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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1956
Page
8
Iowa farmers gain extra time to adjust wheat acreage and clip oats barley and rye for soil bank 1956. New deadline is July 15 changing from June 23 for wheat and barley rye and July 4 for oats. Department of Agriculture cites need to tighten schedules and avoid crop misalignment.
Fort Dodge hosts a FELCO Grand Opening with buses caravans and tours of a new half million dollar plant. Alex Dreier will speak on world farming conditions as visitors view electrically controlled machinery and a broad FELCO line including feeds seeds and fertilizers.
The County Conference Board of Palo Alto County Iowa will meet on July 25 1956 at 10 00 am at Court House Em Metsburg. Taxpayers may be heard for or against the estimate of expenditures for the fiscal year beginning January 1 1957. LEO LE CONWAY Clerk County Conference Board.
The County Board of Education of Palo Alto County Iowa will meet August 6 1956 at 7 20 P M at Court House Emmetsburg to hear taxpayers for or against the estimate of expenditures for the fiscal year beginning January 1 1957. This is under Chapter 278 Code of Iowa creating a county school system.
Wm. Brodersen, chairman of Palo Alto county ASC, says extra time for adjusting wheat barley oats and rye will boost participation in 1956 soil bank agreements. By Thursday over 500 agreements had been signed. final county total expected near 1000. Deadlines remain July 20 for original and terminated agreements, and July 31 for corn adjustments and flax, grain sorghum and soybeans.
BR W Ashby notes touring calves since 4 H camp and state Short Course. Packers vary, with calm chilled calves and better prospects among three breeds. Angus may not dominate this year as handling before August 14 influences final champion.
The government wool incentive program will issue payments for the 1955 marketing year ending March 31 1956. Palo Alto county ASC chairman Wm P Brodersen says the payout rate is 44.9 percent of each producer s dollar returns from shorn wool sales plus 77 cents per hundredweight for five lambs and yearlings sold for slaughter. The 44.9 percent rate brings the average price per pound to 62 cents. A total of 280 Palo Alto farmers filed applications to participate in the shorn wool incentive.
One hundred eighteen farmers in the county filed applications for pulled wool incentive payments on lambs and yearlings sold for slaughter. Producers who did not assign their payments will receive checks from the county ASC office once computation and paperwork are completed, while assignees will receive a statement of the payment made by the ASC office to the assigner.
Wheat producers of Palo Alto county were reminded this week about the July 20 referendum. The notice urges grower participation and outlines voting procedures for the district.
Wm. P. Brodersen, chairman of the county ASC committee, announces a referendum on Friday, July 20, to decide if marketing quotas will apply to the 1957 wheat crop. Eligible voters are farmers harvesting more than 15 acres in 1957, with voting at the ASC office in Emmetsburg in Palo Alto county.
Laurens dedicated a new public swimming pool named Mackle pool funded by a $60,000 bequest from the late Earl Mackle. The ceremony honored his contribution and the town’s strengthened recreation facilities through the gift.
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