Gavins Point Dam Nearing Completion On Missouri River
Army engineers begin closing Gavins Point dam near Yankton to form an 37 mile long lake with 100000 kilowatts capacity. The project, part of a six dam system on the Missouri, aims at flood control irrigation and power for the west central U S.
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Army
Gavins Point
Yankton
Missouri River
United States
Great American Desert
Oregon
California
Missouri Basin
Garrison Dam
North Dakota
Oahe
Big Bend
Fort Randall
South Dakota
Nebraska
Sioux City
Omaha
Plentiful Oats Are Cheap Feed for Livestock
Urbana Illinois extension livestock specialist G R Carlisle says oats offer similar feed value to corn for fattening hogs when limited to a quarter of the ration, about two bushels per beef cattle, and about 80 percent of corn for lambs. Grind for beef, grind for hogs, feed lambs whole.
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Urbana
Ill
G. R. Carlisle
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Carlisle
Muscatine Show Will Be Judged Wednesday
Muscatine Junior Livestock show runs Tuesday and Wednesday at Heinzfield. About 150 beef and dairy entries from 4-H and FFA are expected to compete with John Minish of Dysart judging beef and Robert Bellman of Riverside, N1., handling dairy.
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Muscatine
Heinzfield
FFA
John Minish
Dysart
Robert Bellman
Riverside
Iowans Join Russian Haying Work On Farm Tour
Abe Iowa delegation member Charles Hearst of Cedar Falls drove a tractor drawn hay mower in Russia while Herbert Pike of Whiting assisted with stacking hay and Ralph Olsen of Ellsworth drew peasant cheers after declaring that friendship brings peace.
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Pereschepino
Iowa
Charles Hearst
Cedar Falls
Russia
Herbert Pike
Whiting
Ralph Olsen
Ellsworth
Jersey Parish No 3 Show Held at Coggon
Twelve breeders showed 42 Jerseys at Coggon with Bert Sams judging. Deckers Jersey Farm Winthrop entrants won senior and grand champion bull and top female, while Schneider and Young earned multiple junior and senior titles. Top animals will form the parish herd for Cedar Rapids All Iowa Fair in August.
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Coggon
Jersey Parish
Bert Sams
Beaman
Decker
Jersey Farm
Winthrop
Basilues
Darkie
Schneider
Young
Jesup
W.R.S.G. Brampton Lucy
Charles M. Young
Elmer and
Marshall Nachholz
Independence
Bernard Shonka
Russell Joyce
Springville
Ronald Schneider
George Marshall
Dubuque
Sondra Shonka
Walter Gutler
Mt. Vernon
Schneider and Young
Marshall
Schneider and
Nabholz
Arly J
Paul Braden
B. Shonka
Harold Nabholz
Elmer
Marshall Nabholz
Cedar Rapids
Skala's Cow Repeats Jersey Show Championship in Toledo
Skala's Right Victor Julia, a grand champion Jersey female, wins the Parish No. 5 show in Toledo for the fifth straight year after being named grand champion in 1951 and 1954. Earl Lyon and Son own multiple top winners including a champion bull and several first place females. Other winners include junior and senior yearlings and various ages led by Lyon and Son, Russell Lyon, and Forrest Hatfield.
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Toledo
E. J. Skala
Victor Julia
Julia
Earl Lyon and Son
Claire Wemer
Rose Hill
Rushsell Lyon
Traer
Wemer
Forrest Hatfield
Lyon and Son
Skala
Russell
Earl Lyon
Noble Aim
Fence Drift Caught in the Woven Wire
R B C Emmett Gardner longtime county extension director in Monroe Cedar and Johnson counties until his 1950 retirement stopped by the farm desk. He and Mrs. Gardner visit Iowa after bringing granddaughter Susan Simpson from San Angelo Texas to Columbia Missouri to see Dr Frederick E Simpson newly joined MU medical faculty. The Gardners have traveled across the country since Iowa City five years ago and will head home via Denver after visiting friends.
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Emmett Gardner
Monroe
Cedar
Johnson
Farm Desk
Gardner
Iowa
Susan Simpson
San Angelo
Texas
Frederick E. Simpson
Columbia
Simpson
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Iowa City
Gardners
Denver
California
Florida
Emmett
American Automobile Association
Purdue Develops Horizontal Pole Type Silo
Purdue University agricultural engineer John Foley unveils a new above ground horizontal pole type silo. The concrete floor supports creosoted poles and planks as walls, no bank needed, with self feeding ends and low cost about 1100 dollars for a 200 ton capacity.
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Lafayette
Ind
John Foley
Purdue University Agricultural Engineer
Foley
Purdue
Barrow Show Prepares 1955 Premium Booklets for National Meet
Austin Minnesota hosts the 1955 Barrow show September 13 to 16 with 15 000 premium booklets mailed nationwide. The booklet covers show rules prize money judges and event details. Breeding stock and truckload entries must postmark by August 22 singles and pens by September 6 at 10 a m A complete exhibitor catalog will name all entrants. Ten breeds enter with interbreed contests and an overall champion from grade and hybrid hogs.
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Austin
Minn
National Barrow Show Management
Officials List Entry Deadlines For State Fair
Des Moines officials remind farmers to file livestock show entries by Monday August 1 in horse cattle swine and sheep divisions. Premiums reach new highs with 27000 for horses 47370 for cattle 21410 for swine and 8440 for sheep. Other departments close August 10 17 and 22 24. Complete forms are urged to avoid delays.
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Des Moines
L. B. Cunningham
Iowa
Cunningham
Fair
Implications of Wool Promotion Plan Eyed
Washington farm leaders react to a referendum on deducting wool payments to fund a promotion campaign. They warn the plan would make the government the collection agent for private advertising and doubt its logic since the wool bill aimed to boost production as a national security measure.
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Washington
INS
Uncle Sam
U.S
Government butter surpluses cut by half in a year
Washington reports government butter stocks reduced by more than 50 percent in the last year as price support buybacks slow. Officials note a possible rebound after April with the new milk season, while cheese and non-fat dry milk stocks also fell.
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Washington
Francis W. Immasche
Agriculture Department
Immasche
Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
Hampshire breed entries crowd National Meat Hog Conference
Seventy seven Hampshire breeders from 13 states entered 446 head of registered Hampshires for the National Hampshire Meat Hog Conference at the Indiana State fairground July 31 to August 2. Breeding classes total 194 head with 40 winning bred gifts 40 open gifts and 20 winning boars up for auction. Market hogs total 252 head in barrow shows. Eighty six head from 43 litters enter the Certified Litter class. 180 day weight tests on Aug 1 determine pair show eligibility then slaughter and carcass judging. Premiums doubled for litters meeting certification. Regular hoof carcass class has 36 head. 130 head compete in regular barrow show.
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Indianapolis
Indiana State Fairground
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