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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1963
Page
6
Ouachita Parish faces serious pocket gopher damage to young trees shrubs and crops. Agents advise locating burrows with probes and using strychnine maize bait at two sites per colony with careful timing and monitoring. Written information available from the county agent in West Monroe or via FA 3-2251.
Thirteen feeder calf sales are scheduled in Louisiana from late August to early November. The events, organized by the Agricultural Extension Service local cattlemen groups and auction barns, aim to gather quality calves for big buyers from major feeding states. Each sale forecasts about 1000 cattle.
Louisiana cotton last week gained momentum with new crop demand fair and New Orleans middling prices around 34.60 cents. Cattle marketings totaled 3,957 head across seven markets, modest week to week gains but well below last year. Hog marketings 1,203 head across four markets, slightly up from prior week. calves and steers steady to firm with mixed changes in cows and bulls. Louisiana poultry prices and fryers strengthened week of August 8 to 14. ready to cook demand fair to good and slaughtering at 1,041,000 head. Market tone steady to firm across classes with adequate live supplies.
T. W. Humphries grows a thriving Polled Hereford herd on about 150 acres east of Monroe on Milhaven Road near Powell. He keeps 40 cattle, 15 acres of coastal bermuda hay yielding about 22 tons per acre and 1,000 bales stacked for winter. Fertilizer and moisture boost pasture growth fourfold, with grazing rotated and land lime and nutrient applications. Humphries, 49, has led the Ouachita Cattlemen’s Association and sits on the State Livestock Advisory Committee, building a top bloodline herd centered on Domestic Rollo and CMR. His son Tommy, 9, raises calves and ponies, while daughters help on the farm. Production includes cotton and hay meadows, with cotton yielding around 1.1 bale per acre and overall 80 bales from 50 acres, peak 113. He sells registered breeding stock and emphasizes quality over rapid herd growth.
Louisiana Crop Reporting Service in Alexandria forecasts an 887000 head calf crop for 1963, up 1 percent from last year and above the 1957 61 average. Nationally the 1963 calf crop is projected at 41819000 head, 2 percent higher than 1962, driven by more cows and heifers on farms.
Louisiana Crop Reporting Service reports 3,918,000 chickens raised on farms in 1963, down 3 percent from 1962, with laying hens and pullets at 2,569,000, down 5 percent. Egg output January to June totaled 262 million, down 4 percent from last year. Nationwide 1963 chicks total expected at 314,259,000, down 1 percent from 1962. egg-type chicks hatched 361,824,000, down 1 percent.
Rainfall in Ouachita Parish boosts pastures and farm ponds according to SCS West Monroe, aiding pond water levels and hay growth. Coastal bermuda progress varies with crab grass, with some fields recommended for hay. blue channel catfish introduced for pond stock water and recreation. Rain reduces timber fire threat and Ips beetle damage, while drainage work continues and pine thinning for pulpwood proceeds.
The text notes that January to June hatch fell by about one percent, and related declines in chickens raised suggest that the number of chicks on hand January 1, 1964 will be nearly the same as on hand January 1 of the current year.
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