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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1950
Page
4
The Crop Reporting Service says West Virginia plans smaller spring plantings in 1950 across corn oats tobacco and potatoes with barley up slightly and hay soybeans unchanged. Nationally spring crops look large but winter wheat seedings fell. WV corn acreage set at 254 000 acres down 6 percent from 270 000 in 1949.
West Virginia poultry breeders compete for state regional and national honors at the Chicken of Tomorrow contest in Moorefield on May 3. top finishers qualify for regional contest and a share of $10,000 in national awards by A&P. regional finals in Spartanburg during the week of June 4.
Enrollment materials for a 4-H contest are available to members aged 12 to 21 who are pursuing a vegetable or small fruit project. County 4-H agents statewide hold the necessary materials. West Virginia reported the best completion record among participating states in 1949.
Morgantown The Farm Electrification Association will sponsor its 12th annual conference at Jackson's Mill April 11 13. Speakers include George W Kkable of New York editor of Electricity on the Farm and A C Spurr of Fairmont president of the Monongahela Power Company.
A CHAPPAQUA column reflects on favorite garden scents such as rain after a drought and lilac, notes pleasant winter transitions, and recounts neighborly garden talk. The writer details upcoming gardening steps, viz butterfly bush pruning, clematis paniculata care, and seed spreading. Two garden purchases are mentioned: a seed and fertilizer distributor and a seed-aiming gadget.
Miner L. Scott of Grandview was re elected president of the Raleigh County Farm Bureau. Officers include Wayne A. Toney as vice president Misa Ethel Keyser as secretary and H E Shumate as treasurer. Nine directors named from districts Ruther Bennett Richmond FE Bibb Jr Floyd Farlow Shady Spring Frank N Gans W Y Gunter Town W S Marcum Trap Will Fred Vines Slab Fork Aden W Toney Clear Fork Perry Jarrell Sy Marsh Fork.
About 22 000 trees and shrubs will be distributed next week by the Soil Conservation Service to Mercer County farmers. Plants include white pine red pine European larch and Scotch pine for erosion control and wildlife food and cover on steep hillsides. Plans for long term meadows pastures stock ponds tree planting crop rotation contour furrowing strip cropping lime and fertilizer treatment and diversion ditches are outlined. A 700 foot diversion ditch on the Mary Green Robert farm near Green Valley aims to reduce damage by spreading water into woodland drains. a similar project is planned for E F Bratton’s farm near Princeton.
A weekly agenda lists open ditch blasting and garden demonstrations at various farms in Raleigh County with Soil Conservation Service hosts. Activities include tree planting, woodland improvement, and conservation tours led by extension staff and partners at Glen Daniel, Maple Fork, Stratton, and Beckley venues.
West Virginia University engineers design and build an electric hay hoist using a reconditioned car transmission and hand brake. The unit weighs on steel frame, powered by a three horsepower motor, and offers three lifting speeds plus a lowering speed for versatile farm use and grain handling. Plans are published in Agricultural Experiment Station Mimeograph Circular No. 62, Electric Hay Hoist.
Extension Specialist Claude Remper urges wider broccoli planting across the state. He outlines soil, lime, and fertilizer needs and gives pest control methods including bichloride of mercury dust and chlorinated dust to protect roots and heads, with weekly DDT or methoxychlor dusting until head formation.
The State Agriculture Department and the U S Bureau of Animal Industry announce a second mass vaccination for Bardane calves in Jefferson County on April 13. Calves four to eight months old from 48 herds may receive free brucellosis and black leg vaccines, following a first round that vaccinated 244 calves. Publication details are available by writing to West Virginia University.
Four movies will be shown at a Friday program for city residents and others unable to attend daytime activities. The films are Adventures of a Junior Rain Drop Water for a Nation Know Your Land and It s No Piente. After each showing officials will explain the council s conservation experiment on Eugene Jarrell farm Cherry Creek using a land use map. Gorman district soil scientist U S Conservation Service will summarize Conservation Week. The event starts at 7 p m in Room 0 Memorial Building with Frazier and Miller leading.
The 1949 grand champion Hereford steer Judge Roy Bean from Pecos County Texas travels to West Virginia for four displays. It will appear at West Virginia University April 3, Koblegard Farm near Weston April 4, Marlinton Motor Sales April 6, and Tri County Equipment Corporation Lewisburg April 7. The 22 month old 1,200 pound champion sold for 11.50 per pound to Dearborn Motors for 4‑H work.
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