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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1939
Page
5
Indiana farmers organize to curb European bindweed across Allen County farms. A hired spray crew uses sodium chlorate costing 7c per lb, needing about 4 lbs per square rod for complete kill. The effort aims to halt spread before infestations worsen while sharing safer, costlier control.
Maine claims honors for Charles H. George of South Paris who celebrated his 105th birthday last month and attends every Grange meeting possible. Nearby veteran Jay Levi Terry has just turned 102 and remains active on a New York farm near Jamestown run by his son, a charter Ellington Grange member.
Ohio ranks among the top states in Grange growth as the National Grange reports a net addition of over 2,000 members in the fiscal year, lifting state totals near 90,000 and keeping Ohio second to New York with about 135,000 members.
Plans nearly complete for the Lorain County apple and potato show to be held in Elyria on November 3 and 4 were announced by Donald Wasem. Exhibits, grown in Lorain County, become property of the show, with proceeds aiding show expenses.
Grange gains for the year include Trumbull 241 Richland 191 Allen 181 Darke 174 Licking 167 Stark 149 Oller mont 134 Wyandot 129 Knox 118 Eric 117 Fayette 110 Montgomery 100. The National Grange notes expansion in legislative cooperative and insurance services for Ohio State Grange members. Delegates from 87 counties are due in Columbus December 12 to 14 for the sixty seventh annual session, with the largest attendance in state history expected.
Ten Ohio Farm Bureau leaders appointed by President Edward A. O Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation will assist in planning 12 group conferences at the national federation twentieth anniversary convention in Chicago December 4 to 8. The program covers farm credit insurance livestock field crops dairy fruits vegetables rural youth Farm Bureau organization service cooperatives poultry tobacco and cotton. Murray D Lincoln executive secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and national director will chair the farm credit conference planning committee. L A Taylor assistant secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau joins the service cooperatives committee.
The Mary Jane Theatre in Amherst shows The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes a 20th Century Fox film with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce alongside Ida Lupino and Alan Marshal. Moriarty challenges Holmes in a battle of wits amid lavish production values and famed chase sequences. Also noted are assignments on state Farm Bureau conference committees and rural youth outreach plans involving Ohio area officials.
The National Fire Waste Council warns farm fires kill about 3,500 people and cause $90 million in property yearly. One farm family in ten suffers a fire in the last five years, with average losses over $800. The council urges Fire Prevention Week observance and lists ten safety steps plus readiness measures for rural fire response.
Ohio farmers who produce about five percent of the national wool crop and also supply markets with mutton face improving prospects. Specialists report better wool and mutton outlooks for the season as agricultural conditions in Columbus and surrounding areas influence production and market demand.
Ohio State University expert De Lashmutt notes increased wool demand from mills improves market prospects. War disrupts ocean lanes raising shipping costs and prices. U.S. imports much of its coarse wool and England has contracted Australian wool for 1939 40. More range lambs expected to be marketed for feeders this year.
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