Postville Herald from Postville, Iowa • Page 7

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1943. THE POSTVILLE HERALD, POSTVILLE, IOWA. PAGE SEVEN. For the ncrald's Ilomcmakcrs by Iowa State College Home Economists. Pep Up April GIVE JADED APPETITES A LIFT An attractive luncheon plate like this will help pick up those droopy, in-between-season appetites.

For lemon buttered cabbage, blend 2 parts of melted butter with 1 part lemon juice. Serve over hot quick-cooked cabbage. This cabbage is especially good with coined beef. The lemon and butter may also be served over cauliflower. ON THE FARM FRONT NEWS from your county agent CORNSTALKS ARE WORTH TOO MUCH TO BURN THE FARM FORESTER SAYS: The "notion" to plant trees is growing, just like those trees and shrubs for wildlife the Postville Smith-Hughes boys put out last spring.

Last year 4,000 trees were purchased and planted by Allamakee County farmers. These trees were used for erosion control and wildlife food and cover. This spring over 14,000 trees will be planted. Yes, things are looking up, we're planting more trees these days. FIRE DESTROYS VALUABLE CROP IN ALLAMAKEE COUNTY By Mary Ames My grandmother used to say April's the season between "hay and grass." We're tired of canned stuff, the stored carrots and apples in the bottom of the barrel are wilted and it's a little too early for those tender, young vegetables and fresh fruits.

It's one of those in-between seasons that I find taxes my meal-planning tricks to pep up jaded appetites so that the family will eat all the essentials of a good diet. So I strive for something different in my tart and appetite provoking. I forget starchy foods for a while and lean toward the leafy vegetables and unusual fruits. Cabbage is cheap now and rather plentiful on the I serve it in slaw and cooked. And I serve it quick-cooked use only a bit of water and cook it for 7 to 10 minutes.

That way it keeps its fresh greenness and the vitamins are saved, too. This is the time when frozen fruit, so nearly like the fresh fruit, will make meals interesting. Salads, too, will add new life to meals. Unusual seasonings can come from you haven't any this year, plan to include a "seasoning corner" in your garden this spring; Caraway seeds in vegetables and sugar cookies; celery seed in salad dressing; sage and thyme in meats; a "rub" of garlic in meat salads and meat; grated cheese, chives, mint, and special sauces will all do their best for a meal. But, little seasoning goes a long way.

Watch the table attractive table set with gay dishes will help perk up appetites. Buy a gay new oilcloth for the kitchen table to save laundry. And careful preparation is important for eye appeal and may mean rejection or acceptance of the food. Banish that too-tired-to-eat feeling by serving these foods on your family Boston brown bread, leafy salads, eggs in variety, pot roast with carrots or cabbage (cook the vegetables only about 10 or 15 minutes), tossed salads with meat and eggs and lish, sherbets made from canned or frozen fruit, fruit drinks. Dress up a baked bean meal with tossed salad and lemon sherbet, for instance.

Three Meals A Day i By Ruth Cessna Extension Nutritionist BREAKFAST Cereal with bananas Sausages Toast LUNCHEON OR SUPPER Hot or cold potato salad and wieners Spoon bread Fruit Milk DINNER Rice cooked in milk Gravy Buttered string beans Carrot strips and young green onions Cherry pudding Beverage Rice for dinner is one of those foods I substitute for potatoes now and since potatoes are up 61 per cent in the last year. If you've bought any rice, however, you'll know the price of that is well over last year's price, per cent higher in fact. You've probably thought it was because rice came from China and Japan and that shipping space was While we actually got our best quality rice from the Far East, wc do grow more rice here in the United States than we 'act, we have exported rice. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and California are the rice-producing states. And the south is increasing production of just as we're increasing pork, eggs gardens.

Rice is being used extensively in the army, and our export customers want more of our American rice because the Far East supplies are cut This explains why the price of is up. 's a good "main-energy" food to use for dinner or supper occasionally, however. But rice cannot replace our "potato a-day" requirement since it not contain the food elements of Potatoes other than the carbohydrate. A Good Supply of JAR RUBBERS Even the lowly jar ring has gone "'i-out-for-war. A War Production order specifies that its rubber "Ment in the future be no more than 10 Per cent and it will have only one 'P.

No restriction has been placed on "Umber to be made; however, and is expected thai there will be plenty Ior hom canning needs. latest report on the Defense Bona solicitation, in Clayton county ndicates that the pledges are about Per cent below the quota set for inK 0Unty However, the committee 0 charge hopes to meet its full quota bef. ore the drive is ended. VICTORY GARDENS A special column prepared for Herald Readers by Iowa State College Specialists. FRUIT.

If adapted varieties are planted and handled according to present day recommendations, satisfactory yields of high quality fruit may be grown in any section of Iowa. It is well to plant only enough fruit to furnish the home fruit supply. Large plantings require additional labor which often results in neglect. Fruit plantings should be located relatively close to the' farm buildings, utilizing, of course, the best fruit soil and slope available on the farm. The lighter rolling soil types are most suitable.

Heavier soils, so well adapted to corn production, tend to be less suitable for fruit. Only the best stock should be used for setting. Strawberries from old beds can be used, provided they are free from disease. It is advisable to purchase new raspberry plants from a reliable nursery. Many types of winter injury and weak framework may be eliminated in apple orchards thru the use of hardy intermediate stocks with the semi-hardy varieties top- worked on these stocks.

Under Iowa conditions it is best to plant fruit trees and small fruits early in the spring as soon as the ground can be worked. In order to grow various fruits successfully and have them in perfect condition for storing and preservation, a definite pruning schedule must be followed. They must be protected against disease and insect infestations. A definite spraying schedule is essential. Ask your county agent for Iowa State College Extension Circular 258, "Orchards Planting and Management;" for Pamphlet 23; Bulletin P7 and P10, and for mimeographed bulletin FG-570.

The first step in a fruit spray program is to find out when it is time to spray and what spray to use. Your county agent will provide you with this information. Shop through the ads in the Herald. Fire destroys one of Allamakee county's most valuable crops. Every year the pall of smoke that hangs over the hills in spring is burning up crops of wood, says County Agent Fred O'Riley.

The forests of Allamakee county are one of the county's most valuable resources. Hundreds of the county's farmers get all or most of their fuel from the woods. These farmers yearly save from $60 to $100 by using fuel- wood grown on their place rather than coal. Thousands of fence posts are taken from the woods of Allamakee county to amount to several thousand dollars in money value. Poles for sheds are used in great woods of Allamakee county.

Fire in the woods burn crop upon crop of fence posts and poles. A look about the farms of Allamakee county will show many uses native wood: wagon tongues, truck bodies, machinery repairs, barns, cribs, gates, stock sheds and pens are built of native wood. The value of such material runs into large sums yearly. Fire destroys the farm houses, barns, cribs, stock pens, gates, wagon and truck bodies and machinery repairs of the future, reminds O'Riley. 1 There are over thirty sawmills operating, either full-time or part-time in Allamakee county.

They employ 150 to 200 men. Sawing is done on a custom basis for farmers, enabling the farmers to use wood grown on their farms in the construction and repair of their farm buildings. Some of the lumber is sold bringing in thousands of dollars yearly to both the farmers and the sawmillers. Fire destroys the future income from the forest lands. One of the most destructive and wasteful habits of many Iowa farmers is the burning of crop residues on farm straw piles, straw huts, soybean to E.

R. Duncan, extension agronomist at Iowa State College. Roughly the cornstalks on an acre of ground can be valued at approximately $0.20, while oat. or soybean straw is worth approximately per, acre, Duncan points out. While these figures are only approximate, they do indicate the potential value of some of our crop residues that are often burned to save a little time and effort, he says.

Besides the fertilizing value, the loss of organic matter through burning is even more important for consideration. A monetary value cannot be put on organic matter, but it does greatly increase the water holding capacity of a soil as well as improve the soil structure, thus facilitating early working and tends to cut down soil erosion. Even though the" mineral nutrients such as phosphorus and potassium are not lost in' burning, they are bunched in the burning windrows and not uniformly spread out over the field. Nearly every man who has ever burned cornstalks has noticed the beautiful green growth of small grain on the site of burned windrows. 4-H BOYS AND GIRUS MOBILIZE TO HELP IN WAR EMERGENCY More than a million and a half rural boys and girls all over America are mobilizing for service this week among them are Allamakee county 4-H members.

April 5 to 11 has been announced as 4-H Mobilization Week, purpose of the week is to rally the farm youth of Allamakee county for fullest contribution to the war effort. All the boys and girls who are already members and as many new members as possible will pledge themselves to all-out effort, with emphasis on food, feed and livestock production. President Roosevelt, who has called attention to the contribution young rural Americans can make through 4-H, addressed- all new and old club members on the National Farm and Home Hour, on April 4, between 11:30 and 12:00 o'clock. Special broadcasts will be carried on both Iowa 4-H boys' girls' broadcasts from Station WOI on the same half-hour, 11:00 to 11:30 and a new boys' broadcast, from 12:00 to 12:15 o'clock. The entire 4-H program in Allamakee county is being adjusted to the war emergency.

-In a meeting of all boys' leaders and the boys' committee, the Allamakee county 4-H boys' program was streamlined. In all production clubs, boys will be urged not only to save 1 livestock through better management but also to increase numbers. Poultry members should have at least 50 chicks, and more members should enroll in market litter clubs instead of raising individual hogs, the leaders decided. Both boys and girls will help raise food for home use and canning in Victory clubs. They also are urged to help with the family garden and with other family food, feed and livestock production activity.

Both boys' and girls' clubs will organize 'master demonstration These teams be available to demonstrate practices that will be helpful in the food and feed campaign. With an expansion of present home and farm production projects, Allamakee county 4-H members can help (materially with the Food-For-Freedom program. Conservation of machinery, food and clothing, purchase of defense bonds and study and practice of democratic principles are other ways in which Allamakee county 4-Hers will contribute to the fight for freedom. Iowa retail dealers have been cheerful recently because of increased sales For example, in January, 1942, percentage increases January, 1941, up to 61 per cent were recorded. Some of the major ones: family clothing stores, 61; shoe stores, 59; men's clothing and furnishings, 50; dry goods and general merchandise, 41; hardware, 35; Jewelry, 33; and general stores (with food), 27.

Iowa Farih Kernels Iowa farmers who wish to make every acre as productive as possible will plan now to get seed of the new, disease-resistant oat varieties to plant in 1943, even everyone cannot get seed of these varieties for the 1942 crop. War will soon reach into the Iowa kitchen by cutting the available sugar supply by an estimated one-third. But still, we will have more sugar per person than most Europeans used in pre-war days. It takes about quarts of average- rich milk to make a pound of butter. About 117 billion pounds of milk were produced in the United States last year.

Sodium chlorate is an efficient killer but it is not toxic enough to soil bacteria to be used as a fungicide. It is important in pasturing sweet clover that it not be allowed to get too rank and Some farmers use a mower set 8 to 10 inches high and clip their clover when they haven't sufficient stock to keep it down. The clipping should be done high, since sweet clover starts new growth from side branches and has no crown as does alfalfa. Since the winter of 1842-43 there have been 23 "test kind which cause more or less damage to horticultural plants in Iowa. The frequency of these winters emphasizes the need for using hardy stock and top-working to desired apple varieties.

Ladino clover is a giant strain of white clover which has achieved its greatest success in the irrigated sections of the Northwestern states. Flax has been found to do poorly following sugar beets. There'll be more spinach to eat this year, according to present crop reports. Reports from spinach canners in California and Texas indicate a total 1942 production for the two states of 55,270 tons. This compares with 29,900 tons in 1941.

Farm products' prices in February were up 41.4 per cent over the figure for February, 1941, but prices paid by farmers also were up by 14 per cent. Prof. George R. Davies of the. University of Iowa bureau of business research has compiled the figures.

In comparison with prewar marks (August, 1939), prices in February received by farmers were up 64,8 per cent, Prof. Davies said, while prices paid by farmers increased 23.5. The Clayton County convention of Federated Women's clubs is being held at Elkader today. H. B.

Montgomery, manager of the Nehi' Bottling Decorah, has. been adjudged bankrupt, with assets listed at $36,325.25, and liabilities, $53,411.56. HELP NAVY FAMILIES IN TIME OF NEED THE NAVY RELIEF SOCIETY, which" had its origin in 1820, provides financial help to families of the personnel of the United States Navy in time of need. The war today has increased the necessity for funds to care for the dependents of the men who have made the supreme sacrifice arid those who are today fighting to preserve our country's freedom. This SOCIETY is appealing to the people of our country for contributions, in a nationwide campaign to attain a goal of 5,000,000 for an organization which always stands ready to assist Navy families in time of need; DIRECT YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO: THE..