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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1956
Page
8
Articles from the Minnesota extension service cover preserving fresh green vegetables, proper cooking to preserve color, lamp shade choices, hanging pictures for living spaces, and cleaning and storing electric blankets. Experts include Dr. Joan Gordon and Myra Zabel.
Mower County ASC office reports 1955 crop loans total 2,326,644 dollars including grain under seal, purchase agreements and warehouse loans. Sealed corn and oats values, soybean storage, barley and wheat figures listed with 120 Butler steel bins erected this month and 30 more planned in July.
Iowa State College poultry experts say leukosis may be reduced by keeping young chickens at least 400 feet from older birds, a simple preventive measure for flocks.
The Waseca Experiment Station hosts a July 10 tour detailing crop and live stock farming methods. Highlights include 29 961 test plots of corn soybeans grain forage crops and sugar beets 500 pigs on test breeding Minnesota lines 1 2 and 3 Minn esota 102 sheep production on pasture and a women’s program with clothing management Germany farming life talks gardening and a tractor tipping demonstration. County agents guide tours from 9 a m with posts lunch and garden sessions to follow.
Applications for the 1956 soil bank program open Tuesday at the Mower County ASC office in Austin. Farmers have until July 20 to sign soil bank agreements affecting this year's crop programs. Each farm has two soil bank bases about 117.8 percent of the present corn allotment.
Minnesota highway officials call for rural mailbox redesign in July to standardize construction and appearance along trunk highways and country roads. The goal is to ease maintenance and turn cluttered boxes into neat, presentable fixtures with black boxes and white or aluminum supports to aid visibility and snow removal.
Report shows over eighty percent of city water systems in the United States are publicly owned, reflecting a strong pattern of municipal control over local water services and infrastructure nationwide.
The calendar lists weekly farm and community activities including 4-H club tours at Ben Ottmans Harold Myers Correy s Grocery Lansing and East Willow Creek Soil Conservation tours. Centennial celebrations in Stacyville Austin and Stacyville plus the Blooming Prairie festivals feature kiddie day parades 4-H events and queen coronations.
The average yield of several hundred farmers in the University of Minnesota The Farmer Magazine Xtra yield corn contest was 108 bushels per acre.
Minnesota Hog population falls 15 percent to 4,688,000 as June survey shows 1956 spring pig crop at 3,942,000 head, 16 percent below 1955. Sows farrowed this spring 2 percent under March intentions and 6 percent under December plans, with litters averaging 6.94.
Minnesota extension notes leafy spurge a perennial weed in pastures fields and roadsides. It suggests cultivation after harvest then spring 2 4 D ester spraying at one half to one pound per acre with multiple cycles over four to five years and fall treatments with boron or chlorate mixes. contact extension for details.
Aus tin Centennial notes reflect farming evolution from oxen to self propelled units in Mower County. Sig Kval collects early implements while Don Anderson, UMN student, works with 4-H in Watonwan County. Oats tests at Grand Meadow field show variety differences as corn and soybeans gain prominence. Sheriff adds patrol car and radio repeater planned. 4-H Jamboree next weekend at Blooming Prairie with county clubs entering contests. Corn prospects look good despite some dry pockets and past drought.
Wool incentive payments for the 1955 clip may be about 40 percent of the wool price, said by field men of the Minnesota Wool Growers Assn. C Steigerwald and N E Scott noted August or September as the payout time. At 40 percent, the incentive on 30 cent wool would be 12 cents and on 40 cent wool 16 cents. Growers are reminded to ensure sales slips meet Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation committee rules as proof of payment at the end of the marketing year next April.
Plans for the St Paul School of Agriculture alumni reunion are set for July 8 in Rochester with 16 county chairmen including Edgar L. Christgau and Kenneth G. Alberts. The event begins with a 12 30 pot luck dinner at Silver Lake Park followed by speeches from Dr J O Christianson and Kenneth B Law.
The general livestock judging practice set for Tuesday has been cancelled because of the holiday Wednesday. Regular judging workouts will resume July 10, County Agent Don Hasbargen said.
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