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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1952
Page
5
District directors plan the big annual meeting at Mt Pleasant High School auditorium on Wednesday afternoon January 238 at 1 40. Dr C M Hardin of Michigan State College will be main speaker with talks on new research fertilizer spraying and cultural methods benefiting farmers. Special awards will honor top cooperators and the District Director will participate. Attend and plan ahead.
Isabella County agricultural news notes that A. A. Moore and Sons, prominent live stock farmers, achieved an excellent record in the State Lamb Production Project. Their 137.7 pounds of lamb and wool credit earns them an invitation to display a pen of three ewe lambs during Farmers' Week. Visitors to Farmers' Week should view the Moores pen.
Ben Bosink reviews soil conservation efforts in Clare County with 1961 goals met for 40 new farm plans. He outlines 1952 scheduling, office hours Mondays 1 to 5 pm, location at the courthouse basement Harrison, and fertilizer ordering advised due to anticipated shortages. He promotes the January 15 annual meeting at 12:30 pm in Harrison.
Clinton, Haton and Kent lead the 1951 Michigan oat trials with yields of 74.4, 70.7 and 74.7 bushels per acre respectively. Ajax Huron Shelby and Branch averaged about 75 bushels but showed lodging. Farm Crops Dept will continue recommending Clinton Eaton and Kent for another year while testing new varieties in 1952.
Michigan State College dairy specialists say rapid cooling of milk is essential in winter as in summer. They advise cooling milk and cream to 50 degrees immediately after production with cold water, not air, to prevent bacterial growth and freezing. Water cooling works faster than air and avoids freezing, even when ambient temperatures are below zero.
The thirty seventh annual Farmers Week at Michigan State College runs January 28 to February 1. Visit the county extension office to obtain the program or to have one mailed if you have previously registered.
Farmers Week highlights mechanization changes in farm power with three exhibits. A farm shop layout shows tool arrangement for efficiency, an electric welding clinic invites hands on practice, and farmers statewide are urged to submit home built labor-saving devices for display through county agents and the Agricultural Engineering Department.
Eugene Decker and Lyle Willoughby, Shepherd High School graduates, won Shepherd State Bank funded scholarships of 100 dollars each to a short eight week agriculture course at Michigan State College starting October 22. Leon Sanderson and Alger Smock also enrolled in the program offering training in crops soils livestock farm management and related subjects.
About 10614 bushels were harvested from an eight acre field in Menominee County with 973.9 bushels per acre graded U.S. No. 1. Rene van Acker, of Michigan State College Crops Dept, reported the figures after dividing seedbed prep, fertilizer and weed control steps across 1950 to 1951 practices.
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