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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1956
Page
6
The Neosho County Fair starts Friday at the Erie grounds with exhibits ready by 11 a.m. Official judging begins at 2 p.m. Floral, culinary, and clothing are featured. A 4-H livestock parade, Share-the-Fun talent, and public participation follow in the evening. The weekend includes Sunday display hours, a Style Revue, and a Monday 4-H Livestock sale.
Spokane reports nearly 2.7 billion dollars in credit to farmers and cooperatives from the Farm Credit system. FCA governor R B Tootell notes an 11 percent rise in loans across all lending groups as farmers use more of the system. National farm loan associations issued 60 600 loans totaling 513 million dollars amid record activity.
In Neosho County, 4-H demonstrations serve as a key educational method. Talmage Eagles, 4-H Club agent, notes youths present at fairs, meetings, and school events to show efficient home making farming and happier living. Demonstrations date to 50 years of educational use and build poise, quick thinking, and organization.
At the Missouri state fair a grand champion chicken sold for 138 dollars or 11.50 per pound to Jack Blanke of Blair Milling and Elevator Co. in Atchison Kansas. The chicken entered by Doris Breedlove of Lebanon won the Chicken of Tomorrow contest as attendance rose 16 percent over three days compared with last year.
ERIE Farmers in drought or hail areas can get emergency credit through the Farmers Home Administration to continue farming. Hanserd House Neosho County supervisor of the FHA said today production emergency loans are made in areas designated by the Secretary of Agriculture where serious losses in agricultural production have occurred due to drought floods storms or some other calamity.
ERIE The unit rate for the 1957 Soil Bank wheat acreage reserve will be 60 percent of the average price support, about 1.20 a bushel nationally. E L McCan, Neosho County ASC chairman, said local base rates will be multiplied by county yield figures to determine payments, with 1956 rates also at 1.20 and Neosho County's 1956 rate at 1.26. Limits will be set state and county by law to cap 1957 reserve acreage for winter and spring wheat.
Dr H J Davies leads Wilson County Dairy Herd Improvement Association for July with an average 37.5 pounds per cow. The top individual cow, a Brown Swiss, produced 2120 pounds of milk and 78 pounds of butterfat. Prilliman herd of Lafontaine placed second, and Paul Timmons had the second high individual cow.
Erie Concho was the highest yielding statewide wheat variety in 1956 based on 16 experiment stations. The test averages list Concho at 30.8 bushels, followed by CI 2518 29.4, Kiowa 29, Pawnee 27.8, Ponca 26.6, Red Chief 26.5, with several varieties untested at all locations making statewide comparison impossible.
The American Foundation for Animal Health warns drought conditions force livestock to eat weeds and plants that can be deadly. Locoweed, deadly night shade, laurel, water hemlock, larkspurs, and lupines are cited, with hy drocyanic acids and nitrates causing poisons. Farmers should watch for suspicious symptoms and seek veterinary diagnosis promptly.
George Meany of the AFL-CIO warned at the International Alliance ceremony that labor power must be active in politics to overturn Taft Hartley era barriers. He urged union members to vote against lawmakers backing right to work and related measures, noting many workers fail to vote.
John S. Rollings of St. Louis, president of the Missouri AFL CIO, urged election of persons at least sympathetic to organized labor. Richard P. Brous, president of Fox Midwest Theaters, Inc., told delegates that box office receipts have declined 45 percent since 1946, warning the industry faces its poorest year since the slump.
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