Thousand 4 H Boys To Meet At Iowa State
Thousand 4 H boys and leaders gather at Iowa State College for a three day short course. The event marks a wartime lapse and features talks by Dean H H Kildee and Director R K Bliss plus a Navy chaplain. Political and athletic demonstrations close opening day.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Iowa County
H. H. Kildee
Agricultural Division
R. K. Bliss
Agricultural Extension Service
Comdr
Robert Schwyart
Navy Chaplain Corps
Great Lakes
Ill
P C. Taff
Extension Service
Louis Menze
Newton Junior Chamber of Commerce
Hugo Otopalik
Iowa State
Robert D. Blue
Charles E. Finley
L. W. Plager
Iowa 4-H Club
Iowa Rural Young People’s Assembly
Catherine Illian
Walcott
Charles Laverty
Indianola
Rural Young People’s Assembly
H. J. Montgomery
Nevada
Iowa County Extension Director’s Association
Allan B. Kline
Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Linn Reports Surge in Fertilizer Use in 1945 First Half
DES MOINES Iowa farmers used 82444 tons of commercial fertilizer in the first six months of 1945 according to State Secretary of Agriculture Harry Linn. This exceeds the total 1944 usage of 14846 tons.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Secretary of Agriculture
Harry Linn
Coming Farm Auctions in Central Iowa
A list of public and closing out farm sales across Central Iowa with dates from December 27 to January 10. Listings include sellers such as M. K. Keseberg Hugh Soden A. E. Miller and Glen Miller and locations like Stanwood Cog gon Marion Cedar Rapids North Liberty Linn County home and Lisbon.
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M. K. Keseberg
Stanwood
Ted Reinke
Hugh Soden
L. O Koster
Marion
F. Brown
Glass
Cedar Rapids
G. F. Siemer
North Liberty
A. E
Glen Miller
Linn County
Jesse Travis
Glen D. McCall
Keystone
Iowa
Hereford Breeders Assn
Davenport
Theo Kahler
Emil F. Paulsen
Graham and Fowler
L. D. Starry
Schott and Carpenter
Lisbon
W. H. Goodrow
Yeggy Farmhouse Destroyed by Fire at Riverside
A 14 room modern house on the George Yeggy farm northwest of Riverside was destroyed Sunday afternoon by a blaze started by an overheated chimney. Fire departments from Riverside Kalona and a Washington fire truck fought the flames as family members including Sgt Verne Yeggy and Amelia Yeggy lost personal belongings. Insurance partly covered the loss. The Yeggy family had lived on the farm over 50 years and the property dates back to John B Yeggy, an early Riverside settler.
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the Gazette
Riverside
George Yeggy
Here
Verne Yeggy
Amelia Yeggy
Buffalo
Wyo
Kalona
Washington
Mr. Yeggy
John B. Yeggy
James Robertson sale reports last week prices
Ewes brought 5 18 per head, Duroc sows sold 50 to 55 dollars each, milk cows from 98 to 115 dollars. Corn 1.09, oats 0.70, baled straw 0.70 per bale. Sale took place southeast of here at James Robertson.
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Columbus Junction
James Robertson
Muralist Horizontal 1 7 Pictured Artist
Puzzle lists clues for a cross number style muralist themed grid. Across and down entries include dates places and objects such as Latin terms and rivers with a mix of ages and cultures implied.
Goode Still Holds Out on Butterfat Tax
Des Moines UP The L E Goode Products company is the only dairy firm that did not pay this year's butterfat tax Frank Barker Iowa Dairy commission manager said usually 45 to 50 firms fail to pay and are turned over to the state attorney general Goode's delinquency has not yet been reported to the attorney general's office The tax is one cent per pound on butterfat and applies only during the first 15 days of June This year receipts totaled 10559998 with 2132 creameries milk distributors and cream stations paying the tax The Goode company contends the tax is unconstitutional and never pays it
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Des Moines
L. E. Goode Products Company
Frank Barker
Iowa Dairy Commission
Goode Company
Corn borers threaten Illinois crops says entomologist
Illinois faces a serious borer outbreak, especially in the northern third. Entomologist George C. Decker warns crop losses depend on weather and urges farmers to adopt clean plowing to destroy borers overwintering in stalks. Single farms cannot stop spread. collective action with rolling coulters and jointers is needed.
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Urbana
Illinois
George C. Decker
Agricultural Experiment Station and Natural History Survey
Decker
Closing out sale and farm move announced in Iowa region
R. H. Bowman of Mount Vernon holds a closing out sale January 15 while Stanley Johnson of Palo moves January 1 to a farm near Iowa City. Peoples Savings Bank offers 34 percent Farm Loans on high grade land in Linn and neighboring counties. For calves under 100 pounds vitamin A needs in winter, green grass is best but if unavailable hay or whole milk helps. cod liver oil supplements are recommended at about one tablespoon per animal daily.
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R. H. Bowman
Mount Vernon
Stanley Johnson
Palo
Iowa City
The
Peoples Savings Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Dwight Espe
Iowa State College
Brief Income Tax Facts for Farmers
Facts prepared by internal revenue specialists explain depreciation as the annual allowance for wear and tear of farm property. Depreciation is determined by allocating cost over estimated remaining life and deducted from gross income each year. If depreciation was not taken, the unclaimed amount is lost when selling, as property value declines regardless of deduction.
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Internal Revenue Office
Martelle Elevator Elects Directors at Annual Meeting
G M Goudy Harry Holcomb and W B Meeks were elected to 3 year terms on the board. Manager Henry Lovig reported gross sales of 520364.03 and net savings of 22090.45 for Jan 1 to Sept 30. Soybeans processed totaled 188751 bushels. Fiscal year changed from calendar year to Oct 1 to Sept 30.
McGregor Swine Producer Honored in Iowa
Gilbert N Meyer of McGregor named an Iowa Master Swine Producer for marketing 83 pigs from 10 sows. The group averaged 229 pounds at 184 days old, reflecting productive breeding and grower performance.
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McGregor
Gilbert N. Meyer
Iowa
BAE Relieved of Two Duties Effective December
Washington reports the Bureau of Agricultural Economics will shed two functions by December 31. Program planning moves to the secretary of agriculture and public discussion and study work to the extension service. BAE will retain agricultural statistics and economic research. A department-wide committee will oversee the change with the secretary, and an associate chief plus four assistant chiefs will be named to handle statistical research crop reports production income and distribution studies and farm population and rural life studies.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
BAE
Black Hawk County Forms Artificial Dairy Breeding Co op
Black Hawk county Farm Bureau names Roy Miller Leonard Brown George Petersen and Oscar Hoppe to direct a cooperative artificial dairy breeding association in Black Hawk county. The temporary board aligns with the Eastern Iowa Artificial Dairy Breeding association of Cedar Rapids led by manager Dr J W Pirie.
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Waterloo
Roy Miller
Leonard Brown
George Petersen
Cedar Falls
Oscar Hoppe
LaPorte City
Black Hawk
Subsidy End Shapes 1946 Meat Outlook Says ISU Economist
Iowa State College economist Francis Kutish says the 1946 livestock market hinges on ending subsidies by mid year. He notes major subsidies end by June 30 with hog and cattle supports fading. meat prices may not rise enough to offset costs, predicting lower meat animal prices in late 1946.
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Ames
Francis Kutish
Iowa State College
Kutish
Anderson
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Chicago Union Stockyards Completes Eightieth Year
The Chicago Union Stockyards marked its 80th anniversary and Christmas. Opened Dec. 25, 1865, it remains the world’s largest cash livestock market in Chicago with about one million animals valued at 24 million dollars processed monthly. Since opening, about 950 million animals have sold for around 24 billion dollars.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Union Stockyards
Closing Out Sale At Roach Farm Auction
Moving away prompts public auction at the Bill Roach place near McLeod Springs on Friday December 28 at 1:00. items include a Farmall tractor and cultivator, McD planter and mower, Deering equipment, a Model A Ford, gas drums, tools, household goods, and about 25 acres of corn to be sold in lots. To be conducted by First Trust and Savings Bank with P C Lassen as clerk.
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Publi
Curtis
North Liberty
Guernsey
Timothy
John Deere Discs
White Rock
G. F. Siemer
George EF. Parlzek
Onford
Bill Roach
McLeod Springs
Center Point
Deering
FORD
Wv. F. Brown
Publication of USDA Yearbook To Be Resumed
The USDA announces the Yearbook of Agriculture will resume after war years with a 1943 47 edition titled Science and the Farmer. It will feature agricultural science achievements from wartime and cover Feeding breeding and related topics as part of the continuing series.
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Washington
Yearbook of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
New Farm Knowledge From Soil to Crop Varieties
The article outlines advances in agriculture including soils, fertilizers, and microbes, along with insects and insecticides, fungicides, new farm machinery, processing methods, plant culture and growth regulators, crop varieties, irrigation, hydraulics, and home management practices.
Calmar Man Markets Steers at Ceiling in Chicago Sale
Joseph Shindelar of Calmar sold 21 head of 1 157 pound Hereford steers in Chicago at an $18 ceiling. Each steer traded for the set price with a 50 cent per hundred subsidy collected through the Triple-A office.
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Calmar
Joseph Shindelar
Chicago
Shindelar
Triple-A
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