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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1960
Page
3
John S Phillips shares Thanksgiving thoughts and reflections on community, church, and gratitude. He mentions Roy Lee Harmon’s editorial on the topic, notes warm interactions with neighbors at the Pagoda, and recalls meeting colleagues and readers, including Ned Ragland’s secretary Twyla Farrough. He ends with a contemplative note on loneliness despite abundance.
County ASC chairman Kelly Farmer urges wool growers who marketed lambs this fall to keep detailed sales records for 1960-61 wool payments. Records needed for spring applications. end of next April deadline. Emphasizes 30 day ownership for payments and require buyer name, signature, liveweight lamb count, and unshorn status. Lambs must be sold with wool to qualify.
A large pony sale is planned at New River Livestock Market Cranberry Heights near Beckley on Saturday November 26 at 10 am. About 300 ponies including 170 brood mares 20 stallions 35 yearling and weanling fillies and 25 weanling colts will be offered in a dispersal from the J K Whitlock estate with possible semi annual continuation. Grady and Jimmy Whitlock will auction with experienced pon y auctioneers. Buyers are urged to arrive early for seats.
More than 20 artificially bred dairy heifers are to be sold Saturday at the A B Dairy Heifer Sale in the Beckley Farmers Market Skelton. The Beckley Rural Development Council sponsors the sale, seen as a yearly event to aid herd reduction, herd improvement through artificial breeding, and to showcase a cooperative program. The sale starts at 1 p m at the market on Mount Hope Road in Skelton.
The Agriculture Committee urged publishing a statewide report on underground farming of crops and livestock and circulating it to local chambers and civic groups. John D. Lough outlined underground growth tests for broilers and mushrooms and possible crops. Adonis Hunt reviewed WV agriculture’s $115 million annual income and 65 000 farms.
Butter consumption per person in 1960 may hit a new low around 7.8 pounds, with the previous low of 8 pounds recorded last year. Hog prices this fall are expected to remain above last year’s levels, keeping market strength.
The Kennedy administration may first push a food stamp plan to move surplus foods to the needy, issuing scrip redeemable at grocers and funded by the Agriculture Department. The effort aims to expand distribution, balance production, and support prices for hogs and cattle, with initial scope limited to current donation items.
A new horizontal silo unloader is praised by U.S. Department of Agriculture engineers for saving substantial time and labor by automatically feeding animals, signaling a potential efficiency boost for farms.
Pittsburgh market reports show cattle 25, hogs 375, sheep 75, calves 25 all steady. Eggs to retailers steady across large medium and small. large offerings light but adequate demand, mediums and smalls in short supply. Prices listed for white, brown and mixed eggs. apples and potatoes also steady with multiple varieties priced. Soil productivity and management impact hybrid maturity time.
On many farms, the home vegetable garden produces a higher return per acre than any other activity.
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