Scouts Win USDA Green Seal for Conservation Efforts in Kansas
The Santa Fe Trail council of the Boy Scouts in Kansas received the USDA Green Seal for outstanding conservation work. Council President Dr. William Reppart accepted the award at a Cedar Rapids regional meeting. Scouts at Spanish Peaks ranch in Colorado and sites in Kansas built dams, planted trees, and created wildlife cover, aiding erosion control and habitat.
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Gazette
Alan Swegle
United States
Department of Agriculture
Santa Fe
Kansas
United States Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
William Reppart
Ulysses
Kan
Boy Scouts Councils
Cedar Rapids
Wilson T. Moon
Soil Conservation Service
Iowa
Santa Fe Council
Spanish Peaks Ranch
Huerfano County
Colorado
Upper
Huerfano
Jetmore
Houston
Ness City
Hodgeman County State Park
Scott County State Lake
Scott City
Cimarron National Grassland
Elkhart
Morton County
Santa Fe Trail Council
Garden City
Closing out sales listed for several Iowa farm auctions
On Saturday November 2 sales close out farm items including a 27 acre tract with a modern house and livestock near Olin Ernest Wooder 6 miles east. A1am sale awaits for Tillie Anderle near Cedar Rapids on Route 30. Herb Williams near Parnell begins at 12:30 pm with livestock machinery hay and grain. Elmer Bud Barthelmes near Troy Mills holds a Friday sale with machinery dairy cows milking equipment hay oats. Robert Pflughaupt near Prairieburg offers livestock machinery hay straw on Friday November 22 at noon.
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H.n. Goods
Ernest Wooder
Olin
Tillie Anderle
Cedar Rapids
Herb Williams
Parnell
Elmer
Bud) Barthelmes
Troy Mills
Robert Pflughaupt
Prairieburg
Interview with Bernard Chlupsky on farm woes and politics
Bernard Chlupsky, 57, operates an 80 acre family farm 114 miles southeast of Blairs town with a one fourth interest. He rents pasture to a neighbor, has no hogs, and faced losses from hog disease and vet bills. He grows oats and corn, estimates 85 bushels of corn, and faces high costs with rent and fuel. He plans to vote for Nixon, laments low prices, tax rises, and strikes harming farmers, and cites tractor repair costs. He favors ending Vietnam War hostilities and criticizes government inaction.
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Bernard Chlupsky
Blairstown
Farm Bureau
Corn Belt Feeder Receipts Rise in September
Washington AP reports September shipments of cattle into eight midwestern states rose to 1,153,000 head, pushing July-September totals to 2.3 million, up 18 percent from 1967. Stocker and feeder sheep and lambs slipped 19 percent to 181,000 head year over year.
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Washington
North Central
Agriculture Department
Iowa Auctioneers Name New Officers
Earl Thies of Ames elected president of the Iowa Auctioneers Association at the Burlington convention. Howard Vos of New Sharon named vice president. Three-year board terms awarded to Harold Van Lyck Mount Union Leroy Foster Fairfield and Irving Leonard Elkader.
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Burlington
Earl Thies
Ames
Iowa Auctioneers Association
Howard Vos
New Sharon
Harold van Lyck
Mount Union
Leroy Foster
Fairfield
Irving Leonard
Elkader
Local Government Meetings Planned in Ames Area
The second of three extension area local government information meetings will be held November 7 at West Union and November 14 at Tipton. City and school officials and county supervisors are invited. J. M. Whitmer Jr. and Bill Linstrom, local government program specialists at Iowa State University, will conduct the meetings in Ames.
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Ames
West Union
Tipton
County Boards of Supervisors
J. M. Whitmer, Jr
Bill Linstrom
Iowa State University
Buchanan DHIA Reports Three 700-Lb Cows
Hazleton supervisor James Buckman said three Buchanan DHIA cows completed September 305 day records above 700 pounds of butterfat. Holsteins belonging to George Haines and Tom Sullivan produced 741 713 and 722 pounds respectively while eleven other cows ranged 500 to 600 pounds.
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Hazleton
Buchanan Dhia
Association
James Buckman
George Haines
Walker
Tom Sullivan
Independence
Buckman
Chemical Princep Cleared for Alfalfa Weed Control
A new USDA registration clears Princep formerly Limazine for weed control in alfalfa established for 12 months. The Gregg product may be applied in all growing areas where alfalfa goes dormant in winter and on both hay and forage alfalfa. Previously limited to the Pacific Northwest.
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Washington
USDA
Pacific Northwest
Hereford Calves Sold at Fairfax in Iowa Calf Sale
Thirty-one steers averaged 156 and 18 heifers 153 at the Iowa Cedar Valleys Hereford calf sale in Fairfax. Top steer, consigned by George Caraway, sold for 215 to Mark Feuerbach. second high steer, Ivan Lenz, 205 to Charles Serbousek. Top heifer, LeRoy Marcus, 235 to Jim Ronan. second high heifer, Lee Brothers, 200 to Reagan Robinson. A buyer prize hereford heifer calf, gifted by Tuttle Brothers, went to Max Miller for his 4 H project in Keokuk county.
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Fairfax
Iowa- Cedar Valleys
Royal Tuttle
Norway
Tom Sherlock
Oxford
George Caraway
Marion
Mark Feuerbach
Dysart
Ivan Lenz
West Liberty
Charles Serbousek
Cedar Rapids
Warricks Win at American Royal in Kansas City
Roy B. Warrick and Son of Oskaloosa Iowa claimed the champion Suffolk Jam and ene and reserve champion ene at the American Royal in Kansas City last week.
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Kansas City
Roy B. Warrick
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Ene
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