Harvest Time USDA Report Shows Higher Crop Output
The harvest time bulletin compares corn, wheat and other major crops to the prior month forecast, last year, and ten year averages. It lists last-year and ten-year production for oats, corn in Missouri, wheat in Missouri, soybeans in Missouri, and other crops with figures in bushels, pounds, tons, and hundredweight, highlighting increases across several categories.
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U.S.D.A
Oais
Montana
Inc
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas Bend 4-H Elects Officers and Notes Nitrogen Trials
Texas Bend 4 H Club elected Betty Rowling as president Janet Duenne as vice president Ann Lankheit as treasurer Joseph Rowling as song leader Delores Hahn as game leader and Stephen Rowling as reporter. Members planned projects from food preservation to rope training and grooming. Nitrogen fertilizer trials reported by J B Simpkins and Joe Lattus showed yields rising from 38 bushels per acre without added nitrogen to around 72 bushels with ammonium nitrate, with other fields showing similar gains under nitrogen treatment. The Concord 4 H Club held a meeting with 22 members present led by Jerry Rowland.
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Tac
Texas Bend
Betty Rowling
Janet Duenne
Ann Lankheit
Lee’s Treas
Joseph Rowling
Delores Hahn
Stephen Rowling
J. B Simpkins
Joe Lattus
Simpkins
Sumpkins
Corona Commumite
James Rynearson
Smokey Laws Club Elects Officers and Sets Safety Focus
The Smokey Laws group elected Carol Stallings president, Marv Tinsler vice president, Beverly Wilson treasurer, Joan Tinsler sexton, Janet Smith game leader, and Marvy McMillen as club reporter. They chose Safety as the new activity with Gertie Wilson and others as project leaders. Community Club leadership includes Miss Mary Howton, assisted by F. G. Adams.
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Carol Stallings
Marv Tinsler
Beverly Wilson
Seex-Treas
Joan Tinsler
Janet Smith
Marvy McMillen
Gertie Wilson
Clothing
Marshall Stallings
Woodwork VT
Mary Howton
Virs F. G. Adams
Sign Up Now For 30 Acre Feed Wheat Program
Milton Gehrs of Scott County ASC urges farmers to apply at the county office before October 15 or before planting for 30 acre feed wheat. The program allows up to 30 acres for on farm use only and prohibits sale or trade. Farmers may still raise and sell up to 15 acres without penalties regardless of allotment, but signed participants cannot market the 30 acre crop. Farmers are urged to visit the ASC office.
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Milton Gehrs
Scott County
ASC
Kent
Loans To Farmer Co-Ops Increase In 1957 Total 580 Million
The Farm Credit Administration reports year ending June 30 1957 saw $580 million in loans by 13 banks for cooperatives up 3 percent from the prior year. Loans outstanding surpassed $380 million, with 1 780 loans issued a 9 percent rise, while cooperative ownership of bank stock grew to 25 million.
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United States
Robert B. Tootell
Farm Credit Adminstration
Tootell
Ferm Credit
Tlacc
Oy Cooperatives
Federal Land Banks
Federal Intermediate Credit
Scott County Farm Bureau annual meeting in Benton
The Scott County Farm Bureau will hold its Annual Meeting in Benton starting at 7 am on Monday, October 21. The session will draft member resolutions for the State Farm Bureau on issues including farm programs, tax policy, meat promotion fees, eggs law, and grain market measures. Board and Scott Co Farm Service Company directors will be elected.
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Scott County Farm Bureau
Benton
Afl
State Farm Bureau
SCS
ASC
Missouri
Scott Co. Farm Service Company
Scott Co. Farm Bureau
East Prairie News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Social notes sketch a busy spell in East Prairie and nearby towns. Vernon Thrower and family visited relatives in Cairo and Charleston. Jimmy Graham and Becky Jane of Gary Indiana spent time with parents in Cairo. Church news notes ministerial changes and a retirement. A farm accident injures Ted Gilliam. births and hospital updates involve Sterling and Crowler families.
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Vernon Thrower
Doniphan
Missouri
H. G. Davis
Mr. Throwers
Lillard Davis
Airs
Jimmy Graham
Becky Jane
Gary
Indiana
Cairo
James Bruce
East Praire
Herbert ] Pickett
John Presser
Charleston
Presser
Altus Barncreek
Kenny
Carolyn
Rickey
Timmy
Rt 3
Harry Richardson
Ann
Johnny
St Louis
William Cave
Frenchick
Grace Townsend
Emory
Bill Jackson
Junior Civic Club
James T Davis
Marion Wallace
Robert Frazer
Edwin Melone
Joe Braden
George Provencher
Church OF Christ Minster
Army and Navy Personnel News From Sikeston Area
Army Pvt Jerre G Townsend of Sikeston Mo has been assigned to the GAS Army Garrison at White Sands Proving Ground New Mexico. He entered service in May 1957 and was last stationed at Redstone Arsenal Huntsville Alabama. Townsend is 23 and a Sikeston High School graduate of 1952. His wife Mary resides in Las Cruces New Mexico. Jg Lt Whit L Coats of New Madrid Mo assigned to the 7th Division 3d Infantry in Korea. Coats, a 1956 US Military Academy graduate, is a platoon leader in Company C 32d Infantry. Barney E Chism of Sikeston Mo, aviation structural mechanic first class USN, served with Attack Squadron 75 and took part in NATO exercises in European waters late Sept. More than 200 vessels with NATO air support participated in the operations, the first large-scale NATO combined fleet maneuvers since 1953.
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White Sands Proving Ground
AHTNC
Army
Jerre G. Townsend
Mary G. Townsend
Matthews Avenue
Sikeston
GAS
Nom
Korea
Whit L. Coats
W. H. Coats
Davis St
New Medrid
U.S. Atlantic Fleet
FHTMC
Barney E Chism
US N
Mable Chism
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Silo Unloaders and Feeders Boost Farm Automation
Farmers increasingly adopt mechanical silos and bank feeders to automate silage handling. An Ohio State survey shows typical farms around 250 acres with 70 head of dairy or beef cattle rely on unloaders integrated into barn feeding, with designs ranging from circular feed bunks to belt conveyors and troughs powered by 5 and 2 horsepower motors.
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Tne
Agricultural Engineering Department
Ohio State University
Ohio
District Food Workshop at Central High School Cape Girardeau
The Southeast Missouri annual teachers meeting features a district district food workshop at Central High School Cape Girardeau with 11:30 lunch, 9:00 registration, and talks on menu planning procurement and school lunch service. Reservations requested to Mrs Maxine Schade for lunch at 30 cents.
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Central High School
Cape
Southeast Massour
State College
Cape Girardeau
Caruthers
Cane Girardeau
Messouri
Kaffee Kiatsch
George Sacb
R. L. Sheets
Central High Greetings
L. J. Schultz
Cape Garardeau
H. B. Newman
Earl Langhop
Geneva Smith
Sidney Kirsch
Agriculture Extension Service
Maxine Schade
S. Pacific
Missouri
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