Farm veteran E W Showalter recalls Virginia roots and Iowa life
E W Showalter, 80, owner of 240 acres 140 miles southwest of Kinross, discusses farming with Roy Young, the 1910 buy of eighty acres, 120 acres in 1924, and a forty-acre tract later. He reports soybean yields around 30 bushels, corn not as good as last year, and drought effects. He notes political views and family history from Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. He laments rising government debt as unchangeable in his lifetime.
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E. W. Showalter
Kinross
Old Kinross Telephone Co
Public Auction Schedule With Livestock Machinery and Grain
A sequence of farm sale notices lists multiple auctions around Iowa towns on dates from Oct 17 to Nov 17. Items include cattle poultry machinery grain hay oats straw and livestock, with auctioneers and locations such as Vinton Walker Hopkinton Prairieburg West Liberty Keystone Belle Plaine and Belle Plaine.
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Sam Potter
Vinton
Rex J. Yerkes
Walker
Kenneth Benter
Hopkinton
Raymond G. Holub
Prairieburg
Linn-Jones County Line
Frank Krehlik
West Liberty
Hwy. 6
Melvin Bartachek
Jia mi
Keystone
Ben C. Knipp
Belle Plaine
Special Feeder Calf Sale Announcement
Fifty to six hundred pounds calves arrive over the weekend. The sale features 500 Hereford and Angus calves, steel and heifer types, weighing 350 to 550 lbs. Consignor promises top quality from origin. Calves arriving weekends, sorted in buyer friendly lots. Also 100 yearling steers and heifers offered. Cattle sold at private treaty daily.
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Bloomfield
Iowa
C.S.T
Davis County Sales CO
Sherm
George Reno
Edgar Colony Elected Johnson County Farm Bureau President
Edgar Colony was chosen president of the Johnson County Farm Bureau during the annual meeting at the fair grounds in Iowa City. Officers include John Dane as vice-president and Keith Hemingway as secretary, with Lawrence Lacina treasurer. Women’s officers were Mrs. Homer Riggle chairwoman, Mrs. Glen Lackender vice-chairwoman, and Mrs. John Dane publicity chairwoman. About 260 people attended. Richard Bowman of North Liberty won first place in the RAVE contest with a piano number. Vince Caudle of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation spoke.
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Iowa City
Edgar Colony
Johnson County Farm Bureau
Fairground
John Dane
Keith Hemingway
Lawrence Lacina
Homer Riggle
Glen Lackender
Richard Bowman
North Liberty
Vince Caudle
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Hereford Members Admitted to Association
Kansas City Eastern Iowans admitted to membership in the American Hereford Association in September. Sleepy Hollow Herefords of Bernard and Dick Miller of Hedrick are named.
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Kansas City
Iowa Wisconsin Game Broadcast Time Confirmed
The upcoming Iowa versus Wisconsin game is set for Saturday at 1 15 PM Central on KCRG Radio 1600. Fans should tune in for live coverage and play by play updates.
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Iowa
Wisconsin
Kcrg-Radio
USDA Expands Purchases for National School Lunch Program
The Agriculture Department announced the week’s purchases totaling slightly over 29 million pounds of commodities for the National School Lunch program and for distribution to institutions and needy families. Purchases include frozen turkey and chicken for school meals and beef dried eggs and lard for school meals institutions and needy persons. Since March 2 the beef program has reached 285.7 million pounds costing $161.1 million with other items totaling 18.8 million for turkey 8.5 million for chickens 15.7 million for dried eggs and 1 million for lard.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Iowa Third in Angus Herd Registrations for 1964
Iowa ranked third in American Angus Assn registrations with 372 737 calves for the year 1964 up 7.8 percent from the prior year. Transfers totaled 273 538. Iowa breeders registered 31 460 calves and 19 443 transfers placing third in registrations and fourth in new memberships with 536 new pure bred herds. junior membership reached 252.
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ST. Joseph
American Angus Assn
Glenn Bratcher
Iowa
Missouri
Texas
Slaters Bull Qualifies as Silver Medal Sire
OLIN A registered Holstein bull owned by Jay Slater of Olin has qualified as a Silver Medal Type Sire under the daughter dam comparison plan. Cloverbrook Prince 1315612 (EX) earned the award on 21 classified daughters with an average type score higher than their dams.
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OLIN
Jay Slater
Cloverbrook Prince
Holstein- Friesian Association of America
Farm Fire Losses Hit Over Ten Percent of U.S. Total
In 1963 farm fires caused more than 10 percent of all U.S. fire losses, damaging or destroying about $191 million in property across farms and related facilities.
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Washington
U.S
Farm Wages Rise Above Last Year in Iowa
The Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service finds farm wage rates on October 1 higher than a year earlier. Daily and monthly wages increased for board and room, with hourly pay up to 1.25 dollars without board. Nationwide, hiring rates rose about two percent, though overall labor use offset much of the gain.
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DES ‘Movies
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Farm Bureau Officers Named in Washington County 1964 65
Washington Iowa officers for 1964 65 include Robert Jones Wellman president Hayden Thomas Crawfordsville vice president Bruce Campbell Washington secretary Earl Wright Brighton treasurer and Lawrence Miksch Washington voting delegate Mrs Hayden Thomas named women's committee chairman at the annual meeting held Thursday night at St Thomas school James Helmick Columbus Junction district seven director of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation spoke.
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Washington
Washington County Farm Bureau
Robert Jones
Wellman
Hayden Thomas
Crawfordsville
Bruce Campbell
Earl Wright
Brighton
Lawrence Miksch
St. Thomas School
James Helmick
Columbus Junction
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
New Record Set For Dairy Cattle Exports in 1963
U S farmers shipped 12 599 head of dairy cattle overseas in 1963 earning a record 5 3 million dollars. Mexico bought 73 percent of total trade. Canada ranked second with 1 146 head. Readily consumable cattle breeds included Holstein Brown Swiss Guernsey Jersey and Ayrshire. The Foreign Agricultural Service cited sales expansion potential in 1964 aided by new financing through the Foreign Credit Insurance Association.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Foreign Agricultural Service
Mexico
Canada
Venezuela
Dominican Republic
Republic of the Philippines
Korea
Guernsey
Jersey
Ayrshire
FAS
Foreign Credit Insurance Association
Neighbors Harvest Hay For Disabled Waubeek Resident
A group of neighbors cut and baled a field of hay and stored it in the barn for Marvin Knapp who lives at the south edge of Waubeek. Knapp has been incapacitated since a tractor mishap last May.
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Waubeek
Marvin Knapp
Knapp
Masonville Grange Reelects Hillier Master
Manchester area report says Warren Hillier was re elected master of the Masonville Grange. The group will stage a costume dance on October 31 at the hall northwest of Manchester, inviting members and neighbors to join the event.
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Manchester
Warren Hillier
Masonville Grange
Grange
Pendulum Toward More Farmer Control In Agriculture
The article surveys rising farmer interest in production controls to balance supply and demand. It notes opposition to federal controls, the rise of farmer cooperatives, and debates over who should hold control—government processors or farmers themselves. It cites NFC actions, and comments by Ohio Farm Bureau and Secretary Freeman on self-help cooperatives.
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Ashington
National Farmers Organization
NFC
Douglas R. Stanfield
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation
Johnson
Congress
Orville L. Freeman
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Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Kansas
Father
Showalters
Pennsylvania
Rex Conn
The
NEW Liberty Livestock
Ravenport
Tipton
Han Carstens
Wilton
Wingert
Bennett
Dixon
Contact
Eas
Glas Scientific Eye
Kryptok
Wee
Cedar Rapids
3Rd Avenue
S.E
Waterloo
61Th Avenue
Johnson Farm Bureau
Hereford
USDA
Slater
Ruth Overman Langstraat
Secretary of Agriculture
L. B. Liddy
Harold E. Hughes
Lois
Ruth
Des Moines
Farm Bureau
By Ovid A. Martin
Farmers Union
National Farmers Union
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