Jones County Farm Bureau July 4 Sports Festival at Monticello
The Jones County Farm Bureau hosts a county wide sports festival at Monticello fairgrounds on July 4 starting 10 a.m. Events include boys and girls relays dashes and games such as kittenball and horseshoes. a Farm Bureau vs Monticello Merchants baseball game is planned plus a noon lunch stand to defray expenses.
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Jones County
Jones County Farm Bureau
Fairgrounds
Monticello
Farm Bureau
Monticello Merchants
Merle Meeks
Martello
Pauline Cramer
Hank Sievers
William Reese
Olin
Jackson Township
Rules for Individual Events at County Wide Meet
The document lists rules for chair quits ring toss, clock golf, and dart throwing for a county meet on July 4. The chair event uses an upside down chair and eight rings to land on legs with scoring for each leg and full four-leg ring. Clock golf routes stakes around a circle with a central stake and uses croquet balls to complete a ringed clock-face course with fewest strokes winning. Dart throwing uses six darts from twelve feet with line discipline and highest score wins.
Olin Boy Will Get Trip to State Camp
Olin Boy Willard Byerly of the Jackson 4 H club earns a free trip to the state convention camp and conference at Camp Mitigwa Boone July 4 to 7. State club leader J S Quist announced Willard is among 48 boys selected for the camp for his record book detailing conservation work on his farm including a wildlife area and landscaping plans. He has six years in club work with dairy baby beef and conservation projects.
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Willard Byerly
Olin
Camp
Mitigwa
Boone
J. S. Quist
Willard
Lovell Girls Hear Convention Talks
Lovell 4 H club members Mrs Henry Adams Ruth Reuter and Betty Adams spoke at the Lovell Happy Helpers meeting about their trip to the 4 H convention in Ames. They earned the trip by county fair demonstrations and planned the years program. Mary Ellen Rickels Decorah attended as a visitor. Tone Benesh treated members to lunch at Shaffers. Next meeting at Lillian Freese home.
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Henry Adams
Ruth Reuter
Betty Adams
Lovell Happy Helpers
Ames
Gertrude Ortyies
Mary Ellen Rickels
Decorah
Tone Benesh
Shaffer
Lillian Freese
Farmers Plant 15000 Trees For Erosion and Reforestation
Thirteen Jones county farmers ordered 15 000 trees through the state nursery to be planted on their farms this spring. The Farm Bureau sponsored the program and aided ordering. Two planting demonstrations were held by an extension forester from Iowa State College. Species included black locust black walnut green ash western yellow pine and hard maple.
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Jones County
Farm Bureau
Iowa State College
Clay Busy Bees Discuss Composers at Home Meeting
Seven members of the Clay Busy Bees 4-H Girls club met at Lorraine Hanna’s home last Thursday. Elizabeth French and Regina Keating spoke on composers while Lois Horton covered daily health needs. Mrs. Philip Snyder and Gladys Heeren reported on the State 4-H Girls convention in Ames and plans for a county fair demonstration were agreed upon.
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Clay Busy Bees
Lorraine Hanna
Elizabeth French
Regina Keating
Lois Horton
Philip Snyder
Gladys Heeren
Ames
June Haying Scenes From Jones County Farmyards
Express photographer captures farmers at work in Jones County hayfields. Gail Walker of Prairieburg distributes hay from a wagon lifted by a hay rake on the Charley Toley farm near Anamosa. Carl and Earl Larsen operate near Cass township while Lars en appears on the wagon with Harry Remington nearby.
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Jones County
Express
Gail Walker
Prairieburg
Charley Toley
Ed Hauser
Anamosa
Carl
Earl Larsen
Cass Township
Larsen
Harry Remington
Heiken
Wendell Leiken
Cass
Around the Acres: Farmers, Sportsmen, and Soils in Cass Township
Hans Bartels' Cass township corn field hosts his four children paid five cents per hour to weed velvet weed aided by an alarm clock. The piece highlights rural life, farm tech, and soil quality as readers tour forests, hay racks, rubber tires, and open pollinated corn along with local figures like Max Specht, George DaSchafer, and Henry Stadtmueller.
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Hans Bartels
Cass Township
Hans
Gerdes
Lorraine
Leela
Laryonne
Iowa
Henry Stadtmueller
Henry
Monticello and Hopkinton Breeders Win Pig Contest
John Steiner of Monticello and Wm. C. Lang of Hopkinton won $5.00 prizes in a Semi-Solid Pig Farrorowing contest. Their sows bred last fall produced husky, thrifty piglets that outperformed competing hog breeders in the Middle West, reflecting careful gestation management.
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John Steiner
Monticello
Wm. C. Lang
Hopkinton
Middle West
Jones County AAA Compliance Nears Completion
The Jones county AAA compliance check is about 80 percent complete with farm measurements and notifications of planted acres being processed. Parity payment applications have been sent to multiple producers, and the first batch may be sent to the state office soon.
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Jones County
Milwaukee
Chicago
Formula to Kill Codling Moth Emergence Peak
Codling moths are emerging in large numbers in southern Iowa. Apply second cover spray 10 days to 2 weeks after the first, using sulfur and lime formulations or substitutes. Use 2 pounds dry form plus 6 pounds hydrated lime and 11.7 pounds lead arsenate per 100 gallons of water. or a 2-3-50 Bordeaux mixture if temperature exceeds 80 F. If scab is absent and spraying is timely, a dilute lime sulfur mix may be used.
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Iowa
Towa
New Crossbred Oats Type Tested in Jones County
Iowa State College developed a crossbred oats type last year and four Jones county farmers grow Boone variety this summer as part of an experimental trial. The participants include A Parke Ogden Anamosa Twais Buchholtz Wyoming Weseman Bros Clarence Center Junction Maurice McNeilly. Seed production will expand and be commercially available in about two years. The three oat types Boone Hancock Marion show rust and lodge resistance superior to current varieties.
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Iowa State College
Jones County
Boone
Hancock
Marion
A. Parke Ogden
Anamosa
Twais Buchholtz
Wyoming
Weseman Bros
Clarence
Maurice McNeilly
Center Junction
Northwood man escapes tractor plunge into river
Jumped Truman Squire of Northwood nearly fell with a sliding tractor into the Shell Rock river last week but leaped to safety just in time to avoid the water.
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Truman Squire
Northwood
Shell Rock
Squire
Florence Forbes to Assist 4-H Leaders at County Fair
Miss Florence Forbes a home furnishing specialist from Iowa State College will visit the county on July 12 to help 4-H girls and leaders with demonstrations for the Jones County Fair. Each club fields a team, with the winner going to the state contest at the Iowa State Fair and the second place team to the Dairy Cattle Congress at Waterloo. Demonstrations focus on a home furnishing project the girls studied this year.
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Florence Forbes
Iowa State College
Jones County
Waterloo
Daylight Saving Confusion Triggers False Siren Alarm
Mount Vernon residents mistook the time as daylight saving began and T S Mitchell activated the noon siren at 11. Firefighters rushed to the scene in a false alarm. Mitchell reportedly remained alive.
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Mount Vernon
T. S. Mitchell
Mitchell
Sell Non-Layers and Keep Layers as Egg Market Rises
A poultry editor urges farmers to cull non laying hens and retain layers as egg prices trend upward. He notes recent increases in hen sales, advises disciplined flock management, and warns against selling prime layers too soon, stressing good feed and water for profitable future eggs.
Will Dirks Hosts To Guests Sunday
AMBER dinner guests included George Dirks Wheaton IL and many Anamosa families with extended visits from Des Moines Wyoming and Cedar Rapids areas. Afternoon guests, ice cream and cake, and several Sunday eve callers followed with visits to Comanche and Wyoming homes.
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Amber
Will Dirks
George Dirks
Wheaton
Otis Thomas
London
Richard Dirks
Des Moines
Lou Dirks
Grace Wroblewski
Anamosa
Geraldine
Leroy Dirks
Wyoming
Ejlert Onken
John Doden
Henry Rink Sr
Rex Reuter
Comanche
W. R. Zimmerman
Alva Gerdes
Clifford Jansen
Arthur Carlsen
Herman Helgens
Louie Helgens
Carl Gerdes
Lucille Bohlken
Cedar Rapids
J. JD. Bohlken
Will Jansen
Billy
Otto Danneman
W. J. Zimmerman
Castle Grove
Edwin Freese
Jack Husman
Otto Otten
George Herren
Henry Schafer
Ben Tobiason
Henry E. Dirks
John Dirks
Ed Helgens
Kate Gerdes
Larry Walton
Herman Folkers
Elmer Osterkamp
Raymond Biere
John Freese
Joe Ingalls
Joann
Lorene Voorhees
Washington, D. C
H. A. Toenjes
Anna Rose Strasburg
Town City
Ruth Kofoed
Martin
Joe Halligan
Don
Joe
Kate Seery
Ann
Carl Schoon
Caroline Bodiker
Clinton
George Bodiker
Louie Behrends
Virgal
Vincent Simmons
Denver
John Siebels
Maynard Dirks
Harold Eggers
Harold
D. John Dirks
John Henry
Ben Englehart
Turkeys Die in Storm Flight From Wind-Wrecked Shelter
One thousand six hundred ninety nine young turkeys were killed when they fled a wind-damaged shelter during a recent storm.
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U. S
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Wapsie
Jack Ahtrichs
Max Specht
Carl Heiken
George Heiken
Vern Ray
Bill Lu
Jones County Fair
Max
Wail Zimmerman
de Cluis
Geo. DaSchafer
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
W. C. Lang
AAA
Frank Priebes
Gambie’s
Gamble Super Barn
Turkey
M. A. Cass, Jnr
LeMars
Earlville
Vernon Brockman
Loanon Farms
W. E. Tuetken
Monticello, Iowa
Bolson
Mutual Creamery Company
Fred Lehman
Center Junction Creamery Company
H. W. Cox
John Deere
Farmers Implement CO
E. F. Hoffer
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