Petrak Honored For 30 Years As 4-H Leader
Linn county honors Mrs L E Petrak at the 4 H leaders recognition banquet in Marion with the Ruby Award for 30 years of service. She led and served 11 years as local club leader and 19 years on the county girls 4 H committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Petrak
RS. L. E. Petrak
Alburnett
Linn County
Marion
William Bys
Mt. Vernon
Raymond Dake
Coggon
Charles Wassmer
Central City
Jerry Probasco
Cedar Rapids
Junior Edwards
Anamosa
Gene Anderson
Joe Foley
Orlan Klopp
Walker
Glenn Morris
Anthony Lake
Lloyd Martin
Linn County Farm Bureau
J. Eldon Airy
Farm Bureau
Ken Muller
Marion Rural Community School
Grace Brenkhahn
County Extension Home
Team Brings $420 at Harrington Auction
A team of 9 and 10 year old sorrel mares sold for 420 dollars at the Harold Harrington closing out sale seven miles west of Hopkinton. Robert Erickson of Greeley bought the team with a bid from an Amish farmer among strong ring activity noted by Auctioneer Bob Drumbarger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Harold Harrington
Hopkinton
Robert Erickson
Bob Drumbarger
Drumbarger
Soviet Agriculture Minister Pysin Fired in Shakeup
Konstantin Pysin, 53, removed from the Soviet Agriculture Ministry after less than a year in office. Ivan Volovchenko, 46, named his replacement as the government seeks stronger farm production amid ongoing Virgin Lands and grain concerns. Volovchenko, a Petrovsky state farm alumnus and Hero of Socialist Labor, previously led a Lipetsk region farm and serves as a deputy in the Supreme Soviet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Konstantin Pysin
Tass
Ivan Volovchenko
Pysin
Khrushchev
Agriculture
Volovchenko
Pusin
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Virgin Lands
Siberia
Voronezh Agricultural Institute
Petrovsky
Lipetsk
Russian Federation
Angus Auxiliary Announces $500 Scholarship
Ang uas Auxiliary invites girls in 4 H Angus projects at St Joseph Missouri to apply for a $500 college scholarship. Local chairmen names are available from Mrs James H Blades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Joseph
American Angus Auxiliary
James H. Blades
Closing out sales listed across multiple dates and locations
A regional notice lists several closing out auctions for livestock machinery hay grain and straw. Dates include Saturday March 1 and Thursday March 14 with locations near Alburnett Manchester Olin Coggan Whittier Marion and bids by individuals such asKeith Miell Robt J Wilson Francis Brown Bernard Hay Alfred Schilling Eddie Butschi Harold Stewart and Mrs Mike McCann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith Miell
Alburnett
J. Wilson
Francis Brown
Manchester
Bernard Hay
Alfred Schilling
Olin
Eddie Butschi
Coggan
Harold Stewart
Whittier
Mike McCann
Marion
Declining Prices And Production Seen for Wool
The agriculture department forecast 1963 will bring modestly lower wool prices and U S production with continued high imports of wool textile products. It noted 1962 was relatively good, with higher grower prices and lower output than 1961, and mill activity in the apparel wool sector at its strongest since 1956.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
U. S
Department
Boars Hit High Prices at Ames Station Auction
Sixty one boars averaged 188 at the Iowa boar testing station sale in Ames. Top price 640 paid by C. T. Keen and Son for a Hampshire entered by Wil bert Meinhart. Meinhart also sold the second high boar for 400.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa
C. T. Keen and Son of
LeGrand
Hampshire
Wilbert Meinhart
Hudson
Meinhart
Lyons’ Century Sire Awarded Jersey Bull Jester B Noble Aim
Jester B Noble Aim a Jersey bull from Lyons and Russell Lyon herds in Toledo and Traer earned the American Jersey Cattle Club Century Sire honor. He has 161 tested daughters averaging 8508 pounds milk and 478 fat with 277 classified daughters at 86.27 percent type.
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Toledo
B. Noble Aim
Lyon
Russell Lyon
Traer
American Jersey Cattle Club
Jersey Club
Jester
Brampton Jester
Basileus
William and
James Dean
Ridgeway
Mich
Central Ohio Breeding Association
Columbus
Ohio
Government inventory climbs above last year
The government’s investment in price supported commodities as of Jan 31 totaled 8.465 billion dollars, about 433 million higher than December and 7.855 billion a year earlier. It included 5.0 billion in commodities owned by the Commodity Credit Corp and 3.4 billion in outstanding loans on held commodities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Commodity Credit Corp
Warm Weather Spurs West Crop Growth
The weekly weather and crop bulletin reports unseasonably warm conditions across the western half of the United States accelerating growth of fall-seeded crops. Farmers note earlier emergence and improved crop prospects due to mild nights and low rainfall through the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Dor
PCAs Nearly All Farmer Owned
Washington reports that of 487 production credit associations formed since 1933 with a government investment of 90 million dollars, all but seven are now farmer owned. The government stake has fallen to 175 thousand dollars as of year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
API
Entries Due for 1963 Iowa Master Lamb Producers
Nomination deadlines set for April 10 by Iowa State Sheep Association president Howard Waters. Top ten producers will be named based on lambing percentage market grade weight sale price and pounds marketed per ewe. Eligible are flocks with 35 or more ewes lambing this spring. Nominations may come from the producer neighbor county extension worker or vocational agriculture instructor. Sponsored by the sheep association extension service and Wilson Rath packing companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Howard Waters
Danville
Iowa State Sheep Association
Waters
The
Sheep Association
Extension Service
Wilson
Iowa
Rath Packing Companies
Iowa Turkey Hatchings Fall Behind Year Ago
Iowa turkey hatcheries produced 58 000 heavy white poults and 200 000 heavy bronze birds in the week ending March 2. The same week in 1961 yielded 237 000 heavy bronze poults, per the Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Decorah 4-H Committee Adds Two Members
Winne den county extension council approves the appointment of Mrs. George Knoke and Mrs. Marcelline Phillips to the county girls 4 H committee. Both hold Decorah addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Anthrax Found On S. D. Farm Near Akron
Akron Ia AP A livestock anthrax outbreak was reported on Roy Abraham’s farm near Spink in South Dakota twelve miles west of Akron Veterinarian Dr Robert Garvin said five pigs and four head of cattle have died and the farm is quarantined with plans to burn carcasses and vaccinate remaining stock The diagnosis was confirmed by Dr John B Taylor of South Dakota State University This is Garvin’s first Anthrax case in 30 years of practice in the Akron area and notes a prior outbreak near Vermilion about ten years ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Robert Garvin
Roy Abraham
Spink
S.D
Garvin
Abraham
John B. Taylor
South Dakota State
Vermillion
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Arnold Salisbury
Ivan
Russia
Grace Drenkhahn
American Sheep Producers Council
Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers Auxiliary
Supreme Soviet
Angus
Jesse
James
Center Point Road
Lyons
Wyoming
Great Plains
Far Northwest
Oklahoma
Kansas
Pcas
Lamb Producers
Joe & Cliff
1St Ave
DE Var
Escorts
Keswick
Deep River
North English
Rock Road
Cattie
Guernsey
John Cere
John Deere
Viking
Bender
Jo Deere
Letz Burr Mill
Our Lady of Lourde Francis
Ed O’brien
Cleo Ferguson
First Trust & Union Savings Bank
Cox
Ian and Graee
Irs
R. G. Litzenberg
S. D. Farm
Burry
Elmer Anderson
Larrabee
Cherokee County
Anderson
Long Island
Maine
Your
Jon & Mary Scriven
Sunrise Steakhouse
Hawkeye Downs
the Sheraton
Sheraton
Montrose
Vws
Tasmania
North Pole
Volkswagen
Empire Motors, Inc
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