Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 27, 1940
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CHELSEA BOY PREPARES LAMBS FOR STOCK SHOW: Charles Downer, member of the 4-H club organization and Future Farmers at Chelsea High school, where he is a sophomore, will enter a pen of three Shropshire lambs in the Detroit Junior Livestock show next month. He is one of eight Washtenaw county youths who are feeding lambs or steers for the show. Charles' little sister, Doris, helped him hold the lambs for the picture. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Downer, and the farm is at the northeast limits of Chelsea.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 18, 1940
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LEMEN FARM ADDS REGISTERED RAM: Alfred Lemen is shown above with the yearling registered ram he purchased at the International exposition in Chicago this month to add to the C. Lemen & Sons flock of Shropshires in Webster township. The ram, Cuthbert 54, comes from a long line of show winners and will be tested for his ability to transmit heavy fleeces to his offspring.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 16, 1940
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SCIO MAN ACQUIRES PRIZE SUFFOLK RAM: Thornton E. Ware of Morrison Dr., Scio Township is shown with the prize winning purebred Suffolk ram which he recently purchased to cross breed with the Black Top breed to produce what he believes will be a superior type of fall marketing lamb. The Suffolk is an English breed with black legs and head. Its lambs are quick maturing and are good meat animals.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 29, 1938
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THE POLITICAL POT IN LODI TOWNSHIP not only isn't boiling but the bottom seems to have fallen out of it. Although this is an election year these sheep were draped all over the steps and up against the two front doors of the hall on Pleasant Lake Rd. until The Ann Arbor News' photographer's presence stirred them out of a warm June afternoon's siesta and brought them up to the fence.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 4, 1952
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MERRY CHASE FOR COUPLE OF KIDS: Buttons (on the left) and four-year-old Lorney Steiner spend many a happy hour chasing each other around the Oliver Steiner farm homestead at 6200 Saline-Ann Arbor Rd. Their antics provoke frequent chuckles for drivers along this busy highway.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 30, 1937
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IT'S HIS DESSERT NOW: Two weeks ago "Puddle," this five-weeks old pet of Priscilla Osler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Osler of Glazier Rd., was a "bottle baby." Now he has to eat that nasty old grass along with the rest of his family, but he still enjoys tipping the bottle occasionally, especially when the bottle is held by his mistress. The News photographer caught this picture during the one moment when Puddle's tail was not revolving like a windmill.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 21, 1937
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JUST A SPECIMEN: Many strange and wonderful things happened on the Darwin Downer farm, near Chelsea, last week and the view above is just a sample - just a smidgin, as the boys say - of what went on. Mr. Downer is shown holding one set of the six sets of lamb triplets which were born during the tremendous re-storking of his sheep herd. Six sets of lamb triplets are a lot of potential chops, but they only constituted only the first paragraph of the story. There were also 102 sets of twins. Mrs. Dionne, the thing seems to be catching.