Sixth Year Starts For Weight Gain Livestock Contest
The Cheyenne County Baby Beef Weight Gain Contest enters its sixth year as part of the 4 H program. In 1954 it began with 50 calves. this year 87 calves were weighed on the starting date for a roughly 200 day feeding period. Calves are weighed in January with final weighing at County Fair time. Participants are scored on rate of gain and management practices. A livestock committee of one member from each club tours the county to score management, corral, and feeding arrangements. In 1958 livestock enrollment rose, with 105 members and 144 calves across eleven clubs led by club leaders including Joe Policky, Allen Nelson, Arvin Nielsen, Clark Schaffert, Kenneth McRoberts, Ray Cruise, James Beyer, Stewart Brown Jr., John Ommen, Fred Kriesel, and Harold Draper.
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Cheyenne County
Livestock Club
Joe Policky
Allen Nelson
Arvin Nielsen
Clark Schaffert
Kenneth McRoberts
Huntsman Hustlers
Ray Cruise
T-Bone
James Beyer
Just Us
Stewart Brown Jr
Better the Best Livestock
John Ommen
Do Better
Fred Kriesel
Harmony Hustlers
Harold Draper
Gardening Project Benefits 4 H'ers and Family
Enrolling in a 4 H garden project proved valuable for Cheyenne County youths in 1958. Thirteen members planted and cared for gardens as the Lucky Seven 4 H Club formed under Mrs Hinrichs. The Merry Makers pursued garden, sewing, and cooking projects while learning by doing amid rising insect pressure.
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Cheyenne County
Lucky Seven
Hinrichs
Merry Makers 4-H
4 H Crops Clubs Experiences Are Many And Varied
The 1958 State Wheat Show at Sidney highlighted Cheyenne County 4-H Crops Club members with a Champion Wheat Exhibit and overall Western Division champion Jerry Miller. Clubs emphasize judging skills with monthly practice sessions and annual county judging at the Fair. 1959 enrollment includes Huntsman Hustlers Kernal and Klod Krops Klub and new Kernal and Chaff. A weed project expands wheat programs, teaching weed ID and application methods. Nine members took part in the Junior Judging Contest during the Wheat Show.
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Sidney
Cheyenne County 4-H
Jerry Miller
Cheyenne County
Huntsman Hustlers Club
Kernal and Klod Krops Klub
Floyd Miller
Huntsman Hustlers
Henry Gell
Kernal
Klod Krops Klub
Kernal and
Chaff
Howard Reimers
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Sidney Kimball Farm Loan
Association
Wm. D. Harte, Secy.Treas
Union Pacific Railroad
Carl Raymond Gray
Nebraska
Howard Madden
Potter
Kenneth Johnson
Glen Beale
Gunhardt Olsen
Louis Miller
Miller
Ruth Sparks
Wayne Campbell
Lodgepole
Alice Rexroth
Gurley
Floyd Stonecipher
Chester Frame
Rosetta Siemers
LeMoyne Johnson
Nye Bond
Carl Kurz
Henry Geuy
Leon Larsen
Harvey Nelson
Kenneth Olson
Nancy
Fullerton
Neb
Lloyd Henke
Dalton
Asa Queen
Charles DeBoodt
Morrill
Douglas Smith
Ardis Westerhoff
Loren Fisher
Bill Hates
Dorothy Christensen
Richard Schaffert
John Synove
Viola Payne
Duane Bondegard
Virgil Horst
Mary Ann Rufenacht
Leonard Benzel
Clare Belle Koester
Lois Marek
John Hinrichs Jr
Karen Ann Berry
Rosalind Campbell
Stanley Jorgensen
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
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