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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1961
Page
6
Joe E. Legg extension director reports 1961 Jones County crops including corn oats soybeans and hay are near normal for the season with rain needed. Oats in milk stage, crops healthy, hay good, and early soybean planting up due to ASC program. No corn borers reported locally.
The Olins Lions club sponsors the annual beef day on Saturday August 5 at the Fred Hefflefinger show grounds. Entries include baby beeves from Hale and Olin 4-H clubs and the Olin FFA chapter with a showmanship contest. Judge is Mr. Thompson of Rath Packing Co. Waterloo. Olin high school band will perform and 4-H girls provide lunch.
East Central Ayrshire Association holds district Ayrshire show at Gerald Kiss farm south of Mount Vernon on Friday July 28. Picnic dinner at Slam before, with show following. Prizes awarded to top 4-H Ayrshires and a judging contest conducted.
Six Express readers identified last week's Mystery Farm as the Galen Brainard farm in Cass township near Monticello. Brainard is the third generation to own the 240 acre farm, taken over in 1936. Principal crops are corn oats and hay for cattle and hogs. The Brainards have three children Jim 16 Ann 14 and Ross 7.
USDA warns rising threats from insects and crop and livestock diseases could double costs and lower food quality in five years. Dairy stockpiles rose 15 percent year over year as Farmers Home loans stay strained. Milk per cow rose 2 percent by June 1 while Minnesota researchers note off flavor bacteria at low levels. Poultry economists forecast turkeys and broilers prices, eggs near 32-33 cents in early 1962, with weather stressing hogs and feed use rising about 80 percent from 70 to 90 degrees.
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