Mahaska County farmers win master corn growers contest
Mahaska County farmers swept the Iowa Master Corn Growers contest with top finishes led by Carroll Brown of Rose Hill who posted a state leading 2242 bushels per acre. Runner up was Wirt Brown of Rose Hill at 1964, with several other Mahaska producers posting strong yields.
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Mahaska County
Iowa
Corn King
Ames
Carroll Brown
Rose Hill
Brown
Joe L. Robinson
Iowa State College Agronomist
Wirt Brown
Marion Harner
New Sharon
Andy Lamis
Gary Heyveld
Leighton
Forrest Adams
Kirkman
Foster Brothers
Earlham
Orville Aves
Melbourne
Dale Sorenson
Harlan
Perry Mayne
John Saunders and Son
Manilla
Wendell Lytle
Playground Training Sessions Set in Manchester
J Nevin Nichols Cedar Rapids playground superintendent will lead recreation training in Manchester February 23 and March 2 evenings at the high school gymnasium. Farm Bureau youth and church group representatives are invited.
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Manchester
J. Nevin Nichols
Cedar Rapids
Farm Bureau
Closing out farm sales listed in Gazette ad
A Gazette advertisement enumerates multiple farm sales and public auctions across Iowa, detailing dates from Feb 17 to Feb 26. Entries name sellers Witwer Haak, Leo Sternhagen, Bion Hunter, Paul Swindle, Wilbur Colby, John Kelley, Albert Stuart, Lester Walker, John Jones, Nellie White, E D Armstrong, Anna Drahos estate, and Fay French with locations near Marion, Hopkinton, Iowa City, Ryan, Mechanicsville, Ox ford, New hall, Hiawatha, Conroy, Fairfax, Central City, Martelle, and Fairfield.
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Witwer and Haak
Marion
Leo Sternhagen
Hopkinton
Bion Hunter
Iowa City
Paul Swindle
Ryan
Wilbur Colby
Mechanicsville
Johnson County
John Kelley
Oxford
Chester White
Albert Stuart
Newhall
Lester Walker
Springville
John K. Jones
Hiawatha
Nellie White
Conroy
E. D. Armstrong
Martelle
Anna Drahos
Fairfax
Fay French
Central City
Tieden Named To Head Elkader Cooperative
Elkader Ray Tieden was named president of the Elkader Cooperative Company at the annual meeting attended by over 500 patrons. Officers include Rudy Possehl vice president and Joel Clark secretary with directors Adolph Elvers Ed Finley H F Witte and Vernon Diers and Everett Neal as manager. Neal reported a 1948 gross of 1 168 508 and directors approved a 24 percent patron dividend totaling 12 000 distributed at the meeting.
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Elkader
Ray Tieden
Elkader Cooperative Company
Rudy Possehl
Joel Clark
Adolph Elvers
Ed Finley
H F Witte
Vernon Diers
Everet Neal
Neal
Keokuk and Jefferson Extension Jobs Filled
Two Iowa Extension workers named. Taylor E. Howard becomes Keokuk county extension youth assistant. James D. Taylor is appointed Jefferson county extension director with office in Fairfield effective Feb 15.
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Ames
INS
Charles E. Finley
Iowa State College
Taylor E. Howard
The
Missouri University
Keokuk County
James D. Taylor
Des Moines County
Jefferson County
Taylor
Fairfield
Petersburg creamery annual meeting set for Monday
The Petersburg creamery will hold its annual meeting next Monday starting with a dinner at 11 30. Local members are invited to attend and hear reports on production and finances.
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Petersburg
Petersburg Creamery
Farm Closing Out Sale Near Center Point on Highway 150
A farmer announces a complete closing out sale on the farm located two and a half miles south of Center Point on highway 150, then a quarter mile west, detailing the sale as the final business event at the property.
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Anna Drakos
Fairfax
S.W
Cedar Rapids
Center Point
Highway 150
Springville
Anamosa
Sf Conney
South
Amana
USDA Moves To Build New Grain Storage
Washington officials outline an emergency campaign to help farmers add storage capacity for a potential record harvest. The plan includes government loans and guarantees to rent storage, with focus on the Corn Belt but prepared for Pacific Northwest and Southwest wheat trouble spots. Aiming to add at least 250 million bushels new storage, the drive could see government purchases of bins if needed.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
Senate Agriculture Committee
United Press
Pacific Northwest
Southwest
Commodity Credit Corporation
Farm Machinery Lot with Tractors and Implements
An auction listing describes a Model B John Deere tractor with various adapters, a Woodice wheel wagon with hay rack, a Blackhawk corn planter with 80 rods of wire, a Black Hawk bean planter sulky plow, a 10 foot disc, an endgate seeder, scoop boards, irons, a 6 foot mower with tractor hutch, a McCormick Deering manure spreader in good condition, and many other items noted but not individually listed.
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Hampshire
Hampshire Boar
Acme
McCormick
waEsay
Faoning Mills
Chevrolet & Door
John Deere
Blackhawk
McCormick - Deerin
Real Hol&stein
Wallace Mills
Farrow
Allis ‘Chalmers
Allis
Arrow
We- 60
Ines
Datkopes
McCormick Deen
Gorm Vicks ck-Deering
E News
John Deere Corn
McCermick
Deering
Gallen
Mbarutaten
Momoestet
Gaul
Lee Bates
Guernsey
Binie
Oliver
Moweri McCormick-Deering
Barrow
Iowa
Anich
Seedings Suffer From Ice and Snow Drift
The piece notes heavy winter freeze thaw cycles and ice over snow smothering seedlings. Grass and legume seeds are scarce and costly this year while a past big seed loss raises concern. A heavy winter kill could raise corn acres and slow soil-building crop shifts.
Government storage and loans face corn glut for year
Officials expect farmers to hand over about 800 million bushels under price support loans with storage hoped for 150 million. The government has 50 million stored and must find room or export outlets for 100 million more, while loans may be extended to allow later feeding with repayment.
Several Kinds of Trees Make Best Windbreak
Iowa State College Extension Forester E. T. Gardiner advises mixed tree windbreaks. Use evergreen branches near the outside rows to shield, with fast growing pines in the center and a mix of Douglas fir white pine and Norway spruce in the inner row depending on location.
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Ames
Iowa State College Extension
E. T. Gardiner
Gardiner
Iowa
Norway
Sheep Exhibit To Be Featured At Winter Fair
The Midwest Agriculture and Industry Exposition in Cedar Rapids will host a three day sheep display from February 24 to 26. Nine breeds Hampshires Shropshires Southdowns Cheviots Suffolks Oxfords Karakuls Marines and Columbias will be shown in the armory with ewes and lambs from Eastern Iowa flocks. A wool exhibit and a lamb by products show will accompany the display to help farmers compare foundation stock amid low U.S. sheep numbers. Chairman Lee Schwanz and Iowa Sheep Breeders Association secretary Wesley Kitchell lead the program.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Lee Schwanz
Armory
Wesley Kitchell
Iowa Sheep Breeders Association
Schwanz
United States
Spray Clinic Planned Feb 22 in Iowa City
Johnson county farmers are invited to a spray clinic on February 22 in the assembly room of the Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company in Iowa City. County Extension Director Emmet Gardner urged those who sprayed crops and pests last year to attend to review experiences and plan spray operations.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Emmet Gardner
Four Training Schools in Delaware Set for February and March
Manchester area farmers from four townships will attend a four day training series on February 22 25 and March 1 4. County Extension Director Bob Hall said Iowa State College extension men will conduct the meetings with speakers including H R Howell C H Van Vlack H R Meldrum Ralph Krenzin and topics on farm management drainage soil management soil testing and forage.
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Manchester
Bob Hall
Iowa State College Extension
H. R. Howell
C. H. van Vlack
H. R. Meldrum
Ralph Krenzin
Newborn lambs stir Palo shepherd's busy days
John Reynolds of Palo tends a growing purebred Shropshire flock as lambs arrive. The Farm Service Dept of Peoples Bank and Trust Co promotes clerking farm sales with Cedar Rapids and Newhall Center Point offices. Iowa State College hog expert E L Quaife announces the eighth Iowa Master Swine Producers project selecting 25 farmers in 1949 for excellence in per animal pork, total pork, and production skill. Criteria include eight sows farrowing Jan 1 to Jun 1 plus reports on pigs farrowed weaned and fall totals.
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Farm Service Dept of Peoples Bank and Trust Co
Bank
Cedar Rapids
Newhall
Center Point
E. L. Quaife
Iowa State College
Iowa
Iowa Swine Producers Association
Iowa State College, Extension Service
Iowa Department of Agriculture
WHO
Crops and Pasture Renovation Meeting Notice
March 4 meeting on weed control and pest management led by E B Slywester and Harold Gunderson. Topics include corn borer and fly control with DDT. Farmers urged to speak to their Farm Bureau director Hall 8 to represent their township.
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E. B. Slywester
Harold Gunderson
Ihaw
A Farm Bureau
Hall
Six County Extension Workers Resign En Masse
Six Iowa extension staff members announced resignations this week led by Leo E. Sturgeon of Washington county who will leave February 28 to begin farming near Adel. Others include Ralph L. Todd Jefferson county who quit February 14 to farm. Julia Kilpatrick Buena Vista county who moves to West Virginia Tech. Dr. E Judd Winnebago county who leaves February 28 to farm. Martha H. Strahan Polk county health-related retirement effective March 1. and Paul W. Elam Greene county who resigned January 31 to farm.
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West Virginia Institute of Technology
Dc. E. Judd
Winnebago County
Martha H. Strahan
Polk County
Paul W. Elam
Greene County
Soil scientist moved to Minnesota post
Ames. Kermit Hansen of the United States soil conservation service in Ames has been transferred to the state soil scientist position in St. Paul Minnesota. Frank H Mendell state conservationist said the move was announced on Wednesday.
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AMES
INS
Kermit Hansen
United States Soil Conservation Service
St. Paul
Minn
Frank H. Mendell
Durocs Average 202 at J C Holbert Sale
Fifty four head of Duroc gilts averaged 202 dollars per head Saturday in the J C Holbert sale at Sunset Knoll farm west of Washington. Top price was 795 dollars paid by John Wisdom of Des Moines.
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Washington
Sunset Knoll Farm
John Wisdom
Des Moines
Government forecasts corn price rise this spring and summer
The agriculture department on Wednesday predicted some increase in corn prices from the early February level as feed supplies remain high and government support prices loom. Officials cautioned they could not say if prices would reach the support level or what would happen after early summer. The on farm support price for 1948 corn is $1.44 a bushel.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Grange Camp Dates Set for Central City Youth Camp
Masonville Grange members met at Rocky Ridge School to discuss legislative issues. State Master James Carradus announced the State Youth Camp would be held at Central City from August 8 to 11. The next Masonville Grange meeting is set for this Friday at the Marion Saterlee home.
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Masonville
Masonville Grange
Rocky Ridge School
James Carradus
Central City
Maesonville Grange
Rhais
Marion Saterlee Arm
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Fairfax Savings Bank
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Elkader Cooperative
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Frank L. Colyer
Virgil Helns
M. J. McCalley
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Bud Smith
Citizens Savings Bank
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Palo
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