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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1964
Page
8
Mercer HD agent offers strawberry facts and storage notes. One cup supplies vitamin C. cap or stem before serving to preserve quality. For freezing choose firm berries and use syrup or sugar packs. unsweetened packs with ascorbic acid help color.
Paige Wooldridge chair of the West Virginia Forest Industries Committee argues tree farming supports forest products water recreation and wildlife needs. He cites 113 certified Tree Farms as examples of well managed woodlands balancing timber production with habitat watershed protection and public benefits.
Bluefield hosts the 1964 Dairy Princess contest on June 17 with a parade at 1 30 p m and a Princess Review at Bluefield Auditorium followed by a dinner and crowning. Mercer County Agent R E Harbert says prizes acknowledge June Dairy Month and applicants age 16 to 25 must have dairy knowledge and be high school graduates or soon to graduate.
West Virginia has shipped 2000 Tiphia wasps to Illinois, Ohio and North Carolina as part of a cooperative beetle control program with the USDA. The wasps parasitize Japanese beetle grubs, helping to curb a growing pest problem, and have been released in several northern counties since the 1950s.
The 1964 Buchanan County Dickenson County Horse Show will be in Vansant Virginia with two sessions on Saturday July 11 at 1 30 p m and 7 30 p m Open to all comers and limited to horses This third in succession is sponsored by Kiwanis Clubs of Grundy Buchanan County and Haysi Dickenson County Ralph E Davis of Vansant will manage the program for the third year General directors are K G Padbury Harold Rush and Early White.
With summer, weed problems in Virginia pond ecosystems grow acute. Excessive weed cover harms fish balance by sheltering small bluegills, hindering bass predation and causing stunting and overpopulation. Proper pond design and management, plus chemical controls, are outlined in a Virginia Game Commission bulletin.
County Agent R E Harbert reports strong berry production in Mercer County as growers Bailey Pennington Ford and King deliver berries to Beckley Farmers Market. Field day at West Virginia University farm showcased new picking machines and graders aiding efficiency and quality. Calf consignments rise with 47 farmers totaling 476 calves. Wool pool day set for June 16 at Princeton lot with transport to Hinton and loading for sale. Rams and sheep programs outlined with deadlines and study trips. Poultry tours planned with Ted Hash visiting farms.
Virginia researchers at Virginia Tech report greenhouse tests on mica soils in Virginia showing potassium held in tight molecular crevices is released by ammonium ions. The study by agronomy professor Dr C I Rich finds ammonium nitrate improves growth by freeing trapped potassium, whereas magnesium nitrate does not.
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