Test Shows Wide Variation In Performance Of Hybrids
The 1961 Iowa corn yield tests of 351 hybrids across 12 districts show wide variation in performance. Two new phases maturity data and plant population reveal differences. northern hybrids run later, with 14 days between earliest and latest silking.
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MES
Iowa
Charles Hutchcroft
Iowa Crop Improvement Association
Ames
Iowa Crop Improvement Day
Kanawha
Ankeny
Hatchcroft
Albion farmer wins 1961 Iowa Master Soybean Grower title
Morris H. Wooten of Albion was named the 1961 Iowa Master Soybean Grower at Iowa State University in Ames after a 53.44 bushel per acre yield on a two acre sample plot. Second was Urban Romte of Pomeroy and third Fred Hutchcroft of Indianola. The Marshall County Farm Bureau received $100 for most completed entries and William C. Klein earned a $200 scholarship from the Iowa Crop Improvement Association.
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Ames
Morris H. Wooten
Albion
Iowa
Iowa State University
Herbert F. Vogel
Keystone
Vogel
Wooten
Urban Romte
Pomeroy
Klein
Iowa State
Farm Auction Series Dates and Locations Listing
A long list of farm sale notices outlines auction dates from Tuesday February 13 through Wednesday February 28, naming bidders like Phil Himebaugh C J Van Norden Byron Dorcas Est and Stanley Rose and many locations such as Monticello Chelsea Ryan Troy Mills Maquoketa Williamsburg and Cedar Rapids. Items include livestock machinery grain hay straw and poultry with closing out and public auction times often in the midmorning to early afternoon.
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Phil Himebaugh
Monticello
C. J. van Norden
Chelsea
Hous
Byron Dorcas
Stanley Rose
Tipton
McComb
Grove
Ryan
Leslie Dudley
Troy Mills
Richard Petersen
Mt. Auburn
Leon Smith
Cecil Crowbaugh
Ma- Tengo
Melvin Fritz
Cedar Rapids
Old
Floyd Sander
Central City
Howard van Alst
Rowley School House
Lawrence Siedels
Branwood
Carl Anderson
Shellsburg
Tony Babak
Prairieburn
A. W. Schafbach
Williamsburg
John Mathis
Coggon
Ross Landa
Grein
Meryles F. Porter
Lafayette
Conrad
Louis Wall
Fred Fisher
Dwane Casper
Max Grahan
Alburnett
Loren Maas
Homestead
Albert Sleeman
van Horne
Cow Conference at Iowa State March 3
Results of experiments with high grain and haulage rations for dairy cattle will be reported at the eleventh annual Iowa Cow Conference at Iowa State March 3. C. E. Meadows of Michigan State will report on grain rich milk cow rations and H. J. Larsen of the University of Wisconsin will discuss forage feeding tests.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State
C. E. Meadows
Michigan State
H. J. Larsen
University of Wisconsin
Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery Posts 2.7 Million Sales
Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery Assn reports 1961 gross business over 2.7 million at its thirty-eighth annual meeting. Plant produced 5,144,685 pounds of cheese from 51,380,427 pounds of milk, while butter output reached 534,782 pounds and milk buyers received 3 336 per cwt on average. New boiler and two whey dryers installed, 17 trucks haul milk and cream, board seats for Beitz Smith Beckman elected for three years.
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Hopkinton
Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery Assn
Roman Welter
William Beitz
Clarence Smith
Mark Beckman
Clark Dighton
George Goldsmith
Justin Supple
John Gaul
Victor Wilson
Alfred Melchert
Lyle Lattner
Nick Lahr
Leon White
Handle Fumigant with Care Stockdale Warns
Harold Stockdale, extension entomologist at Iowa State University, warned that AMES ALL fumigants are more toxic to humans than the insects they target. He spoke at a ISU grain fumigants safety course with about 600 grain elevator operators. He urged reading and following label directions, noting they are useless unless read.
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Ames
Harold Stockdale
Iowa State University
Stockdale
Livestock Nutrition Short Course Slated
Manchester Delaware county extension service to sponsor a three day course on livestock nutrition beginning February 27 at the American Legion hall with sessions March 6 and 13 from 9 30 a m to 3 p m Registrations due at the Manchester extension office by February 21.
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Manchester
Delaware County Extension Service
American Legion Hall
Bank for Cooperatives Passes 2 Billion Mark
The Omaha Bank for Cooperatives loaned its half billionth dollar in January. A loan to the Feed Mill Cooperative at Gibbon Nebraska pushed the bank over the $500 million milestone.
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Omaha
Omaha Bank For Cooperatives
John E. Eidam
Gibbon
Neb
Farmer Share Of Consumer Dollar Down
The Agriculture Department reports marketing charges rose about two percent in 1961 and may rise another one to two percent in 1962. This reduced the farmer’s slice of the food dollar to 38 cents in 1961 from 39 in 1960, with higher unit costs and wages, while retail farm food prices edged up less than one percent.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
FFA Members Eligible For Arc Welding Award
Cleveland report announces the 1962 15000 Arc Welding Award program by the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. A total of 265 cash awards will be given for outstanding reports describing welded projects completed under school supervision during the 1961 62 academic year.
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Cleveland
Vong
James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation
Iowa's Top Lamb Producers To Be Honored in Fall
Des Moines Iowa set to honor ten top market lamb producers next fall in a program announced by John Shivvers president of the Iowa State Sheep Association. Eligible are lamb producers with 35 or more ewes lambing this spring. Closing date for entries is March 15. Nominations may come from neighbors county extension directors and VOAG instructors. Awards based on a composite score including lambing percentage marketed market grade weight sale price per lamb pounds of lamb per ewe fleece weight and income per ewe. Ten winners to be recognized at an awards dinner next fall. Co sponsors include Iowa State University extension service state department of agriculture and packing firms slaughtering lambs in Iowa.
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Des Moines
Iowa
John Shivvers
Knoxville
Iowa State Sheep Assa
Shivvers
Voag
Sheep Association
Iowa State University Extension Service
State Department of Agriculture and Packing
Sheep Shearing Schools Open in Waterloo and Beaconsfield
More than 40 men attend courses this week as Extension Livestock Specialist Tom Wickersham notes. Waterloo group meets at Rath's Hilltop yards Monday to Wednesday, with a second cohort scheduled for Wednesday afternoon to Thursday night. Beaconsfield session runs Friday and Saturday at the Iowa State livestock experiment farm, Ringgold county, with seven returning enrollees from the 1961 class to boost speed. last year they sheared 6,870 sheep.
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Ames
Waterloo
Beaconsfield
Tom Wickersham
Rath
Iowa State Livestock Experiment Farm
Ringgold
Wickersham
Government price-fixing hearing set for lamb market
A March 6 hearing in Craig Colorado will examine charges by the Agriculture Department that seven meat packers Swift and Co Armour and Co James Allan and Sons Goldring Packing Co John Morrell and Co Wilson and Co Rath Packing Co and three chains American Stores Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co and Safeway Stores manipulated lamb prices under the Packers and Stockyards Act. The firms deny the charges and the hearing may extend over several months with sessions possibly in other locations.
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Washington
Craig
Colo
Agriculture Department
Packers and Stockyards Act
Swift and Co
Armour and Co
James Allan and Sons
San Francisco
Goldring Packing Co
Los Angeles
John Morrell and Co
Jensen to Provide Free Forestry Advice in Cedar County
William L. Jensen district forester for the State conservation commission will be at Cedar county extension office Tuesday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. to advise farmers on tree planting and forestry problems. Eastern Iowa farmers can obtain Jensen’s services free by writing Box 207 Anamosa.
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Tipton
William L. Jensen
State Conservation Commission
Cedar County
Iowa
Jensen
Anamosa
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LaPorte City
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