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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1971
Page
7
The 4-H program shifts toward urban nonfarm youth this fall in Kansas and Douglas County. It will offer flexible, short term projects not requiring year round club membership, focusing on individual or small group activities that can be completed in about three months.
Douglas County expects a strong corn harvest by late September despite Southern corn leaf blight. Extension director E. L. Van Meter notes a 12 to 15 percent yield drop countywide, with some farmers turning seed corn to silage. Sorghum should top 65 bushels per acre, and about 5 percent of corn silage has been harvested.
A soybean field day Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Eugene Nunemaker Farm near Lawrence examines KSU recommended herbicides and an Ex tension weed control plot in Douglas County. Attendees tour a Columbus soybean variety release and a hail damaged bean plot, ending with a discussion on economics of soybeans corn and grain sorghum in Douglas County.
The AP reports southern corn leaf-blight grew last week, with southeastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey most affected. Moisture fueled spread, though major producing regions saw little movement. drought and rapid crop maturation slowed the outbreak.
J D Rector, named Resource Conservationist on the USDA Soil Conservation Service state program staff in Salina, will guide conservation planning with government units and councils. He will assist on soils engineering and land use issues and advise on farm animal waste abatement and irrigation management. Rector reports to State Resource Conservationist Donald Robertson. Charles W Stewart also to return as assistant state conservation engineer after two years in India.
The Agriculture Department reports hog cholera continues to decline with only three new infected herds in August. Three Puerto Rican swine herds were diagnosed and destroyed. The entire commonwealth remains under a federal hog cholera quarantine restricting swine movement.
County ASCS office serves as information center on the Aug 15 presidential order to curb inflation. David Noe says offices will provide official details only, not handle complaints, and will forward unresolved queries to IRS district offices.
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