Fruit Grower Faces Repeated Weather Losses Near Lane
Warren Wakeman, owner of Orchard Home near Lane, has phased out his fruit orchard due to recurring hail and freeze damage. He recalls the 1940 freeze and recent late-spring freezes and early spring hailstorms, which have limited harvests and led to 21 crop losses in 14 years. He advocates protective practices, timely spraying, and dwarf trees for quicker production and space efficiency.
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Orchard
Warren Wakeman
Lane
Wakeman
Kansas
Wakemans
Training for Summer Jobs at Farms and Safe Practices
Farmers plan to hire youths for planting and harvesting this spring and summer with restrictions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The note covers tractor safety clinics, age limits, exemptions for parental employment, and cooperative training programs. It also warns about marketing challenges for safflower, castor beans, triticale, and sunflowers, recommending small trial plots and careful contracting with processors. Safety guidance includes a rinse drain procedure for pesticide containers to enable safe disposal.
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Farm Bureau
Ted Walter
Kansas
Swine Disease Talk Highlights Meatiness Versus Mothering
At the Franklin County Courthouse meeting on Swine Diseases and Management, speakers praised meatiness while warning that high disqualification rates stem from stricter standards in the 1972 District 7 Spring Swine show. Bozworth noted 77 percent disqualified for small loin eye. Moyer urged balanced care, sow identification, and improved feed with vitamins and minerals to support growth and durability. Transmissible Gastro Enteritis was flagged as a major concern with severe mortality in young pigs.
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Joanistas
Franklin County
Bob Bozworth
Bozworth
Wendell Moyer
Moyer
Meyer
Lowell Breeden
Breeden
Thiamine and Baking Soda Try To Halt Calf Shipping Fever
Kansas State University researcher John R. Brethour at the Hays branch of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station reports promising results from large doses of thiamine alone and with baking soda in calves shipped from New Mexico. In a 30 day period untreated calves gained 0.25 pound daily versus 0.58 with vitamin C, 0.31 with thiamine, and 1.09 with thiamine plus baking soda. after a second 30 days gains rose to 64.5, 71.6, and 81.1 pounds respectively. Eleven untreated calves were treated for shipping fever against one in each thiamine group. Thiamine feed levels used are about 100 times normal. Thiamine aids carbohydrate use and nervous and cardiovascular function.
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Kansas State University
John R. Brethour
Forst Hays
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Brethour
New Mexico
Prison soup powder designed to keep inmates healthy
PRETORIA South Africa AP a soup powder created by the South African Bureau of Standards aims to prevent deficiency diseases among prisoners. A scientist notes it is not a luxury diet but a measure to keep inmates fit.
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Pretoria
South Africa
South African
Bureau of Standards
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Farm Bureau Mutual Kansas Farm Life K.F.B. Insurance Co
Acme Quality
Armstrong
Constantine
Armstrong Cork
Santa Cruz
Plaza del Sol
Delft
South Main
Ottawa, Kansas
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