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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1972
Page
13
Revised figures from the agriculture department show farm families rely heavily on off farm income, with higher earnings from town jobs than from land sales. In 1971, most farms earned modest farm sales, while off farm income boosted total earnings across all size classes.
Tom Fitzgerald of Fairfax won the swine carcass class at Linn County Fair and Greg Reierson of Walker won the champion beef carcass. Richard Freeman of Cedar Rapids, Linn county extension director, noted 48 hogs and 64 market steers entered. blue ribbons went to 25 steers and 25 hogs meeting certification requirements.
Iowa State experts favor adding DES to cattle feed as safer than implants while FDA orders an immediate ban and January 1 1973 halt. Senate subcommittee backs immediate DES ban as cancer links fuel urgency. ISU patent has yielded 2 750 000 since 1954.
Frank W. Schaller of Iowa State University Ames has been elected vice president of the Soil Conservation Society of America with term starting January 1 at the 27th annual meeting in Portland Oregon He has served on the SCS council and contributed to the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation He will be joined on the council by Louis M Thompson and Bill Moldenhauer who will begin three year terms and transfer to the USDA North Central Soil Conservation Research Center in Morris Minnesota.
Decorah dairy producer LaVerne Moudry of Calmar tops Winnebago county 305 day dairy record ending in June with 17 030 pounds of milk and 719 pounds of butter fat. Other 700 pound marks appear in the Cletus Meyer herd at Waucoma with 713 and 707 pounds and in the Ronald Ryan herd at Route 3 Decorah.
Bear Creek exhibitor Terry Dale takes grand champion and reserve grand champion market beef, plus top honors in the junior division swine showman contest at the Poweshiek county fair. Other winners include Rick Graff Chester and varios lines of champions across Hereford Angus Shorthorn and dairy breeds. The event also lists top junior beef showman Ken Clayton and several regional participants.
Dubuque area 4 H council plans a one day conference for seventh to ninth graders at the University of Dubuque on September 9. About 320 eligible county 4 H members will receive application cards this week. The event gathers intermediate 4 H members from Clayton Delaware Dubuque and Jackson counties for fellowship and study under the theme I Care Do You. Ten groups provide small discussion sessions. each county quota is 40 members. Applications due August 18. Delegates chosen by county youth committee and 4 H council.
Former racing driver Stirling Moss received a summons on charges of speeding to 70 mph on the way to a Birmingham city council meeting about plans for an auto race.
VINTON The Benton county Tractor Pulling Assn sponsors a tractor pull Friday August 11 at 7 p m in front of the grandstand at Benton fair grounds. Weigh in starts at 2 p m at Terra fertilizer plant in Vinton. Prize money totals 720 dollars plus first place trophies across eight pulling classes including two field tractor classes. The event uses the Iowa association point system as explained by Roger Inman of Vinton.
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