Show i T H E A effs anew s C agents p bounty edited by corner orner lamont lament E county comity agent precautions for home canning with the hot water bath boiler method government research workers recommend no method ot of home canning cannine j of 0 nonacid non acid vegetables and meats as being safe except the pressure cooker method since a number ot of cases of 0 tood food poisoning have been directly traceable to botulism the bacteria calling it has been studied in order to find the temperature and conditions necessary tor for destroying them they will not grow in salt solutions where the percentage ot of salt bait la Is higher than 3 per cent they are destroyed at boiling temperature it the solute I is sufficiently field acid with non aall vegetables and meats there is no as sur aurance ance that they are killed at th alio 3 temperature of 0 boiling water unless the material Is heated tor for as long as bix hours the heating ume lime may be decreased very much it a higher temperature Is used this Is the reason reabon for or the recommendation that meats and nan on acal act 1 vegetables bp be canned under pressure special precautions must be taken talar in those regions where previous ois out outbreak breI a of 0 botulism or special difficulties I 1 in canning have shown uio the soil to be heavily with these or r other heat resisting bacteria from U 9 department 0 of agriculture farmers Bulle bulletin tir no 1471 D W pitman professor of soils at the utah state agricultural college was in tho the county monday august 22 checking on the fertilizer test plats plata to observe what response crops had given to the fe fertilizer I 1 1 z 0 r a applied p last spring in no case have the fertilizer tests shown any response sufficient to justify the cost ot of applying fertilizer at a commercial rate however professor pitman thinks that on alfalfa the effect ot of the tha fertilizer may be more noticeable next year than it was this year on the soils tested no deficiency of im I octant plant food elements was found mr pitman took soil samples V rith him to tho the college for analysis FT the following foi following lowing men are now ap rating threshing machines in tho the county owen matheson william grimshaw john booth mr lards dards in cedar valley and mr peter 11 gurr in parowan valley the yields of grain threshed thus tar far in many cases have not come uy up to the expectations ot of farmers tho the rather long hot dry period since te ta last rain storm has af fectea the yield ot of grain adversely in our county also damage done by soldier bugs to grain fields especially wheat and barley hia haz been rather lather serious according to a survey made by the county agent aleafa alfafa heed fields pro showing moro more than a normal amount ot of stripping this year ani J he will be correspondingly lighter than it otherwise would have been old stands and unfavorable weata er conditions condi tiong are undoubtedly the main contributing factors actors to the iha prospects tor for rather light yields |