Plains farming plant diseases reshape big farm talks
Duane Bowell reports on a Texas High Plains farm meeting discussing cotton diseases seed coat sources, wilt and blight threats, and control ideas. Officials note disease losses run into millions yearly and stress seed treatment crop rotation and resistant varieties while acknowledging limits of chemical controls.
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Charles
Bird Fisher
Texas Agriculture Experiment Salon
Texas
Bil Gunter
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Plains
Bird
Hale County weed district expands control program reach
Hale County Noxious Weed Control district reported 4521 gallons of squid herbicides and 208.4 pounds of dry material used on 610 acres in 1960. The operation cost about 9000 dollars and covered 451 farms on land roads and railways, with demonstrations and cooperative experiments on pre and post emergence weed control in cotton.
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Plainview (Special
Hale County
Archie Martin
Hale
Weed District
Brushland Experiment Station
Iornia
Young Cooper Farmers Meet for Organizational Session
Earl Madding of Cooper High School reports a young farmers chapter will hold an organizational meeting at 7 30 p m at the Cooper school. He urges all local young farmers to attend.
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Cooper
Earl Madding
Cooper High School
Cooper School
Madding
Multiple Sclerosis Hits North Hardest
A Patterns for Disease report notes MS chiefly affects young adults with a prevalence of up to 1 in 720 Americans. MS is 5 to 10 times more common in northern states than southern ones, with regional conferences and local meetings in Hale County and surrounding Texas counties promoting disease education and prevention efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPS
Hale County
Adee
Welch
Lockney
Texas
Highway Department
Sugar Beet Group Sets Hale County Meeting on Beets
Hale County Sugar Beet Assn schedules Friday 7 p m gathering in Hale High School lunchroom to discuss introducing sugar beets as a potential cash crop and to determine how best to proceed with the project.
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Hale Petersburg
Hale County Sugar Beet Assn
Members urged to claim art at Municipal Garden Arts Center
Members of the South Plains Art Geis have been asked to claim a work exhibited in the Recent Ninth Annual Membership Artists may claim their work from 9 a.m. until p.m. today at the Municipal Garden Arts Center 4215 College Ave.
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South Plains Art Geis
Municipal Garden Arts Center
College Ave
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