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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1951
Page
8
Sidney hosts the Nebraska State Wheat Show with Cheyenne County as the leading wheat producer. The editorial urges support for wheat quality, production, and disease control, noting wheat's central role in the regional economy and inviting dignitaries and farmers to attend and back the event.
An essay explains how petrochemistry transforms crude oil into everyday items from raincoats to kitchen wraps and bath curtains. It notes the field’s infancy, complexity, and potential as research in plastics and synthetics expands, with the oil industry investing about 100 million dollars annually for national benefit.
A New York Times editorial foresees a record capital investment this year reaching as high as 25 billion dollars, surpassing 1948's 19.2 billion. It credits business vigor to laws enabling retained profits and borrowing, while warning confiscatory taxes and politicized profit limits threaten future investment and job growth.
A humorous essay explores how illness shifts behavior from supportive spouse care to frustration and exit. The narrator laments friends’ absence during sickness while his wife’s sympathy fades as she shoulders duties and schemes for social duties. The piece ends with a call to end the caregiving role and reclaim independence.
Purdue University agronomists outline a pasture renovation plan beginning with a soil test to determine limestone and nutrient needs. They recommend disc harrow cultivation and crosswise tilling, timothy and smooth brome as supplements to bluegrass, and a seed mix of red clover broadleaf trefoil and Ladine clover along with 400 pounds per acre of 0-20-10 fertilizer to boost establishment and long term production.
A study shows almost 95 percent of today's farm homes now have electricity, up more than 80 percent in a decade. Electric ranges, dishwashers, refrigerators, laundry equipment, dryers, toasters, and automatic heating systems are becoming standard items on farms served by rural electrification. Thermostat controlled heating installations exceed 100,000 from 1947 to 1949 with rapid farm home modernization. About 4.9 million of 5.2 million occupied farms and nearly 15 million rural dwellings will soon be electrified.
An easy time saving crate moves turkey poults and young chickens from brood house to range. Build the crate to fit a hay sled or farm carrier and divide it into sections. Loaded through sliding doors at top, the carrier is skidded to range where two men lift the top and the birds scoot away.
The Commodity Credit Corporation loan program for farmers to finance grain storage facilities will be extended for 1951 52. Initiated in 1949 and set to expire June 30 1951, the program will continue year to year as announced by Secretary Brannan.
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