Agriculture Prospered Amidst Turbulent Economy in 1973
JOAN ISTAS reports a bright year for U S agriculture despite gasoline shortages and Watergate. Farm prices hit record highs overseas demand drove profits while housewives boycotted. farmers expanded equipment use and new methods, with irrigation and sorghum defoliation trials. leadership changes occurred at the East Central Kansas Experimental Farm and local agents. honors and new groups emerged including a Willing Workers 4-H Club and awards for Bozworth and Wasmund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Istas
East Central
Kansas
Clifford Grover
Bill Bitts
Robert Bozworth
Kansas Park Producers Council
Bozworth
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Joyce Wasmund
Princeton
Farm Bureau
Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Talk and Hopping John Recipe
Sue Hellar presents a program on Pennsylvania Dutch cookery at the First United Methodist Church January 11 at 9 30 a m with tasting and a circular on Pennsylvan ia Dutch cookery to take home The article also notes the New Year tradition of black eye peas and provides a Hopping John recipe using dry black eye peas ham broth ham and rice yielding four servings
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue Hellar
United States
Franklin County
First United Methodist Church
Charleston
S.C
Jamaica
USDA
John
Dairy Records A Necessity With High Feed Costs
Dairymen should production test to identify profitable cows and cull low producers as feed costs rise. Programs like D.H.I. provide milk production, fat tests, feed records, breeding dates, and herd ranking on one sheet. Also: guidance from Extension offices and local supervisors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Bozworth
Arnold Hart
Ottawa
Phil Mosher
Wellsville
D.H.I
4-H Gets It All Together Theme For Program
Kansas 4 H clubs with nearly five million youth nationwide focus on energy conservation and community service. In Franklin County clubs priorities include recreation safety health citizenship and conservation. Projects such as auto small engines tractor and electric teach efficient use of resources and gas mileage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David R. Smith
Kansas
Franklin County
Rock Springs Ranch
Junction City
Hearing on Interim Rate Request Before Kansas PSC
The State Corporation Commission of Kansas will conduct a hearing on an interim rate request. The notice, published December 27, 1973, directs interested parties to appear and present relevant evidence or objections regarding the proposed interim rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Corporation Commission OF Kansas
Kansas City Power & Light seeks interim rate relief in Kansas
The Kansas City Power & Light Company asks the Kansas State Corporation Commission for interim approval to file and implement temporary electric rates and rules for Kansas customers, effective on all bills after February 1974, while a formal investigation and public hearing proceed. The request, set for hearing January 21 1974 in Topeka, cites a total annual revenue increase of about 45 million dollars and details proposed rates across Rate Areas 2 and 4 with various service classifications and energy charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Power & Light Company
Kansas City Power & Light
Kansas Area
Commission
State Corporation Commission
Topeks
Kansas
General Service
Thelma M. Knutson
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Ardis Patterson
Vernon Stewart
Larry Milliken
Williamsburg
Ottawa Jaycees
Kansas Soybean Association
Lake Region Rc&d
Ransom Memorial
Lily Anderson
Franklin
Larry Leuthold
Kansas State University Extension Ornamental Horticulture
Leuthold
Raney Reynolds
Aneyeynolds Exall Drugs
John Reynolds
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