Box silo helps Wyoming County farm save hay crop
A Wyoming County visit with ASC agent Franklin Lilly details Bob Cook’s 171 acre farm and a concrete floored box silo built from timber. The article notes silo benefits in wet springs, plans to obtain ASC aid, bee significance, cattle and sheep stock, shift to tractor work, and local land history from MacDonald heirs with partitions. Mrs. Cook is recovering from a vertebrae injury in hospital.
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Wyoming County
Franklin Lilly
Bob Cook
Bob
Lilly
ASC
Beckley
Southdown
Hampshire
Cook
MacDonald
Florida
Roscoe Plumley
Vo Ag
Richmond District
Land
West Virginians Set for Regional Rural Development Conference
About 20 representatives from federal and state agencies and private groups in West Virginia will attend a regional Rural Development Work Conference in Roanoke Virginia August 2 to 4. J O Knapp WVU Agricultural Extension Service is conference chair with attendees from WV Kentucky Virginia North Carolina and Tennessee. The program includes workshops on county plans health improvements and vocational trades, as Rural Development expands to 200 counties in 30 states and Puerto Rico.
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West Virginia
Roanoke
J. O. Knapp
Morgantown
Agricultural Extension Service
West Virginia University
Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Ernest J. Nesius
College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics
WVU
True D. Morse
Washington, D. C
Phillip McCallum
Samul Business Administration
David S. Weaver
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina State College
Jim Patton
Louisville
United States
Puerto Rico
Farmers Sign Up To Accommodate Hunters
Charleston AP reports 24 farm homes already registered under the farm cooperative accommodations program. Conservation Director Warden Lane says 50 more farmers asked for application cards to register their homes as lodging for sportsmen in fall or spring. Lane notes demand in major deer counties and along the Little Kanawha River for fishermen in spring and summer. The department collaborates with the State Agriculture Department to publish a list of willing farm hosts.
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Charleston
Conservation Department
Warden Lane
Deer
Lane
Kanawha
State Agriculture Department
Attention Housewives Halfrunner Beans at Market
Farmers Market offers locally grown Halfrunner beans in bushel lots for housewives seeking fresh produce.
Rural Development Program Pilots in West Virginia
The Rural Development Program has run in two pilot areas since 1956. One area covers Lewis Upshur Gilmer and Braxton counties in central West Virginia, the other Raleigh Summers and Fayette counties in the south.
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West Virginia
Lewis, Upshur, Gilmer
Braxton
Raleigh, Summers
Fayette Counties
Lad and Lassie Junior 4-H Exhibit Delayed Exhibition
The Lad and Lassie Junior 4-H Club of Beckley held a delayed exhibition of projects, postponed due to Clarence Wooten’s Morgantown hospital stay. Twenty one projects were shown with blue ribbons for all but one red. 4-H agent Wooten judged the event with leader Mrs K E Boggs and assistants present.
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Lad
Lassie
Beckley
Morgantown
Clarence Wooten
Greenbrier Dairy
K. E. Boggs
Robert Frilen
E. S. Lickliter
Peggy Floyd
West Virginia Poultry Association Opens Convention
Slick chicks headline the West Virginia Poultry Association annual convention in Moorefield with a beauty pageant as the festival highlight. A poultry parade and a chicken barbecue follow, as delegates meet to discuss efforts to improve the state's poultry business and proceed with two days of educational programs.
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Moorefield
West Virginia Poultry Association
West Virginia
Suddreth Children Balance Work and Play in Pleasant Hills
Walter Suddreth 15 and sister Lucinda 12 of Pleasant Hills manage home farming and chores while pursuing play and religion. Walter raised about 92 bushels of potatoes and all vegetables for home use. both children ride bicycles and archery, with Walter placing in state junior boys contest and Lucinda earning Archery Pins. They attend Hollywood Baptist Church where Lucinda leads as president of the se is.
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Walter Suddreth
Lucinda
Pleasant Hills
Walter
J. E. Suddreth
Suddeth
Alexandria
Suddreth
Montgomery-Ward
Beckley
Hollywood Baptist
MacArthur
America
Elizabeth Robinson
What a wedding day in May and convention talk
John S Phillips writes a neighborly column about heat in Buckley and the Kanawha and Ohio Valleys. He riffs on weddings, moonlighting, and the upcoming convention, noting remarks about the governor, a Democratic chairman at a Republican event, and local chatter. He mentions Mrs Rutledge and Tommy Thomas, tomato seeds, and a birthday game at Dr Alvin Cook’s party with a humorous shoe challenge.
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Flo
Dr. Alvin Cook
Nolan Gunter
More Farming For Better Living
John S. Phillips argues that foods produced nearer the point of consumption improve health strengthen the economy and raise cultural standards. The Farm Page outlines practical steps for closer farming to benefit communities and households.
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John S. Phillips
Seed Program Succeeds. WV Eyes Expanded Free Seed Aid
The West Virginia Agriculture Department reports the 1960 free garden seed and plant program, started for indigent and unemployed, is succeeding beyond expectations with over 90 percent seed usage. If feasible the program could expand statewide next year at up to 350,900, aided by university extension surveys and county committees.
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Charles R. Lewis Charleston
State Agriculture Department
West Virginia
John T. Johnson
West Virginia University Agricultural Extension Service
Gus R. Douglass
Johnson
Department For
Underwood
Johnson's
Extension Service
Douglass
Extension Service Survey
Farm Market Porter Lewis Announces Local Produce List
Beckley Farmers Market manager reports this week’s available produce includes corn beans tomatoes potatoes cabbage and beets. He asks for bushel baskets or bean hampers to buy and notes the market is open to everyone especially housewives. Produce sold only in packaged units. no individual item breaking.
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Porter Lewis
Beckley
Lewis
A nectarine is a bad sport or a mutation of a peach variety
A nectarine is described as either a poor sport or a mutation of the peach variety, outlining a debate over its classification and origin.
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