Uncle Sam's Jersey Bulls Grow Up And Must Be Shifted
Keokuk County farmer William Klett raises 400 ewes on 650 acres near Sigourney and uses working dogs. He practices summer fallowing, grows alfalfa, and maintains tall new alfalfa in small grain. He built soil fertility with lime and fertilizer since WWI, co operates with SCS, and terraces fields on Ross land in Chicago firm ownership.
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Uncle Sam
Jersey Bulls
Klett
Bill Klett
Mr Klett
William Klett
Keokuk
Sigourney
Kuk
Klcit
Keokuk County
CCC
SCS
Riett
FTP
Ross
Chicago
Brome Grass Keeps Livestock Fed Amid Dry Iowa Summers
On farms near Reinbeck and Dinsdale in Tama County, brome grass provides abundant forage as other pastures dry up. Mitchell and Sons and Breakenridge have cultivated the crop since 1938, grazing cattle and hogs while planning seed harvests. The roots bind soil and roughage supports cattle, hogs, and horses through the dry season.
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Iowa
E. M. Mitchell and Sons
Tama County
Reinbeck
Wr. Breakenridge
Dinsdale
Mitchell and Sons
Mr. Breakenridge
Breakenridge
Breakenridge and
Paul Mitchell
Mitchell Brothers
Paul
Bill
Brome
Mitchell
Mitchells
Music To Feature Sports Festival Aug. 8 At Traer
Special to The Gazette Tama-A music contest will host the Tama county Farm Bureau sports festival on August 8 in Traer. Events include tennis softball tug of war baseball wrestling track trap and rifle shoots for men and 4 H'ers. Women's events feature horseshoe pitching nail driving chair quoits clock golf and shuttle relay. Mrs. Fred Hushak leads the women's events. Tama county holds the traveling trophy from the state festival at Ames last year.
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TAMA
Tama County Farm Bureau
Traer
Fred Hushak
Tama County
Ames
Changes in Farm Program Suggested by Iowa Committee
Iowa planning committee urges national AAA to shift allotments toward soil management. Five concrete recommendations include funding soil building, classifying hay from oats and soybeans as soil-depleting, and repealing the $10,000 payment cap. The plan favors extending strip cropping and contour farming, with tax appraisal based on productivity.
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Ames
Washington
Iowa Planning Committee
AAA
State Planning Committee
Adair County
State Tax Commission
Dairymen in Benton Plan Bull Shift at Experimental Farm
Four Benton county dairymen led by Harold Miller will shift Jersey bulls from the germ plasm experimental farm near Hannibal Missouri. The calves then were five months old and now three years old with breeding age offspring. Superintendent C W McIntyre arranged the move after county meetings in June.
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Hannibal
United States Department of Agriculture
University of Missouri
Benton
C. W. McIntyre
Benton County
McIntyre
Don Groves
Miller
Epperson
Rogers
Otto Theiss
Kahoka
Robert Glime
Clime
Cyril Boddicker
Gilbert Franck
Iowa ag teachers meet in Ames July fifteenth to seventeenth
Special to The Gazette reports a state conference for vocational agriculture instructors and school superintendents from 190 approved departments in Iowa. Key speakers include H T Hall and Walter Wilcox while sessions cover FFA programs, adult education, and vocational teaching methods with expectant recognition of ten-year veterans and new instructors.
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Ames
H. T. Hall
Des Moines
Iowa
Walter Wilcox
Iowa State College
Ray L. Cuff
Kansas City
National Livestock Loss Prevention Board
James H Pearson
United States Office of Education
Washington, D. C
H L. Kooser
Iowa FF
Iowa FF. A. Program By Marvin Paul
Osceola
Iowa Association
Denison
Jesup
Ff.a. Advisory Council
F. E. Moore
Mr. Pearson
F.F.A
T. E. Sexauer
W. D. McKee
Shenandoah
Jessie M. Parker
Ralph A. Towne
Oskaloosa
L. M. Sasman
Madison
Wis
Talics
W. H. Lancelot
Barton Morgan
Department of
Vocational Education
Iowa State
Mary Farris
Iowa Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association
M. M. Dockendorff
Pella
66 Day Barley Performs Well On Amana Farm
Amana farm manager C Geiger reports two acres of 66 day barley grown this season showed good growth and exceptional quality after a late June cut. He plans 30 acres more next year while wheat looks strong, oats are short, and corn plus pastures need rain.
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Amana
P C. Geiger
Amana Friay
Geiger
Chinch Bug Threat Endangers Boone County Crops
Boone county farmers battle a chinch bug invasion described as their hardest fight. They have moved five carloads of creosote to combat the pests that have devastated small grain fields and now threaten cornfields, with lumber yards strained to supply treated barrier paper.
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Boone
INS
Boone County
Chinch Bug Control Demo Held Near Belle Plaine
Sixty Benton county farmers attended a chinch bug control demonstration Friday on the Frank O Toole farm southeast of Belle Plaine conducted by Don Groves county agent Vinton.
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Gazette
Belle Plaine
Benton County
Frank O'Toole
Don Groves
Vinton
Harvest Of Small Grain Started In Webster Vicinity
Rye and barley have been cut in this vicinity and wheat is ready to cut. Oats are ripening and will be ready to cut this week. Some fields will not be cut due to chinch bug infestation as they migrate from oats to corn. Early sweet corn tasseling and shooting but needs rain. Pastures drying up. livestock being turned into hayfields. A large crop of early cherries harvested and late cherries ripening. raspberries ripening but crop will be short due to dry weather.
Oats Cut for Hay in Troy Mills Area
Farmers in the Troy Mills vicinity mow oats for hay as rye and wheat near harvest. Oats are turning and a bountiful hay crop is reported. Gardens yield cabbage and string beans while sweet corn tassels and grows.
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Troy Mills
Oats Short but Corn and Soybeans Promising in County
In Buchanan county crop conditions are favorable for corn and soybeans while early oats are filling with good quality but below normal yield. Clover hay is largely stored, straw is short in many fields, and soybean acreage is up for several years.
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Buchanan County
Joseph McGrath
Triple A Committee
8 Men To Thresh Bluegrass Seed At Grinnell Plant
Grinnell plans threshing of bluegrass seed from 20 000 acres by a crew of 202 men at Sumner Brothers plant to begin in about 10 days. Eight men will thresh for eight months as dry spring weather reduced the crop and some fields were not harvested due to seed failure.
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Grinnell
Sumner Brothers
Charles Sumner
Sumner
Washington to Receive 3300 Gal Creosote for Chinch Bugs
County Agent J. W. Chandler announced 3,300 gallons of creosote oil will arrive by Tuesday to combat chinch bug migration on county farms. He reports infestation is sporadic with the heaviest pest advance not expected for another week.
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Washington
J. W. Chandler
Tama Women Study Home Furnishing Project
Rural Tama county women will study a home furnishing and upkeep project for 1940 41 with the major effort Keeping the Home Well Furnished and Attractive. Miss Mabel Phipps state home demonstration leader outlined the plan at a county meeting with Miss Mildred Wilson of Town State College extension service to present pre project lessons this fall. A sub project in music titled Music Moments of Latin America is also planned.
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TRAER
Tama County
County Home Project
Mabel Phipps
Mildred Wilson
Town State College Extension Service
Latin America
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Sigourney Fallows
Mr. Klett
Wyoming
Ralph W. Adamson
Sirourney
Adamson
Ross Land
Ray Anderson
Bill Mitchell
Iowa AG
Federal
Department of Agriculture
United States
Benton Dairymen
Cedar Rapids
Merle E. Garmoe
Pa Hee
Ers
Amana Farm
Shover Oak Farms
R. A. Shover
Marion Bivd
Webster
Creosote
Goodyear
E. Cohn & Sons, Inc
Penick and Ford
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