This is a report about girls your own age - busy girls who missed out on some meals, who nibbled between times and had food habits much like yours. This is the story of what happened when they "stepped up" their nutrition.

Cattle slaughter during August ran well ahead of year-earlier levels -- after a brief drop in early July. Cattle prices leveled out about $2 higher than their June mark, after a brief flurry also in early July.

This month: June Brown suggests that a simple but regular plan is best for carpet care. Marcena VerPloeg notes a deeper vie of the role of "homemaking" in which every family member is actually a "home maker."

After 30 years of different farm policies, there's more agreement on what the farm problem is than on how to solve it. But agreement on the problem is the first major step toward the solution of any problem, and that's how we stand.