This survey of home canning and home production, made by Miss Tiffany, included 203 women enrolled in the home economics extension work, 76 whose families had FSA tenant purchase loans and 111 farm women chosen at random. Each of these three groups represented all parts of the state. The latter group was personally interviewed. The families averaged between four and five members each.

The damage to apple trees which resulted from the Nov. 11, 1940, freeze could have been prevented in a large measure by the use of hardy, intermediate stocks, like Hibernal and Virginia Crab. This was the general opinion of a large group of midwestern fruit growers and horticultural specialists who met at Ames recently to observe results in the experimental stock orchards of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. The use of certain stock combinations in these orchards indicated that hardy stocks were the most important single factor in preventing cold injury. It was also observed that the new varieties, Sharon, Edgewood, Secor, Hawkeye Greening and Norwel, came through the storm in perfect condition, even to the extent of carrying a crop of fruit at the present time.

What it costs to run a refrigerator in your home depends as much on you as on the refrigerator you select. The way the refrigerator is used will influence greatly its cost of operation.

A few years ago, chickens were dying right- and left on farms with a disease called range paralysis, fowl paralysis and various technical names. At that time we little understood the disease—its cause or what to do about it. Probably in the last 10 years this disease has caused more losses to the poultry raiser than any other single disease of adult poultry.