Jones County Farm Allotments Set For February Delivery
Farmers in Jones County will receive notices of Agriculture Adjustment Act allotments around February 1. Township committees reviewed 1940 listing data and 1936 37 histories to calculate farm allotments, using soil slope erosion and productivity factors. Ownership changes are re listed to reflect separate farms, with re combinations only allowed to reflect farming units.
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Jones County
County Agriculture Conservation Office
L. J. Lorenzen
Jones County Agriculture Adjustment Association
Youth Meet Draws 14 Counties To Cedar Rapids
Representatives from Rural Youth associations across 11 counties gathered at the Montrose hotel Cedar Rapids for a district meeting. The event opened with remarks by Robert C. Clark Iowa State College and included sessions on parliamentary procedure newspaper reporting and program material followed by visits to Quaker Oats Wilson Packing and Penick Ford. A banquet and after party capped the day with attendees from Jones County listed. A separate note reports farmer Wilbur Benedict found a 30 000 year old tamarac wood fragment in blue clay at 90 feet while digging a well near Casey.
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Rural Youth Association
Montrose Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Robert Cc. Clark
Iowa State College
Quaker Oats Company
Wilson Packing Company
Penick-Ford Company
Jones County
Marion Balster
Monticello
Merle Meeks
Martello
Prsident
Thomas Hartley
Anamosa
Wilbur Benedict
Casey
Nebraska
Benedict
Rabbit collision on highway near Montezuma
Milt Peters of near Montezuma was driving 45 mph when a jack rabbit jumped onto the road. He accelerated to 55 mph and caught the animal, running it down on the highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speedy
Milt Peters
Montezuma
Mr. Peters
Corn Loan Rush Clears 150 Loans on 130000 Bushels
The Jones County Agriculture Conservation association reports 150 corn loans completed for 130 000 bushels. L T Lorenzen says forms are available and lenders are being notified as notes and mortgages are typed. Last week 93 loans covered 81 838 bushels with corn moisture at 16 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Agriculture Conservation Association
L. T. Lorenzen
County Recorder’s Office
Two Contracts For Limestone Crushing Signed by Farmers
Soils Improvement association let two limestone crushing contracts. Grover and Eden of Monticello will process rock from the Egger quarry on the Egger watershed along the Delaware and Dubuque county lines. Jacob Grieve of Delhi will crush at the Frank King farm in the King watershed. Rock will be used on about six farms per watershed.
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The
Soils Improvement Association
Soil Conservation Service
Grover and
Eden
Monticello
Herman Egger
Egger
Delaware and
Dubuque County
Jacob Grieve
Delhi
Frank King
King
Delaware County
SCS
Lester Kirkhand
Lee
Jones County Farmers To Attend Iowa Farm Bureau Convention
A large Jones County delegation will travel to Des Moines for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation convention at the Shrine temple. Led by Clarence Grafft and W. D. McLaughlin, directors and leaders from home projects plan to attend plus a Rural Youth group led by Marion Balster. Noted speakers include Fiorello LaGuardia on January 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Shrine Temple
Des Moines
Clarence Grafft
County Farm Bureau
W. D. McLaughlin
Township Farm Bureau
Home Project
Louis Lorenzen
Olin
Eastern Iowa Cattle Feeders Association
Jones County Rural Youth Association
Marion Balster
Monticello
United States
Fiorello
Seeds Should Be Sent Now To Avoid February Rush
Dr. R H Porter Iowa State College urges farmers and dealers to send seed test samples before February and March peak capacity. The seed lab tests purity germination disease and variety identification with a 25 cent service charge. Farm Bureau members tested free of charge and samples may be submitted through the county office.
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R. H. Porter
Iowa State College
Carl Smith
Porter
College Seed Laboratory
Farm Bureau
County Farm Bureau
Castle Grove 4-H Elect Officers Tonight
The Castle Grove 4-H club will meet tonight at School No. 2 to elect officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove
4-H
Shomont Dairy North Jones Leads December Milk and Butterfat
North Jones Cow Testing Association reports December output with Shomont Dairy topping at 2449 pounds milk and 83.3 pounds butterfat. Ten high herds listed include Muller Bros and Paul Fleming among others with totals ranging 640 to 1155 pounds milk and 24.6 to 88.9 pounds butterfat.
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North Jones Cow Testing Association
Shomont Dairy
Muller Bros
J. E. Ahlrich
Paul Fleming
Muller & Bell
Carl Hein
Smith & Meade
Paul Muller
Schmidt’s Dairy
Francis Miller
Matt Muller
Poultry Plant Boom Drives East Coast Raises
The letter notes eighteen million pounds of chickens fattened and packed last year near a land strip in Delaware Maryland and Virginia. East coast growers focus on meat production without laying flocks, raising three broods yearly and keeping plants busy year round, providing many jobs.
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Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Poultry Industry Seen as Path to Regional Prosperity
A Midwest community could profit from poultry meat by boosting local processing and feeding chains. Advocates note eastern plants provide employment and tax revenue, while local producers could gain from selling grain, raising birds, and processing meat. A Missouri farmer reportedly earned about a thousand dollars on four thousand chickens in four months.
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Middle West
East
Kansas
Missouri
Man brings pennies to settle auto license fee
Wm. Wistrick of near Elkader visited County Treasurer Maley with a bag of 1200 pennies gathered over the year to pay an automobile license fee.
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Wm. Wistrick
Elkader
Maley
Local notes from Castle Grove and surrounding area
A Castle Grove area birth reports a son for Mr. and Mrs. J Soppe named Dale Edward at McDonald hospital. Local groups plan meetings including Homemakers Worthwhile club on December 17 and Presbyterian and Lutheran Ladies Aid activities with attendees noted. Travel mentions include CG McLaughlin visiting from Hollywood and the Beattys en route from Wichita to Santa Monica with snow reports across Texas New Mexico.
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Castle Grove
J. Soppe
McDonald Hospital
Dale Edward
Delmar King
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Lutheran Church
J. E. Ahlrichs
A. M. Black
C. M. Hanna
Manchester
Farmers Mutual Insurance Association of
Robert Beatty
Wichita
Kansas
Santa Monica
California
Beatty
Texas
New Mexico
Gladys Hosford
Raymond F. Luckstedt
Wycoming
Local Socials and Fire Highlight Weekend in Township
Sunday activities included visits to the Egger home for their third wedding anniversary hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Meiken and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hosford. The Iowa Electric Co is performing major repairs on a Monticello to township line. Fred Caspers took delivery of horses bought at a Grand Island Nebraska sale last week. Monticello residents Mrs. Ray Adams Deloris Yossi Don Maire and Dick Naylor joined O R Howie family guests. A fire severely damaged the upper story of William Clemens home near Ryan. the Farmers Mutual company of Castle Grove insures the building.
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Harvey Meiken
Lyle Hosford
Herman Egger
Sand Spring
Egger
Iowa Electric Co
Monticello
Fred Caspers
Grand Isand
Nebraska
Ray Adams
Deloris Yossi
Don Maire
Dick Naylor
Scotch Grove
O. R. Howie
William Clemens
Ryan
Farmers Mutual
Castle Grove
Skating Boy Rescued From Ice Hole In Eldora
Donald Spees age 14 of Eldora fell into a hole in the ice while skating. Ed Schultz his companion reached in and pulled him out. Spees suffered a broken ankle from the incident, cause not yet determined.
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Donald Spees
Eldora
Ed Schultz
Don
Rumor of WPA worker’s death proved false then tragedy struck
On December 22, 1938 a rumor spread that Webb Renn of LaPorte City had died in a stone quarry. The tale proved unfounded. Months later Renn, while riding to work on the anniversary of that report, joked about it with coworkers. Hours afterward he died of a heart attack in the same quarry.
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Webb Renn
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AAA
Farm Bureau Convention
Capital City
Bennett Greten
Tobs
Kenneth Schultz
Postville
Shomont Dairy Cow Heads
CTA
North Jones
Frank Priebes
McCormick-Deering
Cormick
Deering Ae Neea Ne
wNanadia As
Shaffer
Bolson
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
Iowa
Fred Lehman
Center Junction Creamery Company
Center Junction
H. W. Cox
S. J. Soppe
Oscar Ambuehl
Earlville
Department of Agriculture
Hess
Poland
China
Worthington
Queen Marie
Model Ann
Emgina & Foundations
W. E. Tuetken
Monticello, Iowa
Jones County Produce
E. R. Young
Onslow On
Wallis
Ford
F. L. Story
Cascade State Bank
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