Woodsy Owl to Aid Smokey the Bear in Forest Service Push
The Forest Service will unveil Woodsy Owl at a one day event in Washington with Agriculture Secretary Hardin presiding. The new character joins Smokey Bear to promote forest cleanliness and wiser use of national forests, aiming for a friendly, widely identified ecological symbol.
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Washington
Woodsy
Forest Service
Smokey Bear
Bureau of Land Management
Interior Department
Public Lands
BLM
Johnny Horizon
Outlook meeting on livestock and grain prices set in Mahengo
The annual fall livestock and grain outlook meeting will be held September 27 at the Marengo Sale Barn starting 8 pm. Speakers include Les Kral and Eldon Hans. The program covers current supply and demand, farm prices ahead, and a special carcass quality discussion with live cattle demonstrations.
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Kral
Hans
Mahengo
Don Goering
Iowa
Marengo Sale
Les Kral
Eldon Hans
Cedar Rapids
Uncle Sam Mailbox Stand Restored at Wisconsin Farm
The frosted figure of Uncle Sam, a fixture at the Earl J. Frank farm in Blanchardville Wisconsin since 1935, has been repainted and rebuilt after a previous knockdown incident.
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Sam
Earl J. Frank
Blanchardvile
Wis
Linn Pork Show Planned Friday
Linn county hog producers may enter hogs in the Linn county quality pork show Friday at the swine testing station on Highway 30 near Lisbon. Entry hours 4 39 p.m. to 5 45 p.m. with judging at 6 p.m. Five individuals and one trucklot per producer. county and FFA members may enter two individuals in the junior class and one trucklot.
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Linn County
Richard Freeman
Highway 30
Lisbon
Fivo
FFA
Wilson- Sinclair
Soil Commissioners Honor Horak Miehe at Des Moines Banquet
Eastern Iowans were honored at a Des Moines banquet of soil conservation district commissioners. Horak of Vinton received Outstanding District Commissioners award for long service. Miehe of Monticello, a vocational agriculture instructor, won the Watershed Man of the Year award. Several counties earned 25 year certificates and others received department awards for conservation work.
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Des Moines
Ern Lowans
Soil
Conservation District
Harold de Waay
Sheldon
William Martin
Lehigh
Ralph Moore
Grundy Center
Obert Sacquirie
Mabel, Minn
Glenn McCutcheon
Dow City
James Ginder
Acksworth
Harry Horak
Vinton
Albert Washburn
Hastings
T. J. Thompson
Promise City
Horak
Benton County Soil Conservation District
Sacquirie
Winneshiek County
Grover Miehe
Monticello
WAT
Minoru Amemiya
Iowa State University
Wendell Pellett
Atlantic
Casss County
Miehe
Iowa Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association
Boone County
Buchanan County
Buena Vista
Calhoun
Cedar County
Dallas County
Fayette County
Greene County
Grundy County
Hamilton County
Hancock County
Johnson County
Muscatine County
O’brien County
Plymouth County
Pocahontas County
Sack County
Scott County
Winnebago County
Wright County
Edward Je Herron
Grinnell
Sylvan T. Runkel
Bryan Weberg
Kiron
Wayne Casey
Peterson
State Soil Conservation Committee
John George Weber
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
Department of Soil Conservation
LaVonne Byers
Poweshiek County
Fulk to Speak at Iowa County Pork Producer Banquet
Kenneth Fulk secretary of the Iowa State fair will speak at the Iowa County Pork Producer banquet on September 16 at Iowa Valley High School Marengo starting 6 30 p m He will discuss the Worlds Food Fair tied to the US 200th anniversary in 1976 Directors will be elected to replace retiring Ray Bevan and Cris Swartzendtuber and winners of the Iowa County Quality Park Carcass Show announced during the event
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Marengo
Kenneth Fulk
Iowa
Iowa Valley High School
Farm Groups Brace for Bitter Bargaining Battle
Washington reports farm and food groups plan hearings September 20 to October on bills to empower farmer bargaining. The national act would let a federal board certify bargaining associations and require processors to negotiate in good faith, with limits on nonmember dealings. Opponents include canners and poultry groups.
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Washington
UFT
Ficial
National Farmers Union
Experimental Farm Field Day Planned Near Independence
An Iowa State University event at the Carrington Clyde experimental farm, four miles north of Independence, runs September 1 to 21 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Visitors tour plots and hear specialists discuss soybeans, corn diseases, tall grasses, and fertilizer systems.
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Independence
Carrington-Clyde
Iowa State University
Kay Connelly
Waterloo
A. H. Epstein
Iowait State
Fisher Joins Soil Service
DES MOINES Charles S. Fisher has joined the Soil Conservation Service as assistant state soil scientist. He brings nine years as a soils specialist in Ames plus prior roles in Spencer and Storm Lake. A native Towan, he is an Iowa State graduate of 1950, married with two sons.
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Des Moines
Charles S. Fisher
Soil Conservation Service
Wilson T. Moon
Fisher
Ames
Soil Survey
Spencer
Storm Lake
Towan
Iowa State University
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