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C s s County THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Monday, February 20, 1956 Freight Car Shortage Seen University of Nebraska Man LINCOLN A serious short age of freight cars may cause Nebraska farmers trouble this .spring, especially in obtaining sufficient fertilizer for spring use. Marcus D. Weldon, University of Nebraska extension agrono mist, said the car shortage could become so severe in the months immediately preceding spring that fertilizer producers might not be able to move materials m needed volume from phospate mines and nitrogen fertilizer factories. "That in turn could mean lo calized shortages of fertilizer at the moment Nebraska farmers need it most." Dr. Weldon urges farmers im mediately to order and take de livery of fertilizer for their 1956 crops. The agronomist cited a report from the Middle West Soil Im provement Committee, head quartered in Chicago, which showed that the car shortage exceeded 20,000 at times last fall Farm Bureau Unit At Mynard Hears National Meeting ! Mynard unit of the Farm Bu reau met at the home of Glen and Clark Wiles on Friday eve ning, Feb. 10. The meeting open ed with singing led by Richard Cole. Roll call revealed that 13 .families were represented with 23 members and two guests present. Glen Wiles gave a short report on national legislation. Robert Cole told about his trip to Madison, Wis., where he at tended the Midwest Policy Exe cution Convention. Some of the subjects discussed there were the federal gas tax on tractors; the foreign aid question; the in crease in freight-rates which will cause higher prices on fer- Arc Your Present Payments Too High? Here's what we can do for you! 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Then if delivery of finished fertilizer is maintain ed in the weeks ahead to deal ers and farms, factory produc tion shedules can be kept high enough to meet spring needs. "But if farmers delay taking delivery now, factory storages and dealers' facilities will fill up. The 'pipelines' will be clog ged, cutbacks in production will occur and the flow of phosate, ammonia, and nitrate to produc ers will slack off. Then when the spring freight traffic peak ar rives, there may not be enough fertilizer to go around." iqujmonthc tilizer and other things that the farmer needs; the surpluses of wheat and cotton. Since there is a surplus in cotton many south ern farmers are turning to corn which they can raise cheaper and with larger yields than the mid-west farmers. After the business session Mr. Wiles showed pictures that Mr. and Mrs. Driftmeier of Shenan doah, Iowa, had taken in the southern states and Hawaii. Jean Wiles read the explanation of each picture. Refreshments were served. Keep Fertilizer In Good Condition By Proper Storage LINCOLN Make sure your fertilizer will be in good con dition for spring crop operations by following - these suggestions for storing itr 1. Store the fertilizer in the barn or some other dry build ing. 2. Put the bags on two-by-fours or cribbing above the floor. Then the fertilizer won't soak up moisture. 3. Keep the fertilizer bags off the ground or off concrete. 4. Pile bags only seven or eight high to prevent caking. 5. Keep broken bags separate from the main pile, for loose fertilizer soaks ur moisture. These suggestions come from the Middle West Soil Improve ment Committee, and are okay ed by M. D. Weldon, Univer sity of Nebraska extension soil specialist. GETS IT GOING AND COMING Monroe, Mich. John J. Saunders, 35, was ticketed by police for drunk driving as he was driving south to Cleveland on January 13.' Three days, later they ticketed him again on the same charge, as he was en route home, coming north from Cleveland. SCHREINER VETERINARY and FARM DEPARTMENT Vaccines - For Hogs and Cattle Sprays Dustings For Animals and Plants Lee's and Sal's Bury Poultry Remedies GIVE TOP VALUE STAMPS ANY DRUG PRODUCT THAT BEARS THE NAME REXALL ( i The 4-H Rockets Tractor Club met Feb. 6 at the Harold Kellogg home with two leaders and six members present. A business 'meeting was held. Members were asked to be get ting ideas for a 4-H float for coming county fair. "The lesson was on bolts, nuts, fasteners, nails and screws and each member brought many of each kind which were discussed. Mrs. Kellogg served a lunch. On Feb. 11, Rex Brown, Dale and Fredene Engelking, George Pool, and Sharon and Gerald Fredenburg of the Westside Rooters club went to Fremont to take part in a Duroc judging contest. They were accompanied by Mrs. Howard Pool, Mrs. Fred Engelking and Donald Freden burg. News reporter, Gerald Freden burg. The Trouble Shooter's tractor and electrification club met at the home of Jim Ulrich on Mon day, February 13. The 4-H's went through their first lesson in their electricity books. Leader, Charlie Warga, drew various diagrams on a blackboard about how electric ity around the home works. The 4-H's also discussed the second lesson in their tractor books. Re freshments were served by Mrs. Ulrich. The next meeting will be held at the home of Bruce Jameson, on March 12. Fred Meisinger, News Report er. The Seven Little Homemakers 4-H Club met Feb. 4 at the home of Judy and Shirley Mei singer'. A short business meet ing was held. Members answer ed roll call by telling their ex periences making refrigerator cookies and corn bread. We voted to make peasant aprons as our third project. The club received their seal for last year. Each member received her certificate of achievement The progress made on our skirts was discussed. Lunch was served by " Mrs. Meisinger. The Blue Roggon Baby Beef Club held its monthly meeting at the home of Gary and Joe Toman on Feb. 3. The meeting was called to order by the president, Charles Stoehr. Roll call was taken, with all members present. Two new members, Dennis and Susan Petereit, joined our club. Our topic for discussion wTas, "Diseases of Farm Animals". The meeting was adjourned, and lunch was served by Mrs. Toman. The next meeting will be held at the home of Jim, Jon, and Barbara Ulrich, on March 1st. Gary Toman-News Reporter. The Mynard Merry Maids met at the home of Dianna Wiles Feb. 16. " We had the business meeting and decided to go roller skating. Mrs. Charles Spangler of Mur ray gave a talk on standards in sewing. We played games. Mrs. Wiles served a lunch. News reporter, Janice McKin ney. The 4-H Q Ts of Plattsmouth met at the home of Carol Dasher Wednesday evening Feb. 15. Six members, their leaders and one guest were present. The girls answered roll call by telling their experience with their mother's sewing machines. All the girls brought samples of machine stitching made at home to be judged. They learned the basic steps to simple basteing and all the girls pinned and basted sam ples at the meeting. Materials for their kitchen hand towels were discussed. They are to bring material for F. F. A. Week Brings Summary Of Plattsmouth Tom This is Future Farmers of America Week and this fact brought a summary of Platts mouth F.F.A. Typical is Tom Gregg, son of Mr and Mrs. Har old Gregg, who farm near Plattsmouth. Tom is shown with his purebred Yorkshire gilt giv en to him by the Plattsmouth FFA chapter. This is the second year for this project and this gilt was raised from a gilt giv en to Gary Toman last year. Tom is one of the members of the Plattsmouth Future Farm ers of America who last year I r " '1 1 r " - Corn Producers to Receive Acreage Reduction in 1956 Nebraska's corn producers face acreage reductions rang ing from 14.7 to 18.9 per cent, according to 1956 county allot ment figures announced b y state ASC Allotment Chief Char les Clark. The state as a whole has been assigned a 16.2 per cent cut, re ducing .1956 acres to 4,965,412. Varying reductions between counties, Clark said, resulted from varying production histo ries the past years influenced by the 1955 drought which brought more severe cutbacks in planting in some areas. Greatest reduction will be in Webster County, 18.9 per cent lower than in 1955. Others re ceiving above average reduc tions are Custer, 18.6; Nuckolls, 18.4; Lincoln 18.3; Adams, 13; and Fillmore 17.9. Smallest reduction will be in Pawnee County, 13.9 per cent. Similar reduction elsewhere in south-east Nebraska show Gage. 14 per cent; Richardson 14.2; Nemaha, 14.6 and Otoe, 14.7. their towels to the next meeting to be held at Judy Nickels home March 16th. There will be a demonstration on straightening materials and turning and pin ning hems at the next meeting. The girls have decided to sell all-occasion greeting cards to make money to attend camp next summer. Wednesday was Judy Nickels birthday and the club members and their leaders surprised her with a handkerchief shower. Velda Nickels News Re porter. Production Is Farm Subject Caravan Visit WEEPING WATER A chance to discuss individual swine, beef, dairy, and poultry production and marketing prob lems will be offered Cass County farmers attending the Cornhusk er Caravan scheduled to be in Weeping Water on Feb. 25 says Clarence Schmadeke, Cass coun ty agricultural agent. He reports that the. livestock section of the Caravan features the latest developments in pro duction and management of cat tle, swine, and poultry. Each ex hibit in this section .tells its story through descriptive panels, colored pictures, and other display devices. And, there will be a specialist from the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture to each exhibit to answer questions or talk over problems individual farmers may have. There will be no speeches at. the Caravan; people will be free to come and go, and talk to the specialists, as they wish. The swine exhibit, answering the question "What is a Meat Type Hog?", is bound to attract a lot of attention. This exhibit includes a panel showing the im portant differences between the meat type hog and the fat type hog. Another exhibit points out the essentials of efficient beef pro duction. This exhibit urges farm Chapter Work Gregg produced the following amounts with their projects: beef, 8045 pounds; milk, 22,230 pounds; poultry, 238 pounds; eggs, 3591 dozen; wool, 502 pounds; lamb, 3310 pounds; pork, 39,014 pounds; corn, 650 bushels; bar ley, 340 bushels; butterfat 514 pounds, and 52 tons of corn si lage. For his freshman projects in vocational agriculture Tom is having the following: 1 sow and litter, four beef fattening and ten acres of corn. Variations from county reduc tion percentages will occur in farm-by-farm allotments, Clark said. . Farmers abiding by the allot ments will be eligible for gov ernment price support loans. Violators will not. The Nebraska reduction fol lowed the national pattern set recently by the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture which called for a general reduction of the 1955 allotment of 49,842,697 acres covering 805 counties to 43,280, 543 acres governing 840 counties in 1956. ; A comparison county-by-county of Nebraska's 1955 and 1956 allotments : A comparison in the Cass county area showed Cass county down from 124,471 acres in 1955 to 103,867 in 1956, 16.6 per cent; Lancaster county down from 151,301 in 1955 to 127,700 in 1956, rl5.6 per cent; Sarpy county down from 55,334 to 46,502, 16 per cent, and Otoe county down from 119,218 to 101,218 acres. ers to breed for type, rapid gains, efficient gains, and reg ular production. It then suggests a feeding program to five the best beef production results. , The poultry exhibit points out that about 65 per cent of the eggs produced in Nebraska are exported outside the state. To maintain this market, farmers are urged to protect the quality of their eggs from the hen to the homemaker through improv ed production and marketing practices. Dairymen will be interested in visiting the exhibit that explains why some cows are more profit able than others. Better man agement practices that can im prove herd efficiency and in crease milk profits are also listed. Livestock men will also find much of interest in the other three sections of the Caravan: Better Crops More Profit; Building Better Citizens; and Easier Housekeeping with Plan ned Storage. The Caravan will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. NOT LONESOME NOW Jordan, Mont. This town, once called "the most lonesome town" in the United States, isn't lonesome any more. It has so many rabbits that it claims to be the jackrabbit capitol of the world. One shipper recently sent 17,000 rabbitts to market but old-timers insist there are as many jackrabbits on hand now as there ever were. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents CONOCO TANK WACON -SERVICE Call ' PETERS Service Station MURDOCK Station 2831 Res. 2791 Livestock Pasture Meet Omaha, March The eighth" annual National Pasture-Forage-Livestock Con ference to be held in Omaha March 15 will tackle "first things first." Typical of the yearly assembly to study conditions affecting ag riculture, the vital question: "Where Do We Go From Here?" has been selected as a subject for panel discussion beginning at 10:45 in the morning. Probably no proposition raises a greater challenge to animal agriculture in its prensent dif ficult position and interest is expected to run high. Moderator of the important panel will be Bruce Russell, pre sident of the Farmers National Company, Omaha. A graduate of Iowa State College and for mer county agent, Mr. Russell directs the affairs of the larg est professional farm manage ment concern in the nation. Its clients include the owners of 1,750 farms covering 450,000 acres in Iowa and Nebraska. The banker representative on the panel will be Julius Roh wer, president, Farmers State Bank, Schleyswig, Iowa. A lead er in his farm community for many years, Mr. Rohwig's pet subject is "Good Grass." A widely known cattle feeder from Dawson county, Nebraska, is another valuable addition to the group. He is Marion Menke of Lexington. Program arrangers, recogniz ing the value of a highly recog nized and competent economist on the panel, at once selected Francis Kutish of Iowa State College, Ames. In his back ground is service as a specialist in farm outlook, managing edi tor of Farm Policy Forum, As sistant editor Iowa Farm Science and service with the Na tional Institute of Public Af fairs. George Welty, hog producer of Shenandoah, Iowa, will round out the panel. Active in farming until 1932, Mr. Welty was a di rector of the Fremont county (Iowa) soil conservation district for 12 years, serving as its chair man for 11 years. He was a board member of the Nishna Valley Flood Control Association, spent two years with R..E. A. and was awarded Master Farmer dis tinction in 1952. Farmer Order Half Million Tree Starts LINCOLN To date, Nebras ka farmers and ranchers have ordered nearly a half million trees for spring planting under the Clarke-McNary program. University of Nebraska Exten sion Forester Karl A. Loerch an nounced. Trees are still available and should be ordered through coun ty agents. However, the supply of some species is limited, so farmers should place their or ders as soon as possible. Limit ed species include Austrian pine, Nanking cherry, lilac and red cedar. Other species available for windbreak planting include a variety of broadleaf trees such as Chinese elm, hackberry, hon ey locust and Russion olive, four evergreens and several shrubs. Loerch says 1956 may very well be an ideal year for start ing trees, since moisture con ditions over the state have im proved considerably in recent weeks. Tree planting is one of the conservation practices ap proved for payment under the ACP program. Prices for Clarke - McNary trees are as follows: broadleaf, $3 a hundred; evergreens, $3.50 a hundred; and shrubs, $4.50 a hundred. u Ucrket Each Working Day n the MarKe t(e ol eat-OTe tnen & wtinff. will com ' - it' ? . . ..' i . iO . ' ......... C. W. Nibler, extension dairyman at the University of Ne braska, explains to visitors of the Cornhusker Caravan why some cows are more profitable than others. Dairymen can pick up a number of profitable hints viewing this panel and talking to the dairy specialist when the Caravan visits Weeping Water on Feb. 25. Eagle Entry Reserve Title Hereford Show SYRACUSE Clyde Althouse of Eagle showed the reserve champion heifer at the Nemaha Valley Hereford Association Show and Sale here Saturday. Grand champion female and male animals were both shown by Ridge Acre farm, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ole LeSuer of Steinhauer. Reserve champion bull was shown by Charles Warner, Jr., of Waverly. New president of the associa tion is Merle Henry of Talmage; vice-president is Marvin Boh mont; Ivan Rodaway of Una dilla is secretary - treasurer. New board members are Charles Warner, of Waverly and Keith Newton of Seward. Hold over board members are Ole LeSeur of Steinhauer, Clyde Alt house of Eagle, Harvey O. Witt of Syracuse and Herbert Lash of Brownville. Fifty-Six head of Herefords consisting of 42 bulls and 14 fe males were shown and sold. Cass County's Greatest Newspaper The Plattsmouth Journal RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE PSattsmouth Motors Washington Ave, Ph. 287 Attend Farm FARMERS HIRE YOUR FARM HANDS OR OBTAIN FARM JOBS AT Nebraska State Employment Service Room 301 Courthouse - Plattsmouth 2:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M. Friday, February 24 NO CHARCES for Your Hogs - re ttaT;" . ered TV advam - d bOSS " Vest averse p--- rui 4- too lav jn ' i ..t i -V .i ft. V v. I list -v. , Know Orange Juice; An Easy Way Told LINCOLN Juice oranges are frequently sold in 5 or 8 pound bags- This makes it relatively easy for a shopper to compare prices of fresh and processed oranges, says Mrs. Clara N. Leopold, extension home man agement specialist at the Uni versity of Nebraska college of agriculture. She says it takes about a pound of fresh oranges to make a cup of juice. A 6 ounce can of frozen juice concentrate will make three cups of single strength juice, or about the same as three pounds of fresh fruit. 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