Spider Mites Damage Iowa Evergreen Trees Warn Experts
Richard Campbell and Harold Gunderson warn of heavy spider mite damage to Iowa evergreens, threatening windbreaks and individual trees across the state. They describe signs of infestation, tree decline, and recommended control methods including nicotine sulfate and sulfur sprays, water rinses, and dusting, with repeat treatments every 5 to 7 days. killed branches should be left until next year to recover.
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Iowa
Richard Campbell
Iowa State College Forester
Harold Gunderson
Campbell
Gunderson
Farm Women Enter New State Fair Contest
Des Moines report details the Rural Family Living contest at the Iowa Centennial State Fair August 23 to 30. Nineteen counties showcase booths on home economics topics with 1400 dollars in cash premiums, including 1846 and 1946 centennial kitchen displays and varied projects from room arrangement to food conservation and health programs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Davis County
Mahaska County
Louise M. Rosenfeld
Ames
State Extension Service
Tension Service
Benton County
Hamilton County
Black Hawk
Scott
Washington
Louisa
Emmet
Page
Boone
Wisconsin Farm Bureau backs seizure of struck plants
Wisconsin Farm Bureau federation urged government seizure of strike bound farm equipment plants if disputes remain unsettled by August 1. President Curtis Hatch said the group does not back threats by the CIO union to strike all companies. He warned 1947 crops could be jeopardized if plants do not operate at full production through next spring. Workers at J I Case Racine have faced cuts since December 1945. Seven Allis-Chalmers plants are involved in a strike that began last spring.
Farmers in S D Emerge From Dust Bowl Prosperously
South Dakota farmers are rising from the Dust Bowl era with deposits in state banks reaching a record $194,493,412 on June 29. Over the decade, deposits increased about $157.8 million, with a $52.7 million rise in the last year and $10.24 million in the six months ending June 29. Loans and discounts rose slightly to $26.49 million, while federal bond portfolios climbed to $118.92 million.
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Pierre
S. D
South Dakota
Vern W. Abeel
Rural Young People Invite YMB Members Dance Night
Linn County Farm Bureau’s Rural Young People invite the Young Men’s Bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce and their wives to a dance at Mayon ballroom west of Ellis Park Golf Course. The invitation aims to foster town country cooperation, led by committee members Mr and Mrs William E. Bys Mr and Mrs Frank Anderson Jr and Mr and Mrs Maurice Neverman.
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Linn County Farm Bureau
Young Men’s Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Frank Anderson, Jr
Maurice Neverman
Meat and Dairy Groups Oppose Renewal of OPA
United Press reports meat and dairy spokesmen oppose restoring price controls. They warn controls could curb production and boost black markets, while dairy officials say free markets would align prices with costs and farmers would seek more cows.
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The
American Meat Institute
OPA
Institute
D. T .Carlson
Wilmar
Minn
American Dairy Association
Association
Carlson
Benton 4-H Achievement Show Set for Aug 3-6
Benton county 4-H members total 215 entries for the 1946 county achievement show at the fairgrounds August 3 to 6. Swine judged Aug 3, beef cattle Aug 4, dairy cattle and sheep Aug 5, with the annual market livestock auction on Wednesday morning.
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Winton
Benton County 4-H
Charles ‘Cottrell
4-H
Farm Accident Death Rate Is Sharply Higher
Des Moines Iowa farm fatalities totaled 77 in the first half of this year a 34 percent rise from the same period last year. Kirk Fox chairman of the farm safety section of the Iowa Safety Council warns farmers to handle machinery and animals carefully and to disconnect power during adjustments. The six month toll includes 68 male and 9 female deaths with 215 injuries 193 male and 22 female. Cited causes include 29 deaths from machines entanglement 14 from burns 14 from falls and 11 from animal incidents.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kirk Fox
Iowa Safety Council
Fox
Allan Kline Speaks At Wyoming Forum
Allan B. Kline of Des Moines, vice president of the American Farm Bureau, spoke at the national forum of labor agriculture and industry in Laramie Wyoming. He outlined policies desirable to agriculture from labor and industry. An acre of corn loses 48 tons of water daily by evaporation.
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Laramie
Wyo
Allan B. Kline
Des Moines
American Farm Bureau
National Forum of Labor, Agriculture and Industry
Baby Chick Association Sets Convention in St. Louis
The 30th annual convention of the International Baby Chick Association opens in St. Louis with a major agenda item to discuss a program for increasing chicken meat production. The plan aims for broader breasts and thicker drumsticks for American tables. D. D. Slade of Lexington Kentucky is listed among participants.
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ST. Louis
International Baby Chick Association
D. D. Slade
Lexington
Breeding for faster growing chickens amid feed shortages
The national chairman of the Chicken-of-Tomorrow committee urges rapid production by combining meat qualities from various chicken breeds into one strain. In other farm news, the Albert Zumbach farm reports a 52 bushel per acre oat yield on a 35 acre field four and one half miles east of town.
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Chicken-of-Tomorrow Committee
Ryan
Albert Zumbach
Here
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