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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1966
Page
5
Farm ponds in Jackson County Illinois now serve irrigation recreation fire control and wildlife cover. The SCS provides technical help and up to 60 percent ACP funding while emphasizing proper location erosion control and keeping livestock out of ponds.
In the top photo SCS technician Evan Lycan and farmers Henry Born Don Etherton install a hooded mechanical pond spillway inlet on Born’s farm west of Murphysboro. The lower photo shows a larger pond drop inlet on Egon Kamarasy’s farm southwest of Carbondale.
Illinois strawberry growers can view over 30 strawberry varieties at a twilight field day Tuesday at the Cooperative Small Fruits Research Center, Southern Illinois University. Center supervisor Roland Blake will discuss seedling trials and new varieties for home and commercial production. tours begin at 6 p.m. near the SIU Carbondale campus. Bramble and blueberry discussion led by John Hull will follow, with the center operated jointly by SIU and the U S Department of Agriculture serving the mid Mississippi Valley.
Members discuss county Share-the-Fun program and vote to donate 5 dollars to the county 4-H ballpark. They set dues at 15 cents per meeting. Mercury rotation debated with figures 54 to 64 days, now consensus 59 days.
The extension district helps farmers stock ponds with bass and bluegill or red ear, then channel catfish later. Farmers should fish hard after a couple of years to avoid overstocking. About 90 percent of farmers have ponds. properly built ponds won’t flood or breed mosquitoes. The office has helped build 190 ponds, including 27 in 1965, in Jackson County.
El don Starkweather Jackson County farm adviser promotes a three point plan to eradicate Johnson grass. Farmers must kill existing grass control new seedlings and prevent reinfestation with pre emergence herbicides careful cultivation and timely spraying with dalapon. Planting can start in two to three weeks with late planting hybrids if spring treatments delay crops.
Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District discussed hosting a state farm Conservation Progress Show in 1967. The Illinois Land Improvement Contractors Association plans the event, with the first held in Macoupin County in 1965. The board also funds a conservation workshop for five county high schools students and names four new district cooperators including William Silvey and Robert Ludwig. Lone Oak Juniors 4H elected new officers led by Kay Snider.
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