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Town News Notes and Agricultural Yields Across Counties
The column reports corn yields with a high of 101 bushels per acre on a May planted crop and notes the Nelwis Vint af BW strain, plus broader farm outputs: apples largely Jonathan, Red Delicious, and Bartlett varieties. 210,000 trees with 100,000 seven years old selling for strong prices. It also covers a Des Moines address by Prof Lawrence Jones of Piney Woods School Mississippi, local fundraising, a Turkey farm near Kent a with 889 birds and a plan to ship to markets, and a major beet sugar project by American Beet Sugar Co. seeking Town support to build processing plants in Belmond and Mason City. The piece ends with dome repairs at the state capitol costing 80 thousand dollars funded by the assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drake
Grinwold
Tes
Bald
Des Moiner
Lawrence Jones
Piney Woors
Mississippi
Cone Cork
Sones
Jones
Marshalltown
State University
Finkbine Brothers
Des Moines
South
Janvs
Logan
Harriste County
Jonathans
Bartlett
Kelffor
Chicago
New York City
Missouri
Connell Bluffs
Bills
Fremont
West Liberty
Muscatine County
Robinson
Heinz
Muscatine
Kenta
Revkuk County
L. G. Henry
Henry
Averane