4-H Club Meetings Highlight March Activities
The Telestars Go-Getters Beacon Boosters and Happy Hustlers 4-H clubs in Garden City and Dana Erhart led March events. Meetings featured pledges, minutes, reports, demonstrations on braille and gardening, project talks, skits, and a planned skating party. Community leaders spoke on livestock contests and fair entries with refreshments served.
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Telestars
Telestars 4-11
4-H
Garden City
Nora Je Tresner
Miks Quint
Lois Bauer
Nora Kee
Joyce Heinz
Noralie Tresner
Lee James
Milton
Jake Dechant
Bob Mark
Paul Ven John
Ronald Mott
Rodney Ven John
Beacon Boosters
4-H Club
Dana Erhart
America
Chardell Myers
Joan Hammon
Kathy York
Randy Seay
India
Peace Corps
Lana Brinkmeyer
Ida Rose Linn
Busby, Myers, Hinkle
Jasse Scott
Tree Planting Program Expands Across Kansas
Kansas landowners prepare spring conservation plantings with 4% million trees ordered by about 1,700 owners. Officials expect 3,500 orders for 2% million plantings. Orders accepted at county Extension offices through mid May as weather favors planting. Seedling supplies are uneven with American plum seedlings scarce and several shrubs short while a dozen tree species are abundant.
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Manhattan
Kansas
Gene Grey
Kansas State University
Grey
Trees for Kansas Landscape Spring Planting
A Kansas extension advisor outlines tree options for spring planting. Hybrid locusts Mordine Skyline and Shademaster offer fast growth, thornless and podless form for shade framing or background. American sycamore and London plane provide large shade with caveats on size and litter. Hackberry and pecan present hardy options, with caveats on root spread and irrigation. Now is the season to select and order from nurseries.
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Kansas
London
Samuel Hands to show Angus at K State Little American Royal
Kansas State University sophomore Samuel Hands of Garden City will display an Angus bull at the Little American Royal on March 20 at 7 pm in Weber Hall Arena Manhattan. The student run event has two divisions block and bridle and dairy with 176 contestants using University owned animals. Hands, an animal husbandry major, has prior FFA and 4H experience and belongs to Alpha Gamma Rho Caparious and Black and Bridle Clubs. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Fielding Hands.
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Sam Hands
Hands
Manhattan
Kansas State University
Samuel Hands
Garden City
K- State
Weber Hall
Kansas City
The
Kansas Assn
Future Farmers of America
FFA Foundation
FFA
K-State
Alpha Gamma Rho
Caparaios
Fielding Hands
S. Star Rt
Charleston Astronauts 4-H Club Notes March Meeting
The Charleston 4-H Club met March 11 in the Charleston Co-op office. Na Renick called the meeting to order with roll call on etiquette. Reports were given by Gary Kopper, Sharon Oringdorff, and Henry Williamson, plus a blue ribbon prize for a model meeting at Cimarron. Discussions covered April travel to Cimarron, judging plans, and a onion juice demonstration.
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Pierceville
Lowell McGraw
Leland
Don Keller
Jake Dechant
Mery
Paul Ven John
Stanton County
Bob Dechant
Elkhart
Fairgrounds
Happy Hustlers
Beth Funk
Nancy Brown
Doug Gillian
Mike Maddox
Susan Rome
Sheryl Gross
Dwane Drees
Debbie Solze
Paul Hewson
Roger Jarmer
Caroline Brown
Charleston
Astronauts +H
Gray County
Cimarron
Janice Renick
Velma Kopper
Henry Williamson
Kevin Roth
Johnny Horton
Carol Oringdorff
Western Cattle Co Inc Seeks Stocker and Feeder Cattle
Western Cattle Co Inc advertises as order buyer for stocker and feeder cattle. They offer on commission services and claim expertise in classing and selecting cattle for purchase and sale.
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Western Cattle Co., Inc
Kansas 4 H gardeners plan growing project details
Garden is a popular Kansas 4 H project with plans for a home garden, commercial or truck garden, and the potato project. Home gardens require at least five kinds of vegetables, commercial gardens aim for viable business quantities, and potatoes need planting at least one half acre. Rural America has about half the doctors per 100000 and a third fewer dentists than cities.
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Kansas
America
New Look For 4 H Dress
Kansas State University official 4 H dress gets a new A line skimmer with jewel neckline and optional jacket. Miss Hanstead notes the design blends with past attire for years at 4 H events. Pattern available in May fashion books. events include National 4 H Conference in Washington and Kansas State Fair encampments. Industry notes export figures rising from twelve years ago to one fourth of harvest.
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Manhattan
Arliss Honestead
Kansas State University
Washington, D. C
Washington
D. C
Kansas
KSU
Hutchinson
Well Prepared Soil for Gardening Says Kansas State Expert
Kansas State University Extension horticulture specialist Dr. Frank D. Morrison urges gardeners to use well prepared soil rich in organic matter. Add 4 bushels of compost manure or peat moss per 100 square feet, mix, and apply 3 to 4 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per 100 square feet. Maintain appropriate moisture to avoid compacted soil that harms root development.
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Manhattan
Frank D. Morrison
Kansas State University
Morrison
Child labor rules for agriculture under Fair Labor Standards Act
The act imposes stricter limits on agricultural work than other industries. It applies to farms regardless of size and does not hinge on days worked. Minors 16 and older may be employed in any agricultural occupation, while under 16 may not be employed in hazardous agricultural work as declared by the Secretary of Labor, including driving a tractor with 20 horsepower or more.
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Secretary of Labor
Child labor rules and rootworm control alert for Kansas farms
Corner and Albert Maddux Finney County extension agents warn that children under 16 may not be employed in agriculture during school hours and that migrants are subject to the same rules, with parent employment on a farm as the sole exception. Penalties can include injunctions, fines up to 10,000 dollars, or imprisonment. Also advised is using crop rotation or time planting to disrupt corn rootworm life cycles, and replacing aldrin and heptachlor due to resistance. The 1968 Kansas Insect Control Recommendations bulletin is available at the Extension office.
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Secretary of Labor
Federal District
Child Labor Bulletin
WHPC
U.S. Department of Labor
Beacon Building
S. Main
Wichita
Kan
Kansas
KSU Plans Annual Sheep Shearing School in Hutchinson
Kansas sheep industry nets about 190000 yearly at 50 cents per head for 380000 sheep. About a hundred custom shearers operate in the state with some producers shearing their own stock. Kansas State University hosts a two day school for shearers April 22 to 24 at Hutchinson State Fair grounds with 1963 national champion Bob Welsh as instructor. Wool sales make up roughly one third of farm income. last year the state produced over 3.5 million pounds valued around 114 million dollars. An expert shearer can process 100 to 125 sheep in a ten hour day.
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Hutchinson
Bob Welsh
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Kansas
Health Habits Taught in Kansas 4-H Health Project
Kansas 4-H members explore personal health across physical mental and emotional domains. They learn desirable habits and attitudes while sharing responsibility for improving family and community health.
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Kansas
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Garden City Production Credit Association
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