Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 7, 1937
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MAKING PLAY OUT OF WORK: Charlie Brown, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleon Brown, Scio Church Rd., has just completed a hazardous turn in his miniature hay wagon. If he hadn't turned just right, he would have been out of luck, because there's no reverse on the power mower attachment which is drawing his wagon. Charlie, a pupil in the Knight school, could pull the wagon much faster by hand and negotiate turns with greater ease, but that would be work and who wants to work on a hot early summer day.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 3, 1941
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SOW SUPPLIES GOOD CASH CROP FOR COUNTY FARMERS: The 12 little porkers shown above and how they grow will be no mean determinant in the amount of total cash income realized this year from the farm owned by C. J. Wageman, 1080 Stein Rd., north of Ann Arbor. The sow shown here with her exceptionally large brood, farrowed 14 pigs two weeks ago and has 12 of them left. With their present two-week start, the above litter has an excellent chance of living to become pork chops, ham and side meat at a later date, and, in the doing bring more than $200 into their owner's coffers unless present prices drop considerably. Mr. Wageman, who is in the publishing business, has had the Stein Rd. farm for three years. Charles Kercher, the farm operator for Mr. Wageman, reports that he is caring for five brood sows, about 40 pigs, several thoroughbred horses and a dairy cattle herd.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 11, 1941
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AGRICULTURAL PARLEY SPEAKERS: Approximately 1,400 farmers and farm organization representatives heard addresses by Harry Schooler (left), Director of the AAA North Central Region, Washington D.C., Mrs. Esther Smalligan, Michigan AAA Fieldwoman and Leo V. Card, unconfirmed appointee to the State Agricultural Commissioner's post, when they appeared on the program of the AAA spring district meeting in Masonic Temple yesterday.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 29, 1941
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FARM GROUP INSTRUCTED IN MATTRESS MAKING: Farm leaders from four counties found out what kind of mattresses can be made with the free materials available under the government's program to use surplus cotton when they met at Bethlehem Church hall here for a demonstration. Approximately 200 rural families of Washtenaw county have applied for cotton, and it is expected that mattress making at work centers will start in this county about March 1. Most farm families are eligible to participate in the program. Reading around the table from left to right in this photo, taken when the mattress was nearly complete, are: Earl Grub of Howell, chairman of the Livingston County Soil Conservation Association; Mrs. Henry Groeb of Pittsfield township; Mrs. Harold Bissell of Platt; Mrs. C. C. Poppenger of Webster township; Harry M. Cole, chairman of the Washtenaw County Soil Conservation Association; Mrs. Edward Wild of Lodi township; and Mrs. Albert Schweinfurth of Sylvan township.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 26, 1941
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WINS WASHTENAW CORN CROWN: Fred Reule, 2595 E. Delhi Rd. (above) is to receive a trophy award in the 1941 national DeKalb hybrid corn growing contest for topping all other county entrants' production averages this year with a. 100.09 bushel-per-acre yield. Mr. Reule is shown here with a sample of his prize corn.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 5, 1941
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DEXTER FARMERS TO DEDICATE CO-OP BUILDING: Farmer members and friends of the Dexter Co-operative Co., will celebrate, Saturday, the completion of the latest addition to their plant. Shown above, the new two-story structure is 72 by 40 feet in size and is made from vitrified building tile with a concrete basement and a steel-truss roof. The ceiling is of Temlock finishing boards.