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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1937
Page
9
A Kansas Xperiment Station report in Poultry Tribune warns against overcrowding in battery brooders. For the first three weeks chicks need 10 square inches of floor space each, 20 inches for weeks four to six, and 40 inches thereafter.
The New York Experiment Station released three raspberry varieties. Marcy is a large red berry preferred to Latham and Newburg and tops others in Geneva tests. Indian Summer is another red with an early summer crop, a fall crop, and a October peak yield. Sodus, the purple type, shows near six inch berries and drought resistance from last summer.
Wallace's Farmer offers tailored methods to repair bare patches in pastures. For blue grass areas, it suggests sowing a mix of adapted grasses to ease establishment, using a county agent approved fertilizer, light disk tilling, and a thin mulch of well rotted manure or straw to keep topsoil moist as seedlings take root.
Michigan Farmer reports Minnesota Ex ete Station tested flushing sows before breeding. The method aims to boost weight gain over two to three weeks prebreeding and the results indicate more and better pigs.
The Kansas Experiment Station found that lights raised eggs per hen from 28–32 in the laying season. Lights began December 1 at 4 30 A M and were reduced 15 minutes daily from February 1 to April 1. The lighted pen laid an average 68 eggs starting January 3. Outdoors pens produced 40 eggs on March 9 and indoors without lights averaged 36 eggs. Hatchability drawbacks noted.
Michigan State College advice from Michigan Farmer outlines a 46-100 Bordeaux mixture with lead arsenate for cabbages tomatoes and flowers. To prepare three gallons dissolve copper sulfate in water lime in water and arsenate of lead separately then mix. Dipping protects plants against most insects and pests though not against cutworms.
Readers seek proof on hybrid pullets reducing mortality and increasing egg output under commercial conditions. Kansas and English breeders report higher yield and hatch rates, with a suggested cross of White Minorca males to White Leghorn females. Michigan State recommends potassium iodide in livestock rations for winter. Prairie Farmer notes a farmer drying seed corn using hatchery incubators, avoiding a dryer.
An illustrated guide discusses raising turkeys free of blackhead by keeping poults on a sunny wire floored porch and using electric heated hotbeds for precise heat. It shows a 4 sash Pennsylvania hotbed costing $18 in equipment and 3 kWh per 83 days, plus a simple drag planks tool to break up clods. A Long Island grower boosts spinach yields by 25c copper oxide dust, yielding over 200 more crates per acre, with seed treatment shown.
Columbus report notes garden failures in flower seed germination stem from seedbed management not seed quality. Victor H. Ries of Ohio State University assigns seedbed 50 percent of success, warns heavy clay soils hurt germination, and recommends a mix of sand and peat for seedbed preparation, with adjustments when other soils are used.
Ohio State University agronomy professor R M Salter reports 1936 fertilizer sales reached 337 146 tons, near 1929 peak, with Wayne Stark Franklin Seneca and Licking counties leading purchases. The study notes shift toward recommended analyses, price averages around 25 a ton, and farmer efforts to restore soil fertility through conservation programs and coordinated county planning in Warren County.
In Warren County Ohio a committee man reports that a farm loses fertility gradually and goes unnoticed until experts assess it. Soils specialists from Ohio State University and state staff explained the 1937 agricultural conservation program to 33 committee members across 11 townships. The farmer cited used 15 percent of his soil fertility in 30 years and plans to change farming to maintain productivity without selling land.
Ohio researchers estimate an annual 50 million dollar stake in wildlife conservation. Lawrence E. Hicks of Ohio State University reports at a national gathering in St. Louis that science guides preservation but remains underdeveloped. Hicks notes Ohio's wildlife station is just over a year old with eight similar programs nationwide. In Wood County local groups have turned hunting into business, selling permits to 300 non residents for a ten day 1938 season, generating over 2300 dollars in county revenue. Secretary Wallace recalls federal steps since 1929 and 1934 on waterfowl refuges and migratory bird funding.
Garden guidance on using sand and peat moss for weed‑free seedbeds. sterilize soil by baking, sift through 1/8 inch sieve, sow flower seeds in miniature furrows to shallow depth, keep soil moist not wet, and avoid outdoors risks indoors. Best sow dates vary by region, with March 15 in southern Ohio and April 1 in northern areas.
In Columbus on March 17 extension floriculturist Victor H. Ries notes a mild winter caused unusual heaving of perennials parbs and lawns due to frequent freeze thaw cycles. Gardeners should inspect, reset heaved plants, replant if needed and mulch shallow bulbs. Lawns need rolling once frost fully clears.
Lorain County dairy associations with 1139 cows produced high butterfat and milk figures in January. The Number One Association led with 706 cows and 63 butterfat cows, while 433 cows in the Number Two posted 85 high butterfat cows. Notables include B. E. Hales and John E. Carlson among top regional performers and a Holstein cow in M. O. Pen found herd ranking third in state for the month.
Lorain County farmers show growing interest in the monthly Timely Economic Information bulletin from Ohio State University farm management, with about 150 county residents currently receiving it. The bulletin covers crop conditions price trends livestock production and other agricultural business factors and is available to any interested party through the county agricultural extension office.
State education director F L Bowsher praises the Verna Elsinger Memorial Scholarship Essay Oration contest for wide participation across Ohio high schools. The program offers 1450 in scholarships and cash or books in district eliminations and county youth camps, with state finals at the Ohio State Fair.
Instructions note timing in March for southern Ohio and a later window in northern Ohio. A roller weighing 300 to 400 pounds should be used to roll the lawn in both directions before the ground dries out and hardens.
Pittsfield reports Clair Bartholomew in serious condition while Ford Croster lags in recovery. Mrs. Perry Brandt convalesces satisfactorily at Allen Hospital. The Brandt infant Nancy Lois named. Dwight Davidson had an appendectomy at Allen Hospital in Oberlin last Wednesday.
South travelers Mr and Mrs William Mills returned to the Davison home of Mrs Davison's parents on Saturday afternoon. Bayfield Wisconsin couple Mr and Mrs Otis Mills visited A G Mills while en route home after Florida trip. Wellington guests included Mr and Mrs Russell Brown and Miss Maxine Jameyson. Oberlin guests were H T Worcester and Lorain Worcester. Well ington residents Ray Erwin visited LeRoy Lounsborough and Betty Maye. Nova guests were Ora Fackler visiting C A Beard family. Cleveland native Miss Luella Brandt visited her parents and sister Vera Brandt.
Miss Fannie West and Miss Ruth West of Cleveland spent from Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon with their respective families. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Lounsbrough and daughter and Ernest Edmonds spent Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith in Vermilion. Ernest Green and little daughter Patricia, recently ill, are much better. Mrs. LeRoy Lounsbrough was Friday dinner guest of her parents in Camden. Miss Eleanor Kereses of Camden spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Elizabeth Stoyka. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Green spent Friday visiting relatives in Elyria, Eaton and Fields. Ernest Edmonds spent Friday in Elyria and Lorain.
Rochester notes report the all-church night of the Methodist church delayed until after Easter. Epworth League cabinet met Sunday at the home of counsellors Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Setterfield. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Greydon Jewett and Mrs. Mary Butson and Mrs. Florence Grumbbos for the Murray family party in Gordon Moore Nova.
Mrs. Frank Fuller of Spencer visited Mrs. Frank Clifford on Friday. The Snyder family including Ralph, Lillian, and Lawrence visited Mrs. Cyrus Tucker in Shelby on Sunday. Lucille Murray and her sons from Elyria visited relatives here. Arthur Jewett and family joined Merritt Parker’s family for Sunday dinner. Glord Handley and daughter from Elyria spent Saturday at Charles Parker’s home. James Williams and daughter visited Mac Swartz’s family in Norwalk on Sunday. Rev. H. H. Patrick attended Friday supper with Roy Snyder’s family. Myrtle Herrick returned to Amherst after wintering with Robert Chestnut. Mrs. Philip Wetzel of Lorain spent early week with Ralph Rowland’s family and attended Mrs. E. H. Rowland’s funeral.
Mrs. Andrew Blais bought a turkey at a local Nelson market and discovered two gold nuggets in its craw. She bought two more birds from Bow Island Alberta hoping for more riches, but no further gold was found. Gold seekers in Bow Island have long searched for the source of the gold.
The remark notes that during 1800 years of the Christian era men wore more brilliant attire than women. It highlights historical gendered display of dress and social norms shaping wardrobe choices across eras.
Legal notice describes parcel boundaries in Original Avon Township Lorain County Ohio beginning at the Northeasterly corner of Peter Wearsch land with deeds dated 1855 and 1871. It traces lines west along the northerly land boundary then south and east along conveyances to Christopher Wearsch and John Wearsach with distances and bearings.
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