Grasshopper threat to wheat crops warned in county tour
Tips From Tex reports on a Finney County visit with last Thursday’s tour by Gates and King. They found wheat prospects favorable with county averages 15 to 20 bushels yet warned grasshoppers of the Mexicana family could threaten the fall crop, estimating 10 to 12 hoppers per square yard and hatching in July or August, plus elm scale on trees and timing for spraying.
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Des Gates
Clyde King
Finney County
Gates
Arn Criticizes Farm Proposal in Kansas Speech
Former Kansas governor and U.S. Senate candidate Edward F. Arn accused the Freeman farm bill of pushing farmers toward a New Frontier era of state control. He warned a monopoly by the federal government would erase small and average farms and urged the House to reject the proposal and extend existing wheat and feed grain programs.
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Wakeeney
Kan
Edward F. Arn
Kansas
Arn
U.S. Senate
House of Representatives
Washington
Ann
Reeman
Freeman
Hugoton Girl To Train Here This Summer
Florence Cutter of Hugoton will serve as a junior assistant at the Finney County Agricultural Extension office for two months this summer under home economics agent Elsie Branden. A Southwestern College senior next fall, she has 10 years in 4-H and previously worked as 4-H Secretary in Stevens County. In service training started February 13 for Tex Demuth, senior assistant county agent.
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Finney County
Seward
Stevens County
Hugoton
Tex Demuth
Pan-American College Defends Tennis Title
Pan-American College of Texas opens defense of its national NAIA tennis title in Kansas City. Top seed in singles is Jerry Wortelboer of Buenos Aires and second seed Don Russell of Melbourne, both Pan-Am players. Wortelboer and Russell head the doubles seeds.
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Kansas City
Pan- American College of Texas
Pan-Am
Jerry Wortelboer
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Don Russell
Melbourne
Australia
Wortelboer
Russell
Over the Backyard Fence By Slst Branden
Breeze through the summer with America's easiest and most popular food sandwiches. Serve them for breakfast lunch or supper in this breezy promotional feature.
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Elsie Branden
America
4-H Club Notes Preview of meetings and activities
Cleve Spencer of the Garden City Police Department spoke at Pawnee Indians 4-H Club on safety and accident prevention. The group met at Pawne Acre, cleaned grounds, and enjoyed a wiener roast. May 26 Busy Bee and Sherlock Strivers notes cover dog training, project groups, car wash plans, and livestock judging talks. Also included are home economics tips and a death notice for L. C. Weatherford in Atchison Kansas.
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Cleve Spencer
Garden City
DOG Project
Finney County
Robert York
Bobby
Cora Brinkmeyer
Diana Formin
Donna Patee
Judy Stephens
Tim Reed
David Ulrich
Walynn Smith
Vern Joss
Sandra Glant
Gregory Hands
Terry Linengerer
Kaithy Carmichael
Kathy Stengel
Kathy York
Tim Hult‘quist
David Ellington
Lloyd DeRemus
Busy Bee
Busy Bea
Steve Iriik
Ina Frack
Happy Farmer
Lonny Wartman
Sharis Frack
Martha Miller
Jeanne Maxwell
Judy Wartman
Steve
Sharis
Jan
Sherlock Strivers
Sherlock Strivers 4
Robin Robins
Hays
Pam Harsh
Mia
Glunt
Connie Glunt
ASCS Explains Turkey Marketing Order Proposal
ASCS outlines a proposed national turkey marketing order to balance producer returns and consumer prices by preventing over-supply. Eligible producers vote June 18–22. two-thirds approval by producers required to implement. Only after industry review and secretary approval would supply-management measures take effect, with potential yearly referenda.
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D. A. Schopf
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County
Ascs
Finney County
Secretary of Agriculture
Spring Field Day Next Week at Garden City Station
Kansas agricultural advances will be demonstrated at the Southwest Kansas Experiment Spring Field Day on Thursday June 14 at 2 pm at the Garden City Experiment Station. Dr. R V Olson Andy Erhart Dale Edelblute Orvay Harold and Dr Webster Sill will lead discussions and tours of wheat and barley tests, seedbed prep, contour farming, legume plots, grass tests, and new crops and hybrids.
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Kansas
Southwest Kansas
St Louis Zoo Delights Over Its First Baby Hippo
St Louis officials celebrate the birth of the zoo’s first hippo calf weighing 80 pounds. Keeper Henry Sanders says the mother is Peepard, a 3,000 pound hippo, and the father Jeepers weighs 4,000 pounds. The calf could swim at birth and has stayed in the water since.
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St, Louis
St. Louis
Zoo
Henry Sanders
Peepard
Ita Papa
Junior
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