Iowa State corn yield test shows wide range and high average
Iowa State agronomist Hutchcroft reports the 1955 Iowa Corn Yield Test average was 85.7 bushels per acre with four of twelve districts above 100. The test covered 293 hybrids and indicates weather caused wide variation. best yields were in northern and eastern Iowa.
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Ames
Iowa
Cc. D. Hutchcroft
Iowa State College Agronomist
Hutchcroft
Hatchcroft
Iowa Crop Improvement Association
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa State College
Oats Varieties Dropped From Certified List in Iowa
The Iowa Crop Improvement Association announced that three oats varieties Andrew, Ajax and Clintare have been removed from the list eligible for certification. No new oats varieties were added this year. Isolation requirements for broadcast oats rose from 25 to 28 feet between fields to reduce contamination risk.
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Ames
Andrew
Ajax
Clintare
Iowa Crop Improvement Association
Nocturnal Animal Fair Puzzle List
A compiled word puzzle list with clues and pairings across many definitions. Entries include references to animals, places, foods, metals, and abstract terms, forming an extended crossword style set.
Puzzle solutions clues in a single list
Answers for the word puzzle items align to common crossword style clues. Pay for work results in wages. Spoken equals uttered. Actress Turner is Tina. Flutters equals flaps. Citrus fruits are oranges and tangerines. Pheasant is a bird. Animal fat brood points to lard. Police troops are riot police. Nation is country. Sea duck is eider. Nick is a name. Where the deer and the antelope play refers to Wyoming. Fish eggs are roe. Essential being is essence. Grade is class. Ending of a prayer is amen. Fruit drinks are juices. Powerful explosive is dynamite or T
February closing out sales dot Iowa listings
A dense schedule of closing out sales and public auctions runs Tuesday through Saturday with livestock hay grain machinery grain and farm property as principal items. Buyers include John Story Glen Satterlee Lawrence Frimmel Obie N Riggs Bert Gray Earl Chamberlain Joseph E Kloubec Marvin Knapp Frank Parizek Lacey Hill James R Laing Cassel Berends and others near Stanwood Rowley Watkins Iowa City Marion Cedar Rapids Clarence Anamosa Tipton Waubeek and Hawkeye Downs.
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John Story
Stanwood
Glen Satterlee
Rowley
Lawrence Frimmel
Piiester
Watkins
Bert Gray
Brandon
Earl Chamberlain
Linn County
Obie N. Riggs
Iowa City
Hampshire
Albert W. Martin and Sons
Marion
Vance McCray
Cedar Rapids
King, Taylor, Egge
Vinton
Glenn Veries
North Liberty
Earl Domer
Joseph E. Kloubec
Kcrg-Tv
Highway 150
Marvin Knapp
Waubeck
Frank and
Blanche Parizek
Swisher
the Hill Farm
Coggon
Lacey Hill
Hawkeye Downs
Siemer and
Sinaiko
Cassel and Berends
Manchester
Hawkeye
Lee Romer
Anamosa
C. B. Cope
Springville
James R. Laing, Sr
Tipton
Aubry Smith
Waubeek
Mrs Mockmore To Talk At Delaware Meeting
Mrs Buena Mockmore Iowa State College extension specialist will speak at the Delaware Farm Bureau office at 7 p m Thursday on Our Family Bane or Blessing She recently joined Iowa State College staff and was formerly with Oregon State College
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Manchester
Delaware Farm Bureau
Buena Mockmore
Iowa State College
Mockmore
Oregon State College
Top Sow at Poland Sale Brings $360
Brown and Brown of Hampton exhibited the champion sow at the Iowa Poland China Breeders Association show and sale at Hawkeye Downs. The sow sold for $360 to Howard Riley of Charlotte Michigan. The reserve champion sow sold for $210 to Oscar W. Larson and Sons of Webster City. The event was managed by Fred W. Morgan with H. M. Duncan as auctioneer and Nick Albert assisting.
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Iowa
Poland
Hawkeye Downs
Brown and Brown
Hampton
Howard Riley
Charlotte, Mich
China Breeders Association
Charlotte
Mich
Darrell Meyer
Paullina
Oscar W. Larson
LeClaire
Penningroth Brothers
Wellman
Morgan and
Morgan
Harlan
Fred W. Morgan
Des Moines
H. M. Duncan
Columbus Junction
Nick Albert
Brandon
Gauger Named to New ISC Extension Post
AMES Carlyle J Gauger is named county extension director at large for Iowa State College Extension Service after approval by the State Board of Regents. He has served as Story county extension director based in Nevada since 1951 and will headquarter in Ames while continuing to reside in Nevada.
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Ames
Carlyle J. Gauger
Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa State College
State Board of Regents
Gauger
Story County
Nevada
Holstein High School
Mediapolis
Sigourney
Army Corps of Engineers
Charles City
Extension Service
Floyd County
More Speakers Announced for Farm Institute
DES MOINES AP A labor leader and two federal agriculture specialists join previously announced figures on the panel for the National Farm Institute to be held Feb 17 18 in Des Moines. Andrew J Biemiller Sherman Johnson and Gwynn Garnett are named along with Ezra Taft Benson and leaders of major farm groups.
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DES Moines
National Farm Institute
Andrew J. Biemiller
National Legislative Committee
American Federation of Labor
Sherman Johnson
Gwynn Garnett
Foreign Agricultural Service
Agriculture Department
Ezra Taft Benson
National Association of Manufacturers
Farm Bureau
Farmers Union
Grange
Earlville Creamery Reports Butter Production Rise
Earlville The Earlville Farmers Cooperative creamery produced 666277 pounds of butter last year up slightly from the prior year. Patrons received an average 68.4 cents per pound of butterfat. Receipts reached 38545283 dollars. Manager Omer J Carton and assistant Raymond Millers led operations. Laverne Knipper Reynold Maliers were elected to the board with Frank Hunt as president and other directors named.
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Earlville
Butz Attacks Rigid Farm Price Supports Policy
Assistant Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz pressed against rigid price supports at a Raleigh speech. He tied past policy to farm ills, noting 90 percent parity proposals for wheat corn cotton and peanuts. He warned the system caused surpluses, harmed exports, and tied farmers to stringent controls as political short-term gain.
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Washington
INS
Earl L. Butz
Farm Credit Conference
Raleigh
N.C
Senate Agriculture Committee
Butz
Hanson to Head A H Staff at Minnesota
Prof Lester E Hanson of the University of Minnesota animal husbandry department will head the department effective July 1. He succeeds Prof E F Ferrin who retires June 30 after 35 years of service at the university. Hanson, a Minnesota native, graduated from the university in 1936 and earned masters and PhD at Cornell. He spent 10 years on the Nebraska animal husbandry staff before returning to Minnesota in 1950.
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ST. Paul
Lester E. Hanson
University of Minnesota
E. F. Ferrin
Hanson
Cornell University
University of Nebraska
Minnesota
Government Butter Purchases More Than Double January Totals
Washington reports the agriculture department bought 16,568,908 pounds of butter in January, more than twice the amount purchased in January last year under price support programs. The increase signals higher government buys in the month.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Junior Judging Contest Set for Swine Show at Hawkeye Downs
The eleventh annual Iowa State Spring Market Hog show includes a 9 am Saturday March 3 judging contest for 4-H and FFA members at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids Kiwanis awards tro phies medals to top individuals and teams. Contestants should arrive by 8:30 am for registration.
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Iowa State
FFA
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids Kiwanis Club
Tom Wickersham
Iowa State College
Mark Hendren
Des Moines
Farm Briefs Highlight County Agriculture Meetings
Waukon hosts bee and dairy meetings at the extension office and courthouse assembly room with speakers from Iowa State College including Robert Fincham and Dick McWilliams. A beef meeting and a pork promotion event draw regional producers, with other notes on livestock yards lease, a farmers organization gathering, and a Fayette soil conservation district meeting set for February and February 29.
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Waukon
Jrven Horton
Allamakee
County Extension l
Brooklyn
Poweshiek
Sigourney
Parkhill
Glenn Parkhill
John Morrell and Company
Ottumwa
Boyd Besco
Morrell
National Farmers Organization
Hall of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic
Clear Creek
Plan Second Tractor School in Fayette County
WEST UNION The second tractor maintenance school for Fayette county 4H boys will begin next week under Harold Boylston county extension youth assistant. They will learn spark plug removal cleaning setting wiring fuel and air system checks radiator hoses belts water pumps and radiator care with local club meetings in March and April showing record books summaries and demonstrations.
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West Union
Fayette County
Harold Boylston
County Extension
Kuhn Named Winneshiek Outstanding Young Farmer 1956
Donald H. Kuhn 30 earns Decorah Jaycees 1956 honor and will vie for state Junior Chamber of Commerce honors February 26 in Oelwein. He and wife Ruth raise four children on a 160 acre farm begun in 1948 with 80 additional rented acres. Kuhn serves on extension council Farm Bureau board school director ASC committeeman and is a Navy World War II veteran.
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Decorah
Donald H. Kuhn
Winneshiek County
Kuhn
Winneshiek County Extension Council
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
ASC
St. Agnes Catholic Church
4-H cattle feeders enrollment deadline set for March 15
County Youth Assistant Bob Higgins warned on Monday that March 15 is the deadline to enroll in the 4-H cattle feeders project in Marengo.
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Marengo
Bob Higgins
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