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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1946
Page
7
Michigan State College poultry specialists report that removing culls from 12 million January hens could save about 9 600 tons of feed, enough for a normal 1946 baby chick crop. Reducing non producing hens, improving sanitation, and better pasture use help stretch feed. Extension Folder 98 provides full guidance.
The Secretary of Agriculture announced an Emergency Wheat Purchase Program offering a 30 cent per bushel bonus above market price for farmers delivering stored 1945 crop wheat to local elevators before May 25 1946. Eligible farmers choose a sale price date between delivery and June 15 1946, with CCC and warehouse agents handling the sale, while non qualifying remains under the original program through March 31 1947.
Specialist MSC Dr. Clare A Becker joins Michigan State College as extension specialist in farm management. Becker will work with farmers across Michigan after earning a B S from MSU in 1987 and a Ph D from Cornell in 1942. Wheat delivery must occur before May 25 1946 to qualify for the bonus amid global famine relief efforts.
A dairy farmer can win the milk game by a threefold approach including a complete pasture and feed program all sanitation measures and comprehensive herd care. The piece urges cooling milk promptly in hot weather to prevent sour milk and cites new extension bulletins from Wisconsin Illinois Minnesota and Michigan on forage lime and herd sire selection.
Rural column details visits and weekends among families in Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Crawford, Temple, and Mr. and Mrs. Hol Gordon. It notes Roger Roland breaking a leg and a dog Rex declared healthy by a veterinarian.
Mr and Mrs Garland Bennett and children visit Vernons in Clare. Mary Slater returns from Detroit Dearborn to her farm. Roy Ensley recovers from a coma and regains memory after hospital care. O D Robison unable to swallow. taken to Samaritan hospital Bay City, later brought home. Several family visits noted including Court Langworthy Zimjaszman and others. Pneumonia and flu illnesses affect Henry Warner and Bobby Warner.
Michigan State College specialists offer ten general tips to stretch limited feed for poultry dairy and general livestock. Improve efficiency balance operations reduce grain use sell lighter or culled stock and use hay pasture roughage while boosting pasture fertilization and spring grain acreage. Copies of Extension Folder 98 are available from county extension offices or the Michigan State College Bulletin Office.
Veterinary authorities report a local anesthetic injection into horn nerves allows horns to be removed with little pain, comparable to extracting an infected tooth. The technique aims to reduce suffering during dehorning in dairy cattle.
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