6.3 Acres Of Corn Up On Farm Near Alburnett
A Batchelder Brothers field near Alburnett shows 6.3 acres with corn three fingers tall and a full stand. The crop was planted April 29 with first sprouts last Saturday and reported 100 percent stand Tuesday evening. Weather and seed varieties noted as drought and heat resistant.
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Batchelder Brothers
Alburnett
C. B. F. Mitchel
Marios
Charles D Reed
Des Moines
Canton
Orange City
Jefferson
Fort Dodge
Cedar Rapids
Hampton
Postville
Carroll
Ayrshire
Waterloo
Howie Lang
Brooklyn
Fitch Farm
Ankeny
Brown Brothers
Stage Set For High School Ag Congress At Ames
The two day Iowa high school agricultural congress on the Ames campus opens Thursday with registration in Agricultural hall and an achievement events program including livestock management crop judging and farm mechanics. Friday concludes with a banquet in Memorial Union and awards based on achievement rather than ranking.
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Ames
SNS
H. H. Kildee
Weishea
Congress
Agricultural Hall
Iowa High School Congress
Memorial Union
Dean Kildee
Vaccination Drive Aims at Sleeping Sickness in Horses
The veterinary bulletin urges two successive doses for vaccines against sleeping sickness. Prices have seen cuts but no dose cutting will ensure proper protection, warns officials and veterinarians about substandard work.
Child Attacked by Hogs Near Volga City
John Henry Schuldt a 3 year old son of Mr and Mrs Albert Schuldt farmers north of Volga City wandered into a hog lot Monday morning where he was attacked by hogs. His father rescued him and doctors say he is expected to recover from cuts bruises and other injuries.
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Volga City
John Henry Schuldt
Albert Schuldt
Here
Marion seller tops steer sale at Chicago market
Leo Lavesseur of Marion sold 19 head of steers and heifers at Chicago Monday for 9.25 dollars per hundredweight. The cattle averaged 673 pounds.
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Leo Lavesseur
Marion
Chicago
Three Fingers Tall Corn Marked At Batchelder Farm
Gilbert Batchelder reported corn measuring three fingers tall on April 29 at his farm three miles southeast of Albuquerque. He has over six acres planted and a good stand with hills marked by shingles to gauge daily growth and a thermometer in the soil to record temperatures.
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Gilbert
Batchelder
Alburnett
Washington County Test Association
A. C. Gingerich
Wellman
Alvin Lueder
Madrid
United States
Brown Swiss Assn to Award Ton Cows
Iowa Brown Swiss Association announces awards for cows with lifetime butterfat of a ton or more with certificates at the Dec 5 Carroll meeting. Nominations due Sept 1 to Ames extension service.
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Astern Town
Cedar Rapids
Floyd Arnold
Arthur Porter
Ames Extension
Iowa Brown Swiss Breeders Association
Dee 5
Carroll
Ames
Dairy Day Planned at Ames Amid Veishea Activities
Ames May 12 designated Iowa Dairy Day. Program during Veishea includes the Iowa State Dairy Association officers meeting and the newly created Iowa State Dairy Commission gathering on the campus to emphasize dairy products in the diet and dairy’s role in Iowa agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa
Veishea
Iowa State Dairy Association
Iowa State Dairy Commission
Clever Mothers Turn Work to Fun in Baseball Mood
A speaker notes a woman making work seem enjoyable and baseball feel like a job. They suspect she is among clever mothers who keep winning. The talk hints at coaxing a reluctant person to play next week.
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Picion
Farm subsidy plans outlined for 1940 bill
The agriculture department bill would distribute 773 million dollars in farm subsidies among cooperators in crop control and soil conservation programs. Crop producers must limit acreage and idle land to designated allotments, with soil conservation and parity or soil payments forming most of the aid, including 48 million for sugar producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate
Congress
Farm security workers meet in Ames learning session
About 150 FSA workers convene in Ames for a four day meeting focusing on problems from their work with farm families in low income areas. The session opens Monday and uses three approaches to synthesize information into a philosophy of agriculture and education today.
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AMES
Champlin's Started Chicks Offer Time and Money Savings
Champlin's advertises early chick starters to save time and money, claiming no heat needed for 4 to 5 week olds and a range of ages and breeds. They hatch all chicks sold and provide day-old chicks every Monday and Thursday, including White Leghorns and Brown Leghorns, with blood tested stock and a next year egg contract.
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Tom Cochran
Champlin’s
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Turkey River
Fayette County
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Jiogs
Gazette
Brown Swiss Ass
F. E. Walsh
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Walsh
Edwin Phillips
Benton No. 1
Carl Fredericks
Benton No. 4
John Offringa
West Branch
Wesley Borden
Hopkinton
A. P. Breitbach
Dubuque
Everett Hayes
Henry
Forrest Darey
Homer Miller
Jackson
Carl Pieper
Johnson
Clarence
Ashbrenner
North Jones
Dale Wicks
South Jones
P. L. Hendricks
Lee Des Moines
L. C. Adams
Linn
Ernest F. Nation
Otto Bruns
Ralph McAllister
Scott
Edgewood
Francis Scott
Clayton-Delaware
Harold Brockmeyer
Osage
West Union
Elkader
Waverly
West Liberty
C. W. Graham
Grimes
Walter Kruse
Sheldon
Jersey
Indianola
Marshalltown
Allison
San Francisco
Dairy Association
Mother Hoople
Timothy
Escrow
Dugan & Dixon
Williams
O Gwilliami
Interstate
Interstate Finance Corporation
Fifth Street
Light Bc
Oxfords
the Big Shoe Store
Second Avenue SE
FSA
Hamilton Seed & Coal Co
First Street
Third St
Ninth Ave
Chicks
Champlin
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