U.S. Considers Donating Feed Grains to Aid New Livestock
Washington officials propose using surplus animal feed grains under Food for Peace to help developing nations start poultry and egg projects. A plan targets northeast Brazil near Recife with a cooperative hatchery and feed mill, loaned funds for farmers, and phased U.S. aid to build self-sufficiency.
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Washington
UPI
Herbert J. Waters
Foreign Aid Agency
Brazil
Recife
George McGovern
Food For Peace
Waters
U.S
U. S
Free World
Rules Announced In Conservation Picture Contest
The Iowa chapter of the Soil Conservation Society of America announces a photography contest for farm conservation scenes. Submissions include contour farming, strip cropping, terraced land, beef cattle, forage harvesting, forest management, wildlife setups, farm ponds, erosion control, and watershed protection. Entries due by Sept. 30, with formats and submission details available at local soil conservation district offices.
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Vinton
Iowa
Soil Conservation Society of America
Floyd Peters
Peters
Benton County
Soil Conservation District
Farm Bureau
A Avenue
Gazette
Rex Conn
Coralville Deen
Lyall Mitchell
Fairfield
Marion Ebert
Iowa City
SCS
U.S. Forest Service
Amana Woods
Amana
Farm output per acre climbs in the 1950s era gains
U S farm production per acre rose about 35 percent across the decade, reflecting broader agricultural efficiency gains. The increase signals stronger yields and evolving farming practices shaping postwar food output and farm income prospects.
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U.S
Vinton Four H Project Enrollments Complete
Four H project enrollments for Vinton complete with 406 Benton county boys participating. Only the junior feeding project declined from last year in participation numbers.
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Vinton
Benton County
Terracing Through the Ages What Farmers Now Do
In Madison Wisconsin Leonard Massie notes terraces began 190 years ago in the United States with Inca and Irish precedents 4000 to 5000 years old. Ancient terraces aided irrigation and erosion control shaping modern V shaped and diversion designs. P. H. Mangum built the first broad base terrace in 1885 in North Carolina shaping today’s practice.
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Madison
Wis
United States
Leonard Massie
University of Wisconsin
Peru
Ireland
Pueblo Indian
Mexico
Arizona
Midwest
Massie
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
P. H. Mangum
North Carolina
Ryan 4-H Show Planned for July 6 and 7
Final plans for the eighth Ryan 4-H Club Show announced Monday. The event for 4-H members in southwest Delaware county runs July 6 and 7 and is a cooperative effort by the Ryan Lions Club Delaware Modern Terrace Builders county extension service and nine local 4-H clubs.
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Ryan
Delaware County
Ryan Lion's Club
Delaware Modern Terrace Builders County Extension Service
Locust Plague Threatens Central China Grain Belt
Tokyo dispatch reports Red China faces a locust outbreak in Henan and nearby central provinces. Dusting fields with insecticide uses nine planes as eggs hatch early due to lack of rain and wingless hoppers now begin to fly along the Yangtze basin. Local headquarters operate to wipe out the pest amid repeated dry spells since 1956.
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Tokyo
Red
China
Radio
Peiping
Henan
Yangtze River
Pork Stocks Swell Big Cold Storage Supplies
Refrigerated food stocks in warehouses reached 4.9 billion pounds on June 1 the largest for the date. The buildup was led by pork and red meat with pork up 26 percent from June 1, 1961 and 7 percent above average, while red meat rose 11 percent year over year.
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Washington
UPS
Agriculture Department
Russia Sending Meat for Cuba
The U S agriculture report notes USSR will boost canned meat and other foods shipments to Cuba in 1962 while raising domestic meat prices by 30 percent amid shortages. Havana confirms an extended January deal for more food machinery fertilizer and support including trucks tractors ships equipment and factories to Cuba in exchange for sugar coffee tobacco fruit and ores.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Economic Research Service
Cuba
Havana
Revolucion
Soviet Union
Selecting Hogs On Performance Improves Breed
Adison Wisconsin swine specialist Neal First says future hogs depend on performance-tested boars and sow herds. Breeders could cut time to 200 pounds to 150 days and reduce feed to 260 pounds, while increasing loin eye to 5 square inches and lean cuts to 57 percent. A top boar can raise gains unceasingly, but a weak boar harms the herd. one breeder saw lean percent drop from 54 to 53.3 percent in a season.
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Adison
Wis
Neal First
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Ayrshire record cow completes 305-day milking record
Tama dairy cow registered Ayrshire owned by Wayne Gibson posts a 305-day record of 13,590 pounds of milk and 541 pounds of butterfat.
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TAMA
Ayrshire
Wayne Gibson
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