Wallace Lang Named Iowa's Outstanding Young Farmer
Wallace H Lang 35 Brooklyn farmer won Iowa's Outstanding Young Farmer for 1957 after a statewide Jaycee contest with 397 nominees. He operates a 160 acre farm near Brooklyn and is noted for purebred Hampshire hogs and Ayrshire cattle, plus pioneering the Premier Sire contest. He is active in 4 H F F A and Farm Bureau and serves as a church deacon.
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Gazette
Iowa
Dale Newman
Martello
Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce
Wallace Lang
Center
Brooklyn
Carl Byrum
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa City
Wallace H. Lang
Brooklyn Farmer
Iowa Jaycees
Lang
Grinnell Junior Chamber of Commerce
Durham
N. C
Hampshire
Ayrshire
Cornbelt
Midwest
Iowa Hampshire Breeders Association
Newman
Farm Bureau
Hawkeye Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association
Eastern Iowa Aberdeen Angus Association
Martelle School Board
Martelle Methodist Church
Hawkeye Polled Hereford sale events and closings listed
Schedule of Tuesday February 19 and Wednesday February 20 livestock auctions at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids Coggin Hopkinton Rowley and surrounding areas. Includes sale times 12 30 p m 1 p m 4 30 p m and items livestock machinery grain hay and cattle hogs sheep poultry and grain. Listings name Archie R Minish John F Louvar Trainor Brothers Harold Mohr Ray Schoeber and Edith Foltz among others with locations described as 6 miles northeast of Springville west edge Cedar Rapids municipal airport northwest of Coggin 3 miles northwest of Hopkinton and 4 5 miles west of Rowley.
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Hawkeye Polled Hereford Association
Hawkeye Downs
Archie R. Minish
Springville
John F. Louvar
West Edge
Cedar Rapids
Trainor Brothers
Coggon
Harold Mohr
Hopkinton
Ray Schoeber
Edith Foltz
Rowley
Farm Auction Notices Span Iowa Listings Include 21 Sales
Grain and livestock sale notices across multiple Iowa towns list closing out sales and public auctions. Orval Quaas near Hiawatha leads 12:30 p.m. sale with hay corn and machinery. Elmer Jellison near Troy Mills at 11 a.m. with livestock and more. Messages mention dates, distances, and farm assets, concluding with USDA potato acreage guidance and a 5.5 percent average cut nationwide.
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Orval Quaas
Hiawatha
Elmer Jellison
Troy Mills
Leo T. Kessler
Iowa City
Carl A. Erickson
Vinton
Howard W. Meek
Shellsburg
Dale Thomson
Tipton
Frank and
Louie Dusanek
Wyoming
Wesley V. Brusha
Oxfor
A. J
Lee Dice
Springville
Raymond Aldrick
Ryan
Cliff Thompson
van Horne
Iowans Attend Poultry Contract At Kansas City
Iowa youth delegates joined 68 youths from 22 states and 50 adult leaders at the fourth annual Junior Poultry and Egg Fact Finding Conference in Kansas City. The three day session supported by the Institute of American Poultry Industries and extension services aimed to recognize achievements and guide youths in poultry marketing processing and research. Notable participants included Margaret Perau Madonna Shields Beverly Kane June Haberkamp and Gerald Fettkether with officials Pinches Smith and Mrs Shields assisting at clinics and events.
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Iowa
Kansas City
Margaret Perau
Osage
June Haberkamp
Fairbank
Madonna Shields
Beverly Kane
John Shields
Gerald Fettkether
Oelwein
Robert Pinches
Ames
Davey Smith
Independence
Institute of American Poultry Industries
Ocelwein
State Extension
Beverly
June
Madonna
Pinches
Smith
Shields
Cooperative Extension Service
National Committee On Boys and Girls Club
Agricultural Producers Union Meeting in Ryan Gym
The National Agricultural Producers Union will hold its annual meeting Wednesday in the parochial school gymnasium at Ryan. Members' session opens at 12 30 p.m. with public welcome from 2 to 5 p.m. D P Mangold of Ryan, the union president, announced details.
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Ag Producers Union
Ryan Ryan
National Agricultural Producers Union
Ryan
D. P. Mangold
January Egg Output Rises Four Percent
Washington reports farm flocks laid 5,869 million eggs in January, up 4 percent from January 1956 and 9 percent above the month’s average. The laying rate increased to 16 eggs per layer from 15.6, with the prior year’s average at 13.4.
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Washington
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United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
American Petroleum Institute
Carl L. Byrum
Byrum
Jaycees
Martelle
the Gazette
AEH Gs
Orval Cross
Center Point
Pollock and Young
Howard R. Snyder
Hunter
Mabel Seeman
Newhall
Ray Collins
Mechanicsville
Virgil Heins
USDA
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W.T. Grant Co
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