Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 9, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 January 1942 — Around the Farm [ARTICLE]

Around the Farm

F’arm boys and girls are being encouraged to increase supplies of foods needed in this country by raising pigs, calves and chickens. • • * Oats, barley, wheat or rye grass pasture is so high in protein that very little protein feed is needed in the grain mixture for dairy cows. * * * Rubber tires will last longer if rubber-tired machines and implements are blocked up, when not in use, to keep the weight off the tires. * * * ,• Butter may be successfully stored in sub-zero temperatures for six years, claim Cornell university scientists after taking butter from coolers where it had been stored for that period of time. * * * Milk production in this country must be expanded to an all-time high. With dairy production already at a high level and farm labor getting scarcer, the job of boosting dairy production is a, challenge to every farmer and farm leader in the dairy sections of the nation