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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1937
Page
3
The Jones County Farm Bureau women’s division met at the Presbyterian church for an Achievement Day program. Bernard Cass chaired the event with a 10 o’clock start and a speaker presenting on candidates and community topics.
Leaders from county 4 H clubs will attend a training meeting at the Anamosa courthouse Friday. Assisting leaders and officers from each club will join the county 4 H club committee. Miss Dorothy Simmons ISU extension specialist will conduct the training.
An average of 758 pounds of milk and 29.8 pounds of butterfat was produced by 433 cows in the Anamasa Cow Testing association during March. 380 cows were in milk and 33 dry. The top herd was 15 Jerseys owned by J. E. Ahtrichs of Monticello with 852 pounds of milk and 46.9 butterfat. The second high Holstein herd of Prentice and Streeter produced 1,115 pounds of milk and 37.7 butterfat.
County 4 H leaders met with the county agent last Friday to set plans for the year. Ed Helgens presided as county chairman. Projects include beef and dairy cattle, hogs, sheep, draft colt, garden, hybrid corn, and farm record books. Members aged 10 to 20 urged to join via local leaders or the Farm Bureau office. Attendees named: Fred Kromminga, Fred Heiken, J E Porter, Harry Nesman, Merle Murfield, J W Nichols, Olin, Reggie Morse.
The April meeting of the Jones county farm debt committee will be held at the office of Warren Rees Anamosa Monday April 19 at 7 30 pm District supervisor H P McMuhen will attend The committee includes Warren Rees JC McConaughy Martello and Wil Hiller Monticello Farmers may attend to seek farm debt adjustment services.
Martelle 4 H Boys Club meets at Clair Robertson home with ten members. They discuss livestock and crop projects and list calves, market lambs, lambs, and purebred cattle with members Dale Newman Dean Newman James Chester Robert Miller Arthur Stark and others.
The article explains REA loan security and who bears risk. Farmers are not obligated to pay the line when signing membership, with a note or mortgage on the existing line as security. If the line fails to pay, the individual farmer is not the loser.
The county soil conservation committee moves into farmer outreach for the 1937 program. Town/ship committeemen will visit each farmer to align him with the program, using crop history and acreage data, with emphasis on individual meetings over group sessions.
Iowa State College extension horticulturist Holsinger lists varieties recommended for planting in the next three weeks and for spring in Iowa. He notes radishes leaf lettuce peas carrots parsnips spinach beans corn potatoes sweet potatoes and more with specific cultivar names and regional suitability.
The article advises immediate reseeding of lawns with a cool weather crop mix of bluegrass red top and perennial rye. It outlines ratios four parts bluegrass two red top one rye, seed amounts about 40 pounds per 1000 square feet, doubled for new lawns, and stresses careful seedbed preparation and light mulching to shield new grass.
R J Tidman of Buffalo has been elected and signed a contract as superintendent and coach of the Wyoming schools boys and girls teams for the coming year at 1200 dollars. Miss Helen Downing of Anamosa now teaching at Norway was elected home economics instructor at 95 dollars a month. Numerous staff re-elections and church and club notices follow, including a marriage and upcoming local events and meetings.
The 1937 conservation program lets farmers grow sweet corn for canneries without counting it against field corn limits. A 160 acre farm could allocate 80 acres field corn 50 neutral and 30 to 50 acres sweet corn with fodder possibly fed to livestock after harvest and stover stored in silo. This ruling elevates sweet corn as a viable crop for the year.
The funeral was held at the Edist church in Hopkinton on Thursday afternoon for Estella Josephine Tepping born May 18, 1872 in Monticello. She leaves a large family including children and siblings, with burial beside her husband Robert Tepping. Community and business notices follow as Hopkinton hosts events and local personnel changes.
A Wyoming based service garage owner leases the Vic Kieieck building in Oxford Junction and plans a move this week. Local American Legion auxiliary officers schedule the county meeting for April 16 in Wyoming. Mrs. Lena Shimerda, recently in St Luke's hospital, has been discharged to her daughter’s home in Central City.
Mrs. Thomas Warner of Monticello visits daughter Mrs. Lyle Hosford with Mildred and Lee. Dr Hodgson of Cedar Rapids conducts services at the chapel and his wife and Dr Evans attend. Hodgson sings and Evans acts as moderator at the Congregational meeting. The town trustees meet for equalization. F C Cramer and Fred Harken re elected trustees. Bertha Harken re elected pianist. Weather foul disrupts roads. many local residents attend music contests in Waterloo and visit Cedar Rapids.
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