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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1959
Page
6
A 4 cent soil conservation stamp printed in three colors goes on sale tomorrow in Rap around City 8 D at the Soil Conservation Society of America meeting. The stamp shows a modern conservation farm with rolling pasture a farm pond contour strip farming and windbreaks.
Ballots for the September wool and lamb marketing program referendum have been mailed to producers in Neosho county. Jim Norris notes two thirds of production must approve extending the agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture for three years. Ballots are due by September 30 with voting throughout September.
Kansas State University researchers Dr. Farl Hansing and Claude King find wheat and barley seed treated with Panogen or Ceresan fungicides boosts stand by about 10 percent and yields by at least half a bushel per acre. A $5 fungicide cost can save $12 in seed and return $50 per $5 spent. Seed should be cleaned before treatment and applied via auger with careful flow and post-treatment cleaning to avoid livestock feed contamination.
Farmers wishing cropland in the 1960 Soil Bank Conservation Reserve must file with the ASC county committee to set a basic annual rate per acre. Jim Norris, chairman of the Neosho County ASC committee, said requests are due by September 10 and will not be accepted after that date. The basic annual per acre rate is to be established.
The article explains per acre payment rates under the Conservation Reserve with Kansas noting a base of 12.50 dollars and a 10 year contract, plus a state goal of 340000 acres. It also provides gardening guidance on roses pruning, fertilizing, transplanting perennials, and handling gladiolus bulbs including winter storage and thrip control with DDT dust.
Erie report notes September is prime for lawn work including fertilizing roses transplanting and digging and storing perennials and gladiolas County agent Gale Mullen says in eastern Kansas evergreens like Pfitzers and red cedar can be planted this month they should be bailed
The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county committee election will be held at 1 pm Thursday in the Neosho County ASC office. James L. Norris, committee chairman, announced the plan. Three members and two alternates will be elected by delegates, and the meeting is open to anyone.
The Wilson County Fair hosted its largest sheep show with Myron Hillman judging. In 4-H, Sharon Stover earned champion fat lamb, with several other exhibitors including Sue Ann Weber Marilyn Nelson and Rebecca Butcher winning ribbons. The champion ewe was a Cheviot shown by Maxine Wiltse, and Hampshire and Suffolk winners included Marilyn Nelson David Marple Tom Ayers and Steve Ayers among others. John Stover won both champion ram and ewe, both Hampshires, and Lee Miller exhibited a standout two year old Corriedale ram.
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