Iowans Tour Franklin County Farms And Camp Visit
A group of 23 Iowa 4-H members visited Franklin County touring farms and Lake Perry Camp. Highlights included Blake and Macy farms with goats bees and a peacock, a barbecue at Valley View School, and farm projects at Johnson Bromert Sylvester and Chambers and Van Horn farms. The trip included museum visits Old Depot Plattner Industries and a Lake Perry wilderness camp before returning home after a county dance on Wednesday.
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Franklin County
Lake Perry
Iowa
Johnson Farm
Bromerts
Sylvesters
Blake
Berea Boosters
Ottawa
Old Depot Museum
Plattner Industries
Pizza Hut
Tom Chambers
Dale van Horn
Franklin County 4-Hers Enjoy Iowa Culture and Visits
June 21 22 trip to Iowa featured six days in Dutch towns Sioux Center and O Brien County with host families. Activities included tours of K Products and a paint factory, swimming, farming tasks, and Tulip Festival customs. Joe Blake noted seven to eight daily meals and weight loss after the journey. Return home June 26. Also notes date for the 10th annual Kansas All Breeds Junior Dairy Show August 15 16 at Kenwood Park Salina entries due August 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Istas
Iowa
Franklin County
Susan Verdoorn
Tom Chambers
Sioux County
O’brien County
O'Brien County
Ottawa
K-Products
O’brien
Joe
Kenwood Park
Salina
FFA
Contest Goes On At Silkville Ranch 4-H Livestock Judging
Hot Thursday tests 4-H livestock judging at Silkville Ranch near Williamsburg with hogs sheep cattle and steers judged under sun. Top score 538 by Larry Poss. qualifiers to Hutchinson state fair and Topeka Mid America Fair named with scores and an alternate listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Istas
Silkville Ranch
Williamsburg
Franklin County
Byron DeFreese
Princeton
Lawrence Chandler
Don Poss
Richmond
Charles Neal
Tom Chambers
Wellsville
Herman Westmeyer
Area Extension Livestock
Larry Poss
Janet Netherland
Hutchinson
Dean Chambers
Glen Stockstill
Alan Maxwell
Topeka
Ramona Lintner
Ron Averill
Marty Netherland
Brad Averill
Debbie Chambers
Fruit Tour On Schedule
Kansas State University horticulture department sponsors a fruit and vegetable production open house on July 15 and 16 at 6 p.m. at Ashland Horticulture Farm seven miles south of Manhattan. Horticulturists plant pathologists and entomologists will answer questions and explain research. A new grape arbor with over 30 grape varieties will be shown along with summer fruit and vegetables including tomatoes peppers eggplant beans sweet corn potatoes cucumbers melons and more.
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Bob Bozworth
Kansas State University Horticulture Department
Ashland Horticulture Farm
Manhattan
McDowell Creek Road
Kansas
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