Old tractor and binder highlight bicentennial harvest display
Randall and Clyde Hobbs demonstrated a 1928 tractor and binder at the Virgil G. Hobbs farm near Buffalo during a wheat harvest. The teenage brothers showed visitors how the equipment operated in a past era, while not using it for the full harvest.
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Virgil G. Hobbs
Buffalo
Randall and
Clyde Hobbs
Yesteryear
Randall Hobbs
Clyde
Randall
Virgil Hobbs
Oscar Hines
Fredonia
Hines
Hobbs Place
Hobbs
Buffalo Boosters
Future Farmers of America
Altoona-Midway High School
Additives aid fly control and farm project pride
Feed additives for cattle will target fly larvae in manure while not killing adult flies. Ronnel, known as Trolene in mineral mix, aids in controlling horn flies and lice when fed continuously. A restoration project at the Hines farm blends a tractor and binder, reworked by Randall Hobbs as a 4-H and FFA effort, with plans for the Wilson County fair.
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Wilson County
Randall
Virgil Hobbs
New feed additives target horn flies in beef cattle
Altocid IGR uses methoprene as an insect growth regulator to prevent horn fly larvae from maturing when fed daily May through September to all cattle. Rabon Oral Larvacide, sold as a feed supplement or mineral mix, also targets face and other flies by interrupting larval development in manure.
Conservation camp offers special sessions for youth
State Youth Camp for Conservation of Natural Resources runs July 5 to 9 at Rock Springs Ranch state 4 H center. Schedule lists water safety rowboat handling wildlife photography wild plant gardens native plant ID outdoor resource use and craft sessions led by Kansas State University extension staff and local experts with a conservation film. Kansas youths ages 14 to 19 may participate without 4 H membership.
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Conservation of Natural Resources
Rock Springs Ranch
Charles T. Bates
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Kenneth Stiebben
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
John Dickerson
Edie Hadl
Manhattan Plant Materials Center
John R. Abell
Zoe E. Slinkman
Rock Springs
Richard E. Lockhart
Topeka Audubon Society
Dennis Ronsee
Emporia Kansas State College
Edward K
Lockhart
Boggess
Ronsee
Abell
Neosho County
Kansas
Woodson County farm city tour set
YATES CENTER the second farm city tour for Woodson County will be July 11 led by Cliff D Nantz of the Chamber of Commerce. Tour starts at the 4-H building and visits the Goebel Stockebrand Detention Dam Site J and W Manufacturing and the Black Jack feed lots. Free hamburger supper at 4-H building. Buses leave every 20 to 30 minutes from 2 30 p m. Supper ready when first return. Tour aims to foster rural city understanding and better communication and fellowship within the county. Morton Implement and Swope and Son display farm equipment. Sponsored by Yates Center Chamber of Commerce and Woodson County Farm Bureau.
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Yates Center
Woodson County
Cliff D. Nantz
Chamber of Commerce
Goebel-Stockebrand
J and W Manufacturing Company
Nantz
Morton Implement Company
Swope and Son
Yates Center Chamber of Commerce
Woodson County Farm Bureau
Kansas farmers respond to OSHA sanitation standard proposal
Farm groups in Kansas react to a proposed field sanitation standard under the OSHA Act. They are urged to submit comments to the director of the Office of Standards Development, Docket 307, room N-3620, U S Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20210.
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Kansas
Office of Standards Development
U.S. Department of Labor
Constitution Ave
Washington, D. C
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Kans
P. O
K-State Southwest Area Extension
Woodson County Farm
Larry Miller
Chevrolet Buick Co., Inc
W. Cherry
Chanute, Kansas
Montgomery
AGA. Certified Design
Spirit AG Value
W. Main
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