Iowa Beekeeper Develops Foulbrood Resistant Bees
Atlantic naturalist Frank C. Pellett reports a new bee strain resistant to foulbrood. Developed from diverse stock at his estate and in Texas with Iowa State College researchers and the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, the strain withstood several disease exposures. He plans large scale propagation and will explain the work to the Iowa Beekeepers association on July 17.
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Atlantic Naturalist
Pellett
Here
Texas
American Bee Journal
F. B. Paddock
Iowa State College
State Api~arist
O. W. Park
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa State Extension Service
Iowa Beekeepers Association
Two Dairymen Tie At Benton Dairy Judging Meet
Leland Skoog of Vinton and Russell Ashley of La Porte City scored perfect 100 to lead the dairy cattle judging contest held Tuesday at the Benton County picnic. The event judged Holsteins and Jerseys on the farm of the state school for the blind with 150 attendees.
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Gazette Vinton
Leland Skoog
Vinton
Russell Ashley
la Porte City
Benton County
State School For the Blind
Clark Hoyt
George Moran
Skoog
R C Thompson
Waterloo
Ashley and Moran
School For the
C . Cannon
Ames
Arthur Porter
Ames Dairy Extension Division
Carl Frederickson
Harold Porter
Highjacked Butter Basis Of Suit Against Truck Firm
A truckload of butter valued at 6849 18 allegedly hijacked en route to New York City is the basis of a suit tried before U S District Judge Charles Diney. Nebraska Cooperative Creameries of Omaha sues Des Moines Transportation Co claiming they were not insured against theft and seek damages and costs.
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DES Moines
New York City
Charles Diney
Nebraska Co-operatve Creameries Inc
Omaha
Des Moines Transportation Company
Des Moines Corporation
Nebraska Corporation
Fence Drift and Corn Resilience in Heat
A brief note describes fence drift tangled in woven wire and observes corn reacting to extreme heat by curling leaves to reduce surface exposure. The piece highlights corn’s resilience, noting it tightens during harsh conditions and reopens when relief arrives.
69 835 Tractors in Iowa in 1935
Iowa farms used 69 835 tractors in 1935 the most in state history up 11 482 from 1934. The report shows 327 percent of farms with tractors and highlights county by county adoption led by Buena Vista Palo Alto Webster and Hamilton with notable gains in eastern Iowa.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Weather and Crop Bureau
State Department of Agriculture
Charles D Reed
Kossuth
South Central
Buena Vista
Palo Alto
Webster
Hamilton
Jones County Farm Women Study Nutrition at Achievement Day
About 200 of Iowa’s 82 000 farm women viewed Jones county nutrition exhibits at Achievement Day in Anamosa. Eight Linn county women joined seven townships with booth displays, judged by Aleene Wilson of Ames extension service. Outstanding booths and slogans noted, with plans to exhibit at Waterloo dairy congress.
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Iowa
Ames Extension Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Jones County
Linn County
Castle Grove
Lovell
Wayne
Wyoming
Greenfield
Rome
Fairview
Aleene Wilson
Waterloo Dairy Congress
Eugene Bailey
Amber
Wayne Township
George Zimmerman
Monticello
Township Home Project
Offices Move Jones County Soil Conservation Staff to Monticello
The Jones county soil conservation and domestic allotment administration offices were moved from the county Farm Bureau quarters to Monticello on Wednesday. The relocation shifts the administrative base within Anamosa county.
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Anamosa
Jones County Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Administration
Monticello
County Farm Bureau
Winds Boost Corn Growth On Dillon Atherton Farm
Daily records from the Dillon Atherton farm near Viola show corn growth of 1.5 inches on Monday during strong winds and 3 inches from 5 am Tuesday to 5 am Wednesday as temperatures rose. Average Tuesday temperature was 83 degrees with a 110 degree high. soil at two inches deep measured 86 degrees.
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Dillon Atherton
Viola
Atherton Field
Electric Gate Control Planned at Mt. Auburn Farm
Special to The Gazette reports farm improvements near Mount Auburn including a 36 by 80 barn a chicken house a pump house a corncrib and a hog house on the Bertha Card farm two miles south electric power will run the yard gates and all gates will be electrically controlled Grover Miller builds a new barn seven and one half miles west of Mount Auburn to replace one lost to fire last fall a new house is under construction on the Elliot farm southwest of here contractor W H Morse of Cedar Rapids.
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Mount Auburn
Bertha Card
Grover Miller
Elliot
Here
W. H Morse
Cedar Rapids
Cows Top at 205 in Guernsey Sale at Independence
Top cow at the eastern Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin Guernsey breeders sale brought $205 to Russell Lange of Grinnell. The six year old cow came from Dodgeville Wisconsin. The top bull sold for $105 and overall average per animal was $70. Total sale receipts were $3,320.
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Gazette
Independence
Iowa
Wisconsin
Russell Lange
Grinnell
Dodgeville
Wis
Eagle Grove Man Elected President Iowa Grain Co-ops
M. K. Frey of Eagle Grove was elected president of the Iowa Co-operative Grain company at its annual session in Humboldt. W. J. Lynch of Green Mountain and W. N. K. Anderson of Thompson were named vice presidents, Jens Thuesen of Cedar Falls was secretary, Leonard Holden of Ottosen treasurer, and George Beals of Humboldt manager.
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M. K. Frey
Eagle Grove
Iowa Co-operative Grain Company
W. J. Lynch
Green Mountain
WN. K Anderson
Thompson
Jens Thuesen
Cedar Falls
Leonard Holden
Ottosen
George Beals
Humboldt
Oat Harvest Opens in North English Area
Herman Guenther, two miles northwest of North English, began harvesting oats on Wednesday the first in the community this season. His oats were sown March 25 before the last snow, with most early sowed fields promising well. George Thorpe, five miles northeast, reported chinch bugs attacking his oats.
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Herman Guenther
North English
George Thorpe
Reed Reports Corn Undamaged by Heat in Iowa
Charles D. Reed of the federal crop bureau says unequal rainfall left parts of Iowa drought stressed while central areas saw normal to above rainfall up to Cedar Rapids. He notes corn remains recoverable though leaves roll, oats suffer, and heat affects pastures, grasses, and potatoes with grasshoppers causing local damage in western counties.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Federal Crop Bureau
Cass County
Mississippi River
Reed
Benton
Linn
Cedar Rapids
Logan
Calmar Farmers Report Rough Hay Yields Amid Dry Weather
Special to The Gazette notes farmers in the Calmar area haying amid drought with yields around a ton to the acre, below average. Corn and oats are late with corn about six inches high and oats around twenty inches, especially in lowlands.
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Calmar
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