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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1951
Page
2
A vintage guide suggests informal entertaining with snacks and a ice cold juice spread. It features Zweibelkuchen onion cake baked in pie tins with bacon eggs and sour cream filling. The piece offers several dunk ideas and a simple menu including tomato juice and barbecued spareribs for easy hosting.
Grantland Rice discusses 1950s pennant races with emphasis on veteran stars like Musial Williams DiMaggio and Slaughter. He analyzes American and National League contenders including Yankees Red Sox Indians Giants Dodgers Phillies Reds and Braves, noting aging rosters and potential managerial impacts.
The University of Delaware agricultural experiment station reports broiler success depends on sufficient space. Each bird requires about 0.6 square feet, and proper housing is essential for efficient, scientifically managed production.
A sectionally built poultry house 16 by 60 feet suits a small Indiana broiler operation producing 1,200 three pound birds per 10 to 11 weeks. The arched roof uses laminated wood rafters and Masonite panels, offering headroom and no interior posts. The experiment station warns crowding harms growth rate, feed efficiency, and cost per pound of broilers.
Cattle owners in states along the Canadian border are urged to watch for bovine anaplasmosis. Once a southern and western issue, the malaria like disease now appears in northern states with mild Minnesota cases escaping notice. Recovered cattle remain carriers, spreading infection to others shipped from infected areas.
Rufus Jennings of Oak Knoll farm shows a nine ounce egg from his 5,000 New Hampshire hens. No dead birds indicate the hen survived. The egg tops the previous U.S. record of eight and a half ounces by a Windham hen, which died.
Fertilizer tests using radio active phosphorus scheduled in several Nebraska locations this spring. Robert A. Olson heads the program to measure phosphorus delivery power in different soils and determine how much phosphorus used by oats comes from the soil.
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