University High FFA Honors Banquet Awards Presented
The University High Chapter Future Farmers of America held its Parent and Son Banquet at the WVU Mountainlair to honor parents and adults who aided vocational agriculture. Major awards included Chapter Star Farmer Kent Fleming, Scholarship recipient Dwight Ike Coombs, Star Greenhand Ronnie Herrington, and Honorary Chapter Farmer honorees Ronald Herrington, J Dale Coombs, and Asel Kennedy. Members received many other accolades and sponsors thanked. A separate note mentions federal trucking regulation delays and driver exemptions for farmers, with future updates promised. The Monongalia County Livestock Association will meet May 11 at Core Grade School with Leroy Stevens discussing alfalfa production.
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University High
Future Farmers of America
W.V.U. Mountainlair
Kent Fleming
Laural Point
Dwight
Ike) Coombs
J. Dale Coombs
Flaggy Meadow
Star Greenland
FFA
Ronnie Herrington
Ronald Herrington
Route 1
Future Farmers
Asel Kennedy
Fred Gibson
Hugharts, Kinnan Farm Equipment
Bakers Hardware
South Side Lumber Company
Chico's
Monongalia County Livestock Association
Leroy Stevens
W.W.A. Reedsville Experimental Farm
Stewardship Week observance highlights soil care nationwide
Stewardship Week opens May 16 23 focusing on man’s duty as steward of soil water and resources. Monongahela Soil Conservation District chair Steve Lebnick announced local observance with the theme The World and They That Dwell Therein. NACD prepared materials and 3000 companion districts join the 17th annual event.
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Steve Lebnick
Monongahela
Possible southern corn blight epidemic looms in 1971
West Virginia University plant scientists warn the southern corn blight fungus overwintered in corn debris and stored ear corn. With many fields still planted to susceptible T cytoplasm hybrids and warm spring rains likely, a larger crop loss than 1970 is possible.
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West Virginia
Nicholas Calabro
Edward Elliott
Division of Plant Sciences
West Virginia University
West Virginia Official Named Chairman of National Agriculture Panel
Gus R. Douglass, West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture, was named chairman of the Environmental Quality Committee of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture. The panel, among the organization's most important, focuses on agricultural environmental pollution and solid waste disposal. Ten Commissioners of Agriculture from across the nation form the committee and report at the next annual meeting.
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West Virginia Department of Agriculture
West Virginia
Charleston
Department of Earth
Department of Natural Resources
Air Pollution Control Commission
Randall Reeder
Department of Agriculture
Gus R. Douglass
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
Agriculture
Douglass Elected Chairman of National Pest Control Compact
Douglass was elected chairman at a Chicago meeting of member states of the National Interstate Pest Control Compact. The body unites states to combat harmful pests and plant diseases at their source before spread. State funds are matched by the US Department of Agriculture.
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Gus R. Douglass
West Virginia
Chicago
Douglass
US. Department of Agricultura
Masson Town 4-H Getters Win Roundup Awards in Kingwood
Eleven Midway Getters 4-H Club members attended the Preston County Roundup in Kingwood. Younger group awards included blue ribbons for Donna Hart Visual Presentation Sharon Bolyard Paula Montgomery Vocal and Karen Davis Bobby Wolfe Keley Wolfe Vocal white ribbons for Peggy Livengood Chloe Ann Fortney Instrumental Solos white ribbons for Charles Ridgeway Vocal red for Malene Smith Instrumental Solo and Beverly Wolfe earned a red Vocal for Rose Garden in the older group. Leaders and organizers are listed, plus Agriculture Commissioner Dale Ball of Michigan. Albert E. Cole was elected secretary treasurer of the Eastern Plant Board, a 1924 group uniting state insect and plant disease officials for quarantine and pest control coordination.
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Masontown
Midway Getters
Preston County
Kingwood
Donna Hart
Sharon Bolyard
Paula Montgomery
Karen Davis
Bobby Wolfe
Keley Wolfe
Malene Smith
Peggy Livengood
Chloe Ann Fortney
Charles Ridgeway
White Ribbon
Beverly Wolfe
Rose Garden
Mabel Snyder
Leona Scarton
Bessie Wolfe
Sylvia Bolyard
William Connor
Cheryl
Geneva
Arlene
Irene Connor
Shirley de Bardi
Glen Fortney
Jack Fortney
Merle Fortney
Glen Hart
Joens
Rayne
Anna Belle Davis
Connie Shrout
Francis Martin
Dennis Smith
Jane Sinclair
Glen Snyder
Bennie Scarton
Dale Ball
Michigan
Douglass
Albert E. Cole
Department
Eastern Plant Board
Egg distributors warned on reusing egg cartons
Agriculture Commissioner Gus R. Douglass warned retail grocers and shell egg distributors about reusing cartons and cases. He cited the law requiring any reused container to have obscured labeling replaced with proper relabeling. Inspectors are directed to investigate reported misuses.
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Gus R. Douglass
Douglass
Bridgeport Stockyard sale prices last week detailed
Bridgeport prices at the stockyard show wide ranges across cattle and hogs. Stocker cows and calves earned 185 to 290 per head while fat cows fetched 19 to 24, beef bulls 22 to 26, stock bulls 160 to 285, and hogs commanded 24 to 14 per hundredweight depending on class.
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Bridgeport
Manure Bottled for Gardeners Captures Farmer’s Niche
A British dairy farmer markets processed liquid manure in plastic bottles to gardeners. The success is such that he has leased his herd to a tenant and now keeps the slurry pit clean as a full time task per FARMERS WEEKLY.
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England
Farmers Weekly
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Area Farm News
Asell
Kennedy County
Jennings Randolph
Department of Transportation
National Association of Conservation Districts
NACD
Yo-Ag
A. R. Bryant
U.H.S
Dr. O. C. McGhee
W.V.U. Agricultural Education Department
University High Ffa
Unico Tires
Unico Appliances
Remington Chain Saws
Fiiday
Morgantown Cooperative
Maxel D. Alt
Morgantown
Your Southern States Cooperative Agency
Doug
4-H
Davidson
Chestnut ST
Fairmont Avenue Faira
Anne Gees
Gravely
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