With victory gardens to provide vegetables and small fruits, and a shortage of supplies and equipment for home canning, frozen food lockers may see greatly increased use in the home food preservation program. Frozen foods retain more of their natural flavor and color and as much of their original food value as products preserved by other methods.

One of the newer methods of making hay, chopping it in the field or as it comes from the field and putting it in the barn or stacking it, has gained considerable popularity with some Iowa farmers who feed cattle.

A new insect pest - the primary screwworm fly - has been moving into Iowa during recent summers to pester and kill some livestock. Two outbreaks were reported in June this year in southern Iowa and more may follow.

Red clover, the old standby rotation legume of our fathers and grandfathers, was shoved back a few years ago by newer and seemingly more promising legumes.