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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1942
Page
3
Carl Gunderson enlists in the Navy as an electrician first class. Several residents and visitors travel between Los Angeles San Francisco and Oakland for business and family visits. Mary Ellen Hansen visits Fresno State while Abe Neufeld vacations in Fresno. J. J. Siemen returns from Colorado and others plan trips to Nevada and Dinuba.
University of California researchers report sulfur dust can control the alfalfa butterfly larvae without harming livestock and may improve soil. Field tests show 60 to 75 pounds per acre could be effective. larvae die within 24 hours and a common parasite already suppresses most outbreaks.
Pvt. Floyd H. Baumann reports Public Relations staff will contact Minter Field personnel to back a name band for Colas Victor Parade of Spotlight Bands. Blank forms are available in the orderly room for collection by PR staff.
Woodbridge Metcalf of the University of California Extension forester discusses California’s cork oak potential. He notes a need for about one million trees to produce 15 000 tons of cork yearly for the Pacific coast, with potential in other states. Cork is harvested without harming trees, which regrow bark.
Seven men are needed to complete the organization of the Minter Field Rascals according to PFC J F Schambier. He, a former member of a New Hampshire harmonica band, asks interested harmonica players to contact him at the 739th School Squadron.
A second consignment of Merino sheep from New Zealand arrives, including twenty five ewes and one ram. The first shipment arrived in February 1941. The stock, from the South Australian strong wool strain, is owned by J W Maillard Jr and wife of Yorktown Mendocino County, in collaboration with the Davis College of Agriculture. Fifteen ewes go to Maillard ranch for strain comparison, ten ewes and one ram stay at Davis for black top strain studies. These shipments mark the first Merino stock of this origin to California and Oregon.
Frank Hall of the UC Davis agricultural engineering division shows a simple inexpensive machine to reclaim used baling wire. The device can renew thousands of pounds of baling wire for reuse by cutting it at the field or site of use, improving efficiency and reducing waste.
The article explains a simple method to straighten and reuse baling wire by clipping the loop, placing over a pin, and securing it in a machine clamp. The ductile wire can be stretched back to its original form, allowing two or three reuses before limit. California expects 1942 cattle production to be the state's greatest.
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