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Extension 1958 Report 58 in '58 In 1058 there were 53 4-11 clubs in Cass County. This fact was merely a coincidence. If our growth were to continue e"e club a year, by 1P'J9 there should be 89 clubs. That Is a long way from now. We havo our program geared so that 99 clubs can be accom odated in 1959. So. let's hear from you! 4-H Conservation Club Terraces if . . . You're Going To Plant . . TREES FRUIT TREES SHRUBS ROSES BERRIES BULBS THIS SPRING!!! SEE . . . PLATTSMOUTH PAINT STORE We'll be ready when the weather is ready. The Tractor Savers 4 11 Soil Conservation Club built 5 .400 feet of terraces at the Elmer Stoehr farm 51? miles west of Hattsmouth at its 12th annual achievement day project. Each year for the past 12, the club has built terraces as a practical way to end the club's annual work. Memlwrs working o the pro ject this year were Bill Sulliva::, Tom Sullivan, Tom Gregg, Ed Bierl, Hunter Inuwerson, Jim Ingwerson. Dan Wehrbein. John Stoehr, Weldon Stoehr, Denny Petereit and Dennv Todd. Engineering the terraces was Harry Potts of the Soil and Wa ter Conservation Service, Weep ing Water. The club memoers brought! their own tractors or used those furnished for demonstration by implement men. Clarence Cuth. rell and Marvin Petereit f urn-j Lshed "whirlwind" plow attach-j ments. C and M Imolement, Murray,; loaned a Case tractor and Mur-j ray Hardware and Implement, an Allis-Chalmers tractor. The club fully completed the 5.400 feet of terraces on its a chievement dav. The Stoehrs will sow grassed waterways to complete the conservation prac. tice and the land will be ready for fanning again in the spring. Hild Gold Medal Swine Showman Leonard Hild of Plattsmouth was declared the Champion Swine Showman in the 4-H swine showmanship contest at Ak-Sar-Ben. This is the third year in the past four that a Cass County 4-H'er reached this goal. John Knabe of Nehawka was winner in 1955 and Charles Stoehr of Plattsmouth in 1956. Linnea Ingwerson placed 4th in the finals of the swine show manship contest, in her first try in the contest this year. Wolph, Jose Prove Seed Treating Pays Arthur Wolph of Nehawka and Everett Jose of Weeping Water proved to themselves and neighbors that seed treatment pays. Tests were placed on both farms planting treated and un treated sorghum seed. Almost a 100 per cent increase in stand was obtained where sorghum seed was treated with a fungicide and an insecticide as opposed to untreated seed. Listed below are the plant counts for the plot with differ ent treatments. The plots were replicated four times and aver ages made. Average number of plants per 10 feet of row: Test No. Untr. Captan C. Diel. No. 1 22 30 41 No 2 9 14 20 2 " nrtiTi -emu, grHj t - .a ' ' .-'AW ? t T1 f :4 ". t 4W . . . .,?.. - lf V.. I V Average 15.5 22.0 30.5 1. Captan is one of several fungicides, recommended. 2. Dieldrin is one of several insecticides recommended. A stand of 30 plants per 10 foot of row is a desirable stand. It is less difficult to secure that stand if good seed properly treated is planted. Evangelist Billy Graham "Our tendencies are to judge tho other man when perhaps we should clean up ourselves first." Pi1 - Huffing TP' CAB hi WHITE WALL PRICE LESS THAU BLACK WALL! SAVE MORE THAN Per Tire These Low, Low Prices In Effect Until Present Stock Is Gone! LIBERAL ALLOWANCE ON TRADE - INS! See Us First or See Us Last! Just Be Sure You Come In And See Us I Nehawka. Nebr. ' Elmer Krebs, Mgr. f - I 1 BUY THEM NOW FOR This Year's Work USED TRACTORS FARMALL -"H" TRACTORS 1-MD 1941 DIESEL A Full Line Of INTERNATIONAL FARM EQUIPMENT Always A Cood Stock of Parts We Have An A & W Dynamometer BRING THAT TRACTOR IN HAVE IT TEST ED! LET US SERVICE IT FOR MAXIMUM EFFIC IENT SERVICE. COMPLETE Tractor Overhaul ATTEBERY EQUIPMENT 00. HOOPS! The 4-H Soil Conservation club had an unsched uled exercise in "how to get a caterpillar out of a creek" during the terrace building event at the Stoehr farm. A little ingenuity and a lot of tractor power solved the problem. Seef Herds Break No Laws In Co. but Have Records Beef production testing con tinued in 1958. Dairy cows have production records. Why shouldn't beef cows have beef records? The answer: they should. In fact, this is the third year for the beef production testing program in the county. Herds in which calves are weighed and scored in 1958 are those of Ed Steckley, Otto Sch- 4 Herds Complete 2nd Year of Weigh-a-Day Four dairymen in Cass County have 2 full years of dairy re cords on their herds now. These are not recognized as "official" records. Art Roelofsz, Pete Hal mes, Mark Hohman and Willard Stock, the 4 cooperators, know just the same what their herds are doing for them. They weigh each cow's milk once a month and figure feed costs. The herd computations and each cow's record are cal culated at the Extension Office. It's a simple and inexpensive way to get some valuable data on dairy production. aefer and Sons, L. B. Todd and Sons and Wm. and George Min-ford. The calves still on hand as yearlings are weighed and scor ed again as yearlings. At that time a weight for day of age is calculated. The program is designed to help in selecting replacement heifers and bulls which are of high quality and rapid growth. It also helos the herd owner to determine which cows should be culled from the herd first. The weighing is done on the new portable scales donated to the Extension Service by civic minded organizations and cit izens in the county. ALASKAN DEATH RATE New York Alaska still is a pioneer land in one respect accidents ranked first among the causes of death in 1957, ac counting for nearly one fifth of all deaths. In other ways, Alaska's health record has improved measurab ly in the last 10 years. Between 1947 and 1957, the TB death rate fell more than 80 per cent. Infant mortality is also declining. UNION, NEBR. how to get MORE PLEASURE MORE PROFIT . . FROM FARM OWNERSHIP Fi 1 PROFIT As a farm landlord, your income is controlled by two important factors. One is weather . . . some years it may be very im portant. The other . . . effective every year, and most im portant to the success or failure of your farm in vestment, is a sound oper ating program and the ef ficiency with which it is carried out. From Effective Farm Management! These factors make the dif ference between a safe in vestment, with adequate income for many years, or an insecure investment that slowly shrinks in value and income. A qualified, fully - trained, professional farm manager can insure an effective operating program with full dividends from your investment. He can solve your most complicated problem. We Invite You To Investigate Our Service STEVE DAVIS Agency FARM DEPARTMENT COMPLETE FARM MANAGEMENT SERVICE FARM SALES FARM LOANS FARM INSURANCE FARM APPRAISALS STEVE DAVIS, Owner, Plattsmouth, Nebr. MARION STONE, Field Supervisor, Weeping Water, Nebr. "'.WW Champ Steer Up 590 Lbs. David Kraeeer fed the champ ion 4-H rate of gain steer in 1958. The calf, an Angus, gained 590 pounds in 265 days. The av erage daily gain, therefore, was a little over 2.22 Bounds per day. On Nov. 22, 1957, all en tries in the 1958 4-H rate of gain Show Must Go On! 4-H Club members display ed their talent in demonstrating for their leaders, friends and judges at the 1958 County Fair demonstration contest. Nineteen individual and team demonstrations were given des pite a severe rain sterm and power failure. Demonstrators selected to ap pear at the State Fair were: Lois Whittington, Nehawka of the Cass County Cooks, "Salad Dressing"; Carolyn Vinduska, Plattsmouth. of the Busy Home, makers, "Posture Wise"; Mary Hendrix. Plattsmouth. of the Busy Homemakers, "Making Beds"; Paula Ludwig and Shar on Stubbendick, Avoca, of the Avoca Homemakers, "Swedish Tea Ring." contest were weighed in. Da vid's steer, selected from his father's herd weighed in at 520 pounds. On Aug. 14, 1958. at the Cass County Fair the steer weighed 1,110 pounds. There were 18 calves entered in the contest. The program will be continued in 1959. The champion heifer in the rate of gain contest was fed by Herbert Kraeger. This heifer, also an Annus, gained 520 pounds during the same feed ing period. The weights were actual and not estimates. Extension 1958 Report Don't smoke in bed. The ash es falling on the floor may be your own. Stockholm Sven ska Dagbladet. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe. Memphis Commer cial Appeal. IFYE Entertained By County Families Two Cass County families had the privilege to entertain a young man from the Netherlands. He was Jan de Zwart of Slootdorp near Amsterdam. Jan lived a week each in the Sterling Ingwerson and Ralph Wehrbein homes. He is a fine delegate for good will between nations. He liked what he saw here and will influence many people of the good things in the American wav of life. Needless to say, too, of course, is that some of our customs did amuse him a bitsuch as eat ing corn. BOV, 6. SET FOR COLLEGE Ada, Okla. Jimmy Kessler, 6-year-old Ada first grader, is all set to enter East Central State College in 1970. Jimmy's father, C. D. Kess ler, a building contractor, ob tained estimates from college of ficials on the cost of four years in college, deposited the money with the finance office and pre enrolled the youngster. 4,247,441 CARS IN '58 Detroit The auto industry built 4.247,441 cars, 869,270 trucks and 3,000 coaches in the year 1958, the Automobile Man ufacturers Association reported recently. This compared with 6,120,029 cars. 1,096,446 trucks and 3,956 coaches in 1957. VOLCANO IN BATHROOM Brenham, Tex. Paul Kas prowicz, 5, told his mother the commode was "shooting up like a volcano." She phoned city engineer re porting wet cement was pouring out of the bathroom fixture. Meanwhile, workers forcing ce ment into a Santa Fe Railroad dump couldn't see why so much mix was needed to stab ilize that section of the dump. Once everyone got together, they found the pressure behind the cement had brokn a sewer line and then backed up the line into the nearby Kasprowicz house. This is the couple we're working for! AT WALNUT CROVE, we keep our eyes firmly fixed on the future. First, in order to bring you better "4x4" feed supplements today. Second, to be ready for the wonderful world of tomorrow when it arrives the world that your children and ours will live in and enjoy! That's why, in today's "4x4" feeds, you'll find such "world of tomorrow" features as enzymes, hormones and alternate antibiotics . . . that's why Walnut Grove is now employing the new science of bio-chemistry to bring you the feeds of the future today! Walnut G rove it brings you the feeds of the future today! Latham Elevate Phone 3032 Springfield, Nebr. LAMB AUCTION 479 ACRES OF COOD FERTILE MURRAY I jg. 1 24- n e& s- iH X HE A Z S) ... -3 : 2$ sqtoocyjj E Vl of. SVV4 These farms have produced some of the top crops in the county. Have been heavily fertilized and have been used for extensive livestock feeding. Crops have been rotated, farms mostly fenced and land gently rolling. INSPECTION OF THESE FARMS IS OPEN ANY DAY. Cass County, Nebr. FARM LAND Will Be Offered At PUBLIC AUCTION MONDAY, FEB. 9, 1959 TIME: 2 P. M. Location - 1 Mile East & 1 Mile South Of Murray, 26 Miles South Of Omaha or 8 Miles South of Plattsmouth, Nebr. On Highways 73-75 WEATHER PERMITTING SALE WILL BE HELD AT FARM, OTHERWISE AT MURRAY CITY HALL! This land will be offered in separate parcels or in combination. There are 2 complete sets of improvements, all in good condition. One set is on the 120 acre piece on the SW14 of section 24. The other set is on the 80 acre site on the E'2 of the SW'i of Section 25. All pieces of land join. IMPROVEMENTS ON 80 ACRES 6 room house; large cattle barn; good chicken house; concrete silo; good well with windmill. IMPROVEMENT 120 ACRE PARCEL Six room house; corn crib woverhead bins; concrete silo; large barn; 2 hog houses; 2 chicken houses; large cistern whydrants; 3 windmills; good granery; large feed lot. POSSESSION: MARCH 1st, 1959 TERMS: 20 CASH DAY OF SALE. BALANCE IN CASH ON DAY OF CLOSINC. N VAiC, Owner Cols. Rex Young, Plattsmouth and Laurence Bernard, Auburn Auctioneers Murray State Bank, Clerk ,J..1I n-1 O'-fr 1 "'-Jtl-- rV.)0..1 .; lit Ifti.ifn-t li.'O dt.iiftL! ill iff ttti.lt . tli ilfi i. I rtl ii Tl I ! A m. a. A A. A A m A. A A f t- . m m. m. A . k . H i t t t fc A A . A. A A A A A A . ,,il