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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1962
Page
10
John S Phillips discusses the Mor gantown Agricultural Center dedication on the Evans dale campus and a Keyser watershed loan check presentation. He notes spring daylight changes, a NY Times editorial on daylight, a Twilight Zone episode, and interactions with locals including Dr Illona Scott and WVII Living Resources Forum remarks. He ends urging knowledge and action and signs off.
The Agriculture Department began a nationwide survey with the Labor Department to learn what rural families buy and how much they spend. This first such study in 20 years covers all U S families, with about 4,000 farm and town households across 126 counties in 41 states forming the sample.
Dr. Ernest J. Nesius, WVU dean, opened the three day Living Resources Forum on the Evansdale Campus. He urged full application of agricultural knowledge to boost production and argued knowledge and imagination power growth, with the university as the fountainhead. The event features leaders from the US and Canada focusing on six key agricultural areas.
Practical guidance from MR. FIX on using and maintaining a fireplace. Topics cover common causes of smoke, faulty design, proper fire building, cleaning the flue, checking the damper, and adjusting opening size to improve draft and heating efficiency. Added tips include brushing the chimney, blocking the opening during cleaning, and braces to reduce opening for better airflow.
The USDA warns retailers not to falsely advertise meat as USDA Choice or other federal grades. Violations can bring fines up to 1000 dollars and one year in prison. Graded meat shows a shield with USDA and the grade name. grading is voluntary and fee-based for approved applicants.
The 11th Mercer County 4 H Ham and Bacon Show and Sale will be held March 10–12 at the West Virginia Hotel in Bluefield. R E Harbert notes 20 4 H members will exhibit weigh judge and ribbon the meats with a Monday sale after a banquet honoring participants. Kiwanis Bluefield committee plans prize money ribbons and a trophy.
A wall with insulating fibreboard is 40 per cent weaker than one with horizontal wood sheathing and 1 x 4 inch let-in braces, per the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Research shows high quality seed can raise farmer yields by two to four bushels per acre.
Dr. L C Alberg of North Carolina State College outlines how endogenous hormones regulate cow estrus and how manipulating progesterone could synchronize heat in groups of cows. He notes current methods may depress conception rates and envisages a future combining hormonal control with artificial insemination to improve livestock management, especially in beef cattle.
Decatur Ga January 30 program at the 1962 Southeast Poultry and Egg Convention will feature Dr William E McDaniel chair of Agricultural Economics at University of Delaware discussing possible government broiler programs. Dr Robert Baker of Cornell will cover old and new egg uses.
Farm Market trends show little chance for higher corn prices as 1962 feed grain program signups begin February 5. Dealers expect continued heavy CCC sales and government pressure to keep prices down for greater compliance. Prices and yields vary across grains, with rye stocks drawing interest and futures showing mixed signals amid weather and policy forecasts.
The New River Livestock Market reported total sales of 1046.25 on Monday with pigs by the head seven to ten dollars shots by the head ten to thirteen dollars butcher hogs heavy seventeen per hundred veal calves twenty five fifty to twenty two seventy five per hundred heavy heifers sixteen seventy per hundred cows common ten to thirteen per hundred A feeder steer and cow sale will be held with the regular sale on February twelve Active farmers bought about sixty eight percent of the farm real estate sold in nineteen sixty one.
Dr. Henry L. Ahlgren of the University of Wisconsin told the Living Resources Forum at West Virginia University that forage improvements remain vital in livestock economies. He outlined past neglect and the 18 major developments boosting forage production, including lime use, improved management, irrigation, and diverse technologies to reduce labor and improve hay or silage quality.
West Virginia University at Evansdale hosted a Poultry Section talk by W R Jenkins of the U S Department of Agriculture. He urged housing be adequate yet affordable, warned against diminishing returns, and noted trends to larger, automated houses with inflation in efficiency and protective measures including ventilation, insulation, and potential fallout considerations. Rutgers expert J Bezoa discussed interior expansion and marketing shifts, detailing cage and flat systems and the rise of yield programs amid Northeast adjustments.
West Virginia University Cooperative Extension dairyman W L Northern urges that milking efficiency rests on per cow time, machine idle time, and time spent per cow. He notes cow size and output affect milking time, machine idle time varies by system, and per cow handling limits hourly cow count.
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