Kansas Wheat Harvest Will Begin Soon
Kansas farmers expect a bumper wheat crop with yields likely reaching 30 to 40 bushels per acre if weather stays favorable. Harvest could start midweek in south-central Kansas, aiming for over 218 million bushels statewide as crews from Liberal and Garden City mobilize amid grasshopper control efforts and early harvest activity.
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Wellington
Kan
Kansas
Raymond Frye
Sumner County
Charles Smith
Liberal
State Employment Service
Texas
Oklahoma
L. L. Leroux
Engineer: Flame weed costly and risky for crops
Agricultural engineer W G Lovely told the Midwest LP Gas Engine School at Iowa State College that flame weeding corn is only fairly effective and expensive. He noted advantages with a flat-nozzle burner but warned about crop damage if timing or setup is off, and that overall costs rival traditional cultivation.
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AMES
W. G. Lovely
U. S
Department of Agriculture
Midwest Lp-Gas
Iowa State College
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Lovely
Iowa Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association
National Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association
Agricultural Engineer Department
Easier Ad Help Guides Gazette Classifieds
Advertisement urges readers to contact trained ad-takers at EM 2-1121 for easier Gazette Classified Want Ad preparation. The note emphasizes personal assistance through a phone line for ad placement.
Coverdale Named To Head National 4-H Club Group
John W. Coverdale of Waterloo, a founder and longtime director of the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, was elected president, succeeding Thomas E. Wilson who becomes president emeritus. Coverdale, 75, has long led rural youth and farm organization efforts and received an Iowa State honorary doctorate this year.
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Chicago
John W. Coverdale
Waterloo
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Committee On Boys and Girls Club
Thomas E. Wilson
Wilson
Wilson and Company
Coverdale
Bath Packing Company
Agricultural Bureau
Bureau
Iowa State College
Alumni Fund
National Livestock and Meat Board
Cooperative Hog Marketing Plan Announced by Iowa Farm Bureau
DES MOINES AP a cooperative hog marketing plan by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation aims to lift prices for top quality hogs. A southeast Iowa concentration yard will grade and sort hogs for volume bargaining and best daily prices, linking with the Illinois system. Delegates also okayed studying an egg marketing proposal and a county feed distribution program.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa
Illinois
Farm Bureau
Cudahy Forced to Pay Fines Over Spoiled Cream Use
DES MOINES AP Cudahy Packing Company fined 500 dollars and manager Harold A Guenther 10 dollars by Federal Judge Edwin R Hicklin for using decomposed cream in butter. Two shipments to Kansas City Missouri were seized totaling 5 184 pounds. Inspectors found decomposed cream in the second shipment dated July 30 and 31 1957. Company and Guenther pled no defense.
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U. S
Company
Guenther
Johnson County 4-H boys tour Wilson plant for livestock marketing
About 100 4-H boys from Johnson County will visit the Wilson and Company plant in Cedar Rapids to study livestock marketing and related operations.
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Johnson County
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Ayrshire Calf Show Slated at West Liberty
An Eastern Iowa Ayrshire calf show and field day is planned at the West Liberty fairground on June 14. Co chairs Harry Lorenz and Marion Timmins announce a fitting and showing demonstration at 11 am, a noon picnic lunch, and a junior versus senior heifer class structure for calves born in specific July 1957 to March 1958 windows. Bill Maynard of the Iowa State Dairy Association will judge the classes. Richard Sears of Grinnell coordinates East Central and East districts sponsorship.
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West Liberty
Iowa
Ayrshire
West Liberty Fairground
Harry Lorenz
Davenport
Marion Timmins
West Chester
Bill Maynard
Iowa State Dairy Association
Waterloo
Richard Sears
Grinnell
Eee
Miss Scott Named to Louisa Extension Post
Miss Ann Scott of Muscatine will replace Mrs Elaine Martens as Louisa county home economist June 15. Scott will graduate from Iowa State College next week.
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Scott
Louisa
Columbus Junction
Ann Scott
Muscatine
Elaine Martens
Louisa County
Iowa State College
Parasite Warning for Weaned Livestock From Livestock Group
Des Moines bulletin from the American Foundation for Animal Health warns farmers to guard young, recently weaned animals against parasites such as tapeworms and lungworms. It cites risks to nutrition, blood loss, liver and lung damage, and possible death or stunted growth, plus preventive steps and veterinary guided medicines.
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Des Moines
American Foundation For Animal Health
Linn F B Membership Sets New All Time High
Linn county Farm Bureau reports a record paid membership of 2,505, surpassing the 1954 high of 2,494. The gain over 1957 is 109 members, with Linn county leading the state in membership as chairman J Eldon Airy notes. More than 250 volunteers aided the campaign.
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Farm Bureau
Linn County
J. Eldon Airy
Airy
Louisa Cattle Feeders Tour Scheduled Next Week
Over 1,000 head of cattle will be seen on the Louisa county cattle feeders tour on June 12 according to Extension Director James Uss. The tour starts at the R. G. Lowe farm northeast of Fredonia and Iowa State College animal husbandman Tom Wickersham will speak at a 6 p.m. supper at the Wapello sale barn.
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Columbus Junction
Louisa County
James Uss
R. G. Lowe
Fredonia
Tom Wickersham
Iowa State College
Wapello
Camp Abe Lincoln will host 4-H girls from Louisa county
Columbus Junction eighty one 4-H club girls will register Sunday for the annual camp at Camp Abe Lincoln near Davenport.
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Columbus Junction
Louisa County
Abe Lincoln
Davenport
June Class I Milk Set at 3.57 Per Cwt in Cedar Rapids
June Class I milk price in the Cedar Rapids Iowa City market area is set at 3.57 per hundredweight with butterfat differential 8.1 cents per hundredweight per 0.1 percent variation around 3.5. May prices include Class II at 2.90 and Class III at 2.72. The Chicago Class I price plus 15 cents determines Cedar Rapids Iowa City pricing. announcements occur by the fifth of the month and the tenth for the blend.
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Cedar Rapidstown City
E. H. McGuire
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Chicago
USDA Reports Export Corn Bids Accepted
The USDA announced contracts to process about 525000 bushels of CCC owned wheat into 22791250 pounds of flour for domestic donation to school lunch programs welfare agencies and institutions. Of the total 2164900 pounds will be bread flour 20167850 pounds all purpose flour and 458500 pounds whole wheat flour. Since January 1 about 11500000 bushels have been processed into 514720300 pounds for donation programs.
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Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
USDA
Benson urges extension of milk plan for schools
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson urged Congress to extend the surplus disposal and school milk programs separately, accusing the House Agriculture Committee of blocking the farm program with a catch-all bill. He warned failure to extend the surplus disposal act would cut markets and sales. The school milk program faces a June 30 expiry unless extended.
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Washington
UPS
Ezra Taft Benson
Congress
Benson
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
Benson comments on farm bill veto motives and cotton prices
Benson says an omnibus bill may aim to trigger a veto, notes farm bills have been vetoed, and warns cotton price support widening could cut next year plantings by 25 percent. He delays trip to Russia until late July and is relieved resigning talk has faded on Capitol Hill.
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Benson
Congress
Russia
Capitol Hill
Iowa Poults Hatch Up 6 Percent Week of May 31
Iowa turkey hatcheries produced 259000 heavy breed poults for the week ending May 31 1958, up 6 percent from 245000 a year earlier. Heavy breed hen eggs set totaled 189000, up 64 percent from 115000 the prior year. In Decorah Winneshiek county 4 H rally day is scheduled 1030 am to 3 pm Saturday per home economist Joanne Turner.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Turkey
Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Joanne Turner
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Huell Warren
Garden City
Dan Trayer
Finney County
Gray County
Finney
D! Scholls
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Cudahy Company
2Nd
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Robert Hall
Manchester
Harold Wingert
LaPorte City
Delaware County
Harold Crowley
Howard Jefferies
Art Holthaus
Roy Holthaus
Don Eibey
Leland Klaus
Delaware
Jerry Knittle
Ed Adamson
Bob Kline
Maynard Spear
Iowa State College Extension
Hatch & Brookman
Super Mart
Stockmanne
Linn F.B
Louisa Cattle Feeders
Zenith
St. SH
Vermont
16Th Ave
Ist Ave
Belle Plaine
Marengo
Williamsburg
Blairstown
Gazette
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