Progress With Agriculture Topdress Pasture For Early Grazing
This guide urges nitrogen fertilization of bluegrass pastures to extend grazing and stretch forage supplies. It recommends 50 lb per acre applications in early spring and again in late July or August, notes soil nutrients impact, and warns about storage and ordering fertilizer early. Homeowners brief covers a Landscape School in Monongalia County April sessions. Also notes wool consignments, a livestock meeting, current feed prices, and a 1968 bull sale at Wardensville.
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Monongalia County
Agricultural Sciences
Evansdale
Clifford W. Collier, Jr
Monongalia
Howard Shriver
Monongalia County Wool Pool
Wadestown
W. Va
Monongalia Livestock Improvement Association
Noah Perry
West Virginia Department of Agriculture
Kansas City
Chicago
Decatur
Wardensville
West Virginia Egg Festival Opens In Beckley
The Second Annual West Virginia Egg Festival starts Thursday at the Raleigh County Armory Beckley. Egg producers enter Market Egg Show entries Thursday afternoon with prizes for top entries. Highlights include two GIANT egg custard pies baked by Raleigh County Vocational Technical Center foods class and served at a Thursday kickoff buffet. A Youth Egg Judging Contest for 4 H and FFA Saturday offers cash awards for state contest qualification. Custard Pie and Pound Cake contests for ladies occur Friday with prizewinners announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Raleigh County Armory
Beckley
Raleigh County Vocational Technical Center
FFA
Morgantown Livestock Sales Prices This Week
Morgantown Livestock Sales reports prices paid this week by hundredweight and head. Baby calves 24 to 47 dollars per head. veals 26 to 31.50. stocker heifers 51 to 132. stocker bulls 53 to 57.50. cows 130 to 161. butcher cows 18.10 to 19. stocker steers 126 to 132.50. yearling bulls 125 to 150. heavy bulls 23.60. butcher hogs 18 to 19. shoats 16. small ponies 18. The summary lists diverse livestock prices from the Morgantown sale.
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Morgantown
Grantsville Livestock Sale Prices Listed by Category
Grantsville sale reports animal prices across hogs veal sheep cattle and calves. Top hogs bring 19.10 to 20.00 heavy butcher 17.70 to 19.30 light butcher 15.70 to 18.00 and feeder pigs 10.00 to 14.50. Veal good 35.50 to 46.00 standard 25.00 to 32.00 utility 20.00 and down. Sheep and lambs utility 23.80 to 25.60 slaughter weights 4.75 to 9.50. Slaughter cattle good 26 to 27.70 standard 24 to 25 utility 20.30 to 22. Heifers good 23.50 to 24.20 standard 21 to 22.50 utility 12.80 to 17.50. Cows commercial 18.50 to 19.60 utility 16 to 18 canner 11.20 to 15. Bulls commercial and good 22.50 to 23.30 cutter and utility 21.30 to 22.50. Stock-feeder cattle good 29.25 to 30.25. Heifer calves good 26 to 28 medium 24.25 to 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grantsville
Tested Beef Bull Sale Set for April Fifth at WVU Farm
Alton J. Anderson reminds beef farmers of West Virginia’s first bull testing sale at Reymann Memorial Farm Wardensville on April 5 at 130 p m. Bulls tested include Angus Herford and one Charolais consigned by WVU breeders. proceeds aid sire selection with data from birth onward and progeny testing. Auctioneer is Colonel A W Hamilton of Lewisburg.
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Alton J. Anderson
Preston County
West Virginia
West Virginia University
Reymann Memorial Farm
Wardensville
Anderson
Angus, Herfords
WVU
A. W. Hamilton
Lewisburg
W. Va
Bridgeport Stockyard Prices and Show Highlights
Bridgeport Stockyard reported weekly prices by hundredweight: stocker cows 160 to 192.50, steer claves 28 to 30, heifer calves 25 to 26.50, stocker steers 115 to 160, stocker steers 22.50 to 26, stocker heifers 105 to 135, stocker heifers 20 to 24.20, fat heifers 22 to 24.20, fat cows 16.50 to 18, canners and cutters 13 to 16.50, beef bulls 19 to 22, baby calves 10 to 41. Lambs 24, hogs 16.75 to 17.50. Ronnie Childs, Kingwood FFA, showed the grand champion eggs at the West Virginia show in Charleston. his dozen eggs sold at auction for 330 dollars.
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Bridgeport
Ronnie Childs
Kingwood Future Farmers of America
West Virginia
Charleston
Fastest Growing Silver Fleece Lace Vine and Other Vines
Outdoor vines offer screening for walls and objects with Silver Fleece Lace Vine known as polygonum growing 12 to 20 feet yearly. It twines to a trellis and bears foamy white flowers midsummer to fall. Other good vines include Trumpet Creeper and Bittersweet, Dutchman's pipe, honeysuckle, climbing Hydrangea, and purple Wisteria.
Soil Officials Discuss Training for WV SCS Roles
Five officials from the U S Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service met with West Virginia University administrators to review recruitment and training of soil scientists for SCS positions in West Virginia. They touted WVU's soil science program while noting a need for more graduates to meet demand and highlighted diverse career opportunities in teaching research and community planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
West Virginia University College of Agriculture and Forestry
West Virginia
Carl Lindstrom
Washington, D. C
Robert E. Quilliam
Tom Estlack
Richard Flenner
Boyd Patton
Morgantown
Robert S. Dunbar Jr
O. J. Burger
G. G. Pohlman
College of Agriculture and Forestry
Lindstrom
WVU
WVUI
Pohlman
Preston Breeders Co op Meet Set With Guest Speaker
The Annual Preston Artificial Breeders Cooperative meeting moves to 7:49 p.m. on Monday April 1 in the Community Building Kingwood. Richard H. Chichester from Frederick Md will discuss Updating the Sire Directory. Clark H. Taylor will cover Artificial Breeding of Beef Cattle. Richard Pifer will report on the Preston ABC program. Awards will be presented including State Honor Roll Certificates and ABC Honor Roll Certificates. A director will be elected.
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Preston Artificial Breeders’ Cooperative
ABC Board of Directors
Kingwood
Richard H. Chichester
ABC
Frederick
Chichester
Preston
Clark H. Taylor
ABC Manager
Preston County
Richard Pifer
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Altman's Discount Paint Department
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Playlawn
Lawn Pennlawn
Altman’s Inc. of
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University Avenue
Green Thumb Clinic
Tablegreen
Ashley
Fairfax
George Abraham
Dominion-Post
Green Thumb
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Bridgeport Stockyard
Clem Teets and
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Maxel D. Alt
E.S.T
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Morgantown Cooperative,inc
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