Lorain County 4-H Club Advisors Meet to Plan Projects
Lorain County women chosen as advisors for the county Four-H food and clothing clubs will gather for meetings at the Elyria Savings and Trust Company directors' room next Wednesday and Thursday. Clothing advisors led by Miss Bertha M. Baker will meet Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. while food club leaders under Miss Alma L. Garvin will gather at the same time on the following day. Discussions cover project popularity, color selection, presenting clothing work, and guidance on economy and suitability.
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Lorain County
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Bertha M. Baker
Ohio State University
Alma L. Garvin
Food Club
Protection For Early Garden Plants Urged in Ohio
Ohio State University horticulture specialist H. Brown urges spring protection for early vegetables in home gardens. Use covers such as flower pots jars or baskets to trap heat and shield plants from frost. Covers should be large enough to enclose the plant without touching foliage. even thin paper works if intact. Shallow trenches or furrow plowing can shelter small plants. potato rows are commonly protected this way.
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Columbus
Atates H. . Brown
Ohio State University
Plan vegetable demonstrations in Lorain County
A plan for vegetable demonstrations of the county extension service project will be made Tuesday when A W Marion Ohio State University vegetable Specialist visits the county. Demonstration farms will be chosen where project practices are followed and results will be checked on these farms.
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Lorain
County Extension Service
A. W. Marion
Ohio State University
Record enrollment in Lorain County Four-H clubs skyrockets
A county wide Four-H enrollment rush sets a new high with 195 girls joining 114 clubs in two days. Tuesday saw 136 enrollments at Kipton Wellington and Grafton, with Avon adding 59 more. Wellington recorded 62 girls across five clubs, including clothing, food, flower, and room furnishing. Kipton hosted 34 girls across two clubs, Grafton added 40 with three clubs plus a house furnishing club, and Avon totals include sewing flower room furnishing and junior food clubs. County agent Miss Alice Bird notes the rapid growth and predicts enrollments will exceed last year, with boys’ Four-H similarly expanding though smaller.
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Lorain County
Kipton
Wellington
Grafton
Avon
Alice Bird
Farm Night airs topics on OSU radio program
Ohio State University will broadcast a Farm Night talk show on Station WEAO from 7 to 9 p m Monday. Faculty specialists from the college of agriculture will discuss topics such as The Value of a Pedigree Producing Quality Milk Starting Pigs on Feed and Methods of Growing Soybeans. Other subjects include May in the Vegetable Garden The Farm Boy Goes to College Spring Style Notes Ohio's Plant Life of the Past How to Grow Roses Managing Bees in the Spring and Oh io Spray Service A short musical program will also be presented.
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Ohio State University
WEAO
College of Agriculture
Ohio
Farm Calendar highlights and Four-H meetings
The Farm Calendar lists events for April 24 to May 2 including greenhouse day at Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Wooster, Four-H Club organization meetings in multiple towns, and livestock day at the station. A separate Amherst note reports Sara Liu, a Chinese girl, studying beekeeping at Massachusetts Agricultural College. It also mentions a claim that deafness may stem from a diseased bone based on skull studies.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Wooster
West Carlisle
Penfield
LaGrange
Old Hickory Grange Hall
Amherst
West Oberlin
Eaton Township
Mass
Sara Liu
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Suggestions For Potato Raising Outline For County Project
The county agricultural extension service mails to enrolled farmers a potato growing outline. It covers soil building with legumes Red Clover and soy beans, deep plowing eight to nine inches, certified seed, spacing by soil fertility, planting seeds three to four inches deep, and fertilization cultivation and spraying practices.
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County Agricultural Extension Service
Cost Of Running Farm Appliances Will Be Studied
Plans to determine the cost of operating farm and home electrical appliances will begin next Wednesday in Elyria. I P Blaiser rural electrification worker will confer with Horton B Alger county agricultural extension agent. Blaiser has worked with farmers and electric companies and will install meters on appliances like electric refrigerators to measure individual operating costs.
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I. P. Blaiser
Elyria
Horton B. Alger
Blauser
Brownhelm P T A Awards Blue Ribbons for Health
The Brownhelm P T A meeting highlighted health themes with songs and plays. Ten children won Blue Ribbons from the County Health Department, with a related ceremony at Huntington and a strong turnout for health film demonstrations.
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Brownhelm
Apple Growers Get Advice On Spraying Trees
Directions for spraying for apple scab and black rot are being sent to Lorain County fruit growers in the county extension spray service. The letter notes few scab spores on ground leaves this year and stresses prompt thorough sprays when advised. It recommends 1.25 gallons liquid lime sulfur or 3.5 pounds dry lime sulfur with 50 gallons water, and warns dust should precede five hours of rain. Radio talks accompany the service from WLW Cincinnati at 12:45 p.m. Mon, Wed, Fri and WTAM Cleveland at 12:25 p.m. on same days.
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Lorain County
County Agricultural Extension Service
WLW
Cincinnati
WTAM
Cleveland
Marine Band to Play on Four-H Radio Program
The United States Marine Band will perform on the National Four-H Club radio program from 12:30 to 1:30 p m Saturday May 2 with national broadcast stations including KDKA Pittsburgh and WLW Cincinnati near Lorain County. The program features the National Four-H Music Achievement Test plus talks by Edith Berry Ruth Jamison Arnold Fahrenkrog and R G Foster with a roster of Four-H and community leaders and members from Virginia Iowa and beyond.
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United States Marine Band
Virginia
Iowa
KDKA
Pittsburgh
WLW
Cincinnati
Lorain County
Edith Berry
Augusta County
Ruth Jamison
Arnold Fahrenkrog
Scott County
R. G. Foster
United States Department of Agriculture
Cooking Club Sought by Wellington Boys
Wellington county boys in fifth grade seek a cooking club to avoid reliance on women for meals. Miss Alica Bird, county agricultural extension agent, learned while organizing Four-H Clubs that no cooking club is planned for boys this year. She will explore possible options with the school principal.
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Birteen Wellington
Alica Bird
Miss Hird
Wellington
Miss Bird
Desire to Bears Cooking Drives Scout Camp Prep
The boys wish to join the Boy Scouts and must learn camp cookery and related skills to qualify. Their interest in cooking reflects a broader aim to gain practical outdoor knowledge and earn a place in the scouting program.
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Boy Scouts J
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