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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1942
Page
8
Advice stresses low cost gains from summer care across beef cattle, sheep and pigs. Emphasizes ample water, salt, shade, good pasture, grain balance, and mineral supplements. Recommends lamb market timing, parasite control, and veterinarian services to protect high value stock.
About seven or eight Clare county farmers will host a statewide TVA Balanced Fertility Demonstrations visit next Tuesday with state officials. Neighbors are invited to inspect progress and compare yields, using TVA 425 metaphosphate fertilizer in new seedings of legumes or forage crops under AAA rules.
The twelfth annual Gladwin Beef Cattle Sale will be held Thursday June 11 with forty animals offered. B L Benton M S C selects the livestock and notes quality is among the best. A pre sale banquet is planned for Wednesday June 10 with J C Cash KC Stock Yards VP as speaker.
Donald J. Holbrook, owner of the Harry Cleveland farm, traveled to Swartz Creek and won seven Guernsey cattle at a Glen Bancroft dispersal sale. He aims to build an outstanding herd for Clare county with Foremost Superior line cattle and a daughter of the sale’s top cow boasting 861 pounds of butterfat.
Cherry growers in the Grand Traverse Area fear the July picking season may be short of labor. They favor rural families as the best suited workers citing discipline and reliability, though they note other groups such as high school boys and Boy Scouts also offer help.
Groups will find plentiful work at 30 cents per lug with lugs around 25 pounds. Workers can pick 12 to 15 lugs daily. Growers provide camping space while workers supply equipment. Traverse City transport aid is available and each group needs an adult supervisor for welfare. County Agricultural Agent offers more information.
WKAR Michigan State College radio presents weekly farm and extension topics with J G Hayes guiding farm question sessions. The schedule lists daily programs from May 29 to June 3 including Farm Farmers Are Asking Wartime Vacations Science News and Our Neighbors with time slots and topics.
The piece explains ponton bridge costs from 15 000 to 700 000 and notes a 1 080 foot rubber ponton bridge. It contrasts 10 000 ton navy cruisers costing about 20 000 000 and urges citizens to invest at least ten percent of income in War Bonds to fund these ships and engineers.
A MacArthur portrait poster proclaims Every worker on the production line pledges Me Too, Mac in a Fisher Body war production drive. The sign is displayed permanently in all Fisher Body plants. A note on sparrows states about a third of their food is insects, with most of the rest grass and weed seeds.
The Mt Vernon Grange plans a Monday night meeting on June 1 with a State Grange speaker, likely Dora Stockman. The event aims to boost attendance, promote biweekly meetings, and includes a pot luck lunch. Members and neighbors are urged to attend. dues are tenents per month. Jennings Archambault, Master.
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