Farmers Land Contour Methods After Deluge
Farmers using contour farming strip cropping and other erosion control practices reported greatly reduced soil loss and better moisture retention after extremely heavy rains across the state. Cooperators including Peter Gadient Herman Egger John Britt Fred Nelson and others credited the methods for protecting fields and reducing washout on rolling terrain and cross plowed sections. Local Soil Conservation representatives note broad satisfaction with crop performance and soil conservation results.
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Soil Conservation Service
Peter Gadient
Sand Spring
Herman Egger
Herman Feger
John J. Britt
Buck Creek
Fred Nelson
Frank King
C. A. McLaughlin
Monticello
Henry Adams
Frank Story's Hogs Top Chicago Market
Frank Story of Jones county sold a load of quality butcher hogs at the Chicago Stock Yards for average 250 pound hogs at 5.20 per cwt. top on the day. Cattle prices rose to 12.50 per cwt midweek. hogs reached 5.40 per cwt for a second day. native lambs brought 11.15 per cwt. Population of Rumania is estimated at about 20,300,000.
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Frank Story
Jones County
Chicago
Morley 4-H Boys Tour Club Projects
Five Morley 4-H members and leader Thomas Hartley toured club projects on Monday afternoon. Members showcased dairy heifers market pigs and demonstration on trimming hooves at Robert Tonne's home.
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Morley Boys
Thomas Hartley
Richard Smith
Earl Husman
Russell Tenley
Harold Hoppe
Robert Tonne
Fieyrd Iver
Forty Acres By Bailer Helps Fagan Bros On Cascade Farm
The Fagan Bros three miles south of Cascade rely on a bailer to handle their 407 acres of timothy clover and alfalfa. F. J. McNally assisted with Norbert and Lewis Fagan and Thomas Keating. The bachelor brothers raise 50 beef cattle and 25 Brown Swiss dairy cattle aiming to milk about 15 year round.
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Fagan Bros
Cascade
F. J. McNally
Norbert
Lewis
Thomas Keating
Fugene Fagan
Ed J. Fagan
Wayne County 4 H Notes Rally Day And Farm Tour
Bud Kearns reports on Wayne County 4 H activities including Rally Day farm tours baby beef field day and daytime meetings. Volunteers like Ed Sarma and Dean Newman appear, with weight guessing accuracy and poultry projects highlighted. Entries close for the All Iowa Fair July 23 and Jones County Fair August 20 23.
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Jones County
4-H
Beef Man Visits County 4-H Clubs
Carl Oldson of the Iowan Beef Producers association visited Jones county on Wednesday for two meetings with 4-H club members. The events, at Willis and Donald Fairbanka in Anamosa and Merlin K Lyon in Olin, covered feeding and management, fitting and showing, and selection and judging of baby beeves. A highlight was Lyon’s exhibit of nine purebred Hereford cattle. The group viewed calves fed by several local families and toured dairy heifers and garden plots before a picnic lunch and a demonstration on handling a heifer.
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Carl Oldson
Iowan Beef Producers Association
Jones County
Willis
Donald Fairbanka
Anamosa
Merlin K. Lyon
Olin
Mr. Oldson
Leo Levsen
Grover
Helen
Virtus Lorenzen
Irvin
Delbert Huaman
LaVern
Kuhns
Kermit
Galen Kuhns
Ralph and
Paul Paulsen
Ronald Paulsen
John Alyea
Ralph Paulsen
Richard Ketelsen
Donald Ketelsen
John Ketelsen
Alvin Weer
Raymond Nagel
Frederick Shover
Dale
Louis
Paul
Scotch Grove 4 H Club Tour Visits Member Homes
Ten members of the Scotch Grove 4-H club toured fellow members homes Friday starting at the Scotch Grove depot. They viewed purebred litters and a dairy heifer cared for by Jack and Jerry Nay.
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Scotch Grove
Jack
Jerry Nay
Thief Sighting At Grinnell Commencement
A Chicago visitor at Grinnell June exercises complained pick pockets took his wallet. He cashed a check to return home. the wallet later was found safe in his suitcase. A Lohrville card game was halted when bricks fell from a torn wall but curiosity saved players.
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Chicago
Grinnell
Lohrville
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John Kraus
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Richard
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John
Edmund Wacker
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Farm Bureau
Wayne Willing Workers 4-H
Wayne Boys
Mayeda Weers
Alvin
Alvin Lasack
C. B. Jessen
Willard Byerly
Camp
Mitigwa
Dick Rickels
Gerd Rickels
Eby’s Mill
Rickers
Dean Newman
Greenfield
Miniwanica
Dean
Pig Club
Ed Sarma
Oxford Boys Club
Jean Livingstone
June Thomson
Jean Hoffman
Lucille Waggoner
Marshalltown
Tama
Bill Reade
Clay Boys Club
A.E.A. News
Electrical Appliance
Morley Boys Club
Cedar Falls
Betty Davis
Dorothea Brewer
Laura Mae Shaw
Helen Koppenhaver
Jackson Wise Owl
Wanita Reese
Betty Lee Glick
Lorraine Cruikshank
Leona Walderbach
Fairview Orioles
Farnt Bureau
Jones County Fairgrounds
Mary Green Brosshard
Framington
Mass
Iowa County
Brashard
Zurich
Switzerland
Lange
Loanon Farms
W. E. Tuetken
Monticello, Iowa
Wolverine
Bolson
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
Iowa
Fred Lehman
Center Junction Creamery Company
Center Junction
H. W. Cox
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
Banking House
Federal Reserve System
THE
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Monticello State Bank
Earlville
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