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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1971
Page
4
This article explains why crops suffer from drought in midsummer despite normal rainfall and how soil tilth, air, water, and erosion relate to crop yields. It emphasizes testing soils for fertilizer and lime, conserving rain, and using land capability maps from the Soil Conservation Service in Ottawa for Franklin County.
Better Homes sponsored a defensive driving course for community outreach held June 29 and 30 in Williamsburg High School auditorium. Jim Dobbs of Kansas Farm Bureau Safety Department spoke on safe driving. attendance was 48 Tuesday and 47 Wednesday, including 27 Driver Education students. Better Homes funded the $1 entry fee.
4-H members toured rabbit hutches and pigeon tofts visiting Max Cartmill and Robert Hollon. They eyed a new Helmet pigeon and squabs while Terri Hollon discussed color in fantails. David Garman described white rabbits preferred by packers and lifting ear traits, and Lee Giles outlined meat rabbit operations with 3000 animals and weekly feed orders.
Neighbors from Pomona and nearby towns mobilized twelve tractors to cultivate 180 acres of Bud Duvall’s soybean fields in four hours while he remained hospitalized for nearly a month. Local farmers including the Shephards Wilson Matlock and others aided, with help also from Williamsburg and Quenemec volunteers.
The action blocks strip mining for two years in 22 of 56 counties, a move noted as precedent setting even where coal resources are scarce. In Indiana, Noble County declared Soil and Water Conservation District Week this spring with ceremonies planting a tulip poplar on the courthouse lawn and presenting seedling trees to 1,300 fifth and sixth graders across 14 schools who joined the district's poster contest.
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