Emmetsburg Farm Bureau Meets At Brennan School
Emmetsburg township Farm Bureau held a May 1 meeting at Brennan schoolhouse with about 150 attendees from Highland and Freedom townships and Emmetsburg. A busy program featured a Farm Bureau problems play, home project talks, a jig exhibition, and essays on women's roles in farming. The Wide Awake debating team spoke on poultry and dairy profits, and plans were set to study community hall building and related tax law. The next gathering is at Williams schoolhouse on June 5.
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Emnetsburg
Armn Bureau
Brennan Schoal
Highland
Vreedom
Emmetsburg
Farm Bureau
Coperite
Lody
Home Project
D. Shelock
P. Leahy
T. Orsborn
Joynt
Bometsburg
Department of S Agriculture
Washington
James Ay
Emmersburg
Supreme Court
Wil Hams School ‘House
Bee Demonstration Tours May 13 14 in County
Bee specialist A G Worthington will visit Independence and Lost Island townships on May 13 for demonstrations at G V Giffin and S A Smith apiaries, then May 14 at Rusk Lake and Nevada townships at BE Matthiessen and C F Carter apiaries. Topics include spring management to boost honey stores. several stands will be used for treatment. All beekeepers invited.
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A. GB. Worthington
G. V. Giffin
Independence Township
S. A. Smith
Lost Island
BE. C. Matthiessen
Rusk Lake
C.F. Carter
Nevada Township
Poison Bran Kills Cutworms In Gardens And Fields
Drake state entomologist at Toway State College advises farmers and hobby gardeners to poison cutworms with a bran mash. Mix 25 pounds wheat bran with one pound paris green, add two quarts molasses and 2 1/2 gallons water, moisten to hold loosely. Scatter in late afternoon. if using sodium arsenite substitute for paris green. Avoid use where chickens run.
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Set
Drake
Towsy State College
Iowa fruit crop safe amid cold wave report
R. S. Herrick of the Iowa Horticultural Society reports to the Iowa Department of Agriculture that despite a cold wave in the Midwest the bumper fruit crop in Iowa remains safe. He cites Iowa’s stronger spring frost record compared with many states.
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Middle West
Iowa
R. S. Herrick
Towa Horticultural Society
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Orchard Spraying Guide Cites Calyx Drop Remedy
Mr Herrick warns of a statewide killing threat in 1920 and 121 and urges orchardists to apply a calyx drop spray before calyx cups close. Use arsenate of lead, lime sulfur mix, baking lime sulfur, with water. Applies to apples pears cherries currants gooseberries.
Iowa pig club speakers praise coming hog market and grain prospects
Des Moines secretary of agriculture Mark G Thornburg told the Sioux City Kiwanis at Hotel Martin that hog numbers are down about 20 percent from a year ago and prices should stay fair. He noted corn stocks down 7 million bushels and wheat shortfalls of 1.5 million, predicting a stable grain market with farmers earning solid profits. He praised pig club workers as advancing Iowa's hog industry and noted potential savings of 10 cents per hundredweight could bring hundreds of thousands to farmers.
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Mark G. Thornburg
Des Moines
State Department Ofgriculture
Pig Club
Kiwanis Club
Hotel Martin
Sioux City
Towa
Thornburg
Iowa
Webster City Chickens Brest Record Egg Production
Iowa State College extension reports 478 flocks produced 1,279,072 eggs in March from 88,444 hens at an average 14.7 per hen. Total receipts were 40,137.03 with feed costs 12,263.63 yielding a profit above feed cost of 27,873.45. Mrs Ernest Craos of Webster City led with 1,521 eggs from 57 Barred Rocks averaging nearly 27 per hen. Mrs H R Robinson of State Center had the second best June average with 3,125 eggs from 130 White Leghorn hens averaging 24 per hen.
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Extension Service of
Iowa State College
Ernest Craosby
Webster City
Marcher &7 Barred Rocks
H. R. Robinson
State Center
New Dunfield Soybean Offered to Iowa Farmers
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association at Ames announces the Dunfield soybean for trial by Iowa growers. Limited two pound jars with inoculation material available postpaid for fifty cents, as a later variety than Manchu with strong seed production and hogging suitability. Apply now to the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association at Ames before supply runs out.
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Dunfield
Iowa
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association
Ames
Dairy breeders offer prizes for high butterfat herd
The Holstein Jersey and Guernsey dairying associations of Iowa announce trophies for the highest butterfat producing herd in each breed for the year September 1924 to September 1925. Eligible herds may be grade or purebred, but the entire herd must be one breed and include at least eight cows in milk.
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Holstein
Jersey
Guernsey
Iowa
Extension Service
Tawa State College
Bankers to Meet at Holstein Convention Next Week
Holstein bankers will hold their convention Tuesday of next week. Holstein, population 1300, hosts the event with local attendees expected.
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Holstein
Wide Awake Club meeting at Mrs. Vonatne dust home
The Wide Awake group met to discuss household accounts and the training school led by Miss Lyndmyn. Mrs Brennan demonstrated navy bean canning and pressure canning. Attendees planned a township membership drive and prepared materials on fruits vegetables forestry week.
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Idyunetsburg Township
Jos. Vonatne
Lynn
M. W. Bren
Lyndmyn
Hmmetsburg
Josephine Arn
Tutt
David Joynt
Ames Extension Department
M. W. Brennan
Sesson
Albert Harvey
Dairymen push tariff rise against foreign butter
M G Thornburg of the dairy associations urged at a Washington tariff hearing that Denmark can undersell Iowa and the United States to farmers cheaper labor makes foreign butter cheaper. R G Clark of Iowa argued production costs in the United States are higher and dairy groups ask for an eight cent per pound tariff increase to match foreign prices. The commission notes US butter to New York costs 56.03 cents per lb versus 41.11 cents per lb from Denmark.
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Iowa
United States
M. G. Thornburg
Dairy Associations
Washington
R. G. Clark
Dairy and Food Division
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Department
Co-Operative Creameries
Towa
Mr. Clark
Tariff Commission
Commission
New York City
Denmark
Thornburg Signals T B Law Change For Iowa Cattle Indemnity
M G Thornburg Iowa secretary of agriculture informs county agents of two changes to the T B indemnity law from the 41st General Assembly. He notes sections limiting deductions on appraised cattle values and that petition signatures are counted over two years, affecting counties enrolled to be declared on the accredited area basis this summer to determine the 76 percent threshold.
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M. G. Thornburg
Secretary of Agriculture of
Iowa
41St General Assembly
T. B. Law Inegard
Secretary of Agriculture
Hasig
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