Michigan 4-H Club Members Head to Washington Camp
Michigan four 4-H delegates from Garden City Ionia Clinton county and Merrill travel by car to Washington D C for a week long 4 H Club camp with state leaders joining from Michigan. Also Dean Allen from Sparta departs for four and a half months in Germany as Michigan’s International Farm Youth Exchange representative.
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Washington, D. C
Nation
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Ant State
Dorothy Erler
Upper Peninsula
Washington
Gettysboro
Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburg
Dean Allen
4-H Glub
Sparta
Kent County
Germany
International Farm Youth Exchange
Young Allen
Europe
Farm Youth Exchange
Margaret Haviland
Grass silage gains traction in Michigan farming
Michigan State College researchers report 300 percent more farmers used grass silage in 1949 than 1948 across nine central counties. Farmers favor early first-cutting when legumes reach one-quarter bloom, use dry or wet molasses as preservatives, and rely on the squeeze test to judge moisture for silage stored at 65 to 70 percent moisture.
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Michigan
Michigan State College
MSC
May Dairy Improvement Association Report Isabella No 2
The Dairy Improvement Association reports for May with 26 herds totaling 885 cows of which 28 dry. Production 314 661 pounds milk 3.96 percent test 12 293.28 pounds fat. Average cow 817 pounds milk 31.9 pounds fat. Herd average 12 102 pounds milk 472.7 pounds fat. Thirteen cows sold for low production mastitis injury sterility. Annual meeting June 16 at Weidmar school with Don Murray MSU extension speaker. lunch to be served.
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Weidmar School
Don Murray
Michigan State College
Free Soil Sampling And Testing Service For Farmers
Farmers in the P M A Farm Program may request a free soil sampling and testing service through their local P M A office in Harrison. Cards are being mailed to gauge interest. Sampling will be done locally and testing by Agrico Fertilizer makers with recommendations from their technicians and Paul D. Gibson, County Agricultural Agent.
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Harrison
Agrico
Paul D. Gibson
County Agent's Corner Good Management For More Summer Pasture
Michigan State College Extension Dairyman Jim Hays reviews dairy DHIA farmers who allocate one field per head for pasture, then rotate to alfalfa brome hayfields. By mid July pasture is grazed down and alternated with hay yields, with Sudan grass and grass silage used to stretch pasture.
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Jim Hays
Michigan State College
Michigan
Hays
Michigan Dairy Output and Feeding Grain Snapshot
Michigan ranks sixth in U S milk production with just over a million cows producing about five and a quarter billion pounds in 1949. Forty percent goes to bottled milk and cream, twenty percent to butter, twelve percent to evaporated and condensed milk, and the remainder to ice cream cheese and dried milk or export. With pasture season underway the article notes the importance of feeding grain to the dairy herd.
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Michigan
Feeding grain on pasture boosts dairy cow production says MSU expert
Bob Lewis of Michigan State College Dairy Department argues against penny wise feeding. Even with good pasture cows may need grain to maintain 10 to 20 pounds of milk daily. He favors corn and oats as a palatable, economical grain mix over high protein concentrates.
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Bob Lewis
Michigan State ‘College Dairy Department
Lewis
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