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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1957
Page
2
The column reviews weekly farm activities at Richard Cantwell and Harvie Jackson farms with wheat club checks, cutworm observations, and corn spacing trials. It notes aphid management, tomato moisture symptoms, cantaloupe worm control, and fly reduction in poultry houses, plus cotton prices and export activity.
Scott County farmers are advised on leafhopper outbreaks in alfalfa with spraying guidelines using methoxychlor and timings. Earworms in corn, chinch bugs, stored grain insect precautions, late planting strategies for corn soybeans and silage, and soybeans for hay are covered with location specific recommendations and timing windows.
Agricultural guidance covers planting sorghums and millet, late openings up to July with moisture, varieties Westland Martins Redbine 60 and Midland, precautions on Plainsmen. Silage sorghums using Axtell and Ellis can mature earlier, spraying with DDT advised, and marketing help from regional associations. Fall cabbage for Southeast Missouri urged August planting, soil tests, nitrogen, irrigation, and regular spraying for quality, with varieties Golden Harvest Jersey Queen and Maron Market noted.
Missouri wool producers will receive an incentive payment of 40 percent of the dollar return for shorn wool sold in the 1956 marketing year. A 71 cent per hundredweight payment applies to unshorn lambs to discourage early shearing. Mohair payments are not made as mohair prices exceed the support level. Payments begin after July 1 for deliveries April 1 1956 to March 31 1957, with eligibility requiring shorn wool after January 1 1955 and lambs never shorn.
The Porr Express, begun in 1860, operated for only 16 months before ceasing service, marking a short lived postal and freight venture of the era.
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