Milam County 4-H Plans Camp and Events Schedule
Milam County 4-H Council met June 6 to set county camp for July 19 at Ledbetter Park Cameron. Activities include swimming games a watermelon feast a chicken barbecue supper and awards and Citizenship program at Simon George Hall. Wool and lamb incentive payments announced by USDA noted. mohair payments excluded.
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Ass't
Milam County
4-H Council
County Extension Office
Jan Parmelee
Gwendolyn Jistel
Bernard Kostrom
Dennis Jistel
Ronald Kostrom Jo Ann Hollas
Mike Rek
Ledbetter Park
Cameron
4-H
Simon George Hall
Crops Field Day Planned At McGregor Station July 12
County Agents note a July 12 crop field day at McGregor Experiment Station. Demonstrations include cotton root rot control and variety tests. Milam County focuses on screwworm tracking to gauge sterile fly program progress. bottles accept worm samples. Milam crops show good prospects with corn, maize, and cotton.
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McGregor Experiment Station
Four junior leaders attend State 4H Conservation Camp
Elected representatives from Gause and Jones Prairie join peers at Huntsville for training in community health recreation youth careers and democratic 4 H decision making. Agents and Extension Specialists from A M College assist with the program.
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Gause
Jones Prairie
Huntsville
Joyce Malone
Valera Green
Dwight Cheffin
Roger Petty
Milam County
A & M College
National Farm Safety Week Highlighted at College Station
COLLEGE STATION The 19th annual National Farm Safety Week runs July 22-28 with the theme Family Safety at Work and Play. The Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council notes motor vehicle accidents drive most fatal farm incidents, with hundreds of thousands injured yearly. Despite progress a decade of cooperative effort shows an 11 percent drop in farm resident deaths, yet Rural safety remains a national priority.
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College Station
Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council
United States
Milam County farmers may apply for base adjustments
Milam County ASCS says cotton producers who failed to plant 75 percent of their 1962 allotment may file farm base adjustment applications by September 15 1962. Written applications to the county committee are allowed if nonplanting was due to conditions beyond the producer’s control such as excessive weather or water shortages.
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Alva E. Sanders
Milam County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Cotton Harvest Progress in Lower Rio Grande Valley Report
Harvesting activity rose in the lower Rio Grande Valley as rain eased and hot dry weather arrived. Ginning capacity expands with more ginns online aiming for about 2,000 bales daily. first bale ginned at Alice in the Coastal Bend. Spot prices drift lower while export and domestic mill demand remain subdued amid slow sales and a wait and see stance from buyers.
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Rio Grande Valley
Harlingen
Alice
Veterans Buy Homes at Averaging 34 Years Old
VA survey shows the typical veteran home buyer in 1961 was about 34 years old with an average purchase price of 14 315 dollars. Buyers aged 30 to 34 accounted for 32 percent, while 25 to 29 made 29 percent. Most loans funded homes between 12 000 and 14 999 or 15 000 to 19 999. More than 66 percent bought new homes averaging 15 065 dollars. 34 percent bought older homes at 12 840 dollars.
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P. J. Mims
Veterans Administration
Waco
Auction totals announced at Thursday Livestock Sale
Cattle numbers 320 head hogs 163 goats and sheep sold. Prices show steers and yearlings mostly 21 to 25 per hundredweight with calves and heifers around 20 to 28. Cows and bulls ranged 14 to 18 for fats and 15 to 28 for stocker calves. Hogs varied by weight with light to heavy butchers 150 to 190 and sows 320 to 630.
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Pat
Garner
Carolyn Jistel
Dolores Zarosky
Ronald Kostrom
State Electric Co
Ed Avacek
Extension Livestock Marketing
USDA
Strobane Nynamite
Piskay
Niagara Chemical Division
FMC Corporation
John S. Batte
County Livestock Improvement Association
John Batte
Eige
U.S. Department of Agriculture
FORD
Texas
Hefley-Stedman Motor CO
Houston
Cameron, Texas
Uapadion
SAO
Council
America
The
Velsicol Chemical Corporation
Galena Park
Milam Ascs
Cotton Report
Dallas
Galveston
Lubbock
Tahoe
SEVIN
Union Carbide Corporation
Union Carbide Chemicals Company
Park Avenue
New York
Union Carbide
Buckholts, Texas
Milo Mere
Buckholts
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