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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1947
Page
4
Iowa State College economists Malone and Kutish warn the postwar business boom may peak and plateau. They cite exports, prices, inventories, building costs, and inflation as key factors, noting heavy foreign loans and rising consumer debt temper demand while government tax intake tightens.
Iowa State college hosts a two week training program for professional farm managers and rural appraisers from across the nation. The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers directs the sessions with a faculty including True Morris E E McAnelly and R R Hudelson. Beginning July 7 the basic farm appraisal school runs through July 13 and a farm management school follows July 14 to 19. About 30 students are expected.
Des Moines AP reports the 1947 Iowa State Fair will present large picture panels showing four eras of Iowa agriculture under the title 101 Years of Corn Harvests in Iowa. The display, in the agricultural building, will include dramatic presentations by Boy Scouts of the Tall Corn council and is prepared under the supervision of Iowa State College extension department at Ames.
Benton county 4-H camp titled Four-H Girls Share opens Tuesday at Palisades Kepler State Park near Mt. Vernon. About 50 4-H girls and leaders attend the three day event with Rev. D Keith Irwin of Cedar Rapids speaking at the camp fire. Lucile Holaday and Dorothy Schlensig assist with crafts and sports. other helpers include Mrs. Arnold Jenson, Mrs. Donald Showman, Mrs. C. W. Grady, Mrs. Elmer Schueler, Mrs. Clarence Stickney, and Mrs. Lawrence Floyd.
Rex Corn reports Iowa's corn suffered its harshest European corn borer infestation yet with late corn bearing the brunt of the first brood. Field samples near Cedar Rapids show 50 to 300 egg masses per hundred stalks as moths from wintered borers emerge and lay eggs on leaves and stalks, prompting DDT dusting advised for control.
Directors of five Farm Business Associations in Iowa will meet July 12 at Sanborn in O'Brien County with the North West Iowa Association as host. The associations collaborate with the extension service and the Agricultural Experiment Station at Iowa State College. It is the first state wide meeting since 1941 and 175 have been invited.
Two men who shaped ISU agriculture and engineering divisions are honored by a state board approval. Agricultural hall will honor C F Curtiss, dean emeritus of agriculture, and Engineering hall will honor Anson Marston, dean emeritus of engineering. Curtiss led agriculture to prominence and Marston led engineering for 28 years, contributing to the highway system and major city projects.
Iowa farm women at the summer Farm Bureau session in Des Moines recommended Mrs. Roscoe Eliason of Letts Louisa county as chairwoman of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation women's committee. The board will select her at a July 22 23 meeting to fill the vacancy created by Mrs. Raymond Sayre’s resignation from Ackworth.
In Linn DHIA No 2 during June, the cows averaged 735 pounds of milk and 31.2 pounds of butterfat. Supervisor Perry Knapp reported the figures.
Knapp reports thirty two 305 day records in June from nineteen herds. Lakeside Farm Marion registered cow led with 518.7 pounds of fat. Marion purebreds F W Stewart posted 512.7 and 462.2 pounds. Witwer Haak Marion cow 454.7 pounds. Lensch Ely Holstein first to reach 500 pounds with 512.6 pounds in 273 days.
Among 300 Iowa families to be honored on farm ownership recognition day at Iowa State College are the Hilder Olsons and Roy Middlebrooks of Winneshiek.
Ames based Soil Conservation official Maurice Heath urged Iowa farmers to harvest seed from southern bromegrass fields for the land-use program. With Nebraska and Kansas droughts last fall cutting into last year’s seed, supplies are scarce and prices high. Heath advised testing head development with bromelegume mixtures, then harvesting seed if promising, otherwise using crop for hay or pasture, and drying seed on a floor before bagging. Since 1943 to 1946 districts produced 42,188 pounds of clean seed.
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