Knowledge For Decisions In Battelle District Growth Plans
A WV region urges citizens to engage in planning and jobs for youth, noting county funding and a push for community meetings in Morgantown and Kingwood. The Sarver Hilltoppers 4H Club reports a successful strawberry crop after frost, while a feeder pig sale at Jacksons Mill shows strong production and signals for fall sales. Feed prices as of May 25 are listed for major grains and meals.
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Battelle
Wadestown
West Virginia
Employment Security Office
Morgantown
Kingwood
Labor Federation
Aflcio
Labor Council
Sarver Hilltoppers 4H Club
Jackson’s Mill
Jackson's Mill
Preston
Harrison
County Planning Commission
Man on Pitchfork End Tours South to Soothe Farmers
In a series of shirtsleeve meetings across 12 states the Farm Secretary Orville Freeman reassured farmers that the Johnson administration is their friend. He heard worries over rising production costs, low prices, imports, and political pressure, with cotton still seen as the Old South’s central issue.
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Alexandria
Johnson
Midwest
Orville L. Freeman
Sell
Coffey County
Southeast
West
Freeman
Tennessee
Congress
Old South
Athens
University of Georgia
Coliseum
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Kentucky
Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Augustus Hill
Pests and diseases come from abroad despite strict borders
U S Agriculture quarantine inspectors protect West Virginia and all states from foreign pests. Examples include 40 pounds of meat hidden in a car tire from Europe, 510 golden nematode cysts in soil around seedlings, grasshoppers released in a Honolulu airport, khapra beetle larvae in rice straw toys, beetles in bull horns, and the 1956 Medfly invasion in Florida costing millions to eradicate.
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United States
U.S. Department of Agriculture
West Virginia
Europe
Scotland
Honolulu
U.S
Dulles International
Washington, D.C
Brownsville
Texas
Florida
Monongahela SCD enters 21st Goodyear conservation contest
Monongahela Soil Conservation District joins the 21st Goodyear competition to pick the nation’s top 53 districts. Judges select the state winner from January to December 1967 soil conservation efforts. Grand prize is a paid work study trip to Arizona for one district official and a top farmer in each winning district.
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Monongahela
Goodyear
Steve Lebnick
Bruceton Mills
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Arizona
Goodyear Farms
Phoenix
Monongahela Scd
Thomas L. Colebank
Luther S. Britton
Morgantown
Clarence W. Jackson
Wadestown
John W. Tatterson
Fairmont
Herschel Kitzmiller
Worthington
Preston Davis
Masontown
Elmer L. Nuce
Kingwood
Lebnick
Marion- Monongalia
Preston County
Windage device for ultra‑light wind measurements
An Agricultural Research Service meteorologist in Arizona develops a windage sensitive to winds under a tenth of a mile per hour. The device targets air just above fields as light winds affect plant cooling CO2 intake and crop water use.
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Agricultural Research Service
Arizona
Tulips Bloom Troubles From Crowding and Fireblight
Gardeners report tulips failing to bloom due to overcrowding and leaf growth. Fireblight disease causes buds to brown and fail to open. cool wet weather boosts spread. Dig up bulbs within three weeks, cut stems, dry, sort, dust with Captan or ferbam, replant, and start preventive spraying next spring.
How to Grow Tu lips and Daffodils
A spring guide covers Deer Tongue and Buttercrunch lettuce and other bedding plants. It recommends sowing lettuce through October for continuous harvest and suggests impatiens for shaded beds. Shrub options include flowering almond Potentilla red berry red spirea and hydranga snowball with regular trimming to stay compact.
Laser beam aids field work in agriculture tests
A laser tool has been developed to control depth of a machine laying plastic pipe for field drainage. Field tests show promise and commercial use could begin next year. The beam may also fix a constant level for earth moving land leveling ditching and road grading.
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Chicago
Memphis
Decatur
Illinois
Burkey Lilly
West Virginia University
Cliling
Pitchfork
Lbs
Dan Fus
W.P
E.C
AK Seco
Coan
Sato Fee
South Side Lumber Co. E
Warren ‘Street
Bridgeport Stockyard
Tri-State Area
Bridgeport Stockyard, Inc
Clem Teets and
Bridgeport
W. VA
Farm and Garden
Page
George Abraham
Dominion-Post
Green Thumb
Naples, N. Y
Mous
RocoTt
Fea
Altman's
Discount
University Avenue
Manamar
Price
John Ys Soutta Garden Center
Cheat Road
Easton
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