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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1953
Page
4
A garbled table lists names of residents, towns, and June dates, followed by a TV and radio program schedule from WHBF TV Rock Island for June 19 to 25, including persons like Robert Bittner Chadwick and The Texan, plus a program lineup with games and shows.
Farm adviser Byron Hutchins urges quick collection of eggs to prevent cooling in hot weather. Gather twice before noon and again in late afternoon to keep freshness and grades high. Notes on spraying corn, pasture weeds, army worms, and a Dairy Night program in Lanark.
Extension forester Gordon Cunningham warns grazing woodlands hurts both livestock gains and timber value. He cites declining Illinois practice, Purdue tests showing poor gains on woodland pasture, and risks from insect sprays harming people and animals.
The Board of Review of Assessments of Carroll County will meet in the Supervisors Room at the Mt. Carroll courthouse on July 6 7 13 14 20 21 27 and 28 1953 from 930 a m to 4 p m to hear complaints on the 1953 assessments. No complaints filed after July 28 1953 will be considered. Chairman O M Bloyer urges attendance.
The article explains how hot weather lowers egg quality and stresses the need to cool eggs immediately after laying. It notes buyers and producers suffer from spoiled grades and urges prompt cooling to keep eggs fresh during summer heat.
State and federal agriculture reports note temperatures well above normal and rainfall well below normal across Illinois. Dry weather aided corn and soybean planting while insect damage forced red clover to be plowed and replanted. Winter wheat remains excellent though army worm threat persists.
A reader dismisses weather “experts” and their inside tips as no better than common knowledge. The piece playfully contrasts cider as a thirst-quencher with a temperate beer, insisting on personal choice over forecasts.
A 4-H Benefit dance will follow the Dairy Night program on Thursday night June 25 at the Lanark High School Gym. Proceeds will go to the White Eagle 4-H Camp Fund. The dance is sponsored by the 4-H Federation and Rural Youth of Carroll County. All 4-Hers are selling tickets.
Landowners in Lanark Thomson Mt. Carroll and surrounding areas warn trespassers that entering lands owned or tenanted by listed individuals and firms including C V Dame Farms F J Stransky Farms Stagg Howsings E M Ritenowr Farms Noordhoff Peck and others will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Brookville livestock sale barn invites buyers and sellers to weekly Wednesday sales at 12 00 with feeder pigs brood sows boars butchers dairy and butcher cows bulls feeder cattle veal calves all inspected by a veterinarian and with packer buyers in attendance. Orlo Wehmeyer Brookville contact details provided. Trucks for pickups. Auct Wehmeyer Bros. phone numbers listed. Dairy queen contest entries open until June 20 from neighboring counties plus Dairy Night program sponsored by Dairy Herd Improvement Association and local milk plants. Herman Johnson ADA Manager Illinois to speak with Betty Bowles of Chadwick providing entertainment and winners from Share the Fun contest to be held June 19.
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