Majority Of West Iowa Farmers Picketing Spark Few Supports
Gazette reporter finds most farmers south of Sioux City stay on their farms amid a farm holiday movement. They dismiss highway picketing as ineffective and risky, citing busy harvest schedules and concern over carrying produce to market. Some oppose picketing due to the organizers and alleged criminal records of some participants. Special report notes mixed attitudes as Blair pickets draw Iowa emphasis while Nebraska farmers deride the effort. Editorial details and a farm sale report follow.
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A Grain Thresherman Looks Back at Acres Near Mount Vernon
Interview with R. P. Ink, operator of Grange Gables farm, 400 acres north of Mount Vernon, recounts early threshing days, steam power, gas tractors, and the shift to modern equipment. He discusses taxes, school funding, Cornell college properties, and his political views including Hoover, Turner, and tariff reform.
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Mount Vernon
Ink
Fire destroys hay barn near Grundy Center
A large hay barn on the Ike Masbrouck farm two miles southeast of Grundy Center burned Friday night likely due to wiring or spontaneous combustion. Sixty five tons of hay two calves a milking machine and other items were lost. A filled silo adjoining the barn and a hog house were damaged. Firefighters aided but water scarcity limited efforts. The barn valued at two thousand five hundred dollars with hay coverage at three hundred dollars.
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Grundy Center
Ike Masbrouck
Combustion Triggers Hay Heating On Fred Kelty Farm
On the Fred Kelty farm soy bean hay heated after being mowed on Monday and Tuesday and raked midweek. Investigators traced the odor to heating hay as it was moved to an adjacent field. Other farmers report trouble curing soybean hay. one north Benton county farmer restocked twenty five tons. Fall wheat sowing increases with wheat at 60 cents a bushel and Timothy seed fetching $1.25 a bushel.
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Avwyn Ss Veare
Benton County
Corn and Tankage Best In Delaware Hog Rations
Delaware tests on the Ralph Childs farm show corn and tankage as the most profitable hog diet. Crossbred pigs started at 53 pounds on June 1, weighed 110.90 pounds by Sept 13, with tankage plus corn delivering the lowest feed cost per hundredweight of gain at 1.73 dollars.
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Manchester
Delaware County Farm Bureau
Ames Extension Service
Ralph Childs
Kermith S. Huehn
Considerable Sudan Hay Put Up Near Oxford
Sudan grass was cut and cured for hay last week in this locality. Some soy beans have been ensiled with corn. Tomatoes are ripening in the last few days with better quality than earlier picked.
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Oxford
Fall Festival Set For Postville September 27 to 30
Postville hosts a fall festival from September 27 through 30, continuing a tradition tied to the former Postville Institute and the local 4-H club show.
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Postville
the Gazette
Postville Institute
Veterinary meeting showcases rapid blood tests for poultry
At the Linn county Veterinary association gathering held at Hotel Montrose on Thursday evening Dr. P. V. Neuzil of Blairstown, president of the Eastern Iowa Veterinary association, will demonstrate rapid agglutination blood testing with tinted antigen for pullorum disease in chickens. Clinic and case reports will follow.
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Hotel Montrose
P. V. Neuzil
Blairstown
Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association
Field yields two crops in one season
Tipton reports Claude Stine of Linn township harvested soy bean hay after wheat. The wheat was cut in early July, soybeans broadcast and disced by mid July. With ample moisture the beans reached three feet by mid September and pod beams formed. No cultivation kept weeds away. Two bushels of Manchu soybeans per acre planted and about two tons of hay per acre anticipated.
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Tipton
Claude Stine
Linn
North Liberty Farmer Severely Injured by Saw Accident
Alexander Young of two miles northwest of North Liberty was badly injured while sharpening knives for an ensilage cutter. His leg contact with a saw on the same shaft cut muscle and an artery above the knee. He was taken to Iowa City for treatment and now moves with a crutch.
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Gazette
North Liberty
Alexander Young
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