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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
8
The county gathered about $3 000 from its largest tax sale as owners inquire about redemption. Settlement is complete for most purchased properties except county commissioners real estate, which requires payment. Unredeemed properties face foreclosure after a year and a day to regain title and resell to buyers.
County Farm Agent Henry reports late spring delays for Victory Garden planting but expects gardeners to intensify work with warm weather. Last year’s poor yields may curb odor among amateurs, yet food production from Victory Gardens remains a significant part of the American food supply. Fewer gardens likely in 1944, but quality may improve, with a bulletin on control of inserts and diseases noted.
Dr C Graham of the University of Maryland Extension Service released bulletins warning dairy farmers against pasturing too soon due to feed shortages. J W Magruder notes 75 percent of Kentucky bluegrass and white clover yields occur in early season, risking reduced pasture yields if early grazing continues. The note also covers the Percheron Horse Sale and inquiries for horses for logging and farm work. It urges farmers to contact county agents or Dan Wight for stock offers. It calls for thorough spring cleaning of poultry, hog, and calf houses to prevent losses from poor chick management and notes wartime conditions impacting poultry centers in southwest Norway due to Nazi occupation.
Connie Mack opened the Boy Scouts of Frederick County dinner with 300 attendees at the Evangelical Lutheran church. Athletics stars shared stories from 1895 to 1932 as Chief Bender and Jo Jo Young entertained. Prizes included autographed baseballs. Rev Harold C Baer presided. plans included showing World Series films at troop meetings.
London reports a German claim of a secret weapon freezing targets to 332 degrees below zero and causing widespread destruction within 500 yards. British officials dismiss the iceberg claim as nonsense while Maryland farmers cheer relief from feed allocations amid steady meat output from oilseed plants.
Maryland growers and livestock interests met in Baltimore on March 29 to outline a program to cut annual losses. Key figures include Dr T B Symons and Dr A L Brueckner, with disease like mastitis driving dairy waste and pig losses cited as costly feed waste. A countywide action plan will coordinate agencies for local implementation.
An anti lameness chemical discovered in unpasteurized cream acts like a vitamin and exists only in minute amounts. Oregon State College researchers Rosalind Walzen and Willem J. Van Wagtendonk reported the substance, found in raw cream and possibly in some leafy vegetables but not in fruit. Heat and pasteurization destroy it, and the team links it to reducing stiffness and calcification in Ruinea pigs.
The report describes guinea pigs on a powdered skim milk diet developing stiffness and widespread calcium phosphate deposits after a year. Adding raw cream appears to reverse lameness quickly, though full deposit clearance takes a year. If human symptoms matched the pig model, treatment might require eight gallons of cow cream daily.
Four Lancaster men George B. Darrah John R. Darreh Rufus Flory and Charles W. Shertzer were arrested by City Officer Harry Phillips on a disturbing the peace charge in a public place. Each posted five dollars collateral pending a hearing in Police Court Friday night.
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