Curing partially in swath and finishing in Windrow proved best in Iowa station tests.

Tests at Iowa Station show that certain chemicals greatly aid in root formation.

Mother Nature's erratic method of one year loading the tomato vines to breaking and, the next, searing the vines to the point of crop failure creates canning problems for the homemaker. Especially because canning has been a sort of year-to-year affair. If there were more tomatoes than the family could eat during the winter months, the neighbors got the rest if they didn't have too many themselves- or sometimes they even wasted in their lush glory.

It may not be the fat, but some other things- nobody knows what- that put the fancy finish on cattle that are fed linseed oilmeal. That's what experimenters are thinking now, after a test at the Iowa State.

A bit of Iowa clay (not any clay, but one that has just the right "something" in it) and a bit of lard tossed into the vats of sorghum sirup mills on Iowa farms have modified an old process in the making of sorghum that is resulting in clear golden sirup which is fully the equal of the product of the best commercial factories.