All Iowa fair livestock show at Hawkeye Downs draws crowds and judges
City visitors learn the 1949 All Iowa fair features cattle hogs sheep and horses judged by strict standards. Breeders train for top rings, aiming for beef milk efficiency and prize money, with Holsteins Jerseys Guernseys Shorthorns and Angus Herefords among the breeds celebrated at Hawkeye Downs.
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All-Iowa Pig Congress
Hawkeye Downs
Europe
Low Countries
Julius Caesar
Jerseys
Guernseys
Channel Isles
All Kids Will Be Guests Tomorrow At All-Iowa Fair
Youngsters will swarm Hawkeye Downs as the All-Iowa fair hosts Kids Day. The second annual free morning show begins at 9 30 with 25 cent adult admission. A championship bicycle derby debuts with 75 to 100 Gazette carrier boys racing one lap for a $2 500 scholarship, Schwinn bicycle, and a Columbus trip. Preliminary heats Monday and finals Wednesday at 2 p.m.
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Hawkeye Downs
Gazette Carrier
Columbus
Ohio
Transport Improvements At Hawkeye Downs This Year
City Lines adds regular buses from downtown terminal to Hawkeye Downs with peak hour additions. Bus fare set at 10 cents while Crandie maintains hourly Cedar Rapids to Iowa City service with Downs stops. A taxi stand opens on the south side of Exhibition hall.
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Hawkeye Downs
City Lines
Fairground
L. A. Worley
Crandie
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
the Downs
Exhibition Hall
FAO Chief Urges Skills Over Wealth for Global Food
New York AP Norris E Dodd head of the FAO reports world farms need practical agricultural methods over money or machines. He cites surveys from China to Poland showing hand tools, simple irrigation, crop rotation, and vaccines boost yields more than three decades of underuse of land and old routines. He notes FAO aims to raise world food without vast spending and calls for pumps, fertilizer, and better animal health to lift harvests.
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EW York
Norris E. Dodd
United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
FAO
Amucisiane
Anlaraamant
Dodd
China
Poland
Egypt
Oregon
Washington
The
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
FAO Aids Global Farming and Disease Fight Efforts
The FAO distributed seeds and planting material to Austria China Czechoslovakia Hungary Italy Poland and Yugoslavia for trial plantings while aiding vaccine production and training vaccinators. It sent plant material to multiple countries and sought frost resistant apricots and high starch sweet potatoes. Dodd cites losses from insects and rodents and notes FAO conferences on prevention. it also partners with UNICEF to pasteurize milk after supplying equipment.
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Poland
FAO
Austria
China
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Italy
Yugoslavia
United States Department of Agriculture
USDA
Dodd
South America
Europe
Moon sells 120 acre Winneshiek farm to Pearson couple
Mrs Helen Moon has sold her 120 acre farm in Winneshiek county to Mr and Mrs Roger Pearson. Possession will be given March 1.
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Postville
Helen Moon
Winneshiek County
Roger Pearson
All-Iowa fair grows into permanent state exposition
The All-Iowa fair at Hawkeye Downs expands to seven livestock departments with tandem shows. Dairy cattle, pigs, beef and sheep move through two judging tents as horses and Palomino events fill the schedule. The exposition also features grain, horticulture, machinery, and commercial displays, highlighting eastern Iowa agriculture.
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Hawkeye Downs
All-Iowa Pig Congress
Wilson and Company
Iowa
Bargain Night Admission At All Iowa Fair Week
All week at the All Iowa fair features reduced after six PM pricing. Regular gate price is 50 cents. after 6 PM adults pay 25 cents. Children under 12 admitted free. Main stand costs 1 dollar day or night. Bleachers 50 cents, box seats 1.50, and advance ducats available at the grounds ticket office.
Rex Conn's Farm Roundup at Noon on KCRG
Rex Conn hosts Farm Roundup delivering market and weather notes with farming tips. The program airs at 12 15 pm on KCRG and showcases agricultural insights for listeners.
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Rex Conn
KCRG
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First Street
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Alltowa Fair
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R. K. Dock Hunter
Speed
Adelaide Kerr
FDA
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India
Near East
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Nanking
Newcastle
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First ST
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U.N. International Children’s Emergency Fund
Winneshiek Farm
AIR FI Cme
Spinet Pianos
Wontrizen
Solovox
Magic Keyboard
CONN
Magnavox
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