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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1953
Page
9
The county agent urges steps to keep poultry houses cool to sustain feed intake and egg production. Enlarge openings, add exhaust fans, and use reflective roofing or whitewash to cut temperatures. Provide more water, limit high energy feeds, and offer moist mash and night feeding during heat waves. A new publication, Keeping Poultry Comfortable in Hot Weather, is free from the extension office.
The Denton Journal presents a steady hometown paper profile by Hilda Kk. Wiggins Lowe praising its honesty and long presence in the community. It highlights local news, births, deaths, graduates, brides, and county events with a note on three marriage types.
An obituary notes the death at his Denton home of Alt Towns age 72 born Guildhall Vermont October 3 1852 son of Moses and Adehone Towns. He moved to Maryland and lived there until his death after a stroke. Also reported is a high noon wedding at the Denton Church of the Brethren uniting Miss Esther Kitchen and Mr Earl Seymour Rouser. Details include attendees maids of honor best man and a dinner before they travel to Chester Pennsylvania to start their life together. The piece also covers the funeral of Mrs Hattie Bowdle and a drowning death at Wye Mills pond of Louis McClintock Jr. aged 18 after a buoying tube failed.
Maryland wheat under the government price support will fetch 247 per bushel for No 2 garlicky red winter wheat shipped to Baltimore or Philadelphia elevators. Loan rates at 244 per bushel apply for No 2 varied farm stored wheat in Caroline County. Loans run until January 31, 1951 with maturity by April 30, 1954. Discounts of 15 cents per bushel for heavy garlick and 6 cents for light garlick apply. Marketing quotas are invoked for the 1934 wheat crop as a predicted large over normal supply prompts action by Ezra Taft Benson and state PMA officials.
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