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Show Pc THE JOURNAL 10 FARM TOPICS Bruised Animals Cost Packing in 1949 Industry $25,000,000 lost livtitock Industry in 131,014,877 dtad, bruised and crip pled animals In 1949. Meat waste due solely to bruising, much of which could be prevented by greater care In handling of live stock on the farm and In transit, was more than $25,000,000. These figures were disclosed by the National Live Stock Loss Prevention Board, an organization founded to promote better care and handling of livestock. In 1949 the animals dead on arrival at the nation's stock yards would have filled a train 1014 miles America tJ- - ;r v If i-- - ' ; 'Vo .rW .i t r Decalcomania There is nothing so refreshing on a hot day as a tall glass of lemonade with a sprig of fresh mint. Cigar or cigarette ashes dropped in the soil around geraniums promotes longer life for the plants. Many a farm wife would sit while working at the kitchen table If there was a stool or chair handy. A stool hinged to a table leg so it could easily be pushed under the table when not In use would meet the requirement. The one shown above is a simple stool with one leg. A short arm of wood about eighteen inches long, an Inch thick and three Inches wide, has one end nailed or screwed to the stool leg and the other end attached to a table leg by a hinge. transfers on Waxed paper inside a cracker surfaces can be removed box is generally better than the painted without damaging the paint if you kind you buy. Save it. douse them with hot vinegar. Clean pearls and amber beads with olive oil on a piece of flannel jr chamois. Secrets of making good coffee Include the use of freshly drawn water, fresh coffee of the right grind, and a freshly scalded, very clean coffee pot. Spattered grease on the wallpaper behind your stove can be removed easily if you paint the paper, when it is new, with a coat of colorless shellac. J us- - Snb i" MAKES Sprayed Paint Approximately 85 per cent of the paint manufactured for the industrial field Is applied by spray gun. The products coated range in size from the smallest bobby pins and clock bands to the largest locomotives and ships. Broiling For ease and convenience when broiling food, use aluminum foil or parchment on the bottom of your broiler pan. You can slide it off quigk as a wink and save cleansing time. Boll-Ove- rs When food spills over on the surface units of your electric range let It char. When the unit is cool, brush off particles with a brush. If needed, enclosed units may then be washed off. 10 COlDtoofc Grow Clean PUn Many destructive veretik-easemay be avoided seedlings in soil free from causing organisms. use clean soil and the otw,i to treat the soil wl two weeks before using Utica, UUca Is widely knowi,,, tile Industries estahUshnsent 1847 H which wi of woolen of the I, one of the country to theUadin,t of knit goods and cotton Marine Slops U.S. marines themselvej certain who first sent the diii The marines have lande have the situation well in but the sentence Is thought ti been coined by Davis. Richard Good Farm Practices Make 'Good' Soils American livestock prodneers ' lost more than $25, 009,083 In 1949 because of waste meat resulting from bruised animals. Plotured above Is the carcass of a hog whloh was condemned because of bruises. long. Meat waste from dead animals amounted to 14,310,468 pounds, with a value of $4,472,871, Losses resulting from bruises and crippled animals accounted for the remainder. In order to combat this loss, educational programs have been Inaugurated by the government, agricultural colleges and meat packers, pointing to the bruise and Injury losses which are revealed when animals are dressed In the packing plants. Many terminal markets havi developed comprehensive livestock safety programs. These programs urge greater care in the handling of livestock from the time they leave the farm until they are Draperies Air and brush draperies frequently to remove surface dust before it becomes embedded In the fabric. "Somehow the notion gets around that originally our farm soils were highly productive. That is, productive when first plowed. Many of them were like the black lands In our middle west and In central Eurasia, for example, and In some of the great deltas and alluvial val leys," says. Dr. Charles E. Kellogg of the U. S. department of agricul lure. "But most However, he adds: soils are not. 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