Journal Issue:
Iowa Farm Science: Volume 5, Issue 3
Volume
Number
Issue Date
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Journal Volume
Articles
Today's farmer has dozens of corn varieties to choose from. Unfortunately, most of the highest-yielding varieties need a long growing season. That means you may be taking some risk in choosing a high-yielding variety. If your planting is delayed by wet weather, if the summer is cool or if there's not good drying weather in the fall, you may have the problem of storing corn that's not dry enough for ordinary crib storage.
So far as the Korean war situation can be analyzed in early August, general effects on business in ttime his country appear mildly stimulating-rather than another wartime boom. Regardless of how the Korean incident ends, it's clear that we'll produce plenty of munitions for our own armed forces.
During the coming weeks, thousands of Iowa landlords and tenants will enter into new leasing arrangements or renew old ones for the 1951 crop year. These arrangements are important to Iowa's agricultrual well-being. They contain the terms which specify:
Before te day of the pressure canner, and before we knew much about what went on in a jar of canned food, spoilage was much too common in home-canned food. LEss spoilage today is probably due to a number of things. We can get our equipment and foods cleaner with running water in the kitchen. The pressure canner has come into common use. And more homemakers are using tested and approved canning methods.