Spring Market Hog Show Draws 1000 Hogs at Hawkeye Downs
More than 1,000 hogs will enter the 16th Iowa State Spring Market Hog Show at Hawkeye Downs Farm Youth Center. Exhibitors compete in junior and adult divisions with barrows only, judging begins Friday morning and Saturday features grand and trucklot champions, plus multiple breed and specialty prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Youth Center
Hawkeye Downs
Deane Rinner
Owen Olson
Newhall Yorkshire Breeder
William Zmolek
Iowa State University Livestock Specialist
Perry Kidder
Wilson Hog Buyer
Berkshires
Hampshires
Carroll Plager
Hormeland Co
Austin, Minn
Chester Whites
Poland
Chinas
Bernard Ebb
Judging Contest Sets Hog Show at Hawkeye Downs
FFA and 4-H members compete Saturday at 8 a.m. in the junior judging contest for hogs at Hawkeye Downs. Teams are formed from top three scorers in each group. Judges include Rolland Paul, H L Self, and Ed Haeg, with supervision by Mark Hendren and Tom Wickersham. Engraved trophies will be awarded to top teams and individuals by the Cedar Rapids Kiwanis Club.
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Wilson and Co
Cedar Rapids
Rinner
Robert Rust
Iowa
Rolland Paul
Iowa Swine Producers Assn
Frank Harvey
Wilson
Landrace
Poland
Rollie Pemberton
Pemberton
Hampshire Swine Registry
WMT
FFA
Hawkeye Downs
Mark Hendren
State Department of Public Instruction
Tom Wickersham
Iowa State University
Des Moines
H. L. Self
Ed Haeg
Wilson and ‘Company Livestock Service
Albert Lea
Minn
Cedar Rapids Kiwanis Club
Rural Iowa closing out auctions and sales list
A sequence of farm sale notices lists dates and times for closing out sales and public auctions across several Iowa counties. Items include Holsteins, dairy equipment, machinery, livestock, hay, grain, trucks, and a 70 acre Benton county farm, with vendors such as Mrs Howard Prick George Machacek Fletcher Dunlap Don Brennaman Edward Babka Wayne Stake Ralph Garbers and others.
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Erein
Howard Prick
Connor
M. V. Brannaman
Lisbon
George and
Frank Bash
Wellman
George Machacek
Fletcher Dunlap
Hopkinton
Don Brennaman
Cedar Rapids
Benton County
Edward and
Bette Babka
Wayne Stake
Marengo
Ralph Garbers
van Horne
Duo
Benton Township
Iowa
Market Hog Show Banquet Friday Evening
The Iowa State Spring Market Hog show banquet will be Friday at 6 30 p m in the Chamber of Commerce building. Bill Alford of the WMT stations will be toastmaster with an entertainment program and J W Rowe of Waterloo as speaker. All interested in hog business are invited to attend.
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Iowa State
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Alford
WMT
J. W. Rowe
Waterloo
Iowa
Iowa Pork Queen to Attend Show at Hawkeye Downs
Barbara Thomas of Iowa City named Iowa Pork Queen will attend the 16th annual Hog show at Hawkeye Downs Friday and Saturday. She is the daughter of Ted Thomas, a noted Duroc breeder, and will help present ribbons and trophies and appears at the cooking school and lard baking contests at Jefferson High School.
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Barbara Thomas
Iowa City
Iowa
Iowa State
Scholarship Nominee Named for Farm Bureau Award
West Union Sue Conklin daughter of Mr and Mrs Dale Conklin of Hawkeye is Fayette county's nominee for a Farm Bureau college scholarship. She will compete in Des Moines for the district nomination.
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West Union
Sue Conklin
Dale Conklin
Hawkeye
Fayette County
Farm Bureau College
Des Moines
Sixteenth Iowa State Spring Market Hog Show Program
Hawkeye Downs hosts March 3 7 00 a m weighings and classifying entries. Junior division and junior trucklots show at 8 30 a m. Adult division at 1 00 p m. Cooking School at Jefferson high school auditorium. Exhibitors banquet at 6 30 p m. March 4 8 30 a m junior swine judging contest 9 30 a m adult trucklots and baking and cooking school with lunch. Selection of champions and awards.
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Jefferson High School
Chamber of Commerce
Ward Farm Show Sets Three-Day Demonstration at Hawkeye Downs
Montgomery Ward presents a three day farm progress exposition at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids with 60 exhibitor firms. Managers and top executives will attend. demonstrations will run inside and outside the heated hall with prize drawings over $1 000 for registrants.
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Montgomery Ward
Hawkeye Downs
Sixth Street
Cedar Rapids
George “Bud” Loshbaugh
Ward
Loshbaugh
Mississippi
Macomb
Ill
Jack Beatty
Record Corn Under Price Supports Reaches New Volume
The Agriculture Department reports a record volume of corn placed under the price support program for January. Loans were made on more than 224 million bushels of 1960 crop corn, bringing total season support to about 376.2 million bushels, roughly 80 million more than the previous crop through January 1960. Other feed grains such as barley oats grain sorghum and rye also show increased support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPS
Agriculture Department
Kennedy Delays Farm Message to Congress
The White House said on Saturday that President Kennedy will not send his farm message to Congress this week. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger had said on Friday the message would reach the Capitol this week, but timing was pushed to next week.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
Congress
Pierre Salinger
Capitol
Chicago Livestock Receipts Count Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Chicago estimated livestock receipts for Monday show cattle at 21 000 head hogs 8 000 and sheep 3 000. The report from the market highlights a strong cattle trade while hog and sheep volumes also rise.
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Cogcon Livestock Sales
Prairieburg
Lawrence & Smith
Chicago
Carlson's Corner and Uncle Si Decline to Judge
In a conversational sketch Carlson's Corner notes a neighbor’s deeds while Uncle Si, aging and uneducated, refuses to pass judgment. The speaker recalls Si stating he has not heard the man’s story and has not been appointed to judge him. The piece ends with a reflective line about rocks as stepping stones in slush.
Remembering the Model T Ford and its hard-tired era
Rex Conn presents Kalona reader O J Rhodes recalling the Model T’s rough ride. He details start up, fuel, oil, and cooling quirks, the car’s simplicity and enduring idiosyncrasies, and Rhodes’s own restored 1925 model with plans for another if parts are found. He invites readers with a Model T to respond.
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O. J. Rhodes
Kalona
Ody
Rhodes
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