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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
7
Scott County grows dairying with Grade A milk through St Louis markets. 1948 shipments estimated 104 073 pounds at 3 5 butter fat value 5269 dollars, down from 1947's 175 465 pounds valued at 7694 dollars. The notice stresses dairying as steady income and a key future enterprise.
Lola Mae Bollinger of Missouri Fernfeldt high school toured Chicago as a guest of the Chicago and Eastern Railroad. She and three other 4-H representatives visited the Museum of Science and Industry Lincoln Park and livestock shows. She described the trip as educational and recreational with appearances on a Daily News Building TV show and shopping at big department stores.
About 80 people attended a Tuesday evening session at Oran High School to hear extension agents discuss 4-H club work in Scott county. Fifty eight youths and twenty two adults joined to organize a local 4-H club with officers elected Jerry Freshour as president Joan Heisserer as vice president and Reona Miller as secretary treasurer. Leaders and projects were presented with colored slides and the group closed with a 4-H pledge.
A Salcedo Home Economics Club meeting on December 21 featured a covered dish luncheon and a gift exchange. Members heard on soil treatment interest to Balanced Farming Association and reviewed 1948 fertilizer, lime and organic matter use by Scott County farmers including 618 tons of commercial fertilizer on 3773 acres with cotton a major crop.
Plans are urged now for the 1949 Scott County Balanced Farming Association open to all farm families with applications via County Extension Agents in Benton. The program offers advice, records, and tax time reporting aid, plus soils and crops conference on January 12. 4 H Clover Club officers were elected at Crowder School with Mrs Altom Jr as leader, and County Agent Tom Strap encouraged continued 4 H work. A recognition night is set for December 7 in Benton with pins, and a Christmas party followed at Mrs Alten’s home.
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