Use Of Hybrids Upsets Corn Forecasting Crop Guessers
Chicago ap farmers seek new data on hybrid corn performance as widespread planting shifts traditional crop forecasts. Agronomists note hybrids yield 10 to 35 percent more than open pollinated corn, prompting revised methods for estimating production and acreage. Iowa leads in hybrid adoption with about 81 percent of 1939 acreage, signaling broader changes across major corn states and questions about soil fertility impact.
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Hicago
Chicago
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Ohio
United States
Fence Drift inwoven wire by RK diary entry
A farmer reflects on corn prospects with humor and caution. He notes dry ground hindered germination last month, then fears a potential crop failure while hoping for a frost before maturity. Fog banks and cool air accompany the evening ride, underscoring a topsy turvy world.
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Ponons
Soils Tours In Clayton Planned Friday Saturday
The Gazette reports planned soils improvement tours in Clayton county set for Friday and Saturday. Floyd Parks, 4 county soils agent, announces the Friday tour starting at 9 30 am will visit farms of Floyd Dittmer Harold Knight John A. Smith Alphonse Miller and Alfred C Pufahl near Guttenberg. The Saturday tour will cover farms of Ole M Embretson in Wagner township and Conrad Lovig near McGregor.
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Gazette
Eleader
Clayton
Floyd Parks
Floyd Dittmer
Cox Creek Township
Harold Knight
Strawberry Point
John A. Smith
Colesburg
Alphonse Miller
Guttenberg
Alfred C. Pufahl
Ole Membretson
Wagner Township
Conrad Lovig
McGregor
Rowley Creamery Pays 26 Cents For Butterfat
Rowley Farmers Cooperative creamery patrons received 26 cents per pound for butterfat in the last half of May, reports secretary Joe McGrath. Grade No 2 paid 25 cents and No 3 paid 24 cents, with prices 2 cents higher than the first half of May.
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Rowley
Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery
Joel McGrath
Sealers Schooled in Corn Grading at Cedar Rapids
Corn graders from 12 east central Iowa counties met in Cedar Rapids for a state AAA corn grading school. W. B. Combs led sessions with Howard Kurtz Ed Dyas Ed Ellison and Ray Connors guiding workers to understand grading factors. Three wheat grading schools are planned next week in Fairfield Des Moines and Council Bluffs.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
State Aaa Committee
W. B. Combs
Chicago
United States Department of Agriculture
Howard Kurtz
Federal Grain Supervisor’s
Ed Dyas
Ames Extension Agronomist
Ed Ellison
Ray Connors
State Aaa
Des Moines
Fairfield
Council Bluffs
Allamakee County Dairy Test Shows Strong May Yields
WAUKON The 549 cows in the Allamakee County Cow Test Association report May results. The group averaged 759 pounds of milk and 313 pounds of butterfat from 31 dry cows among 25 dry. The Lester Fritz herd of nine purebred Guernseys led with 1,069 pounds of milk and 462 pounds of butterfat. A grade Guernsey owned by C H Hagen produced the high individual 1,171 pounds of milk and 78.7 pounds of butterfat.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
Lester Fritz
C. H. Hagen
Lone Tree Fire Company elects officers in annual meeting
Charles Buline was reelected president of the Lone Tree Farmers Fire company in the annual meeting here. J. W. Henik was renamed vice-president, Emora Attig, secretary treasurer, and William Cerney, plus William McCullough, named directors.
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Lone Tree
Charles Buline
Lone Tree Farmers Fire Company
J. W. Henik
Emora_ Attig
William Cerney
William McCullough
Direcors
District Holstein Show at Mason City and Spencer
Fourteen breeders exhibited 53 Holsteins at Mason City district No. 6 show with about 200 attendees. Blue ribbons awarded to champions by Glen Householder, with top winners from Norman Hehnke, Clarence Cook, Keifer, Ray Finster, and J. C. Hastings. Spencer district No. 9 show drew 23 exhibitors and 68 cattle, with grand and senior champions named, and multiple first-place winners advancing to Cedar Rapids All Iowa exposition.
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Mason City
Glen Householder
Brattleboro
Norman Hehnke
Renwick
Clarence Cook
Kanawha
Keifer
Ray Finster
Eldora
J. C. Hastings
Garner
H. L. Johnson
Charles Edel Davisson
Finster
Eckel
Warren Davisson
Sam Harmon
Harold Biethe
Fort Dodge
Spencer
Orr G Watson
Sutherland
E. F. Powell
Linn Grove
C. B. Jensen
H. van Nyhuis
Sheldon
Cedar Rapids
Plainview Farms
R. C. Brown
Paullina
Henry Petersen
Vern Bahde
Gaza
Fred Speis
Graettinger
Merle Bohn
Spirit Lake
Holstein Association
Holstein Show Schedule Across Iowa This Week
Other Holstein shows are slated in Osage West Union Elka der West Union and West Liberty from Tuesday to Saturday. Judging contests are planned at most shows. Winners will advance to a state contest near Anamosa on June 28 tied to the Iowa Holstein Breeders association annual picnic.
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Osage
West Union
Elkader
West Liberty
Anamosa
Iowa Holstein Breeders Association
Calmar Creamery Pays 27 Cents For May Butterfat
Calmar Iowa creamery paid patrons 27 cents for sweet cream butterfat in May and 26 cents for No 1 butterfat. The plant produced 58,568 pounds of butter from 47,105 pounds of butter fat received during the month.
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The
Gazette
Calmar
Calmar Creamery
Lone Tree youth elected as Blue Ribbon Winners 4-H officers
Duane Stock of Lone Tree is elected president of the Blue Ribbon Winners boys 4-H club. William Hunter of Iowa City is vice president, Dale Burr of Lone Tree secretary treasurer, and Francis Donohue of Iowa City historian. Next meeting planned with Vernon Burr on July 6.
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Lone Tree
Duane Stock
William Hunter
Iowa City
Dale Burr
Francis Donohue
Vernon Burr
The Perfume Promised by Sweet Clover Fields
A country woman imagines capturing the scent of clover fields by modern science in shining vials, envisioning a way to hold the fragrance as a prized treasure called The Perfume.
4 H Club Agent Takes Winneshiek County Post
Earl Lyon of Traer, a former Tama county 4-H boy and recent Iowa State College graduate, will assume duties as Winneshiek county 4-H club agent in Decorah on Wednesday. Lyon previously belonged to the state Frapelans Jersey club.
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Decorah
Earl Lyon
Traer
Tama County
Iowa State College
Winneshiek County
Lyon
How to Prepare Cherries for Freezing and Storage
Practical guide for selecting washing pitting and freezing cherries for storage. Recommends Early Richmond Monurorency and Morello varieties. use 60 percent syrup made from seven cups sugar per quart water. cool to 60F before adding. Pack in glass jars or lacquered cans seal airtight and freeze promptly. For pies add sugar at 3 to 1 by weight. Freeze same day as harvest.
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Richmond
Monumorency
Sweet Corn Starts Shooting Ears In Troy Mills Gardens
Troy Mills residents report sweet corn tasseling out and shooting ears in gardens. Peas and string beans are being canned in large quantities by many housewives with good yield and quality. Raspberries begin to ripen in the area after Sunday rain, alfalfa curing is delayed due to the heavy crop.
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Troy Mills
Harry Straw
Art Snyder
What Cheer 4-H Fair Sets Eleven Competition Classes
Tama county 4-H committee chairman Earl Grove announces eleven classes for What Cheer fair this summer. Events include baby beef, beef heifer, dairy calf, purebred and market pig, purebred and market lamb, poultry, demonstration booth, demonstration team and boys' judging.
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What Cheer
Earl Grove
Tama County
Murray Asks Five Questions On Land
W. G. Murray, Ames agricultural economist, posed five land valuation questions to Cedar Rapids farm managers at their June conference. Results show land values mostly steady, with a minority seeing declines. widening gaps between high and low quality land. one mile distance adds about 5 percent value over six miles. gravel roads add roughly 10 percent value over dirt. paving via road frontage shows little to a 5 percent premium for paved versus graveled roads.
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W. G. Murray
Ames
Cedar Rapids
Strawberries Wasted For Want Of Boxes In Minnesota
Commission men report Minnesota yields a record strawberry crop with ideal weather. Box shortages limit shipments, causing large portions to spoil in patches. St Paul markets moved about 4,000 cases yesterday, up from 1,000 typical.
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ST. Paul
INS
Minnesota
Ag Lab Is Five Weeks And Four Thousand Five Hundred Miles Long
Twenty three Iowa State students will study agriculture this summer in a traveling lab that spans five weeks and 4500 miles. They left Ames June 16 in a chartered bus with agronomy and animal husbandry staff, touring twelve states to observe grain cotton and livestock production and marketing practices. Eastern Iowa students Hugh Breakenridge, Dinsdale, Harlan Kroger Tipton, and Maynard Pechman Iowa City join, with A L Anderson and J C Eldredge accompanying.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
Hugh Breakenridge
Dinsdale
Harlan Kroger
Tipton
Maynard Pechman
Iowa City
A. L. Anderson
Animal Husbandry
J. C. Eldredge
Agronomy
National Grange Convention Planned for Peoria in November
PEORIA Ill. The seventy third annual convention of the National Grange will be held Nov. 15 23 at Peoria, it was announced today by the national executive committee.
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Peoria
Ill
National Grange
Youth in Cedar Rapids Tried to Sell Camera for Two Dollars
Deputy Sheriff Harlan Snyder captured a 14 year old Cedar Rapids boy in connection with the theft of a $140 camera and $25 field glasses from a car on D avenue NE. The youth, turned to juvenile authorities, admitted taking another camera near B avenue and Thirteenth street NE. its owner is not yet identified.
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Cedar Rapids
Harlan Snyder
Earl L. Fredine
Snyder
D Avenue
B Avenue
Thirteenth Street
City's Demurrer To Injury Action Upheld
The city of Cedar Rapids wins a demurrer in a $1,000 personal injury suit filed May 5 by Hazel Nievas against the city and J. G. Gatto retailing as G and R Drug Store. Nievas says she slipped on the drug store entrance and fell on a city sidewalk, fracturing a leg. The court sustains the city's demurrer, noting the petition shows the accident occurred on private property.
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Cedar Rapids
Hazel Nievas
J. G. Gatto
G and R Drug
C. J. Hass
Gatto Drug Store
Fourth Avenue
Charles Kirk
Grace Kirk
Norman J. Bickert
Judge Haas
Donald W. Vahl
Marguerite Vahl
Bickert
Two men given jail terms for hosiery larceny in Marion
Leo Becker of Rochester Minnesota and Dale Cranston of Spokane Washington pled guilty to larceny of hosiery at the Boston store in Marion on June 13. Judge C J Haas imposed six months in the county jail and a $100 fine plus costs. One month of the sentence will be served before the balance is suspended on good behavior. County officials said the men will leave the area and Marion police arrested them.
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Leo Becker
Rochester
Minn
Dale Cranston
Spokane
Wash
Boston
Marion
C. J. Haas
County Upholds Aid Claim In Hanson Default Matter
Judge C J Haas overruled Raymond C Hansons motion to set aside a May 17 default in a $458.82 Linn county public aid suit. The county argues its claim attaches to an interest Hanson is said to receive in an estate. Hanson says the May 13 answer was filed and the default arose from a garnishee answer not addressing merits.
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Raymond C. Hanson
Linn County
C. J. Haas
Hanson
Vagrants Released Without Charges In Marion Case
Eugene Savick and Walter Degutis both of Jackson Michigan were picked up by Milwaukee railroad detective Jack Monahan at Marion June 14 for vagrancy. Willie Davis of Washington DC was arrested June 5 for vagrancy and booked at the county jail. All were released Monday with no charges filed.
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Eugene Savick
Walter A. Degutis
Jackson
Mich
Jack Monahan
Milwaukee Railroad
Marion
Willie Davis
Washington, D. C
Trial Overruled in Cedar Rapids Property Suit
Miss Velda Smart of Cedar Rapids failed to gain a new trial in a suit over property in the estate of Fred C. Herman. Judge J E Heiserman ruled for defendants George R. Liddle administrator and D B Herndon cousin after a May 4 finding. H W Frager named administrator of Mary Kratochvil estate with a 4000 bond. John Sherrets 24 Cedar Rapids pleaded not guilty in paternity proceedings. bond set at 300.
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Velda Smart
Cedar Rapids
Fred C. Herman
J. E. Heiserman
Heiserman
George R. Liddle
Herman
D. B. Herndon
Miss Smart
John Sherrets
C. J. Haas
Reckless Driving Case Filed Result Of Crash
William Hester pled not guilty to a reckless driving charge in police court after a crash on First avenue at Eighth street. Trial set for Thursday. Officers Captain Hughes Patrolmen Stodola and Hanna investigated the 1 15 p m Monday collision with A J Emmerich at 1116 Ellis boulevard NW. Hester allegedly drove east on First avenue at 40 to 45 mph, Emmerich was southbound on Eighth street. No injuries reported.
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William Hester
Nineteenth Street
Hughes
Stodola and
Hanna
First Avenue
Eighth Street
Hester
A. J. Emmerich
Ellis Boulevard
Kveta Vondracek Named To Faculty At Franklin
Kveta Vondracek of Cedar Rapids was appointed Franklin physical education instructor for women by the board of education Monday night. She succeeds Ann Lindemann, who has resigned. Margaret Higden of South Haven, Kan., was named assistant music instructor for Polk, Arthur and Franklin schools.
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Kveta Vondracek
Cedar Rapids
Franklin
Board of Education
Ann Lindemann
Margaret Higden
South Haven
Kan
Polk, Arthur
End the dollar fate and curb presidential money power
This six article series argues ending dollar uncertainty by removing presidential control over money and restoring Congress authority. It presses abolishing price pegging across industry and agriculture, halting war scare tactics, reforming social security, and a coordinated business recovery plan stressing antimonopoly actions, tax reform, and selective investment funding. It urges concrete steps to realign currency policy and farm price freedom.
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John T. Flynn
Congress
Surplus Commodity Corporation
Advisory Council
Boasts Endlessly Of Her Travels And Experiences
A Miss Manners column notes LSSE a teen sophisticate who has traveled widely and reads much but dominates conversations. The letters ask whether a party guest should dance and how to handle a boastful high society friend. Advice urges politeness, dancing with those who need practice, and letting go of boasters to meet new, charming people.
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Elsie
Miss Manners
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