4-Hers Go Horsey All The Way Holiday Gift Swap
County 4-H horse project youths held a December meeting at the Farm Bureau room. They performed a horse parts quiz to earn gifts and later arranged a horsey gift exchange. Kay Gragg and Kelly McGlashon spoke, and the group planned a January 8 visit to Whispering Downs in Olathe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joanistas
Farm Bureau
4-H’ers
Kay Gragg
Kelly McGlashon
Whispering Downs
Olathe
Australians Embrace Metric System In Grain Trade
Australian Wheat Board executive K F H Taylor visited the Kansas City Board of Trade to study metric adoption. He noted wheat trading now uses metric tons and hectares in Australia, with a gradual switch since 1965, and said the change aids world trade while some sectors, like motor cars, face tougher adjustment.
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Australian Wheat Board
K.F.H. Taylor
Melbourne
Kansas City
Australia
Taylor
Wheat Board
United States
U.S
Forestry roots in Kansas past and present
Debbie Hughes writes on Kansas forestry history and the logging era. She notes species such as black walnut bur oak soft maple cottonwood green ash and elm and reflects on earlier abundance and the need to restore trees with farmers and 4 H’ers joining in the effort to revive the land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Debbie Hughes
Ottawa
Deb Hughes
Kansas
Elected Angus Members and Historic Timber Planting in Kansas
Orville and Daryl Flager of Ottawa were elected to the American Angus Association at St. Joseph Missouri. The record notes 300 breeder memberships for Aberdeen Angus. The piece traces Kansas tree planting incentives from 1865 to 1974 75, including bounty laws and the Timber Claim Act of 1873, with long term impacts on land and forestry. It concludes with a quote about forests shaping a nation.
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Orville
Daryl Flager
Ottawa
St. Joseph
Missouri
U. S
Congress
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de McGlashan
Franklin County
Roderick Turnbull
Kansas City Board
M Trade
Merck & Co. Inc
Merck & Co
Chicago
Cooperative Extension Service
G. B. Oliver II
Alamogordo
N. M
White Sands Ranch
Connecticut
June Fishman
Cheshire
Angus
Europe
Dungan
Arma, Kansas
Bob Robbins Agency
Mgr
Duane Roush
Robert Hiles
Bruce Fairbanks
Virginia Nerdyke
Mgr. Hales Fou
Judy Collins
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Insurance Services
Ottawa, Kansas
National Guard Armory
Burlington
Delis
Nand Teels
Power Teels
S&s Sales and Bargain Center
Jim Strawder
Burlington , Kansas
Lawrence Strawder
Watn
van Heusen
Wassmer
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