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County J Pitfe 1 - t mmm km Certified Wheat Seed Available LINCOLN Certified wheat seed grown in Nebraska has been moving into nearby states but there's still an adequate' supply for Nebraska farmers re ports C. R. Porter, secretary manager of the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association. He advises farmers to plant certified wheat seed if possi ble, is it's usually a best buy in the long run. With certified seed you can be sure of the variety you're plant ing. It has also been field in spected as a precaution against contamination with rye, nox ious weed seeds, and other wheat varieties. As a general rule,! Porter says it s best to replace your seed stocks with Nebraska certified .seed at least every third year. This maintains the purity of the variety you're planting. And. since only desirable varieties of wheat are eligible for certifica tion, helps maintain the prem ium Nebraska wheat usually brings on national markets. Wheat Growers Meeting Dec. 6 McCOOK The first annual meeting of the Nebraska Wheat Grower's Association will be held here Dec. 6 and 7. C H. Kreder of Dalton is president of the organization.. Program details for the meet ing are to be worked out later. Being Out-Of-Date Can Be Costly 7 Building costs Jiave in-., creased over 50 since 1946. Most Nebraska farmers have increased personal property values by more than this per centage. Have you increased your insurance accordingly? Don't wait until a loss occurs to learn how out-dated your insurance is. FARMERS MU TUAL OF NEBRASKA offers Eroad Coverage at low costs. Be tip-to-date where it counts. See Local Agent Paul E. Fauquet 339 Main Phone 6113 Set Good Table To Wheat Crop Expert Urges LINCOLN It pays to set a good table for. Nebraska's high yielding wheat varieties says M. p. Weldon, soils specialist at the University of Nebraska. This year Pawnee, Cheyenne, and Nebred wheat showed they can produce big yields if wea ther, moisture, and soil fertility are right. Yields up to 75 bush els per acre were reported in Southeastern Nebraska. And while it's true that you can't do much about the weath er or moisture, you can da a lot about the fertility of your soil. Remember that it takes about 85 pounds of available nitrogen and 35 pounds of available phosphate to make a 45 bushel per acre crop. If the nitrogen and phosphate aren't naturally in the soil, they'll. have to be supplied if you want high wheat yields. Nitrogen can be supplied by growing a legume such as al falfa, sweetclover, or red clover the year before you plant wheat. Or, you can supply it by spread ing manure or commercial ni trogen fertilizer. Phosphate is best supplied in the form of commercial fertili zer. You can find out how much nitrogen and phosphate you'll need to add by taking a soil test. Your local county agent can help you if you haven't tak en a soil sample before. Adding fertilizer really pays, Weldon adds. Outstate tests by the College of Agriculture show an average increase of 12 bush els of wheat per acre in South east Nebraska where nitrogen and phosphate were added as needed according to soil tests. Cost of the fertilizer in these tests averaged about 10 dollars an acre. At $1.93 a bushel, the 12 bushel increase in wheat yield was worth $23.16. This left a net profit of $13.16 per acre. CITY AGRICULTURE .Rio, de Janeiro's city govern ment includes a Department of Agriculture, says the National Geographic Society. The reason is that Rio is still far from oc cupying all of its special terri torial unit, the Federal District. Sixty per cent of the District's 450 square miles is forest and 10 per cent is farm land. Federal Crop Risk insurance $810,900 This has been a year of disast er and plenty, according to L. Ralph Robertson, state director, Federal Crop Insurance Corpor poration. In the 27 counties having "all risk" wheat insurance, indemni ties paid to policyholders is es timated at $810,900. The crop in Kimball county was severly damaged by drought and wind and 652 claims for $596,100 are going to insured farmers. Other counties where less severe and spotted losses ocur red are Cheyenne, Morrill, Ban ner, Box Butte, Chase and Dawes. In three counties, Deuel, Sa line and Seward, crops were such that no indemnities were paid indicating a uniformly good crop. Even though the state wheat yield was above normal with extra-ordinary yields in some counties, many farmers had poor yields or no crop at all. The federal "All-Rick" insur ance covers a major part of the money invested by the grower in trying to raise a crop. Wheat loss claim work is practically complete, there be ing less than two dozen claims left to pay. Federal price support for Cass county s 1955 corn-crop will be $1.54 per bushel. This was announced Thurs day by J. - J. Newton, ASC corn loan supervisor for Nebraska. Support price of $1.55 went range from $1.55 per bushel downward to $1.14. Cass county's support price was topped by seven other counties where the support price was pegged at $1.55. Receiving a $1.54 support price were Cass county, Phelps, Daw son, Douglas, Saline, Saunders, Gage, Harlan, Jefferson, Otoe and Washington. Support price of $155 went to Furnas, Pawnee, Richardson, Gosper, Johnson, Lincoln and Nemaha counties. All other counties were lower. The Nebraska supports were based on the national average rate of $1.58 a bushel, computed at 87 per cent of parity. They were in contrast with 1954 sup port prices of $1.62 based on 90 per cent. Newton said support prices in N e b r a s k a's non-commercial corn counties have been compu ted, as usual, at 75 of what support would have been had the counties been in the com mercial category. Red Willow County, until this year a commercial corn area, last year receiving a $1.59 support price, was dropped from the commercial list It's support figure will be $1.17 a bushel. Frontier County was also drop ped. Its $1.59 support price of a year ago was reduced to $1.16. Among the non-commercial corn counties Wheeler stood at the bottom of the price support list at $1.14 a bushel. Nebraska's base prices, New ton said, will be subject both to premiums and discounts. Corn grading No. 2 or better will re ceive a one cent "a bushel pre mium. But corn varying in moisture content from 14.1 per cent to 17.5 per cent will be pen alized from one to five cents per bushel. Crop Insurance Pay May Top $100,000 For Cass County If the first five claims ap proved is any indication, losses to be paid this year by the Fed eral Crop Insurance Corporation will be more than four times that paid last year in Cass coun ty. According to Albin E. Cho vanec, Cass county agent for the corporation, the first five claims approved amounted to more than $5000 an averag2 of over $1000 per claim. With most policyholders expected to collect indemnities this year,-Mr. Cho vanec said he expects the, cor poration will pay out over$lC0, 000 to Cass . county farmers in 1955. KARR & SOCHOR Auditors & Accountants Vudits Income Tax Service Bookkeeping Systems Installed th. 6287 Donat Building Mow... a fruo fiigJwnergy 14 New 'Registered7 Small Grain Class LINCOLN A "registered" class of seed for small grains was ap proved at a recent meeting of the Nebraska Crop Improve ment Association. - C. R. Porter, secretary-manager of the Association, says the registered class will not effect the present "certified" seed class, but will be carried on in addition to the regular certi fication p ro gram. Registered seed is being made available to provide Nebraska- farmers with larger quantities of seed that has the highest possible degree of varietal purity. Strict requirement have been set up for growing registered seed, Porter says. Information on new class can be obtained by writing the Association at the College of Agriculture, Lincoln. Cattle Movement to Feed Lot May Develop Various Diseases the feeder cattle in the nation move from pasture and ranges to- the feed lots is here, and the American Foundation for Ani mal Health pointed , out today that within a short time after cattle have been moved, both they and their new owners may be in for trouble from illness or disease. "The reason for sickness de veloping in feeder cattle is quite simple," says the Foundation. "Most feeder cattle are raised under range or semi-rang con ditions where they are not in close contact with other ani mals and are not exposed to many infactious agents. They have had little contact with man and are not used to being handled. Suddenly they are ex posed to long trips and a change of water and feed. Their resis tance is lowered and at the same time they are exposed to bacter ia, viruses, protozoa and para sities: against which no resis tance has developed. ' - "Shipping fever, a term which covers a wide variety of -infections, may develop. It shows it self in the form of a watery dis charge from the eyes and nose, fever, a cough and refusal to eat. Often there are digestive upsets, too. . - "Prevention is the most ef fective way of dealing with this condition," the Foundation says. "But there are management practices which should be used by all cattle buyers. Put the newly arrived feeders in com fortable surroundings; feed lightly; provide plenty of water and allow them plenty of time to rest and get used to the new surroundings. "Many feeder cattle buyers find that it pays to call their veterinarian a day or two af ter the cattle arrive and have him take a look at the herd. He is in the best position to make recommendations on treating and caring for the new arrivals .the Foundation says. .; I. v: Corn Support Price Basing Crop Produced Price support for com of the 1955 crop will be based on the nite in the county where the corn is produced and not, as heretofore, on the rate in the county where the corn is stored. In other respects, the price-support program for 1955 corn is essentially the same as last year, according to Ivan G. Althouse, chairman of the Cass County Agricultural Stabilization and Cpnservation Committee. With corn harvesting under way, Chairman Althouse also re minds farmers of the moisture requirements if corn is to be eligible for price support. For ear corn placed under a farm storage loan, the moisture con tent must not exceed 20.5 per cent, if the corn is tested for loan through February, 1956; 19 percent if tested for loan during April, 1956; and 15.5 percent if tested for loan during May, 1956. For corn placed under a warehouse-storage loan and for shelled corn placed under a farm-storage loan, the moisture content must not exceed 13.5 percent irrespective of when the corn is tested for loan. Grade requirements for corn to qualify for a loan remain the same as in 1954. Corn placed under loan must, except, for moisture content, grade No. 3 or better, or No. 4 on the factor of test weight only. ALUMINUM ADDED Ohio's Youngstown steel dis trict has added 60 companies working aluminum into consu mer goods within the last few years. Youngstown's basic steel industry still employs 55,000 workers. Its steel fabricating mills have 25,000 more, compar ed to 5,000 to 6,000 for aluminum fabricating plants. r.$&m(f - This 'n That griculfur n Clarence Schmadeke, County Agent Pearl Schultz, Home Agent HuiTena's brand new Fifty Grand igcg EFesd Contains 1400 Calories per pound metabolizable energy 7 fat in total ration when fed as directed - only 4 fiber compare the tag from your present feed! v If you are now feeding a low energy ration with 4 or less fat and 6 or more fibre, test Fifty Grand under Nutrena's guaran tee . . . either 50 more eggs per 100 lbs. total ration or cash in-stead. 6 O ft FEED 5 8 Lancaster MURRAY, NEBR. See us today for full , details of Nutrena's amazing Fifty-Grand Feed Efficiency Guarantee! &. Moell BIG SPRUCE Washington's Olympic Penin sula possesses the world's largest Sitka spruce, 51 feet 6 incnes m circumference at chest height; the largest western red cedar, 66 feet and 1 inch in girth; and the largest Douglas fir and western hemlock, with circum ferences of 53 feet 4 inches and 27 feet 2 inches respectively. CASS 4-H JUNIOR LEADERS To Attend State Conference Jim Ulrich of Louisville and Janice Wiles of Plattsmouth recently were awarded , an all expense trip to Lincoln to at tend the State 4-H Junior Lead ership Conference. The dates for the conference are Oct. 27-29. The 4-H Junior Leadership project is in the 2nd year in 1955 and is developing into an appealing project for older club members. It also serves wonder ful training opportunities for developing leadership. Funds to support the confer ence are furnished through the Sears Foundation. Clarence Schmadeke. County Extension Agent. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents Schreiner's Special Formula HAND CREAM , JUST THINK 3-oz. Jar . 50c 8-oz.Jar . $1.00 16-oz. Jar . $1.50 A Wonderful Quick Vanishing Fragrant Cream How Much Are You Paying for a 3-oz. Jar? Schreiner Drug Largest Livestock Monday at Omaha Omaha Monday had total live stock receipts of over 60,000, the country's largest run and also biggest run yet this fall.. Trade on stocker and feeder cattle and calves was ' unevenly steady to 50c lower. Numerous yearling stock steers cleared at $18-$21, with Wyoming Short horns to $21.25 and $22. In fat cattle trade, scattered early sales of better, yearling type beevs were steady. Numerous steers and yearlings were bracketed at $21-$22.50. Cow trade was weak to 50c lower, $8 to $13, most sales $8.50-$12. Butcher hogs were 50c lower, weights" from 180 to 300, $15.25-$16, top lowest since Jan uary 1950. Fat lambs sold 50c lower, natives and Westerns $19 to mostly $19.50. Among recent sales at Omaha for shippers from Cass county. Raymond Lancaster, 11 hogs, wt. 225, $16.50; Alvin Oehlerking, 24 hogswt. 208, $16.50. Gene.Nolte, 35 steers, wt. 1110, $22.50. Cass 4-II Achievement Oct. 27 A treat is in store for 4-H club members who have completed their 1955 Club projects. Oct. 27 is the date of the annual coun ty achievement meeting to be held in the Agricultural Audi torium at Weeping Water. One of the highlights of the program will be entertainment of , magic presented by Rev. G E. Seybold of Plattsmouth Another feature of interest wil be an announcement by Charles Boedeker, president of the Mur ray State Bank, of the name of recipients of a Chicago trip sponsored by the bank. The award also includes a trip for one club leader from Cass Coun ty, who will accompany the two 4-H Club members. Lunch will be served by mem bers of the Weeping Water Chamber of Commerce to the 4-H'ers, leaders, and parents o 4-H'ers at the Achievement meeting following the program and entertainment. Troubles? CALL BILL'S PEST and TERMITE CONTROL for Free Inspection 601 No. 9th DIAL 7142 NO DALAI Tibetans have never used the expression "Dalai Lama," Mon golian for "Wide Ocean," lor tne venerated rulers of Lhasa, says he National Geographic Socie ,v. The Dalai Lamas have been spoken of as Gyalpo Rimpoche, Esteemed King." to tneir im mediate families they were known as Kundun, "the Pres ence." THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Monday, October 17, 1955 PAGE FIVE A Salute To 4-H. . . If iiP im NATIONAL 4-H CLUB CONGRESS 4 V X1 r . -Mill i A- 4"" 9 jLjA A dramatic highlight of the National 4-H Club Congress un folds as delegates parade before a huge audience at the Interna tional Live Stock Show in Chi cago. The 4-H spotlight will again be on Chicago when the top 1,200 boys and girls from all 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico join with guests from foreign countries for the 34th National 4-H Club Congress, Nov. 27-Dec. 1. The Congress program con sists of discussions by the dele gates, tours of the City, ban quets and top-flight entertain ment features, and is highlight ed with talks by outstanding speakers. The 4-H'ers also take part in press conferences and radio and TV appearances. Most of one day is spent visiting the International Live Stock Expo sition where during the evening program the 4-H'ers present their annual parade. Congress delegates are select ed from the Nation's 2,150,000 4-H'ers through county, state and national competition. In Chicago, 180 will be named na tional winners in 29 award pro grams and will receive $49,050 in college scholarships. The Congress is made possible b y civic-minded individuals, foundations and industries who in .1955 contributed over $750, 000 through the National Com mittee on Boys and Girls Club . Work to support 4-H. This year, 110,000 4-H mem bers will be honored through -Nation 4-H Award Programs. -The awards consist of trips,,' medals, watches, U. S. Savings -Bonds and other merit awards. In addition, funds are provided for leader training with the -grants made through the Na-" tional Committee. The Com mittee is a citizen's group which has been helping the Coopera- tive Extension Service further the influence and membership of 4-H for 34 years. . August chain store sales were 11:6 per cent over 1954 level. Journal Want Ads Pay REAL ESTATE LOANS! 5 Percent Interest - Charge Reduced for Each Monthly Payment Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. - 'J' dt i . y'mmrf- - -mk' , kiwi : Look to the Quonset 32 for what you need in the farm-building line. It may be a building for the safe storage of feed of all kinds. Quonset 32 is the answer. Or for machinery and implement housing. Quonset 32 is a natural here, too. Or for stock shelter. All over the country, Quonset 32's are paying off in this very service. ALL-STEEL CONSTRUCTION, with N-A-X high-tensile alloy steel used for framing, gives the Quonset its strength and durability. 8 (Si C Stee NAILABLE STEEL FRAMING gives it adaptability. ... interior wall material, insulation, partitions, etc., are easily nailed in place. QUICK ERECTION, by locally available labor, is a factor in the building's moderate in-place cost. And never forget: the Quonset 32 is rot proof, warp-proof, non-combustible and wind-resistant. We are ready with more facts and figures. 32 feel wide; length to suit, in 12-fool sections. P. O. Box 458 Havelock Station Lincoln, Nebraska Phone 6-5357 " QUONSET BUILDINGS ARE PRODUCTS OF GREAT LAKES STEEL CORPORATION ITS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK Don't let,these warm days fool you - fall is at hand. Have your wardrobe ready for the cool days ahead. WHEN IT CALLS FOR CLEANLINESS and QUICK ACTION Phone "Are Your Clothes Best Friend" 7th & Chicago Ave. Drive In Cleaners Dial 4193 02 Free Pick-up and Delivery Service COMPLETE LAUNDRY SERVICE AVOID THE RUSH! Don't wait until you need your fall and winter arments have them cleaned and pressed NOW!