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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1946
Page
3
Mr and Mrs C F Saxon of Wyoming sold their 95 acre farm three miles east of Wyoming on highway 64 to Mr and Mrs Frank Pealer for 125 per acre. The Saxons will take over 40 acres between Wyoming and Onslow and retire to Wyoming.
W R Cartano received four carloads of feeder cattle Tuesday averaging about 1000 pounds. Steve McDowell shipped cattle to Chicago Monday. Mrs W R Cartano visited in Hopkinton Tuesday. The springlike weather began to affect roads. H O A Deischer and family visited in Wyoming for Mrs Deischer’s birthday anniversary. Leo Bohlken moved to a farm near Amber. Ambrose Schlarman leased and took possession of I A Heiken farm.
Feb 4 Oxford Live Wires at Paul Lasack. Feb 5 Farm Bureau board meeting at 11 a.m. Feb 6 Castle Grove Royal Rangers at Walter Miller home. Feb 7 R Y P at the Community room. Feb 8 Madison Farm Bureau at Wm Thomsen home.
The Scotch Grove 4-H Boys met at the Paulsen home January 22 for Dad's night with 100 percent attendance of boys dads and readers. Roll call referenced activities with fathers. A talk on experiences at the international show followed by a feed budget planning session and a post meeting movie and refreshments served.
Extension nutritionist Eva Duncan advises revamping school lunch kitchens to save wages and boost meal quality. The guide covers workstation layouts, rolling tables, storage tips, pan sizes, oven fit, and weekly shopping to maximize efficiency and child nutrition.
Winners of the 1945 Iowa Corn Yield Test will be announced during the 46th Farm and Home Week at Iowa State College. Corn researchers led by Orn Wat cars preeranny 63 FP. Sprague will present progress, with W G Murray discussing corn yield versus land prices and W H Pierre summarizing fertilizer use. Sessions run daily across the four day event, including field trials and grain improvement topics.
The afternoon program will cover 40 years of cat production progress reviewed by H. D. Hughes, with Rex Beresford on maximizing forages in livestock feeding and E. L. Barger detailing hay making developments. Thursday's session focuses on forage production and improvement.
George Slater of Olin was reelected president of the Jones County Holstein Breeders Association at the annual meeting held Saturday January 26 in Anamosa community room. Officers elected include Chet Bullis Marion vice president William Vincent Anamosa secretary treasurer Harold Hartman Anamosa Arnold Bader Springville and R V Porter Hopkinton as directors. Slater named director at large. John Steward Waterloo national Holstein fieldman spoke on line breeding work at the New Jersey experimental station and other county activities. Porter was elected as district representative candidate for the national convention in June.
The article notes a 1946 Linn and Jones county 4-H prize and describes Mr. Bullis and John C. Shover leading the project with Monti cello while planning an annual picnic. It also reports Tom Neuhardt and Harry Madden near Creston bagging a large wolf estimated at 48 pounds, possibly the region's largest.
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