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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1955
Page
15
Consumer buying power remains seven percent above last year with 1956 expectations for steady demand across meats. Beef demand should stay strong while pork may level off in late 1956. veal per person rises as cattle prices shift. Hog prices are seen stabilizing with prices near the ten year average and gains in late 1955 to 1956.
Illinois Department of Conservation announces Christmas trees and greens from five to seven year old reforestation plantings will be harvested over the next four weeks. About two million dollars of trees enter Illinois each holiday season, with no surplus of fresh home grown evergreens. Director Glen D. Palmer notes benefits include watershed protection and future income from poles and sawlogs. Plantings can be purchased from the Springfield forestry division with prices near one to two and a half cents per seedling requiring a minimum order of 500.
A Randolph County farm tour Tuesday will cover feeding and watering methods. It starts at 10 a.m. at the Dietrich and Adolph Rickenberg farm four miles southwest of Steeleville with notes on overhead grain bins and an automatic grinder. Frank Andrew of the University of Illinois Extension Service will discuss feed sap arrangements and show labor saving equipment slides. The afternoon session meets at the Farm Bureau office in Sparta.
John T. Blankinship said a second pump failure delayed completion of water pipeline pressure tests at Harrison. The pump broke down mid tests. a replacement part should arrive by Monday. The failing pump replaced one already broken ten days earlier, which had caused a week’s delay in final tests on the new system.
Fritz Went, renowned Dutch-born plant physiologist now at Caltech, will lecture at Southern Illinois University on Desert Plants and Their Environment. The talk at University School studio theater starts at 8 p.m. Went has five years’ tenure with Java’s Botanical Gardens and helped develop phytohormone based weed killers and growth arrestors.
Carbondale Chief Harold Peterson reported a stop sign at the Mill Forest streets intersection was torn down by vandals sometime Friday night.
Director Stillman J. Stanard of the Illinois Department of Agriculture cautioned farmers about unscrupulous seed salesmen. Inspectors found seedmen offering oat and soybean varieties not suited to Illinois at prices well above reliable dealers for adapted varieties, with contracts implying state field certification to prove seed purity. He noted the department is not the seed certification agency. certification is delegated to Illinois Crop Improvement Association.
Calf mortality peaks before 12 weeks with infections from poor care. R E Brown of the University of Illinois urges strict calf management. Feed colostrum in first days, keep pens clean, provide dry conditions and good ventilation to protect calves. Be wary of offers claiming state endorsement.
2nd Lt William H Davis, 24, a member of the CN Championship team, is listed with his wife Virginia in the official roster. further details are incomplete in the fragment.
Jonesboro center Jonesboro played for the Fort Knox championship football squad. Davis served with the Armored Replacement Training Center's undefeated Black Falcons. He is the son of Dr. H. R. Davis of Jonesboro.
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