Kansas Wheat Harvest Brings Wealth to Rube Crist Near Holcomb
In western Kansas near Holcomb Rube Crist and his family watch 10 combines reap a bumper wheat crop. Crist now owns 7,000 acres, expects a record yield possibly 215,000,000 bushels, and notes prices around $1.80 a bushel amid abundant harvests and evolving grain logistics.
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Garden City
R. L
Rube) Crist
Six Crist
Holcomb
Kan
Here
Crist
Western Kansas
Kansas
Nebraska
Wayne M. Campbell
Fence Drift in Woven Wire Signals Market Tightness
Heavy livestock runs in post OPA days create a sense of plenty while marketings lag due to price control debates. The pig crop, cattle on feed, and sheep numbers fall, implying eventual back-log drawdown and likely high livestock prices into fall 1947.
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Congress
Five Guernsey cows and calves for sale
A listing of dairy cattle includes 1 Hor se Road Bred Gelding a handy cine and six Guernsey cows aged 6 to 4 years with freshening dates in May June September and ongoing milking from 4 to 24 quarts daily. Also offered are yearling heifers and two Guernsey calves 6 and 4 weeks old described as nice and fat.
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Guernsey
Tember
Susie
New Book on Marketing Farm Products Released
Ames Iowa State college press announced Geoffrey S Shepherd’s Marketing Farm Products the latest in a three volume series on agricultural marketing and prices. The book adopted as a textbook by Michigan State Oklahoma A and M and Iowa State colleges, part of twenty second agricultural economics titles from the local press.
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AMES
Geoffrey S. Shepherd
Iowa State College
Iowa State College Press
Shepherd
Michigan State College
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College
Vocal Students Win Scholarships to Leadership Camp
Six Iowa vocational agriculture students were awarded scholarships to the American Youth Foundation leadership training camp in Shelby Michigan August 12 to 25. State director H T Hall announced the winners Norman Annan Clarinda Donald Brownlee Chariton Leslie Rath Denison Wendell Body Darwin McDonald Russell Swanson Sac City.
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Des Moines
Iowa Vocational Agriculture
American Youth Foundation
Shelby
Mich
H. T. Hall
Norman Annan
Clarinda
Donald Brownlee
Chariton
Leslie Rath
Denison
Wendell Body
Darwin McDonald
Russell Swanson
Sac City
Hull named director of WOI Iowa State college radio
Richard B. Hull is named director of WOI the Iowa State College radio station announced Monday by Dr Charles E Finley Hull succeeds W I Griffith who has directed AES activities of the station for 21 years
Brookvale Diary Weekly Reflections on Farm Life
A week of farm notes from Brookvale covers weather hopes, livestock prices, vaccination efforts against cholera, new colt names June and July, Fourth of July picnic traditions, haying labor shortages, 2 4 D thistle spray trials, and a note that U S milk production has tripled over the last century.
Official Urges Giving Indians Grazing Lands
A Land Policy Review article by Walter Woehlke argues returning Great Plains grazing lands to Indian tribes would improve soil conservation. He traces 1890–1920 tribal land losses, notes the plow era and stock farming, and cites Pine Ridge as a pattern of misused land. He urges restitution of most land for Indian grazing use.
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Ashington
Land Policy Review
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Walter Woehlke
The
Interior Ment
Great Plains
North
South Dakota
Montana
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Woehlke
Pine Ridge
Major Brennan
Wohlcke
Farm labor balance near in wartime demand in Iowa
A survey of Iowa county extension offices reports that general farm labor supply nearly balances demand for the first time since before the war. Shortages persist in detasseling and bean picking, with detasseling to begin mid month as beans ripen.
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Ames
Iowa
Everett Ritland
Iowa State College Farm Labor Office
Detasseling Start Delayed in Iowa Fields
Officials say harvesting crews cannot begin until July 20 at Algona Durant Fayette Grinnell Marenge Perry Reinbeck and Shenandoah. With 105000 acres of hybrid corn and a need for 35000 detasselers most wages will be about 60 cents an hour for high school students. Demand is highest in central Iowa counties and residents are urged to contact their county extension director for work.
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Ers
Algona
Durant
Fayette
Grinnell
Marenge
Perry
Reinbeck
Shenandoah
Ritland
Iowa
Tipton Farmer Suffers Serious Head Injury
Richard Eiselstein, a Cedar county farmer living south of Tipton, was struck in the head while removing a corn cultivator from his tractor. He was taken to University Hospital in Iowa City where an operation was performed.
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Tipton
Richard Eiselstein
Cedar County
University Hospital
Iowa City
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