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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1943
Page
8
A brief reader listing groceries including flour Graham Cracker softasilk cake flour coffee jars kraut and Crisco. Items show quantities like 48 lks and 2 lks with M. F. A. branding.
Local store promotes garden seeds onion sets seed potatoes and related planting supplies. Offers a selection for spring planting and home gardening.
Classroom notes recap a St Patrick's Day assembly with performances by Janet Lumsden Nola J Lay Judith Cynthia Moore and others. Highlights include a Dutch lesson on The Store Room by de Hooch, a Dutch songs unit, pen ping pong club, and grade progress in spelling social studies and bookkeeping.
The excerpt notes Mr. Wilkison being driven to school by a dog and stray dogs, frequent telephone users Nadine Sparks and Nellie Powell, a freshman with a discolored eye blamed on a sophomore, Loren Lumsden studying science, Lavaun Tucker as Visitor No. T in study hall, John Bill Grice turning to numbers after school, more borrowers than buyers of pencils, Bob Dixon’s changeable interests, and a junior constantly saying hay.
The Horse Farm division of J. C. Penney Missouri Farms announces the start of the 1943 breeding season two miles east of Hamilton on Highway 36. The article notes anticipated increases in mares bred to top stallions and jacks, highlighting Northwestern Missouri’s access to superior breeding stock and the farm’s reputation. It also references the owner’s public-spirited interest in the state and a wish for continued success.
The Red Cross appeals for funds to continue aiding the sick, hungry, homeless, and wounded in war and peacetime. It urges readers to give generously, noting how dollars supply food, clothing, blood, and comfort to soldiers, veterans, and disaster victims.
The article describes strict rationing of canned and frozen fruits vegetables and some dried goods guiding households to plan menus by points. Families adjust shopping lists cook from fresh pantry items grow own vegetables and prepare for harder times while hoping to stay nourished and resilient.
Rev Wilkerson and family moved from Clements to Lizzie Lovelle property recently vacated by Vern Seckington Lydia Taylor spent Sunday with George Artz and family Rosey Lovelle of Milan spent weekend with home folks Mrs Mary Sorenson and son left last week for California Clara Dorothy and Helen Eastman visited with Mr and Mrs C E Burress and family Mrs Grover Cutsinger left for Kansas to visit relatives Mr and Mrs David Tunnell and baby of Milan spent Sunday with his mother Addie Dell Mr and Mrs Emmett Spencer of Milan and Mr and Mrs Willie Woodall visited J T Woodall G F Davis of Milan spent weekend at home
Mr. and Mrs. George Jennings visited Morris Crocshanks family last Wednesday night. Various Chillicothe visitors, Brookfield calls, and dinners with neighbors are listed, including gatherings at J. D. Quigley and a kitchen shower with gifts.
Mrs Noel Lay secured literature for a group of 4 H ers in her community. The girls plan to complete their Home Furnishing Unit II before canning season and then work on Food Preservation. A good hog pasture may save 20 percent on the feed bill and be worth 80 dollars per acre at current hog prices. Alfalfa Red Clover or Rape are best for hog pasture but Wheat Rye or Lespedeza may be used. It is important to get growing pigs on a clean pasture.
Mrs Walter Tillmann reports 15 club members will study the First Aid and Home Nursing Course. The group has completed 48 sew garments and donated $5 to the Red Cross.
Miss Louise Woodruff from the Missouri Extension Service will present a care of household equipment demonstration in Linneus on March 31. Attendees will learn knife sharpening and are asked to bring their knives.
With grain crops up and labor down, 1943 hay output likely to be well below 1942. To prevent a shortage, all oats should be sown with Lespedeza as a cover or mixed crop.
Farmers weigh oat hay against timothy and lespedeza with old Lespedeza stubble sown to oats for an oat hay crop. Early dough stage oat hay equals timothy and surpasses late cut lespedeza in quality.
Seed depth is crucial for Lespedeza as seeds may be sown too deep for good stands. For new plantings with oats, apply after oats are disked in or drop sprouts behind the drill disks if using a seed drill.
Trish Cobblers and Red Warbas varieties should yield well in this region. Plant as soon as the ground can be worked and use certified seed if available to ensure better stands and disease resistance.
Farmers urged to inoculate all Clovers Soybeans and new Lespedera seedings to ensure soil-building growth. Without inoculation legumes fail to improve soil and may underperform.
A good feed program and attentive lambing time care boost lamb crop yields. Ewes should receive increased grain about 10 to 14 days after lambing to ensure milk flow supports healthy lamb growth.
Ray Dennis of near Hecla joins the 4-H club of South Sebago and plans spring and fall pig projects with 11 sons. He aims to contribute toward 22 4-H Feed-a-Fighter units toward Linn County’s need for over 1 000 such units.
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