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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1951
Page
4
More than 150 Raleigh County men and women are called to lead in boosting agricultural production across 52 communities. The Raleigh County Farm Bureau organized 31 production committees to guide planting, cultivation and harvest with a February 8 production school in Beckley.
Doane’s plan urges farmers to shift from sole production to vertical diversification. He notes processing, packaging, and retailing steps as stabilizers that can lower retail prices while increasing producers’ share. The article previews a two part series on this approach.
Down on the Farm a new 15 minute weekly series on Radio Station WCEC began Monday. Editor announcer Chuck Lansford seeks farmer input from the Raleigh County Agricultural Council and other agencies to broaden coverage. Friday's program features farm community personalities and youth group leaders. City and county officials and district staff will be interviewed to discuss conservation and policy.
Mountain Top Garden Club will show two sound films for the public at the Richmond Recreation Building on S Kanawha Street at 2:36 p.m. January 22. The titles are Gardens for Better Living and Backgrounds for Beauty.
W L Campbell ABC manager of Clarks Cavinholt reported five years of growth and growing need for support from the West Virginia Artificial Breeders Cooperative at the West Virginia University Dairy Short Course. He noted 58 000 cows bred since launch and 17 800 cows bred in 1959 across seven units, with a unit average of cows bred at a record high. He emphasized profitability through efficiency, the goal of more efficient dairy cows, and the role of artificial breeding alongside better feeding and management.
Rural Development items and upcoming events listed for Beckley and surrounding towns. Meetings include Board of Supervisors in Beckley, Forestry Commission RDC session, Rural Development Council, Dempsey Rural Life Conference, and various farm club gatherings across Jan and Feb. Specific dates, times, venues, and chairpersons are provided.
Dairymen may soon move grain with a new conveyor system. West Virginia University agricultural engineering researchers demonstrate moving grain through a one inch pipe up to 1600 feet using a fluidized feeder and screw conveyor. Plastic pipe shows promise for light weight and flexibility though wear with solids needs study.
Prices paid and offered this morning by Peerless Wholesale Meat and Provision Co Beckley Rural Development Council approved. Chickens light volume fryers and broilers 27 hens 24-25 roosters 13-14 eggs none offered. A new soybean defoliant reportedly makes soybean leaves drop aiding earlier harvest and weed control.
Conservationists in Raleigh County, with 306 cooperating farmers under the Southern Soil Conservation District, report a near record year of soil and water protection. Highlights include 385 acres of permanent hay, 820 acres of improved pasture, 680 acres mowed for weed control, 240 acres seeded to cover crops, 380 acres fenced to protect woodlands, and 12 farm ponds completed. Contour strips total 116 cropland acres converted, and 4,240 feet of diversion ditches plus 12,144 feet of open ditches were added.
Gerald A. Lee of Chicago told the WVU Daily Short Course that the uniform milk support price through March 31 disrupts marketing, hurting large sales cooperatives. He urged a new program recognizing storage costs and regional value differences, plus an active consumer sales plan.
Eight hundred Keep West Virginia Green signs have been allotted to District Six by the Keep West Virginia Green Committee of the State Forest Council. District Forester R. E. Snelling of Beckley said half were delivered last month and the rest are due early this year. Signs will be mounted along highways in Raleigh, Fayette, Mercer, Summers, Wyoming, and McDowell counties. Civic groups will be asked to help erect all signs before the spring forest fire season begins March 15.
Conservation Director C F McClintic announced the resignation effective Feb 1 of State Forester W B Sayers who has accepted a post with the American Forest Products Industry in Washington. Sayers, former WVU silviculture teacher, joined the commission as acting state forester in 1945 and became state forester in 1947. His successor will be chosen through the state merit system.
Don E Williams of Keyser has been appointed soil conservationist with the Beckley work group of the U S Soil Conservation Service effective Jan 15 Floyd F Rothlisberger said Williams will oversee planning in Wyoming and McDowell counties after orientation with Rothlisberger and O C Hutchison He is a former state conservation commissioner farm forester forestry graduate of West Virginia University and Navy veteran The move will relieve Hutchison of Wyoming County duties and free John H Myers of conservation planning in McDowell and Mercer counties Also notice about Beckley Federal Savings and Loan Association members meeting on Jan 17 1931 at 2 00 pm at 21444 Main Street Beckley W V
Monseiur l Administrateur arrives in N Tillerte as elders debate the new chief. The Old Men's Council delays six weeks, then appoints Kdogolucone as judge of village affairs. The narrator joins a web of fear, magic, and family ties amid calls for healing from Dr. Charles. Continued tomorrow.
E R Hartsag of Sophia bought the registered Brown Swiss bull Master Joan Henry 102073 from West Virginia Industrial School for Boys Grafton. The Forestry Commission plans to buy one thousand Norway spruce to establish Arbor Day nurseries in Summers Mercer Fayette and Raleigh counties with nurseries on vacant land. Summers County has planted trees for Arbor Day at Camp Summers. Seedless watermelons bred with seeds reduced to immature forms have six varieties including a cream rind type. The state hay crop reached 1 050 000 tons, up three percent from 1949, while wheat yield lagged 14 percent below 1939 48 average and averaged 18 3 bushels.
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