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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
5
Towns urge caution on inland waters with Red Cross tips. Advice includes wait after eating, avoid swimming when tired, swim in supervised areas, respect river currents, and use boats safely with inspection tags and capacity limits. Stay with capsized craft and avoid risky behavior. emphasize boating and fishing as safe with good judgment.
The Iowa State Fair will feature many special contests from August 26 to September 2 including a horseshoe pitching tournament with 300 dollars in prizes, an old fiddlers contest worth 100 dollars, a team pulling contest, a baby health contest valued at 500 dollars, a sheep shearing title with 135 dollars in prizes, and an all Iowa Quiz Derby among school teams. Also scheduled are a checker tournament, 4 H contests such as sheep shearing and livestock showmanship, poultry judging, home economics demonstrations, and 4 H club agricultural demonstrations.
The event will feature about 150000 dollars in prizes across more than 3000 classes spanning livestock grains and other farm and home products, reflecting a major Midwest fair showcase.
About 40 Winnebago County farmers toured Minnesota dairy insemination centers at Owatonna and New Prague. Guides explained bull pedigrees and semen collection while noting rapid growth from 8,000 cows bred in 1943 to about 80,000 this year across cooperatives in Iowa and Minnesota.
Norbert Dotew county extension director recommends a 1 percent rotenone spray or dust to combat sawfly larvae causing leaf holes in strawberries. Apply weekly until harvest time, then use DDT or lead arsenate after harvest if damage persists to reduce next year's population. Leaf rollers may also be treated with rotenone. rolled leaves should be removed and burned.
Forty young people attended a weiner roast beside the Winnebago County Rural Youth meeting at Pilot Knob State Park on Thursday evening. Donald Wold chaired the refreshment committee and Emmet Lande led party games. Bob Hagerman announced a district Rural Youth camp set for Spirit Lake June 24 to 26, with Joan Anderson and Vernon Hogard arranging attendance.
If the one-defense theory is wrong it becomes one-defeat and a reminder that the world’s population is outgrowing its food resources. An analyst warns that growing demand may outpace supply and calls for attention to impending scarcity.
Summer weather prompts a general safety message urging careful behavior around water. The notice stresses vigilance near pools beaches rivers and oceans to prevent accidents and drowning as temperatures rise.
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