Farm Corner Farm Helpers Plentiful Rains Replenish Deficit
The community notes farm labor demand from experienced livestock and machinery workers to students and an Indian PhD student in New York State. Extension office invites inquiries for permanent or summer help. Mentions mild spring, rain replenishing moisture deficit, frost risks, and fertilizer demonstrations with limited supplies. Also details fertilizer formulas and a simple usage method for lawns and crops. The Cheyenne County Grasshopper Control committee seeks federal and state support to spray over 83,000 acres of range land to curb an anticipated hopper outbreak, stressing the entire area as a workable unit along Lodgepole Creek and tributaries.
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Georgia
India
New York State
Cheyenne County
Grasshopper Control Committee
Doan's Pills Offer Urinary And Back Aches Relief
Plagued by bladder discomfort and nightly aches from overwork or stress, readers are urged to try Doan's Pills. The ad touts eight relief methods including soothing bladder irritations, easing back and muscle pains, and mild diuretic action to boost kidney output. It promotes a new large economy package and asserts decades of use.
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Doan
Logan County 4-H Judging Set For Saturday
Logan County 4-H judging contest will be Saturday May 23 starting at Northeastern Junior College and touring the county. District results list top individuals from Brush Akron Sterling Holyoke Paudrini and other towns with first and second teams named for county standings.
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Logan County
Northeastern Junior College
Fort Morgan
Edson Weiss
Brush
Sam Schwindt
Marion Walton
Akron
Don Karg
Sterling
Dale Yonker
Larry Abbey
Holyoke
Roger Tuell
Yuma
Dennis Rhoades
Washington
Logan
Phillips
Dick De‘bus
Bill Huey
Kenny Freeman
Iliff
Skip Tribelhorn
Padroni
Darrell Wagner
Rodney Dermer
Atwood
Robert Knowles
Wool incentive payments attract 69 Cheyenne growers
Sixty nine Cheyenne County wool growers have applied for incentive payments under the national wool program for the 1958 marketing year. Applications closed April 30. National payment rates will be set after nationwide applications are tallied, then paid through county ASC offices after July 1 to bring the national average wool price to 62 cents per pound. Payments apply as a percentage to each grower’s marketings, with a wool rate for unshorn lambs. The program aims to boost U S wool production by providing incentives.
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Cheyenne County
ASC
U. S
Hardy Oldster Seminole Store Owner Keeps Going
I A Smith, 96, of Seminole Okla, who owns a dry goods store, has two sons who retired at 65, yet he works a full day daily. He remains active and productive in the community.
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Hardy Oldster
Seminole
Okio
I. A. Smith
Smith
New York Chef Creates 30-Pound Apple Pie
In Lockport New York chef Joseph Ciaro of the Lox Plaza Hotel baked an oversized 30 pound apple pie for a breakfast club radio show. In Pembina North Dakota Scotch colonists settled the area and once held yearly buffalo hunts.
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Lockport
N. Y
Joseph Ciaro
Ewes Offer Solid Return On Investment For Nebraska Farms
Nebraska farmers can profit from a flock of 75 ewes with a 1.13 dollar return per dollar invested in the first year, says Morris Hemstrom. A 75-ewe addition costs about 1800 dollars and yields lamb and wool profits. spring lambs fetch around 25 dollars in central markets and wool prices rise to 54 cents per pound. Lambs born in February reach market by June, while ewes provide field-cleaning after harvest. A statewide ewe distribution plan aims to bring young western ewes to Nebraska in July, with county agents handling details.
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Lincoln
Morris Hemstrom
University of Nebraska
Nebraska
Hemstrom
Nebarska Extension Service
Judge Caught With Frozen Dough in Briefcase
Tulsa judge Doro thy Young, about to board a plane, told a friend she carried nothing but frozen cookie dough for a visit to her grandchildren.
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Tulsa
Okla
Dorothy Young
Farm Census To Be Taken After Harvest
County agent Ivan Liljegren announces the nationwide farm census will run October 17 and involve 4.6 million farms. About 30,000 census takers will visit, each trained and sworn to confidentiality. Farmers should start records now for acres, crops, livestock, harvested products, and costs such as fertilizer labor and fuel. Representatives helped decide the questions for the 1959 questionnaire.
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Bureau of the Census
Ivan Liljegren
Act of Congress
Liljegren
Census Bureau
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Illinois
Alliance
Trashmaster
ROD Weeders
Calkins Trashmaster
Calkins Manufacturing Company
America
Calkins
Rod Weeder
Foland
Esteron
Strademark
DOW Enemichi, Company
Biotea ‘Aia
Farmers Feed & Seed
NEBR
Tire Service
General Tire
Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp
General Mills, Inc
P. O. Box
Sidney Telegraph
Oliver
Baling
Larson
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