Food Handling Costs Reach All Time High in June
The Agriculture Department reports June marked an all time high for food handling costs from farm to table while farmers received about 48 cents per dollar of household spending, unchanged from May. Rising rail freight costs drove the marketing price increase as bread prices hit a new peak despite wheat prices falling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
INS
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Italian Farmer Studies Breeding In Cedar Rapids
Italian farmer Benedetto Delia Chiesa tours Iowa visiting the Eastern Iowa Artificial Breeding Association laboratory in Cedar Rapids and meets staff led by Joe Hineman. He farms near Rome with 110 Brown Swiss and Holstein cows, emphasizing dairy interest and general agriculture while noting Italy’s labor practices and limited machinery use.
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Benedetto Della Chiesa
Eastern Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Benedetto Delia Chiesa
Italy
Iowa
Artificial Breeding Association
Benny
United States
Bert Behrens
Vernon Shepard
Muscatine
Farm Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa State College
Benedetto
Rome
Italian Seeks Agricultural Education Path in Iowa Mission
Benedetto, a Perugia graduate, aims to learn about youth organizations in Iowa and the U S. He says Italian youth farmers lack time to study agriculture and proposes a program where work and school run together. Since July 5 he has toured farms in Muscatine, studying soil conservation and farm management. he plans to Burlington next.
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Benedetto
Italian College of Agriculture
Perugie
Iowa
United States
Italy
Muscatine
Turkey
Burlington
Index of Prices Paid Farmers Is Up Four Points
DES MOINES Iowa farmers price index rose four points to 310 percent of the base period for the month ending July 15 driven by higher hog prices. Meat animals and dairy indices also gained with eggs lifting the poultry and egg index sharply. the all crop index edged down to 277 percent.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Lincoln's Father and Biblical Names Puzzle
A word puzzle style list includes clues for Lincoln's father Cain Abel David Tad and more. Entries cover names ages terms directions and common vocabulary across biblical figures and everyday words.
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President Lincoln
Cain and Abel
Man
Tad Lincoln
David
Eastern Iowa Fairs Schedule Across Various Counties
The list outlines upcoming county fairs in eastern Iowa with dates in August including Allamakee Waukon Aug 11 14 Big Four Postville Aug 25 28 and Cedar Tipton Aug 5 8 plus multiple counties such as Clinton DeWitt Delaware Manchester Linn Central City All Iowa Cedar Rapids and Scott Davenport Aug 12 17 among others. It also notes the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines Aug 23 Sept 1 and the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo Sept 26 Oct 6.
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Allamakee
Waukon
Big Four
Postville
Benton
Vinton
Jackson
Maquoketa
Johnson
Iowa City
Jones
Monticello
Keokuk
What Cheer
Linn
Central City
All- Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Louisa
Columbus Junction
Muscatine
West Liberty
Whats What Out on the Acres
Fay Dibble, 33, operator of 160 acres north of Independence, discusses farming on salary, Shorthorn cows, feedout calves, pigs, a Barred Rock hatchery flock, and high living costs. He cites GOP leanings, concerns about national debt, and young farmers needing backing as factory wages lure workers away.
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Fay Dibble
Independence
J. B. Elliott
Robert
Earl
Janice
Baby Pigs Sent from Ames to California
Two six day old pigs shipped from Ames to Hollywood as a gift from a Des Moines newsman to Cecil B. DeMille for his grandchildren. DeMille, visiting Ames for the 1952 Weisha celebration, said the children had never seen a pig and requested pigs for them.
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Ames
Hollywood
Des Moines
Cecil B. DeMille
DeMille
Sears and Skoog Win Purples at Ayrshire Show
Six exhibitors brought 30 Ayrshires to the central district show at the Grinnell 4-H fairground. Richard Sears and Son of Grinnell displayed the junior, senior and grand champion females, while Leland Skoog of Elberon won the senior and grand champion bull. The central district herd will compete at the All-Iowa fair in Cedar Rapids Aug 10 17. Ayrshire judge Burns Byram and official John Chambers assisted. Williams of Hutchinson Kansas to judge Aug 11.
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Grinnell
Burns Byram
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Ayrshire
John Chambers
Owatonna
Minn
Richard Sears
Leland Skoog
Elberon
Lawrence VanderWerff
Reasner
G. Fred Williams
Hutchinson
Kan
Schneckloth To Judge Linn Draft Horse Show
CENTRAL CITY Don Schneckloth a Davenport horse breeder will judge the Linn County fair draft horse show Sunday Superintendent Lester Hindman announced. Russ Davenport Anamosa will be master of ceremonies and Robert Leu president of the Iowa Horse and Mule Breeders Association will assist in planning the event. Horse entries will be made in grade draft four horses abreast and hitched team classes with premiums paid for four places in seventeen divisions.
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Central City
Don Schneckloth
Davenport
Lester Hindman
Russ Davenport
Anamosa
Robert Leu
Iowa ‘Horse and Mule Breeders Association
Jungling Holsteins Top Waterloo Show
William Jungling of Parkersburg led the district 4 Holstein show at Waterloo with four class winners and two grand champions a bull calf and a two year old cow. Other champions included Hansen Cedar Falls senior champion bull y Rehder Gladbrook junior champion female and Corvald Anderson Cedar Falls with three first places. A total of 28 exhibitors entered 72 animals and Clinton Sage Waterloo won the judging contest connected to the event.
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Waterloo
INS
William Jungling
Parkersburg
Jungling
Hansen
Cedar Falls
Donald Rehder
Gladbrook
Corvald Anderson
Clinton Sage
Corn Under One Support Program Totals 26 Million Bushels
Washington reports farmers placed 26,262,776 bushels of last year's corn crop under the one support program through June 30. This is less than half the final total for 1950 of 53,950,000 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Pastleth Denture Powder Improves Hold and Fresh Breath
Pastleth is an improved powder sprinkled on upper or lower plates to keep false teeth firmly in place. It is described as a non acid alkaline FASTEETH that does not sour and helps control denture odor.
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Fred Tunks
Rotary
Rotary International
Joe Hineman
Breeding Association
Hineman
America
Hornblower
United States Territory
Ireland
Georgia City
Enos
Father
Aju
Rex Conn
al Ward
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Beardsley
California
Sears and
Skoog
Schneckloth
Seersucker
Lastex
Jungling Holsteins
M. Feder & Sons
Iron and Steel Scrap
F Avenue
Dial
Lee
LEE Painters
Carpenter
King Role Brand
Goodyear Welt
Bale
Gov’t
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