Parents Take Over Eager Beaver Club
The Eager Beavers 4-H club held a Parents Night with Mrs. John Whitelay and other parents in charge. Lee Ballinger warned members about grass care and playground safety while Mrs. Harvey Johnson demonstrated how to print a picture using a print box and chemical development steps. Greta DeRemus reports on the Happy Hustlers and Wide Awake club notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eager Beavers 4-H Club
John Whitelay
Lee Ballinger
Harvey Johnson
Greta DeRemus
James Overboy
Happy Hustlers
Finney County
Naa
Raymond Blackwi
Loretta Goss
Charlene Dicks
Darlene Goss
Teresa
Greta da Remus
Wanda Hays
Louetta Goss
Raymond. Wright
Connie Rae
Raymond
Robert Blackwood
Mile Club promotes 100 bushel sorghum contest in Finney County
Arrangements are in place for a 100 bushel mile club to study farm yields under actual conditions. Eligible Finney County producers must enter by July 15, with plots of at least five acres. Weighing and moisture sampling will finish reports by December 1, with prizes for top producers and a banquet after harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finney County
Agricultural Extension Council
Agriculture Committee
Garden City
Charlene Dicks’s 4-H Garden Wins Blue Ribbons
Charlene Dicks of the Happy Hustlers 4-H club spent hours beautifying her farm home with a tulip garden blooming from February to April. Her project includes cosmos, calendulas, poppies, asters, marigolds, zinnias, dahlias, and gladiola bulbs. At the Dicks home on Route One Garden City she tends bulbs and annuals while earning cherry pie champion honors and a style review ribbon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlene Dicks
Memer
Happy Hustlers 4-H Club
Charlene
4-H Club
Raymond Dicks
Garden City
Finney County
Greta DeRemus
Wheat referendum set for June 25 in commercial states
Wheat growers may decide if the wheat marketing quota program continues for the 1956 crop. The referendum will be held June 25 in commercial wheat states, requiring two thirds favorable votes to extend the program. Ezra Benson announced the 1956 national wheat acreage allotment at 55 million acres and said the national average support price would be announced before the referendum. Kansas voters with more than 15 acres eligible. local voting places to be announced beforehand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra T. Benson
Ron F. Kiefer
Kansas
ASC
Nomad alfalfa shows promise in early trials at Mound Valley
Nomad, a creeping alfalfa, performs well in initial tests at the Mound Valley branch experiment station but shows no creeping tendency yet. Station agronomist Lloyd C Jones notes the southeast Kansas climate and says it is too early to tell what Nomad will do since planted last fall, though it has outperformed varieties already considered adapted to the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mound Valley Branch
Kansas
Lloyd C Jones
Jones
Just Around in Summer Crafts for Girls and DA Rural Electrification
A guide for mothers and daughters on simple summer activities. It outlines sewing a cotton skirt for 10 to 13 year olds using 2 widths of material, or 3 for fuller styles, with band length along the selvage edge, and notes on gathering or pleating. It also gives washing tips for dark cottons with vinegar, gelatin starch instructions, and mentions the Rural Electrification Administration turning 20 with progress in farm central station service from 1935 to today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rural Electrification Administration
Agricultural Extension Calendar June events and meetings
Agricultural Extension Calendar lists events from June 10 to June 18 at various locations including Experiment Station Spring Field Day at the station and irrigation field in Holcomb, Executive Board meeting at Elite Cafe, 1 p.m., 4-H tours and home economics judging at Beacon, Plymell Community House, 4-H buildings, and St Mary school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holcomb
Balanced Farming
Agricultural Extension Council Executive Board
Elite
Plymell Community House
Beacon Boosters
4 H recreation program adds state talent show to fair
The Kansas 4 H recreation program expands to include a state talent show at the Kansas State Fair. County programs nominate top numbers for the state event in vocal instrumental dramatic dance novelty and master of ceremonies. The master of ceremonies division debuts this year with eligibility limited to 1955 recreation leaders and committee members.
Soil air porosity and root growth in seedbeds
In seedbed prep for corn milo and soybeans excessive tillage reduces soil air porosity restricting root development. Sanitation practice is linked to more pigs raised and saves about one.
Pigs Ready Earlier as Feed Ration Increases Growth
A report notes that increasing the feed proportion accelerates growth in pigs, shortening the time to reach market weight and improving readiness for imarket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eager Beaver Club
Wide Awake
Plymer
Everett Buhler
Arthur Drussel
Raymond Drussel
Brecheisen
Hershel Oliver
F. Arthur Stone
Amass Warreh
Louis Lobmeyer
Joe Ohmes
Clarence Gigot
Harold Kleysteuber
Noble Widows
Dan Ohmes
John Staley
Martin Nusser
Harry Lightner
Phyllis Drussel
de Remus
Route One
Oscar Norby
Kathryn Sughrue
HD Agent
Plymell
P.m
Dyne
P.m. St. Mary School
ANAMO
Finney County Extension Service
Kathryn Sughbree
William Vansking
Truitt Adams
Guy Wilkenson
Gram
Kirg
Garden City Co-Op
Rela
Storey Milling Company
Kansog City 16
Pig Kisses
Pig Mama
Level Farmers Alliance
McPherson, Kaneat
Kanese Farm Life
Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. CO
Kansas Farm Life Ins. CO
J. Wayme Chambers
Mr. Farmer
Harry Atherton
Date
Pranent Insurance
Sheen Vere
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