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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1950
Page
9
Five area counties recognize 4 H club members including Helen Raymond Trempealeau Joanne Nerby Holmen Janice Timm Mindoro Mona Alvarez Galesville Mimi Ebert West Salem Judy Schneeberger Aquinas La Crosse Margaret Van Haden Tomah and Charlotte Osgood Mel Rose is noted in the achievements event.
More than 50 attended the Trempealeau county farm Bureau meeting at Ettrick community hall. James Green of Madison spoke on Farm Bureau value and inflation as a production issue. Directors were elected from 2 townships, with several at large and delegates named for Milwaukee meetings. An exhibition of square dancing was staged by the Rural Youth group.
Curtis Hatch state Farm Bureau federation president spoke at the Crawford county annual meeting held Wednesday night at Seneca high school. He noted Farm Bureau unity after votes, encouraged minority voices, and urged expression of policy disagreements as needed amid changing economic principles.
Alfred L. Johnson, chairman of Monroe county P M A, announces price supports for 1950 red clover seed at 0.35 per pound and alsike at 0.25 per pound. Purity and germination tests will be done at application. support runs until January 21 1951.
Mrs. T. C. Main left Friday to join her husband, former Tremplo county agent, who after January 14 took a new post as field representative for the American Guernsey Cattle Club. From Chicago they will go to Peterboro, New Hampshire, for a week at the Guernsey cattle club national office. He plans to move his family to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to cover five southwestern states.
La Crosse organizes a new Future Farmers of America chapter with Lawrence Broadhead as first president. Officers include Paul Servais vice president Wayne Peters secretary Kenneth Schroeder treasurer Donald Brye reporter and Robert Flottmeyer sentinel. Adviser is Harold Niles. Meetings set for the first and third Wednesdays at 8 p m.
Elections for the production market ing administration committee men start October 4 and run through November in Monroe County townships. Sessions are slated at La Grange Greenfield Leon Portland Lincoln Grant Sheldon Glendale Ridgeville Tomah Jefferson Cataract Oakdale Wilton Wellington Clifton with meetings most at 8 p m and specific venues listed for each locale.
A farm meeting series began last week for Melvina and Fish Creek residents. Led by Edwin R. Olson Cashton High School agriculture instructor, sessions run through January with meetings Fridays at 8 p m Melvina school and Tuesdays at 8 p m Grand View school on Fish Creek ridge. Topics include farm management and rural life with idea exchange the goal.
A Sparta Wisconsin report recalls the Mound Threshing Co fire on October 14 that destroyed a thresher silo filler sawmill and other gear but left a tractor replacement, with the cooperative back in operation shredding corn using remaining equipment. The article traces the Mound Prairie Threshing Co formed in 1915 by ten farmers with 900 dollars stock, listing founders, current officers, and members who continue neighborly aid during harvest and threshing seasons.
Calendar of farm events lists plowing contests meetings and workshops across counties. Highlights include La Crosse county activities at Kilmer Gaarder farm and West Salem high school, plus PMA elections in Monroe and La Crosse counties and 4-H achievement days in several towns.
Julius Jacobson, vice-chairman of Winneshiek county CMA, says the loan purchase price for soybeans in Winneshiek County is $2.07 per bushel. The CCC will pay a six cent premium per bushel for beans with moisture not above 11 percent.
La Crosse county home agent Edith M. Brevig announces a new floor finishing project for the La Crosse Homemakers. Morning and afternoon meetings start Tuesday at 10 and 3:30 with sessions in Bangor Rockland La Crosse city West Salem Mindoro and other centers through November led by local hosts and Northern States Power involvement.
Winners in the Vernon county grassland farming contest will be honored at a dinner meeting Thursday November 9 at 7 p m at the Main street Lutheran church in Viroqua Jerome Riedy county agent announces L E Engelbert Madison soils department at the college of agriculture will head the program of entertainment and awards will be made to the first three contestants in each class In the general class Ray Slack and son Viroqua led followed by Arnold Heidenstein and Harold Winchell Hillsboro First in the progress class was David Henry Viroqua with Julian Mydland Ontario second and Eugene Volden Westby third
Trempealeau Vernon La Crosse Jackson Monroe counties prepare for 4-H achievement events over Nov 3 4 with programs at Whitehall Viroqua La Crosse Tomah Black River Falls and a Crawford County event on Nov 10. The day includes awards meals and a free movie entertainment by the 4-H band and chorus under Dave Simpson.
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