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FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS
Apply lime in the fall
(or a better crop pent summer
Fall liming assures proper limestone distribution m the
soil ready for spring planting The freezing and thaw
mg of winter aid in (hr process of limestone dissemi
nation So why wait correct your soil deficiency now
by liming and reap a bigger harvest next summer
Midwesterners eligible for funds
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) an
nounced recently that far
mers in Minnesota, North
Dakota, South Dakota, and
Wisconsin who suffer losses
from drought during the 1976
crop year are eligible for
emergency loans through the
Farmers Home Ad
ministration (FmHA) to
reestablish farming
operations and pay
operating expenses.
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Newest model of the oldest farm machine in the
world is this recently completed re-creation of
Cyrus McCormick’s 1831 reaper. Dr. Howard F.
Conn of Uniontown, Pa., built the harvester in
partnership with Joseph G. Rider, a Smithfield, Pa.
carpenter. The reaper was on display at the Fayette
County Fair in Uniontown. Wooden gears, from
which molds could be made to pour cast iron gears,
were built but found too inexact. Dr. Conn then
arranged to borrow gearing from the reaper on
display at the McCormick National Historical
Landmark and museum at Steeles Tavern, Va., to
make molds for new gears. Rider also built the peg
toothed wooden rake, in the picture, like the ones
used to sweep cut grain from reaper platform.
USDA determined that the
incidence of drought covers
the crop year which ends on
December 31, 1976. This
determination amends the
previous Presidential
declaration of drought
emergency in the four states,
in which no designated
period of drought was in
dicated.
Counties included under
the drought designation (see
lists attached) total 64 in
South Dakota, 60 in Min-
>1.11.1976
nesota, 43 in Wisconsin and
21 in North Dakota.
Emergency loans are
made to farmers to recover
from designated natural
disasters. Loans based on
actual losses are repayable
in their entirety with 5 per
cent interest. Loans for
renewed operations are
made at rates prevailing in
the private market for
comparable credit. All loan
applicants must be unable to
get sufficient credit from
local commercial sources.
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