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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1937
Page
4
Dr Claud North Chrisman explains attitudes to snakes and common remedies. He cautions against snake oil and whisky for bites, notes some snake products have uses, and urges practical handling while recognizing venom may have applications in medicine.
The article describes two main snake families Colubridae and Viperidae with non poisonous branches. Colubridae include garter and black snakes while cobra is deadly. venom harms the nervous system and can kill quickly if it enters a blood vessel. Viperidae include rattlesnake copperhead and water moccasin the most poisonous group with venom causing hemor rhagia and progressive swelling and discoloration.
Snake venoms contain specific proteins that cause rapid blood clotting or paralysis. Small venom doses can trigger antibodies that neutralize it, enabling antivenin transfer to save poisoned patients. Different snakes require specific antivenin, with copperhead rattlesnake and moccasin antivenins common in some regions. Diluted venom helps stop bleeding in clotting-deficient patients and may relieve cobra venom nerve pains, showing even deadly snakes have potential uses if controlled.
The Belden Afternoon Bridge Club played five games with honors to Mrs. E. J. Harder as host notes. Guests included Mrs. Nettie Hemming and Mrs. Franklin Rust. Mrs. Harder will entertain next. Community Circle guest speaker Miss Bird Wil on January 14 on Etiquette in the home. New Year’s callers visited the William Gest home from Cleveland and Pittsfield, with varied local visits among Mrs. Wise, Jeanne Wise, and other family acquaintances.
Profile notes Edward's departure and Britain urging forgetfulness while the Church of England harbors continued rebuke. Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of York spar over public mores as the archbishop Walter Temple, liberal and Labour supporter, defends birth control and royal ties. Temple, a Princeton guest in 1935, is an Oxford scholar.
IX year old Billy is described as unwanted at birth, with a mother who resents motherhood and shows little affection. The piece explores how parental attitudes shape a child’s sense of being loved, noting the father’s pride and the mother’s bitterness and its impact on Billy’s development as a problem child.
A series of social visits is reported across Ohio as families travel between Cleveland Columbus Valley City and nearby towns. Me and Mrs Alma Siggens spent Wednesday with Mrs Georgie Beriswill in Cleveland. Henry Armbruster of Valley City visited Charles Wise. Harold Lagg attends an Animal Husbandry course at Ohio State University. Mr and Mrs Joseph Jankola of Cleveland visited the Hartmans. Mr and Mrs Martin Beriswill spent New Year’s at Leo Weigle’s.
A 1939 breeding program plan from Massachusetts Experiment Station suggests using colored leg bands to mark hens by laying performance and broodiness. Red marks top layers, white flags pale beaks, blue notes persistent layers, black marks broody birds. Breeders come from red white and blue bands only. Also notes a Michigan correspondent praising a hardy peach variety, noting heavy yields, need for hand thinning, and limited shipping suitability despite small pit and excellent flesh.
A South Carolina Experiment Station article advises meat curing steps after hogs are dressed, including splitting carcasses, chilling, trimming, and three days per pound in pickle with fly protection. It also covers poultry flock care for higher egg yield, noting shelter, litter, dropping pit, grain mix, twice daily feedings, and lights to speed laying, and mentions improving dairy herd feeding to raise cow productivity.
Seed sweet potatoes should be selected in the hill to avoid stem rot and black rot. Stem rot is detected by splitting the crown at the surface of the soil with black streaks. Black rot is identified by roundish sunken dark areas on the roots. Prairie Farmer.
The grey bark disease of red raspberries, serious on Latham plants in many locations, can be controlled by a single spring application of Bordeaux mixture (12-12-100) or lime-sulfur (1-12) just before growth starts.
An Ohio Poultry Tribune correspondent describes a method to keep range shelters profitable year round. After moving pallets to permanent quarters he boards up three sides, installs lights, and shelters pullets not ready for laying. Later the shelters hold culled yearlings, then hens awaiting market, and finally breeding pens for early chicks. Additional uses include fattening cockerels and isolating diseased or vaccinated stock.
A Capper's Farmer correspondent inherited a Grundy silt loam field once yielding 37 bushels per acre. He rotated corn, corn, oats, and clover, plowed under clover and manure, added rock phosphate and lime, adopted hybrid corn, and finally planted three grains per hill with 38 inch spacing. By 1935 yields reached 98 bushels per acre.
Agricultural note reports tandem hitch is easier on horses than other hitches. Yet most farmers still use four abreast with four horses and reasons are explored. Also brief mentions calf feeding pails and a simple method to lift heavy tamping using a log section with handles.
Ohio State University hosts Farmers Week January 25 to 29 to mark 25 years of agricultural progress. H C Ransower, director of catenasian, chairs the anniversary planning committee. A B Graham of Washington DC, previously with the USDA, is invited to speak on changes since helping organize the first Farmers Week in 1912.
Lorain County soil conservation committee heads to Norwalk Friday with committees from ten other counties for a district meeting. Officials will explain provisions of the 1937 agricultural program and plan community meetings before January 23 to help farmers shape cropping plans for spring. The 1937 program adds soil building payments, especially benefiting fruit and vegetable growers. State chairman E F Kruse notes added allowances for commercial orchards, vineyards, bush fruit and single cropped commercial vegetables, with extra sums based on acreage and past crop choices.
Victor H Ries of Ohio State University identifies hardy indoor plants. Sansevieria or bow string hemp tops the list, with Laurenti varieties, Devil's ivy, philodendron, Japanese grape, aspidistra, nephthysis, jade, peperomia, and varieties of English ivy noted for resilience. The article urges steady care despite tough plants’ ability to endure neglect.
The University hosts Farmers Week with 25 events and imperial programs for homemakers prepared by the home economics department. Women are invited to attend meetings from various departments as schedules show daily events at 4:00 pm and 7:30 pm, including old-time dances on three evenings. University, state, and national speakers will present in dance, drama, and entertainment formats to conclude the week.
The guidance favors small, regular watering over letting plants dry out and receiving a heavy drink. It recommends dissolving one ounce of ammonium sulfate dia in two gallons of water and watering monthly to renew the plants' food supply.
January or February hatched chicks show advantages over spring stock, says D. C. Kennard of the Olio Agricultural Experiment Station. Winter broodings yield better early broiler prices and earlier pullet production, with reduced coccidiosis and cannibalism, provided insulated quarters, steady heat, complete rations, and ample space are ensured. Higher costs and reduced brooding capacity are noted, but offset by earlier returns.
Prominent Ohio farmers and representatives from farmers organizations are invited to discuss farm tenancy at a regular Indianapolis meeting. Aimed at gathering farmer and tenant views for a Roosevelt committee report, five regional meetings will follow to cover all regions. Opinions will inform policy, noting tenancy variation and questions about soil depletion and tenancy agreements.
Ohio State University extension service credits broad local and state support for 1937 plans. Director H C Ramsower notes farm organizations newspapers farm journals state departments national agencies radio stations and 13 000 local leaders aided 1936 efforts. Conservation and county farming planning emerge as major 1937 tasks continuing from 1936 work by county committees.
Committees report soil in the county would keep declining unless grain crops are reduced and legumes grown more. The agricultural conservation program will pay farmers to increase legume acreages, aiding Ohio farmers to make the needed changes.
Ohio Farm Bureau announces the 1937 Verna Elsinger Memorial Rasay Oration contest with $1150 in cash awards for high school seniors. Essays 1200 to 1500 words on approved topics must be registered by February 15, with eliminations by district and field district before a state finals at the Ohio State Fair. First prize is $400, second $300, third $200, plus district prizes and supplied bibliographies.
Ohio State University agronomist Earl Jones ranks alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures first among hay crops for rotation value, with clover second and timothy last. He cites lime to correct soil acidity as essential for erosion reduction and better yields, noting two thirds of cropped land in Ohio may need liming and timing.
The Health Department notes a troubling tally of illnesses and deaths linked to raw milk. Records show danger from day to day, as milk can seem safe today yet be germ infested tomorrow without daily expert testing.
La Grange Willard Johnson finished the season on the Great Lakes and stays for winter at his South Malin Street home. Mr and Mrs Bert Knowtes spent six weeks sailing with their son Dewey and family in Wilkinsburg PA. Clarence Titsworth left Saturday for a visit in Michigan. Cyrus Dawson and Nona joined a birthday dinner at their uncle Charles Smiths Ridgeville home. The host was eighty, planned by relatives Mr and Mrs W C Knowles recently hosted a family dinner with guests including Mr and Mrs Don Carmel and children Donna Rae and Willard of Grafton, Mr and Mrs Douglas Wiggins of Erie PA, Mrs J Q Wherry, Mrs Minnie Willard of Elyria, Mr and Mrs Karl Kolnski and the Knowles family
Mr and Mrs Clarence Kreuger nee Wanda Falkner were honored guests at a miscellaneous shower Wednesday evening hosted by Miss Emily Buckingham. Mrs Noah Holcomb assisted with organizing the event as friends and neighbors enjoyed bingo and refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Quy Amsbury and daughters Hazel and May with Robert Schnur visited relatives in Norwalk and Elyria Sunday. Mrs G G Leiby spent holidays with son Dayton Leiby and wife in Warren Pa. Don Swartz Ira Aldrich and Mrs W S Aldrich of Belden were New Year guests of Dewey Aldrich. Harry Woodcock of Elyria visited La Grange relatives. Rev and Mrs B H Ryan of Amherst recently stayed with Mr and Mrs C G Rush.
Robert Kelner spent the holidays in Eustis Florida and returned home Sunday. Mr and Mrs Guy Amsbury recently entertained Mr and Mrs E J Witbeck and two sons Junior and George. Mrs Nellie Box Foster Box May Amsbury and Robert Schnur all of Elyria attended. Mrs Charles Foster was called to Brooklyn last Wednesday for illness of her brother Henry Curdee after an accident. Mrs Robert Oliver and son Delbert were Sunday guests of Mrs Mabel Allen of Youngstown. Chester Crow of Litchfield visited here. Mr and Mrs Lee Fasnacht spent Sunday evening and Monday in Cleveland.
Public health urges pasteurized milk to prevent diseases, citing Royal Creamery's strict process and Springfield Ohio's recent ban on raw milk. The message calls for health awareness and choosing pasteurized products. In Dilllon Montana a sheriff presents a deer with male antlers as a curious local oddity.
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