Boosters and 4-H Go On Spring Tour in Piercevilles
Beacon Boosters met at the Piercevilles school for a basket dinner after the annual 4-H spring tour. Members and parents visited farms and homes to view livestock, crops, clothing, and home beautification projects, with demonstrations on canning and vegetables.
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Beacon Boosters
Piercevilles
Beacon
Boosters
Rodney Parres
Gerald Beach Ranch
Larry
Gary
Vvarlong
Robert York
Sardena
York
Man
Sims
Smith
Brandt
Thej
Productgray
Anna Mae Largent
David Mcmathre
pro-Millan
Vegeta
Don Bernbeck
Joan Stucker
Linda
Foughen
Russell
Norma Lee Brown
Varlin
David Whidss
McMillan
Grees I
4 H clubs plan fairs and booth ideas across communities
Across the Agent's Across the Agent's last Friday extension agents toured Flyers and Pawnee Indians 4-H clubs then visited five homes and a lunch at Scott home. Marcille Brown denied her guitar skills from state camp while Mark Brown and Mark Scott were named delegates to camps. Club members discussed booth design, planning sketches, simple clear lettering, and eye catching titles as they prepare for county fairs.
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Flyers
Ern Scott
Marcille Brown
Mark, Brown
Mark Scott
Marcille
Ind
Warren
Weed control with 2 4 D in sorghum fields considered
Advice on using 2 4 D weed killer in sorghum shows that spraying costs depend on weed pressure, with about one fourth to one half pound of 2 4 D per acre, depending on ester or amine forms. Ground or air spraying has risks, especially with oil-based sprays, and acid strength, volatility, and crop safety influence choice.
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Diller
Girls Train for Home Ec Jobs In Kansas Counties
Future county home economics agents and college seniors majoring in extension home economics are training in Kansas counties. Norma Lee I Brown of Wakarusa trains in Finney county to become Hodgeman county agent. Betty Sellers of Florence trains in Gray county and will be a college senior next fall.
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Kansas
Mac Baird
Kansas State College
Norma Lee I Brown
Wakarusa
Finney County
Hodgeman County
Betty Sellers
Florence
Gray County
Miss Sellers
Spinning Wheel Tied To Four Generations In One Home
In Ludlow Illinois Mrs Margaret Minyard 83 keeps a spinning wheel in her rug weaving business at home. The wheel, aged about 150 years, was learned by spinning woolen and cotton threads in Kentucky and was hand carved by her grandfather. It has served four generations of the family over 33 years of use.
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Ludlow
Ill
Margaret Minyard
Kansas State expert urges new farm research focus
Dr Glenn H Beck speaking at Garden City ranch station anniversary argues farmers face surplus, controls, higher costs and risk. He calls for intensified marketing research, uses for ag products, rural development, land use for climate, and drought studies, predicting stations will shape future despite uncertain 50 year outlook.
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Garden City Ranch Experiment Station
Glenn H. Beck
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Mahattan
Beck
Garden City
Agricultural Extension Calendar entries listed
June dates include a Pierceylle lighting lesson in the afternoon on June 20 and a Squo yah lighting event around June 25. the State 4-H conservation camp runs June 22 to 26 at Rock Springs Ranch. June 26 features a Foods preservation school at the 4-H building at 1 30 p.m.
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Rock Springs Ranch
Foods Preservation School
Stored Wheat Tests High at Kansas Bin Sites
Kansas ASC chairman Rodney McCammon reports the Commodity Credit Corporation wheat shipments in Kansas had excellent condition. Of 3.75 million bushels, 4,208 were graded sample. 843,382 No 1 and 1,656,542 No 2 made up two thirds. Mercury compound found in some grain. four factors guided packing decisions.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
Kansas
Rodney McCammon
Kansas State
ASC Committee
McCammon
Behind your telephone bill and the machines that read it
A Kansas telephone accounting chief explains the monthly task of 450,000 bills, the use of Direct Distance Dialing tapes, and the role of accounting in accuracy. It details payroll for 17,500 paychecks and 3,400 supplier payments, plus records, inventories, and adherence to federal rules.
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Kansas
L. H. Riesmey
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Kathryn Sughrur
Zhi Home Economies Agent
Go-Getters
4-H Club
Gale Rundell
Marvin Cronin
Cronins
Mada
Marsha
Jon
Louis
Douglas
Doyle McGraw
Steve Parr
Hazel Weldon
Marvin James
Hereford
Saundra McGehee
Norla Stephens
Karen Jones
Jerry Burgardt
Maxine Vandarree
Connie
Karen VenJohn
Angus
Karen
Sears
Linda VenJohn
E. D. Warner
State College
Friend Flyers
Friend School
Delinda Billings
Delbert
Strickert
Manhattan
Delores Kleysteuber
Mike Gigot
David Lightner
Dennis Kleysteuber
Joan Kleysteuber
Doris Oliver
Mr. Santala
Harry Kent Lightner
Gegy Agricultural Chemicals
Aus
H. Riesmey
Don Davis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Riesmey
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