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APRIL 2012
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Mike Reed
Powell County Extension Office
Hurray! Garden
Classes begin in April
The Powell County
Extension Office will once
again be offering our annual
Extension Gardening Classes
each Monday night in April
at the Powell County High
School cafeteria. Each class
will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will
feature a one hour lecture and
approximately one hour spent
out in the greenhouse planting
and potting flowers and
vegetables of all kinds. We’re
all ready for winter to be over
and ready to get our hands
dirty!
Some of this year’s topics
will include Growing herbs,
Pruning shrubs & Trees,
Growing melons & gourds in
the garden, Garden Art and a
local garden party. The Spring
garden class is open to everyone,
whether you have a green
MEMORIAL DAY FLOWERS!
Large Selection of Bushes
$ 1 49 to $ 13 99
Taking
Special
Orders!
LIQUIDATORS
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thumb, or not and will include
this lecture, a garden party
picnic and a plant sharing and
pot luck dinner. Participants
receive free seeds and door
prizes at each meeting and
take a few plants home from
the learning greenhouse to
plant at home. The Garden
class is open to anyone who
wants to start gardening and
learn from other gardeners in
our county. Contact the Powell
County Extension Office at
663-6405 for details.
Powell County Health
Fair Scheduled
For those Powell County
residents who have been putting
off going to the doctor for
a long time, the Powell County
Community Health Fair is
scheduled for Thursday, April
12 at the Powell County High
School cafeteria, beginning
at 5:00 p.m. and going until
Headstone Pieces
$ 19 99 and up
of Stanton
65 W. Pendleton st. • 606-663-4075
Bargain Barn
Now Open!
Lots of Storage Unit Merchandise
Located Next Door to Liquidators
8:00p.m. You will want to put
this date on your calendar.
Some of the services offered
this year by the Kentucky
River foothills and other
local health agencies may
include glucose screening,
cholesterol tests, vision and
hearing tests and many other
screenings that farmers and
gardeners need to check on
from time to time. Our health
is something we constantly
need to monitor. The health
fair helps us all do that at a
very inexpensive rate. Call the
Extension Office at 663-6405
for more details.
Farm Safety Day to be
held April 13
If your kids or grand
kids are in the second or third
grade in Powell County this
year, expect them to come
home excited on Friday, April
13th . This will mark our
16thth annual Farm Safety
Day here in Powell County,
sponsored by the Progressive
Ag Foundation. During this
hands-on day, kids will learn
not only of farm safety, but
basic safety around the home
and farm. We will cover many
topics from ATV safety, small
animal safety, sun safety and
many other important and fun
topics. The highlights of the
afternoon will be Clark Energy
personnel roasting hotdogs on
the power lines and hopefully
a landing by a local emergency
helicopter.
We want to thank Ronnie
and Sharon Knox of 1717
Woody Ware road for allowing
us to borrow their farm for
the day in order to have this
special event with over 400
kids in attendance.
Also special thanks to our
local sponsors for this event,
especially the the Powell
County Farm Bureau, and
Continued on Page 35
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606-663-2283
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606-663-2276
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CAMPTON
606-668-9911
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Open Monday - Saturday, 9am to 5pm
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175 Blackburn St.
Stanton, KY 606-663-9942
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Handcrafted right here in the heart of Kentucky!
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HOURS: Tuesday thru Saturday, 10am to 5pm
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Red Bud trees bloomed early this year, as did most everything
else with our early Spring weather. The red buds are gorgeous as
you drive through the Kentucky backroads.
Photo by Mike Reed
Mike Reed, Continued from Page 34
the Powell County Livestock Producers Association and Clark
Energy.
Nationally there are over 25 sponsors such as Bunge,
Agrium, Tractor Supply, John Deere, Monsanto, The Farm
Credit System, State Farm, Pioneer and Shell Lubricants which
make this important program possible. Your kids should come
home excited with a new t-shirt. I, and several other dedicated
local volunteers, will come home exhausted! It by far is one of
the most important programs I help carry out the entire year!
Grass Tetany Season underway
Right about now is the prime time for grass tetany in our
beef cattle. Grass tetany is simply a deficiency of magnesium
in the blood stream of brood cows. As grass is growing
quickly at this time, it’s also low in nutrition and full of water.
This disorder also can attack animals grazing covercrops or
pastures inter-seeded with rye or wheat. This disorder usually
attacks the heaviest milkers or best mamma cows in the herd, it
does not affect bulls steers calves or heifers. It also usually affects
farmers who are doing a good job of liming and fertilizing
pastures, especially those good managers who are following a
controlled breeding season. Basically this disorder affects the
best cows on the best farms.
Symptoms of grass tetany include rapid, labored breathing,
staggering and eventually the animal will go down. Animals
may seem irritated and may actually become aggressive.
At this point a veterinarian should be called immediately.
Grass tetany can be avoided by prevention, primarily by making
sure all cows in the herd are being fed high magnesium
blocks or ground corn mixed with loose mineral. Farmers
should make every attempt to make sure all the adult cows
in the herd is getting an ample supply of magnesium through
loose mineral or salt/mineral blocks containing magnesium. It
is important to start this early in the season to avoid this problem
in April. Prevention of this problem is a lot easier than the
cure. Be on the look-out for this problem as it happens fast and
is most always deadly.
Contact the Powell County Extension Office at 663-6405 if
you need additional information.
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