Weighing Hogs For Profit And Consumer Appeal
This guide analyzes target market weights for hogs, noting premium ranges for heftier animals and how cuts like ham loins and Boston butts affect prices. It compares costs of gain, feed efficiency, and market prices from 1968 data, urging producers to balance cost of gain with consumer-ready weights and image. It also mentions beef demonstrations and Kansas foresters seeking superior walnut and cottonwood trees for future planting programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
U.S
Kansas State University Foresters
Milford Lake
Junction City
Kansas
FHA Aids 97000 Farm Families
Secretary Freeman says the Farmers Home Administration advanced credit to more than 97,000 farm family operators in fiscal 1968 to buy develop or enlarge farms. Lenders extended 205 million dollars to 10,800 borrowers while 87,000 families continued using prior FHA credit. Since 1961 the program has expanded nearly fivefold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville L. Freeman
Secretary of Agriculture
Farmers Home Administration
Freeman
FHA
Franklin
Osage
Gayle Kantack
Thief Sends $200 From Burglary to St Louis Man
Police said Lessie Thompson of St Louis reported receiving a $200 mail delivery connected to a $1,000 burglary at his home last week. Thompson identified the money as linked to the crime and notified authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, Louis
Lessie Thompson
St. Louis
Fried Chicken Is Best Outdoors
A compact outdoor fried chicken guide from a test kitchen outlines a deep fried recipe with a nut crust. It details steaming first, egg dip, and coating with cracker crumbs and chopped nuts, plus frying in vegetable shortening at about 365 to 366 degrees.
Filibuster Grows as Fortas Nomination Debated
Washington AP indicates a Senate filibuster against Abe Fortas is developing with plans to invoke debate-limiting cloture by Friday. Senators debate whether to take up the nomination as Michigan's Griffin presses questions about Fortas's $15,000 lecture fee. Fortas is praised for qualifications but criticized over the seminar payment and its implications for court independence.
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Washington
Abe Fortas
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Senate
Michigan
Robert P. Griffin
Fortas
Griffin
Earl Warren
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Hart
New 4 H Year Begins Soon For Three Million
October marks enrollment for Franklin County 4 H youth as more than three million nationwide enter a new year. The program offers about 50 projects from agriculture to home economics with learning by doing through demonstrations tours and club activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill R. Merhoff
Franklin County
Kansas
Conerative Extension Service
Chicago
Forest Conservation Is Still The Leader
Forests are portrayed as a lasting national resource under wise use. The piece traces U S forestry from early clearing to modern managed forestry, highlighting growing timber, reforestation, watershed protection, wildlife habitats, and recreation. It asserts coordinated use of forest lands by private and public owners to sustain wood products, water, wildlife, and outdoor activities for a growing nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl L. Wier
Cuban Play First to Close Amid Broadway Controversy
New York AP reports The Cuban Thing by Jack Gelber closed after a critics’ drubbing at its opening. Producer Ivor David Balding cited the unfavorable reception. Demonstrators gathered at the premiere. six arrests followed, and a tear gas bomb at a preview drove 900 people to the street.
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New York
Ivor David Balding
Jack Gelber
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Bozworth
Carole
Grigsby
American University
Forfas
Supreme Court
Ernest F. Hollings
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Warren Court
Kincaid
D.S.T
Prathers
Julius
Kanawaka
Lucky van
Jessie Jandam
Paclamar
Colo
R.D
Richard Prather
Donald J. Bowman
Donald J. Bowman, Auct. and Sales Mer
Hamilton
Kidder
Princeton
Ottawa
U.S. 59
D.h.la
D.H.L.A
T.B
Bangs
Curtis
Leroy
Wasmund Owners
Claude Myers
Russ Feeback
Belton
Missouri
Arnold Hart
Peoples National Bank of Ottawa
W.S.C.S
William H. Meinig
North Sycamore
Zenith
Miami County National Bank
Paola
Oliver D. Rinehart
Wm. H. Meinig
Centropolis
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