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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1978
Page
4
Knit tricks help holiday sewers achieve a professional look. Check fabric for flaws and note fiber content. Launder before cutting and lay out pieces to maximize stretch. Cut one layer for patterned knits and use sharp scissors. Use ball point needles and appropriate thread to prevent runs and snags.
4 H presents Clothes Strategy a non sewing project guiding boys 12 to 19 on planning clothing needs inventory and styles. It covers suits shirts coats ties socks shoes and fabric choices along with shopping tips budgeting grooming and job interview prep. The program ties into county Style Review and Best Groomed Boy Contest with a April 1 deadline to add or drop courses.
The second part of a two part series covers hog facilities and energy use with Kansas State specialists and a Kansas Park Producers Council rep, noting filters reduce odors, various stoves and fuels efficiency and costs, and nursery design thoughts to improve pig welfare and airflow.
The discussion covers advantages such as maximum floor use lower costs per pig and more eye level pigs along with disadvantages including higher labor needs limited lower level observation feeding on upper levels and more critical ventilation. K State veterinarian Lowell Breeden urges strict health programs and preventative vaccines. Outsiders should be kept out and vaccines are essential. Vaccination schedules include breeding gilts before breeding for leptospirosis five way and erysipelas six weeks before furrowing first TGE before farrowing and first atrophic rhinitis. two weeks before farrowing second TGE and atrophic rhinitis. sows and gilts at weaning for erysipelas and lepto five way. boars every six months for erysipelas and septo five way. Baby pigs at 5–7 days first atrophic rhinitis. at 28 days erysipelas and second atrophic rhinitis.
Kansas farmers produced 306 million bushels of wheat in 1978, down from 344.9 million in 1977, marking the smallest crop since 1970 but still ranking ninth on record. Abandonment rose to 9.7 percent, with yield averaging 30 bushels per harvested acre, up from 28.5 in 1977 and equal to 30 in 1976, influenced by the 1978 farm program.
A byline article by Bob Bozworth explains that several packing plants and livestock dealers have shut down without paying for livestock sold. The P&S Act may be an express credit extension and could strip the trust protection, urging readers to read documents carefully before proceeding.
The P&S Act trust shields cash sellers from packers who fail to pay. It covers only cash sales by producers dealers or market agencies and not those who extend credit. Written notices must be sent to packers and regional offices within set days. smaller packers may be exempt. USDA actions are limited to penalties and injunctions, while courts can order trust-distributed property to unpaid sellers upon a paid petition.
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