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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1960
Page
6
Beef cattle prices in 1959 showed a peak with Chicago choice steers near $28 per hundred pounds, about 25 percent above 1956. Despite high prices, supplies rose as farmers sold cattle and inventories grew, while U S farm income from cattle sales topped $7.6 billion in 1958.
Harriet Barto of the University of Illinois cautions against wholesale vitamin purchases. She advises healthy adults rely on a balanced diet from the four food groups and basic patterns like citrus, greens, and fortified grains, using concentrates only if digestion or diet limits cause vitamin gaps. The note adds that the Great Salt Lake of Utah is about six times saltier than seawater.
Ranchers plan to head cattle for the late winter and expect prices to repeat the highs of the past two years. Many producers already hold more cattle than they can feed through the season.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, known as Sturdy Gertie, spans Puget Sound between Tacoma and Kitsap and Olympic Peninsula areas. Opened in 1958 after wind tunnel tests, it replaces Galloping Gertie which collapsed in 1960, and connects Rainier National Park access with Olympic National Park while near Fort Lewis, McChord AFB, and Puget Sound Navy Yard.
A Clark county extension service meeting on Tuesday January 5 will cover fertilizers crop varieties minimum tillage and diseases. Warren Bundy Clark County Farm Adviser says the program includes a 9:30 a.m. film on tillage followed by lectures by Dr W O Scott University of Illinois and soils specialist Pat Johnson with field results and new fertilizer projects to be shown. Aimed at all farmers the session runs from 9:50 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with rese tarj of extensions and demonstrations planned by the University of Illinois College of Agriculture.
University of Illinois poultry marketing economist J Roush says egg production in early 1960 will be slightly down from the previous year while prices in the first half may average about the same as 1959. He forecasts lower prices January to March and higher prices April to June with the second half dependent on chick placements and spring demand.
Harold G Halcrow of the University of Illinois warns that farm price policy fights will continue as world markets shift. Rising global output lowers prices, signaling needed readjustment in American agriculture to preserve family farms and farm incomes. The farm population may decline without proper adjustments in coming years.
Excerpt explains look for full tang blades with three rivets for durability and sanitation. Hardwood or hard rubber handles resist warping and cracking. Emphasizes high carbon steel edges. Separate advice notes dairy cow care and hog management stressing confinement and good management.
An Armstrong Missouri feature summarizes the Doukhobors' Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood once worth millions with sawmills a jam factory and farms. The land deteriorates under irrigation pipes fail and orchards wither as the community dissolves.
A Tri County News column argues that the belief in guaranteed success and wealth erodes civic duty. It urges education to focus on service to society, personal development, and early moral formation to cultivate mature, capable citizens.
Mrs Maude Miller and Otis Williams family joined friends for Christmas gatherings across Marshall and Casey. Caroling groups toured Mill Creek church areas, with many relatives from Blizzard, Norton, Miller, and Ledermann clans sharing meals and church attendance at West Union and nearby communities.
At University of Illinois Dixon Springs, Kansas Orange and Atlas led 22 varieties in yield. Kansas Orange produced 18.8 tons per acre forage and 22.4 bushels per acre grain. Atlas 18.9 tons and 12.9 bushels. Silage favored forage sorghums over corn by 1.8 to 6.5 tons per acre. Kansas Orange yielded about 60 fewer grain bushels than corn.
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