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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1960
Page
11
A rural diary from July outlines daily farm tasks in Bremer county Iowa. It covers bee swarm removal, haying progress, crop updates, family visits, strawberry picking, a bridge project, and plans for Fourth of July celebrations.
Indian official Deavendra Sharma and a group of foreign press visitors discussed U S and Soviet aid in agriculture. Sharma urged village radio education and subsidized transistor sets labeled America radio to reach illiterate farmers. he noted salary disparities and a target of 5 percent annual production growth to close the population food gap.
Extension official Larry Van Fossen told 80 silo manufacturers and distributors that Iowa has expanded high moisture corn storage in five years. Silo capacity rose from 275000 bushels in 1955 to 2490000 bushels by 1959, with storage use for high moisture corn increasing from about 10 percent to 399 percent. Silos now serve silage, high moisture corn, dry shelled corn and possibly wafers or pellets.
A fragment quotes a vision of deliverance to be solemnized with pomp and parade across the continent. It calls for shows games bells bonfires and illuminations from this time forward for ever more. The language suggests a patriotic or religious ritual tied to national or regional unity and public spectacle.
Olin and Harry Rohwedder sold 22 Hereford steers averaging 1348 pounds for 27.50 per cwt in Chicago last week.
IOWA CITY The U S Fish and Wildlife Service truck will deliver bass blue gill and channel catfish for stocking farm ponds to Johnson county farmers on Thursday. The truck will be at the county ASC parking lot at 9 30 a m. Farmers who have ordered fish should use a separate container filled with water from the pond for each species of fish.
The weather bureau reports cooler and wetter than normal conditions persist in the Corn Belt, with forecasts for above normal precipitation and below normal temperatures through early July. The pattern threatens late planted corn reaching maturity before frost next fall.
Iowa State University engineer Ted Willrich urges farmers to plan drainage now. He says improved drainage boosts first year income, pays for itself in 2 to 5 years, and that tile drainage supports crop growth by removing excess water while preserving soil moisture essentials.
Washington reported nearly 4 million acres previously called land utilization projects have been renamed national grasslands. Most of the lands lie in the Great Plains states.
Secretary Tom Baxter says Sigourney Premium books for the Keokuk county fair in What Cheer from August 4 to 7 are now available.
Linn county 4 H exhibit workshop is set for 8 p m July 6 in the REC building Marion Extension Associate Jerry Parsons announced.
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