Corbin Angus Sale Nets $44 380 For 94 Head Of Cattle
Carlton Corbin's Stoneybroke Ranch sale south of Fittstown brought in $44 380 from 94 Angus head sold. Average $472. Top price 2025 for a Royal Lady of Glen Angus III heifer with calf. Buyers came from Oklahoma Texas Arkansas Kansas Mississippi. Texas took 25 head. Corbin plans a Dec 14 annual production sale.
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Angus
Carlton Corbin
Stoneybroke Ranch
Fittstown
Corbin
Royal Lady of
Glen Angus III
Josephine Townsend
Wilburton
Gerald Culver
Fairland High School
Culver
Farm and Ranch Magazine
Henry L. Gantz
Southwest
Doyle Chambers
Aberdeen Angus Association
Otis Parker
The
Extension Service
Parker
Otis Smith
Tishomingo
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Kansas
Mississippi
Joe Lyons
Wilson Homecoming at Wilson Church
Annual homecoming at Wilson church on Sunday September 4 features Fred Hooper of Stratford as speaker at 11 a.m. A basket lunch will be served at noon and all former residents are invited.
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Wilson Church
Fred Hooper
Stratford
Farms Grow Bigger Even As Count Drops In Pontotoc County
Pontotoc County shows 1,608 farms in 1954 down from 1,863 in 1950. average farm size rises from 191.1 to 250.4 acres and average value per farm up from 5601 to 10809 dollars. irrigation land and electricity use rise while horses and mules fall. cattle and sheep rise, hogs fall.
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Pontotoc County
Census Bureau
Ackley Faces Three Charges Of Pollution
Levi Ackley faces three county court pollution charges for Clear Boggy. Bruce Oakley, state game warden, alleges waste oil and salt water entered the stream from a burn off pit and a pipeline break in township 2 north range 7 east, sections 34 33 and 22.
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Levi & Ackley
Bruce Oakley
Ackley
Oakley
Township
Range
Fertilizing Native Meadow On Stroud Ranch Increases Yield
Native grass mead yields at Dick Stroud ranch west of Roff rose up to 87 percent in a two year fertilization trial. County Agent C H Hailey cites ammonium nitrate and 0-20-0 superphosphate as key treatments yielding 4694 pounds per acre dry weight versus 2509 on unfertilized plots.
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Cy Hailey
Edd Roberts
A&m College
Wendell Steward
Dick Stroud Ranch
Rolft
Stroud Ranch
Dick Stroud
Roff
C. H. Hailey
Clarence E Bunch
Haley
Hailey
Pecan Weevil Threatens growers urged to spray
County agent Cy Hailey warned a better than average pecan crop is at risk from a weevil outbreak. He noted rains and plowing bring weevils to the trees and advised growers to inspect groves by jar-testing limbs and noting green pecans. He recommended spraying 4 pounds of 50 percent wettable DDT per 100 gallons of water to control both weevils and a second brood of case bearers.
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Cy Hailey
Hailey
Hens Need Floor Space Give Em Room
Ex extension poultryman Alex Warren of Oklahoma A and M college urges ample floor space for laying hens. He cites three square feet per light breed bird and four for heavy breeds to prevent respiratory issues and feather picking that harm flock health and productivity.
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Alex Warren
Extension Poultryman
Oklahoma A. & M. College
New Hampshire
Warren
Center Baptist Mission completes new rural church building
The Center Baptist Mission, under Oak Avenue Baptist of Ada, completed a concrete block church 26 by 62 feet with six classrooms and a main auditorium. First services were held August 7, with 25 members and 40 to 50 in Sunday School. The mission organized in July 1954, prior meetings were in the Center School gym.
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Center Baptist Mission
Oak Avenue Baptist Church
Ada
J. Frank Roberts
Facili
Free Textbooks for Pontotoc County Rural Schools
County Superintendent Norman C. Mitchell announced all rural elementary schools in Pontotoc County will receive free textbooks this year under the new free textbook law. The speller is the only new text noted for year.
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Pontotoc County
Norman C. Mitchell
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Glen Smith
Noble
Murray State College
C. C. Gibbons
Dr. O. E. Welborn
George A. Smith
Tom Allen
G. W. Johnston
Roy Johnston
Ray Sins
Corbin Sales
Wilson Homecoming
Center Group
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