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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1960
Page
16
The Minnesota farm price index rose one point in mid May from April and was one point higher than May 1959. Crop and dairy groups up one point, livestock up two, poultry and eggs down eight. corn up 10 cents, potatoes down 45 cents per cwt, hay $1.70 lower per ton.
Jerry Fisk is the 4 H Club Member of the Week. The Adams High School graduate and 17 year old has six years in the club and serves as junior leader, reporter, secretary, and president. His favorite project is home yard improvement and he plans to attend college in the fall. He is active in school committees and his church youth group. He was reserve champion flower grower in 1958 and attended the farm boys camp at the State Fair last year. He also works in shop and demonstrates junior leadership.
Canada thistle resists one shot chemicals along with perennial sow thistle and field hindweed. The stubborn weeds persist despite treatments, remaining a challenge for control efforts.
Glen Ruble posted the high herd in Freeborn No. 1 DHIA for May with 31 cows averaging 1241.07 pounds milk and 47.56 pounds butterfat. Phil Tennis owned the high cows with 60, 57 pounds milk and 89 pounds butterfat. association averages were 941.95 milk and 38.61 butterfat across 7 untested herds.
To assure a continuous harvest, make three to four small plantings at weekly or 10 day intervals. Plant peas beans sweet corn carrots and beets for best results. Plant seed for storage carrots and beets in mid June. Red Roy radish performs well in summer. Fertilize with 1 lb per 25 ft row in a furrow 2 inches deep and 2 to 3 inches wide. Cabbage cauliflower and broccoli seed can be sown in early June for a fall harvest.
The Agriculture Stabilization Conservation Committee confirms crop loan terms for 1960. Non-recourse loans incur 3 percent interest at regular maturity, while recourse loans pay 3 percent if repaid by maturity and 6 percent on any portion not repaid by then. Unlimited non-recourse eligibility exists if 1960 production falls 20 percent below 1959, with excess over $50,000 for recourse loans requiring full repayment with interest. Eligible crops include wheat, barley, sorghums, cotton, oats, flaxseed, soybeans, rice, peanuts, tobacco, corn, and rye.
Rep. Al Quie outlines four federal relief options for drought and flood impacted farmers in Minnesota. Emergency Credit through FHA designations, Emergency ACP cost sharing via ASC county committees, disaster area declarations under Public Law 875, and a disaster relief feed grain program offering CCC surplus grain free to designated areas with state distribution costs borne locally.
Lucretia Lightly of Oakland, active 11 years in the Oakland 4H Club and a sixth year Junior Leader, will participate in the 4H Maryland Minnesota Exchange June 10 to 26. She has completed home economics and livestock projects and earned national medals and the 1958 Freeborn County Dress Revue Queen title.
Lucretia receives an Associate of Arts in Art from Austin Junior College tonight. She is active in 4-H, church, choir, Sunday School, and youth work. Minnesota delegates join Maryland 4-H for a four year exchange with leaders and national Center sessions.
Dr Carl S Winters renowned author lecturer traveler will be the National Barrow Show banquet speaker on opening day September 13 at Westminster Presbyterian Church. The four day show runs September 13 16. Winters has focused on crime prevention rehabilitation and youth issues and has served in church and civic leadership including Michigan’s Crime Commission and Skid Row Commission in Chicago. He traveled the world in 1955 giving lectures and studying crime conditions in Japan India Hong Kong Cairo and beyond.
May testing shows Freeborn No 2 dairy herd averaging 1010.2 pounds milk 7.59 pounds butterfat and 3.72 percent test under James Carlson. Robert Schoen’s herd of 21 cows produced 1285.7 pounds milk with 48.62 pounds butterfat. high individual cow owned by Gerald Washolz yielded 75.7 pounds milk daily and 101 pounds butterfat.
Six years of Pur due University research indicates corn silage provides satisfactory results when fed to bred sows or gilts during gestation.
University of Minnesota economist Luther Pickrel told the Chicago Farmers Club that expanding buying power in underdeveloped regions of the world offers better market growth than boosting domestic demand. He cited the Middle East, Far East, Latin America, and Africa as calorie short, populous areas.
June is Dairy Month with ice cream as a tasty easy dessert for 4 H gatherings. Verna Mikesh notes ice cream’s nutrition and storage, plus mint julep soda, strawberry ice cream pie, and ice cream sandwiches as suggested treats. June also brings peak milk production and abundant spring vegetables and peanut butter for snacks and dressings.
Kal W. Makela 46 of Hopkins was appointed as farm placement supervisor for the State Department of Employment Security. He succeeds Irving Anderson who resigned June 1 after more than two years in the position.
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