Caleb is one of the characters
about whom the Bible does not say
much, but in every case the word
is one revealing high and noble
character. Consider such passages
as Numbers 13:6, 30, 14:7-9, 24, 30;
26:65, as well as our lesson for
today.
The background for our study is
the story of Caleb’s courageous
stand with Joshua when the spies re
turned from their visit to Canaan,
which is related in Numbers 13.
Note first of all Caleb’s
I. Perfect Obedience (Josh. 14:
6-8).
“I wholly followed the Lord my
God.” Such a testimony from a man
like Caleb is no idle boast, no effort
to parade his faith and piety before
others. In saying it he was repeating
what God and Moses had both said
about him.' In his heart he knew it
to be true.
It is God’s will for each of His
children that they should come to
such a place of simple trust and
complete obedience that in every
circumstance of life they need to
know only one thing—God’s will, and
then in faith to go and do it. It is a
life beautiful in its transparent
simplicity and powerful in the
strength of God Himself.
II. Promised Inheritance (v. 9).
“Surely the land whereon thy feet
have trodden shall be thine inheri
tance.” Such was the promise of
God through Moses. Forty-five long
years had elapsed, but down
through this period of wilderpess
wanderings and the conflict in sub
duing Canaan the promise had lived
in Caleb’s heart. He knew it would
be fulfilled, and he waited serenely
for God’s time.
Such also are the promises of God
which keep the heart singing in our
hours of trial and sorrow, which
light up the dark ways, which
strengthen the heart of His children.
Learn God’s promises, cherish them
in your heart, expect God to fulfill
them.
III. Preserved Strength (w. 10,
ID.
“The Lord hath kept me alive . . .
and I am . . . strong.” Here was a
man kept of God, in full vigor in
his eighty-fifth year, “like a rock in
a changeful sea, like a snow
capped peak in a change of cloud
and storm and sun” (Meyer). No
doubt there was here what our fore
fathers liked to call “the longevity
of the antediluvians”; but even
apart from that, let us recognize
that life and strength come from
God, and that those who walk with
God in holy living may count on
Him for the renewed strength of
Psalm 103:5.
An incidental but extremely im
portant lesson we should learn is
that God has no age deadline. The
church has frequently sinned against
Him and against His faithful serv
ants by “shelving them” for
younger men, when they would have
brought blessing if the church had
encouraged and used them. The
writer of these lines is a young man,
but he would speak here a word of
loving admonition regarding his hon
ored brethren who have gone on be
fore to bear the brunt of the battle.
IV. Powerful Assurance (w. 12-
15; Judg. 1:20-21).
“If . . . the Lord will be with rne,
then I shall be able.” Caleb asked
for no easy task. He was ready to go
up against the giants of Hebron.
Read Deuteronomy 3:11, and you
will find that there were men in
those days who needed thirteen-foot
beds. But Caleb was not afraid. He
counted not on his own strength,
but on the power of God.
It is significant that, while the
other sections of Canaan were only
partially conquered, Caleb brought
his formidable adversaries entirely
under control, so that “the land had
rest from war” (v. 15). The verses
in Judges 1 indicate that Caleb was
as good as his word. He was a
doughty, God-fearing 85-year-old.
His faith is here contrasted with the
shameful unbelief and failure of Is
rael.
The spiritual application to our
day is evident and appropriate.
There are giants in the land. Cor
ruption — social and individual —
raises its brazen head. Drunken
ness and vice leer at us with the im
pudent suggestion that we cannot
control them.
There are giants “within us —
greed, selfishness, love of ease, lust,
passion, cruelty” (Blaikie).
Are we to do nothing about them?
If we are to meet them in the
strength of the flesh, we might al
most as well do nothing. But in the
power of God, we are Like Caleb—•
able. In His name we may do some
thing about it! For His glory.
1995
12-40
Maternity Wear
A MATERNITY frock to be
worn during the hot weather
months must be cool, comfortable
and as pretty as possible so that
you do not grow weary of it. This
young-looking dress and jacket
will please you.
• • •
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1999 la de-
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Size 14 dresa requires 414 yards of 39-
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yards.
Waxing curtain rods not only
protects them from rust but
makes it easier to slide curtains
back and forth.
a a e
If a paper towel is used to line
the bottom of the vegetable hydra-
tor in the refrigerator it will ab
sorb excess moisture and prevent
spoilage.
see
A splendid safeguard in the med
icine cabinet is to place pins cross
wise through the corks of any bot
tles which contain poison. A
pricked finger will be noticed even
in the dark!
e • e
A marble or two dropped in the
toq of stockings will keep them
from blowing and wrapping around
the line when hung outdoors in
windy weather.
e a •
“Frosting” Glass may be done
easily by simply painting the glass
with white lead and oil. This can
be painted on smooth, or given a
stipple effect by twisting the
brush.
Brief Sun Clothes.
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• • •
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Size 12. dress, requires 2% > yard* of 39-
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