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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
7
Jones County AAA reports 26 corn loans under the 1946 47 program with 1 288 bushels lent 18 loans approved 1 288 bushels at average 19.4 moisture percent and ranges 17.9 20.4 percent eight cribs failed minimum moisture averaging 22.4 percent. Producers may seal corn by July 31 1947 and loans mature Sept 1 1947. Contact the county office for sealing due to demand.
Rex Conn farm editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette will speak at Wyoming high school on Thursday January 30 for a Farm Bureau meeting serving Clay Washington Scotch Grove Madison Wyoming Hale and Oxford townships. He will show Guatemala trip photos and discuss agricultural work there.
County Agent C. B. Jessen reports oats from treated seed grew to full height and were sturdier with fewer weak plants. Treating cost about two cents per bushel. He notes cement or feed mixers work for applying ceresan dust and advises outdoor treating with air filtration if indoors.
Royal Rangers held their regular monthly meeting at Ruth and Art Kromminga home in Castle Grove on January 6 1947 programs for the year were passed out and project plan sheets discussed Ray Kromminga led a mineral tag analysis. Twenty two members and six parents attended the games after the business session. Sun Mars Fur Sunlight is noted as a foe of furs with reference to a Russian fable about woodland animals.
The article traces Iowa’s flag story from early discussions in 1913 through a 1917 design by Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt of KnoxVille. It notes Iowa’s early statehood, adoption by the war council, eight banners for regiments, and official designation on March 29, 1921.
Officials describe Iowa's flag pennant as the best balanced and most artistic among state flags. Mrs Gebhardt explains the symbolism drawing from Iowa's history from Indian era to statehood, featuring a soaring eagle and the motto Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.
County 4 H club members raise 90 to 100 baby beeves this year with weights from 320 to 650 pounds. Swine producers report many market litters and county clubs remain active in the Dairy Heifer contest sponsored by the WMT radio farm department.
The women of Madison township meet at Mrs Will Thomson's home for an all day session to study family entertaining. The program includes discussion of table service types and a planned noon menu. Future meetings are set for Greenfield Rome Oxford Hale.
Regular Madison Merry Maids gathering held January 11 at Hansetta Hinrichsen s with eight members and two parents present. Hansetta Hinrichsen led the meeting while plans were made to host a court whist party for the 4 H club and to pack a box overseas for the needy. An illustrated talk on Ideas for Re decorating was given by Hansetta Hinrichsen and Therese Nowachek, focusing on color design and home units, followed by a Parliamentary Procedure talk by Ardis Heiken.
Emelda Kunan, county home economist, will offer guidance on selecting electrical equipment at the Galen Brainard home on January 30 from 10 30 a m to 3 30 p m. The invite lists timing and speaker for the home event.
Jones county Farm Bureau says rotenone dust costs one to two cents per pound of gain and boosts beef production. The dust is said to rid the territory of warble fly, which produces grub on cattle.
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