Wilson Opens New Dock for Truck Usage
Wilson's Cedar Rapids plant converts part of the old rail dock to a truck loading facility marking a shift in livestock transport. The new dock speeds unloading for hogs cattle and sheep and reduces alley clutter as trucks arrive from central markets. The change follows 25 years of evolving transport and will handle 8000 hogs daily at peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Harry Palmer
Wilson
Iowa
Alan Williams
Wilson Livestock Service
Sixteenth Avenue
United States Bank
Third Street
New Livestock Plant Opens Truck Dock System
The dock classes offset to create a straight alley from loading pens to scales enabling independent movement of sheep cattle and hogs. Scales are ready for weighing Monday with buyer offices in the building. An emery cross hatch floors reduce bruising and a large sprinkler system aids hog alleys for hot days. Eight of 20 rail chutes remain and plant will handle rail shipments as livestock receipts flow through the new truck docks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Wilgon
Poor Pasture Raises Good Legumes and Corn
Inland Cedar county farmer Bernhardt Stuehm renovated a hillside pasture with lime fertilizer oats and a legume mix to improve carrying capacity. The test field shows bluegrass regrowth and reduced erosion with a potential two head per acre next grazing season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo Ahrens
Stuehm
Tipton
Bernhardt Stuehm
Cedar County
Cedar Extension
Howard Hamilton
Pheasants, weather, and farm work in a Iowa week
In a rural Iowa week Jane reports a pheasant sighting and a mild spell. The diary notes church smiles, corn picking, and repairs to a scale house door. Jim handles elevator work, cattle in corn stalks, and roof repairs while family routines unfold through the days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Jim
Jane
Marjorie
Medary’s
Prairie
California
Neighbor
Tag
Cindy
Tubby
Johnson County Girls Form New 4-H Club
A new girls 4-H club named the 3 J club stands in Jefferson township Johnson county. Led by Mrs Vernon Brickner and Mrs Edward Matyk of Solon the eight member group lists Elaine Matyk as president Roberta Bowman as vice president Anna Lee Velky as secretary treasurer Sandra Hadacek as historian and Barbara Knowels as reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SOLON
Jefferson Township
Johnson’ County
Jolly Jefferson Jewels
Vernon Brickner
Edward Matyk
Elaine Matyk
Roberta Bowman
Anna Lee Velky
Sandra Hadacek
Barbara Knowels
Soil Conservation Meetings Scheduled in Johnson County
Johnson county district schedules three soil conservation meetings this week. The film Grass Roots and the Soil will be shown. Programs start at 8 p.m. at Solon school Wednesday, Oxford conservation club Thursday, and North Liberty school Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Johnson County
Solon School
Oxford Conservation Club
North Liberty School
Neighbors Harvest Sixty Acres At Myers Farm
Thirty six neighbors helped harvest sixty acres of corn at the Lloyd Myers farm near North Liberty. Myers, hurt in a fall more than a month ago, has been unable to work. Women of the neighborhood served a turkey dinner at noon in the Methodist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Liberty
Lloyd Myers
Myers
Good Range Reported in Western Area
Agriculture department officials report 10 of 17 Western states show range conditions nine points above last year and cattle flesh is strong in the central and southern Great Plains and Southwest. Dry northern plains and Far West areas are thinner, with summer and fall marketings down in several states. Public sale notices list livestock and farming equipment in multiple Iowa locations with dates in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Agriculture Department
Western Livestock Office
Federal Agriculture Department
Far West
F. W. Beier, Jr
Denver Livestock Office
Great Plains
Southwest
Northern Plains
Beier
Western
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Plains
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Montana
West
South Dakota
Hort Society Convenes Three Day Convention At Iowa State
Ames reports the eighty fourth annual Iowa State Horticultural Society convention at Iowa State College features a banquet Wednesday at 6 p.m. with W R Leslie of Manitoba Canada as main speaker on Canadian ornamentals. Affiliated groups include Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa Iowa Beekeepers Association Women's Auxiliary Iowa Fruit Growers Association and Iowa Gladiolus Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa State Horticultural Society
Iowa State College
W. R. Leslie
Morden
Manitoba
Canada
Horticultural Society
Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa
Iowa Beekeepers’ Association and Women’s Auxiliary
Iowa Fruit Growers’ Association
Iowa Gladiolus Society
Iowa
Gray buys Riceville farmland in deal with local owners
Warren Gray former Dinsdale farmer buys 160 acres near Riceville and will take possession March 1. He also will operate an eighty acre tract owned by Ed Gray of Chelsea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TRAER
Warren Gray
Dinsdale
Riceville
Gray
Ed Gray
Chelsea
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Les Burianek
Joe Zeveral
Wilson Yards
Marvel Mystery Oil
2Nd Ave
King’s Crown
McCalley’s
Forrest L. McCalley
Alburnett, Iowa
Prairie Ridge
Wildcat
Hillsdale
Pleasant Grove
Marion Rural Independent
Marion
Mitchell & Smith
Harvey E. Trimble
DHIA
Joe Hineman
Iowa State
Ray Marley
Clarence Clay
Paul Haley
Buchanan
Louis Taber
Linn
Ronald Matthews
Muscatine
Donald Matthews
Lee Des Moines
Dean Johnson
Henry
Harris Rogners
Jackson
Don E. Ward
Prairieburg
Guernsey
Everett Timm
Marengo
Ballou Bros
Steel
John Bading
Coggan
Leo Harrison
Maron
Poland
Mary M. Sargent
Mt. Vernon
Thomas Supple
Cascade
John Wiebold
Glen Meyer
van Horne
KCRG
E. Cohn & Sons
Ninth Avenue and
Hort Society
Riceville Farm
Eastern Iowa Livestock Commission Co
Mechanicsville
Illinois
Wilbur Colby
Gehra
Etter Yale
Third Avenue
Cedar Rapid
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