Scott County Farm Economy 1945 Census Trends
Scott County shows 891 farms in 1945 with 8,116 farm people on 267,520 acres. Average farm size 122.6 acres, land value $14.52 million, cotton and corn lead income, dairying rising, red clover forage, and tenancy trends shifting toward younger farmers. Age groups indicate more young operators but rising older operators. remnant farms and tenancy percentage fluctuates from 1910 to 1945.
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Veterans Training
Scott County
Bertrand
United States
Bowen
Insect Pests Target Scott County Farms
In Scott county grasshoppers army worms and cucumber worms are top pests. Farmers treated 1 979 acres in 1948 for grasshopper control saving an estimated 95 000. Army worms damaged corn cotton pastures and small grains in 1949. Cantaloupes and cucumbers commonly suffer cucumber worm infestation.
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Agricultural products value for 1945 census total
The 1945 Federal census shows livestock 1596551, dairy 239144, crops 3614426, fruit 43584, vegetables 84873, poultry 211835. Gross income per farm rose from 1406 in 1940 to 3320 in 1945, aided by war prices. Dairy expansion and Grade A milk demand noted. Scott County sits in the St. Louis and Memphis milk shed with good local markets. Dairymen likely to grow as economists foresee dairy better positioned to withstand price drops.
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St. Louis
Memphis, Tenn
County farm trends show crop and livestock shifts since WWI
Census trends indicate wheat acreage down while barley and rye rise. Cotton and soybeans grow since 1919 and 1940 45 with green manure crops up. Livestock numbers rise prewar then dip in wartime as row crops expand. beef and dairy quality improves while sheep fall. By Jan 1948 cattle and dairy rise, hogs up, pastures insufficient, and many families lack vegetable canning resources and home milk supply.
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Health services and facilities in Scott County 1949 report
Scott County operates with two district health nurses and a district sanitary engineer under a County Health Council. The county has fifteen medical doctors, five doctors of osteopathy, one optometrist, and one Negro physician, Dr John Sample, who works half time in Mississippi County. A community hospital in Sikeston, erected in 1948, is the county’s only hospital with fifty six beds and separate wards for colored and white and for pediatrics. The beds-to-population ratio is one per 145. Blue Cross groups include 431 families, with 144 served by the Farm Bureau unit. other units are the Milling Company, Bank of Sikeston, and International Shoe Company, all in Sikeston. Rural water and food handling standards in areas lack satisfactory health measures.
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Morie
Yould
Sikeston
Scott County
John Sample
Mississippi County
OA Community Hospital
Blue Cross
Scott County Farm Bureau
Scott County Milling Company
Bank of Sikeston
The
International Shoe Company
Busi
Ness
Blue Cross Service
Scott county farm families face diet and storage gaps
In Scott county farm families most grow adequate gardens and buy meat while sharecroppers and lower income tenants lag. At least 75 percent have adequate food but few eat a truly adequate diet. Hot lunches run in eight schools. Food preservation is inadequate in over 60 percent of farm homes and two-thirds lack adequate canned storage. Four freezer locker plants exist in Sikeston Chaffee Oran and Ancell with about 500 homes having freezers.
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Sikeston
Chaffee
Oran
Ancell
Scott County Homemakers Focus On Clothing Needs
Scott county homemakers show strong clothing interest and benefit from Ex tension Service guidance on sewing machine care and clothing construction. 4-H and Home Economics groups received short cut sewing training and demonstrations on items like zippers and button sewing, with high-quality home sewing noted. Negro families do not make their own clothes and purchase attire from labor earnings.
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Rural high schools and rural youth figures in Scott county
Nine first class high schools in Scott county are Sikeston Oran Slimo-Fornfelt Diehlstadt Chaffee Benton Blodgett Morley and Vanduser. Eighteen class rural schools. Five high schools have Vocational Home Economics Departments Sikeston Chaffee Oran Silmo-Fornfelt and Benton. Sikeston has a vocational agricultural department. Two Veterans on the farm training units operate in the county. The Sikeston Vocational Agricultural Department maintains six instructors with 150 veterans and 50 students under training with two colored instructors. All ten high school districts are consolidated with 28 rural districts not under consolidation, however about ten districts transport youth to city schools. Rural youth ages 5 to 20 by color are White Rural Youth Colored Rural Youth. The total high school youth of the county by color is:
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Sikeston
Oran
SlImo-Fornfelt
Diehlstadt
Chaffee
Benton
Blodgett
Morley
Vanduser
Sikeston Chaffee
Silmo-Fornfelt
Sikeston Vocational Agricultural Department
Scott County 1948 State and Federal assistance totals
The county reports 1948 assistance figures with old age benefits for 929 recipients at $40.05 monthly totaling $389,315, 522 aid to dependent children at $21.12 monthly totaling $101,032, and general relief for 92 people at $13.86 monthly totaling $12,929, summing to $503,376 for the year.
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Farm Plan Help Offered In Scott County
Farmers who missed meetings to sign their 1950 farm plan work sheet can get ACP assistance by visiting the Scott County PMA office in Benton before February 1. Clerk staff will help, and chairman Evin Burke urges small farmers to learn ACP provisions as all productive land is needed for conservation.
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Scott County Production and Marketing Administration
Benton
Evin Burke
PMA
Southeast Missouri Sportsman's Associationotion meeting action
The Poplar Bluff board of directors ordered the incorporation of the Southeast Missouri Sportsman's Association. The meeting covered new business including a $200 cash reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone violating the deer hunting laws.
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Poplar Bluff
Incorporation of
Southeast Missouri Sportsman’s Association
Price support for grain available through January 1950
The USDA says CCC loans and purchase agreements for 1949 crop wheat oats rye barley and soybeans run through January 31 1950. Wheat price support extends to January 1950 to aid price protection and tax handling. Sorghum early maturity shortened by one month. Loans on 1949 crops mature by late spring 1950 with purchase agreement deadlines April 30 1950. Soybeans loans mature May 31 1950. Special January sale values noted at Lair's.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
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