Making the Best Better 4-H awards announced
The National 4-H boys agricultural awards program honors club members for balanced project work across dairy electric field crops forestry gardening meat animals poultry soil and water conservation and tractor. Two county medals crown state winner at the National 4-H Congress in Chicago with six national scholarships priced at 300 each. Round-up activities at Kansas State College May 31 to June 4 feature performances by 4-H groups from Jackson to Sedgwick counties.
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Kansas Extension Service
Chicago
Kansas State College
Manhattan
J. Harold Johnson
K-State
Jackson
Elk
Dickinson County
Brown and Labette County
Morris
Pawnee
Saline
Stafford
Brown and Republic
Cherokee, Seward
Rice and
Sedgwick County
Livonia York
Finney County
Joan McDaniels
Judy Phipps
Slenda Opitz
Gald Rundell
Vernon Shneer
Jim Linenberger
Gary Jarmer A 4-H teen to win at fair with hard grooming
Gary Jarmer age 13 son of Cyril Jarmer Route 1 Garden City pursues champion baby beef at fairs through year round grooming and practice. He won last year at Finney County Free Fair in beer fitting and showing. This year he leads Happy Hustlers 4-H club safety committee and helps with fairground cleanup and fundraisers. He sings western songs in choirs and won a red ribbon for Your Cheatin Heart. Reporter Greta De Remus.
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Gary Jarmer
Cyril Jarmer
Rt. 1
Gary
Finney County
Gardenity
Champ
Happy Hustlers
Greta de Remus
Big Wheat Quantities Into Support Program
Final figures for most of the 1954 price support programs show that Kansas farmers put large quantities of commodities under support this year. Ben C. Kiefer, chairman of the state Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee, said this week. The closing date for placing 1954 crop flaxseed, soybeans, dry edible beans, and all the grains except corn under the support program was January 31. Producers have until May 31 to put 1954-crop corn under loan or purchase agreement.
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Kanaas
Ben C. Kiefer
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Agricultural Extension Calendar May 14 4-H Judging Schools
Agricultural Extension Calendar lists events on May 14 including District 4-H Livestock Judging at Leon Scheverman farm near Doserfield with 9:45 a.m. start and District 5-H Home Economics judging at the Fair Grounds Garden City registration by 9:30 a.m. CST. May 15 features Countywide 4-H Sunday observance and a basket dinner at the 4-H building. May 16–17 covers Nutrition lessons for Home Demonstration Unit and 4-H Leaders at Presbyterian.
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Leon Scheverman
Doserfield
Fair Grounds
Garden City
Presbyterian
4 H Leader Lyle Ashworth Wins National Honor
Up and Atom 4 H club celebrates leader Lyle Ashworth receiving a blue ribbon in National 4 H News for a Leaders Monthly Meeting article. Ashworth describes how the large club of 92 members conducts meetings with junior leaders assisting, program planning, and a focus on safety health and recreation. The club notes this may be the first Finney County 4 H leader to win the award and extends sincere congratulations.
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Atom 4-H
4-H
Lyle Ashworth
Ashworth
Finney County
Mary Kay Bergkamp
Lutheran Conference Re-Elects Two Officers
OMAHA Neb The Southeast Conference of Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Central states yesterday reelected Rev Ernest Tonsing pastor of First National Church Topeka as president and Rev Theodore Althof St Johns Lutheran Church of Russell Kas as president of the Southwest conference Also listed are dates for a church kitchen tour May 16 home improvement at Court House May 18 senior meeting at St Marys school and Southwest 4 H camp cleanup in Dodge City.
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Omaha
Neb
Southeast Conference of
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Central
Court House
Atom
St Mary’s School
Dodge City
Applications for field inspection of wheat and other crops due May 15
The county extension office accepts applications for field inspections of wheat oats rye barley sweet clover grasses and alfalfa through May 15. Applications must be sent to the Kansas Crop Improvement Association in Manhattan with fees. Only certified seed fields qualify and seed tags are needed if not grown by the seed producer. Brown wheat mites have appeared widely in wheat fields causing leaf mottling and bronzing. Chemical control with parathion is variably effective and rain favors mite suppression. spraying may not be cost effective and success depends on area wide application.
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Kansas Crop Improvement Association
Manhattan
Crop Improvement Association
Large Supply of Feed Grains Likely From Farmers Plans
Reports from farmers on March 1 acreage show a likely large supply of feed grains this year. Kansas farmers expect 12 percent less corn, 72 percent more barley, and 5 percent more oats and grain sorghums than last year. The sor-
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Kansas
Kansas Farmers Plan Soybean Planting And Crop Outlook
A misplaced USDA crops report notes potential record ghum acreage if planted, with soybeans tied at 425000 acres in Kansas, unchanged from last year but 18 percent above the 0-year average. Other crops listed include soybeans hay flax sugar beets and potatoes. A stray line mentions pie crust glaze and stray text with a date and location.
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USDA
Kansas
Interid
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Lutheran Conference
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Garden City Co-Op
Crick
Atome
Staley
Alta
Olc
Ea Mae
Soil Conservation District
Eit
VF Os
Tai Anyong
U.S
DIAL
Bart
Royalmesservice
Royal Tures
Massey-Harris
Massey- Harris
Ture
Massey-Harris Ferguson, Inc
E. Fulton
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