Farmers Served by Consumers Power Use More Electricity
Farmers served by Consumers Power Company increased average annual electricity use by 40 percent from 1941 to 1945, rising from 1 533 to 2 137 kilowatt hours. The utility expanded service to 10 147 farms during 1941 45 and aims to connect about 9 000 more rural customers in 1946 47 despite material shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consumers Power Company
Dan E. Karn
Mr. Karn
Michigan
Karn
Consumers
Counties
Siding News: Weekend Rain Welcomed and Local Visits
The passage notes a rainy weekend appreciated by residents. Miss Viola Van Blarcom stayed two weekends at the Brockway home. Mrs Edith Raymond helps daughter Mrs Emil Glers as they plan to move to Clare. Mr and Mrs C Krocker visited the Heber home Sunday evening. Seaver Burton from Almac visited relatives. Charles Bennett of Elm Grove assists the Giers boys with their new barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola van Blarcom
Brockway
Edith Raymond
Emil Glers
Clare
C. Krocker
Heber
Seaver Burton
Almac
Charles Bennett
Elm Grove
Giers
Better Range Handling Improves Forage and Range Lands Use
Range management under the agricultural conservation program conserves and develops over 73 million acres. Practices include rotating grazing, deferred grazing reseeding, water supplies, fencing, erosion control, and water spreading to protect soil and boost livestock forage. Natural reseeding is favored, with artificial reseeding used where forage remnants are scarce.
Major Norman L. Smith Joins MSU Farm Management Staff
Norman L. Smith recently discharged from the Army with the rank of Major has joined Michigan State College as extension specialist in farm management. He will assist farmers and farm groups across Michigan while applying his prior work as a statistician for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and experience running a 350 acre Illinois farm. He earned a B.S. from Windis University in 1989 and an M.S. in 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman L. “Smith
Michigan State’ ‘College
Mr. Smith
Michigan
University of Windis
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Rural gathering retells weekend visits in Owosso
Rural residents recount weekend visits as Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Price of Owosso spent time with Ida Price and Elroy. Several guests from Muskegon and Flint areas visited, and Shay Mitchell’s family faced a death in the household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Price
Owos- So
Ida Price
Elroy
Anslem Mitchell
Virginia
Frances Frey
Cloyd Switzer
Mr. Terrell
Chas. Adeblue
Buster Rose
Flint
Ray Rose
Fertilizer Use Advised to Cut Feed Costs for Farmers
Stretch Feed Supplies with Fertilizer discusses rising feed costs and potential shortages. It urges farmers to fertilize pastures and meadows with commercial fertilizer to boost home protein, reduce feed purchases, and avoid higher prices. It notes brown grain can yield satisfactory pork and dairy, and advises lighter fattening. Dairy Herd Improvement Association expansion in Michigan rises from 71 to 87 associations, with 1 674 herds of 15+ cows in January and a 162 herd goal for 1946. Clare County dairymen are invited to form a dairy herd testing group.
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Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Michigan
L. A. Johnson
Michigan State College
P. D. Gibson
Clare County
Skin Surface to Weight Determines Falling Speed
The text notes that small animals have more skin area relative to weight than large ones, using the mouse as an example. It explains that this surface-area-to-weight ratio affects impact on falling, with a pony crushed, a cat killed but not mutilated, and a mouse spared after about 100 feet due to greater air resistance balancing its fall.
Blarney Club Sews Quilt and Holds Social in Andersonville
The Blarney Club met at Mrs. George Renner's in Coleman to sew a quilt, play games with first prize to Mrs. Joe Strief and second to Mrs. Ton Ramey. Ten attended, with various visitors and a note on Mrs. Ramey Bennett's recovery. Next gathering planned at Mrs. Tom Ramey's home.
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Blarney Club
Andersonville
George Renner
Coleman
Joe Strief
Ton Ramey
R. M. Renner
Tom Ramey
Melvin Davis
Saginaw
Myrtie
Geo. Renner
Mildred Faber
Edith Maxwell
Clare
John Hubble
Rosebush
G. Renner
al. Deaner
Port Huron
Extension oil can fix for hard to reach holes
A copper wire extended from the can spout and bent at right angles guides oil into hard to reach holes. The bent end stays in the can while the wire directs the oil through the desired oil hole without the wire falling out.
Postwar Machinery Harvester Aims Cost Cuts
Self propelled harvesters designed by Minneapolis Moline Power Implement Company promise lower harvesting costs. The machine’s unusual engineering enables harvesting all crops including rice, adaptable to various grain types after the war.
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Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company
Alfalfa Meal Identified as Valuable Hog Feed Supplement
Research finds water soluble vitamins in alfalfa meal boost pig weaning rates. A 10 to 12 percent alfalfa supplement in gestating and lactating sows' diets yielded 82.8 percent of piglets reaching weaning. Superior results shown vs ground yellow corn soy bean meal tankage fish meal and dried corn distillers solubles.
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Paul C. Gibson
Mellencamp
Isabella County
Robert C. Kleiner
Clare County Aaa Committee
MANN
Choreboy Milkers
Clare, Michigan
Ribesonit Dany Bldg
Charlie
Norman L. Smith
New Farm Management Specialist
Hamilton Center
DHIA
Oscon
Ann Arbor
St. Johns
Earl Willey Box
Mich
Machinery Harvester
Salsbury Sal
Ala
Tsu
Wisconsin
Sudan
Johnston Elevator‘co
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