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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1956
Page
6
The American Foundation for Animal Health urges rural readers to give young beef animals ample space to reduce coccidiosis risk. Crowded lots or pastures increase ground contamination and spread among calves, who fare better on the range with room. The foundation notes the parasite mirrors one found in poultry.
The disease cannot pass between cattle and chickens or from cattle to chickens. Early signs include weakness bloody droppings anemia weight loss in young stock. Improve sanitation by cleaning feedlots and elevating feed and water containers to prevent contamination. prompt diagnosis is essential.
A Southern Washtenaw County farm near here is pictured in a recent shot from last summer. Miss Gordon shares potato baking tips, advising uniform size for even cooking and a 425 degree oven with 50 to 60 minutes for medium potatoes.
Farm Briefs notes potatoes are a bargain in food value. Marjory Garden county home demonstration agent advises storing fall potatoes in a dark dry cool place and warns against tight containers and cold conditions.
Monroe County home demonstration leaders will meet with Marjory Gordon and Coral Morris to study time management in homes. The session covers work simplification, decision making, and prioritizing tasks, with plans to share insights with local groups.
Michigan vegetable growers may enroll in an eight week short course at Michigan State University during January and February. Instruction covers vegetable production handling storage and diseases with other topics on marketing soil fertility farm law machinery and potato production.
Washtenaw County Agricultural Council sponsored a woodlot demonstration at Horace Whitney woodlot on Webster Church Road. Extension Forester Lester Bell and Michigan Department of Conservation foresters explained selective cutting. Winners of a volume and height contest were John D. Schultz, Gilbert Whitney, Sol Quaynor, and Charles E. Wall. prizes donated by Hackney Hardware, Dexter Co-op, and Washtenaw Farm Bureau Store.
Charles Beer discusses the soil bank program Social Security effects on farmers and 1957 price expectations at a December 18 meeting in Ann Arbor. Wilbur Dexter notes changes to Social Security Law and income impact for farm families. Chairman James P. Richards comments on Middle East and Soviet actions.
Monroe County 4-H Agent Joe Waterson announces December and January group start ups in Monroe Dundee Petersburg Ida Ang Qi Talen lawn wand. Clubs welcome youth ages 10 and 11 with new program and four units for older boys. Plowing and operators contests linked to the County Fair and State Show. safety emphasized. Grange backs farm credit and rural development legislation to aid family farms.
4-H and FFA members who will show and sell market steers at Monroe County Fair must have feeder calves on feed by December 1 1956. Joe Waterson county 4-H agent notes the rule has long been in effect. Calves may be obtained from any source but must be on feed by the deadline, with tattooing of project calves planned after that date. Notify local leaders and Mr Waterson when cattle are obtained. The last Congress session saw high adoption of farm legislation.
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