Open Week On The Farm And City News
A diary style week recounts visits from friends and neighbors Jim's hospital news and family joys. The week notes a colorful Alaskan poster gift, valentines, First Lady TV tour, and meals together while Jim rests. The entry covers weather journeys to court house discussions and Tops on a porch, echoing small town life with longtime friends.
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Jim
John
Gazette
Ken
Steve
Valentine
Rosalie
Mary
John Glenn
Court House
Co-Op Leaders Hear Minnesota Extension Chief at ISU
Dr Skull Rutford director of the Minnesota agricultural extension service will speak at a banquet session on March 6 during the two day Iowa State short course for directors and managers of farmer owned cooperatives. The event runs March 6 and 7 in Memorial Union Ames and is co sponsored by Iowa State and the Iowa Institute of Cooperation.
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Ames
Skull Rutford
Agricultural Extension Service
University of Minnesota
Iowa
Iowa State
Memorial Union
Iowa Institute of Cooperation
Ely 4 H Girl Builds Dorset Flock For Future Sheep Breeding
Melody Worley a 13 year old Ely 4 H member aims to build a Polled Dorset flock and become a veterinarian. Her brother Page contributed a Shropshire Dorset background, and they bought Dorsets in Grenola Kansas. She plans to breed hornless Dorsets to avoid horn issues and envisions strong market lambs and future Iowa use.
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Ely
Melody Worley
Dorset
Melody
Page
Grenola
Kan
Leonard Stewart
Continental Dorset Club
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Dor
Melody Worley Helps Care For Page’s Sheep Flocks
Melody Worley, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Worley, assists with Page’s 60 purebred Shropshires and 19 Dorsets during lambing. Page, away on army duty since December, is stationed in Colorado. Worley’s mother formerly Gazette assistant farm editor and now teaches English and journalism in Cedar Rapids.
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Page
Colorado
Melody
John Worley
Ely
Freeman boosts farm loan funds with $50 million extra
Washington AP Secretary of Agriculture Orville L Freeman announced an additional 50 million dollars is provided to the Farmers Home Administration to supply operating loans to farmers who cannot obtain credit elsewhere.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Farmers Home Administration
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