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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1959
Page
12
William Nystrom vice president of the Minnesota Farmers Union will speak at the Mower County MFU picnic in Todd Park Sunday. The event begins at 12 50 with free ice cream and entertainment planned by president Lauren Grant.
Guernsey breeders from the South Central District travel to Austin for their annual parish show at Crane Pavilion Mower County Fairgrounds. Judging begins 10 am and should finish by 4 to 5 pm with 50 to 60 cattle entered by 20 dairymen under judge Dr. C L Cole from the University of Minnesota. A noon picnic dinner and three judging classes for 4H FFA and adults are planned and the public is invited.
Farm Calendar lists Nevada 4H Club Tour at Fred Everts home with Ronald Seath. Woodbury 4H Club Tour and Newry Farmers Union at Magnusen School. South Central Parish Guernsey Show at Crane Pavilion plus multiple Farmers Union picnics in Mower, Steele Waseca, Freeborn Faribault areas. Todd Park hosts Todd picnic with William Nystrom and others. East Willow Creek watershed tour and Rural-Urban Rose Creek 4-H Club Tour lead into rural school district meetings.
By Dave Owen the Cedar Valley Conservation Club members led a tree project delivering more than 1100 evergreens for windbreaks and wildlife cover. The effort partnered with the county extension office to promote soil water and wildlife conservation.
Spring tree plantings include pine American red pine and Black Hills spruce with seedlings in the club nursery for later distribution. A statewide water program visit to East Willow Creek near Preston is open for sign up with bus pickups in Grand Meadow and Austin. Farmers discuss corn performance in southern Minnesota and mosquito control remedies using DDT and malathion. Six new Steele County Fair buildings planned, extending 4H exhibits and livestock space. Weekend courthouse closings align with county offices. Planting deadlines for forage soybeans and sorghum noted along with regional custom rates from the county extension office.
Harvest of about 800 acres of peas begins in the Austin area. The crop is grown for the Owatonna Canning Co. and follows a 60 day cycle. Farmers share seed costs and harvest moves quickly with canning plants operating day and night to process peas at Owatonna.
University of Minnesota engineers found hay crushed or crimped and treated with conditioner dried to 22 percent moisture or less in about 29 hours after cutting if not rained on. Untreated hay usually needed the following day. Local labor notes high school boys work for pea vines and silage, with tractors used to stack, selling to neighborhood farmers.
Plant pathologists at the University of Minnesota warn that green bugs in southern Minnesota can transmit red-leaf virus to oats and barley and yellow-dwarf virus to barley and wheat. Infections can appear within nine days and may occur despite spray control. Severe outbreaks hit oats and barley in southern counties, with Martin County and areas near Sherburne and Fairmont showing heavy infections.
The old standard Bordeaux mixture remains the best treatment for grape downy mildew says Herbert Johnson ex tension plant pathologist at the University of Minnesota. He recommends spraying at end of blooming and again 7 14 days later using a 3 gallon mix prepared from copper sulfate and hydrated lime. A special note mentions oiling a sewing machine and blotter to remove excess oil to prevent fabric soiling.
A home program guide from Mower County offers general vegetable cooking rules. Cook quickly in skins, use a pressure pan, pan, bake, or broil with minimal water and fat. It includes recipes Crisp Minute Cabbage and Glazed Carrots with mint and Snappy Green Beans with a creamy sauce.
Rural Youth members from Mower County and Minnesota will meet at Green Lake for the State Rural Youth Camp Friday through Sunday. Attendees from Mower County include Ruth Jensen Marilyn Van derLinden Les Tapp Mel Baumgartner Chuck Schwartz Harold Buck Jack Weitzenkamp Marlene Tangen Duane Rolfson Allan Gerlach Nathan Haw Don Powers will be guest speakers. Workshops on safety outdoor cookery and nature study plus square dancing skits a picnic and a business meeting are planned with more than 75 Rural Youth expected.
Alumni from the University of Minnesota School of Agriculture gather at Silver Lake Park Rochester on Sunday July 12 for a potluck at 12 30 p m and program at 2 p m. Organizers include Russell Breuer Bruce Bremer and Mrs William Beiser with county chairmen guiding arrangements. all former and prospective students invited.
The piece notes an old practice of waking at 4 am remains common, while the younger generation shows less concern about early rising. It contrasts two generations' attitudes toward pre-dawn routines and time use.
Mower County Farm Bureau to entertain 90 Austin area couples on a Tuesday farm tour across 27 farms in 20 townships. First year pairing husbands and wives for Know-Your-Neighbor and Rural-Urban Day programs under the women's committee. Guests invited by commercial clubs Austin Chamber of Commerce and Austin Jaycees. reply cards to fill vacancies.
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