Gains in Weight When Using Alfalfa
USDA tests show Erie Dairy heifers fed alfalfa hay gained more weight faster and ate more than those on unsupplemented alfalfa silage or corn alfalfa silage. Proper feeding from birth to calving at two years includes hay and grain. silage alone lowers intake and weight gain. Supplementing silage with hay or grain narrows gaps. calves need at least four pounds of grain daily in addition to hay.
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Erie
USDA
Gale Mullen
Agricultural Research Center
Beltsville
Farm Ponds Are Valuable on the Farm
Farm ponds are described as valuable assets offering stockwater fire protection irrigation erosion control flood prevention fishing swimming boating ice skating and beautification. In Wilson County about 1500 ponds have been built with Soil Conservation Service help. warns on locating paths removing debris and following engineering specs for safety and legal liability.
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Wilson County
Soil Conservation Service
Pasture Maturity and Supplemental Feeding Guidance
County agent Gale Mullen explains pasture nutritive value peaks in early spring and declines as plants mature. Dairymen are advised to supplement with hay or mirage to avoid production slumps and to provide clean water and night grazing on the best pasture. The piece notes overestimation of pasture value and mentions Cherokee Indians in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Erie
Gale Mullen
Kansas
Mullen
Farm pond aid available through soil conservation program
Financial assistance is available through the Agricultural Conservation program for district cooperators. Those seeking more information on building a farm pond should contact the local Soil Conservation Service office.
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Soil Conservation Service
Bindweed Control Hint from Kansas Expert
Neosho county weed officer Owal Wood explains bindweed seedling resurgence years after elimination. He urges a long term farm management program with monthly cultivation during growing seasons and summer fallow between crops to destroy all germinated seeds. Chemical controls may replace some cultivation to target seedlings in thin crop stands.
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ST. Paul
Owal Wood
Neosho County
Wood
Penalty Rate Set on 1959 Wheat Crop
FREDONIA The marketing quota penalty rate on excess wheat of the 1959 crop has been announced as $1.07 per bushel. Leon Choate of the Wilson Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county office announced today. The rate is 45 percent of the wheat parity price as of May 1 and applies to noncompliant farmers with farm marketing excess under the wheat quota program.
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Fredonia
Leon Choate
Wilson Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Office
Choate
Farmers exempt from quota penalties under wheat allotment rules
A farmer harvesting 18 acres or less of wheat or approved to grow up to 30 acres for feed on his own farm is not subject to quota penalties. Those with excess acreage may avoid penalties by adjusting to allotment before a set date, storing excess wheat under bond, or delivering to the Secretary of Agriculture.
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Secretary of Agriculture
4-H Delegates Named for State Junior Leadership Camp
Erie county delegates Joy Broughton Duane Brooks and Willing Workers from Neo sho County will attend the 1959 state 4-H Junior Leadership Camp at Rock Springs Ranch June 29 to July 3. Cecil Eyestone Kansas State University chairs the conference with talks by A F Anderson Seon Lang Roger Regnier J Harold Johnson Glenn Busset and others. The program includes leadership discussions record keeping demonstrations recreation and a final cook-out water carnival and party.
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Erie
Neosho County
Joy Broughton
Duane Brooks
Lucky Clover
Gaile Mullen
Rock Springs Ranch
Cecil Eyestone
Kansas State University
A. F E. Anderson
Kansas House of Representatives
Seon
Laurence Lang
KSU
Roger E. Regnier
J. Harold Johnson
Kansas 4-H Foundation
Manhattan
Glenn Busset
International Farm
Wheat Takeover Reaches Record High With 195 Crop
Supporters report a record high harvest with over 350 million bushels of 195 crop wheat collected, reflecting strong yields and growing demand across farming regions. The article notes continued gains but provides limited further specifics.
Wheat price support progress reported through April in Wilson County
The Department of Agriculture reports ongoing settlement of price support loans and purchase agreements through April with more takings expected. A record 609 million bushels of the 1958 wheat crop were under support nationwide, while 63 million bushels were redeemed and over 12 million bushels resealed for storage. CCC wheat inventory reached about 1.0 billion bushels by May 8. In Wilson County, 747,187 bushels of 1958 crop wheat were under price support with 26,517 delivered to CCC, 6,283 redeemed, and 888 resealed as of April 30.
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Department of Agriculture
Wilson Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Wilson County
County HD Units To Study Buying ERIE County Home Furnishings
Erie County home demonstration units will study problems of buying dishes glassware silver and linen during July and August. Mrs Marjorie E Price Home Economics Agent said today. They will plan simple and attractive centerpieces that add to gracious living. Unit leaders are prepared to review and discuss the basic principles of color and arrangement as they apply to furnishings. Each member will gain knowledge of good design and of combining linen silver and china for attractive effects.
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Erie — County
Marjorie E. Price
ASC Committee Elections Soon
Erie County farmers learn annual Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee elections start in July and run through August. Each community will elect a chair, vice chair, regular member, and two alternates by secret ballot with three non officer farmers supervising. The elected chair becomes the community delegate to the county convention where the county ASC committee is chosen. Eligible voters are farm owners or tenants involved in ASC programs.
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Erie
Neosho
ASC
Jim Norris
Summer Sale at O'Bryan's Polled Hereford Sale
The annual summer sale of Polled Hereford cattle is set for July 11 at the O'Bryan Ranch near Hiattville with an afternoon session starting at 1 p.m. followed by a night sale of registered Hampshire meat hogs.
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O'Bryan Ranch
Hiattville
Hampshire
Night cattle and hog sale features O'Bryan herd and Dynamic Royal
The night sale begins at 7 p.m. with fourteen bulls and 38 heifers from the O'Bryan herd, plus 50 purebred cows some with calves and rebred. Bulls include a son of All Mixer Return 115th. Eight bred heifers match to O Rex Mixer 117th. Thirty heifers are open. Hampshire hog sale offers bred gilts sows boars open gilts and production tested stock, mostly sired by Dynamic Royal. Also featured are the get and service of O'Bryan Design Glendale Jack Premier Design 1 CL and Kansas Special.
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O'Bryan
O Rex Mixer
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Hampshire
Dynamic Royal
Applications Are Due For Wheat Allotments
ERIE The final date for filing applications for new farm wheat allotments for the 1960 crop year is July 1, said Jim Norris, Neosho County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee chair. Any producer intending to seed wheat in 1960 on a farm with no wheat harvested as grain in 1957 and with no 1958 or 1959 allotment must apply by July 1.
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Erie
Jim Norris
Neosho County
Deadline Set for July 1 1959 Allotment Request
Norris announced the deadline of July 1 1959 for filing an allotment request. Application forms are available in the ASC county office for use in submitting the request.
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Norris
ASC
Public Sale at Buffalo Kansas Corner Building
Lot 12 Block 17 Buffalo Kansas on Main Street Brick building housing a restaurant and barber shop with barber equipment. Corner location. Sale to follow machinery sale conducted by C. W. Stanfield.
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Buffalo
Kansas
C. W. Stanfield
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