January Starts Busy Year
Extension home economics will begin 1975 with two public meetings. On January 23 at 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church Basement the group will cook Mexican food and discuss Mexican American Heritage. A Craft Day is set for January 29 at 9:30 a.m. in the Farm Bureau Building upstairs with macrame owls and bread dough baskets. Call 242-3166 to sign up. The program aims to stress health and involve the Franklin County Health Department at 112 W Tecumseh. Immunization, in-home nursing, family planning, vision and hearing screening, childbirth classes, T B skin tests, Title 19, and foster and day care evaluations are among services offered.
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Sue Hellar
First
United Methodist Church
EHU
Farm Bureau
Franklin County Health Department
W. Tecumseh
Main
Kansas State Bank
Don Stenhouse
Center of Disease Control
Stenhouse
Model Meetings Invite Public to View 4-H Demonstrations
Susan Verdororn announces 4-H model meetings set for January 18 and 22 at Westminster United Presbyterian Church. Clubs including Berea Boosters Westerners S.H.A.F.F. Far and Near Trail Blazers Rambling Ranchers Clover Leaf Full O Pep Junior Judgers Acorn Rustlers Town and Country Princeton Jolly Workers Willing Workers will display meeting procedures to earn ribbons, with judging by business ceremonies program attitude and leaders' participation. A regional event on March 22 will pit a top club against seven counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berea Boosters
Westerners
H.A.F.F
Far and Near
Trail Blazers
Clover Leaf
Acorn Rustlers
Town and Country
Princeton Jolly Workers
Fellowship Hall
Westminister
County Scholarships Awarded Former 4-Hers
Franklin County awards the first county wide 4-H scholarships. Glenn Underwood of Underwood Equipment Inc. presents $100 scholarships to John Coen and Jo Turner based on 4-H record books high school GPA and financial need. John a Kansas State University dairy production freshman and Jo a Colby Community Junior College veterinary science freshman each completed one semester to qualify. John is the son of Marion and unnamed Coen Ottawa RFD 4. John’s 4-H projects included beef breeding electricity leadership veterinary science. Jo is the daughter of Eldon and unnamed Turner Ottawa RFD 2. Her projects spanned market beef veterinary science and junior leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County
Glenn Underwood
Underwood Equipment Inc
John Coen
Jo Turner
Underwood Equipment
John
Kansas State University
Eldon Turner
Ottawa
RFD
Colby Community Junior College
Winter Crops School slated for January 16
Extension Winter Crops School will meet January 16 at 10 a.m. in the Farm Bureau meeting room to cover raw crop production, pesticides, new herbicides for 1975, varieties, fertilizer programs and research updates on corn sorghum and soybeans led by agronomists Gary Kilgore and Verlin Peterson. Seedling trees for windbreaks and wildlife plantings are selling out. orders are $8 per hundred and arranged through the Extension forestry department. Kansas State University swine specialists advise adjustments to finishing protein due to high feed costs, finding 16 percent protein fastest for gain to 140 pounds and mixed sequences afterward with marginal differences in carcass quality.
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Robert Bozworth
Farm Bureau
Gary Kilgore
Verlin
Peterson Extension Agronomists
Extension Forestry Department
Kansas State University
Robert Hines
Hines
Growing Interest In On The Farm Storage
Farmers turn again to on the farm grain storage says Extension engineers Leo Wendling and Elwyn Holmes of Kansas State University. They outline costs, risks, and plan steps for on farm storage, including steel bins, silos, and dry grain options amid questions of marketing and safety.
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Joanistas
Leo Wendling
Kansas State University
Wendling
Elwyn Holmes
K-State
Ottawa
Franklin County
Robert Bozworth
Topsy
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Susan Verdoorn
Marion Coen
John Reynolds
South Main
Mobile Home
Cliff and
Juanita
Bowmar
Admiral
Sperry New Holland
North America
S. Walnut
Sheldon
Dwayne Wilkins
Ottawa, Kansas
Williamsburg
Southwestern Bell
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