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Show News and views from your county agent Alfalfa culture tips, house plans available, write congress about grasshoppers by Blaine Jones USU Extension Agent ALFALFA MANAGEMENT Good management means about 60 lbs. of phosphoric acide and 20 lbs. of potash. Select the best alfalfa. A wide selection of alfalfa varieties are available to fit your profitable returns from alforage program. Your extension falfa. The agent can help you select the checklist below alfalfa best for your farm or ransw ' ' summarizes ch. To get high yields, plant w? recommended alfalfa with high yield potential. management Start alfalfa out right. practices necesPrepare a firm, compact seedbed and plant at proper depth sary to realize Blaine Jones the yield and profit potential for your soil type and moisture from alfalfa. Use it to help plan conditions, usually inch deep. Plant for your money-makinforage pro- to one-hastands thick at 10 to 15 lbs. per gram. Plant alfalfa on your best acre. Use a fairly high seeding land. For best results, plant rate and control weeds with alfalfa on land that is fertile, recommended chemicals. deep, and well drained. It can be Control insects and disease. your most profitable crop. The Select alfalfas most resistant to feed nutrients in a alfalfa the diseases and insects prevacrop equal 208 bushels of lent in your area. Familiarize wheat, 225 bushels of corn, 270 bushels of barley, or 446 yourself with descriptions, damage, and control of major bushels of oats. Use fertilizer. De- pests and chemicals to use. termine soil needs by testing. Cut alfalfa on time. Cut in alfalfa is a big the bud stage. Research shows user of potash, calcium that for each day cutting is phosphate, and magnesium. Six delayed past the bud stage, feed tons of alfalfa will take off value drops 1 percent and pro " w one-quart- er g lf 10-to- n full-fee- d High-yieldin- g very farl $1 million has also been appropriated by the state, to be used first on lands next to croplands. They are trying to come up with more money. state-owne- d Stevens suggests that because the federal government the largest land owner in the state, congress should appropriate more money for grasshopper control .and be better neighbors. He suggests that farmers, ranchers and others with conminimum of field loss. The cerns about grasshoppers and smallest protein and TDN loss- Mormon crickets on federal es are with haylage, green chop, land should write to congress bailing, and pasturing, in that and express their concerns. order. Write: The Honorable Jamie WhitHOUSE PLANS A new shipment of house ten, chairman. Subcommittee on Agriculplans is now available from the county Extension office. The ture, Rural Development, and plans are in the form of descrip- Related Agencies. House Appropriations Comtive sheets and reduced blue mittee blue prints prints. Room 23C2 (RHOB) can be ordered for $1 per sheet. Washington, D.C. 20515 GRASSHOPPER CONTROL From There is a great deal of concern about the threat of a serious grassshopper infestation in the western states. Edison Stevens of the State tein value drops much more. Save all you grow. The alfalfa plant is 50 percent leaves and 50 percent stems. Seventy-fiv- e percent of the feed value is in the leaves. Get alfalfa out of the field and into storage with a Full-size- d Millard group wants prison in Fillmore Fillmore City Council and the Millard County Commission each have recently passed resolutions supporting the building in their county of corrections facility the now being considered by Nephi. A meeting was held in Fillmore recently to discuss the building of the facility. Present were members of the Fillmore Chamber of Commerce, the Millard County sheriff, a Millard County justice of the peace, and officers from the state division of corrections. Judge Ron Hare explained to division of corrections officers that the group had requested the meeting to explain its interest in having the facility located in Fillmore. The Chamber of Commerce is look- The ing for ways , to improve the local economy. Millard County is already housing some state prisoners, and if the facility were to be built in Fillmore, the county jail would be expanded and would become a part of the corrections facility. Millard County Sheriff Ed Phillips said his initial investigation of the facility indicated it would be good for the local economy. He was asked to study the plan by the Fillmore Chamber of Commerce. Phillips said he did not agree with the work release program because he didnt think the community could support jobs for the inmates. Don Blanchard, regional administrator for the state division of corrections, said inmates in the program would not compete for paying jobs, however. They would chiefly do public service jobs, such as painting governmental ill not be increased. mission, explained that public buildings, cleaning up areas, What will prevent. . .the comment would be used to help etc., that might ordinarily not whole thing the old building draft a conditional use permit. be done. We are still in discussion from being a psychiatric care All the publics concern would with Nephi to place this facility unit so we end up with 65 men- be incorporated into the permit said Blanchard. He said there, tal patients instead of 12, ask- and resulting document would the facility may or may not be be drafted with adequate coned J.R. BelUston. for the Juab County ' accepted Juanita A. Crawford, co- trols so the city could monitor area. owner of the facility, said the facility, Greenhalgh said. A few of those present sugfederal laws would prohibit Blanchard said, however, such action and state money gested the number of mental pa- that the prison would be a would not pay for more. tients to be housed be limited to clean industry, in that it does Glenn Greenhalgh, chairman the 12 now at the Colonial not pollution. He also said that of the planning and zoning com Manor. some of the criticisms usually received about building a prison in a given area are that property values may decline and that families of long-terprisoners may move to the area to be close to their families and may swell the welfare rolls. He said, however, that our experience is that it just doesnt happen. He said property values do not is 72-be- d page one Colonial Manor . Department of Agriculture reports only $1 million of federal money has been appropriated for grasshopper control on federal land in the 17 western states. That wont go m decline, most prisoners families already have well-establish- homes and do not tend to move away from them, and they do not become welfare problems. JHS golf team " takes sixth at St. George tourney Some of the students in Jayne Wilsons fourth grade make a poster about Ethiopian famine relief effort. They are Sharon Mellor, Anthony Davison, Waylund Ludlow, Jennifer Aiman, and Juab High Schools golf team Tracy Freese. placed sixth in recent play at the St. George golf club. The teams combined score was 397. Other scores were WIN A RIDE IN A HOT BALLOON! Iglgs Enter the Nephi Chamber of 'Commerce Treasure Hunt and be one of 5 lucky people to r fee ,n 3 r(e Balloon Ot f during the Panoramaland Balloon Tour in Nephi, May 24, 25, and 27. We have chosen a prominent Nephi landmark as our TREASURE SPOT. There is nothing hurried there, we just want you to guess the spot. Each week we will give you a new clue in The to aid you in your search. The clues will also be posted in the windows of Steve's Appliance, The Total Lady and Brinkerhoffs. Times-New- s When you have figured out where our Treasure Spot is, write your answer, along with your name and address on a 3 X 5 card and deposit at the above merchants. Winners will be drawn from all correct entries immediatly following the parade, Friday, May 24, 1985. The drawing will be held on the old football field directly East of the Juab County Center. Winners Must Be Present To Win!! Entrants must be 16 years of age or older. All entries become the property of the Nephi Chamber of Commerce. Nephi students will raise money for famine victims The Nephi Elementary School has started a project to raise money to help feed Ethiopian famine victims. Students at the school and townspeople are asked to donate money to the cause. They can send money to school with students or place money in containers at local businesses. The students are being asked to give up their candy and other Save 23 Pineview, 331; Richfield, . 343; Cedar City, 370; Dixie, 374; treats and donate to the fund Grand, 389; South Sevier, 438,' the money they would have and Hurricane, 439. spent. The best Juab player was Brian Carter. Curtis Jones was Each class will make posters second, George Ostler was to be displayed in local busRobbie Ostler was fourth, third, inesses giving information and Dennis Denoski was fifth. about the project. We encourage all of the The Times-New- s and to us with townspeople join Nephi, Utah give for a worthy cause, say May 2, 1 985 organizers. 4 over Newstand Rates!! Sralbscrilbe Today To The Times-New- s If you currently buy The Times-Newweekly at the newstand you are paying 23 more than you should. Stop by today at 96 South Main and subscribe. You will receive each issue by mail and save s: 23. The Times-New- s 96 South Main, Nephi, Utah Phone 623-052- 5 Nephi Chamber of Commerce 4 I |