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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1963
Page
5
Wm W Marshall chairman outlines 1964 feed grain program largely mirrors 1963 with early 1964 signup. Major change raises diversion cap to 50 percent with higher payments to encourage additional diversion and income. payment formulas, loan rates, and eligibility rules detailed for corn barley sorghum and price supports.
The Holstein Friesian Association of America announced Sky-Go Farms Fulton five year old cow Tabor Reflection Cindy set a 2019 milk record with 20,100 pounds of milk and 676 pounds of butterfat in 365 days. The average cow produced 7,211 pounds of milk and 276 pounds of butterfat in the same period.
This week gardeners should reach peak harvest for summer vegetables including tomatoes corn beans peppers cucumbers cantaloupe watermelon okra squash eggplant and lima beans. Tips cover ideal stages for picking green beans corn tomatoes peppers cucumbers melons and okra to ensure best flavor and storage quality.
Missouri banks led in agricultural credit with 288 million dollars in loans at the year's start, including 202 million for production and 86 million for farm mortgages. Life insurers held 47 million, Farm Credit lenders 64 million, and other agencies 56 million in real estate loans. Vetter notes banks supply 72 percent of production credit, urging closer banker-farmer collaboration to strengthen farm finance.
In Fulton, four Cal laway Soil and Water Conservation District cooperators were honored at a Williamsburg meeting. Glenn A. Crawford Joe A. Lee William Meyer and Sons and Joe Robert Boyce were recognized for land and water conservation practices on farms ranging from 140 to 253 acres. Crawford has long served as a district cooperator, with terraces and planned improvements. Lee milks dairy cows and diversified terraces ponds and waterways provide protection. Meyer and Sons manage steep hill land with terraces diversions water storage and cover crops for pasture or hay. Boyce began in 1954 on his father’s farm and expanded to JAL acres, protecting bottom and hill land with diversions and productive fields.
National Farmers Organization plans a milk withholding action in 18 states if processors fail to sign master contracts in numbers. Robert Manke of Arlington Wisconsin said a date is set but not announced. Progress is made with new processors signing weekly and 14 this past 36 hours. NFO contracts in the Midwest set a bottling price of 6.05 per hundred pounds versus 4.29 under the Chicago federal order.
Kansas City AP John T. Smith retires at 73 after 46 years as Municipal Air Terminal night manager. He began in 1927 when the strip was a cinder path and a single arc lamp provided night light. He says his shadow guided pilots as they landed.
California special report by William D. Riley outlines four tomato management practices for gardeners. It stresses seed variety choice, moisture and nitrogen balance, and disease control, detailing blossom end rot cause, wilt symptoms, and virus and blight prevention. It warns that disease prevention hinges on soil health, resistant varieties, timely pruning, and proper spraying schedules.
Tomason's Topics compares agreements to federal milk marketing orders in the colonies. Sunday touring farmers on narrow roads missed rain, then dry Missouri visitors brought sunny weather. In Coventry a statue of a horse drew admiring murmurs from the Missouri delegation, tied to a noblewoman named Gadiva.
About six thousand delegates and guests are expected for the Missouri Farmers Association annual convention in Columbia on August 12. Sessions will be at Stephens College Auditorium with simultaneous meetings in other Stephens buildings. The program includes a presidential address by Fred W. Heinkel, a piano lunch, and a talk by Merrill B. Guild of Titnois Grain Corp. Other speakers include Rev Otis E. Young. The gathering will elect MFA officers and board members to fill vacancies on the 32 member board.
Daniel Lincolenbusch sixteen of St Elizabeth is among four H Club members to receive expense paid trips to the American Institute of Cooperation in Lincoln Nebraska August fourth to seventh. Delegates are chosen for club records and marketing work. Lindenbusch has served three years as reporter and junior leader at MFA Exchange in St Elizabeth. Other winners include Dennis Dale Morse Moscow Mills Donna Hawkins Salisbury Linda Hurst Brunswick and Roger Willcox Kirksville.
Vatican City AP report notes L Osservatore Romano editor Federico Alessandrini argues Moscow’s editorial shift questions whether communism has softened. Khrushchev’s stance is viewed as preserving coexistence as the path to ultimate communist victory.
Cole County Agricultural Committee approved 382 farms for financial aid in the Agricultural Conservation Program during 1963. Federal cost-sharing funds of 57,082 dollars were allocated. ACP has reached about 1,000 farms in five years, expanding improved cultivation, woodlot and pasture management to around 40 percent of Cole County agricultural land. Principal work includes terraces, ponds, limestone, phosphate and permanent pasture.
New confirmed rabies cases reported in Missouri for the week leading July 27 include a rabid skunk in Greene and Callaway Counties a rabid cat and dog in Macon County and a rabid cat in Oregon County Dr E R Price veterinary consultant to the Missouri Division of Health said total cases to date in 1963 reach 102 compared with 104 at the same point last year
In Washington the Housing and Home Finance Agency awarded Southwest City Missouri a grant of 66750 to aid a water swell and sewage collection facilities project. The total cost of the plan is 194730.
Advertises Odrinex appetite depressant tablets promising easy fat loss without exercise or dieting. Claims you can eat what you like while taking the tablet, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Includes address and mentions mail orders from a drug store.
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