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Home Agent’s Tips
By MRS. JOYE H. SPATES
Home Demonstration Agent
TODAY’S FOOD COSTS
The average family grocery
bill today is only about 10-per
cent of its take-home pay.
Shortly after World War Two,
that figure would have been
more like 25-percent.
Americans are getting more
marketing services for their
food money today. Consumers
get more processing, distribu
tion and transportation services.
These services give consumers
the benefit of year-round pro
duction in distant, specialized
farming areas so that fresh
fruits and vegetables are on
market at all seasons.
Today’s food bill also includes
more convenience, more built-in
maid service, ready-mixes and
heat-and-serve meals.
Families get more for their
money even though food prices
have gone up in the past 10
years. The price rise is due to
higher costs of wages, freight
rates, fuel, supplies, ecjuipment,
taxes, advertising and all the
other items used in getting food
from farm to the market.
These processing, transporting
and distributing costs now take
about 61 cents of the food dol
lar. The farmers get less than
40 cents of the food dollar—or
10 cents less than he received 10
years ago.
It’s true. Food prices have in
creased, but so have incomes of
people. The incomes have in
creased more than food prices
which reduces the percentage of
the family take-home pay that
must be spent for food. On this
basis, it can be said that food
still remains our best bargain
today.
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DEFROSTING MEAT
Frozen meat should be de
frosted with its packaging in
tact, preferably in the main part
of the refrigerator, away from
the freezing unit.
This type of refrigerator
thawing is slower than room-
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| temperature thawing, but it
■ lessens the chance of juice and
, flavor loss as well as possible
! quality loss. Immerse the meat
■ in water to defrost only if it’s
to be cooked in water.
When, defrosting meat in the
refrigerator, there are some ap
■ proximate times you should fol
low. For large roasts, four-to
• six hours per pound should be
enough time. Small roasts can
be defrosted in three-to-four
hours per pound. One-inch
steaks will take about 12 hours.
In defrosting meat at room
temperature, the time required
jis somewhat less. For large
roasts, it will take from two-to
three hours per pound. Small
roasts will require one-to-two
hours per pound, and one-inch
steaks from two-to-three hours.'
Meat should be cooked as soon
as defrosted. This is particularly
important when meat has been
defrosted at room temperature.
Cook defrosted meats by the
same methods recommended for
meats that have never been
frozen.
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MAKING SLEEVES
The sleeve gives away the
secret of a well-made garment.
Here is where the difference is
i shown between a custom-made
' and home-made dress with a
' fireside look.
Since it is so troublesome, let’s
sit down at the conference, table
with “Mr. Sleeve” and see if we
can gain an understanding.
First we will look at a good
product. A sleeve should have a
smooth, rounded cap free from
puckers and gathers. It should
hang straight from the shoul
der with no diagonal wrinkles.
It should also fit comfortably
j and not bind.
All set-in sleeves are cut with
a rounded sleeve cap that is
larger than the armhole section
; into which it is sewn. This extra
■; fullness is called “ease.” It is
needed to make the sleeve fit
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comfortably. Take a look at your
shoulder. See how it comes for
ward slightly where the arm is
joined. The ease in the sleeve is
needed to take care of this
bulge.
When you trim your armhole
, after the garment is stitched
and then try to fit the sleeve
into it, you nave trouble. Now
। the extra ease must be used to
। make the sleeve meet the arm
| hole. This pulls the sleeve off
grain and doesn’t allow for the
shoulder bone.
Then how do you get rid of
this extra fullness which varies
from one and a half to two
inches depending on the pat
tern? Place two rows of ma
chine basting stitches between
the notches across the sleeve
cap. One row is on the line of
stitching and put the other row
one-eighth of an inch into the
' seam allowance. Pin the sleeve
into the armhole, matching the
1 underarm seams, notches, and
the center of the shoulder. Pull
j threads of stitching until the
sleeve fits the armhole. Dis
tribute the ease evenly across
the cap between the notches.
Pin the sleeve between points
already pinned. Pins should be
placed at right angles to the
seam. As you pin in your - sleeve,
place pins on the inside of
sleeve, slightly rolling sleeve
seam allowance over bodice.
Baste your sleeve and then
stitch. When stitching, the
i sleeve should always be on top.
Clip the seam to the stitching
line about every two inches.
Press the seams over the cap.
> I Shrink excess fullness with
' steam iron.
If you have difficulty when
using synthetic blends or wash
I and wear fabrics, remember
little fulness can be shrunk out
i of these fabrics. This means an
I adjustment in the pattern if it
has more than one and one
. fourth inches ease. When meas
’' uring pattern pieces, it’s easier
to measure with the tape stand
i Ing on its side so that it will go
> around the curves.
i To alter the pattern, make a
i series of very tiny tucks between
> । the notches across the cap of
; I the sleeve pattern.
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SOIL CAPABILITIES ARE THE BASIS FOR SOUND LAND USE AND TREATMENT
Dogwoods Dying?
By CHARLES S. TUCKER
County Agent
Dogwoods have been dying or
showing unusual leaf symptoms
in the past few weeks. Here are
some possible reasons:
(1) Borer damage—Premature
fall color and/or sudden dying
can be due to borer damage.
Borers are by far the most seri
ous difficulty affecting dogwood
in Georgia. They easily enter
injuries made by lawn mowers
near ground level. They may in
vade trees without bark injury,
however.
(2) Excessive moisture—Dog
wood cannot tolerate water
logged soil conditions. As a re
sult of heavy rains in June and
July, many trees throughout the
state have dead foliage or yel
low and red colored leaves
which are shedding. The cause
of this is injury to the root sys
tem due to lack of aeration. Re
covery will depend upon the
extent of root injury.
(3) Drouth—Recently trans
planted dogwoods are very sus
ceptible to drouth injury during
the first spring and summer
months unless they are properly
watered and mulched. Browning
of tips or margins of leaves is
one symptom of this difficulty.
(4) Planting depth—Planting
dogwood considerably deeper
than it originally grew can
stunt growth of the tree.
If borer damage is suspected.
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thoroughly examine trunks of
trees to determine if the bark is
raised or “puckered.” Pull bark
off with knife to examine
i underneath. If the area under
neath is brown, with evidence
of tunnels, borers are the prob
able cause of the difficulty. If
they completely girdle the main
trunk of the tree, it will die.
A preventative spray schedule
is effective against dogwood
borers. Apply DDT 25% liquid at
the rate of one tablespoonful
per gallon of water or 50%
wettable DDT powder at the
rate of 4 tablespoonfuls per gal
lon in monthly applications be
ginning in mid April until mid
September.
After trees have become in
fested, gently peel off dead bark
with a penknife, cut the borers
out and trim the edges of the
wound back to green bark.
Spray area with the above men
tioned insecticide and then
paint with a tree-wound com
pound.
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BALLARD TO ATTEND STATE
4-H CLUB CONGRESS
Gerald Ballard, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Ballard of Fayetteville
Road, Jonesboro, will represent ■
Clayton County at the State 4-H'
Club Congress in Atlanta on
August 20-23. Gerald was named
district winner in the 4-H Soils
■ and Fertilizer Project in district.
competition at Rock Eagle in;
June. He will now compete ■
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Soil Conservation Activities
Soil Conservationist
By TOM COLE
SOIL and WATER conservation
farmers and landowners of Clay
ton County are making progress
each day. week, month and year
in applying the needed practices
on their land as agreed upon in
the plans prepared for their
farms in cooperation with the
Upper Ocmulgee River District
Supervisors. The needed land
use and treatment is based on
the soil capability classes as de
termined by a SOIL Scientist of
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture, Soil Conservation Serv
ice, when he goes over the farm.
He outlines the boundaries of
the soil classes of which there
are eight showing the soil type
i and series, slope or steepness,
' and the degree of erosion both
sheet and gully. Copies of these
are furnished the land owners
together with plain areial photo
graphs of his farm on which he
and the local Soil Technician re
cord the owners decissions as to
land use and treatment to blend
with his type of farming or en
terprize.
Mr. Edwin S. Kemp has a good
. example of critical area treat
ment on his farm near Jones
boro. On the dam of his 15 acre
pond he planted sericea lespe
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ing the needed lime and fertili
zer. Now the sericea is 4 to 4’/2
feet tall with a good stand on
the dams front and back slope,
spillway ana borrow areas bor
dering the shoreline. This
healthy growth and good green
color of sericea is more pleasing
to the eye than red unprotected
soil that shows evidence of se
vere erosion which will continue
on and on if not checked.
On a three acre field on the
west of the pond and beyond a
wooded area Mr. Kemp planted '
bicolor lespedeza, a perennial
shrub along the woodland bor
der with sericea in the field. This
too has a good stand protecting
the land from erosion and like
making regular deposits of
money in the bank—these per
ennial legumes are each year de
positing humus and fertility in
to the soil without with taking ’
any out.—These areas provide
food and shelter for wildlife.
Advice is not disliked because ;
। it is advice; but because so few I
, | people know how to give it.
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