25 Jul 1966
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1966
Page
1
The article urges caution during Farm Safety Week and vacations, combining farm safety with ready-to-travel advice. It highlights planning, rest breaks every two hours, observing speed limits, simple rules to prevent accidents, and staying alert for a safe, enjoyable trip. It emphasizes safer driving, proper vehicle readiness, and pacing travel to avoid fatigue.
Sullivan County agent Claude Prince urges homeowners to follow mower safety during National Farm Safety Week. He urges reading manuals, keeping feet clear of blades, clearing debris, keeping children away, turning off ignition before refueling, and mowing in stages to reduce injuries. Local makers offer safeguards to lower accident rates as grass grows.
Tennessee cattle feeders held 25 000 cattle and calves for slaughter feed as of the report date from the Tennessee Crop Reporting Service. The tally shows an 11 percent drop from April 7 but a 32 percent rise from July 1, 1915, with the seasonal drop from April noted. Cattle on feed are animals prepared for the slaughter market on grain or similar feed.
ATLANTA The auctioneer’s chant resumes July 27 as flue-cured tobacco markets in Georgia and Florida open for sales of the HLS66 crop. A team of 152 USDA inspectors will grade each lot before sales, recording grade, date, and initials on the ticket as the certificate of grade. Curtis H. Dale, district supervisor in Raleigh, NC, confirms official grades remain the same as last season.
At Glade Spring Virginia a field day will feature research on Burley tobacco varieties, corn sod planting, and cattle feeding practices. Demonstrations include sulchestral implants, pastures with grain rations, silage wagons, sprayers, and weed control. Tobacco inspection under USDA rules expanded from 1935, with all five cured markets covered by 1942.
Blountville ASC warns that the closing date nears for requests to share costs on fall practices under the 1966 Agricultural Conservation Program. The notice lists approved practices including permanent vegetative cover, two rotation covers, liming, pond and dam projects, pipelines for livestock water, woodland improvement, sod waterways, spring and seep development, and ponds for fish. Soil tests are required for some practices and are advised for others. higher cost-share rates apply to low income farmers with annual gross family income under 3000 dollars, with verification required.
United Press International reports the Soviet Union yields lead per acre, with the United States second and total production favoring the U.S. The article also covers phase feeding for laying hens, stressing protein management and soil-tested fertilizer use, plus Tennessee forestry and strawberry cultivation insights from university extension experts.
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