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...like it here. We have a cow which is part Brown Swiss, a sow soon to farrow, and chickens. Every year we can between 400 and 500 quarts of foodstuff - if we have several extra chickens we 'pop' them into cans. Perhaps you have heard of Wendell Willkie. He is a friendly man. Some time ago the Salvation Army captain asked my husband to collect some salvage at the home of Mrs. Wilk, mother-in-law of Willkie. That evening my husband rang the doorbell. Mr. Willkie answered it. He is very friendly. He was visiting there...
...thought full of alarm to many thinkers, will offer to the American radical, says Dr. Conant, a God-given opportunity to "reintroduce the American concept of a fluid society." Handled properly, a healthy body politic will be assured for at least a generation; handled improperly, "we may well sow the seeds of a civil war within a decade...
From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...
Underfeeding sows (a common practice in the last part of pregnancy) may result in piglets which die of "baby pig disease" (shortage of blood sugar) or scours. And many farmers forget that "a sow must be fed for milk production to insure strong, thrifty pigs." Her diet must include protein, minerals, vitamins. To provide the farrow with enough copper and iron, a preparation may be placed on the sow's udder, or clean, parasite-free sod or soil placed...
...Balkan woods held their first anemones. Peasants spanned their plows, knowing that guns sow no seeds but that the men of war must eat. In Czechoslovakia eleven underground workers were executed. In Yugoslavia there were reports of 30,000 war-orphaned children roaming, singly and in packs, over the countryside, starving, dying, turning into fierce hooligans...