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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1958
Page
10
The La Crosse County committee promotes Dairy Month with an essay contest for grade schoolers on I Use and Enjoy Dairy Products. Deadline is June 9, submissions to the county agent in La Crosse. Also notes warn of various scams and report channels, reports on Pig Club anniversary and its swine-raising program, and warns farmers about drought impacting pasture, hay, and milk production.
Paul Ringsten of Whitehall High School will join seven vocational agriculture students and teachers on an all expenses paid plane trip to Yellowstone Park June 24 28. The winning trip comes from an essay contest run by the Farmers Union Central Exchange in St Paul with travel paid by the group. Other winners include Jerry Smith Augusta Kent Keenlyne Durand Thomas A Kaufman Alma Center Francis Weeks Medford Roger Sipple Menominee James Accola Mondovi and Frederick Holte Strum.
Trempealeau County district supervisors and Area 5 personnel will tour Jackson County sites on Thursday June 5. The 9:30 a.m. start at Black River Falls Courthouse includes forestry and wildlife demonstrations, pine plantings, marsh management, deer enclosures, and visits to Ladine Mound and various flowages and refuges. Sam Kelly chairs the tour with county officials and soil conservation staff. Four Army weapons may be replaced by a seven-pound rifle capable of 750 shots a minute.
Caledonia hosts Houston County Dairy Day on Wednesday June 11 offering a parade at 1 30 p m dairy princess contestants, contests, a dairy cooking school, and a park dance. Prizes include cash games, calves and attendance gifts with entertainment by Lee Hall’s Orchestra and a free dairy lunch.
Thirteen Houston County delegates will attend the state 4 H junior leadership conference June 10 13 at the University of Minnesota St Paul Campus. Laurel Ness will represent the county at the State 4 H Club Federation meeting during the conference. Houston County plans 22 4 H members to Pine Bluff Camp in Decorah Iowa June 18 20 for agriculture homemaking project work and activities.
June farm gatherings listed across Wisconsin include a Pig Club picnic in La Crosse at Myrick Park 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday and a Holstein Breeders Twilight meeting at Trempealeau County Hospital Farm at 8 p.m. on same day.
Twenty seven purebred pigs will be assigned to La Crosse County rural youngsters Tuesday at the La Crosse Pig Club picnic at the Myrick Park shelterhouse. About 500 to 600 people are expected. The event features breed allotments, a 4-H involvement, a meal by the Pig Club, and remarks by Frank Mayfield of Oscar Mayer Co., with the La Crosse County 4-H band opening the 1958 concert season.
Ortiz Lean, president of the Coon Creek Flood Control Assn., announced the watershed’s application for federal flood control aid has reached Washington and will be acted on in this session. If approved, the group will proceed with construction of 15 detention structures in the area.
Voting places for the referen dum on marketing quotas for the 1959 wheat crop were announced by Richard Gilster, La Crosse County ASC chair. Eligible voters: growers with more than 15 acres of wheat in 1959, excluding 1958 feed wheat participants. If two thirds approve, quotas stay for 1959 and price support not less than $1.81 per bushel. penalties apply for excess. If not approved, price support remains about $1.20 per bushel.
Westby Kiwanis Club plans the first Outstanding Young Farmer award with Victor Bakke noting ten nominees from Chaseburg Coon Valley and Westby areas. Candidates aged 21 to 36 are judged on farm and livestock management conservation and community service. An award banquet is scheduled for June 26 with a guest speaker.
West Salem Wisconsin Special reports elected 1958 officers at the first rehearsal at West Salem village hall. Janice Hoeth is president Joan Schiller vice president Mary Roberts secretary Kardin treasurer. A gift committee was formed to honor former director Kenneth Niedfeldt who leaves for the Army. The band will appear at the Pig Club picnic at Myrick Park Tuesday. Rehearsals set for Monday at the extension office in La Cresse.
Dennis Goodenough of Mindoro has been accepted as a junior member of The Holstein-Friesian Assn of America. He earned the certificate of merit and junior membership pin through dairy project work with registered Holstein cattle, recommended by County Agent Harold E. Huth.
Three Sparta FFA members Carroll Smith Donald Justin and David Reise will be awarded State Future Farmer degrees at the Green Lake convention June 10. Lloyd Feltes adviser accompanies them. Eligibility requires $500 self earned through farming and top 55 percent scholastically after Green Hand and Chapter degrees.
The Wisconsin Chester White Swine Breeders Assn will hold its annual state picnic at the Earl and Robert Rhyme farm east of West Salem on Sunday June 8. A pot luck dinner at noon precedes a short business meeting with Neil Batterman speaking. Judging contests for all attendees in the afternoon.
In Caledonia Minnesota special bluegrass pastures in Houston County and nearby areas are part of University of Minnesota trial plots. Leo Stoltz oversees seven one acre plots testing fertilizer effects with nitrogen levels rising through the season. Initial April 22 application shows darker green growth on nitrogen treated plots as Stoltz plans daily grazing for 29 cows and records milk output and weight gains.
Norman Clapp of Lancaster a Democratic candidate for Congress from the Third District and Paul Affeldt of the Pure Milk Products Cooperative will speak at the La Crosse County Farmers Union convention in Bangor High School auditorium Wednesday at 8 30 p m The program includes a business session entertainment and lunch
Two girls from India will visit Allamakee and Fayette counties in late summer as part of the International Farm Youth Exchange Program. They will stay three weeks with Horace Clark and Robert Grenna in Waukon area and with Harvey Gruber near Monona.
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