New Sweet Corn Harvester Aims to Improve Yield At Monticello Plant
Merle Jacobsen of Farmer Foods Monticello plant announces two new sweet corn harvesters to aid the season. The two-row machine cuts ears from stalks rather than snapping, moves ears away from rollers, removes long shanks, and eliminates nonproductive ears. Capacity reaches about one and a half acres per hour and mounting options fit five tractor types. One unit has arrived and will be displayed soon awaiting tractor fitment.
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Merle Jacobsen
Monticello
Farmer Foods, Inc
Jacobsen
Orchards Urged to Spray Early After Wet Weather
County extension director Jessen warns that cool rainy conditions have allowed apple scab to develop even in sprayed orchards. Trees must remain sprayed until hot dry weather ends the fungus, while overall plant diseases thrive this season. Cherry leaf spot reddens leaves and may defoliate trees as rains reduce insect numbers and slow development of codling moths.
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Jessen
Budget Estimate School District Notice Center Junction Iowa
The Center Junction Independent School District board in Madison township Iones county Iowa will meet on July 28 1947 at 8 p m at the school house. Taxpayers may speak for or against the expenditure estimate for the year starting July 1 1947 and ending June 30 1948. A detailed statement of receipts and disbursements will be available at the hearing.
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Center Junction Independent
Madison Township
Iones County
Iowa
Dorothy Johnson
Iowa fruit pest spray guidance for codling moth and maggot
Jessen explains how to distinguish codling moth from maggot damage in apples and when to spray. In northern and central Iowa sprays should be applied in July, using lead arsenate and hydrated lime with sulfur, or DDT if maggot pressure is high.
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Iowa
Jessen
Poultry Contest Finals Held Soon
The Oelwein Chicken-of-Tomorrow contest in Jones County runs July 23–24 with district awards leading to the state event. Local graders inspect flocks before the district center delivers 15 birds for dressing and scoring by Ward Wagner, Iowa inspector, combining farm checks and dressed weights.
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Oelwein
Jones County
Jessen
Ward Wagner
Poultry and
Egs
Iowa
Illusion of Space Through Color Contrast
Sharp contrast between wall color and dark woodwork makes a room feel smaller. Lightening woodwork or walls creates the opposite effect. A dark ceiling can be visually expanded by painting it a lighter shade.
County Famine Drive Nets $2518 Wayne Township Top
A county famine relief drive raised 2518.73 funded by Jones County contributions with Wayne Township topping the list. Rev. A Mast, Jones County Famine Relief chairman, notes strong participation by two teams totaling 858 from Wayne and Castle Grove’s 401.25 plus an additional 275.91 since.
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Famine Relief Fund
Jones County
A. Mast
Wayne Township
Herman Helgens
Castle Grove
Mast
Brotherhood of Man
Milk distributors count in the United States topped at 50000
An estimate places the number of fluid milk distributors in the United States at about fifty thousand, signaling a large network of dairy suppliers across the nation.
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United States
Larger Pig Yield On Sloping Floors
An Iowa farmer increased pig yield by 10 percent using sloping floors in farrowing houses based on University of Kentucky findings. Sows on sloped floors saved 96 percent of pigs born alive versus 86 percent on level floors. Kentucky advice: raise back edges by 1.5 inches. Beverly Nordstrom, 9, of New Hampton, burned by steam from a pipe line after stepping into a rain hole.
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Iowa
Hamilton County
University of Kentucky
Kentucky
Beverly Nordstrom
New Hampton
Beverly
Car chase ends in theft near Minneapolis
Mrs Inga Kalvig of Kanawa and Walter Lundberg of Austin Minnesota traveled from Minneapolis toward Austin when a second car with a siren overtook them. The driver pulled a gun and fled with a small amount of cash as Mr Lundberg stopped believing it was a police car.
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Inga Kalvig
Kanawa
Walter Lundbergs
Austin
Mail carrier keeps decorating soldiers graves for decades
Raymond Knowlton, Stuart’s mail carrier, began honoring fallen soldiers 23 years ago with crosses and flowers. Each spring he tends 302 graves across Stuart cemeteries and sites in Morrisburg Fairview Wahwa Jefferson Center and Menlo, following a map he prepared.
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Raymond Knowlton
Stuart
Morrisburg
Fairview
Wahwa
Jefferson Center
Menlo
First Flight at Milford Ends with Brainerd Sale
Frank Olson waited until age sixty to ride a plane for the first time and then traveled with his nephew from Milford to Brainerd Minnesota to attend a sale.
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Milford
Frank Olson
Brainerd, Minn
Marengo Launches City Spray to Curb Flies
City officials began a mass spray using an airplane piloted by Paul Hursh. Flying at 150 feet, Hursh released DDT over Marengo for about an hour and a half to reduce the mosquito and fly population.
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Marengo
Paul Hursh
Hursh
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