RDC Acts on Market Road and Community Growth
Rural Development Council members reviewed farm to market road delays and endorsed seven key improvements across magisterial districts. They set plans for a regional market, supported by Agriculture Commissioner McLaughlin and the Department, while expanding community organization efforts and noting growing poultry and dairy activity and rising chick production in West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rural Development Council
Minor L. Lott
H. B. Thomas
RDC
Sidte Road Commission
Raleigh
Scott
Charles Model
Hulett Smith
SEC. Council
E. T. Suromp
J. B. McLaughlin
Stromp
Department of Agriculture
Livestock Prices Change at Pittsburgh Market
Associated Press reports Pittsburgh livestock prices with hogs down 50 cents and mixed cattle and sheep values. Cattle receipts total 200 and sheep 150 with calves 108. Markets active and steady amid overall soft pork demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preas
Pittsburgh
Grain Market Fluctuations at Board of Trade
The Associated Press reports grains retreating on the Chicago Board of Trade with minor fractional losses in wheat corn and soybeans while oats show firmness. Opening prices list multiple futures for wheat Sept Dec Mar May July and oats at various fractions, with Sept and Dec oats near 66 and 65 per bushel and soybeans posting mixed values through the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Board of Trade
Lalit Dee
Farm Quizbox and Veterans Farm Training Report
Farm Quizbox presents six questions from Successful Farming with answers noting cows cud feeding aids digestion and disease resistance, warmer 50 year weather trend, home bread share around six percent, shoe sizes by time of day, Feed X containing sex hormones, and chlordane as insecticide. Fourteen World War III veterans in Allegheny County receive up to 348 hours each of farm training in early year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Pounden
J. W Hibbs
Ohio
Weather Bureau
New Yorker Magazine
Ohio State Experiment Station
Aleigh County
Certificates Given For Tree Farms
Harry W Miller Beckwith and the New River Pacahontas Consolidated Coal Co receive certificates for forest land under West Virginia Tree Farm System. H M Harr district forester notes Miller qualifies with 16 acres while coal firm gains award for 1 420 acres. State now has 17 certified farms under Conservation Commission and Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Incorporated. Members must show willingness to use land for forest crops provide protection from fire insects and pests harvest to assure future crops and furnish progress information upon request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry W. Miller
Beckwith
New River-Pacahontas Consolidated Coal Co
West Virginia
H. M. Harr
AM Miller
Coal Company
The
Conservation Commission
Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Incorporated
Vets Vie for Awards In Land Use Contest
Eight of Raleigh County's thirteen veterans entered the bank sponsored Conservation and Land Use Contest, with savings bonds for the top three and blue ribbons for seven runners up. All contestants receive a dinner invite, a year’s subscription to Suit Conservation Magazine, and a bank distribute booklets offering farm improvement tips for crops, pastures, woodlands, and wildlife. Participants include T. Proctor Mt. Hope, Fred Vines Odd, John Bulmer Arnett, Omer West Coal Ridge, Virgil Borrer Glen Daniel, Merivale Meador Pluto, Connie Wyatt Fairdale, and James Young Coal City. Agricultural technicians note several have shown noteworthy farm improvements this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Uncle Sam
fSuit Conservation Magazine
T. Proctor
Route 1
Mt. Hope
Fred Vines
Odd
John Bulmer
Arnett
Omer
Fayette Field Day Program Expanded and Entries
Fayette Field Day expands to an all day event with entry closing November 1. Farmers may pick up an instruction booklet at Beckley banks, submit by November 1 to Raleigh County Bank for prizes of 100 dollar bond, 30 dollar bond, and 25 dollar bond. Technical aid comes from Soil Conservation Service, Agricultural Extension Service, Conservation Commission, and Agricultural Conservation Association. Principal sponsors include Mercer County Farm Bureau and local figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Snyders
iPoultry Commission
Thomas
Forestry Commission
Lyon
Health and Recreation Commission
C. Hutchinson
County Agricultural Council
Beckley Banks
Frank N. Gans
Beckley
Raleigh County
The
Soil Conservation Service
Agricultural Extension Service, Conservation Commission
Agricultural Conservation Association
Farm Bureau
Register
Princeton
Mercer County Farm Bureau
Cecil Fletcher
Farm Women's Club
Fayette County
Payette Farm Bureau
J. G. Baker
Oak Hill Farmer
A. B. Lyon
Frank Jalstead
Dunjoupistrip
Baker's Farm
Summerlee Road
Herd Sires Rarely Carry Brucellosis Says Station
Agricultural Experiment Station veterinarian Dr. N. Olson reports herd sires seldom transmit brucellosis. Bulls show normal resistance to the germ, reducing need to vaccinate bull calves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Experiment Station
N. ©. Olson
R Day Campaign Urges West Virginians to Feed People Not Rats
Extension Director J. O. Knapp promotes Armistice Day rat control in West Virginia. Counties run their own programs to cut rat losses, with sponsors led by the Agricultural Extension Service of West Virginia University. A rat killed costs seventy-five cents. a thousand rats cost seven hundred fifty dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armigfinn
J. O. Knapp
Agricultural Extension Service
West Virginia University
U. S
West
Asparagus Bed Care for Spring and Fall Fertilization
Asparagus beds need thorough cultivation between seasons and liberal fall fertilizer. After harvest, cut stalks close to the ground, burn them, and spread 3 to 4 inches of manure to rot by spring. Remove stumps to avoid beetle habitat, spray rust with Bordeaux mix, and transplant strong seedlings to a new bed while weak plants are discarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malungay al Press Association
Soil District Supervisors to Act On State Offer
The Southern Soil Conservation District may gain technical help from the State Conservation Commission through a memorandum of understanding. The package covers farm forestry wildlife management, and hunts to be allowed under district terms. Board members plan to meet September 8 to review exact commitments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh Register
Beckley
W. Va
Soil District
Tomatoes ripening stages and frost harvest guidance
Extension gardening specialist Claude R. Kemper outlines three ripeness stages for tomatoes ripe pink and mature green. Harvest the day before frost or when cover protection is not possible. pink ripe ripens about ten days in a dark, cool place. mature green shows no color and should be stored at about 80 degrees to ripen in a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude R. Kemper
Kemper Seys
Kemper
Soil Conservation District Offers Farm Area Plan
A state official foresees Jt WHI affecting farmers in Mercer Summers Fayette Raleigh counties and possibly Wyoming McDowell if included in the Southern Soil Conservation District. The understanding, amendable and terminable by procedure, was presented to the board by Baker who called it a logical conservation approach stressing soil, water, forestry and game management. Elk District Board of Supervisors recently signed the agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suhluteow
Board of Supervisors
State Conservation Commission
Hinton
M. P. Crooks
District Game Management Project
Crooks
Congress
Mercer
Summers
Fayette
Raleigh
Wyoming
McDowell
Southern Soil Conservation District
Baker
Board of Supervisors of
Elk District
Commission
Pittsburgh Produce Prices and Carload Movements
Produce demand tab lists apples and potatoes with car counts and price ranges across states. Apples include Cortlands Jonathans McIntosh and Delawares with various prices in PA MD WV OH NY. potatoes show 11 cars with Idaho Russets and Wisconsin Chippewas, Washington Low Whites, North Dakota Red Warbas, Maine Katahdins, and PA Katahdins, with several price entries. overall market movement noted as steady and unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Associated Press
Birtsaurch
Pennsylvania
Farm Living Transforms With Electric Power Advances
Rural life shifts as electricity enters farms and small towns. Machines replace manual chores in barns and fields. Milk cooling, water systems, and weathering controls run by motors. lamps switch on with ease, bathrooms improve, and farming gains leisure without sacrificing healthful living.
Brannan Subsidy Plan Attacked as Worst Gold Brick
Successful Farming magazine denounces the Brannan Plan as political and inefficient criticizing high supports and tax costs. It argues subsidies threaten farmer freedom, congressionally driven appropriation whim, and overemphasize consumer benefits while urging market price signals and higher production per acre. The American Farm Bureau Federation shares similar concerns about reliance on government checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brannan
Congress
American Farm Bureau Federation
AFBF
Timely Corn Cutting Means Better Yield
Extension agronomist RJ Friant cautions delaying corn harvest until full maturity or slight nipping by frost to maximize yield and grain quality. Dry matter rises over 1 percent daily from milk stage to ripe, with each day of delay potentially adding about a bushel per 106 bushel crop. Potatoes may be treated with methyl ester of alpha naphthalene acetic acid to curb storage sprouting. use before sprouting appears and avoid seed potatoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Extension Agronomist
Friant
Tyo
Agricultural Extension Service
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Monongahela Association
Co. T. Shackelford
Tupelo Miss
Dre, Anderson
Hodel
Dairying Commission
E. L. Mohler
New England
West North Central
Grain Report
Ada Ad
Porman Bistilline
Mack Label
Wong Bee Label
QLD Forester
Bosted
Fond
Vemies Baker
Oniona
Etocage
Farm Magazine
Pe Reed
Beckley Distributing CO
West Pa
Nixon
Nixon Furniture
Neville Street
Prince Street
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