Multiflora Rose Demonstration Sets March Meeting
Scott County farmers will see a Multiflora Rose planting demonstration at Wildrose Farm near Benton on High way 61 Friday March 11 starting 10:00 a.m. The event explains plant growth, fencing use and wildlife protection with a one quarter mile rose setup. Additional meeting March 14 in Benton features Extension horticulturist Tom Stroup and Allan Purdy discussing disease resistant varieties soil tests and garden Fertilizer recommendations with slides and garden records reviews.
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Scott County
Raymond B Milligan
Benton
Highway 61
Missour
Missouri
Tom B. Stroup
Allan Purdy
Missouri College of Agriculture
Purdy
Lester Martin
Near Kelso
Edwin Birk
Lusk Chapel
Response of small grain to ammonium nitrate applications
County Agent Stroup advises Scott County poultry raisers to use a starter mash for 8 weeks, then a grower mash with grain. Feed as needed for maximum growth. Starter mix details are given and a Circular 507 is recommended for more on feeding baby chicks. The article also discusses using ammonium nitrate on small grain and notes significant yield gains from 75 to 100 pounds per acre as a top dressing before spring growth, with oats showing an average 32.4 bushels per acre increase on certain soils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stroup
Scott County
Missouri College of Agriculture
Tom B. Stroup
South
Missouri
Frank van Horne
Sikeston
Recommended cabbage varieties for frost hardy home gardens
Jersey Queen and Racine Market are early cabbage varieties, Marion Market and Glove follow. These yellow resistant types resist cabbage yellows and tolerate 40 to 50 degree cools before transplant. Properly handled plants are frost proof. prefer home grown or locally grown yellow resistant varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey Queen
Racine Market
Marion Market
Glove
Tom B. Stroup
Farm notices and Home Econ Club activities in Scott County
Agriculture notes urge 75 pounds per acre ammonium nitrate if available and detail 4-H and rug making meetings led by Mrs. Lackey and Mrs. Rowe. Updates cover corn loans and signups by March 31, Angoumois moth risk, and a broad push for 1949 Agricultural Conservation plans with lime and phosphate needs, costs sharing, and deadlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County
Missouri College of Agriculture
Burke
County Agricultural Conservation Association
St Patrick's Party For Farm Bureau Families
A St Patrick's party will be held at the Morley school gymnasium Thursday night March 17 at 7 30. Lester O Akers State 4 H club agent and Mrs Viola Smith director of home and community work of Jefferson City will assist in the evening entertainment. All Farm Bureau families urged to attend wear shamrock or green and bring pie and sandwiches. Coffee served by committee. The program will follow the supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McMullin Home Economics
Neeley Leigh
Doyle Lackey
Robert Rowe
W. B. Simpson
Frank Altom Sr
Eula Minner
Mable Chism
Simpson
Rowe
Oran Home Economics Club
Julian Streeter
Kate Streeter
Gladys Ellingburg
Hickman
Streeter
Kentucky
Dyersburg
Tenn
Don Carns
Mack Eachus
Edwin Bugler
Claude Hughes
A. D. McCray
Bonnie Cofer
Eileen Wondel
Morley School
Lester O. Akers
Viola Smith
Home and Community Work of
Jefferson City
Farm Bureau
Clem Ranson
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Miss Lorene
Hubbard County
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Scotts
Habs Machine Works
Sikeston, MO
McCmullin Home Economics Club
Evin Burke
PMA
Avery
Southeast Missouri
B. F. Avery Tractor and
Avery-Carroll
Carroll
Sikeston, Missouri
Daygtan
Tioe Dayton
Dayton
Grant & Owen Tire Co
Corner Malone
Scott St
ST. Patrick’s Party For Farm Bureau Families
Farmington Hereford Sale
Beef Breeder’s Sale
Association
Col
Guy Pettis
C. A. Doubet
Joe E. Hubbard
Farmington, MO
SALE
Hereford
Cattle Breeders Association
E. C. H. Reidinger
DE Soto
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