Baked Goods Take Spotlight at Saginaw Fair
Baked breads and rolls headline a September fair in Saginaw. Exhibitors vie for a Best-of-Show Yeast Baking Award by Standard Brands with a $50 prize. Entries judged on flavor, shape, color, crust, and crumb. entrants may use original or favorite recipes.
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Saginaw Fair
Standard Brands Incorporated
Fleischmann’s
Swine Day at Michigan University Announces August Schedule
The fourth annual Swine Day at Michigan University will be held August 13 with 9:30 a.m. demonstrations at the Swine farm covering pelleted versus meal rations, hog housing on slatted floors, mineral and fiber effects, and breeding for meat type. Norval Dvorak of Wisconsin leads the feeder pig session and experts from the University of Illinois discuss Push Button Swine Production. A boar gate at 3:00 p.m. showcases certified boars as part of the Isabella County Fair activities.
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Michigan University
Norval
Dvorak
Wisconsin Feeder Pig Marketing Cooperative
University of Ilinois
Rye for Fall Pasture and German Rye Inquiry
The County Agents discuss rye as fall and spring pasture and July August silage. A ton of digestible nutrients per Cornell is $10.48. day essentials cost $39.95. Rumors of German rye in Clare county prompt calls for info. A protein test service is proposed for Clare. Garden aphids threaten crops. solutions include Malathion nicotine sulfate or rotenone.
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Cornell University
Clare County
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Soil Conservation Service News Items
New operators with the Isabella Soil Conservation District include Eugene Methner Murray Moore George Sexton Vernon Darwin Johnson Don Swindlehurst Isabella M H Peterson Union Louis Zeien Walter Zeien Deerfield Ronald Baker Broomfield Lawrence Gauthier Lincoln and Mrs Mary W Foster Chippewa township. Arthur Homan has completed a basic conservation farm plan and irrigation ponds are being built in Isabella county with several nearly finished for Harry Hoffman and Ward Loomis. Rich ard and Rudolph Lueder of Broomfield township are digging a pond 60 feet by 300 feet by 8 feet deep. Ponds qualify for cost sharing at 9 cents per cubic yard moved. SCS technicians completed a topographic survey for tile for Donald Dennis of Denver township with a planned four-rod spacing for 29 acres. Blueprints received for an erosion control structure on the Earl Neff farm a straight drop spillway to control runoff from the 400 acre Johnston-Dieh watershed. over 600 rods of sod waterways lead to the structure. Russell Johnston leads the right of way clearing and Stanley Dague builds a sod waterway to drain wet spots and spread runoff onto a sandy loam field for crop use.
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Isabella Soil Conservation
Hugene Methner
Murray Moore
Wise Township
George Sexton
Vernon
Darwin Johnson
Don Swindlehurst
Isabella
M. H. Peterson
Union
Louis
Walter Zeien
Deerfield
Ronald Baker
Broomfield
Lawrence Gauthier
Lincoln
Mary W Foster
Chippewa Township
Arthur Homan
Isabella County
Harry Hoffman
Ward Loomis
Coldwater Township
Richard
Rudolph Lueder
Broomfield Township
SCS
Donald Dennis
Denver
Earl -Neff Fort
Johnston-Dieh Group
Russell Johnston
Stanley Dague
Roberts family welcomes new baby boy at hospital window
A photographer captures Red Roberts beaming at his newborn son in the nursery window. A nurse mentions a Johnson baby, prompting reflections on assumptions and the harm of rushing to conclusions about personal choices and tastes.
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Red Roberts
Red
Johnson
Mr. Roberts
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