All-Iowa Fair Stock Show Sets New Entry Marks
All-Iowa Fair at Hawkeye Downs nears record crowds with dairy cattle hogs and sheep entries surging led by Helsteins 129 head Brown Swiss 112 head and other dairy breeds. Swine categories include Polands Durocs and Berkshires with judges from state and private colleges. Sheep show begins Thursday followed by Linn County club events Friday and Saturday. The article also notes erosion-related soil fertility losses estimated at seven times crop use.
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Andy
Sotardas
Iowa
New Farm
Ayrshires
Holsteins
Mandy Brown
Jayrseys
Tre
Ridgeway
Wn Wobley
Naperville
Rose Pemberton
Peera
Duraecs
Chester
Decorah Fair 4-H Show Set With Record Animal Entries
The Winneshiek county 4-H livestock show begins Thursday at the county fair. 94 dairy heifers 65 baby beef, market pigs and 2 purebred pups entered. Judging starts early Friday morning with parades and a Friday evening grandstand demonstration. Auction follows Saturday afternoon.
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Decorah
Winneshiek
Vernon Sniide
Spilde
Onoxilian
F B Women To Sing on State Fair Programs
Des Moines Iowa farm bureau program shows women chorus groups from 12 counties at the state fair. The schedule lists Marion and Adair as on Aug 28, Black Hawk and Nes Maines on Aug 4, Jones and Wright on Aug 3, Washington and Greene on Sept 1, Palo Alto and Cedar on Sept 2.
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F.B. Women
Farm Bureau
Iowa
Womens and Childrens
Fairgrounds
Marion
Adur
Wall
Black Hawk County
Nes
Maines County
Jones County
Wright County
Washington County
Gaeene County
Palo Alto County
Cedar County
Holstein Herds Classified in Vermont Report
Holstein Friesian Association announced that twenty four Iowa Holstein herds were classified for type this week. Listings from Wood Weeks North Clarendon and others show ratings like very good plus good and rood with several herds recording high scores including 10s and 12s for Decorah and nearby towns.
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Brattleboro
Twentyfour
Iowa
Holstein-Friesian Association
Wood Weeks
North Clarendon
Brannan and Hope to Speak at Farm Field Day
Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan and Representative Clifford Hope will headline the All Iowa Soil Conservation Field Day near Osceola on September 9. Kenneth Whirr ett, general chairman, announced a day featuring a 140 acre erosion rebuilding project on the Ben Cole farm with three dams two ponds gully filling terraces grass waterways and pasture renovation. A free barbecue sponsored by John Morrell and Company Ottumwa will follow with eight thousand pounds of beef ordered. The event includes tree cutting timber management a concrete ford wildlife areas and farmstead improvements as part of yard and grounds remodeling.
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Osceola
INS
Charles Brannan
Clifford Hope
Kansas
House Agricultural Committee
Kenneth Whirrett
Bath
Ben Cole
Osceola and
Clarke County Farm
Federal Farm
John Morrell and Company
Ottumwa
Cole Farm
Contour Plow Contest Deadline Set at Muscatine Field Day
Muscatine county soil conservation field day outlines a contour plowing contest with a $180 prize. Entries are due Thursday, with Monday remarks by Chairman Albert Hetzler. The Vernon Shepard farm near Muscatine hosts the event limited to county farmers or farm workers.
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Muscatine
Muscatine County
Soil Conservation
Albert Hetzler
Vernon Shepard
Hetzler
Onawa's Holmes to Advise World Poultry Congress
Edwin Holmes, president of the Iowa Master Breeders Hatcheries, will depart from New York to serve as an adviser to the World Poultry Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20 to 27. He was appointed by the state department.
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ONAWA
INS
Edwin Holmes
Iowa
New York
World Poultry Congress
Copenhagen
Denmark
Womes
State Department
Fence Drift At Hawkeye Downs Inspires Pranks
Swine exhibitors at the All Iowa Pig Congress warned Bert Miller of Lisbon Duroc Kreester to curb his practical joking after he bragged about a Tamworth sow weighing 1200 pounds and litters of twenty at a past fair. A city newspaper reporter later confronted him, and he faded from view for the rest of the event.
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Bert Miller
Lisbon Duroc Kreester
Bert
Young Farmer Class Starts 700 Mile Trip
Manchester reports fifteen members of the young farmers school and instructor Charles Wilcox left on a 700 mile trip to Missouri. They travel by chartered school bus driven by Carl Gull of Colesburg and plan camp along the way. The group includes Harold McMahon, Ray Wilkemeyer, Royjohn Duffey, Wesley Kennedy, Clifford Swanson, Dick Wendling, Jim Satterlee, Glen Darey, Joe McMahon, Kenneth Mersgier, Robert Houlihan, Gilbert Hoffman, instructor Wilcox, Lewis Peters of Delhi, Ronald Kehrl, and Ervin Zumbach of Ryan. Forty youths aged 16 to 25 attend the school, meeting at the high school monthly in summer and weekly in winter to study modern agricultural methods.
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Manchester
Young Farmers School
Charles Wilcox
Missouri
Carl Gull
Colesurg
Harold McMahon
Ray Wilkemeyer
Royjohn Duffey
Wesley Kennedy
Clifford Swanson
Dick Wendling
Jim Satterlee
Glen Darey
Joe McMahon
Kenneth Mersgier
Robert Houlihan
Gilbert Hoffman
Wilcox
Lewis Peters
Delhi
Ronald
Retail Merchants Host 24 Farm Families for Cedar Rapids Visit
Twenty four farm families, one from each of 24 eastern Iowa counties, visit Cedar Rapids for a 24 hour program with the Retail Merchants bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce. Activities include a Roosevelt hotel registration, lunch, trip to Hawk Eye Downs, All-Iowa fair revue, and a Montrose hotel banquet with gifts and certificates. The day ends with a return trip by special cars after breakfast Wednesday.
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Iowa
Retail Merchants Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Hawkeye Downs
Crandie
Montrose Hotel
Farm Bureau views and political leanings from Ryan area interview
Rex Conn's interview with Lyle E Retz, 47, owner of 240 acres near Ryan, explores farming life in Prairie township, crop yields, and rising dues. Retz supports the Farm Bureau's conservative, constructive program and notes potential $15 dues, while commenting on Beardsley, Blue, Dewey, and Wallace in the 1948 political context.
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Lyle E Retz
Ryan Marned
Delaware County Farm Bureau
Ryan
Lyle
Farm Bureau
Tama DHIA Averages 28.4 Pounds of Fat
Tama DHIA reports July averages: 284 pounds fat and 732 pounds milk per cow. The 21 herds total 296 cows in milk and 51 dry. Top 305 day record by Nelson Rehder Holstein of Gladbrook: 464.8 fat and 12,918 milk. E. J Skala Jersey second with 465 pounds fat and 8,939 milk. three more cows over 400 pounds fat.
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Tama
Dhia
Nelson Rehder
Gladbrook
E. J Skala
Association
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