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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1952
Page
4
Agricultural committees in rural areas show improved farmer income through planned yearly programs. Goals include increasing breeding participation, dairy and poultry output, soil testing, and cooperative markets. Activities include field tours, fairs, school gardening, and soil testing kit purchases.
Central Press piece from Plymouth Massachusetts traces the turkey as an American icon from colonial times to modern agriculture. It explains domestication, rising production, and variety options from Beltsville white to bronze toms, noting yields, pricing and regional production leaders California Texas Minnesota.
The West Virginia Association New Farmers of America held a three day leadership school and conference at West Virginia State College in Morgantown Dec 4. Seventeen delegates from Bluestone Bramwell DuBois Mt Hope Byrd Priller man Amigo Stratton Institute Charles Town Page Jackson Morgantown attended. Leaders studied officer duties parliamentary practice and news writing while planning future contests shows and writing projects. State officers guided sessions and welcomed members at the college site and Charleston tours followed.
The Bluegrass Market, Inc reports prices per 100 pounds for Dec 6 across livestock and poultry. Steers 12.60 to 23.00, heifers 12.00 to 24.25, cows and calves 7.40 to 15.66, veal calves 11.25 to 33.70, calves 3.00 to 16.00, bulls 12.75 to 20.00, lambs 10.00 to 23.60, ewes 4.00 to 6.70, bucks 12.00 to 16.00, hogs 14.30 to 18.90, sows 8.00 to 13.00, pigs 0.25 to 10.70, hens 9.5c to 25c, and turkey 28.5c to 40.5c.
President-elect Eisenhower taps Ezra Taft Benson as secretary of agriculture. Benson, former executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, earns praise from American Farm Bureau Federation president Allan B. Kline for his strong agricultural background and Washington experience. Benson advocates a government farm program while warning against a subsidized economy that harms initiative.
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