Futures Program and seedling orders for Douglas County farms
County Extension News urges beef producers and local businessmen to back a new Futures Trading in Beef Cattle program. It notes December orders for tree and shrub seedlings for windbreaks, fencing, erosion control, and wildlife habitats, with species lists and contact details for the Douglas County Extension Office. The piece ends recalling a 1964 New England ceremony marking a canal inauguration between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay.
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Thae Lawrence
State Extension
Kansas State University
New England
Massachusetts
Cape Cod Bay
Buzzards Bay
Winter Weather Agriculture Hints by Chester Paxson
Prolonged freezing temperatures threaten pond fish from suffocation without daily ice openings for oxygen. Dormant grass seedings can be sown now through spring, especially on wet fields to aid early germination and weed suppression. Waterways that have not been
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Soil Conservation Service Office
Chester Paxson
Trainmen Deliver Christmas Cheer to LeRoy Girls
In Osawatomie Kansas crews on local and through freight trains have long tossed candy and small gifts to three girls near LeRoy under the care of their grandmother. Doug Ogden, conductor, organized a fund that surpassed 75 dollars to aid the family. Tonight the south local plans a stop at the little house with Christmas freight for the children and grandmother who greet the crews each day.
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LeRoy
Kan
Doug Ogden
Deliv
Ogden
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County Extension News
Douglas County Extension Office
Manhattan
Kansas
Emil Heck
Homer Gerstenberger
George H. Butell
Wilson Counts
Leslie Demeritt
Douglas County Soil Conservation Board of Supervisors
Chester F. Paxson
Harold Dickey
Richard Davis
Leonard J. Kaskey
Leland Whaley
Robert Livingston
Geneva Johnson
Paxson
Knight
Knight's
Louisiana
Santa Claus
Royal College Shop
ROYAL
Cal
Sian
Carol Brent
Arnel
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