Twin Crops Garden Plan Mixes Vegetables and Flowers
An article on planting a vegetable garden with flowering borders to boost beauty and harvests. It describes border choices with Alyssum, bachelor buttons, calliopsis, zimnias, centaurea and others, plus care tips for weed control and irrigation. It also warns that cedar chests alone do not prevent moth damage and suggests paradichlorobenzene crystals and proper ventilation. The piece cites the County Extension Office in Benton for more guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Extension Office
Benton
Pasture Bloat Prevention and Root Worm Advice From Extension Notes
Scott County Extension notes discuss bloat risks from young clover in April pastures and recommend dry roughage like cottonseed hulls and regular penicillin sal blends to prevent losses. It also covers Southern Corn Root Worm control for watermelons with aldrin heptachlor or toxaphene, and tips for storing winter clothes to prevent moths and carpet beetles using paradichlorobenzene or napathalene, plus EQ-53 mothproof wash addition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi Experiment Station
Vegetable Association
Jewel Grady
Planting Time and Training Marks In Scott County
Scott County farmers discuss traditional planting windows for Missouri corn by region and compare open pollinated versus hybrid varieties. Guidance covers planting rates, soil moisture, and risk, with a rule of thumb for row spacing yields. Training for 4-H officers includes parliamentary procedure, record keeping, and a mock baseball drill using questions for hits or outs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County
McMulleo
Commerce
Gran
New Hamburg
Blodgett
Jewel Grady
Loans Made Since July 1 1956 by Farmers Home Admin
County Supervisor H Allan Brock of the Scott Mississippi unit reports 428010 in loans to farmers in Scott and Mississippi Counties since July 1 1956. 48505 in loan requests are on hand awaiting funds. Office in Sikes ton MO upstairs Post Office Building open 8 to 5 weekdays. Charleston MO representative available Monday 10 to 12 in courthouse basement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Allan Brock
Scott-Mississippi
Farmers Home Administration
Scott
Mississippi
Brock
Howard L. King
Elvira B. Mentz
Sikeston
Missouri
Charleston
Court House
Sowing Bee Teaches Gardeners To Sow Correctly
An instructional piece on proper seed sowing. It compares sowing to human needs, stressing seed air water and food, soil depth, drainage, and the use of humus sand mixes. It covers seed depth four times the seed diameter, thinning at inch plantings, and avoiding burial under crusted soil.
East Prairie Guests Visit and Shower Held
East Prairie residents Mr and Mrs Buly Fisher and daughter Judy of St Louis visited the Fishers relatives over the weekend. A cradle shower for Mrs Verlon Thornbrough of Fr Anoxa Ki was hosted by Mrs Cloyce Thornbrough with about twenty five guests. Mr and Mrs Paul McCarver announce the engagement of daughter Shirley Ann McCarver to Robert Ray Nunn and details of their backgrounds are given. Mr and Mrs Bill Kriese of Memphis Tennessee spent Easter weekend with family.
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Buly Fisher
Judy
St Louis
Rs Shelly Mhers
Fishers
Campbell
Paul McCarver
Shirley Ann McCarver
Robert Ray Nunn
Hattie Nunn
Robert Nunn
East Prairie High School
Southeast Anssour! State College
Nunn
US. Air Force
McDonnell Aircraft Corp
Bill Kriese
Memphis
Tennessee
Local News Highlights From Bement Area
Mrs. W H Holmes visits Nashville for eye surgery with return planned this weekend. Mrs. John Stallings ill but improving. Mary Lou and Julia Stinnett visit from St Louis, others hosted by Stinnett and Daugherty families. Harper family Easter reunion notes and church revival details. Snakebite cases in animals peak August-September per American Veterinary Medical Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stallings
Mary Lou
Julia Stinnett
St Louis
Rube Stinnett
St. Louis
Douglas "Seaton
J. W. Seaton
Dyersburg
Tenn
Vernell Daugherty
WM. A
Bull Blackman
WMA
Bill Blackman
American Veterinary Medical Associaton
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THE
Sikeston Herald
I Alyssum
Tom B. Stroup
Webb
Electric Supply CO
Coen
Southam
Central
Powea
Ailis-Chalmers
Allis-Chalmers
National Farm & Home Hour
NBC
Allie
Allis-Chalmers Sales and Service
Sikeston Farm Equipment CO
N. Ranney
East Prairie
Clecr Soon
Butler
Lcet
Perryville Steel Products Co
Frank D. Emmendorfer, JR
Perryville, Missouri
Bement News
Bro. Daugherty
Christ
Scripwre
Harper
Dewey Harper
Bement
Bro
Ed Harper
South Roxana
Vernon Harper
Woodriver
Harry Buchanan
Alton
Dan McPherson
Jim Blackburn
Salas Harper
Morganfield
Johnny Haar
Abe Pennington
H. L. Harper
Hayti
E. W. Carroll
Johnson Harper
Bertrand
Jerry Holland
Russell Harper
Mae Harper
Alus Harper
Thurman Harper
Ira Crannick
Ford
Ali Salea
Bootheel Auction CO
West Phone
Sikeston, MO
Dale Alcern
Lenzie Beck
Joe McCord
Bobbie Hale
Ringmann
Dale Alcorn
Moe
Woodrow Beck
Harel Bennett
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