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AUGUST 6-12,1973
Sit out this wet air, playing solitaire.
Hay fever season begins ... Fulton's first trip SS Clermont
1807 . . . Average length of days for week, 14 hours, 10
minutes .. . Keep young children and dogs apart during hot
sultry weather . , . USS Skate under North Pole Aug. 11,
1958 ... Thanksgiving legal all states 1863 ... Look to your
enemies to learn your faults.
CMd Fanner’s Riddle: Where is generosity always to be found?
(Answer below.)
bright an piece of
day when it wat permissible
for a man to tilt up his soup bowl to get the last spoonful.
The handle on the side was for giving it a lift in order to get
the last drop.
Horn* Hint*- Scorch lpots on linen may often disappear when placed in
hot sunlifrht all day ... To remove coffee stains, pour hotline water onto
the stretched fabric from a heicht of 2 feet . . . Riddle anatocr. In the
dictionary.
OLD FARMER S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: First half of week rainy and cooler, remainder
of week clear and hot.
Greater New York-New Jersey: Cloudy and cooler to start,
then rain by midweek; partial clearing and hot latter part.
Middle Atlantic Coastal: Light rain and cooler through mid
week ; end of week rainy and hot.
Southeast Coastal-Piedmont: Rain at first, then clear and hot;
rain latter part along coast.
Florida: Cloudy and hot to start, then rain by midweek con
tinuing through end of week.
Upstate & Western N.Y.-Toronto &„ Montreal: Most of week
partly cloudy and cooler; rain on weekend.
Greater Ohio Valley: Cloudy and cooler to start, then clear
and hot; light rain over weekend.
Deep South: Rain at first, then clear by midweek; showers
and cooler latter part.
Chicago and Southern Great Lakes: Week begins very hot, then
rain by midweek; end of week cloudy and cooler.
Northern Great Plains-Great Lakes: First pkrt of week clear
and hot; end of week cloudy and cooler, then rain.
Central Great Plains: Most of week cloudy with scattered
showers; rain on weekend.
Texas-Ofclahoma: Cloudy to start, then light rain, rain con
tinuing off and on to end of week.
Rocky Mountain Region: Rain and hot all week; rain heavy
by midweek.
Southwest Desert: Week begins with temperatures near 110,
then by midweek cloudy and slightly cooler.
Pacific Northwest: Cloudy and cooler through midweek; re
mainder of week clear and very hot.
California: Light rain to start, then clear by midweek; light
rain latter part.
(All Kiehts Reserved. Yankee, Inc.. Dublin, N.H. 03444)
Potato Regulation Announced
The U S. Department of
Agriculture (USAD) announced
that current shipping
requirements will continue for
potatoes grown under certain
federal marketing orders, and
said that imported potatoes must
meet the same regulations.
USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS) said
federal law requires imports to
meet the same or comparable
requirements as those for
domestic potatoes which are in
most direct competition with the
imports, and are covered by a
federal marketing order.
Import requirements for long
varieties will be based on the
Idaho-Eastern Oregon order
through July 31, 1974 They must
be at least US No. 2 grade, two
inches in diameter, and four
ounces in weight, or be Size B if
US No l or better grade. They
must be at least “fairly clean,”
and not more than “slightly
skinned.” The White Rose
variety may not be more than
“moderately skinned” through
Dec 31
Imports of red varieties must
meet requirements' in effect
under the federal order for
Washington State through Aug.
31 They must be U. S. No. 2 or
better grade, 17/sl 7 /s inches
minimum diameter, at least
“fairly clean” and not more than
“moderately skinned” in
maturity
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From September 1, 1973,
through June 30, 1974, they must
meet the requirements in effect
under the federal marketing
order for the San Luis Valley,
Colo., which are U.S. No 2 or
better grade, IV2 inches
minimum diameter.
Round white varieties im
ported through July 31 must
continue to be U.S. No. 2 or better
grade, IV2 inches in diameter,
with no maturity requirements,
as under the Southeastern States
potato marketing order. From
Aug 1 through June 4,1974, based
on Area No. 3, Colorado
marketing order, round whites
must grade US. No 2 or better,
be V/b inches minimum diameter,
or Size B if they are U.S. No. 1 or
better grade. They must be not
more than “moderately skinned”
in maturity.
AMS said these requirements
are intended to continue to help
producers in the orderly
marketing of the potato crops and
to keep low quality potatoes off
the market.
Summaries of the import
requirements are being mailed to
importers, customs officials, and
other interested parties. Copies
are available from the Fruit and
Vegetable Division, Agricultural
Marketing Service, U. S.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
A shortage of medical per
sonnel and facilities in rural
areas indicates a need to increase
efficiency in providing health
care, according to a report issued
by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
As the nation has become in
creasingly urban, health per
sonnel and facilities have tended
to become concentrated in larger
towns and cities. This has left
America’s 54 million rural people
in the care of a declining number
of doctors and with fewer and
fewer medical faculties.
The report by the Depart
ment’s Rural Development
Service notes that most rural
doctors are general prac
titioners, not specialists. Rural
hospitals generally are small
fewer than 50 beds is typical-and
there is a lack of specialized
facilities and equipment. Con
sequently, rural people often
have less than satisfactory health
care and more health problems
than urban people.
The report discusses a number
of pUot programs in different
areas of the country. Intended to
serve special needs of their
areas, the programs exemplify
new approaches to delivery of
health services.
Government-sponsored
programs are in Beaufort and
Jasper counties, S. C., Randolph
County, W. Va., and Montour,
Columbia, Northumberland,
Snyder, and Union Counties, Pa.
Four programs have been
developed by medical schools-
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the University of Washington
Medical School, Seattle;
Kirksville College of Osteopathy,
Kirksville, Mo.; Oklahoma
Medical School, Oklahoma City;
and University of Florida
Medical College, Gainesville.
Medical associations spon
soring programs are Illinois
State Medical Society and Illinois
Agricultural Association, Student
American Medical Association,
and New York State Medical
Society.
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sponsored privately by
physicians in Monterey county,
Calif. (Rural Health Project),
and in central and northern
Illinois (Physicians-on-Call).
Dentists in Covington, Ky.,
provide mobUe dental care, and
Good Samaritan Hospital,
Phoenix, Ariz., sponsors
Samaritan Health Services, a
consortium of hospitals in
outlying areas.
The report also discusses a
variety of legislative proposals
aimed at providing better health
care for rural people.
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Health Services in Rural
America, AIB No. 362, are
avaUable free from Office of
Communication, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C. 20250.
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Conebella Farm Herd
Completes High
Production Records
The National Ayrshire
Breeders’ Association, Brandon,
Vermont recently announced the
completed official Dairy Herd
Improvement Registry milk
production records for the
Ayrshire herd owned by Charles
H. Gable, Conebella Farm,
Elverson.
This is the 20th year that
Conebella’s pure bred Ayrshires
have been officially tested and
the 41 lactation records averaged
14102 pounds milk and 565 pounds
of butterfat with a 4.1 percent test
on a M. E. (Mature Equivalent)
basis.
Conebella Tor’s Janet was the -
highest milk producing Ayrshire
in the herd. Her actual 305-day
record on a twice-a-day milking
schedule is 17640 pounds milk.
The herds leading butterfat
producer is also "Tor’s Janet’
with 783 pounds fat.
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