Plowing Contest Crowds Vote as Farmers Compete on Billings Road
Crowds gathered along Billings Road for a tractor plowing contest with acre plots and furrow depths. Steve Prout of Castalia won first with a four bottom 14 inch plow, earning a district berth. Ron Miller of Monroeville took second and Willard Miller placed third, both Huron County entrants.
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Billings Road
Steve Prout
Castalia
Huron
Erie Counties
Ron Miller
Monroeville
Ron
Willard
Huron County
Insects Flourish As Weather Spares Disease
Weather over recent weeks has favored insects with tomatoes showing blight. The article notes grape beetles Pelidonta, commonly called grape beetles, and outlines control using sprays like DDT and pyrethrum. It urges coordinated city-wide efforts and careful product labeling to achieve effective insect control.
4 H Maple City Jrs Bake Sale Planned
Maple City Jrs meet at Gisele Miller July 18 to raise funds for sewing books. Flying Spurs meet at Mrs Harry Claton home with Ohio University film Youth and the Quarter Horse shown. West Hartland Boosters Jr meet July 23 at Ginny Eckler home to order First Aid Kits. Committees named and talks given.
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Maple City Jrs
Gisele Miller
Harry Claton
Ohio University
West Hartland Boosters JR
Ginny Eckler
Cathy Bell
Rita Dewiel
Marilyn Clouse
Bertha Clouse
Livestock market report with widespread price ranges
Total hogs 1,490 with hog prices 0.65 lower. feeders steady at 18 to 19.25. cattle total 290 with steady market. Steers and heifers show varied grades from choice to utility with prices mainly in the mid 20s. Cows and bulls steady. calves up 3. sheep and lambs up 50 to 75 with wool and clip values listed. feeder lambs 18 to 23. aged sheep for slaughter 4 to 7.
Nickels for Profit program progress in Ohio markets
Columbus area report shows park producers council advancing the Nickels for Profit program started in January. Several livestock markets are deducting funds at producers request, with OPPC memberships totaling 662 at last month's directors meeting per Wilbur Bruner OSU Extension animal science specialist.
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Columbus — Ohio
Three Local Couples Nominated for Youth Leadership Award
Three local young farm couples from Norwalk Bellevue and Milan are nominated by the Milk Producers Federation for the Youth Leadership award. They join 32 nominees in the tri state area. Winners receive an all expense paid trip to the National Milk Producers Federation convention in December and will represent MPF at Youth Cooperators sessions.
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Milk Producers Federation
Carl Lund
Norwalk
Kenton Sherman
Bellevue
Eugene Schaeffer
Milan
Tri-State
National Milk Producers Federation
St. Louis
MPF
Neighbors Help Widow Restore Texas Farm After Death
In Wildorado Texas a wheat farmer Truman Rhea Miller died of a heart attack leaving a widow and a 640 acre farm. Thirteen neighbors donated two days of labor and $100000 worth of equipment to pump water, turn stubble and prepare for a new wheat crop. Mrs Miller said the act showed true friendship and she planned to stay on with help from friends.
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Wildorado
Tex
Mrs. Miller
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Quicksand
Jeanne Missey
Townsend
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S. Linwood
Friends Aid Widow
Miller
Holstein Group OK
Thomas A. Cowrse
New London
Holstein- Friesian Association of America
Ohio
Firelands Tool Rental, Inc
Woodlawn
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