Dust Bowl shaping soil conservation movement and history
The Dust Bowl dramatized soil erosion and spurred conservation efforts from the 1920s to 1930s. It highlighted the failure of demonstrations to scale and led to the creation of permanent agencies like the Soil Conservation Service to marshal science for private landholders nationwide.
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Washington, D.C
Soil Erosion Service
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Department of Agriculture
United States
Picturesque Spot A Hazard To Motorists
The old concrete bridge in a bend is crumbling and risky. County commissioners join Williams burg-Ottawa Wildlife Conservation Club Inc. to replace the bridge and straighten the road, plus build a nearby lake. Estimated total cost 9 625 dollars with the club pledging 4 000 dollars, county share about 5 625 dollars. The plan increases water area by two acres, adds 500 yards of dredged bottom, and raises the dam from 12 to 32 feet.
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Williamsburg-Ottawa Wildlife Con
Servation Club Inc
Leo Ferguson
RFD 1
Lee Nichols
Chocolate Surprise Cake Recipe With Nutty Filling
A home bakers note shares a named cake called Chocolate Surprise. It provides a chocolate bundt style batter with sugar oil eggs and cocoa, half baked then filled with a cream cheese coconut filling and a warm cocoa glaze. Instructions cover mixing heating baking and cooling steps.
Mid-America Fair results highlight Franklin County 4-H winners
Franklin County 4-Hers at the Mid-America Fair in Topeka earned blue and purple ribbons across divisions. Alan Duffle led in Guernsey and Hereford classes with a blue for senior yearling heifer and champion and reserve champion Hereford honors. Other blue ribbons went to sewing, cooking, baking, woodwork, electricity, crops, and knitting, with multiple participants named including LeAnn Willhite Jeanie Schamle Cathy Welborn Kathy Baer and Karen Chandler among others.
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Franklin County
Topeka
Alan Duffle
Heifer
Hereford
LeAnn Willhite
Jeanne Hazen
Brenda Stevens
Marty Netherland
Teresa Gahagan
Marilyn McClure
Cathy Welborn
Gayle Wittmeyer
Jeanie Schamle
Rosemary Schamle
Karen Chandler
Pamela van Horn
Kathy Baer
Bob Wagner
Franklin Countions
James Brockway
Joe Blake Jr
Farmer Shop
Jeff Stankard
Lanella Humphrey
Gary Humphrey
Jeff van Horn
Gene van Horn
Jerry Horstick
Sarah Tyson
Kandee Randel
Roberta Montague
Fungicide Tests Pay Off For K State Plant Pathologist
Dr. Earl Hansing of Kansas State University leads the largest U S program testing fungicides on wheat and sorghum seed. He finds non mercurial thiram and captan HC B costlier per bushel but improve stand and yields beyond mercury treatments. Maneb offers similar emergence gains at higher cost. Seed treatment adds one to two bushels per acre.
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Bob Bozworth
Earl Hansing
K-State
U.S
Hansing
Effie Graham
Anderson County
Harris
Kansas
Garnett
Graham Farm
K.C
Geology Added To Kansas 4 H Projects
Kansas 4 H introduces geology as a new project with past and future relevance. Extension specialist Harold E Jones outlines three units, literature, and exhibits, while field trips and fossil collections engage teens in earth science and environmental awareness for the coming club year.
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David R. Smith
Kansas
Harold E.‘Jones
Kansas State University
Researchers And Farmers Meet At East Central Kansas Field Day
The East Central Kansas Field Day featured talks by Verlin Peterson on high tillage costs and chisel plowing as a cheaper, faster method. Cecil Nickell discussed hybrid soybean potential and sterility limits for commercial production. David Whitney and Oliver Russ presented on deep fertilizer placement and weed control, with advice on wild cane in sorghum and postharvest sorghum kill.
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Joanistas
Kansas
Disc
Springtooth
Spiketooth
Verlin Peterson
Extension Agronomist
Peterson
Cecil Nickell
K-State
Nickell
David Whitney
Oliver Russ
Kansas State
East Central
Central Kansas
Lingerie Lesson Dates Planned for September
Scheduled dates listed for September include September 16 at Mrs Loyd Scribner's home in Ottawa RFD 3 at 1 30 p m and September 29 at Mrs Pat Snow's home in Lane at 1 30 p m. These entries outline private instructional sessions with two organizers named Loyd Scribner and Pat Snow in specified towns and times.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Earl L. Wier
Great Plains
Plains
Soil Conservation
Ardis
Foust
Mid-America
Russ
Franklin County Extension Agricultural
Bozworth
ROYAL
Peoples National Bank
Ottawa
Kangas
F.D.I.C
Fulton Furniture
Ottawa, Kaw
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