Sheep Shearing Season Planning and Farm Practices
Farmers are urged to review lamb and calf production as the season ends and plan for next year. Emphasis on castration, dehorning, and docking of young animals, cleaner shearing, proper tools, and preparation for a two day sheep shearing school in Blacksville. Also notes Blannerhassetts Island near Parkersburg as a historic corn site.
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Ponds for Water Supply and Recreation From SCS
The U S Soil Conservation Service releases two new West Virginia publications on pond building and erosion control. Ponds for Water Supply and Recreation guides site selection construction and maintenance for new ponds. Controlling Erosion on Construction Sites explains sediment control to prevent runoff from highways impoundments and urban developments.
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U.S. Soil Conservation Service
SCS
West Virginia
Dear Embarrassed: Dance etiquette in a noisy din ner
Dear Crush, your husband should have refused to dance with others while you sat alone. The men who recruited him should have asked you to dance or suggested it. A gentleman does not leave his lady sitting unattended.
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Abigail van Buren
Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Synd., Inc
Abby
Atlanta
Mel
Los Angeles
Cal
Bridgeport Stockyard Sale Prices Reported
Prices paid at last week's Bridgeport sale cover stocker cows and calves, steer and heifer calves, stocker steers and heifers by head, fat cows, canners and cutters, beef bulls, baby calves, and meat hogs with ranges for quality grades from Good to Heavy.
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WVU Wardensville Beef Test Plans Sale of 93 Bulls
WVU Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service run a 1000 acre Wardensville facility testing 93 young bulls from WV, MD and VA, to predict performance and meat yield for future markets. Five bulls are test only. sale depends on meeting standards. Program now involves 39 counties with 271 herds and nearly 11,000 cows.
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West Virginia University
WVU
Reymann
Texas
West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Wardensville
WVU Agricultural Experiment Station
WVU Cooperative Extension Service
Agricultural Experiment Station
Division of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Cooperative Extension Service
State Department of Agriculture
Thanks and offerings to Belva Mary Chapman family
The family of Belva Mary Chapman expresses thanks for kindnesses during their mother’s death in Orlando Florida. Special thanks to Derings Funeral Home and Rev Arthur Backus. Signed by Bob Virginia Pearl and children.
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Belva Mary Chapman
Orlando
Florida
Derings
West Virginia’s first agricultural paper began in 1808
The Farmer's Repository, the state's pioneering agricultural newspaper, was founded in Charles Town in 1808. It stood as the fourth newspaper established west of the Blue Ridge, marking an early milestone in West Virginia's press and farming history.
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West Virginia
Blue Ridge
Charles Town
Publisher Jacob L. Druck Dies At 79 In New York
Jacob L. Druck longtime owner of multiple Pennsylvania newspapers died of a heart attack in New York at age 79. He guided papers in Scranton Philadelphia Carbondale Altoona Easton and New Bedford Massachusetts and was closely tied to the Scranton Times.
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UPI
Jacob L. Druck
Pennsylvania
Druck
Scranton Times
Philadelphia
Carbondale
Altoona
Easton
New Bedford
Mass
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