The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-06-06
Department Of Agriculture Activities
Little Items About Big War Jobs that Are Helping
American Farmers to Feed Nations.

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is Southern States 1924 workers are
busy carrying out the plans of the
food campaign, and in the 33 North
ern and Western States 3,072 are
employed. On July 1 of last year
1,640 were employed in the Southern
States, and 606 in the Northern and
Western states. In the Southern
States there are 139 negro county
agents and 100 negro home-demon-
stration agents.
The Departments Experimental
Kitchen.
An experimental kitchen where sub
stitutes for wheat are being tested
has recently been established and
equipped by the Office of Home Econ
omics. In this kitchen some of the
good old recipes which were in use
SO and rs years ago, when corn, buck
wheat, rye and barley were in more
common use, are being revised and
standardized, and new recipes in
which wheat substitutes play an inn
portant part are tested and standard
lied. A group Of women-labratory
specialists and housekeepers with
special training-work side by side in
the new kitchen. Before a recipe is
made public it must not only pass the
test of the labratory specialists but
must also meet the test of actual ex-
perience in the hands of housekeeper
who studies it for its practical value
in the average kitchen.
Hunt for War Timber.
The War Department and the For
est Service are aiding the Boy Scouts
in efforts to find black walnut timber
needed for airplane propellers and
gun stocks, following President Will
sons appeal to the Scouts to locate
supplies of the Liberty Tree" Spec
ial report forms have been prepared
for use of the Scouts, who will submit
them for tabulation to the Forest
Service, which in turn will report the
results to the War Department. The
bulk of the standing black walnut is
said to be in farmers woodlots in the
Middle West, the Middle Atlantic
States, and the southern Appalachians
and it is mainly these sources that the
Scouts will comb in their search for
material.
Id Road Projects Approved.
In March and April the secretary
on recommendation of the office of
Public Roads and Rural Engineering,
approved PIP state road building pro-
jects involving more than $500 miles
of highways under the Federal Aid
Road Act. The estimated cost Of these
improvements to the States IS about
$15 G00,00O. TIL. Federal aid allowed
is more than $5,000,000. VI
A Monthly Survey of Food Stocks.
An inventory of commercial stocks
of grains, flour, meal and other food
products is being taken each month
by the Bureau of Markets and the
results published in new monthly
publication called GOOD Surveys
two numbers of which have already
been issued. These monthly surveys
began April 1, 1918.
Cold Storage Space for Butter
and Eggs.
In view of the heavy demands fo1
cold storage space growing out of wal
shipments, the Burneau of Markets is
making surveys of space available fol
the cold storage of butter and eggs
throughout the United States.
To Study Effect of Eclipse.
On June 8, when the moons shadow
will pass diagonally across the United
States from Washington to Florida
the Weather Bureau, in connection
with its Investigations in solar radia.
ton, or amount of heat received from
the sun, plans to take advantage Of
the unusually favorable opportunity tt
study the effect of an eclipse upor
meteorological conditions. Specia
measurements of the intensity of solar
radiation will be made at three sta
lions in Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon
Efforts will be made to obtain &C
curate observations of pressure
temperature, wind direction ant
velocity, and shadow-bands at 40 sta
tions within the belt where the SUI
/ will be 80 per cent eclipsed. The dat;
obtained are expected to be Of import
ance in studies of the circulation O.
the atmosphere.
Fighting Animal tuberculosis.
i In April 22,492 cattle were teste,
j for tuberculosis in the tuberculosis