Tama County Lass Wins Canning Award At 4-H Convention
Wilma Handorf a 17 year old 4 H club girl from Gladbrook Tama county was named Iowa’s best 4 H canning club record winner for the past year Marguerite Nehr Sigourney received honorable mention Rosalie Quick Gowrie won the clothing club contest and Eleanor Hanson Sac City won home furnishing contest. Eileen Grooms Blakesburg was chosen Iowa 4 H queen with coronation to be held Wednesday in a Washington bicentennial pageant Attendants include Francis Miller Lucile Mathison and Louise Jensen The convention drew about 1381 club girls from 47 counties with Scott leading in delegates and Polk county next.
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Sac City
Scott County
MES
Wilma Handorf
Gladbrook
Tama County
Iowa
Marguerite Nehr
Sigourney
Rosalie Quick
Eleanor Hanson
Miss Quick
Miss Hanson
Marie Lundquist
Stanhope
Helen Ihmen
Eldridge
Aretha Paul
Fairport
Marie Friday
Eagle Grove
Helen Pillard
Central City
Esther Evans
Macksburg
Carol Vinton
Eldora
Cordelia Riston
Orient
Edith
Vivian Radebaugh
Jefferson
Mary Spencer
Iowa City
F. D. Farrell
Kansas State College
General Assembly
Eileen Grooms
Blakesburg
Wapello County
Washington
Eileen
Francis Miller
Page County
Lucile Mathison
Winnebago County
Louise Jensen
Audubon
Agda Gronbeck
Hamilton County
Ruth Bowman
Keokuk
Velma Miller
Story County
Jeanette Deprenger
Mahaska
Elva Brown
Boone
Elna Jensen
Black Hawk
Alice Dreyer
Kossuth
Ruth Lefever
Muscatine
Story and
Jasper
Polk County
FENCE DRIFT AND LIVESTOCK MARKET TALK BACK
An Iowa City report notes elderly farmers discuss government criticism and self improvement. I. W. Arthur of Ames will present a year end business summary for the Farmers' Livestock association at its June 30 meeting, with Pat O'Donnell of Des Moines also addressing attendees.
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Iowa City
I. W. Arthur
Ames
Farmers’ Livestock Association
Pat O'Donnell
Iowa Livestock Marketing Corporation of
Des Moines
What’s What Out on the Acres A Sharon Center Farmer Speaks
Interview with Omar Yoder owner of 200 acres near Sharon Center. He discusses conditions on the Pacific coast, logging camps, timber supply, and rainfall. He shares views on prohibition, politics, the economy, taxes, and farm upkeep including fence costs and irrigation of land.
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Omar Yoder
Sharon Center
Pacific Coast
Tacoma
Oats Cut For Hay In Tipton Shortage
Local farmers in Tipton cut oats for hay to substitute legume hay amid shortages. County Agent Emmet Gardner notes hay quality improves in the milk stage, with some preferring soft to hard dough stages for work horses. Mice trouble declines when cut in milk stage.
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Gazette
Tipton
Emmet Gardner
4 H Club to be Formed in Community
Wellman area announces a girls 4 H club to be organized Thursday with Mrs. E L Stewart of Washington leading a pre lesson on making of quick bread and related crafts for members in the local meeting.
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Wellman
E. L. Stewart
Washington
Iowa rent drop shows stubborn burden on rural renters
Ames economist Millard Peck reports cash rents fell from 7.11 to 5.88 per acre in the last 12 months, a 1.23 decline. He warns further decreases may follow unless farm prices rise, noting cyclical shifts in cash rents across the century and the persistence of high rents for tenants.
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Ames
Iowa
Millard Peck
Peck
Wool sales at Cox Creek fetch eight and three quarters cents a pound
Joe McTaggart of Cox Creek sold eleven fleeces to J. C. Amling for 7.61 dollars. The wool averaged eight and a half cents per pound, down from fourteen cents last year. McTaggart recalls fleeces selling for six and seven dollars.
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The
Gazette
Joe McTaggart
Cox Creek
J. C. Amling
Baker Talks Holiday in Central City
Two hundred fifty farmers and locals heard H. H. Baker, Belle Plaine Farmers' Union organizer, discuss the proposed farmers' holiday here Monday evening.
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Baker
the Gazette
H. H. Baker
Belle Plaine
Farmers’ Union
Corn lays by unusually clean, promising good yield
Farmers report many fields laid by with little weed growth due to favorable weather. Early fields are waist high with tassels as clover hay is stored and timothy cutting begins. Oats redden, potatoes peas beans beets and cabbage harvests underway with berries and apples nearing readiness.
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Watkins
Ditches Flooded and Crops Damaged in Spencer's Grove
Heavy Sunday rain of over two inches washed ditches and flattened grain across Spencer's Grove area. Farmers report drowning of young chicks, difficulty drying hay, but praise alfalfa and timothy yields. Pastures near peak, small grains look strong with a potential bumper crop. Oats in milk, late crop heading, winter wheat dough stage, flax fields appear purple.
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the Gazette
Spencer's Grove
Local crop report notes uneven corn and oats. hay outlook strong
Maynard reports very uneven field conditions with some oats ready to lay by while others need two weeks more. Straw is short and heads smaller. alfalfa put up last week yielded from one to two and a half tons per acre, suggesting a bumper hay crop overall.
Local Gardener Reaps Superb Early Ohio Potatoes
Olin Lewis Pieper, 75, a longtime local gardener, dug two pounds of Early Ohio potatoes from a hill planted April 13. The hill yielded one large and five medium tubers, and Pieper notes this season offers the best potatoes of his fifty years of gardening while tending four acres of gardens including 1,000 heads of early cabbage ready for market.
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The_ Gazette
Olin
Lewis Pieper
Strawberry yield soars on local patch near Brandon Henry
Brandon Henry Lassen west of Brandon reports 2300 quarts of strawberries from a quarter acre over three weeks. Several other nearby patches also produced strong harvests.
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Brandon
Henry Lassen
Medicines Fail If Infection Source Remains, Says Bulletin
Eastern Iowa Veterinary association warns medicines fail against lung and bowel infections in dogs unless animals are kept away from the infection source. The weekly bulletin lists outbreaks in Dysart Keystone Morley Anamosa Monticello Morning Sun Chee Stanwood Marion Marshalltown Cedar Rapids Iowa City Stayington and other towns with diseases such as cattle septicemia rabies cholera and cocci diosis.
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Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Dysart
Keystone
Morley
Anamosa
Monticello
Stanwood
Marion
Weed spraying demo planned near Van Horne on Farm Bureau
A weed spraying demonstration will be conducted Thursday on the Art Fry farm two miles east of Van Horne under the Benton county Farm Bureau. County Agent W. J. Norris says various methods of eradication will be discussed and a power sprayer will apply the first spray of sodium chlorate.
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Orne van HO
Art Fry
van Horne
Benton County Farm Bureau
W. J. Norris
Iowa Seeds Sell Noxious Weeds At High Rate Says Chemist
Des Moines report from E. L. Redfern chief state chemist shows Iowa grown seed has higher weed content than foreign samples. 37.8 percent of Iowa seed contained noxious weeds and 2.6 percent exceeded legal limits while 27 percent was misbranded. 1,584 samples included alfalfa sweet clover red clover and timothy with lespedeza new this year. Sales of 25 lots halted due to weed counts and misbranding raise concerns over price driven quality.
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Des Moines
Iowa
E. L. Redfern
State Department of Agriculture
Redfern
25 at Boys' 4-H Camp at Rotary Lodge
Wilton Jct Carl Rylander Muscatine county agent says D. W. Layton of Ames pathology depart and L. B. Hoopes of Muscatine high school assist in running the county wide 4-H boys camp at Rotary lodge with twenty five boys enrolled.
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Wilton Junction
Carl Rylander
Muscatine
D. W. Layton
Ames Pathology Department
L. B. Hoopes
Smith-Hughes
Rotary Lodge
Farm Bureau Picnic Set for July 4 at Crystal Lake
Dewitt Clinton County Farm Bureau plans its annual picnic on July 4 at Crystal Lake with expected community turnout and family activities.
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Farm Bureau
Dewiti
Clinton County Farm Bureau
Crystal Lake
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