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Show NEWS IN BRIEF In 1870 more than half the gainfully gain-fully employed persons in the United States were farmers but by 1930 this proportion had fallen to a little more than a fifth. Cheddar cheese, sometimes called call-ed "store" or "American" cheese, is usually inexpensive yet has as much nourishment as many of of the costilier cheese. Lard is one of the easiest fats to use in either cake-makine or .or pastry, since it can be worked over a very wide range of temperatures. tem-peratures. It is never brittle, even when just removed from ihe refrigerator. Lard is also easily digested and almost com-.letely com-.letely utilized by the body. Like butter it it 97 percent digestmle. Well adapted to freezing are the juices of apples, cherries, rhubarab, pineaples, currants, and raspberries. Painted floors, unwaxed, may be cleaned by washing them with lue and water. A half-pound of powdered glue is enough for a medium-sized room. The crab apple was the only apple native to America when the first settlements were made. The United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture's outlook tor 1940 reports that there will be a stronger demand for farm products pro-ducts in 1940 than prevailed in 1939. The reason for this provable pro-vable greater demand is the expected ex-pected increase in business ac-iv-ty. It seems that the old fashioned fash-ioned way of saying this would be that when business is better consumers get more money and are willing to spend more. Five years is about the average productive life of a dairy cow. In some places it seems to be only four years, and iji some large commercial herds, two or three. Vitamine D, the "sunshine" vitamin is found in eggs, fish-livers, fish-livers, and irradiated foods. It is also produced in the skin of the body by the action of sunlight. |