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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1926
Page
8
Repainting homes and new barns appear in local updates alongside visits, relocations, and gatherings. Residents attend reunions, travels to Dayton and Niagara Falls, and plan school and fair activities while regional politics and state legislation affecting municipal bands are noted.
The county fair auto show August 31 to September 4 will fill a large 200 by 100 foot tent with more than seventy cars, trucks and tractors and include 1927 models. Sewell S. Platt and Robert H. Alber plan one of the finest midwest tent shows. The Ann Arbor Health Service offers a rest tent for babies and a first aid station with trained nurses. Fireworks set for several evenings feature patriotic tableaux and comic numbers.
Experiments show cucumber aphids can transmit mosaic to healthy plants within five minutes of feeding. US oats production rose for decades before World War I, peaking in 1917 at 1.593 billion bushels, then fell to 1.502 billion by 1925. East farm practice favors late fall manure on alfalfa or spring phosphate. Farmers view radios as useful for market conditions. calves saved by bottle feeding. pasteurization advised for milk from diseased cows. American chicken breeds dominate general flocks and egg production areas. specialized egg farms cluster near consuming centers. Green manuring described from Roman times with legumes sown in September and turned in May. 17-year-old Sam Knott of Toledo caught a 6 lb 3 oz bass at Thornapple Lake, to be mounted as a souvenir.
Auditor General O. B. Fuller notes state records show primary school funds from 1839 to date. Per capita fund values rose from 1 dollar in 1881 to 2 in 1901 and 14 in 1924. Michigan farmers and auto ownership, pension figures for teachers, and retirement fund income are detailed alongside county auto counts and counts of groceries and drug stores. City demographics for Grand Rapids, Flint growth including population, factories, wages, and foreign-born residents are listed. Saginaw salt output and sugar production are also noted.
Instructions describe canning wild fruit for winter preserves including wild plums raspberries strawberries and blueberries. It details making wild plum preserves tomato jam and wild grape preserves with steps for sugar syrup boiling piercing tests sealing and cooling. Cultivated grapes and berries are noted as alternative preserves.
Guidance on leavening suggests 1 to 134 teaspoons of baking powder per cup of flour for quick breads and cakes. Butter cakes with lots of egg white may need less. Poorovers and sponge cakes are the exception and require no baking powder.
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