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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1959
Page
2
The 17th annual Census of Agriculture in Nebraska will count farms and land use for 1959. It inventories livestock and crops, farm facilities, workers, wages, and cash expenditures. About 30 000 enumerators will collect data with strict confidentiality.
University of Nebraska Extension dairyman C W Nibler outlines safety rules for dairy bulls. Confine bulls in strong pens with proper chutes and gates to keep people out of pens. Use nose rings, dehorn calves, and handle with a bull staff to prevent injuries on farms and during breeding work.
The 1959 Farm-City Week in Nebraska, themed Rural Development, aims to raise awareness and cooperative action for rural progress. Arnold Peterson leads Nebraska observance with Dean Brown noting the program promotes self help and off farm opportunities through town and country resource study and project planning.
The U S Department of Agriculture and the American Sheep Producers Council announced a three year program to promote lamb and wool use. The plan follows a referendum in which 69 percent of growers favored continuation representing 1 percent of sheep. Deductions from incentive payments will fund the program at one cent per pound of shorn wool and five cents per hundred pounds of live weight for 1959 with terms for 1960 1961 set but not exceeding 1959 rates. New steel enables airlift of war weapons such as tanks and bulldozers.
Nebraska farmers and sportsmen will discuss wildlife management at the University of Nebraska in a two day Land Water and Wildlife conference November 23 and 24. The event features Dr Durward Allen and other officials with a panel discussion What's on Your Mind. The Valle Grande volcanic crater near Los Alamos New Mexico covers 176 square miles with a 16 mile diameter.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Marvin L. McLain will headline the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation Convention in Lincoln November 15 18 appearing November 17 at Pershing Municipal Auditorium. McLain oversees USDA stabilization and crop insurance programs and previously led the grain division. The keynote is titled Agriculture Is Important with morning remarks by Nebraska Farm Bureau President Charles Marshall.
The page reports adoption of Policy Development Committee recommendations and election of Board of Directors members. It notes seafood weighings with chicken lobsters at three-quarters to one pound and jumbo lobsters over two and a half pounds.
Farm Week and Farm-City Week in November 2026 aim to build better understanding between rural and urban peoples. They seek to increase knowledge of the American way of life and recognize Thanksgiving as a symbol of gratitude for nature’s bounty and the strength of American institutions.
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