Cool
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cold
weather slowed crop growth over
much of the USSR last week, while
much needed rain fell on
Australia’s grain belt, according to
a weekly report today by the joint
Agricultural Weather Facility of
the U.S. Department of Commerce
and Agriculture. Planting resumed
in the U.S. Com Belt, and
Canadian crop prospects are good,
except in dry, south-central
Saskatchewan.
Highlights of the report follow.
—USSR. Cold weather which
spread down the Volga Valley into
the North Caucasus and eastern
and southern Ukraine will further
delay crop development. In some
areas, lags now exceed a week.
Some newly germinated spring
crops may have been damaged by
subfreezing temperatures. Colder
than normal weather in the New
Lands slowed germination and
early growth of spring grains
I' throughout the region. Unusual
rainfall across the southern fringes
of the region provided good
growing conditions. Near-normal
rams further improved Hie outlook
over much of the east, but dry
pockets still persist.
—Europe. Continued above
normal temperatures across the
north kept crops growing rapidly
last week. To the south, tem
peratures stayed near normal.
—Australia. Extremely
beneficial rain helped planting and
germination in the eastern wheat
belt last week. Soil reserves
continue low, however.
Rangelands also benefited from
last week’s rainfall. West
Australia's wheat area received
some timely ram as well, but
additional moisture is needed in all
areas to relieve drought conditions
and sustain growth during the
current crop season.
I —United States. Crop moisture
'unproved over the northern
Rockies and from the Great Plains
east to the Atlantic coast. Dry
conditions continued, however, in
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temps in USSR, rain down under
southeastern Georgia, northern
Florida and in the Northeast. Dry
weather enabled planting to
resume m the Com Belt, notably in
Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.
Temperatures ranged from above
normal along the northern border
to below normal over most of the
central and southern U.S.
—Canada. Wet weather im
proved soil conditions in
Manitoba’s eastern wheat belt
where planting of the spring wheat
crop is nearly complete. Minimal
weekly rainfall in Saskatchewan
caused further depletion of soil
moisture reserves. Spring wheat is
about 90 percent seeded, and crop
Jersey breeders honor W.L.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - W.L.
Payton, Stephenville, Texas, will
be honored as Master Breeder by
the American Jersey Cattle Club
during the Club’s annual meeting
in Woodstock, Vt., June 15-17.
Payton’s success story began in
1925 when he started working for
the Santa Fe Railroad. As the
young man traveled, he watched
family cows being milked along
the right-of-ways from Cleburne to
Stephenville.
The Depression soon left Payton
jobless. Ambitious as he was, he
began his own business raising
chickens and selling chicks.
Payton acquired his first Jersey
calf by swapping some chicks for
it. And so Payton’s dedication to
the Jersey breed began.
In 1932, Payton began selling
Jersey milk to a grocery in
Stephenville. By 1947, the Payton
herd was on official test and had a
classification average of 81.3
percent. By 1961, this average had
improved to 88.6 percent, one of the
highest herd averages in Texas
In 1956, Payton received the
AJCC Constructive Breeder
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germination was rated as good
except in dry, south-central
Saskatchewan. In Alberta, crop
conditions are favorable.
—China. Little ram fell in the
major winter grain belt on the
North China Plain. Rainfall in
creased south of the Yangtze
River, but remained mostly near
normal levels. Conditions in
Guangxi remained too wet as
above-normal rainfall continued.
—South Asia. Premonsoon
showers continued in Bangladesh
and northeastern India last week,
keeping conditions benefically
moist for early rice. The monsoon
Award, recognizing his ac
complishments in improving the
breed. From 1962 to 1964 he served
on the Board of Directors of The
American Jersey Cattle Club.
Payton is best known as the
breeder of Advancer Sleeping
Milestone, a bull known to every
Jersey bree ler in the United States
and many foreign countries. His
daughters have won many major
championships.
Another Payton-bred bull is
Master Milestone C, one of the top
bulls currently available in AI. His
dam, a “Sleeping Milestone”
daughter, now owned by Sonshine
Jersey Farm, Brashear, Texas,
was bred by Payton. She is scored
Excellent-94% and won her class at
the All American Junior Show
“Master C” was sired by another
Payton-bred bull, L.C. Master
Milestone
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seems to be approaching on
schedule from the southeast.
—Southeast Asia. Another week
of significant rainfall in Thailand
signals a favorable start of the
monsoon season. The normal crop
calendar shows corn in the late
planting period with early seeded
com in vegetative development.
—South America. Drier weather
in most Argentine com and
soybean areas aided crop har
vests, now nearly 75 percent
complete. Ram benefited much of
the wheat area of La Pampa,
southern Buenos Aires, and
southern Rio Grande do Sul in
Brazil, but relatively dry weather
The Payton herd was sold at
public auction in 1973, averaging
$670.08 on 131 head, the top
dispersal sale of that year.
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prevailed in much of the wheat
areas of Santa Catarina and
Parana. In southern Buenos Aires
province, temperatures dropped to
the freezing level twice in the past
week.
—Mexico. Ram last week
benefited reservoir levels and soil
moisture in citrus orchards and
cane fields around Valles and
cotton fields at Torreon. The
eastern part of the Southern
Plateau corn belt received
beneficial rain on its young corn
while the western section stayed
dry with crops probably under
moisture stress.
Payton
recognizes those who have bred
outstanding animals for many
years and thereby made a notable
contribution to the advancement of
the Jersey breed in the United
States.