High Rank for Schuchart Cows
Four of the Southeast Missouri Dairy Herd Improvement Association’s top milk producers are owned by R. P. Schuchart near Sikeston. His Holstein herd, west of Sikeston, tops the district with June outputs from 2091 to 1410 pounds and fat from 83.6 to 63.4. The group’s Big Ten includes two Guernseys, two Jerseys, and two Holsteins among 349 cows averaging 668 pounds of milk and 27 pounds fat. Schuchart’s herd is cited as a district high producer along with W. F. Woods’ Miner dairy herd.
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Southeast Missouri
R. P. Schuchart
Sikeston
Southeast
Mr. Sihuchart
W. F. Woods
Miner
Chillicothe Business College Publishes 50th Anniversary Bulletin
The Chillicothe Business College mails its 50th Anniversary Summer Bulletin, a 160000 copy issue, to recent high school graduates across twenty states.
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Chillicothe Business College
W R Binford Again Finds First Bloom
W R Binford wins the first cotton bloom of the 1940 crop near Sikeston, growing on Stallcup lands south of Sikeston. He has for twenty years supplied The Herald with the season’s first bloom, except once when Grover Baker beat him. Binford praises his late boss L M Stallcup and current boss Mrs Frances Stallcup, notes good stand but small, late plants, and urges hot weather to speed cotton growth.
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Sikeston Ridge
W. R. Binford
Sikeston
Binford
Herald Office
Grover Baker
Mr. Binford
Stallcup
L. M. Stallcup
Frances Stallcup
Buckeye Heifers Sold For Foundation Stock
W H Sikes manager of the Buckeye Plantation reports the sale of 15 pure bred Aberdeen Angus heifers last week at the farm for 9 50 per 100 pounds. Average weight was about 650 pounds. They were bought for breeding purposes.
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W. H. Sikes
Buckeye
Sikeston
Oil Mill Builds Third Seed House
The Sikeston Cotton Oil Mill nears completion of its third seed house, mirroring the 60 by 200 foot footprint of the first two and featuring continuous walls and arches. With concrete floors and a central conveyor system, the new unit adds 4000 ton capacity, joining a 5000 ton original and a 4000 ton second.
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Sikeston
C. E Staples
Remodeling of Bank of Sikeston Interior Opens Space
Officials of the Bank of Sikeston announce interior remodeling to provide additional facilities for the public. The project will add two new teller windows to handle the rising business as Sikeston’s population grows.
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Bank OF Sikeston
Sikeston
Paving Final Gap on Highway 25 in Missouri
Missouri bids due July 19 include completing the final paving gap on Highway 25 in Ste Genevieve County from Bloomsdale to Ste Genevieve. Also bid is a relocated 4.14 mile stretch of Highway 60 near Wyatt with grading and concrete paving. Additional Southeast Missouri projects include 25.3 miles of surface treatment in Mississippi Stoddard and Wayne counties.
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Missouri State Highway Commission
Jefferson City
Ste. Genevieve
Mississippi County
Bloomsdale
Jackson
Wyatt
Missouri
Mississippi
Stoddard
Wayne Counties
Reverend Borntrager Visits Relatives Near Tanner
Rev. E. M. Borntrager of Sturgis Michigan arrived here Monday for a few days visit with relatives near Tanner and to transact business. Borntrager formerly lived near Tanner.
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E. M. Borntrager
Sturgis
Mich
Tanner
Rev. Borntrager
Changes horses in the middle of the stream
After 35 years of farming Will S. Inman shifts to large scale chicken raising on a seven acre Miner tract east of Sikeston. He sold nearly 200 White Rocks at nine weeks old weighing two to three pounds each for 20 cents per pound, saying he seeks more education from the new venture and is learning many new things.
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Will S. Inman
Miner
Sikeston
Fifty Years Feeding Cattle by J M Klein Sold in St Louis
J M Klein a Sikeston stock man for fifty years sold two truck loads of Whiteface cattle on the St. Louis market. The cattle averaged 1200 pounds, up from 400 pounds when purchased eighteen months ago after pasturing on clover les pedera rye and fed corn and cotton seed meal. Murray Klein, his son, is in the business. The elder Klein began fifty years ago by buying one hundred calves near Iron Mountain about 125 miles north of Sikeston.
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J. M. Klein
Sikeston
St. Louis
Klein
Murray Klein
Iron Mountain
Concrete Pavement Planned for Highway 67 Near Fredericktown
The State Highway Commission voted unanimously to surface the new Highway 67 south of Fredericktown with concrete. Residents of Poplar Bluff and nearby areas urged concrete for the road which has been rebuilt for about five miles, though the surface remains incomplete north of the point south of Fredericktown after years of accidents along the route.
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State Highway Commission
Fredericktown
Poplar Bluff
Sikeston Cattleman’s Long Career in Farming Region
He drove cattle from Iron Mountain to his Sikeston area farm in five days and has since built a successful career in cattle ranching and farming in the Sikeston district.
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Iron Mountain
Sikeston
Good Rye Yield Reported at Buckeye Farm
Thirty bushels per acre on a twelve acre field of Balboa rye was threshed last week at the ton according to W H Sikes manager Altogether Mr Sikes grew 100 acres of rye the average for the total acreage being 23 bushels This is considered an unusually good yield for rye.
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Buckeye
Sikeston
W. H. Sikes
Road paving plans in Missouri extend to concrete surfacing
The text notes a shift from black-top to concrete for highway surfaces in Missouri. It states that future improvements and the entire road are expected to be paved with concrete, replacing earlier paving methods.
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Missouri
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