Eighty eight Iowa schools offer vets on the farm training
A VA on the farm training program in Iowa now serves nearly 3,000 ex service men across 88 schools with 6,000 projected by year end. The 24 month course combines classroom work and on farm instruction in livestock, crops, farm records, soil conservation, and more, with classes held evenings. Veterans may enroll any quarter and receive subsistence allowances up to 75 dollars for singles and 90 for married.
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ES Moines
Veterans Administration
Iowa
A. E. Martin
Bloomfield
Martin
Sicily
Europe
Belmond
Iowa State
Jasper
Cerro Gordo
Fayette
Bank Says Farm Efficiency Hiked By Mechanization
Chicago report from the Northern Trust Company notes U S farm output rose 30 to 35 percent over three years after the war while farm labor fell about 10 percent. It credits better crops, more machinery and fertilizer, crop shifts to less labor intensive operations, longer hours, and favorable weather. Tractors rose 25 percent, mechanical corn pickers 33 percent, and milking machines nearly 100 percent between 1940 and 1944.
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Chicago
U.S
Northern Trust Company
Two Farm Houses Burned Sunday At West Branch
Special to The Gazette West Branch Iowa two farm homes and most of their contents were destroyed by fire on Sunday. The first blaze at the Brisban place on the Graydon Scheer farm began about 11 p.m. Saturday and a second outbreak around 3 a.m. Sunday left the six room home beyond repair. The Scheers have moved to Downey. A separate 12 room house on a farm north of town owned by L R Hoffman burned Sunday afternoon after chimney sparks ignited the roof. Fire spread quickly in the strong wind but was contained by crews.
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West Branch
Here
Graydon Scheer
Scheer
Unionville
West Branch Fire Department
Scheers
Brisban Place
Downey
L. R. Hoffman
Loyal Hunter
Chicks Lost in Fire On Shellsburg Farm
A Sunday fire at the George Hootman farm near Shellsburg destroyed a brooderhouse and about 275 chicks. A neighbor found the blaze. the Shellsburg fire department confined it to the brooder near the barn. The fire is believed to have started in the brooder.
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Shellsburg
George
Artificial breeding services expand in Iowa dairy counties
Floyd Johnston, extension dairyman at Iowa State College, says artificial breeding services are now available to dairy herd owners in 79 of Iowa's 99 counties. He notes 52 of these counties are organized on a county-wide cooperative basis.
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Ames
Iowa
Floyd Johnston
Iowa State College
Iowa Farm Sports Meet Planned for May 9
More than 100 Iowa agricultural leaders will gather in Des Moines on May 9 to plan Iowa's fifth annual farm sports festival. Sponsored by the Iowa Farm Bureau, the festival will be at Iowa State College on September 5 and 6 featuring softball baseball bowling horseshoe pitching trap rifle shooting and field events. Special divisions will be for 4 H club members men women and rural boys and girls.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Frank Ehman
Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa State College
Ehman
Jr Farm Bureau Group to Tour Eastern States
Des Moines Iowa July 2 start announced by Frank Ehman Farm Bureau director of young people's activities. Fifth annual junior Farm Bureau tour covers about 3000 miles by bus through 10 states and parts of Canada ending July 11. Stops include New York Hyde Park the nation’s capital West Point Gettysburg and other historic sites.
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Farm Bureau
Iowa
Frank Ehman
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Town Farm Bureau
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Hyde Park
Nation’s Capitol
West Point
Gettysburg Battlegrounds
Iowa Delegates Prepare For National 4-H Camp
DES MOINES UP four Iowa 4-H club members were chosen from ten to attend the National 4-H Camp in Washington DC next month. Winners are Alberta Illian 19 Walcott Louise Wintermute 17 Blockton Robert Smith 19 State Center and Bernard Larson 18 Otho. Selection based on 4-H work leadership and personality.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Washington
D. C
Alberta Illian
Walcott
Louise Wintermute
Blockton
Robert Smith
State Center
Bernard Larson
Otho
Hens Do Better When Confined Says Whitfield
Iowa State poultry specialist W R Whitfield reports demonstration flocks confined to sun porches outproduce free ranging flocks by 17 eggs per bird. He cites sunshine exercise and contentment, arguing hens save little feed by ranging and that 500 pounds of waste grain loss is not offset by cleaner eggs.
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Ames
W. R. Whitfield
Iowa State College
Whitfield
Iara Dee Whitfield
Extension Service
Hens Confined Increases Egg Output By 17 Per Bird
Farm records show two flocks groups, one confined year round in a laying house or sun porch with cobblestone or concrete floors, the other allowed to range part of the year. Confined hens averaged 195 eggs, free-ranging 178 eggs, a difference of 17 eggs. Thirty flocks were confined the entire year.
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Whitfield
Sudan Grass Seed Scarce This Year
M L Peterson Iowa State agronomist warns farmers to source Sudan grass seed early as stocks are tight across the state. He advocates planting temporary pastures between May 15 and July 1 to offset scarce grass, noting Sudan’s high midsummer yield and potential two animal units per acre on fertile soil.
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Gazette
AMES
Sudan
M. L. Peterson
Iowa State College Agronomist
Peterson
Dairy Production Record for Decorah Holstein Cow
Willard Torgrim's herd records 365 days yielding 463 pounds of protein from 12,399 pounds of milk by purebred Holstein cow Decorah Wilter Beets De Kol 209411.
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Decorah
Willard Torgrim
Allamakee County Farm Brings $50 per Acre
Special to The Gazette Waukon The 120 acre John McNally farm 13 miles southeast of Waukon was sold at auction last week for $6 000 A tractor and plow brought $1 610 a disc $195 and a spreader $225 Milk cows averaged $150 per head.
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Waukon
John McNally
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