Gemination tests are now
being run in the intension office
on farm seed grains, and results
of tests so far conducted show,
that the grain that was ripened
well last fall is germinating
very highly, -‘-very farmer should
run a germination test or have
one run on his seed grain before
planting tine, so as not to bo
delayed when planting time comes.
With the increased demand 'ey
the United States Department of
Agriculture for the production of
agricultural foodstuffs it will
require the most efficient opera
tion on the part of every produ
cer -tc. increase his average yield
per acre, -liether a farmer in
the Valley will be able to in-.
crease his number of cultivated
acres will depend on his ability
to o tain the required help.
dairy; ien lieet continued
or farmers arc .shedul^d short
to be placed on this list.
iy
In making this announcement
Licut. Am.b.Bnodgrass statod that
it was the opinion of the Army
and Public Health officials that
the additional income to the far
mers affected, would enable then
to improve their facilities more
rapidly.
Lieut. Snodgrass displayed
sediment tests and Petrie dish
es of bacterial cultures of milk
samples and. showed how bacterial
counts were made.
At the conclusion of the
meeting a period was devoted to
the asking and answering of
questions.
BUTTE BAKE SALE
The Butte Homemakers Club
will hold a bake sale Saturday
January 31 at the Trading Post.
YOUR WASHING AND IRONING
efficiently done at
PEARL UNITS LAUNDRY
NUTRITION AMD inUNSE
V/hether or not each one of
us is abla to contribute his full
share in our united drive for
national strength will depend in
no small measure on the IIEALfll
and STAMIIIA he has built up
through wise use of the rijit
kinds and amounts of food.
Promoting public health and
welfare is vital to buttressing
a nation against the hazards of
;Var, and one of the essentials
in promoting public health is
good food and a wise choio >. of it.
Sound nutrition is important
in School, Army, Mine, factory
and home. Our newer knowledge
of the relations of food to o.-.lt
health is one of the major rev
elations of modern science and
perhaps is outstandingly the one
on which each of us can act every
•lay for the lifelong welfare and
happiness of ourselves and our
chiidror. Until recently, a dis
cussion of food an"’ health would
have dealt chiefly wit1' ways in
which food might carry infections
or poisonous substances.
./e wero satisfied to think
of health merely as freedom from
disease; and we were accustomed
to t hi nit of disease as caused by
some actively injurious thing -
whether germs or poisonous sub
stance. ut the discovery of the
vitamins and study of their sig
nificance has now made it clear
that diseases may. also be due to
shortage of essential food con
stituents .
V/ith a great variety and an
abundance of food available, a
merely ill-chosen or poorly-bal
anced diet may diminish our abil
ity to resist disease. Nutrition
takes rank with sanitation as a
major factor in that respect of
the health problems which c.on-‘ '•
sists in escaping disease.
Positive Health is something
more than mere freedom from dis
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