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— — , ? ■*»<> <- r' , ^* "’'* ~ y ~*. -/', ’ , * . -•? ^ V^W,' jl * ’^.^'V'.i . •/r‘->"--^; . Starter Fertilizing Insufficient for Crop Use of Fertilizer Alone Won't Build Com Yields One reason why some farmers swear at and not by fertilizer, is that they don’t use enough plant food, the middle west soil improve ment committee points out. Adding a small amount of "start er” fertilizer at planting time may get corn off to a quick start. But scanty applications often fail to 3000 STALK* •UT WHY MO EABS 7 z u •OV. THftT ftCftCLV 010 THE TRICK 13 Well-fertilized deep-rooted leg- tunes grown in rotation will build a reserve of plant food in soil and increase corn yields. provide sufficient nourishment to carry the crop through the season on low fertility soils. Without a reserve of plant food in the soil, the corn crop will starve in midsummer and not have enough nourishment to make ears. The use of fertilizer alone will build corn yields on most farms. But for maximum yields, the farm er needs to build the soil’s tilth structure and organic matter sup ply. When well-fertilized deep-rooted legumes are grown regularly in the rotation, the soil is mellowed and conditioned for high com yields. There are extra reserves of crop-feeding organic matter avail able. Iowa Factories in 1950 Outproduced Iowa Farms For the first time in 11 years, Iowa factories outproduced Iowa farms. of January it was estimated that Iowa factories turned out 2% billion dollars’ worth of food prod ucts, machinery, chemicals, drugs, printed matter and other goods. Sales of farm products in 1950 were estimated at more than $2 billion, but no estimate was as high as $2% billion, even including the value of produce eaten and used on the farm. Factory products frequently nosed farm products out of the number one spot in Iowa’s economy between 1924 and 1939, although it usually was c close race. In 1924, for instance, cash receipts from farm marketings totaled $666,- 533,000 and manufactured products sold for $685,276,088. Farm production is expected to increase in Iowa during 1951, as elsewhere in the nation, but with the increased rearmament program in full swing, factory production will also increase. Clip Dairy Cows—Care of the dairy herd includes clipping. Clip ping helps produce clean milk, re duces labor needed in care of the herd, helps control cattle lice, and improves appearances of the cattle. Flock Protectors A pair of fleet-footed greyhounds accompany Harold Jamieson, Osh kosh, Nebraska, turkey raiser as he iaapects part of his flock of 2,000 broad breasted bronze turkeys. Jaaaieson explains that the dogs are poison to coyotes which abound in that part of the country, but never bother the turkeys. A pair of huge dogs like these are standard equip ment with many turkey raisers in southwestern Nebraska. Neglect of Dental Care Lewers Milk Production loan H. Loughary, dairy special ist, reports too many dairymen neg lect dental care of their cows. When a cow is about two to three years old, the second set of teeth come in. Occasionally, one or more of these may come in crooked and when this occurs the cow will not eat well and her production is retarded. Proper care by a veterinarian will eliminate this defect in many dairy herds. IP' » Wwi i'M* cookies Kate High at Snack Time (See Recipes Below) Cookie Jar Time v /rvrrHEN I HAVE the cookie jar filled,” says many a home maker, “I feel that I’m ready for anything, the children’s coming home from school, teen ager’s get together, or friends dropping in.” With an assort ment of delicious cookies on hand, you can indeed be ready for al most any form of simple enter taining. Serve them with a bev erage for most occasions, add ice cream, sherbet or a delectable creamy pudding and you add a flourish to your entertaining. If the drain on the cookie jar is heavy, make simple drop cookies which are so easy on effort and keeping quality. * * * Stone Jar Molasses Cookies (Makes 3H dozen) 2*4 cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup molasses % cup butter H teaspoon soda Sift flour once, measure, add bak ing powder, ginger, and salt, and sift again. Heat molasses, remove from fire; add butter and soda. Add flour gradually, mixing well. Chill until firm enough to roll. Roll very thin on slightly floured bdard. Cut With floured 2*4-inch cutter or with fancy cutters. Bake in greased baking sheet in moderate oven (350*) 10 minutes. • • • •Fudge Squares (Makes 20 1” x 3” squares) H cup shortening 1 cup sugar * eggs 2 squares bitter chocolate 94 cup sifted all-purpose' flour 94 teaspoon baking powder 94 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup broken nut meats Blend shortening, sugar, and eggs. Melt chocolate over hot water and add to first mixture. Add flour, baking powder, and salt which have been mixed together. Add vanilla and nut meats. Place in 7 w xl0 < 'x2* pan which has been rubbed with shortening. Bake in a moderate oven (375°) for 25 to 30 minutes. Cover with Fudge Icing. + + + i Fudge Icing 2 tablespoons shortening 2 squares bitter chocolate 94 teaspoon salt 1 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar 1 tablespoon milk 94 teaspoon vanilla Melt chocolate over hot water. Pour over the shortening and mix thoroughly. Gradually add the confection ers’ sugar, salt, milk, and vanil la. Stir until smooth. Cover fudge squares while still warm. * • * Date Nut Drops (Makes 4-5 dozen) 94 cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 2 cups broken nut meats 2 cups seedless raisins 2 cups chopped dates LYNN S 'VS: Serve Palatable Desserts To Satisfy Big Appetites There's always time to make a dessert if you use simple ideas which can be dressed up easily. For instance, melt some chocolate pep permint wafers and use to frost pound cake. Sprinkle with chopped nuts. Griddlecakes make an excellent dessert if they’re fruit-filled. To regular batter add some chopped, tart apples and fry. Serve with brown sugar and cinnamon. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Veal Balls, Sour Cream Gravy Buttered Noodles Julienne Carrots Lettuce-Spinach Salad Bran Rolls Butter Beverage Rhubarb Sauce *Fudge Squares •Recipe Given 194 cups sifted all-purpose c flour 94 teaspoon baking soda 94 teaspoon salt 94 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 94 teaspoon cloves 94 teaspoon allspice 2 tablespoons orange or pine apple juice Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs and beat well. Add nut meats, raisins, and dates and mix. Add flour, soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves, allspice which have been mixed together, and fruit juice. ChiU dough. Drop from tea spoon two inches apart on a bak ing sheet rubbed with shortening. Bake in a moderate oven (375*) 12 to 15 minutes. • • • Corn Flake Kisses 94 cup sugar 1 egg 94 cup melted shortening 1 cup flour (sifted before measuring) 1 cup corn flakes 1 teaspoon baking powder 94 teaspoon salt 94 cup chopped nut meats 1 cup finely cut dates Combine sugar, shortening and egg. Sift dry ingredients together. Add to the first mixture along with remaining ingredients. Drop from a teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet. Flatten tops .slightly. Bake in a moderately hot oven (400*) for 10 minutes. • • • Scotch Oatmeal Cookies 1 cop lard 1 cup brown sugar 94 cup sour milk 2 cups flour, pastry (sifted be fore measuring) 2 cups oatmeal 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 94 teaspoon salt Cream lard and sugar until light and fluffy. Add sour milk in which the soda has been dissolved. Add oatmeal and flour, reserving enough flour to roll out cookies (about 94 cup). Roll out and cut into squares. Place on a greased cookie sheet, sprinkle with sugar. Bake in a mod erate oven (350°) 15 minutes. * • • Sour Cream Cookies 1 cup brown sugar 94 cup shortening 1 egg 1 cup chopped nut meats 2 cups pastry flour (sifted be fore measuring) 1 teaspoon nutmeg 94 teaspoon soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 94 teaspoon salt 94 cup sour cream Cream shortening, add sugar, then mix well. Add the egg; beat thoroughly. Sift together flour, soda, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg, then add alternatively with sour cream to the first mixture. Mix well and drop from a teaspoon on well-greased cookie sheet. Bake in moderate oven (350°) 20 minutes. Several kinds of fruit left in the refrigerator? Place in deep dish, top with piecrust and bake. Invert so crust is on the bottom, slice like pie and serve with whipped cream. Baked fruit like pears and apples can be served on top of small slices of slightly stale cake. Have plenty of syrup from the fruit to spoon onto the cake. Keep individual pastry tart shells on hand along with chocolate, vanilla and butterscotch puddings. You have a choice of tarts any time you want them. SpPlii '* THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. THE (Wr'.l Town ^ ggPORTSP IN WASHINGTON WALTER 5HEAO WNU Co rf -ponden M ORRISVILLE, Pa.—Here in the cradle of American liberty, only a stone’s throw south of the site of Gen. George Washington’s historic crossing of the Delaware river, a new and exciting chapter in the romance of American industry was written recently when ground was broken for the construction of the Fairless works of the United States Steel corporation. There have been new plants of United States Steel built in this country in the fifty-year history of USS, but never before, even under pressure of two world wars, has a steel plant of this size been built all at one time, which, by the end at next year, will be producing 1,800,- 000 ingot tons of steel. The day, the weather, the site and the plans made to promote the occasion were all of a piece to stimulate the imagination: a cold, snow-spitting day; 3900 acres in a bend of the Delaware river just south of this small village. It could have been such a day when the Continental army In small boats assayed the cross ing of the ice-choked Delaware to engage the British in the bat tle of Trenton. But there was no such luxury and trimmings and gas heat, no filet mignons for the ragged, battle-weary, eqld and bedraggled troops of Gen eral Washington as greeted the guests of United States Steel. Today the work is going forward to build a $500,000,000 plant to pro duce more steel to stiffen the ribs of the nation and to pour more wealth into its economic veins. It does not require much of the im agination to picture this spot with in a few short months—10,000 em ployees who must have houses, who must have schools and shopping facilities and churches where there are none today. It requires little of the imagination to picture the huge dredging boats which will rout out a channel in the Delaware from Philadelphia up to the Trenton bridge, 40 feet deep, and dock facili ties accommodating large size ocean going vessels. And in the mind of this reporter, who was present on this occasion, the Fairless works of United States Steel is the smaller end of this proj ect which has required several years of planning and promotion, of vision and pioneering effort. For at the other terminal of these huge ocean going vessels is a veritable mountain of iron ore which must be scooped up and transported from the jungles of Venezuela to the hungry maws of the pre-eating fur naces of the Fairless works on the banks of the Delaware. And here again the pioneering spirit and the imagination of the men who run United States Steel is projected into the future. For in the revolution-troubled country of South America, engineers of USS must dredge through the troublesome delta of the Orinoco, up-riyer into the jungles past Ciudad Bolivar, up stream on a tributary to Bolivar mountain, said to be higher grade ore than in the famous Mesabi range in northern Minnesota. But more, two towns must be built for employees of this fast undertaking, more schools and stores and hous ing and spraying against jungle ills, before ocean going ore boats form a moving link between the South American republic and the vast new plant in Pennsylvania. More than a billion dollars is involved in this gigantic undertaking by U^^d States Steel on two continents As Benjamin Fairless, presi dent of United States Steel, said: "This constant interchange of wealth between two conti nents will create new jobs, new homes, new opportunities and new prosperity for the peo ple of both countries, and will surely strengthen the historic bonds which have long united the Americas — economically, politically and fraternally.” This reporter sees in this vast new undertaking of private enter prise another evidence of the part nership so often spoken about—a partnership between labor, industry and government. It took govern ment certificates of necessity for permission to build this plant; it took government allocations of the steel to fabricate the plant and it takes the government, through army engineers, to provide the channel in the Delaware so that ships may go through. All of which makes rather ridiculous the oft-heard charges from private enterprise it self, that the government is going socialistic and that private enter prise is doomed. It would appear that United States Steel has at least a billion dollars worth of faith that private enterprise is here to stay. * * • % 18-Year-Olds The 79 to 5 vote by which the senate passed the bill providing for the draft of 18-year-olds now and universal military training later, was a surprise even for the sup porters of the bill. On final passage only five Republican senators voted against the measure. The bill now goes to the house where it will possibly face another period of debate,, but should pass without too much difficulty. THE READER'S DATE BOOK Seventh Annual Sunday School Week Scheduled for April 9-15 One of the most important observances for the home towns of America during the coming month will be the observance of National Non-Sectarian Sunday School Week, April 9-15. Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire will serve as chairman, of the 1951 observance. The acceptance of Senator Bridges to be chairman during the week of the observance which is designed to increase by hundreds of thousands the regular attendance of children in Sunday schools of all ■ - faiths, was made public by Dr. Al fred P. Haake. chairman of the layman’s national committee, a non sectarian, n o n- profit organiza tion, sponsoring the activities for the seventh year. Senator Bridges in accepting the post of chairman said: “Ever since its inception, the National Non-Sectarian Sunday School Week has been a growing movement. It has the single objec tive in mind of impressing upon every American man, woman and child his responsibility to God and country. "America was founded upon the principle that every nation’s ulti mate trust must be in God. "Today, in face of the world sit uation, I am more convinced than ever that that faith which was so much a part of the lives of the founding fathers of our country, must find a rebirth. In the minds of those who are trying to build a sane and peaceful world our nation and the other free nations of the world today are committed to a’ life and death struggle with athe istic communism. This battle can never be won alone by force of arms or diplomacy. The ultimate strength .which America brings to this struggle must come from a people consecrated to the prin ciple that spirituality is the final reality. "I believe, without hesitation, that the layman's national com mittee, through the National Non-Sectarian Sunday School Week, can make a much needed contribution to the strengthen ing of the spiritual life of our nation. “I have agreed to serve as chair man of this very important move ment. Our task this year is to form a ‘committee of 100,’ consisting of 100 outstanding execu tives, representative of 100 different industries to serve as honorary vice chairmen.” People in all walks of life, in the home towns and cross roads of the nation, will be encouraged by proclamations and statements of their governors and mayors to make this week a major one in their communities. Veteran groups, indus trial organizations, labor unions, civic and fraternal organizations, women’s clubs, youth movements, chambers of commerce, and other organizations have been asked for personal participation. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a statement read at the recent con vention of the American association of school administrators, expressed one of the purposes of the observ ance when he declared the develop ment of integrity and civic respon sibility in all American youth is an essential element in the defense of the American system of government and democratic life. April RURAL ELECTRIFICATION Efficient Use of Electricity Is Vital in Time of National Crisis BY CLAUDE R. WICKARD Rural Electrification Administrator Adequate supply and efficient use of electricity on the farm in time of national crisis can well spell the difference between ample production for wartime needs and serious shortages. In the last decade and a half, electricity has proved itself an ef fective tool in producing more food with less hum?**, labor. The nation consequently b z much to be thank ful for because there are 3,000,000 more farms now than at the time of Pearl Harbor wired and ready to use the power of electricity. An increasing number of farmers know what electricity can do for them. This is shown by how quickly they put this new power to more and more farm tasks once service is available. Farm labor already is hard to find, and many materials impor tant to the farmer will increase in scarcity. Electricity provides a means of offsetting these shortages because it enables the farmer to do more with less. With nine out of ten farms al ready connected to the high- lowa Testing Landing Fields for Small Towns OSCEOLA, Iowa. — Four Iowa cities are leading the way toward an airport program nearly every small town and city can afford. Osceola, Hampton, Ida Grove and Guttenburg now have single-strip airports, adequate for farmers’ and businessmen’s private planes. Each of the airports was built at a total cost of well under $1,000. They adjoin a main highway and are only a mile or so from town. ■ — 1 .’n, rv , i Cobbler's Bench Makes Unusual Coffee Table 1 -> SCRIPTURE: Genesis 1—3; Psalm 104; John 1:1-3. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 19: l-«. God Invented Us Lesson for April 1, 1951 MAKE A COBBLERS BENCH COFFEE TABLE OF SOLD P*£ This is the official poster to be used during the seventh an nual observance of National Non-Sectarian Sunday School Week, April 9-15, 1951. It has already been posted throughout the nation. THE WEEKS AHEAD Mar. 25-31—Advertising Recogni tion Week. 25-31—Honey for Breakfast Week. 1—April Fool’s Day. 1—Clean - up, paint - up, fix-up campaigns be gin (April-Msy). 1- 7—Conservation Week. 1- 8—National Laugh Week. 1-30—America’s Heartland Development Month. 1-30—Cancer Control Month. 1- 30—Let’s Play Ball Month. 2- 8—Boy’s Club Week. 2-12—Carpet Fashion Open ing. 2-22—Sprint Style Show of American Gas Ranges. 4- 9—American Camp Week. 4-14—Nationally Advertised Brands Week (drugs and varieties). 7- 14—Donut Week. 8 —Daughter’s Day. 8- 14—Pan-American Week. 9- 15—Sunday School Week. 11—Brand Names Day. 11-17—Trimmed-Dress Week. 11- 21—Nationally Advertised Brands Week in chain variety stores. ' 12- 22—Large Size Week (in dependent drug stores). 12-28—Silver Parade (Jewel ry Industry Council). 15-21—Want Ad Week. 15- 21—Noise Abatement Week. « 16- 29—Packaging Week. 19- 21—Leather Goods Week. 16-22—Garden Week. 20- 29—Coin Week. 20-29—Rice Week. 22-28—U.S.-Canada Good Will Week. lines, and construction being speeded to reach most of the others, farmers are in a better position than ever before to meet the nation’s emergency needs. They have an opportunity * to use electricity for their bene fit. They have a responsibility to use It for the nation's bene fit. ' We know that in many tasks a one-horsepower electric motor, using a few pennies worth of power, can, do as much work in an hour as a man can do in a day. We know that poultry and egg production, for instance, show 10 to 40 per cent increases with the use of electricity. A simple homemade pig brooder, made largely of a light bulb and some odds-and-ends of lumber, will cut losses at farrowing time by 30 > per cent. Electricity works through ma chines and appliances. Now there is a good possibility the farmer’s electrical equipment will not be as easy to replace as has been the case. Repair parts may even be difficult to get if the emergency lasts any length of time. This makes It highly impor tant that farmers do everything possible to keep their power equipment in good running order. We strongly urge fann ers to check over every piece of electrical equipment on their farms—clean it up, oil it as re quired, replace worn cords and broken plugs. The county extension agent and other workers in the extension serv ice either at the county or the state office will have information in this field of farm operation. /#P«0D INVENTED it,” says C. ^ S. Lewis about the universe. It is a 20th-century way of saying what the Bible says about God and the world. There have been whole religions based on the idea that God is good and spirit is good, but anything which is not God or not spirit is bad. If this were true, then our bodies would be bad, and all the physical world about us would be bad; our souls Dr. Foreman would be prisoners, so to speak, in a vast fortress of evil. This is not the truth the Bible tells. The story of Creation in Gen esis tells us that when God had fin ished with making the world he saw that it was good, very good. He in vented the world, he invented spirit and matter both, he invented us body and soul. Whatever evil is now in the world and in man did not come from God, it is not a mis take of God’s. The world, as God invented it and intends it, is food. • • • The World Did not Happen T HE Christian church has changed some of its ideas about Brea- tion, but it has never ceased to.be- Heve in creation. Very few church es, if any, now affirm that ' the world was created in precisely six 24-hour days, and still fewer would be willing to name the dates on which creation took place. Nevertheless the Christian church has not given up,, and will not give up, her belief that God created all things. The doc trine of creation means, first of all, that the one God willed the universe and what is in it. The universe did not happen, it did not make itself. It was not made by different gods working against one another. Zoroastrianism, for in stance, teaches that the world was made by two gods, one of light and one of darkness. Whatever the god of light created, the god of dark ness would make something exact ly opposite. No, Jews and Christians alike say, there is only one Crea tor, the infinitely wise and good God. • • • Nature’s Laws l^-ON - RELIGIOUS philosophers ™ have sometimes said that the world explains itself. But Christian philosophers, not to mention Jew ish ones as well, have seen that the world does not explain itself. There is too much evidence of purpose and design running through the pat terns of the universe. Definite laws can be discovered and to some de gree understood. .The same laws which govern matter on this planet, and In deed the very same elements, the "building-blocks of the uni verse,” are to be discovered in the remotest stars. If the uni verse were an accident It would not he tied together as it is. It would not be a universe of law but one in which nothing could be counted on, nothing expected. It would be no universe but a multi- verse, a mad world, indeed no world at 'all but an infinite con fusion. t • • • Why Are We Here? B UT CREATION means something more personaL It means that we ourselves have been called into existence by the Almighty,—not by a god of mere sheer power, but by the one God of infinite and all- powerful Love. Man is not here on this planet by some trick of blind fate, mankind is not a mere fleck of foam tossed up by the restless ocean of the Infinite, soon to be washed away in the ebbing tides. Man—that means also, we ourselves —are God’s invention. We are not now as he intend ed us, to be sure; sin has change)! the picture sadly, as we shall be thinking next week. Why are we here? We are here because God put us here. This means that life has a meaning; but also that we cannot find that mean ing without knowing the will of God. His will is for our welfare; only the Creator knows what is best for his creatures. God intended this world to be used by us, not abused. When any man or group of men get the notion thVt this world be longs to them alone; or when one generation misuses the resources of the lands and the waters, leaving to their descendants a wasted earth, then God’s will in creation is being defied. But when we take his will as life’s guide, we are on the way to fulfilling his purpose in Crea tion. (Copyright 1M1 fejr Dtrlstai «f CtaristUa EdpeaUan, N»U*a»l af tta Ckarahea at Chrlal la tha Ualtad Stataa af Aaaarlaa. Ralaaaad kg WNU Faataraa.) Cobbler’s Bench M AKE YOUR own reproduction of an old-time cobbler’s bench. 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