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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1936
Page
6
A new potassium test and experiments with potassium fertilizers explain corn crop failures on older soils. Fields once phosphated and with regular clover rotation show deficient potash. applying potash restores yields. Manure and straw help delay potassium decline, while returning straw to non clover land may temporarily lower yields.
Ag extension economist J B McNulty foresees 1936 lamb prices averaging at their highest since 1924, with strong wool values and favorable outlook for sheep men. Forecast rests on small or similar ewe numbers to 1935, high wool carry, and firm demand from higher incomes. Horse demand declines as farms shift to mechanical power and costs influence future horse numbers.
Massachusetts Station Amherst conducts a tankage protein study with 24 cows from Massachusetts State College herd. Two groups of 12 receive high grade dry renderings tankage and a soybean cottonseed ration in alternating 40 day periods across multiple reversals.
Lime sulphur spray controls both insects and disease on peaches. Apply any time before buds swell. after swelling it won t control peach leaf curl disease. When using oil spray for scale, add a 3 4:60 Bordeaux mix first then the oil. For liquid lime sulphur mix six gallons lime sulphur to 50 gallons spray. for dry mix use 1 1/2 pounds lime sulphur to 50 gallons.
The article notes 70 to 80 percent of Canada's barley goes to livestock feeding. It cites a German law requiring agricultural leaders to be of German or parallel blood. It also lists leading wheat states: North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Illinois, South Dakota, Texas, Montana, Washington, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota and Idaho.
The column ribbings touch on prison life in Joliet and Alcatraz, counterfeit money schemes in California, and a satirical quip about Potlatches in Canada. Cobb reflects on crime, politics, labor strife in baseball, and social class as he muses on servants and the leisure class.
Household hints cover leather furniture care with linseed oil and glue, soapstone smoothing with sandpaper, hot water bottle repairs, tea stain removal with borax, frankfurters with bacon, coffee pot stain removal by baking soda boil, oven glass cleaning, salt on pie juice odors, and hat lining renewal with washing ironing and steam. Associated Newspapers WNU Service.
For eighty years Ferry-Morse Seed Co. guards seed quality through purebred stock from the Ferry-Morse Seed Breeding Institute in Rochester Michigan and Salinas California. The seeds are tested for germination before sale and marketed nationwide with assurance of true to type quality. Look for a Ferry display, request the Home Garden Catalog, and listen to garden talks on Station WJR.
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