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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1969
Page
4
The Maryland Delaware Crop Reporting Service notes widespread rainfall slowing field work and delaying harvests. Corn shows strong recovery from drought while soybeans and fruit crops benefit from moisture. some low spots flood damage but pastures and late-summer fruit prospects improve with favorable sizing and coloring.
Maryland Delaware Crop Reporting Service notes a modest rise in Maryland calf crops to 212000 head with 295000 cows and older calves. Higher calving rate offsets cow declines while national calves rise about 300000 to 44473000. Sheep lambs grow in Maryland though U.S. lamb crop falls. wool output trends up with 121000 pounds from 17000 sheep.
Urbana Ohio report shows the cooperative Farm Credit System lent a record 10 billion dollars for the year ending June 30, up 5.3 percent from last year. Loans outstanding reached 12.6 billion, a 10.3 percent rise, with high interest rates noted as a factor in slower growth. The system includes 12 Federal Land Banks, 450 Produces Credit Associations, and 13 Banks for Cooperatives serving about 1.3 million members.
Lori Johnson, 15, becomes the first female entrant in the Antelope Valle Rural Hayloading Competition near Wiis al Falfa, 71 miles north of Los Angeles. She aims to load three tons of hay in the shortest time using automatic loaders. The field includes male competitors and a $123 prize, stirring reactions from veterans and organizers.
University of Maryland researcher Richard G. Peacock told the Poultry Science Association that thiamine needs drop when fat is used for energy. His tests with White Rock chicks show thiamine per kilocalorie was about 0.32 mg for 3.0 percent fat and 0.20 mg for 23.2 percent fat, indicating fat metabolism reduces thiamine requirements.
The Timonium premium list, sent to exhibitors, outlines more than 115000 dollars in cash prizes over ten days starting August 25. Howard P. Clark, president of the Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society, notes 98000 dollars of the total comes from the Maryland State Fair Board, with premiums across livestock crops baking dairy and crafts.
Dr. Robert C. Hammond of the University of Maryland outlines criteria for calves to be labeled preconditioned. Requirements include dehorning and castration, weaning and trough feeding, vaccination against IBH BVD SF4 Leptospirosis Blackleg and Malignant Edema, and treatment for lice mites and worms. He warns producers to start work now to meet the standards amid drug restrictions.
Maryland keeps movement limits on swine in nine Eastern Shore counties despite the federal hog cholera quarantine lift for the Delmarva Peninsula. State Vet Dr. T A Ladson says restrictions stay until no secondary spread is found, with possible removal before Aug 15 for four counties and to allow all breed sale at Centreville. Feeder pig sale at Denton on Aug 18 remains contingent.
More than 100000 dollars has been spent in the past nine months at the Timonium Fair grounds for major improvements to facilities ahead of the 1969 State Fair opening August 25. President Howard W. Clark says the work was funded by a prosperous event last year and includes new roofs on all buildings, a new parking lot in front of the 4-H area, manadamized plots between cattle sheds, external spigots for washing animals, and repainting or replacing cattle sheds with new lumber.
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