When it's your turn to have threshers or corn shellers— or to have club at your house— do you get out your favorite serves-6 recipes and multiply them by anything from 2 to 10?

When farm machines are operated in the field or on the road at speeds higher than 2 1/2 to 3 miles per hour they should be equipped with rubber tires. And when these machines are pulled behind rubber-tired tractors the speed should be as high as the operating conditions and the design of the machines permit. In most cases the speed will be higher than 2 1/2 to 3 miles per hour for most efficient use.

Iowa's high-lime or so-called alkali soils, which are a problem on many farms in 31 counties in the central part of northern Iowa, will produce as well as the other soils of the farm if they are handled right.

"My beans that I put in the cold storage locker are tough. Can you tell me what's the trouble with them?"

More than any other complaint about the storage of vegetables in locker plants is this one about beans. We are a little puzzled here at the Iowa Station when that question is thrown at us, because in 3 years of work in storing vegetables in two different commercial locker plants, we never have had tough snap beans.