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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1947
Page
7
Michigan State College specialists present a chore planning display for farmers at Clare on March 11. The exhibit shows how simple changes in feeding milking and housing can save time and fatigue, with panels on a labor saving workshop tools training bulletins and low cost housing for workers.
Twenty farmers at the Clare County Court House voted to pursue forming a soil conservation district. Russell Hill of the State Soil Conservation Committee explained steps for petitions, elections, funding, and officer selection. The district would be governed by a five member board, with federal support for planning and education through trained technicians.
Warm January triggers sap runs in Michigan with early tapping boosting syrup and sugar output. Extension forester Ira Bull notes February yields of 10 to 25 gallons and explains freezes help taps. MSC sugar bush tests show early taps perform as well as later ones. U S Weather Bureau sap forecasts air on WKAR at listed daily times.
The baby boom will reshape demand for farm goods and household purchases as families grow. 1946 crop output rose to a record, with corn, wheat, potatoes and other staples setting new highs while cotton lagged. Farms are larger and fewer, with 50 acres bigger on average since 1920 and over 1,000 acre farms now holding 40 percent of land.
The article notes wage payments to hired farm labor now exceed two billion dollars yearly, part of over 12 billion in farm production expenses. Wages tripled, prices received by farmers doubled, and half of farms use no hired labor while one-fifth employ most of it. Also, nearly a fourth of workers are farm operators or their relatives.
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