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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1967
Page
8
Seed catalogs signal spring with crop rotation advice to prevent soil disease. Rotate tomatoes melons cucumbers and other crops every three years and use disease resistant varieties. Promote disease free plants and treat seed to protect future seedlings.
Morgantown Livestock Sales Wednesday prices include baby calves 8 to 11 per head veals 29 to 38 stocker heifers 24 to 25 cows and calves 162.50 buther cows 15.85 to 17.75 stocker steers 20 to 21.25 heavy bulls 18.10 to 21.20 butcher hogs 22 to 23 and male hogs 10.50.
Grantsville Maryland community sale on December 23 reported hogs at 18.60 to 20.40 for top barrows, 18.20 to 20.10 heavy butcher, 16 to 18.60 light butcher, sows 14.50 to 15.30, feeders 8 to 10. Veal good 32 to 38.25, standard 24.50 to 29, utility 20 and down. Heifers good 22 to 22.90, standard 20 to 20.75. Cows commercial 17 to 18, utility 14.50 to 16, cutter 13.90 to 14.
Brattleboro Vermont report shows the West Virginia University Registered Holstein herd posting an official per cow annual average of 15 590 lbs of milk and 575 lbs of butterfat from 25 lactations. This exceeds the U S average 8513 lbs of milk and 315 lbs of butterfat, aiding herd owners in evaluating breeding progress and management.
Dairy farmers in the Clarksburg market who are Dairymen's Co-Operative Sales Association members will receive the same November price per cwt as October. The blend price for November is 5.915 dollars per cwt for 3.5 percent butterfat, about 12.14 cents per quart, with a 8.3 cent butterfat differential.
Global milk production by 37 leading countries rose about 14 percent in 1966 to 659 billion pounds. The European Market, led by France and Italy, grew nearly 4 percent, aided by favorable feed and more cows. Through early 1967 Europe deliveries climbed about 3 to 4 percent, while New Zealand and Australia also increased output despite past droughts.
The article explains the Soil Conservation Service origin, its district system, and how districts organize landowners to plan and apply conservation. It describes soil surveys, land capability classes I to VIII, and the use of maps for farm plans, with later notes on tax guides, a livestock trip, and current grain prices.
A Western Pennsylvania poultry farmer tested heated versus icy water in three White Leghorn pens of about 125 birds each. One pen with a heated fountain maintained 50 percent egg production while the other two fell to 15 percent, taking four weeks to recover.
A record West Virginia walnut harvest reached 3.8 million pounds of unhulled black walnuts sold at four regional markets yielding $38,000 to farmers. Weston Market and stations in Gassaway and GrantsvilleHandled 2.4 million pounds. Parkersburg 902,000. Beckley 504,000. Inwood 40,000. Harvest ended the week of November 13 after freeze damage. Hammond's Produce Coopers of Stockton, Missouri, was the successful bidder.
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