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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1951
Page
2
Columbus reports government urges homemakers to preserve food for emergencies. With many lacking garden plots, the program promotes canning and freezing seasonal market surpluses to stock reserves. The emphasis is on practical measures for home food preservation this year.
H D Brown of Ohio State University spoke to a Farm and Home Week audience detailing August and September surpluses in Columbus for beans tomatoes and sweet corn. He noted peas around June 15 25 spinach June 1 15 cabbage for kraut July 1 and October apples in November and a light Ohio peach crop in 1951. He urged homemakers to process gluts to extend larder supplement food supply and reduce waste.
Columbus reports Ohio State University extension agronomist D R Dodd calls for a sustained farm production program to raise 1951 output and keep breaking records, stressing sod crops, soil testing, early fertilizer orders, liming, green manures, and higher grain acreages to meet rising demand and erosion challenges.
On March 28 at 10 30 A.M. the Buchholz estate conducts an executor sale on the Buchholz farm % mile north of Grafton on Rt 57. merchandise includes 46 head of dairy cattle a Holstein bull seven Holstein and Brown Swiss heifers, two farm teams, about 100 hens, 400 bales hay 400 bushels oats, corn in field and a wide range of farm equipment and tools. Cash terms lunch at noon. Edward Buchholz executor with J W Dilgren attorney and auctioneers A E Spicer and C B Dawson.
John D. Black of Harvard University told a Farm and Home week audience that current price supports are too high and impede inflation control. He urged abolishing parity standards from the 1948 Agricultural Act and replacing them with storage, stockpiling, and production goals guided by the Office of Defense Mobilization and Agriculture.
The Crystal Clear Dry Cleaning Co. of Lorain county markets Cravanette water proofing for Spring topcoats and suits. The process preserves fabric pliability and color, making garments rain resistant without damage. The firm, at 132 Broad Street, also runs a shirt laundry with two day turnaround and detailed weekday hours.
COLUMBUS. W H Palmer Ohio s first state 4 H club leader is retiring March 31 after 39 years in the Agricultural Extension service Palmer appointed state 4 H club leader on March 1 1916 to work with the first superintendent of extension A B Graham He had been an extension specialist in animal husbandry since August 1 1912 and taught a 10 weeks Winter course for the university three years earlier He launched boys and girls club work in 42 counties and oversaw the transfer of corn and domestic science contests to the university in 1917 The 4 H program has grown with more counties and county agents while maintaining farming homemaking and citizenship ideals through evolving methods.
Columbus Practical disease controls cut poultry losses but leukosis remains major. D D Moyer Ohio State extension poultry specialist says transmission through eggs possible and chicks are vulnerable early after hatch. Isolating young stock from layers and brooder separation are advised. Other diseases like cocci diosis persist though reduced by sulfa drugs and feed additives. Pullorum testing now boosts chick survival beyond brooding period.
Ohio farmers expect to raise corn by about five percent and oats by eight percent for 1951 with corn totaling 3,553,000 acres and oats 1,275,000. Barley tobacco acreage may rise 10 percent while sugar beets could fall 40 percent and hay and soybeans slightly decline.
Columbus report cites exten sion floriculturist Victor H. Ries stating tried and true seed varieties often outperform new types. He urges gardeners to order seeds now and notes two bulletins Home Flower Garden and Perennial Flowers with planting guidance. Early sowing needed for August bloom. Verbenas and other flowers can be started indoors in late March.
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