Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 238, Decatur, Adams County, 9 October 1963 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY,

AS C S Farm Notes

FARMERS URGED TO ATTEND MEETING AT COLUMBUS GROVE, OHIO: Adams county farmers will have an oportunity to hear Orville L. Freeman, secretary of agriculture, speak at a meeting to be held at Columbus Grove, Ohio. This is an opportunity that most Indiana farmers will not have as the secretary does not have any

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1 meetings scheduled for Indiana this fan. Adams county is within driving i distance, so we urge farmers to take advantage of this opportunity to hear our Secretary speak. J Anyone attending, having questions, will be given time to ask and receive an answer at the meeting.. Remember the date — be on

time. A record crowd is expected. NATIONAL FIRE PREVENTION WEEK: Again, you are reminded that the week of October 6 through 12 is designated as national fire prevention week. This week has been designated so that both rural and urban people will become more “safety-mind-ed” and check for fire hazards around the home and other buildings. Fire prevention should be a 365day concern of all people.

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BUILD FOR FIRE SAFETY: In your home — building in fire stops — barters of wood or masonary between studs, joists, rafters or stringers — to block off open channels in basement, attic, walls, and prevent the spread of smoke and fire. Closed solid doors on every room can keep out smoke and fire for as long as 30 minutes.. Be sure bedroom windows are large enough and low enough so that even youngsters can climb quickly and easily.

Interior materials should be nonburnable or treated to resist spread of fire. Have proper wiring installed by a qualified electrician. Keep lightning rods in good condition and securely grounded. Lightning sprge arresters Can reduce interior damage to the home and electrical appliances by preventing surges of electricity during tunderstorms.. Around the farm — Mount a telephone on your yard pole at a safe distance from any building. Post the fire department number on it.

This may be your only means of calling the fire departmnt if your home is in flames, A full 3,000 gallon, covered cistern may serve as emergency water to save your home and outbuildings and also would be an aid in case of natural distaster_.or enemy attack. Locate farm ponds close enough to farm buildings for fire-fighting use. Have aqualified electrician install bam and shed wiring. OTHER SAFETY MEASURES:

Above-ground gasoline and keroscene containers should be located at least 40 feet from buildings. Keep containers in sound, leakfree condition. Store small amounts , in metal safety cans well away from heat outside the homes. Label all containers plainly so there is no danger of a mix-up. When handling flammable liquids, keep away from flame and heat and enforce a no smoking rule. Do all refueling outdoors where dangerous vapors cannot accumulote. Wipe up all spilled gasoline before starting a motor. Never use flammable liquids like gasoline or kerosene for cleaning clothes or starting fires. To keep down both fire hazards and fuel bills, all furnaces and heaters need periodic cleaning and check-ups. "Be sure furnaces, room heaters, stoves and smokepipes are keep in condition and far enough away from combustible walls and ceilings. Have the chimney cleaned and checked regularly. Never fill portable oil heaters while they are burning or still hot. Avoid overfilling. If coal oil is used, watch for possible burner flooding and flare-up. Keep portable heaters away from areas where they might block escape. Keep they away from curtains, clothes racks, and other burnables. Place a screen in front of the fireplace whenever it is in use. „ Use the poper size fuse for each 1 socket in the fuse box. Use a new fuse after each blow — never substitute a penny. Don't overload circuits. Have electric wiring checked by a qualified electrician periodically. Don’t let faulty, wiring be the cause of a fire. 1963 FEED GRAIN PROGRAM PAYMENTS: Eighty seven per cent of the participating farmers received their final payments under the 1963 feed grain program. Total payments of $313,774 (including the advance spring payment! have beep made to producers on 479 farms in Adams county. Participants who have signed the final application and have not received payments within the next week. Those who have received notices to sign the final application and have not done so, are urged to come as soon as possible, so the payments will not be further depayed. ABUNDANT FARM PRODUCTION A BOON TO THE NEEDY: According to a summary of the U. S. department of agriculture’s food donations, more than 4.8 billion pounds of food were distributed in the previous year. Farmers in particular should take satisfaction in knowing that the abundant production turned out on their farms makes it possible for millions of needy people both at home and abroad to eat better. Donated commodities were acquired to USDA in its price-support and surplus-removal operations, and made available through the agricultural marketing service’s direct distribution program to schools, needy families, and chairitable institutions in this country and to needy persons and school lunch programs aboard. Needy persons in family units in this country receiving donated commodities totaled almost 5,500, 000 at the end of the 1963 fiscal year. Domestic food donations during the year totaled 1.9 billion pounds, including 1.2 billion pounds to needy persons, 488 million pounds to school, and 165 pounds to some 1.4 million people in charitable institutions. Included in the total domestic distribution of foods last year were over one million pounds of USDA commodities given to more than 56,000 persons who were victims of hurricanes, floods, and similar natural disasters in eight states and Puerto Rico. As a part of the food for peace program, donations for fiscal 1963 totaled 2.9 billion pounds. This food was distributed by U. S. voluntary relief agencies and intergovernmental organizations in more than 100 friendly foreign countries. FREE WORLD’S FOOD IMPORTS: While the free nations of the world in the years from 1959 through 1961 boosted their annual fcxxi import by more than half billion dollars, their buy of nonagricultural products showed an increase of over sl3 billion. Furthermore, although their total agricultural imports, including forstry products, rose nearly $4 billion during this 3-year period, agriculture’s share in the world's import trade dropped from 33.7 per cent to 30 8 per cent. The three year period 1959-1961, also saw slight changes in the pattern of food buying. In Europe, the biggest commodity gain among imports was shown by fruits and vegetables. Cereals, fats and oils, and meats increased in that order, while imports' of sugar, dairy products, and feed grains fell off. In the countries of North and Central America the shifts were less conspicious. Slight import gains showed up for dairy products, fruits and veketables, and cereals. The largest drop was in the coffee, cacao, spice group (which could have been accounted for by the lower coffee prices), with lesser drops |n sugar, feed grains, fats and oils, and meat. South America in 1961 had very small grains in imports of feed gains and dairy products, but

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everything else was below the 1959 figure. Asia imported more cereals, meat, fruits and vegetables, sugar, coffee, cacao, epices, feed grains, and dairy products than it did in 1959, but did less buying of fats and oils. (Japan had a notable rise in meat imports.) Africa bought more of everything except cerals and feed grains; yet Ghana took substantially larger amounts of both commodities. Oceania upped its imports of fruits and vegetables considerably, and also bought more meat, cereals, and feed grains. The declines — and these were relatively small — were for dairy products, sugar, coffee, cacao, and spices. MARKETS FOR U. S. WHEAT: The U. S. department of agriculture has taken Biblical agricultural knowledge and combined it with modern food processing and marketing methods to come up with a product which might help expand domestic and foreign markets for American wheat. The product is “bulgur,” a dried whole-wheat food similar to rice, which was made as far back as Old Testament times. In those days the whole kernals of wheat were washed cleaned, boiled in open pots, spread in the sun to dry pnd finally cracked with rocks. Bibical housewives used bulgur in making bread and meat dishes. From those times to the 20th century, bulgur was prepared using much the same time-consum-ing process. In the 1950’s the agricultural research service in cooperation with a commercial flour mill developed a new process. This process carries out the steps of washing, soaking, cooking, drying, milling and cracking the wheat in a continuous operation. Processed by the new method, bulgar becomes a highly versatile food. With a tasty appearance and a nutty flavor, it can be served as a side dish with meat, poultry, or fish: combined in casseroles, meat loaf, or stuffing; used as a cereal; and as an ingredient for rolls and pancakes. USDA has developed recipe’s for bulgur in cheese casseroles, barbecued beef, meat loaf, pork salad, bread and baked custard. It has also developed instructions for the use of cracked wheat bulgur as a cereal or side dish. Until 1961, sales of bulgur in the U. S. were limited- to specialty shops, gourmet counters, and neighborhoods with large Armenian populations. In 1961, using a patented USDA canning and cooking "process bul--1 gur was marketed in cooked and canned form under the name of ' “Rediwheat” in Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado. J The versatility of bulgur, the in- * expensiveness of the new process, 1 and the promotion of the bulgur ' by USDA, the Kansas Wheat Commission, and the food trade may open new markets for its use in the United States and abroad. FACTS AT RANDOM: The unemployment rate of youngsters who have dropped out of high school is four times the national average. Some 7.5 million of these high school “dropouts” will be unloaded on the job market during this decade. Based on research done by the USDA, you can expect a sewing machine to last 24 years; a vacuum cleaner, 18 years; range or refrigerator, 16 years; freezer or toaster, 15 years, and a washing machine or TV set, 11 years. SAFETY NOTES: A driver is safer when the roads are dry; the roads are safer when the driver is dry. A reckless driver is a fellow who passes you in spite of all you can do. A minute's carelessness may lead to helplessness. p ; q Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee o 0 Q. While dining at a friend’s home recently, I was offered a raw apple and immediately proceeded to bite into it. My wife claims this was improper. Was it? A. At the table, an apple should be cut into quartes with the knife, and then each quarter eaten with the fingers — much as one breaks up a slice of bread or a roll before eating it. Q. Is it in bad taste to have empty vases displayed about the living room? I’ve just been told that it is. A. Ordinary flower containers should be stored away when not filled with flowers. But vases that have decorative value can be used with, or without, flowers. Q. May a formally engraved invitation be properly acknowledged on the typewriter? A. Never! Always answer formal invitations by handwritten note. Q. When it is necessary for a house guest to make a long-dis-tance phone call, how should this be. handled? A. First, of course, the guest asks permission of his host or hostess. Then, after his call has been completed, he immediately calls the operator, asks for the charges, and then remits this amount to his host. Q. A couple of my girl friends who recently became engaged gave their fiances engagement gifts. Is this now the customary thing? A. This is neither a custom nor necessary. It’s up to the girl, although it isn’t too frequently done. a