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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1967
Page
8
James Rhome and Al Kalfus released 50 000 walleyeye fry into Norwalk Reservoir to boost local fishing. The tiny fish, under a quarter inch, are expected to mature to 12 to 13 inches in about two years with a 10 percent survival rate.
A U.S. Agriculture Department report shows the farmer earns 40 cents of every food dollar in 1966, up from 39 cents in 1935, while overall food costs rose 37 percent since 1947-49. Marketing and processing costs account for most of the rise, with farmers receiving lower shares as food is processed.
Around 1860 a boy named Charles Haskell grew up five miles south of Norwalk on a farm then known as New State Road. He left at nine and later became Oklahoma’s first governor and a central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal. The farm later belonged to Walter Hoyt, who preserves memories of the water powered sawmill, its dam, furrow, and the mill wheel remains. Hoyt notes Haskell was a troublemaker in youth and recalls the mill’s 24 hour operation before steam power ended it in the 1860s.
Midwest corn producers debate pop-up fertilizer as yields vary. Ohio researcher Dr. J B Jones Jr reports no early growth or yield gains from Ohio tests last year and notes germination delays of four to five days and poor stands when rates exceed eighty pounds per acre. He calls pop-up a misnomer and says benefits occur after germination.
Farm and city weather outlook discusses frost after April 25 and 28, planting progress for corn and soybeans at 50 percent as of May 1, and expected rainfall patterns. It notes last forty years show frost past May 11 is typical and April to May rainfall averages, with sugar beets, peas, oats under pressure from cold, wet spells while wheat and hay look good.
Burlyrus Auction consignors listed 1258 head with hogs up 2.40, cattle up 25.50, calves steady to strong, and sheep and lambs rising about 2.00. Prices ranged across hogs, cattle, calves, cows, bulls, and lambs with a broad spread from low to high divisions.
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