Brucellosis eradication goals and Kansas 4-H trips
The National Brucellosis Committee targets universal certified areas by 1960 with federal aid totaling 20 million dollars for 1956-58. Some states already progress, others lack movement laws essential for control. Kansas eyes county action toward certified free areas while 4-H youths win all expense trips to William Jewell camp and a separate scholarship to the Rocks Springs health camp. Oscar Norby notes club leader assignment.
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National
Congress
Washington
Montana
California
Colorado
New York
Texas
Kansas
Iowa
USDA
Chicago
Finney County
William Jewell College
Ronald Ellis
Friend Flyers
Kenneth Lilibridge
June Warner
Pawnee Indians
Kathleen Sughrue
Ip and Atom Club
Liberty
Consumer Co-operative Association of Kansas
Garden City Co-op
Judy Baker
Sherlock Striver
Holcomb
Model Train Fan Runs Real Thing
Detroit police revealed the thief was a 16 year old model train enthusiast who stole a diesel locomotive and nine box cars, driving for over two hours through yard tracks with two companions before returning the train to the West Side yard. The incident followed prior detective notes amid a busy weekend.
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Detroit
West Side
Sherlock Strivers Teach Tractor Tests at Meeting
The 12 Sherlock Striver boys enrolled in tractor maintenance welcomed three tests at their latest meeting. Jerry Heckman aged 13 scored perfectly on all three tests while others posted very high marks. Five boys gave a live engine parts demonstration and each member uses a work book, manual, and farm tractor bulletin. The group meets in the Deerfield alfalfa mill lab under Al Douglas, in his first year as leader, with two blue and red ribbon demonstrations at County 4-H Club Day.
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Sherlock
Jerry Heckman
Deerfield Alfalfa
al Douglas
Douglas
Judy Anne Baker
Sherlock Strivers
Calendar of 4-H club tours and fairs schedule
Calendar page lists multiple 4-H club tours and events across June including Upholstering at Pierceville on June 7 and June 13, Pawnee Indians 4-H tour June 9 at Earl Powell farm, Go-Getters tour June 10 at John farm with picnic dinner, Wide Awake tour June 11 at 1 p.m., Experiment Station Spring Field Day June 11 at 10 60 a.m. and irrigation plot at 1 36 p.m., and poultry judging school June 14 at Wright Park Dodge City.
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Pierceville
Y Pam
Pawnee Indians
Earl Powell
Friend Flyers
Friend School
Paul Ven- Jebn
Wide Awake
Experiment Station
Wright Park
Dodge City
Cigarette Tax Distributions Made to Kansas Counties
A quarterly distribution of 691,503 from the cigarette tax has been allocated to Kansas counties. Sedgwick County receives 100,291 and Stanton County 607, with other counties receiving amounts in between.
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Topeka
Kansas
Sedgwick
Stanton County
Agriculture and Water Shortage Highlighted in Kansas
Kansas Farm Bureau notes lack of water as a major ag issue while Kansas State College researchers urge accelerated irrigation and drought resistance studies. Dean Arthur D Weber calls for more land, labs, equipment, and trained scientists to boost productivity and economic stability across state farms. Fossil plants in Colorado dated 165 million years ago also reported.
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Kansas
Arthur D. ‘Weber
Kansas State College
Farm Bureau
Manhattan
Dean Weber
Kansas State College Agricultural Experiment Station
Weber
Colorado
National Geographic Society
Ex-Marbles Champ Says He Could Hold His Own
Huntington West Virginia G H Ogden 87 of Aksland Kentucky crossed the state line to attend a miles marble tournament and declared I could give them a battle and beat them too, recalling a era when he was champion seventy five years ago.
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Marbles
Champ
Huntington
W. Va
G. H. Ogden
Aksland
Look For Even Price Break In June In Kansas College Report
Economists forecast in June a mixed outlook for farm prices with lower bids for wheat barley oats and slaughter ewes and steadier to slightly lower for slaughter cows spring lambs and plainer cattle. Milk and high grade slaughter cattle may rise along with corn grain sorghums and current receipts while lower grade eggs slip.
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Kansas
Ecotomista
Agricultural Wheat Supply Outlook and May 1 Conditions
The report notes low 32 million bushels of wheat available in June with 4955 supplies in Kansas. It cites a potential offer by new wheat 1058 and estimates winter wheat production based on May 1 conditions at milli bushels, down 35 million from April 1.
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Cahparer
Kansas
Estimate and crop data from 1955 Kansas basket report
Fragmentary line shows an estimate related to Kansay crop figures and a percentage note. The readable text references a 151 million figure and a comparison to an 8-percent reduction versus 1955 trap data, but details are incomplete.
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Kansay
Bae Umate
Wegiely
Additional Farm News On Page Forecast Cited
Weather outlook suggests rainfall may be insufficient over coming days. Soil moisture is short in many areas, and wheat crop conditions are critical. If rain does not arrive soon, yields could be materially cut.
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Donnie
Ronnie Roth
George Nuzam
Jim Nuzam
Jerry Katz
Jerry Roth
Finney Club
Oo Corral
Cooperative Credit System
Farmers of
Southwest
Credit
D. Earl Jon
Association South OF
Court House
Garden City
Sherlock Boys
Just
Bureau of Standards
Kathryn Sughrue
HO Aqant
George E. Kinney
Five Points
Theoni
Fcdonalds
Real Values
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