Slow Moving Vehicle Emblems Gain Favor in Iowa
Iowa safety officials and lawmakers discuss mandating the slow moving vehicle emblem SMV for tractors and farm machinery. Wardle notes widespread use already with 50 000 plus emblems, while Ohio Nebraska have laws. The triangular emblem, 16 by 14 inches, glows day and night for 500 feet and is a standard adopted by safety groups.
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Ames
Iowa
Norval Wardle
Iowa State University
Ames Wardle
Department of Public Safety
State Highway Patrol
Iowa Farm Safety Council
Wardle
Ohio
Nebraska
Ohio State University
National Safety Council
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
28 To Show Livestock At State Fair
La Crosse County youths left Wednesday to exhibit cattle and hogs at the Wisconsin State Fair. Accompanying them were county 4-H agent Albert Becker county agent Thomas O Connell and LaVern Doener. Exhibitors include Keith Heinze Mike Sullivan Walter Knudson Stephen Berg and others. The fair at West Allis opened Friday.
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la Crosse County
Albert Becker
Thomas O'Connell
LaVern Doener
Holmen
Keith Heinze
Mike Sullivan
Walter Knudson
Stephen Berg
Curtis Berg
Kathleen Jones
Bonnie Nuttelman
Sue Brown
Kenneth McGinnis
Barbara Gollnik
James Tauscher
Daniel Jones
Joan Houser
Julaine Pi
Dale Weber
West Salem
West Allis
Westby farmer reports remarkable dairy calf birth record
Westby Wisconsin farmer Leroy Dunnum says seven calves were born to three cows in four months. One set of twins was stillborn, but a set of triplets and another set of twins are doing well.
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Westby
Wis
Leroy Dunnum
Witt Manufacturing ready for full production in Chaseburg plant
Witt Manufacturing Co announces readiness to shift to full production of the Chopa Automatic Livestock Sprayer in Chaseburg Wisconsin. The firm has contracts with Watkins Products to market nationwide and in Canada and with Chapiewsky’s Inc for garden sprayers and root feeders.
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Chaseburg
Phil C. Schreiber
Witt Manufacturing Co
Jerome Chopa
Witt
Charles C. Scovil, Jr
Watkins Products
Winona
Levi Chapiewsky
Bangor
Chapiewsky’s Inc
Schreiber
Wis
Witt Manufacturing Co. Inc
Watkins Products Inc
Watkins
Canada
J .Chapiewsky’s Inc
Chapiewsky
Chopa
Witt Manufacturing Co., Inc
North Bend
la Crosse
A. W. Graw
Oscar Lyell
H. J. Marshall Jr
Louis F. Robinson Jr
Galesville
California
Ohio
Chicago
Berry Brothers
Charles M. Scovil Jr
Dairy Heifers to Be Auctioned at Graded Sale
More than 125 Holstein heifers are consigned for the graded dairy heifer sale on Saturday August 13 at noon at the Equity Cooperative Livestock Market in Altoona. Cattle will be weighed and graded the day before by a state grader. Breeding dates parentage health and DHIA records will be announced. The sale is sponsored by Tri State Breeders Badger Breeders Equity Livestock Sales Cooperative and the Cooperative Extension Service.
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Westby
Wis
Equity Cooperative Livestock Market
Altoona
Sterling Gillingham
Tri- State Breeders Cooperative
Tri- State Breeders
Badger Breeders Cooperative
Equity Livestock Sales Cooperative
The
Cooperative Extension Service
La Crosse NFO Plans Meeting
The La Crosse County unit of the National Farmers Organization will meet at 8 30 pm Monday in Mindoro Town Hall. Publicity chairman Mrs. Donald Allen told this brief.
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la Crosse County
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Mindoro Town Hall
Donald Allen
Wisconsin dairy group seeks higher prices by bypassing Chicago
About 300 Pure Milk Association members at the Dairyland Division Plant in Juneau voted to ship milk to Indianapolis bypassing Chicago markets. The move, described as the most important development of several Wisconsin hearings, could make Beaver Dam and Juneau leading Indiana shipment points. Indianapolis daily need is around 220 000 pounds of Class One milk, with potential increases of 12 14 cents per hundredweight for Juneau area farmers.
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Beaver Dam
Pure Milk Association
Dairyland Division
Juneau
Indianapolis
Chicago
Wisconsin
Association
Gregory Blaska
Marshall
Sun Prairie
John E. Butterbrodt
Bur
Jnett
Indiana
Milwaukee
Waterloo
Arlington
Briggsville
Illinois
W. H. Cope
The
NFO Group Returns From Washington
La Crosse County NFO vice president Ervin Elliott and members Virgil Sprecker Henry Oshner George Heuer and Daniel Corbin returned from Washington DC where leaders from 25 states urged senators and representatives on farm legislation. Attendees from Sauk City Plain Sparta and Boscobel joined and focused on the REA financing bill to create cooperative funding beyond two percent government loans. The group pressed for aid amid concerns over the declining family farm and future cooperative financing needs.
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Ervin Elliott
la Crosse County
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Virgil Sprecker
Henry Oshner
George .Heuer
Daniel Corbin
Washington, D.C
Congress
NFC
Sauk City
Plain
Sparta
Boscobel
House
Farm Committee Election Areas Set in La Crosse County
Theodore Piske designates ASC community election boundaries in La Crosse County for mail ballot voting September through October 10 1966. Elections pick three committeemen and two alternates per community with delegates to the county convention. Eligible voters include owners tenants and sharecroppers meeting national farm program participation.
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Theodore Piske
la Crosse County
Bangor
Barre
Burns
Hamilton
Farmington
Holland
Onalaska
Washington
Campbell
Medary
Greenfield
Shelby
ASC
Two Girls Named Queens of Conservation in Allamakee
Sheryl Rooney of Lansing and Barbara Spinner of Waterville were named 1966 Queens of Conservation for the Allamakee Soil Conservation District. They received gold and cultured pearl pendants and advance to a regional contest August 18 at the Buchanan County Fair in Independence. Nine regional winners go on to a September 8 state contest in Jefferson, where the State Queen earns a 250 dollar prize and serves as hostess for the National Soil Conservation Districts events.
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Waukon
Iowa
Sheryl Rooney
Cletus Rooney
Lansing
Barbara M. Spinner
Theodore Spinner
Waterville
Queens of Conservation
Ior
Allamakee
Jefferson
Queen of Conservation
National Soil Conservation Districts
Three Farms Approved For Soil Work In Iowa District
Waukon Iowa three farms received approval from the Allamakee County Soil Conservation District at the July meeting. Owners Arnold and Gordon Ellingson Eugene J Berns and Gerald J Mitchell- David Mitchell will undertake conservation work under district oversight.
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Waukon
Iowa
Allamakee County
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FORD
LA Crosse, Wis
la Crosse Tribune
Pharmacy
NFO Group
Glen Kenyon
Bush Prairie
Wayne Huntzicker
Melvina
Alvin Kohner
Betts and Betts
Kenyon
Schneider Heating & Air Conditioning
Electra
Dittmore-Freimuth Corp
E. Norwich St
Rush
Electra Fogger
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