Artificial breeding boosts Michigan dairy herd production
DHIA records compiled for the Michigan Artificial Breeders Cooperative show substantial gains from artificial breeding. Data cover Guernsey Holstein Jersey and Red Dane sires with hundreds of daughters and records. Top Guernsey Cesar Neptune averages 447 butterfat from 34 daughters. Holstein Rainbow Captain Bold averages 544 pounds butterfat from 29 daughters. Red Dane D-569 averages 387 pounds butterfat from 12 daughters.
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DHIA
Michigan
Bureau of Dairy Industry
USDA
A. C. Baltzer
Michigan State College
Guernsey
Pull Stud
Cesar Neptune
Michigan Artificial Breeders Cooperative
Jersey
Madass Actor
Ladino Clover Emerges as Popular Michigan Forage Crop
Michigan State College expert M B Tesar notes ladino clover is rising in popularity as a versatile forage crop. He says acreage will grow, praising its palatability, quick recovery after grazing, and high yield potential. Recommendations include adding half a pound per acre to alfalfa-brome on fertile moist soils and using ladino in low, poorly drained areas where alfalfa struggles.
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Michigan
M. B. Tesar
Michigan State College
Tesar
Less Certified Seed Oats This Season
Stuart Hildebrand reports the 1951 certified oat seed supply in Michigan is smaller than last year. Eaton and Kent stocks are reduced. Bonham shows improvement and suits the Upper Peninsula. Seed germination remains good, but color limits quality due to late harvest weather.
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Stuart Hildebrand
Michigan Crop Improvement Association
Michigan State College
Hildebrand
Michigan
Eaton
Kent
Bonham
Upper Peninsula
Lower Peninsula
Prolific AI Breeding Bull Sires Over 23 000 Cows
The Michigan Artificial Breeders cooperative reports a bull named Gold has sired more than 23 000 cows in calf over six years through artificial insemination. Extension dairyman A. Baltzer estimates 10 000 to 11 000 of these cows are now milked in Michigan herds.
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Michigan
Gold
A. ©. Baltzer
Michigan State College Extension Dairyman
Five girls lead Colonville sewing club plans party
The Colonville Sewing Club lists Mrs. Erma Rutter as leader with Janet Barlow as president Ruth Cooper vice president Gienda Rutter secretary treasurer Faye Cooper recreation leader and Lois Pudyay reporter. They attended the December Fall Achievement supper at Harrison and plan corduroy jumpers cotton print dresses and a party before Spring Achievement Day. Tourists say they were treated courteously and a return visit to Clare is planned.
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Erma Rutter
Janet Barlow
Ruth Cooper
Gienda Rutter
Faye Cooper
Lois Pudyay
Harrison
Janet
Glenda
Ruth
Faye
Lois
American tourists praise Louvre painting of Adam and Eve
An American couple described their Paris Louvre visit telling how a scene of Adam and Eve with the serpent impressed them. The husband highlighted the painting while the wife added that they knew the anecdote, making the work especially interesting to them.
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Louvre
Paris
Garden of Eden
Jury Convinced to Favor Life Term in Guilty Verdict
An attorney used a stubborn jury member to resist a death penalty, hoping to save his client. After hours, the panel returned a guilty verdict with a life imprisonment recommendation. The lawyer thanked the juror for steering the outcome, while the juror admitted the initial acquittal bias was strong.
Golden Recounts White House Understudy Prank
Producer John Golden tells of presenting posters at the White House to Coolidge, claiming many of the crowd were understudies. The president questions children among the troupe as Golden jokes that the show will run for two decades, training successors.
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Washington
John Golden
Coolidge
White House
Golden
Executive Mansion
Witty Quip Balances Age Jest At Courtship Home
A young man questions a rival’s age at a girl’s home. The older man answers with a proverb that an ass is older at twenty than a man at sixty, turning the tease into a humorous moral about age and perception.
Fifteenth Anniversary Dinner Plan Sparks Duck Dilemma
Miranda declares Sunday our fifteenth anniversary and orders Jeb to kill two ducks for dinner. Jeb protests blaming the idea on their mishap while noting the dinner task seems odd and unintended.
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Miranda
Jeb
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