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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1962
Page
5
Polls open 8 am to 6 pm August 30 in Neosho and Wilson Counties for the wheat marketing quotas referendum. Details list polling sites, acreage rules, and potential price supports tied to two thirds voting approval or rejection of 1963 quotas. Authorities urge all eligible growers to vote.
A Kansas program titled the Kansas Poultry Business Analysis begins September 1 to standardize reporting of flock productivity. Monthly data from cooperators will be mailed and analyzed at Kansas State University, including feed efficiency rate of lay and costs per dozen eggs. Contact Extension for registration details.
Neosho County farmers are advised by Bill Dickson to inspect bins for stored grain insects now. Bins soon to store corn or grain sorghum should be cleaned and sprayed with approved fumigants and pesticides.
Extension offices offer two new publications on food buying. Food Shopper's Guide covers grocery selection with grades servings and buying hints plus budget guidance and weekly costs. Poultry for a Holiday or Any Day details grades servings per pound and classes of chicken turkey duck and goose. Shelby Wells of Erie Neosho County leads the program.
Erie reports that late August and early September are ideal for bluegrass or rescue lawn reseeding. Agricultural agent Bill Dickson describes seedbed prep, seed quantities, sowing methods, rolling, fertilizing, and careful watering for fast establishment. He warns against weed killers on new lawns and advises spring weed control if needed.
Wilson County events announced by county agent Dan Pherigo include an Extension Council planning meeting on August 29 a county championship awards on August 30 a public meeting on sal ads at 1 30 p m August 31 and entries due September 1 for the Mid America and State Fairs.
Kansas State University research shows that treating wheat or barley seed with mercury fungicide raises stand 0 to 20 percent, average 10 percent, boosting yields by at least one bushel per acre. A $5 fungicide cost can save $12 worth of seed and yield gains return $100 per $5 spent. Methods include using an auger loader to dust or liquid-treat seed, running at half capacity and mixing well, then cleaning residue to avoid livestock feed contamination.
Wool producers are asked to advise on two points for the 1963 marketing year and potential shift to a calendar year for wool marketing. Neosho and Wilson County ASCS chairmen Glen Neely and Leon Choate said comments are due Sept. 4 to Washington.
Erie-Wool and lamb incentive payments for the 1961 marketing year are being issued in Neo sho County. Glen Neely announces payments cover shorn wool and unshorn lambs sold April 1, 1961 to March 31, 1962 with applications due by April 30, 1962.
Seven Agricultural Bank of Turkey officials and three FHA representatives will tour Labette County September 1 8 to study American agricultural credit. Nine local farmers will be visited while program leader John W Edwards oversees arrangements. The visit aims to compare credit access and farming patterns between Turkey and the United States.
The Nantucket pine tip moth population is rising in many Kansas counties per Allen county agent Tom Maxwell. The pest damages ornamental evergreens, Christmas trees and pines. look for dying tips and light brown larvae. Control advised is spraying with 50 percent DDT at two pounds per 100 gallons of water, or two to three tablespoons per gallon, with applications in September.
Erie reports guidance from Bill Dickson and Vic Jacobs on how farm product prices swing by season. Key gaps include dehydrated alfalfa meal 19.50 per ton, alfalfa hay eight dollars, soybean oil meal four, sorghum 0.28 per hundred, corn 0.13 per hundred, and replacement cattle $2 to $3 per hundred, suggesting buy during the lowest season to save.
Kansas 4 H members may apply for the Key Award at the state 4 H club office at Kansas State University. Eligibility requires age 16, two years of junior leadership, and at least 120 points from project growth leadership demonstrations judging activities and participation in regional and state events and fairs.
Experimental results on grain sorghum soybeans corn and alfalfa will be presented at two fall field days in southeast Kansas on September 5 and 6. Verlin H. Peterson of KSU reports participation by Extension agronomists E. A Cleavinger and Floyd Smith. Thayer program at 1 30 p m covers sorghum varieties seeding date row spacing population fertilizer placement lime alfalfa studies. Columbus program at 1 30 p m on September 6 covers soybean fertilizer varieties seeding date row width corn fertilizer potash boron alfalfa fertilizer and variety trials.
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