Acute swine erysipelas reported across eastern Iowa in fall 1948
Dr W Giffee, federal veterinarian, cites widespread acute swine erysipelas in eastern Iowa during fall 1948 with high losses from delayed veterinary diagnosis. The bulletin also notes outbreaks of hog cholera in many towns and other swine diseases across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
W. Giffee
Giffee
Giffe
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Keystone
State Center
Oxford
Rowley
Walker
Independence
Kalona Sigourney
Monona
la Porte City
Waterloo Dike
Whicott
Durant Ryan
Hopkinton
D@Witt
Maquoketa
Cascade Reinbeck
Rockford
Edgewood
Marshalltown
Clinton
Waukon
DeWitt
Davenport
Wapello
Allison
Clarksville
Parkersburg
Waterloo
Preston
Iowa City
Elma
Mt Pleasant
New London
Keokuk
Sheepmen Seek State Aid to Combat Predatory Sheep Losses
Iowa sheepmen urge action against foxes and wolves after heavy losses in Marion and Warren counties. The plan includes organized hunts, trapping schools, and possible higher hunting bounties to protect flocks, with 700 claims totaling $9,855 in Marion and $3,191 in Warren filed against domestic animal funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Conservation Commission
Marion and
Warren
Cress Rogers
Marion County
John Shivers
Knoxvale
Rogers
Sheep Association
Shivers
Warren County
Warren County Fund
Disease notices in several Iowa towns listed
Reports list outbreaks and conditions in multiple locales including State Center Preston Lost Nation Tripoli Rockford and Rockford detailing pseudopabies encephalomyelitis contagious ecthyma and fowl cholera among animals and flocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Center
Preston
Lost Nation
Tripoli
Rockford
Nine Percent Wage Increase Reported in Minnesota
Minnesota farm wage rates rose about nine percent last fall from 1847 levels, according to economist K E Ogren. The state average ran roughly 22 percent above the national average, and 275 percent above the 1935-39 period, with monthly wages listed as 117 dollars with board and 148 without, and daily wages 720 with board and 880 without.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minnesota
K E Ogren
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Allamakee Farm Project Records Award Winners Named
WAUKON Deloras Heitman of Union City township is named 1948 Allamakee county farm project record book winner after six years in 4 H club work. Alden Droswold of Waterloo township takes second for his Holstein heifer project in 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon—Deloras Heitman
Union City
Allamakee
Waterloo
Alden Droswold
Waterloo Township
Holstein Association Elects Officers at Anamosa Meeting
Linn Jones Holstein Association members named Chet Bullis as president Marion Arnold Bader as vice president William Vincent Anamosa as secretary Ashley Elliot and W H Walderbach Anamosa as directors The group approved a $25 donation to 4 H shows per county and discussed county associations and a Paul P Stewart Memorial Fund plan to buy a heifer for a scholarship fund A four member committee will acquire the animal and it will be sold at the spring sale with proceeds to the fund
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
i—Gasette
Holstein Association
Linn-Jones Holstein Association
Anamosa
Chet Bullis
Marion
Arnold Bader
Alburnett
Ashley Elliot
George Slater
Olin
William Vincent
W. H. Walterbach
Harold Hartman
Wll
W. H Walderbach
Linn-Jones
Paul P Stewart
Iowa State College Dairy Husbandry
John Stewart
Waterloo
Multiple Iowa Auction Sales Close Out Livestock and More
A sequence of January auctions lists closing out sales and public sales across Iowa towns. Items include livestock hay grain machinery and household goods with dates near Jan 6 7 10 11 14 and locations from Anamosa to Norway and Cedar Rapids featuring bidders and farm names such as Clarence Knipper Dvorsky and Steinacher Howard Kahler and Sam Tow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Knipper
Anamosa
Iowa Hereford Breeders Association
Mississippi Valley Fairground
Davenport
Dvorsky and Steinacher
Mit
Solon
Howard J. Safley
Tipton
Waldemer and Johnson
Central City
Frank Richard
Lisbon
Marion Oats
Wilbert Schulte
Norway
Smith and Baxter
Ryan
Fred Hensing
Vinton
Milo Hala
Walford
Frank Andrew
Prairieburg
Howard Kahler
Cedar Rapids
Sam Tow
Iowans Give $165 132 to CROP Campaign
Des Moines reports total Iowa cash gifts to the Christian Rural Overseas Program reach 165 132 dollars. Rev Albert W Farmer, state director, notes 54 carloads of food shipped by counties with 15 more ready. Reports complete from eight counties. others partial.
Delaware 4-H Members Enter 115 Baby Beeves
Eighty five Delaware county 4-H boys weighed in 115 baby beeves for 1949 as the county club marks growth. Entries include 67 Herefords 26 Angus and 22 Shorthorns all tattooed by the county club committee at weighing time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Delaware County
Bob Hall
Expansion of Crop Insurance is Recommended
Washington AP reports the agriculture department plans to expand federal crop insurance citing favorable margins in last year’s experiments and nine years of government coverage on key crops. The 1948 program showed 10 percent overall losses on multi crop coverage with $7.5 million paid in losses and a five million profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress Agriculture
A J. Loveland
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Farm Bureau to Give Plat Books With Dues in Delaware County
The Delaware County Farm Bureau will provide each member with a new county plat book when they pay their annual dues. County officials announced the plan as part of the 1949 membership process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Delaware County Farm Bureau
Notice of Appointment in Linn County Iowa Estate
On January 3 1949 Beatrice Toman was appointed administratrix of the estate of Anna Pelton late of Linn County Iowa. Creditors should present their claims duly authenticated to the undersigned at the office of Linn County Iowa. Simmons Perrine Albright Ellwood and Neff Attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Anna A A Pelton
Iowa
Beatrice Toman
Simmons Perrine, Albright, Ellwood and
Neff Attorneys
Too Much Land Is Intertilled Iowa Officials Warn
Ames reports 12.7 million acres in intertilled crops in 1948 is too high says state secretary Harry D. Linn addressing 71 soil conservation district commissioners at Iowa State College. He urges balanced land use with more forage crops and emphasizes Iowa responsibility for world food needs under the nation’s 25 percent of Grade A land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Harry D. Linn
Soil Conservation District
Soil Conservation District Commissioners
Iowa State College
Iowa
Linn
Kenneth Wagner
Iowa City
State Soil Conservation Committee
Iver J. Johnson
H. D. Hughes
Virgil Hawk
Soil Conservation Service
Corn
Antique Household Goods and Furniture Listing
A long list of items including a Westinghouse refrigerator Florence gas stove two white chairs a dining room set with six chairs a china closet a center table electric lamp two screens two rockers a wardrobe feather bed rug and dresser plus numerous chairs beds bedsprings and a wide range of household items with garden tools and various small articles. The compilation reads like an auction or estate inventory of assorted secondhand goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westinghouse
Florence
Proven haying methods reduce labor and boost forages
A study comparing five haying methods finds tractor buckrake cheapest in cost but poor for long hauls and rough ground. A baler costs more in labor power and equipment, while a power take-off field chopper saves labor yet has the highest total cost. Iowa State veterinarians warn poor milking practices weaken mastitis control programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liljedahl
Iowa State College
Estate sale request in Linn County Iowa court notice
Edward Hegewald administrator asks Linn County Iowa District Court to authorize sale of Louise Hegewald estate property Cedar Rapids Lot 3 Auditor's Plat 3D to satisfy debts and costs. Hearing set January 17, 1949 at 9:00 a.m. at Cedar Rapids courthouse. Dwight Krumboltz attorney for administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reve Beeaaen
District Court of
Iowa
Linn Coun
Louise Heeee
Louise Hegewald
Linn
Edward Egewal
Ulse
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Peters
Edward Hegewald
Louise Butyd
Dwight Krumboltz
Linn DHIA No. 1 Cows Average 27.4 Lbs Fat in December
Linn DHIA No. 1 reported December production of 659 pounds of milk and 27.4 pounds of fat per cow. Across 315 cows in 21 herds, 56 were dry. 305-day lactations showed top fats among Carl Plumly 601.3, Martin Rice 536 and 557.3, Arnold Hoge 506.4, W. J. Kemp 502.2, Schoonover and Stewart 499. High herds produced 527 and 517 pounds fat for Ronald Dolan and Pearson Chamness respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn Dhia
Association
Louis Taber
Carl Plumly
Martin Rice
Arnold Hoge
Guernsey
W. J. Kemp
Schoonover and Stewart
Ronald Dolan
Pearson and Chamness
Benton DHIA No. 1 report from Vinton December
Benton DHIA No. 4 tests show average 694 pounds milk and 28 pounds fat per cow for December with 480 cows in 22 herds. Fifteen cows were dry. 305 day records include Elmer Becker 569.2 fat, C A Manahan 516.4 fat, E Mussman 465.1 fat, Witwer Farms 461.8 fat, Francisene Van Horne 444.5 fat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton Dhia
Vinton
Benton Dhia No
L. Rasmussen
Elmer Becker
Watkins
Holstein
C A Manahan
E Mussman
Witwer Farms
Atkins
Jersey
Francis Ene van Horne
Women’s Committee Discusses 1949 Program in Anamosa
Jones county Farm Bureau Women’s committee met in Anamosa to review the 1949 program. Marjorie Clark an extension librarian from Iowa State College spoke on books suitable for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Jones County Farm Bureau Women's Committee
Marjorie Clark
Iowa State College
Also Mentioned on This Page
Des Moines
Iowa State Sheep Association
George Souder
Rockwell City
W W Kitchell
Secretary of Agriculture
Harry Linn
Potentia
Bert and
Bob Hanson
Williamsburg, Iowa
Ed Kimm
Farm Service Department of Peoples Bank and Trust Company
Newhall
Center Point Reserve
Richard B Campbell
Farm Project
Holstein Assn
Benton County
Sale
Helstein
John Deere
Timothy Hay
Morris Long
State Bank OF Vinton
R. E. Kahler
Palo
Dhi
J. Deere
Deeres
Glevater
Els Cote
Spreij
Chaima
Covingston
Tony Schmitz
Palo Bane
Delaware
4-H
M. Feder & Sons
Iron and Steel Scrap
F Avenue
DIAL
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Twelfth Avenue and
Twelfth Street
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Tony Schmits van Horne
George B. Basker
Cedar Rapids, Lows
Hawk
Earl Heady
J. B. Liljedahl
Flower 8 Phillips
Flowers
Phillips
Mitchell and
Emith
A. J. Behweler
City State Bank
Bures
Vo White Eagle Coal CO
First Street
Family Shoe
Brown
Shearling
Ry A
Cedar Rapids’ Shoe Center
Second
Tenth Street Service, Inc
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