25 @ 25,90 400 @ 25,90 [email protected] 496 @25.80 [email protected] 477 @25.60 450 @ [email protected] 25,30 501 @25,39 428 @ 25.20 455 @25.20 463 @ 25.20 14th year no. 49 February 4, 1969 505 @25.10 540 @25,10 435 @25,10 435 @25.00 510 @ from his own feedlot each week; 24.90 497 @ legislation tcj 24.60 - Support state 540 @24,50 Farmers Union Plots providestate meat inspection 445 @23,50 in Kansas. 475 @23,10 Committee members attend- 460 @23,10 ing included: Don Woelhof, Mor- Statewide Tax Protest ganville, president, Clay county ; TOPEKA -The Farmers Un-on farms and homes. Farmers Union: Leonard Pan- 275 @ 17.60 ion legislative steering commit- He said the committee plansel., Parsons, president, Neosho 330 @ 17.55 tee in Kansas wants a statewideto bring at least 25,000 farmerscounty Farmers Union; Glen 0. 230 @ 17.10 tax -protest meeting in Topeka.and homeowners to Topeka Strnad, Cuba, president, Repub- 300 @ 16.60 The announcement was madesometime in February as taxlic county Farmers Union; Cy- 000 @ 16.30 by Philip J. Doyle, Beloit,fol- protestors. ril Habiger, Bavaria, president, 060 @ 16.30 lowing an all -day session. Doyle, a Mitchell county farm-Saline county Farmers Union; 890 @ 16.30 Donald Turnquist, Lindsborg, 050 @ 15.70 Doyle warned the Kansas leg-er and president of the county islature not to under -estimate Farmers Union, is a former Re-s ice -president, McPherson coun- 130 @ 15.10 'Only SoldOne" ty Farmers Union; Lyon and 710 @ 14.60 one," said Dwight Beeson ofClifton the depth of resentment and publican state representative. "I only sold Beeson farms 240 acres concern sweeping the state over Dale Lyon, Athol,presidentDoyle. 960 @ 14.10 niter attentingan area auction. Clifton. what he called excessiv taxation of the Smith county Farmers northeast of Union, was named chairman ofAnother Delay Ort the potential protest rally. Opening Interstate ;SION "If it appears the legislature MCPHERSON - The open- Persists will give us a square tax deal, ing of I -35W between McPher- Health Department we will not put our protestinto son and Bridgeport, first sche- effect," Smith said. "However, duled for late November, will we plan to begin at onceto not be before late spring. The ?On schedulespecialbuses and last concrete on the roadway Feedlot Pollution trains in the event we do call Marys Sixty-five per cent of the fish ficial. wastes from dairies and dispos- was poured inmid -October, kills discovered in Kansas last Often the manureand soil isal for kill plants in the state. for the rally." when allconstruction work stockpiled nearby untilit can be Resolutions adopted unani- was suspended. Engineers fig- pr were the result of feedlot mously by the committee were: pollution. spread. Some times 15foot piles ure it will take six weeks to Kans, half mile. Farmer Protest - -Support of legislationto two monthsafterweather Mel Gray, assistant directorwill stretch for a abandon property taxesasa 'Environmental Health Services, As weather or cropconditions changes allow work tobe manureOf Deer Permits source of income for operation- started again before the road- Topeka, outlined the feedlot permit, the stockpiled al costs of primary and secon- roblem to about 30 engineers is spread and used asfetirlizer Three legislators from rural way is open. areas told the HouseNatural dary schoolsintheStateof d feedlot oprators at a sem- en surroundingland. Kans-s, and the use of statein- inar at Hutchinson. Fish kills have notbeen theResources Committee many the come taxis for schools. Attending the all -day sessiononly problemcreated by mis-farmers are unhappy over Auctions and sales dina of permitsto hunt - Supportfederal legislation were men from California, Ok- managed feedlots. allocation to prevent tax loss farmingby found in Two years ago oneof the deer. can be lahoma, Iowa, Texas, and Kan - Under the 1967 law, 80 pernon -farmers. state'sfederalreservoirs was - Supportlagislation to tight- both sections of So far, there hav ebeen no re- closed for a fewweeks becausecent of the available permits are Kansas anti - to non -landowners en loop holes in the Grass & Grain ported fish kills this year, Gray of feedlot pollution.The bacteriaallocated corporation farm law. high, that waterwhile only 10 per cent are ear- this week. id. count was so ten- - Supportof federal legisla- a.m. Cattle But he gave neither feedlot was unsafefor body contact marked for landowners or of head Pages 10, 11 & 12 are consign. tion to limit the number operators or new state legisla-such as swimming. ants. of livestock a packer cankill Department of Reps. Rex Borgan,R-Asher- tion credit for the year's record The Kansas R -Bur- Ying, "We haven't had theeHalth, Gray said,also has theville; Raymond Vaughn, oflington, and W. R. (Bob)Brown, nd of rainfallconducive topower tocontrol pollution in their ushing the feedlots." surface and groundwater. R -Emmett, said farmers legislation, areas would bewillingto go Although the present totals of Under present along wi tha 50-50split. h kill are not good, Gray said feedlots must havea permit Department to Vaughn said farmers areup- [email protected] Tonally the totalswere muchfrom the Health able to get arse, permit is notis-set about not being 119 @20.55 operate. The hunt deer on pollution hunting permits to 213 @20.25 During the seminar,programssued until required their own property. 210 @20.30 ere presented on feedlot reten- control facilities areconstruct- present al- 207 @20.30 Vaughn said the n ponds, construction of feed- ed, Gray said. location system mightlead to 232 @20.25 ts anduse of retention pond Usually retentionponds are 215 @20.20 posting of additionalrural lands ater for irrigation. three inches [email protected] designed to handle hunting. The seminar at a time,butto prevent 137 @20.30 was sponsored of runoff water The Natural ResourcesCom- i35 @12.00 the Kansas Engineering Soci- isstudied indivi- Fred each feedlot mitteealsoheardRep. 165 @15.40 Y, the Kansas Industrial Ex-dually. speak in favor 16,60 the wastesLinde, R -Wichita, 345 @ nsion Serviceand the Engin- Used as fertilizer, of his bill whichwould elimin- 315 @14.30 rs in Private Section of KES. production forfarm- 16.80 can double ate a necessityfor a fishing li- 362 @ Gray said is seek - of fertilizer 06 @17.25 the state ersat a fraction cense for anonresident minor. e to develop adequate control 3H @16.75 costs. the wasteis 3H @12.25 man's environment. Plowed under, COMMITTEE to 300 tonsOUSTED ASCS 3H @14.00 Lack ofcontrols was the bas - applied from five up REVIEW 9.50 WINS USDA 3H @ reason underlyingthe mas- per acre. Three HaskellCounty ASCS 3H @10.75 ire by the depart- killing of fish,where as Further study thecommitteemen firedby the state any at 250,000were destroyed. ment will bedirected toward have been Pollutants water andtheASCS last August depressed the oxy- use of irrigation reinstated after areview by n to zero possibility of nitrogenor nitrate or near zero, result - USDA. About225 county farm- g in fish suffocation. contamination. ers andlandowners hadbacked The production of nitrates committeemen fol- of livestock is The dissolution groundthe banished the numberone industry in the could perculate;into the ouster last summer. hen state lowing the andisgrowing rapidly. water table. The three menare ThomasLew- It has had concentration, Smith a tremendous In high enough calves inis, Satanta,and LaVerne growth. Last abortion of Sublette. 1 CO. year it increased this causes cattle,and KirbyClawson of 44 Percent," Gray said. This cattle, lack ofgains in la turn is in humans. 40 increasing control and blue babies CROPIMPROVEMENT ASSN. Problems, not as numer- WEEK Swine feedlots,operated un-MEETS THIS Gray saidcattle feeders areous as cattle,are HUTCHINSON - TheKansas ALINA, coming rules. Improvement Assn.meets Cattle 'Marketing tion more aware of pollu- der similar not Crop ERS: problemsand are cleaning Gray saidthere were at the BakerHotel in Hutchin- Delbert Hawel of Narka and MarionDettman, Roger.bhnsaa tp snoreoften. enough sheep orlamb feedingson at 9 a.m.January 31. How Narka, were unloading cattle at a G&G areacattle auc- Feedlots tore- are normally clean- operations inthe state to produceand market quality tion. Seven calves were sold by thetwo, five by Dett- the discussion endedvery 90 to 120 daysas the quire attention. study andseed will top man and two byHawel. of a feedingschedule. More Slated forfuture often parlor theme. thannot this is not bene- action willbe milk locat- England producers dividual areas. The actual pric- more moneyto farmers - has ed nearer themarket. continued by court ruling es, methods of paymentsand the differentialthe Supreme Court decid Squabble Building 'Up Over other guidelines may vary great- For two years payments - partof the over-allwhether it will reviewthe ly from one area to another. milk sold in the Agriculture Departmentoak Milk -Price DifferentialLegality One of the hottest milksitua-receipts from oft, order area - havebeen held indals say the government's The intricate system throughsclidations and terminations tions to be inherited by scretary tition in support of the Har-escrow,accumulating at the di which the federal government have reduced this number to 66of agriculture Clifford M. ffet, urg rate of about$250,000 a month. ential payment methodis seeks to regulate milk handling, now operating. din involves a group of New The escrow of this money -to be filed with the high due do( to set minimum prices paid Federal marketing orders reg-England dairymen who want by Feb. 20. coon trai the U.S. Supreme Court to re-part of the incomeof the New dairy farmers and to otherwiseulate transactions between pro- -- develop marketing proceduresducers and milk dealers in a view the method of payment - has grown tremendously over specified geographic area, re- used in their federal marketing the years.