County ASC Maps Crop Acreage for 1955 Corn Loans
In Mower County ASC workers use planimeters on photomaps to measure corn acreages for loan eligibility. About 2,705 farms are surveyed to determine if farmers will seek price supports, with a $4 deposit for remeasurements and Aug 10 deadline to dispose of surplus if over quota.
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Mower County
Agricultural, Stablization and Conservation Office
Mildren Engen
ASC
Miss Engen
Minnesota
Iowa
Tune
Farm Calendar Highlights Local Club Tours and Events
The list covers a week of farm related activities including beef feeding project meeting at vocational school, district 4 H Talent contest in Goodhue, 4H Leaders meeting, Dairy Day at Albert Lea, Woodland tour, Blooming Prairie events, and multiple farm tours and fairs across Fillmore County with tours to Preston Nevada Woodbury and Rochester and Dairy Princess contests.
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Bennington
Goodhue
Albert Lea
Woodland
Blooming Prairie Coop Elevator
Fillmore County Dairy Princess
Preston
Nevada
Woodbury
Blooming Priaire Creamery
Grand Meadow
Woodson
Rose Creek
Racine Rockets
Rochester
Red Rockets
Lembke Leads Freeborn No 2 DHIA Testing
Freeborn No 2 Dairy Herd Improvement Association reports Lembke's Holsteins top the results with herd averages of 1490 pounds milk and 60.5 pounds fat. The association lists 497 cows across 26 herds and shows Howard Flugunn Jack Jensen Albert Tollefson and other farms posting varying milk and BF figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lembke
Freeborn No. 2
John Wayne
Howard Flugunn
Jack Jensen
Albert
Chester Tollefson
Alvin Ulland
Lena
Art Alland
Wayne Helgeson
Art Wacholtz
Robert Jensen
Spring Valley youth chosen for IFYE Ecuador assignment
Dick Sample 20 year old Spring Valley farm youth will work on Ecuadorian farms for six months as an IFYE student. He expects to study Spanish further and share Minnesota farming life. Sample has a strong 4H record with multiple trips, owns a 360 acre farm with Angus cattle and hogs, and plans to become a Congregational minister.
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Spring Valley
Dick Sample
Spring Valley Farm
International Farm Youth Exchange
IFYE
Ecuador
Sample
Minnesota
Jim
Bloomfield Bluebirds
Aberdeen Angus
Ivan Sample
Spring Valley Congregational Church
Polgrim Fellowship
Southeast Association
Interdenominational
Helen Fahning
Germany
Beverly Norris
Austria
Mary Ann Moon
Chile
USDA
Extension Service
Land Grant Colleges
French Morocco
Africa
Washingto
United States
Miami
South America
Tropics
Geiger Counters Aid Study of Insect Life
Iowa State College scientists use radioactive cobalt tagging on wireworms to track movements and feeding. Geiger counters measure each worm’s location and reactions to insecticides.
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Iowa State College
Meat-Type Durocs Set for Cedar Rapids Show
Meat type hogs will be shown at Cedar Rapids Iowa July 28 29 30 for the eighth National Duroc Congress. More than 2000 hogmen from 25 states join type committee in shaping Duroc meat standards for the coming year. Top breeders from across the nation display 250 Durocs with over 4000 dollars in prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
United Duroc Record Association of
Duroc Association
Iowa State College of Ames
Iowa Duroc Breeders Association
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Wilson & Co
United Duroc Record Association
Harry Russell
University of Illinois
Duroc
Congress
Family Sends Care Packages to Ecuador for Christmas
Packing 44 pounds of clothes and souvenirs for families in Ecuador, Sample chooses sweat shirts for men, handkerchiefs for women, and a 35 mm camera with film for 700 color slides. His family Jim and Gregory, 14, Evadene, Macalester sophomore, and Mr. and Mrs. Sample await news of Ecuador and Dick’s return by Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecuador
Sample
Jim
Gregory
Evadene
Macalester
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BY Dave Owen
Austin
Ernest Tune
William Garbisch
Don Hasbargen
Nettie Engen
Ron Seath
4 H
St. Paul
Austin High School
Duluth
Lee Arneson
Don Ritland
Charles Painter
Voag
Ellsworth Hall
Blooming Prairie
George Reppe
George Leland
Macalester College
Ames
Ford
Ford Combine
Mangnnson Farm Equipment Co
Ford Tractor
Federal Land Bank Farm Loans
Sama. Rask
Secy.Treas
Minnesote
Thei
Os Austin
Frank J. Bradley
INS
Agency
Over Wold Drug
E. Oakland
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