Farming Facts Worth Knowing Seeding a 30-Foot Strip
A roundup of farm practice notes from Ohio to Michigan and beyond. It covers seeding with a 30 foot strip using three disk drills, hog feeding efficiency with fresh self-feeders, new lima bean varieties, sweet clover impact on corn and oats, certified seed premiums, feeding laying hens, phosphorus for alfalfa, beef calf weaning regimens, smooth brome grass with nitrogen, lespedeza mixes, sawdust concrete floors for poultry houses, and subfloor construction methods for warmth and waterproofing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwynne Burr
Madison County
Ohio
New Hampshire Experiment Station
Germans praised in chilling wartime propaganda
A harsh critique notes Nazi rhetoric extolling German superiority and the supposed prowess of their military, including references to aggressive force and conquest, reflecting the era’s propaganda tone. The passage underscores the dangers of nationalist extremism and militaristic zeal.
Bids Asked For Furnishing Lime Under Farm Plan
Lorain County Agricultural Conservation committee seeks bids to furnish lime to county farmers under the Grant of Aid provision of the Agricultural Conservation program. Bid deadline is 2 p.m. next Monday. A meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Elyria YMCA will provide further information, per county chairman T. H. Breyley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Elam Sprunger Pioneers Poultry Science in Ohio Farms
Elam Sprunger owns PRUNGER'S Hatchery and Poultry Farm near Oberlin, operating six hatcheries and connected poultry farms across Ohio, Indiana, New York and Pennsylvania. He pioneered commercial chick sexing and early artificial insemination, teaching across 25 cities, and argues these methods boost sexed chick reliability and egg production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prunger
Oberlin
Route 20
Elam Sprunger
Ohio
Indiana
New York
Pennsylvania
Springer’s
Ezra Yaggy
Elam Springer
Springer
Rhode Island
Maine
United States
Association
Second Street
Frost Records Guide Planting Dates and Frost Risk
The article urges using local weather data and Department of Agriculture frost maps to time planting. It explains 10 percent frost risk as a safe benchmark, compares average last killing frost dates across cities, and notes some crops tolerate light frost. Gardeners should gather data indoors and use frost records to start planting promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Frost
Department of Agriculture
New York
St. Louis
Cleveland
Chicago
U. S. Department of Agriculture
System aims to improve nation’s laying hens with champions
Seventeen hens in the United States won the American Poultry Journal award for laying 320 or more eggs in a year. Five belong to Springer and one champion laid 357 eggs in 465 days, earning national recognition. The plan uses these champions to raise egg-laying standards, boost profits, and reduce losses across farm flocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
U. S
American Poultry Journal
Springer
110 Years Of Family Land Saved By Contour Farming
Charles Smith of Pike County Ohio farms 173 acres near Beaver and argues contour farming protects his family land held for 110 years. He divided rolling cropland into alternating 70 foot wide strips of cultivated grain and sod crops to prevent soil loss from steep slopes and reduce erosion from each rainfall. The method aims to maintain productivity where manure hauling and soil loss previously threatened yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Charles Smith
Pike County
Beaver
Beaver Creek
Smith
Smith outlines farming methods and pasture plans in Pike County
Smith describes switching to longer rows and terrain friendly cultivation around hills to ease work with team and equipment. He plans 12 acres of permanent pasture and 2.5 acres of forest tree planting in 1940, opposing strip cropping where pasture or woodland is more profitable. He joined a group to an erosion control demo at Zanesville, where heavy rain highlighted runoff, with 35 percent from corn and 45 percent from bluegrass sod, water remaining clear in tanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Pike County
R. O. McFerren
Zanesville
Ration Change May Reduce Trouble In Raising Of Chicks
Dr. A R Winter of Ohio State University outlines how proper starter and grower rations can curb chick disorders. Rickets with symptoms like ruffled feathers and wobbly gait can be cured by range exposure or adding cod liver oil. Slipped tendons due to excess minerals are corrected by replacing meat scrap with soybean oil meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Winter
Poultry Husbandry Department
Ohio State University
Preventive Feeding and Housing for Poultry and Chile Housing Plan
Bran middlings and cats in the ration help prevent slipped tendons in poultry. Birds with nutritional paralysis walk on the hocks and curl toes inward. Milk and dehydrated alfalfa aid birds not on range to prevent this disorder. range birds fare better. Cannibalism may tie to faulty nutrition but not certain. Darken house windows and add pats to ration as practical control. Oats aid feather growth and discourage pecking. Injured chicks should be isolated. Chile plans to build 1,000 houses in each large coal mining center.
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Texas Experiment Station
Winds Experiment Station
Paulding
Ware
West Virginia
Washington
Bay County
Michigan
Iowa Experiment Station
Hitler
Belden
Mines Hill
Ohlo - Ph
9-J
Grafton
Oberlin Business
Sprunger
Henry
Main &T
LA Grange
Farmall Tractors
Lagrange Howe. CO
LaGrange, O
Wellington
Mobil Oil
Mobil Greases
Seiberling Tires
H. M. Sheldon
Lagrange
Sunbeam
A/ EDWARDS SHEET METAL WORKS
Ingot Iron Shop Sone
North Pleasant Street
Amherst, Ohio
A. Nabakowski
Milan Ave
Masidence
Service Man
North Eaton Business Firms
Amherst Business
Amherst
Ophone
Kentucky
NORTH
Eaton Hardware & Supply General Hardware
Eaton
Columbia
The
Amherst Furniture Co
Church Street
Amherst, Ohlo
Dial
N. Ridgeville
Ridgeville
Wakeman
Edw. G. Robinson
Sun. - Mon
Tyrone Power
Linda Darnell
Joan Davis
Farmer's Feed and Coal CO
Grafton, Ohio
Paul J. Becker
Grafton, O
L. D. Gerber Funeral Home
Cooper Street
Wakeman, Ohio
LaSalle
Studebaker
Hudson
Chevrolet
Rothgery Motor Sales
Chile
Display Advertising Department
the Chronicle- Telegram
Elyria Business
Baker's Hatchert
Elyria
Oliver and
Silver King
MYERS
Oberlin Road
Harrow
Sears, Roebuck and
Chepel St
Phene
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