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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1947
Page
16
Rex Conn summarizes 1946 seed crops with alfalfa seed up 40 percent from 1945 and 41 percent above the 1935-44 average. Red clover yield matched the 1929 record, and other forages show gains while sudan grass seed declines due to 1946 conditions.
Figures indicate an estimated 23,000,000 pounds for 1946, down from 29,100,000 pounds in 1945 and far below the 10-year average of 57,514,000 pounds. The data point to a sharp decline in production compared with recent years.
The fifth to ninth Linn County Farmers Institute will be held January 23 and 24 in the Whittier community hall. Herbert Pollock announced the program featuring Rev Edgar E Dorothy Simmons of Iowa State College Charles Worcester of WMT radio and Rex Conn Gazette farm editor. Exhibits will show grains seeds vegetables handicraft and baked goods. Women of the Whittier Community association will serve dinner both days.
Figures from six central Illinois counties show tuberculin testing of poultry flocks reducing reactors. 17.1 percent of 15,755 birds tested in mixed flocks reacted, while only 0.21 percent of 7,850 birds in all pullet flocks did. Swine herds on about a third of farms with mixed flocks contained reactors at 13.2 percent.
The Lisbon vocational agricultural night school banquet moves from Monday to next Tuesday night. Secretary Marvin Lighton announces the schedule change. Harry Sizer will present Future Farmer awards and Rex Conn will illustrate agriculture in Guatemala with slides from his Central American trip.
DES MOINES AP Sixty head of top young bulls and heifers have consigned for the Iowa Hereford Association futurity show at the state fairgrounds January 27 28. J C Holbert secretary said the futurity will be held in connection with the association s annual show and sale for which 378 head have been cataloged.
McElmeel Holstein of Greeley reports a herd test record of 11 999 pounds of milk and 427 pounds of butterfat in 290 days for a 3-year-old cow. The cow Fraseur Pieterje Man O War Ann was milked twice daily and tests were supervised by Iowa State College.
An eight month-old Hereford calf TT Aristocrat sold for 27500 to Harry Stekell of Honey Creek Ranch Oklahoma in a private sale at the National Western Stock Show Tuesday. Top price for a young calf. TT Royal Plus 9th brought 17600 to ten. Heifers led with TT Heiress 2nd at 3750. Grand carload fat steer champ went to Karl Hoffman for a T O Ranch herd. Other awards to Vandeveers and Melvin Carlson. Poland China crown to Stork herd. Sni A Bar and Merryvale took grand and reserve in Shorthorn classes.
Duchess Ormby Toline, a purebred Holstein owned by Matt Birker of Vinton, has seven production records totaling 102127 pounds of milk and 3640 pounds of butterfat, as announced by the Holstein Friesian Association of America.
A long list of farm auction notices with multiple sales dates from January to February. Locations include Blairstown Bennett Mt. Vernon Cedar Rapids Lisbon Atkins Martelle Solon Bloomington Clarence Olin Coggon Springville Anamosa Marion Linn county home Monticello Morley Morley W. Reed area. Vendors include L H Possehl Ed Bebee Walter Jeen Adams Kleppe Carl Eden Claude Stahl Arthur Steinke Adolph Zuber John Kinsella Leo Ward John Mathis Eddie Steen Etc.
The annual convention of the Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Iowa and affiliated groups will be held in Des Moines January 27 to 29. Edison, the secretary, announced Wednesday. The program will feature leaders in the field of cooperative farming and grain handling.
More than 1,000 officers and managers of cooperative elevator and grain marketing associations are expected to attend the event. Fairfax resident Charles Chaloupka has sold the Brown Swiss bull Forest Grove Squires Jiggs to C. W. Mollenhauer of Alburn.
A farm posts a clear warning marking all electric fences and advises children to stay away from the hazard. The notice emphasizes safety and non contact with the fenced areas. Local authority recommends supervising children near agricultural properties.
DES MOINES appoints O N La Follette to state feed and seed inspection duties. La Follette will oversee supervisory work for fertilizer and feed throughout the state for the Department of Agriculture.
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