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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1963
Page
6
Cattlemen hear sobering news as USDA data show beef cattle on hand January 1 at 74.9 million, 6 percent higher than a year earlier. Steers over a year old reach 12,127,000 up 10 percent. heifers 1–2 years old total 7,889,000 up 8 percent. beef calves on farms 23,185,000 up 5 percent. Beef cows total 29,960,000, 6 percent higher.
Fremont and the U S Soil Conservation Service urge early surveying for spring conservation works including drainage ponds and diversions. ACP cost sharing ranges fifty to sixty percent. Local plans by John Saiter, Elbert Knecht, Keith Walters, and David Schiver are highlighted as guides for rotations and soil and water measures. Illinois FFA membership reaches 15,591 in 453 high schools.
Warren L. Bundy reports Clark County 4-H opens a tractor care training at W H Turner Implement in Casey with 37 members. Future sessions will cover tractors electricity and automotive care at Casey Martinsville Marshall West Union. Share the Fun Rally March 1 7:30 p m Martinsville High School invites youth 10 to 21 to enroll in 4-H activities.
The Clark county ASCS reports 306 producers have signed up for the 1963 feed grain program. Sign up runs Feb 1 to Mar 22 and offers diversion payments, price support eligibility, and loans for the 1968 crop. Farmers must divert at least 20 percent of their feed grain base to approved conservation uses, with higher payments for larger diversions. The office at East Main in Martinsville offers help with forms and details.
University of Illinois swine researchers tested three pens of 120 to 150 pound pigs with four square feet per animal while varying pig count. Pigs kept four per pen averaged 1.39 pounds daily gain, while 16 pigs per pen averaged 1.05 pounds. Weather amplified space effects, with eight square feet per pig yielding higher gains in both winter and summer.
Details how a farmer diverting 20 acres at 15.12 per acre earns 302.40 and 80 acres at 60 bushels per acre 18 cents earns 864.00, totaling 1,166.40, equating to 58 per acre. Notes option for price support loan or purchase agreement on all corn.
Mrs Russell Taylor reports a series of Sunday visits and dinners. Families from Marshall West Terre Haute and Beech Grove Indiana spent the weekend with relatives in this area. Notable guests include the Taylors Johns Fultons Green Collier and Thomp sons with multiple relatives.
The article notes avoid red and yellow on south or west facing walls due to warmth under natural light. It advises bold use of those colors at night with artificial lighting. It suggests choosing easily detached home appliances for cleaning and explains ceiling painting with alignment to wall color unless reflector lamps dominate illumination.
Readers note multiple visits: Carry White and P M White in Elbridge with Daryl Taylor Sheila from Brazil. Tom Jones of Indianapolis and Harold Jones relatives. Daisy Prusett grandmother visited. Katie Wesche in Terre Haute. Harvey Carpenter honored on seventy ninth birthday. Marshall and Dean Holmes families host. Earl Brown and Joan Waugh guests. Don Gallington called on J H Johns. An old Bible verse from Job 23 10 echoes amid regional social updates. Illinois farmers' incomes rise yearly since 1957 except 1959, peak since 1953.
Mr and Mrs Ophir Claypool and others visited Charley Fitzjarralds Sunday afternoon. Bruce Taber gave a talk on communism at the Hinkle home Friday night with many locals in attendance. Several households hosted guests for dinners visits and neighborly gatherings through the week in West Liberty.
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