Tips From Tex on stubble mulch and wheat tests
Stubble mulch program changes mean less ground residue due to lower wheat yields. Bob Fuller urges careful tillage to keep required stubble levels for eligibility. Sedimentation tests affect wheat pricing with premiums from 40 to 64 tests, and Finney County achieves Modified Certified Brucellosis Free status. Junior leaders head to Rock Springs camp. seven field plots demonstrate herbicides, fertilizers and Johnson Grass controls with local growers invited to review.
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Bob Fuller
4 H Club Notes Prominent August Meetings Planned
Emmanuel Schiffelbein Sherlock Strivers 4 H Club members wrap up summer lessons with tasks for each meeting. Mrs Harold Thompson leads cookie and milkshake making while Donna Schiffelbein reports after school sessions on measuring utensils and table setting. Celeste Bek notes four meetings and two planned in August. Bert Robins teaches correct measuring, serving, and dessert making with hamburger stroganoff and chamoroons. Families invited to a mother luncheon at the final gathering.
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Emmanuel Schiffelbein
Harold Thompson
Celeste Bek
Bert Robins
Wendy Adams
Clyde Shorter
Lawns require monthly fertilizing for bermuda and zoysia
Kansas State University expert Charles B. Parks states bermuda and zoysia lawns need one pound of elemental nitrogen per 1,000 square feet each month. This equals 10 pounds of 10-20-0 fertilizer or 6 pounds of 18-20-06 or 2 pounds of 33% fertilizer per 1,000 sq ft. The note also covers family 4-H cooking and club activities, a Sherlock Strivers 4-H fireworks stand, and a July 15 livestock judging school led by Mr. Wright’s pony area near Holcomb.
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Bermuda
Charles B. Parks
Kansas State University
Sherlock Strivers
Holcomb
Fourth of July picnic tips for family outings
Practical guidance for a summer cookout with ideas on keeping foods hot or cold, packing salads, sandwich making, and grill hacks. It also notes a Finney County fair judges training for home economics agents and two and a half million annual visitors to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Finney County
Faiir
Lincoln Memorial
Washington D.C
Development of Irrigation Is Topic at Washington Conference
At a national conference in Washington D C on June 19 the Kansas irrigation program highlighted as a success since 1951 was discussed. Russell L Herpich summarized the Pick Sloan Plan for the Missouri River basin noting more than 335000 acres in Kansas under irrigation. The program demonstrates practices on farms across McPherson Cloud El lis Osborne Republic and Smith counties and aims to develop full productive capacity on each farm within three to five years.
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Piarcavilla
Great Plains
Kansas
Washington, D.C
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Russell L. Therpich
Pick Sloan
Missouri River
Herpich
McPherson
Cloud
Ellis
Osborne
Republic
Smith Counties
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