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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1957
Page
2
Scott County Extension notes offer practical advice on freezing berries including strawberries rhubarb and gooseberries plus sugar syrup packing and thawing. The report covers sorghum planting in rows seed treatments and avoiding 24D, plus pest control for vetch bruchid and garden insects and notes on leaf rust and armyworms in local crops. It ends with a local crime item about a hunter fined after chasing and killing a farmer's horse.
A Virginia farmer built a low cost open one story structure with a 100 by 60 foot layout to dry hay. An air tunnel directs air through a 60 foot slatted floor while a pit 4 feet 2 inches underground aids drying. The system yields about 4500 bales capacity with cement slabs and feeding alleys for cattle.
Costa Rica youth delegate Carlos arler arrived Monday to spend a month on the Richard Cantwell farm near Corona. E. Q Brown notes the program sponsors aim to broaden rural youth views through living experience and 4-H activities, with Carlos set to speak May 26 at East Prairie High School field. Army worms and lawn grass guidance follow, detailing parasite signs, fungous infection, and safe spraying timings for local farmers.
Seventeen New Madrid County farmers working with the Farmers Home Administration plowed 340 acres of cotton in 1956, averaging 20 acres each. The project cut hoe chopping costs by 50 percent with no yield loss, using standard cultivators. Variations included 38 med rows and the block method. one grower spent $3200 to chop 36 acres. Farmers plan to expand cross plowing in 1957, with seed rates of 30 to 55 pounds per acre to ensure good stands and better weed control in soybeans through cultivation and timely discing and rotary hoe use. Continuous cultivation remains essential.
2nd Lt James L. Lester 23 of Sikeston Missouri assigned to the 64th Fighter Interceptor Squadron as a Radar Observer. He attended Missouri University of Mines Rolla before enlisting in 1954 and earned his commission at James Connally AFB Texas in August 1956. Lieutenant Lester trained at Harlingen and Moody AFBs and serves in Western Air Defense Forces. He is the son of Mrs Florence K. Lester. 2d Armored Division Germany welcomes Pvt Leona J Hicks 19, son of Mr and Mrs John Hicks Sikeston MO. Hicks arrived in Germany and joins the 67th Tank Battalion after enlisting last year and being stationed at Fort Benning GA.
The Citics Service Out Company sponsors a Key Award for one percent of county 4-Hers. Applicants must be 16 by Jan 1, have five years of club work, and submit the 4-H key award application and standard report to the County Extension Office by September 1. Open to white and colored 4-Hers.
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