A Sheepskin Deed and Carroll County Farms
This installment explores Carroll County farming beyond statistics. It notes aging farmers, rising costs, shifting from livestock to intensive cropping, larger dairy herds, hog operations, and a surge in part time farming. It highlights historic family farms, enduring ownership, and a pattern of agricultural change shaping the county’s future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Webster
Carroll County
Harold Brinkmeier
Shannon
William Nesemeier
van Buskirk
Mt. Carroll
Vernon S. Todd
Milledgeville
Stanley E. Todd
California
James K. Polk
Todd
Garner
Lanark
Francis Garner
W. J. Mackay
Farmers weigh past gains as 1968 looms in Carroll County
The column notes average returns on cash grain farms of 25 per acre over ten years and that 1967 brought a record corn yield of 106 bushels per acre in Carroll County. It discusses crop clinics on January 19 and 26 and County Agronomy day February 27, plus vaccination advice for Brucellosis and feed value of wet corn versus dry corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Carroll County
Mount Carroll
Lee Derrer
Fred Siefert
Ognea Satuday
Carroll
M. P. Roske
Thomson paper masthead and publication details
The Thomson village newspaper listing names the Thomson Review founded in 1893 with publishers K. Co. & J. K. Whitney and editors J. K. Whitney and Lila Atherton, noting second class mailing, weekly publication, and a yearly price of three dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Thomson Review
K. Co
J. K. Whitney
Lila Atherton
Carroll County Extension Events Calendar Review
January events include district advisers meeting in Dixon on the fifth pattern alteration sessions on the eighth and a 4-H federation meeting on the tenth Acquaintance Day with Farm Bureau FFA on January eighteenth and a Carroll County Development Corporation annual meeting at Naaman Diehl Auditorium on January fifteenth Chair caning and an agricultural extension council session on the fifteenth Corn drying at the University of Illinois January sixteenth Carroll County Livestock Feeders meeting on Thomson January nineteenth Economics of Crop Production class from ten in the morning to three in Naaman Diehl Auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon
Federation Rural
Farm Bureau- Ffa
Carroll County Development Corporation
Naaman Diehl
Caning
Farm Bureau
U of I
Carroll County Livestock Feeders
Thomson
4-H Citizenship Short Course opens limited enrollment
Karen Messmer joins National 4-H Citizenship Short Course as Carroll County's eighth member, leaving only one opening. The 1968 Horticulture School runs January 24 31 February 5 14 and 28 at 7 30 p m with sessions for 4 H members and interested adults, covering home grounds planning and gardening topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen Messmer
Karen
Carroll County
Agriculture & Home Service
4-H
New Marketing Service Opens in Chicago
Richard Peot, president of Allied Livestock Marketing Service Inc, announced the January 2 1968 opening of a complete livestock marketing service for feeders. Peot, owner of Conklin Bros and Looney Commission Co on the Chicago Market, will organize the firm with Vernon Bell of Dodgeville Wisconsin and Ronald Nordstrom of Wyanner Illinois as owners. The venture will market cattle and hogs and offer feeder cattle and feeder pig order buying services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Peot
Allied Livestock Marketing Service, Inc
Peot
Conklin Bros. & Looney Commission Co
Chicago
Vernon Bell
Dodgeville
Wsconsin
Ronald Nordstrom
Wyaner
Illinois
Allied
Lamplighters set meeting on January 10 in Wolker home
The Chadwick Lamplighter's Home Extension Club will meet January 10 at 7 30 p m in the home of Mrs Robert Wolker. The major lesson is Values in Our Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamplighters
Chadwick Lamplighter’s Home Extension Club
Robert Wolker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brinkmeier
Thorson
Jo Daviess County
Review Publications
Thornton J. Zier
William Boardman
Tate
Salem Township
Elmer Zugschwerdt
Bob Engelking
ASCS
E Hardick
Thomson, Illinois
Wagnaw
Asp
Chicago Motor Club
Indiana
Earl Giluland
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Livestock Feeders Association
International Harvester
Ay Pm
Ryeey
Handel Implement Store
Chadwick, Illinois
RAY B. Polhill Implement CO
Milledgeville, Illinois
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