Jones County Farm Bureau Plans Home Beautification
Jones County Farm Bureau members will follow ideas from Ames extension service specialist Nord Despecialist on landscape architecture to improve home grounds. A plan includes cleaning up properties, tidying spaces, and a concrete planting scheme with shrubs placed three feet apart to allow later cuttings and roots. neighbors may exchange plants to start the project. Jessie Koch from Greenfield township cooperative aided a Harvest Sunday event with the Mo ED church of Martehe.
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Farm Bureau
Jones County
Nord de Speciatist
Extension Service
Ames
Hoatne
Davis
Jessie Koch
Corn Hog Plan Tested On Business Methods
Economists and farmers push a 23 percent cut in hogs and corn for 1934 under a corn hog contract. Farmers sign to reduce hog production or corn acreage and receive payments plus a rental on corn land. government funds come from processing taxes on corn and hog products. James J. Wallace of the Cedar Valley Farm Business Association discusses hog profitability and feed needs amid proposals to recalibrate production to demand.
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United States
Benefth
Progr
Wallace
Secretary of Agtriculture
James J. Wallace
Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Hopkinton News Includes Weddings Football Win and Obituaries
In Hopkinton several local items appear: a reception for Miss Marcorie Jurgens at Long Beach home, a 38 to 14 Hopkinton Independent team victory over Burk Creek Independents. Mrs Accier Elmira Owens, 79, dies at home. funeral in Greeley, Colo. Elmira Moore born April 5, 1654 in Iowa. survived by two children. Family members travel to Greeley for burial beside husband. Community updates include Thanksgiving visits of local students to homes, and residents visiting relatives in Davenport Cedar Rapids and Chicago. The Kensineton firm employs a new worker. Lenox choir rehearses for Thanksgiving. The Hopkinton Community Club hosts a meeting featuring songs from the operetta The Kill-Kare.
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Robert
Ice
Long Beach
Calif
Marcorie Jurgens
Kirkwood
Long Breach
Hopkinton
Burk Creek
Greeley
Colo
Accier Elmira Owens
Las
Elmira Moore
Towa
Esrom H. Ow
Charles V Gd
Mabie
Bekah
A. H. Lar
Donald Smith
Ripple
New Trampton
Jean
Lenox College
Paul Johnston
Delbert Harver
Kelsie Reed
Freling Spears
Hawkeye
No A. Genshad
Miss Spears
Hap- Hinton
Berkley Smith
Waterloo
Mabel Smith
Elsie Dalrymple
Davenport
Ellen Bradle
Portia Main
Iowa City
Faye Loomis
Ras
Kensineton Efry Canverter
Neil Last
Fredy
Ward
Records From Hog Feed Study Highlight Feeding Efficiency
Thirty three farmers in the section kept careful records on hog feed for the year. The data compared daily and monthly feed with inventories purchases and sales to assess accuracy and gauge feeder performance. The study aims to help hog producers judge comparative ability and identify improvement methods.
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Cedar Valley Farm Business Association
Ptios
Mad stone cures and local notices in Linn County era
A 68 year old tale recounts a man aided by T Evans of Paris Linn county using a “mad stone” applied to a bite and revived in milk. The article notes birth of a son to D M S Fretwell and census figures for Monticello township with 235 dwellings and a 1310-person population including 45 foreigners. Judge Conklin set a district court term for August 28 1865 and jurors are listed.
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Lfe
T. Evans
Paris
Linn County
W. H. Ward
Prairieburg
D. M. S. Fretwell
Monticello
Conklin
District
Rasa
C. . Ananicsa
B. H. Leon- Winciten
Thomas Lyon
G. Whitnes
Bow
Montices
Gifts For Mother And Son From The List At Hand
A list of items labeled gifts for mother includes kitchenware tools and home items such as bread knives mixers tea kettles and a wash machine alongside hardware like saws axes hammers and pliers. For son the list features shells shorts pencils sets of tools traps a fish reel compass and bicycles.
Anamosa Community Notes Highlight 1860s Events
A 1868 meeting in Anamosa organized a protection association with H D Sherman as president and George Halnet as secretary. Delegates to Republican events were named, marriages near Monticello and Nowen's Prairie noted, and local activities include a brass band, a printing apprenticeship warning, a Prairie King locomotive incident, and OC Taylor opening a penmanship school.
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H. D. Sherman
George Halnet
SY. Readsuiver
Smith Acker
Joseph Clark
Milo P. Smith
Marion
Anamosa
Muate
J. L. Taylor
Isabelle Series
Monticello
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Jones County Farm Bureau
Farmureau
Mo ED Ehutch
Martehe 3
Pennant
C. S. Morton
Ethel Morton
Olin
Delbert Stingler
Janella Ward
Margaret
Donna Jean
Billy
Central City
Lirsie Brownell
Alvin House
Mra Marshall Neil
Cummings
Dr. Pemaine
Manchesqo Evemine
Delaware County
Rocher Littlefield
A.C. Sday
Young People’s League of
Manchester
Misey
Sarah McConnell
Anna Edgar
Tipton Junior College
Lenox Junior College
Tipton
Elkader Junior College
Elkader
Hopkinton High School
Greeley High
Avast
Barwell
Walworth
Prairie King
OC. H. Taylor
D. McCcarn & Son
Anamosa, Iowa
American Title Association
State Title Association
Santa’s
Santa
the Kiddies
Madsen Motor CO
M. & S. Motor Company
Iowa
Esa
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