Pelleted Lamb Rations Gain Favor in Midwestern Studies
Practical pelleting of entire lamb rations shows faster gains and similar total consumption to unpelleted feeds. Studies at Kansas and other stations note improved feed efficiency, with pelleted rations allowing higher roughage content. Labor, storage, and waste are reduced, though pelleting cost remains a factor.
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Russel E. John
Kansas State College
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Don Brown
Coeds Prove You Can Eat On 50 Cents A Day
Provo Utah Report describes Brigham Young University coeds adopting simple meals to meet 50 cent daily budgets. They compare practical nutrition to a Minnesota hog diet study showing modern rations yield far better gains. 62 days with 1957-58 feed produced 132.2 pounds per pig versus 40.2 pounds on 1908 diet, with 1.6 pounds daily gain and 2.82 feed per pound of gain.
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Beef Prices Near Peak at Chicago Stockyards
Beef prices in Chicago stockyards rise with light receipts signaling a near peak. Prime and high choice slaughter steers hit the highest level in six years at 39 per hundredweight, while good and choice grades make up about 90 percent of supply.
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Chicago
University homemaking class teaches thrift with mock living
Senior students Pauline Barlow and Rachel Schmidt participate in a nine day combat course where two girls share an apartment, one acts as host, the other as wife, and both learn frugal meals. They survive on about 50 cents per day from a $10 stipend while preparing three meals daily and avoiding breakfast to save money.
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Stella Lewis
Pauline Barlow
Rachel Schmidt
Larger Plantings In State Predicted
Kansas farmers are forecast to plant about three million more acres of crop this year, with winter wheat at 10,942,000 acres last fall versus 7,199,000 in 1957, and corn at 1,695,000 acres, up 7 percent from last year. Sorghum and oats acreage are expected lower, though sorghum remains well above the ten year average.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal
Clearer Letters Could Cut Agency Costs Says Archivist
Washington The government can save money by employers writing clearer letters, says U S Archivist Wayne C Grover. He told a House Appropriations subcommittee that one agency handling thousands of letters annually reduced its workload by about 10 percent with clearer wording, though he did not identify the agency.
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U.S
Wayne C. Grover
Grover
House Appropriations
Home Demonstration Units Meet Across Towns
Local clubs held meetings including Centropolis Mettled with 15 members and 3 children, Peoria Producers revisited apron making, Elm Grove discussed family councils and skits, Friendly Neighbors shared a Red Cross donation, Good Neighbors planned a cake demo, Rock Creek explored color in the home, Worthwhile unit organized civil defense, spring tea planned, and Better Living reviewed the March lesson with color in the home. The April gatherings were slated with various hostesses and topics.
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Centropolis
Harold Simmons
Ted Clark
Hayden Turner
Clark
Mayden Turner
Peoria Ploduers
Addl Dean
Irene Peckham
Iesson
Sherm Willett
Mor Os
Howard Tucker
Airs. Peckhan
Jerry Elgassel
Lewis ‘Wichman
Adell Dean
Lee Nickelson
C. &. Chambers
L. J. Neal
E. P. Anderson
Davis
Red Cross
C. W.fodd
Charles Schoonover
Charles Pursley
Owen Ogle
A Good Farm Year Predicted Despite Urban Slowdown
The Agriculture Department predicts a good farm year, with farm income this year about the same as last year despite business lag and urban unemployment. The analysis indicates agriculture faces a mixed economy but remains solid for farmers.
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Washington
Record income rise cited in agriculture appraisal talk
The Agriculture Department cited a new record high income last year amid fewer farmers to divide it. Under Secretary True D. Morse spoke to Ohio Farm Bureau Federation delegates and officers, presenting the department's latest appraisal at a department gathering yesterday.
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True D. Morse
Ohin Farm Bureau Federation
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