Knowledge For Decisions by Burkey Lilly
An extended regional column encourages local school funding and community action. It praises New England Town Meeting style participation, notes county development interest, and invites Core community participation while urging collective planning with federal help and local effort. It ends with a brief soil of philosophy and grain price updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battelle District
New England
W. Va
Monongalia County
Seventeenth West Virginia Ram and Ewe Show and Sale
The Seventeenth Annual West Virginia Stud Ram and Ewe Show and Sale will be held at the Tri County Fair Grounds in Petersburg on Friday June 30. Forty three rams and nineteen ewes have been consigned to the sale with seven breeds represented including Cheviot Dorset Hampshire Southdown Suffolk Shropshire and Targhee. The show begins at 1 p.m. judged by W G Carpenter of Jefferson Maryland followed by a market lamb grading demonstration by West Virginia Department of Agriculture graders. Col Morris Fannon of Pennington Gap Virginia will sale the sheep at 8 p.m. Ribbons are provided by the Monongahela Power Company and premium money is paid by the State Department of Agriculture. The event serves purebred breeders and commercial breeders seeking quality rams to improve their flocks with catalogs available from Lautellus M Stout Secretary Rt 3 Box 156 A Buckhannon WV 26201.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Tri - County Fair Grounds
Petersburg
Cheviot
Dorset
Hampshire
Southdown
Suffolk
Shropshire
Targhee
W. G. Carpenter
Jefferson, Md
Carpenter
West Virginia Department of Agriculture
Morris Fannon
Pennington Gap
Monongahela Power Company
James L. Copeman
State Department of Agriculture
Purebred Sheep Breeders’ Association
Cooperative Extension Service
Lautellus M. Stout
Sec’y
Buckhannon
W. Va
Food and Lodging For Sportsmen Pro gram
Applications are being taken for participants in the 1967 Food and Lodging for Sportsmen program sponsored by the West Virginia Departments of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The program lists farms in good hunting and fishing areas to provide food and lodging to sportsmen, helping farmers earn new dollars from their farms. Introduced in 1959, it has seen success and inspired similar programs in other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Short on Garden Space Grow Cucumbers on Chicken Wire
Gardeners with limited space can train cucumbers on chicken wire for large yields. Male flowers appear first, supplying pollen, while female blooms form the fruit. mulch with straw or plastic to help, and avoid heavy cultivation once established.
Gardening guide offers tips on melons cucumbers and pest control
An excerpted gardening column gives practical advice on growing melons cucumbers and watermelons noting that weather affects flavor and that cucumbers can be planted near melons. It provides pest control methods for gladiolus thrips and advice on chipmunks and squirrels disturbing bulbs with practical deterrents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladiolus
Housing Outlook Seen For Appalachia
Ralph R. Widner of the Appalachian Regional Commission says housing alone cannot solve regional issues. He calls for integrated programs including education health and jobs, noting land scarcity high costs and regulatory hurdles in West Virginia communities like Bluefield Princeton and Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appalachia
Ralph R. Widner
Appalachian Regional Commission
Bluefield
Princeton
Beckley
West Virginia
Widner
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West Virginia University
Lester Adams
Robert Levelle
Katy Vanney
Leannie Walls
Uncle
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Uncle Sam
Hud
Planning Commission
Chicago
Memphis
Decatur
Illinois
Teleflora Worldwide
John Utta
John Gutta Garden
Cheat Road
Easton
Frank M. Heaster
Kinsinger Farm
Jonas Kinsinger
Oakland
L. Bush Swisher
Monongahela Power Co
Morgan Copeman
Sterling Farms
Fairmont
CrPey
Austom
General Woodworking Co
Long. St. WO
Benson Hardware Co
Collins Ferry Rd
H. L. Galusha CO
University
Green Thumb Clinic
George Abraham
Dominion-Post
Green Thumb
Naples, N. Y
Appalachian
Altman
Discount Paint
University Avenue
Manamar
Price
Deanes Sia Jewelers
Bridgeport Stockyard
Tri-State Area
Bridgeport Stockyard, Inc
Clem Teets and
Bridgeport
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