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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1966
Page
11
Waseca Minnesota farmers still use wide 40 inch corn rows though built for horse planters. The article notes row spacing was convenient for horses and discusses potential yield benefits in modern practice.
Dineen of Caledonia designs a conservation pond and dam for 44 acres on the R and R Ranch La Crescent with 4150 cubic yards of fill and 102 feet of 15 inch pipe. The dam includes a 10 foot roadway for farm access and 10000 square feet of plastic liner with six inches of soil on top for seepage protection.
An Agriculture Department survey shows farm real estate values up eight percent for the year ending March 1. The national index reaches 150 percent of the 1957-59 average, with total farm land value around 171 billion dollars and average land value at 157 dollars per acre. Strong incomes in the Midwest and suburban/industrial demand push prices, while supply tightens and credit remains constrained. States show varied gains with Iowa 12 percent and several others in the 6-8 percent range.
The Agriculture Department reports 29 percent more cattle and calves were shipped into eight Midwestern corn belt states for herd enlargement and feed for the slaughter market in the first half of the year. The total reached 2,672,000 versus 2,078,000 in January-June of the previous year.
The Federal Land Bank Association of Viroqua marks its 50th anniversary in July as part of farmer driven finance history. Manager R J Terwilliger notes long term low cost real estate loans began under the 1916 Farm Loan Act, with the association closing 80 loans totaling $950000 in early 1966 and average loans rising from 8950 in 1964 to 11875 in 1966.
Six parcel post packages in three mail pouches rolled from a hand truck with a broken brake. The truck and pouches slid 30 feet into the Kneeland Canal near a Milwaukee Road depot. Firemen aboard a fireboat rescued the floating pouches. the hand truck sank. Postal authorities planned to dry the mail and resume its trip upstate by rail.
California Supreme Court Justice Louis H. Burke will keynote the Wisconsin Governor's Conference for Home and Family on September 8 and 9 in Milwaukee. Other speakers include Mrs. Ernestine G. Carey, co author of cheaper by the Dozen, invited by Gov. Warren Knowles and the advisory council.
Wisconsin dairy plants report 1965 as a record year for cheese production totaling over 770 million pounds up one percent from 1964 while butter dropped to its lowest level since 1961. Brick Munster and Italian cheeses hit production highs though Limburger and American cheese dipped from last year.
Dairy figures show dried whole milk up 25 percent from 1964 and the largest since 1961. Dried skim milk for animal feed rose while human use declined. Malted milk powder fell one percent. Cottage cheese curd increased but creamed product dipped. Ice cream production stayed level with 1964.
A Ramsey County grand jury indicted Janet Tanavoli on first degree murder for the July 10 death of her 3 year old daughter Shirin after both fell into the Mississippi River near Fort Snelling Bridge. Tanavoli, rescued by a fisherman, returned to the United States two days earlier to be with her parents in St. Paul. Her husband Parviz Tanavoli teaches art in Iran and previously at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
The hog to corn price ratio stands at 17.9 to 1 versus 19.1 to 1 a year ago. One hundred pounds of live hogs equal 17.9 bushels of corn now, down from 19.1 previously. Rising corn prices drive the ratio lower and may influence farmers to adjust hog production. No. 3 yellow corn moved from about 1.297 to around 1.403 per bushel.
Caledonia Minn. public 4-H dress revue scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Caledonia Auditorium.
The Louisquisset Golf Club in North Providence Rhode Island became the nation’s first public course to offer nighttime play in 1964 marking a pioneering move for golf access after dark.
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