This Week at Dixon Springs (Spring Delayed in Southern Illinois)
Spring lags as bitter midwinter grips southern Illinois. At Dixon Springs Station Calving continues with 60 new calves as of February 18 and lambing proceeds despite cold. Cattle researcher George Cmarik tests protein supplements while George’s steer‑fattening trial reports strong gains on a 70 20 10 ration. Doc Mansfield studies internal parasites and grub control in sheep. Ewes fed alfalfa hay show strong lambing results. Korean lespedeza and clover near as effective while Sericen lags. Ear corn storage remains safe below twenty percent moisture.
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Illinois
Oakley Robinson
George Cmarik
George
Jack Lewis
Sericen
4 H Foods Expert Wins State Award
Janice Hill, 19, of Toledo Cumberland County, won the 1957 state 4 H Dairy Foods Demonstration program. She demonstrated a dairy based meal including soup meat and cheese sandwich tomatoes stuffed with cottage cheese curled vegetables ice cream and fruit with milk as beverage. Hill was club president for three years and junior teacher four. She was valedictorian and attends Eastern Illinois University. Carnation Company donated.
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Janice Hill
Toledo
Cumberland County
Miss Hill
Miss HI
Eastern Ilinois University
Carnation Company
World of Plants at Farm and Home Festival in Urbana
University of Illinois scientists showcase plant breeding advances in fruits vegetables flowers and crops. Demonstrations include wild and cultivated strawberries carrots lettuce tomatoes and new mums soybeans oats and corn varieties plus bee keeping water and soil studies and disease resistant trees.
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University of Illinois
College of Agriculture
Urbana
Illinois
Take Inventory of Your Dairy Herd
Illinois farmers can gauge dairy efficiency by calculating average production per cow from total milk or butterfat sold divided by herd size. For Guernsey and Jersey cows the break-even is about 5000 pounds of milk or 250 pounds of butterfat per cow annually. Low producers should be culled. county advisers provide record keeping information. Within ten minutes two men will attempt to knock each other unconscious.
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Illinois
J. G. Cash
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Guernseys
Jersey
Illinois Farmers Outlook Letter Focuses on Recession Effects
L H Simerl of the Department of Agricultural Economics outlines how a prolonged recession could depress farmer income. Short term losses hit fruit and vegetable producers hardest, with wage trends and lower retail demand passing declines back as lower prices, while meat shortages and foreign demand also shape outcomes.
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Florida
Congress
United States
Home Economists Explain Nutrition At Festival
University of Illinois home economists will illustrate nutrition research at the Farm and Home Festival March 27 28 and 29 in Bevier Hall. Visitors see lab animals energy measuring devices and how homemaker activities affect calorie needs. A Timots College dairy specialist finds urea in protein supplements no better or worse.
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University of Illinois
Bevier Hall
University of Timots College of Agriculture
New 1958 Booklets Aid Cattle Swine Producers In Illinois
Two new booklets “Your 1958 Hog Business” and “1958 Suggestions for Feeding Beef Cattle” from the University of Illinois College of Agriculture provide research based guidance. They cover hog management pasture feeding confinement production rations breeding stock questions and beef topics from hormones silage urea pelleting to all in one silage wintering rations minerals and feeder queries. Copies available via county farm adviser or by writing to Urbana campus. An Illinois farm family of five needs a net income of 7000 dollars for adequacy per a university economist.
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University of Illinois College of Agriculture
College of Agriculture, Urbana
University of Illinois
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