4-H Baby Beef Show at Jones County Fair Set to Break Records
The Jones County Fair will host the largest 4-H baby beef show with 130 head entered by 64 members across Hereford, Angus, and Short horn breeds. Rex Conn of Cedar Rapids will judge at 1 o'clock Wednesday, with three breed champions and a grand champion to be awarded.
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Jones County Fair
Rex Conn
Cedar Rapids
Merlin Ahrendsen
Norman Ahrendsen
Edwin Andrews
Alice Benadom
Glenn Brown
Donald Brunscheen
Edwin Brunscheen
Herman Brunscheen
Kenneth Brunscheen
Willard Byerly
Gene Denniston
Richard Eichhorn
Donald Fairbanks
Willis Fairbanks
Ivan French
Glenn Goldsmith
Delbert Grafft
Kenneth Heeren
Billy Hintz
Ruth Hintz
Ralph Husman
Helen Koppenhaver
Dale Lange
Louis Lange
Paul Lange
Ray Larson
Grover Lorenzen
Virtus Lorenzen
Merlin K. Lyon
Billy McDowell
Steven McDowell
Earl Phillips
Richard Rohwedder
Gene Sievers
Melvin Sievers
Donald Starry
Raymond von Sprecken
Galen Waggoner
Leo Waggoner
LaVern Wahl
Donald Zaruba
Lowell Ahrendsen
State Farm Bureau Camp Opens West at Iowa State Fair
Grant Chapman of Ames, superintendent, says the Farm Bureau camp at the Iowa State Fair opens August 23 to September 1. The 60 acre camp is fenced from the main grounds and offers free space if campers bring gear, or rental if needed. Police protection, city water, and all night electric lights are provided, with 20 showers each for men and women.
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Farm Bureau
Town State Fair
Grant Chapman
Ames
Chapman
Farm Bureau Camp
Des Moines
Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation
Jones county 4 H clubs host annual achievement day
Jones county 4 H girls hold their 1939 achievement day program on Wednesday starting at eight. The event features a demonstration team contest with ten clubs competing, booth exhibits, posture contest, and several record book and conservation contests. Top exhibitors advance to Des Moines for the state contest with judge Mrs. M E Adams of Quasqueton.
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Jones County
Eloise Kuhns
Scotch Grove
Harold Hartman
Anamosa
S. E. Ellison
Martello
Alice Howie
Monticello
George Fishwild
Wyoming
Des Moines
M. E. Adams
Quasqueton
Future Farmers On Project Tour Monticello FFA
The Monticello FFA chapter conducted a summer project tour starting at Louis Lange farm at 9 am. Eight farms visited covered 12 members projects including baby beef chickens corn hogs bees and garden tasks. A city park picnic and kittenball game followed with a camping trip to Backbone State Park scheduled for August 29-31.
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Monticello
Future Farmers of America
Louis Lange
Dale Lange
Lester Collins
White Rock
Richard Mardorf
Health champs to be announced at Fairgrounds
The 4-H health champion boys and girls from Jones County will be introduced at the amphitheatre in the Fair Thursday at 1 pm, announced by county agent Carl Smith. Nineteen contestants were narrowed to 14, nine girls and five boys, entries from Anamosa Monticello Wyoming Olin Scotch Grove Onslow Martelle Mechani esville.
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Jones County
Carl Smith
Mercy
Anamosa
4-H
Lucille Embree
Jean Huffman
Wyoming
Margaret Deischer
Monticello
Eileen Peck
Helen Koppenhaver
Olin
Eunice Kuhns
Scotch Grove
Lorraine Hanna
Onslow
Emrogene Hotz
Zella Mae Armstrong
Martelle
James Miller
Martello
Donald Howie
Richard Rohwedder
Willard Byerly
Floyd Siver
Mechaniesville
Rain Disrupts Monticello Farm Festival Activities
Rain halted the Monticello Farm Bureau picnic after it began, canceling a baseball game and many sport events. R. O. McColm spoke for the bureau, Carl Smith outlined state festival stakes, and Ray Sanford announced the schedule. Olin and Jackson township won softball bids while Rural Youth girls routed the Farm Bureau women 19 to 4.
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Farm Bureau
Monticello
R. O. McColm
Bureau
Carl Smith
Ames
Ray Sanford
W. M. Bissell
Wyoming
Olin
Jackson Township
Ers
D. Glick
M. Glick
Sievers
Harderson
Olin Jackson Richardson
Hollingsworth
Ss M. Ahrendsen
Waggoner
Williams
Hartwig
Ss Rohwedder
ss_Harderson
P L. Ahrendsen
Cf D. Glick
If Switzer
Sf M. Glick
Ef V. Lorenzen
Ib Graff
C Wendt
P Sievers
Phillips
Rf Harderson
Byerly
Jacqueline Kinler
Hilma Jones
Edna Reese
Gail Peet
Pauline Cramer
Janet Meeks
Evelyn Whitmore
Louise McColm
Margaret Deischer
Phoebe Hiller
Miss Reese
Miss Meeks
H. Sievers
William Reese
Elmer Glick
Hugo Wendt
Will Martin
Stanley Waggoner
Ray Fairbanks
Harold Hartman
Everett Koppenhaver
Earl Jones
Jones
Reese
Brunscheen Steers Lead Chicago Market Trade
Jones county stockman Herman Brunscheen sent several carloads of steers to Chicago. His 19 head at 1379 pounds sold for $9.50 per cwt, 21 head at 1325 pounds brought $9.25, and 14 head of 976 pound yearlings sold for $9.35.
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Herman Brunscheen
Jones County
Chicago
Wyoming
Feeders Ship Out Four Cars Stock This Week
Three cars of cattle and one car of mixed hogs and cattle were shipped out by feeders in the vicinity last week. Shipping firms were Delay Bros with one car of cattle, Clay Fear with one car of mixed stock, Harry McQuillen with one car of cattle, and William McQuillan with one car.
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Delay Bros
Clay Fear
Harry McQuillen
William McQuillan
Farm Bureau Sports Day to Be Held Saturday at Fair Grounds
The county wide Farm Bureau sports finals, postponed by rain last Thursday, will run Saturday at 1 30 P M at the fair grounds. Events for women and men include sprints throws jumps and a tug of war with Rural Youth and North versus South teams contesting the county title. Over 300 participants and spectators attended the first annual festival last week and a state wide festival is planned for September 8 and 9.
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Farm Bureau
Fair Grounds
Tators
Big 4-H Auction Set for Friday at Jones County Fair
Plans are complete for the boys' and girls' 4-H club livestock auction at 10 oclock Friday morning in front of the grandstand. Baby beef calves sell first, then market pigs and lambs, with buyers from Wilson Packing Cedar Rapids and many local firms and banks among those expected to bid. Clifford Jansen of Amber visited Galen Haven last week.
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Jones County
Jones County Farm Bureau
Wilson Packing Company
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque Packing Company
Dubuque
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
Otto Seeburger
Maquoketa
H. E. Bowman Cattle Company
Monticello State Bank
Monticello
Farmers’ Creamming Livestock Exchange
Wyoming
Jones County Fair Association
Onslow Savings Bank
Onslow
Wyoming Shipping Association
Max Wortman
Carl Hein
Harry Rodman
John Beeks
Farmers Grain Company
Scotch Grove
Balster’s Implement and Parts Company
National Hy
Poultry Breeding Lessons From World Congress in Cleveland
Frank Priebeills notes on the just concluded World's Poultry Congress in Cleveland highlight advice from Prof. James E. Rice on culling and steady breeding. He warns against sacrificing body size for egg production and urges maintaining bird vitality.
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Cleveland
James E. Rice
Congress
Hens Must Live As Well As To Lay In Poultry Profit Plan
Prof. Rice warns that profitable poultry depends on hens that both live long and lay large eggs. He argues many have chased high production and ignored chick survivability, noting repeated losses in commercial flocks. Breeding must prioritize vitality alongside egg output.
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Prof. Rice
Basil Gavin Builds Efficient Milk Barn From Railcar
Basil Gavin converts a railroad box car into a milk barn costing under 200 dollars. He adds a brick basement for hogs and notes stronger insulation and construction than a standard barn. The piece includes a photo with Mauris and Maurine, plus a separate report of John Freese threshing 116 bushels of Iowa oats per 10.6 acres at 77 bushels per acre.
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Basil Gavin
Basil
Texas
Montana
Mauris
Maurine
Mr. Gavin
John Freese
Monticello
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