4-H Tour Day Highlights Douglas County Farm Projects
June 4-H club tour highlights a Douglas County family with Joe 14 Jan 12 Jim 10 and parents. Joe shows four fat steers five acres corn five alfalfa plus soil conservation and leadership while Jan and Jim discuss foods clothing home improvement and home beautification. The group visits the steer lot, discusses beef traits and feeding, then tours alfalfa and corn fields noting plowing discing harrowing planting and fertilizing dates and fertilizer amount decisions.
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Joe
Jan
Jim
Farm notes show corn plan and hay harvest schedule
Joe plans multiple corn plantings and fall harvest. First alfalfa cut sold to a dehydrator, second cut to be dehydrated, third and fourth cuts to be baled for hay. Soil tested for fertilizer needs, terraces maintained, contour planting used, and a weed sprayer demonstrated for 24D application at planned ground speed and pressure.
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Joe
Care Suggested For Farmers In Studying Wool Prices
For wool payments under a program, growers should study yearly price trends and market pricing by grade to secure best value. Welding wool when prices are high boosts immediate proceeds and future incentive payments. Readers are urged to consider world versus domestic price relations and the annual average that sets incentive rates.
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David Noe
Douglas Agricultural Stablization and Conservation County Committee
BIA
D. R. Noe
U.S
Tal
Reading Aloud And Fresh Produce In Midwestern Years
Tips on selecting asparagus and pineapple highlight spring markets plus disease notes on elm cankerworms in Kansas. Reader guidance promotes family reading aloud as a valued activity while entomologists warn cankerworm damage may rise next year.
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Gates
Chiang Kai-shek Resting in San Francisco After Formosa Flight
MME Chiang Kai-shek rested in San Francisco today following a flight from Formosa en route to New York for a medical checkup.
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San Francisco
Mme
Chiang Kai-rehek
Formosa
New York
Special Event Set Sunday At Yarnold Site
A homecoming observance will be held Sunday at Yarnold School ten miles west of Lawrence. A 1 p m basket dinner precedes a 2 30 program marking the spring term end with pupils teachers families and friends. The school has 11 pupils and dates back to 1871 with early terms three to seven months. The building burned in 1940. a native stone replacement remains in use. The Panhandle region is described as a large Texas area larger than Pennsylvania.
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Douglas County
Yarnold
Lawrence
Journal-World Photo
Yarnold School
Chris Wulfkuhle
Germany
Thomas Yarnold
England
Valentine Roller
Christopher Wulfkuhle
John Houk
Farmers gain 9.1 billion in four months says USDA
The Agriculture Department reports about 9.1 billion dollars earned by farmers from product sales in the first four months, up 8 percent from a year earlier. Livestock receipts total 5.9 billion, up 12 percent, while crops bring in 3.2 billion, up 2 percent. Prices expected to ease as supplies rise. turkey hatchings indicate 1958 crop may be 10 percent below last year’s record. turkeys may fetch higher prices this year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Fed
Argentine Amity Law Sparks Peron Homecoming Debate
Argentine courts must decide if exiled dictator Juan Peron may return under a broad amnesty bill signed by President Arturo Frondizi. The law grants an ample general amnesty for political and labor motive crimes and related charges, following a February 23 election that fringe Peronist supporters helped win.
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Buenos Aires
Juan Peron
Arturo Frondizi
Frondizi
Congress
Peron
Rest of State Is Termed Good Fishing Quiet in Some Regions
The Kansas State Forestry Fish and Game Commission said heavy rains quieted streams in northeast and north central Kansas while most of the state reports generally good fishing. Southeast lakes yield black bass and crappie up to large sizes. valleys and rivers show variable catches.
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Neosho County State Lake
Bill Kennedy
St. Paul
Butler County State Lake
Montgomery County State Lake Fair
Woodson County State Lake Fair
Kansas
Leavenworth County
Brownounty State
Marias Des Cygnes
Refuse Lake
Atchison County
Mission Lake
Sabetha City Lake
Lyon County State Lake
Kanopolis
Kingmen County
Onawa County State Lake
Wichita
MouPherson County State Lake
Harvey County Lake
Little Walnut
Arkansas
Teattlesnake
Ninnesryth
Hunl
Little Arkansas
Coty Bluff
Kirwin
Webster
County State Lake
Logan County State Lake
Sceatt County State Lake
Rooks County State Lake
Smoky Fall River
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County Extension Newsc
Bill Handley
Handley
McGaugh Heu
Mexico
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Mildred Walker
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Walker
Abilene
Ft. Scott
Dell E. Gates
K-State
McGaugh
Mme, Chiang
Panhandle
Texas
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Friend Lumber Co. “Friendly Service
L P
Lawrence, Kansas
S.F. RR
Lansing
Everett Christenson
Neosho
Cottonwood River
Trinidad
West Indies
Beth Reney Drug Stores
Raney
IEST
Vira Cr
Bill Bodin, Inc
the Journal-World
MT Ake
Sony Aa
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