ASC Probes Benton Soil Payment Irregularities
The state Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee continues an inquiry into irregularities in soil conservation cost sharing in Benton county. A March 30 hearing in Vinton drew state ASC chairman Dwight Meyer and others as contractors admitted partial collection while balances remained on their books. The panel will complete its investigation.
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Benton County
ASC
Dwight Meyer
the Gazette
Meyer
Vinton
Max Soeth
Estherville
Joe Carter
Delmar
Benton County Soil Conservation District
SCS
Frank Mendel
Des Moines
O. R. MacMurray
State Soil Conservation Committee
Fred Cherry
Rowley
State Asc
Plans Announced For 1956 Veishea Horse Show
Veishea Horse Show moves to Pommel Court parking for 1956 with increased audience capacity and a larger ring. Friday features eight classes including single hackney pony and ladies three gaited. Saturday offers nine classes such as open fine harness and parade class. The A B Caine Memorial Trophy for single harness pony will be awarded to the winner.
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AMES
Veishea
College Armory
Pommel Court
Armory
Tennessee
A. B. Caine
The
Department of Animal Husbandry
Linn County Brucellosis Ring Test Shows Decline
County Extension Director C. EF Herriott said Tuesday the latest Linn county ring test shows progress against brucellosis. Only 14.5 percent of the herd tested were rated suspicious, down from 18.7 percent last October and 33.7 percent in March 1934.
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Linn
C. EF. Herriott
Ag Engineering Field Day Highlights Iowa State Event
Ames hosts the fifth annual Agricultural Engineering Field Day on June 2 at a research farm south of town. Hobart Beresford says farmers will see new insecticide application machines and latest mechanized feeding and tillage advances. Field tours run from 8:30 a.m. to about 3 p.m., with demonstrations and exhibit inspections for attendees traveling from distant points.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Agricultural Engineering
Iowa
Hobart Beresford
Farm Income Drops Five Percent In First Quarter 1956
Washington reports the agriculture department found total farm income for Q1 1956 at 5.9 billion dollars, down 5 percent from a year earlier. Livestock and product receipts reached 3.6 billion, crop receipts 2.3 billion, with prices about 7 percent lower than a year ago.
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Washington
INS
Agriculture Department
Department
Delaware County Dairy Council to elect officers
The newly organized Delaware County Dairy Council will meet next Monday evening in the extension office to elect officers and plan for June Dairy Month promotion. Omar Carton Jr. named chairman of the county committee. health tour for Farm Bureau women planned May 1 visiting Oakdale Sanitarium and the Iowa City School for Handicapped Children.
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Manchester
Delaware County Dairy Council
What Cheer
Ted Hamilton
Marengo
Omar Carton, Jr
Earlville
Delaware County
al Hagan
Iowa County Farm Bureau
Oakdale
Iowa City
Iowa meat output soars says Rath Packing chief
Howard H. Rath, chairman of Rath Packing Company, reports Iowa commercial meat production near three billion pounds last year and running about 16 percent ahead this year. He cites 1,718,700,000 pounds pork and 1,053,700,000 pounds beef contributing to a national total near 27 billion pounds.
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Atlanta
INS
Iowa
Howard H. Rath
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
American Meat Institute Board of Directors
Rath
Towa
Grain Supplies Set New Record
The agriculture department reported April 1 stocks of corn wheat and oats at all time highs. Total U.S. grain in storage reached 2.291 billion bushels of corn 1.288 billion of wheat and 674 million of oats including on farms terminals government holdings and other stocks.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Clayton Landscape Meetings Canceled
ELKADER The farm and town homestead planning workshops in Clayton County scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been canceled. County Extension Director Max Sauerbr y announced Tuesday.
Neighbors Plow Acreage Near Langworthy Bertram and Maynard
Monticello neighbors last week plowed 60 acres of corn east of Langworthy on Merle Atwood farm while Atwood lay ill. Maynard neighbors plowed and harrowed 25 acres for Donald Friday who was injured in February by a wood saw fly wheel. Pospisil neighbors finished 26 acres near Bertram for Edward and Mrs. Pospisil after recent surgery.
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Merle Atwood
Langworthy
Atwood
Monticello Hospital
Maynard
Donald Paul Friday
Paul
Frank ‘Lockard
Pospisils
Edward Pospisil
Bertram
Pospisil
157 New Members Initiated Into ISC Ag Honorary
The Iowa State college chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta welcomed 157 new initiates including 5 alumni 10 faculty 72 graduate students and 70 seniors at a Memorial Union banquet and initiation. Speaker was Dr. M R Irwin Wisconsin genetics professor. Alumni include Kirk Fox Des Moines Arthur C Hanson Inwood Porter M Jarvis Chicago Harry D Linn Des Moines George M Strayer Hudson. New faculty members include John C Ayres James H Davis and Karl A Fox.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Gamma Sigma Delta
Honor Society of Agriculture
Memorial Union
M. R. Irwin
Wisconsin
Division of Agriculture
Veterinary Medicine
Division of ‘Science
Kirk Fox
Des Moines
Arthur C. Hanson
Inwood
Porter M. Jarvis
Chicago, Ill
Harry D. Linn
George M. Strayer
Hudson
John C. Ayres
James H. Davis
Woi-Tv
Karl A. Fox
Eastern Iowa graduates and faculty names listed
Sor and head of economics and sociology Emil H Jebe is named with associate professor of statistics Edwin A Kline, assistant professor of animal husbandry Dallas V McGinnis, extension staff Jay J Partridge and Louise M Rosenfeld, and others including Geoffrey S Shepherd and Maynard L Spear. Graduate students from eastern Iowa include Dorothy Engel Donald V Malik Alfred B Evenson Richard L Jones Roger Bruene Gerald J Schraidt Ronald L Goldsmith Lyle R Mackey William C Waters Leonard F Seda.
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Iowa
Dorothy Engel
Donald V
Malik
Cedar Rapids
Alfred B. Evenson
Central City
Richard L. Jones
Columbus Junction
Roger Bruene
Gladbrook
Gerald J. Schraidt
Lisbon
Ronald L. Goldsmith
London
Lyle R Mackey
Olin
William C. Waters
Postville
Leonard F. Seda
Traer
Benton Nominates Two For State 4-H Office
Norma Holst of Belle Plaine and Tom Strawn of van Horne are Benton county's nominees for state girls and boys 4-H offices. Norma is a high school senior and former county vice president. Tom is a junior and current county president. State girls officers are chosen at the Ames 4-H convention June 13–16, while boys' officers are elected at the 4-H short course June 19–21 at Ames.
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Vinton
Norma Holst
Belle Plaine
Tom Strawn
van Horne
Benton County
Norma
Ames
Tom
Shuman criticizes Farm Aid and urges free enterprise
Charles Shuman president of the American Farm Bureau Federation told 250 delegates at a railroad convention in Memphis that government help has nearly destroyed farmers incentive. He urged returning to supply and demand and producing what consumers need while praising Eisenhowers veto of a complex farm bill. He spoke at a joint convention of railway development groups.
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Memphis
Tenn
American Farm Bureau Federation
Charles Shuman
Sullivan, IL
Shuman
Soil Judging Field Day Set Near Alburnett
Four 4 H members in northern Linn county will take part in a soil judging field day Saturday at the Lewis Schantz farm one mile west of Alburnett.
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Linn County
Lewis Schantz
Alburnett
Beekeepers Meet at Ames for 36th Short Course
Iowa State College in Ames hosts the 36th annual short course and midyear Iowa Beekeepers Association meeting May 8 and 9. Key speaker Dr. Leonard Haseman of Missouri will discuss sul fathiazole for foulbrood and future bees research. Other speakers include Walter Johnson, Paddock, Harold Gunderson, and Victor Thompson. Panels on disease control set for May 9 afternoon.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Iowa Beekeepers’ Association
F. B. Paddock
Leonard Haseman
University of Missouri
Haseman
Corn Belt
Walter Johnson
Sioux Honey Coun
Cll
Paddock
Harold Gunderson
Victor Thompson
Linn Club Members To Attend Workshop
Linn county 4 H club leaders and members will attend an extension service camping workshop at the Iowa 4 H camping center near Boone May 1 and 2 Youth Assistant Bill Litwiller has announced Scheduled to make the trip are Mrs C V Hoglan Center Point Mrs Edwin Benish Fairfax Irene Waterhouse Central City Ann Calvin Center Point Kathy Kelly Springville Douglas Secrist Viola Merle Akers Central City Dennis O Connell Cedar Rapids
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Linn County
4-H
Iowa
Litwiller
C. V. Hoglan
Center Point
Edwin Benish
Fairfax
Irene Waterhouse
Central City
Ann Calvin
Kathy Kelly
Springville
Douglas Secrist
Viola
Merle Akers
Dennis O’connell
Cedar Rapids
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