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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1960
Page
6
The report shows October to December corn use at 959 million bushels up 9 percent from last year and 22 percent above the five year average. Exports totaled 62 million bushels up 12 percent from a year earlier and 62 percent above the five year average.
Warren Bundy notes a Clark County meeting on February 12 at 1 30 p m at Martinsville American Legion to discuss farm price outlook and supply demand factors for 1960. He covers the Clark County Swine Improvement Association tests at Roscoe Walker farm including pen upgrades, entry rules weight ranges, breeding stock sales, and a pork yield focus.
University of Illinois researchers Dekker and Courter report on an improved kraft paper mulch with a fungicide that resists breakdown. Field tests on cucumbers in Illinois show paper mulch outperforming cultivated plots and plastic mulch in different years, with yields up to 20 extra bushels per acre in 1958 and plastic sometimes ahead in 1959.
About seventy five people attend the eleventh annual Clark County Soil Conservation district meeting. Wayne D. Clapp and Eugene Tingtey win two year terms. Donald Abel and others to steer district efforts. Dorsey Kirk, State Master of the Illinois Grange, guest speaker on soil conservation progress and district advisory board chair. Plans include Lincoln Trail State Park conservation area with dam, toe wall, grass waterway and wildlife cover open for public use and tours. fundraising urged.
Local brief lists visitors and meals around Maude Miller and family. Mentioned are Woodie Williams visiting aunt Emma Nicol, preacher Robert Phillipa at Mill Creek, John and Golda Biz zard dining with Maude Miller, Mildred Williams calling on Eunice Jackson, Garner and Gardner families hosting meals in Marshall, and several Sunday visits among neighbors including Burkybile, Chapman, Norton, and Harrington.
Mise Frances Drake reports a series of social calls and visits. Alva Wells and Wayne Baker were seen Friday morning, while Alva Orcutt of West York visited Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Ray Drake and daughter. The piece lists several other visits among local residents including Mrs. George St. John Casey Bryce Drake Byron Ray Calvert Martinsville and Mrs. Lena Artman.
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