State Spring Market Hog Show Women’s Division Highlight
Three young ladies guide their hog entries in the state spring market hog show women’s division as judges evaluate. This marks the second year with a women’s class, featuring participants including women wearing pantsuits and FFA jackets. Mrs. Allen Keppy of Davenport repeated last year’s first place and earned reserve grand championship honors, judged by Mrs. Coutts Grane of Columbus Junction.
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Hogs
FFA
Allen Keppy
Davenport
Fayette county Master corn Blowers results crown Eldon Schmidtke winner
The 1970 Fayette county Master corn Blowers contest named Eldon Schmidtke of Fairbank top with a yield of 167.18 bushels per acre at 15 percent moisture. Notable rivals included Harold Downer Aurora 150.30 and Robert Reinking Hawk Eye 152.52. Roger Decker West Gate and Ralph Plexgen Kouble WA also placed strong. A separate Fayette county Miss syndy contest crowned Roger Decker Westgate at 53.88 bu/acre. Reports note Quaker Oats Cedar Rapids contract growers yielding 125 to 140 bu/acre and a projected drop to 80–90 bu/acre on a second generation hybrid. The farm section discusses blight resistant seed shortages for white corn.
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Fayette
Fayette County
Eldon Schmidtke
Fairbank
Schmidtke
Harold Downer
Aurora
Robert Reinking
Hawkeye
Roger Decker
Westgate
Ralph Plexgen
Kouble
Waucoma
Edwin Decker
Aie
Cold Ehlers
Maynard
Russell ‘Locate
Marengo
Dwayne Monroe
Quaker Oats Co
Cedar Rapids
Quaker
Monroe
Sunday Gazette Farm Section
Iowa
Russians Seek Quality Beef on US Farm Tours
Soviet agriculture specialists led by Mikhail Lutsenko tour American cattle centers from Kansas City to Omaha and Washington seeking to learn why U.S. beef is tender and tasty. They eye purchases of breeding cattle, possibly thousands, to boost Soviet herds and improve trade, aided by Cyrus Eaton’s private exchange efforts.
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Drummond Ayres, Jr
New York
Kansas City
United States
W. T. Berry, Jr
The
American Hereford Association
U.S
Omaha
Peaver
Canada
America
Soviet Union
Ivan Johnson
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Mikhail Lutsenko
Agricultural Ministry
Breeding Cattle Administration
Yuriy Goloshchatov
Agriculture Ministry
Nikolai Burlakov
All Union Research Institute
Cyrus Eaton
Cleveland
Farm Wife Series Planned Next Month in Marengo
Marengo residents will host a four week farm wives management series in March at Williamsburg City Hall. Don Goering county extension director says sessions run March 3 10 17 and 24 from 139 to 3 pm with topics on farm management estate planning farm records insurance and taxes. No advance registration is needed and farm wives countywide are invited to participate.
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Marengo
Williamsburg
Don Goering
Town County Extension
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al Swegie
West Branch
Francis Abel
Abeare
Duate
Hollingsworth
Rkohn Pat Est
Roy
Glen
University of Wisconsin
Eunica Schroeder
Charter Oak
Marty
Smith
People’s
Maytag
Famous
Parma
First Ave
Faun News
Kansas City Strip
Moscow
Aberdeen
Liss
Dod
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