Dairy Month Chairman by Andjune Dairy GA66 Pastures, Green Milk Dairy Industry Members
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Plugging Industry DairyMonth JuneAs monthfor brides, Science, Kansas State Univer- June isthe weather, lushsity, who was elected State beautiful June Dairy Month Chairman by andJune Dairy GA66 pastures, green milk dairy industry members. He It is thetime that gonth, abundant. It isthehas appointed county June supplies are dairyindustry na-Dairy Month Chairmen in most month the is joined counties of the state. The Am- douslly andin Kansas businessesand or -erican Dairy Association of related by to honorthe menKansas with headquartersin 'rations of thedairy Indus-Topeka servesasthespear- Ind women n family of foods heading organization for June and the fine try Dairy Month in Kansas. theyproduce. program for 1967 In a number of counties spe- 13th year no. 15 The Kansasdirection of Dr.cial dairy days will be held to June 13, 1967 under the Head, De-bring attention to the impor- charlesL. Norton, of Dairy andPoultrytance of the dairy industry to partment the community. County and dis- radio will be awarded each trict dairy princes contests will winner. be sponsored during June to se- Is Your Cow StateGrade A The contest will close June lect finalists for the state dairy 20. Entries postmarked after On Rise princess contest. 'The Purtiest?' that date will not be eligible. Output A contest toselect Kansas' ofdairy farmers A Speaker's Bureau compos- Entries become the property of 'he number "Purtiest" cow has beenan- decreasing,buted of industry members has the American Dairy association Kansasis nounced as part of the June Amilk produced been organized to supply speak- of Kansas. roles of Grade than ev-ers to civic club meetings dur- Dairy Month activities by Dr. the state arehigher ing June. Newspapers and ra- Charles L. Norton, State Dairy before, accordingto a new university Exten-di oand television stations will Month chairman. The contest is as State give special coverage to June open to any person residing in Riley Co. Plans service publication. tion the state of Kansas. Authored by RogerH. Wilko- Dairy Month activities. Special marketing econo- June Dairy Monthadverties- The "purtiest" cow willbe July Program oke, dairy judged onthebasisofher publication examines ments will be run by the Amer- mist, the ican Dairy Association in var- beauty. She may be adorned the changingmarket for Grade For Soil Testing 1962 and 1965. ious advertising media. Milk with ornaments. The animal en- A milk between MANHATTAN -- Riley Coun- number and milk products will be fea- tered may be of any age or Grade A milk is the tyis organizing a major soil- in Kansas intured by dairy plants and dis- dairy breed . dairy product To enter the contest, take a testing program, and an organi- lume, value, and economic tributors. Food retailers will place special emphasis on dairy picture of only the head of your zation has been formed to sup- contribution,says Wilkowske. port the program which will be farmers marketedfood sales. "purtiest" cow and send it with Kansas dairy your name, address, and age to carried out July 10-15. 991 million pounds of Grade A Adding glamour and charm County fertilizer dealers have million tothis year's celebration will State June Dairy Month Head- milk in 1965, up 71 quarters, American- Dairy Asso- organized and elected Warren poundsfrom 1962.Cash receipts be Miss Patty Edmonds, reign- ciation of Kansas, 2044 Fillmore, Howland of Farmland Indus- kom the farm sale ofGrade Aing Kansas Dairy Princess. She will travel thousands of miles Topeka, Kans. 66604. A black tries as chairman and Ernest milk were$44 million in 1965, and white glossy picture, 3x5 Lindquist of Manhattan Milling op $5 million in four years. over the state speaking up for Marys, inchsize,isdesired but any Co. as treasurer. Soil samples Most other trendsin Grade Amilk and milk products and can be left with these men. crowning county and district size will he acceptable. Clarity milk productionwere up during of the photograph will be con- Dealers present at an organi- k period. Butthe number ofdairy princesses. sidered in judging. zation meeting represented CK Kam ry farmersdecreased from For several years the June Patty Edmonds is reigning - Processing, Farmers Coopera- 0 in 1962 to 2,509 in 1965. Dairy Month campaign has Kansas Dairy Princess. She's A committee of judges will from Peabody, and select a first, second, and third tive, Farmland Industries, Man- Offsetting been thelargestsinglefood the drop in num- sent Kansas inthe Americanplace winner from the pictures hattan Milling, Flint Hills Feed bers, however,has been an in -promotion taking place in the Dairy Princess Contest in Chi-submitted. A portable AM -FM& Grain, and Farmers Union &Ise inmarketings per farm. nation each year. cago in July. Co-op of Clay Center. Producerssold an average of almost 395,000pounds per farm is 1965, anincrease of 29 per cent during the 4 -year period. Income per dairy farm in- creased at an even faster rate. Dairy Princess erage cash receipts per pro- Only r rose from $12,951 in 1962 317,693 in 1965 -an increase 11:00 ant Contest Finals 37 per cent. r they areeons Kansas isa net exporter of In September rade A milk.The publication es these trends: The Kansas Dairy Princess Sales of bulk Contest sponsored by the Am- rip hgs224 @ 23 milk for Class I 224 0 23 by Kansas erican Dairy Association of hogs cooperatives to ofstate markets Kansas will be in Hutchinson ix hogs 232@23 -up38 ixhogs227@ 23 ion Pounds. September 15-16. (hogs 238@ 23 Sales of ClassI fluid products The 10 finalists will be the 10 other states district contest iphgs225 @ 23 by Kansas hand- dairy princess winners. The new princess will (hogs 234 @ 23 - uP 18 million pounds. 23 lucer sales ix hogs209 @ direct to out-of- be crowned on the stage at the ix hogs224 @ 23 - up 13 millionKansas State Fair Saturday ands. p hogs225 @ 23 evening, September 16. 23 The increase ixhogs228@ inout-of-state Awards will include a $300 214 @ a ix hogs resulted inan increase inscholarship, wardrobe, and the out shipments hogs243 opportunity to represent the np from 100 mil- 210 C x hogs Pounds in 1962 ADA of Kansas for which sal- to 134 mil- 212 @ hogs Pounds in 1965. ary and expenses will be paid. 536@ )(sows 23 @ ixhogs233ix 23 hogs197,8 xhogs 231 3 p sows 23. hogs 41 18. i sows41`a 19. six pigs ',a 14. ,ix pigs 13 -hp Heinz Tractor sixpigs 3 11. almost 57 varieties of parts were used in amp Pigs 1 A working tractor with d Wilbur Erichsen, above, with his parents Mr. Apigs ali. une the tractor assembled by six pigs and Mrs. F. H. Erichsen,Route 2' Manhattan. The tractor is poweredby a 13 -horsepower 2 -cylinder air-cooled Wisconsin engine, a dualtransmission,system using a 1932 V8 Ford and The rear end is from a Ford Model A a 4 -speedChevrolet transmission. InCher 11/2 ton truck; the frontend was modeled from a Chevrolet car front CO' end. Various other parts wereused to complete the tractor. Wilbur is ;ION married and wifeDeborah ,will complete vet school at KansasState University next year.The family farms about 900 acres. 40 Mr. and Mrs. F. H.Erichsen are planning a trip to Alaska with Mrs. Erichsen'sbrother,ArtCederberg, and Mrs. Cederberg of Man- hattan. incidentally, is not just a toy, but la working tractor. 0211 The tractor, Wilbur uses themachine to haul feed and to plow short fields. :erased Yearly LandCost RiseAt 8% al Reserve Bank ADEQUATE Despite concernover farm- Farmers, caught between at Kansas mounting costs and static pric-said all the evidence (lh A 13 ers' income lagging behind costs additional a continued climb of production, the land theytilles bid fiercely for in land 4. /f thereis land to increase their volume. es. StorageSpace continues to rise in price, and "With present-day files, Ten years ago there were192,- vailableit no one seems to thinkthe spi- itis more efficientteenn bet 000 farms in Misouri, and119,- to opetV a ral will end. somewhat larger woos' ,c 000 in Kansas. Now there are farrns,,t:ii nation; for Your There are fewer farms and said. "We still have The families to operate them, and 154,000 and 97,000, respectively. anuttbt is righ A decade ago the average Kan-of small farmerswho, even the acreage of landitself wheni sas farm was 424 acres;todaypiece of propertycomes shrinking, down almost 60 sale, llp for is priceiton the million acres nationally in the itis513. Missouri farms have basi expanded from 130 acres to 215.what it would beworth WHEAT past decade. "The reason issimple," saidin relation to what tohh he ahead,' Ross Zimmerman ofSterling, has." Also Cash Buyers ofAll Grains GRASS & GRAIN Kans., a farmer stockman who The Mid -Kansas news weekly.now issellingrealestate. PROMPTEST SERVICE Published each Tuesday at 1207"When I was a kid of 14, we Moro, (Box 1009) Manhattan, July FarmShow Kansas, 66502 by bought a tractor for 1,400 bush- AG PRESS els of wheat. The same tractor CREEP Dean Coughenour today will cost atleast 6,000Set For Downs Milling Co. E. R. Woodward bushels. We all live better but DOWNS- An industrial Manhattan Secondclasspostagepaidat Manhattan, Kansas at the same time we have to emphasizing on P 107 Pierre Manhattan PR 8-3217 Subscription: $3 year pay more to do it. In this area CIRCULATION 11,108 of southcentral Kansas we used to make a living off a half sec- s2rnh:Lo9nwiat-r:2;23;Parker, manager Cattle of IN tion 320 acres, but now we Solomon ValleyIndustrial have to have 1,200 to 1,500 Show, saidit was held acres." firsttime last for year incone( Prices for land have risen tion with the 87thannual 0, steadily at- about 8 per cent acelebration, andtheshow-ir year.