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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1957
Page
6
Erie farmers receive guidance from County Farm Agent Gale Mullen on when to ensile drought damaged corn and forage sorghum. Recommendations cover dent and hard dough stages, immature grain, and grass silage with added carbohydrates or preservatives. The bulletin also describes equipment and canning steps for home jellies and jams with abundant recipes.
Farmers were warned that swine enteritis is a major hog-loss cause from weaning to market. The American Foundation for Animal Health notes disease often follows a switch to a heavy diet, especially corn, and inflames the colon and cecum. Symptoms include bloody scours gaunt appearance and weight loss. Warns calling a veterinarian at first signs to curb losses and separating healthy from sick hogs for close monitoring.
Erie bulletin offers timesaving methods for making jellies and jams at home. It includes an uncooked jam recipe that stores a few months in a refrigerator or up to a year in a freezer. Recipes for grape jelly and orange grapefruit jelly use frozen concentrated juices.
The Wilson County fair featured strong livestock and crop displays with Angus and Hereford cattle leading beef divisions. Notable wins included champion fat steer by Jerry Cheats and reserve by Steven Reynolds, plus blue ribbons for several exhibitors in Hereford and shorthorn divisions. Swine, breeding stock, and open-class Berkshire entries also earned top ribbons as crops reflect a mixed year with solid garden and tomato displays.
County Farm Agent Gale Mullen is surveying Neosho County farmers about seed wheat needs for this fall. Farmers should contact by August 17 with their expected bushel amount and variety. Pooling orders may be arranged if interest warrants to secure seed locally.
Neosho County agents warn that drought weakened elms may not withstand beetle attacks. Any elm wilted and dead in the last month should be burned. if removal isn’t possible, spray with heavy DDT to protect remaining trees. Spraying healthy trees now is impractical.
Five prize steers were sold Thursday at the Chanute Sales Pavilion as part of the Woodson County Fair. Chanute merchants presented the animals to buyers including the Bank of Commerce, Chanute Production Credit Assn. and the Sales Pavilion at the 4 H stock sale in Yates Center. The event aimed to reward the youths who raised the animals, with owners Darrel Black of Toronto and Linda Stoll of Rose among those shown.
ERIE The stings of a honey bee and a wasp may feel alike but they are different. Honeybees die after stinging while wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets can sting repeatedly. If stung remove the stinger with a sharp nail, avoid pulling. Use cold packs for swelling and a water and baking soda paste. Seek medical help if multiple stings or severe reaction occur.
Washington notes mark the closing of a Farm Credit Administration chapter tied to the Old Federal Farm Board era. The final installment on a 1953 elevator mortgage ends FCA transactions with farm cooperatives, recalling Hoover era aims to stabilize prices and foster cooperatives amid low farm mood.
Governor Tootell describes Federal Farm Board actions that created farm price stabilization loans and provided cooperative credit services, laying groundwork for banks for cooperatives to become entirely member-owned as borrowing cooperatives repay stock and earnings eventually.
The Farm Board's liquidation funds for stabilization loans totaled 330 million due to actions by FCA after the 1933 abolishment and 1955 Farm Credit Act. The 13 banks for cooperatives, formed with 110 million initial capital, saw government investments rise to 178 million and now sit at 142 million as repayments continue.
Kansas Crop Improvement Assn. in Manhattan releases a certified seed directory listing 1957 Kansas growers with fields for sweet clover alfalfa bromegrass winter barley wheat or rye eligible to produce certified seed. The volume includes crop varieties state map and Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station recommendations. Neosho County growers W E Allen and Wilfrid Burke are noted.
This week advises vigilance for livestock health amid potential anthrax risks. It urges monitoring cattle on pasture and keeping watch for unusual symptoms while authorities assess the threat alternatives.
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