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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1977
Page
4
Merle Winsky is the new manager at Ottawa Co-Op replacing Marvin Calliham. He began about a week ago and has 17 years with the organization, starting in Halstead and progressing through Sedgwick Greenfield IH and Meriden Co-Op near Topeka. Winsky and his wife Dianne have four children: Kelly 12 Charles 6 Danny 4 and James 3.
Grass researchers plan Wheat Field Day at Kansas State University's South Central Experiment Field near Hutchinson on Friday May 27. Verlin Peterson expects about 2500 visitors to see historic and modern wheat varieties, plots, threshing bee, walking tour, and demonstrations along with talks on cultivation and garden tips for home growers.
The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes strong progress in planting with 45 percent of this year's corn planted and sorghum ahead at 10 percent. Soybeans are at five percent, alfalfa harvesting 10 percent complete, and pastures and range conditions show marked improvement with livestock grazing on native pastures and wheat pasture.
Cattle on feed numbered 1,180,000 head on April 1, down 2 percent from a year earlier. Placements in March were 260,000 head, down 5,000 from March 1976. January-March placements totaled 785,000 head, up 11 percent. Marketings in March were 320,000, up from 300,000. January-March marketings were 874,000, up 7 percent. Second quarter marketing expected at 700,000 head, vs 715,000 a year ago.
Willing Workers 4 H Club members plant a summer garden at Crestview Nursing Home for resident benefit. Junior Leaders Bill Blake Linda Randy Atwood Mark Norton Buck Watts Kay Sylvester Julie Wasmund bought seeds and planted squash radishes lettuce onions tomatoes beans sunflowers zinnias marigolds. Each family will care for the beds all summer watering weeding and delivering produce to residents. The project began last year as a community service effort.
The guide emphasizes checking the display case temperature with a nearby thermometer and keeping meat in the coldest part of the home refrigerator. It notes retailers keep meat near freezing and suggests home practices mirror retail care to preserve top quality.
The second tractor training session is set for 7 p.m. Monday at Underwood Equipment Co. The third session will be 8 am on May 21 at Underwood. Attendance is required for youth who plan to operate tractors on the farm this summer.
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