Injury to Horse Sparks Boom in Trailer Industry
Bill Blair, Neosho County Agricultural Agent, turned a horse injury into a growing horse trailer business. Five workers produce economy, standard walk through, and luxe walk through models for two and four horse sizes, plus a livestock trailer. In six weeks this year they made 22 trailers, now four weekly. Blair, a farmer and horse breeder, expanded from cattle and pleasure horses to a full time trailer enterprise, with first orders shipped to Salt Lake City and rapid deliveries driving demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Dickson
Neosho County
Bill Blair
Blair
Erie
Salt Lake City
Blairs
Wheat Referendum Voting Is Tuesday
The 1964 wheat program links referendums to allotments and diversion payments. If the quotas are approved next Tuesday, farmers get farm normal yield times 30 percent of the county price rate for diversions within allotments and up to 50 percent for voluntary diversions, with penalties for overplanting or unauthorized uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. Neely
Erie
ASCS
Neely
Brush Removal Techniques For Pasture Improvement
Neosho County farm agent explains that brush in hedges, buckbrush, sumac, jack oak and other scrub reduces pasture value. Removal via cutting and stump treatment with 245-T diesel mix, or basil trunk treatment, followed by bulldozing later, prevents sprouts. May through June is ideal for killing buckbrush and sumac. spraying 24D at 1-3-2-3 lb per acre helps control weeds. After clearing, reseed with native or tame cool or warm season grasses for better grazing.
Wheat plan faces voting threshold for penalties and quotas
The 1964 wheat plan ties land-use penalties to meeting three program provisions. If more than one third of growers reject it, no quotas, no marketing quota penalties, and price support cut to 50 percent for those under their acreage allotments. Past votes have never rejected wheat marketing quotas.
Recreational Project Near Erie Plans Approved
Plans for one of three cropland conversion projects in Kansas are set near Erie. Robert B. Smith will convert about 15 acres to grass and recreation, including a five acre pond for fishing and waterfowl hunting and adjacent upland game hunting. The project aims to unite town and country while conserving soil and water, with cost shares for dam work and seeding. About 100 acres will be converted to cool season grass and brush, and shrub leaves will be sprayed in May and June to aid pasture recovery after the first year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Kansas
Charles MecKinnie
Neosho County Soil Conservation Service
Robert B. Smith
Smith
Neosho County
McKinnie
Conservation Work Listed in Erie County
ERIE Neosho county farmers and landowners advance conservation amid favorable spring soils. Soil Conservation Service head C P McKinnie reports new terraces 75000 feet, drainage ditches 38000 feet, diversions 1400 feet, four ponds, and grass waterways over 50 acres. District cooperators total 65 last year and 1150 to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Neosho County
C. P. McKinnie
The
Soil Conservation Service
McKinnie
Why Not Feed for More Profit Pio-Lak Yeast Supplement
An advertisement for Pio-Lak Yeast Mineral Supplement claims higher yeast content improves digestion and feed efficiency, saving grain and boosting growth. It promises better gains and profits, urging readers to contact B and M Feeds and Seeds for details.
Deets Feed Lot Named Test Site for Hereford Study
The American Hereford Assn. selected 15 feed lots for carcass evaluation and feeding data on Hereford cattle. The Deets feed lot east of Fredonia houses 40 head from six breeders in the study aimed at inherited traits passed from herd sires. A Hereford breeder sends eight calves over two years for gain testing and carcass evaluation after slaughter.
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Fredonia
American Hereford Assn
United States
Deets
Dan Pherigo
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ASC County Committee
Cri
Farm Service
California
Austra Whites
White Wyandotter
Ames
Honegger
Potter's Hatchery
S. Malcolm
Chanute, Kansas
Neosho Co
Ernest Craig
Ralph Willson
Robert Smith
Charles McKinnie
SCS
Eerermeer
Ralph F. Chapman
Eels
Home Gardener
Dusit
Acme
Potter's
Hatchery
Malcolm
Spring Farm
Steve Lopeman
Chanute
Joyce McCoy
Yates Center
Andy Barnard
Highland
Scott Morris
Jim Morris
W. 4Th St
Paula Schweitzer
J. G. Schweitzer
W. 9Th St
Bank of Commerce
the Friendly Bank
F.d.lc
Jeep’ Wagoneer
Jeep’ Universal
Gladiator
S ’ Jeep
Kaiser Jeep Corporation
Babcock Motor CO
E. Main
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