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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1963
Page
3
Carroll Plager, superintendent of the National Barrow Show, notes improvements in hog quality as Austin hosts Sept 10-13. Carcass and live show champions exceed target loin eye and ham percentages, with 200 pound market hogs reached in 137 days and 5.07 square inch loin eye.
Four-H softball opens with two leagues for under fourteen and any age players. A round robin schedule with single games and some doubleheaders is set, with five inning Little League games when paired, per Ron Seath.
Junior Beef Feeders plan a Monday 1 p.m. feedlot tour starting at Rose Creek High School. First four stops are in Adams area before visiting farms of five more boys in the county project. Don Hasbargen notes Gen A Hormel buyers and ag teachers will join, with carcass evaluation scheduled for Aug 26 and awards by First National Bank of Austin and Hormel.
Sixty Grangers and friends from Mower and surrounding counties met at the Conservation Club in Adams Saturday for National Grange Week. National Grange lecturer and Michigan State Grange master William J. Brake spoke on agricultural policies while State Master William B. Pearson outlined Grange Week events. A coffee hour and visiting session closed the evening.
A fragmented note shows Windom Racine Rockets as the home team facing Ada Neva or related squads. The garbled text hints at a team lineup or schedule involving Windom Racine and Udolpho Ada Neva, with Nevada-Woodson and Rocketa Udolpho mentions.
Four members of the Maryland 4 H Exchange will visit Mower County July 5 to 11. Ron Seath notes hosts should be 4 H parents to show how Minnesota farm families live. No special prep needed. Contact Seath to help.
Freeborn County DHIA tests for units 1 and 2 released by county agent Eldon Lenske. Unit 1: Julius Hansen herd of 30 Holsteins averaged 1342.26 pounds milk and 50.19 pounds butterfat. top cow Willard Ness Molly yielded 77.8 pounds milk 119 pounds butterfat at 4.9 percent. Association averages 9863.84 pounds milk 38.8 pounds butterfat 3.94 percent. Unit 2: Chester and Albert Tollefson herd of 26 cows averaged 1553.8 pounds milk 51.07 pounds butterfat at 3.3 percent. top cow Allan Jolson 91.6 pounds milk 102 pounds butterfat at 3.6 percent.
Walter L. Christian of Waltham operates 160 acres raising registered Yorkshire hogs and grade Holstein cattle. He grows corn soybeans hay oats and rents 80 acres for expansion. A Farm Bureau member and former REA minuteman he aims to improve farming and supports livestock production laws. He and Mrs Christian have three children.
Mower County will send 16 delegates to the 43rd state 4-H Junior Leadership Conference June 25 to 28 on the University of Minnesota St Paul Campus. Delegates include Joanne Weigert Rose Creek Te Severson Austin Pamela Milbrath and others. Shureday banquet will be sponsored by the Minneapolis Area Chamber of Commerce and 4-H Alumni Awards announced.
The Oakland 4-H Club met at the Kermit Leidal home with safety as the theme. Marian Moucha spoke on home safety and Steve Guy on farm safety. Susan Guy demonstrated a salad, and the gathering closed with a wiener roast.
Mrs Arlys Leonard of LeRoy has been named to membership in the American Milking Shorthorn Society announced by secretary Ray Schooley.
Mower DHIA No 1 reports May production for 799 cows on test averaging 1047 pounds milk and 40.2 pounds butterfat across 26 herds. The top herd consists of 31 registered Jerseys owned by Harvey Holst Brownsdale with 959 pounds milk and 51.2 pounds butterfat. The leading cow is a grade Holstein owned by Schottler Brothers and Hartman yielding 2372 pounds milk and 102 pounds butterfat.
Dick Cords imagines a world where UN voting equals financial contribution. The piece envisions US and USSR budgets bending to peace aims, with Kennedy and Khrushchev, defense chiefs, and a global school program amid cold war tensions. Local items note 4 H photography lessons, a Yellowstone trip, and planned Kennedy Khrushchev dialogue.
Calendar lists Adams and Marshall Farmers Union ice cream social at John Thome home and multiple 4-H club activities through the week. Includes Rose Creek Busy Beavers Udolpho and Lake Louise State Park steak fry, plus meetings at Rose Creek High School and Woodland School with various clubs and times.
The USDA via ASCS offices asks Minnesota farmers to delay mowing until pheasants and other ground nesting birds hatch, aiming for around July 15. Avoid mowing soil banks and ditch banks, consider chemicals for weed control, and explore federal wildlife-friendly aid. Conservation official Dave Vesall praises the cooperation.
ST. ANSGAR Iowa Judy Tidemanson and Sandra Dohler lead the Mitchell County 4 H entomology group. The club collected and mounted insects at 4 30 p m today in Spring Park near Osage after a picnic supper, then gathered night flying insects.
Adams Minnesota report notes the Full-O-Pep Club plans a Tuesday tour visiting member homes with livestock and gardens starting at 9 a.m. at Wilfred Bissen farm and ending with a Norbert Meyer home potluck. Parents invited. Future plans include softball schedules and a home-assistance meeting.
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