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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1941
Page
15
Cattle exhibitors bathe clip and currie prize animals for the All-Iowa fair parade before judges. By 830 am 238 youths joined the 4-H and vocational agriculture judging, with 12 classes—six dairy and six beef—under scrutiny. Judging aimed to finish shortly after noon as five call lots prepared to enter at 1 pm.
George A Heikens announces three new members to the Iowa FSA advisory committee Norman Norland Kensett Donald R Murphy Des Moines and Donald K Walter Burlington will serve three year terms replacing Paul P Stewart Fred K Hawley and Lester S Gillette. Holdover members include Scott Ellis Ronald Wilson A F Aitcheson Verne Timberlake J J Boatman and R K Bliss.
Delta Warren Winners 4-H girls club held Achievement Day in What Cheer with exhibits advancing to Keokuk county fair. Winners include Rozella Cline best groomed girl and Ruth Utterbach, Rozella Cline to demonstrate “Slip Sense” at the county fair. judges from Sigourney evaluated exhibits.
About 135 people attended the Washington county Bi Monthly Contest association picnic in Washington with a judging tour. Winners included Doyle Brown and Mrs Clarence Brown of Brighton, Richard Geyer of Wellman, plus dairy and cheese making prize teams. A DHIA picnic followed with winners Lester Miller, Mrs Morton Emde, and Roy Eckhardt.
Special to The Gazette What Cheer Keokuk county fair entries in 4-H and open class livestock divisions open Aug 16 and run to Aug 19 with a record turnout. Two hundred calves are entered in the 4-H baby beef show. Aug 18 is children’s day with judging and a 4-H parade. Aug 19 features an open class winners parade and the baby beef auction begins at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
An advertisement touts a home treatment for piles by Dr A Johnson of the Johnson Rectal and Colonic Clinic in Kansas City. It claims 28 years as a rectal specialist and offers free information by writing to the doctor.
DES MOINES Brig. Gen. Hershey, director of selective service, told American Legion delegates that farm labor is a skilled, hard to replace workforce essential to food production. He warned of a growing shortage as workers drift to defense industries and urged careful handling of rural labor for military training.
The operetta Betty Lou was presented in Marengo high school hall by the Iowa county Junior Farm Bureau Friday. Directed by Ellis Lloyd with Kathleen McGivern as stage director. Cast includes Rita McGivern Kathleen McGivern Robert Burns Maureen McGivern Alicia McGivern Jane Blythe Kenneth Dane and others. Additional help came from Joe Davis Ruth Gallentine and was also shown at Millersburg Williamsburg and Victor.
The federal land banks hold less than 100 million dollars in farms for the first time since 1934, with 18 799 farms held at mid year 19 percent below last year. About one quarter of properties for sale were sold in the first half of this year, down from 21 percent in 1940. Foreclosures completed through June 30, 1941, totaled 3,044, a 40 percent drop from the previous year.
Guernsey yearling claims grand championship at Buckhorn picnic calf club show in Maquoketa. Top breed winners include Milking Shorthorn Maxine Hartvigsen and Holstein Donald Siders. Judge Jake Stimson and Senator D D Fuller spoke. a bake sale, tap numbers, and sports events accompanied the day. Creamery tour notes 27 percent more butter produced this year with 250000 pounds annually and a 1935 one day record of 8253 pounds.
The seventeenth annual Dubuque county 4-H club girls Achievement Day is set for Tuesday. Miss Vera Waite will judge exhibits. A symposium of club presidents is on the morning program. Demonstration teams will compete for county honors.
Iowa City hosts the Johnson county Farm Bureau women's chorus on Wednesday August 27 at the Des Moines State fair. The group will make three appearances during the event.
An amateur rural humor piece attributes quips to an adolescent narrator, noting the spontaneity of rustic wit. The text collects rustic quips about head injuries, sizing up, and barbering mishaps, presented with light amusement.
Johnson county 4 H club members prepare exhibits for a four day show in Iowa City starting Thursday evening with a Pan American fiesta at 8 p.m. Friday features colt and pig judging and a dairy calf event with a 1 30 p.m. finish. Saturday closes with a baby beef auction at 1 p.m.
Special to The Gazette Iowa City Johnson county Farm Bureau sponsored oats test plot on Byron D Coglan farm Penn township. Eight varieties weighed per bushel. Control oats led at 36.5 pounds. Other results: Boone 36, Early Bird 36, Fulghum 36, Columbia 35.5, Gopher 34, Iowa 103 31, Vanguard 30.
Dubuque county 4 H livestock club members hold their annual tour Friday starting 10 30 a m at the J J Dougherty farm two and one half miles southwest of Peosia Other stops include the farms of John Till Peter Gotto McMahon Brothers Henry O Connell Vincent Luchsinger Gilbert Beichler and Arnold Pancratz A picnic lunch will be held at Bankston.
More than 225 farm folk toured Marion Stransky and Carl Anderson farms southeast of Wellman. They observed crossbred hogs, feeding costs, alfalfa pasturing and a cooling system with ponds. The event included remarks by Ames extension economist Carl Malone and noted Wellman as a major turkey growing area. Notice of appointment of administrator follows for Mary Mnachek estate in Linn County Iowa.
On account of health and doctor's orders a closing out sale of cattle hogs sheep and other livestock will start Wednesday at 1 o'clock at the farm one half mile west of Springville take the road south of the Exchange Bank and proceed to the second house past the railroad tracks auctioneer W E Challis and clerk O J Emmons Lisbon Iowa
U S D A reports Argentina will destroy all government owned old crop corn stored in cribs by August 31 1941 due to mold and insect damage. Estimates place the loss at about 135 million bushels with a shift to 1940-41 crop considerations. Government plans promote corn as fuel with set prices for ear corn and farm stock.
La Porte City superintendent A. H. Brewer announces the canning plant will begin its season's pack of sweet corn and tomatoes this week. Tomato packing is expected to be smaller than average due to the hot dry weather.
A bull calf was dropped by Benny Carnation Sweet at 12 15 a m Monday the first blessed event of the 1941 All Iowa fair. The Jersey calf is owned by Quincy Adams of Mouls ton. Both mother and child are doing well.
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