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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1956
Page
2
The August home garden guide from VPI advises harvest timing for spring crops and planning fall plantings. Tips cover sweet corn milky kernels, squash sizes, onion tops, vine ripened tomatoes, and color cues. suggests replanting broccoli radishes cabbage spinach and other greens, soil prep, composting, disease disposal, and fertilizer use to sustain a fall harvest.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will address the National Watershed Congress in Lincoln Nebraska September 13 to 20. The event, sponsored by agricultural business and civic groups, is open to the public with a 5 dollar registration for access to sessions and printed proceedings.
Doan's Pills claim fast soothing relief for bladder irritation and associated back pain headaches and muscle aches. The ad touts over 60 years of use and urges readers to try the economy package for quicker comfort.
One hundred U.S. post offices are to install bituminous coal stokers, per the Postmaster General's office. Most installations convert from hand firing, reducing the chance these boiler plants will switch to another fuel for many years.
The first state wide aerial survey locating Oak Wilt found 1 100 infected trees across 36 counties with 300 more than last year. Planes logged over 500 hours as ground crews will continue inspections until November to remove girdled trees and prevent spread.
Agronomists from West Virginia University test Ladino clover with Kentucky 2 fescue orchard grass reed canary grass and smooth bromegrass at the Ohio Valley Experimental Substation to improve forage yield for dairy and livestock. Trials began in 1951 on four fertility levels with pasture hay and intermediate management. first harvests in 1952 showed good Ladino yields in pasture plots but lower in others. Further fertility adjustments, potash responses, and a study of peak production periods aim to develop continuous summer forage.
R. T. Hair, longtime Joy Manufacturing product and leader mining line manager since 1943, becomes sales manager of the coal division. Poultry experts at VPI warn against broody hens as they can ruin egg quality by sitting on nests all day and warming eggs.
A Farm Electrification Bureau dream comes true as a silage conveyor moves feed directly to cows. A farmer milks 30 head with an electrically driven silo system, powered by a five horsepower motor and old practices fade away. Joy Manufacturing announces a $1.00 freshman scholarship in mining engineering at Penn State with summer empleo and possible permanent placement. The USDA meat inspection service marks its 50th birthday as Federal inspection stamps symbolize meat standards globally.
Live poultry market steady on broilers and fryers with good demand and heavy receipts. Prices at farm noon yesterday showed broilers 4.5 to 9 pounds around 18 to 19 cents, heavy hens 17 to 18 cents, turkeys steady with small fryer types 26 to 27 cents and heavy toms 27 cents. Weekly purchases for week ended Aug 24 totaled 858,400 head, 234 to 3% pounds, weighted average 18.14 cents.
Fortune magazine reports farm income should at least match or slightly exceed 1955 levels in 1956 as higher prices and debt payoffs ease farmers finances. Spending drops on equipment and consumer goods while part time factory work rises helping marginal farms.
A Virginia Tech Agricultural Experiment Station trial found high levels of antibiotics with fish solubles can speed growth in chicks up to four weeks old, while low levels did little and vegetable-protein diets showed no gains. Results echoed earlier studies, with antibiotics not tied to a single product.
Virginia Rural Safety Council warns that improvised fences can electrocute, urges removal of unsafe fences. Recommends only controller fueled by recognized testing agency, current limited to a few 1-100ths of an ampere, instant on and sufficient off-period for release. Identify fences near buildings and roads and avoid near pipes, pumps, tanks, or wet areas. Do not rely on electric tethers to restrain dangerous animals.
Rcme Machinery Co and William son introduce a hydraulic self propelled power unit for a Chicago pneumatic hydraulic coal drill. It uses a seven and one half horsepower archor drive, a four way tramming control valve, and delivers up to two and a half mph. Dimensions are 97 inches long 49 inches wide and 274% inches high.
The article explains why broiler prices peak during large marketings in summer. It notes spring chick placements and fall decline, a shift toward year round production, and factors like abundant hatching eggs, beef and pork competition, and consumer preference for lighter meat in summer.
A three year trial at VPI Agricultural Experiment Station in the northern Piedmont and coastal plain found no significant yield differences for alfalfa corn or peanuts when subsoiling was used alone or with limestone and or superphosphate. Project head J Lillard notes limited adoption due to weak evidence of payoff except in special soils.
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