Seed testing and pig nutrition guidance from Jones County Farm Bureau
Farmers are urged to use the Jones County Farm Bureau seed testing service for germination and purity results with free testing for members and 25 cents per sample for non-members. Agricultural expert Mr. Quaife offers detailed guidance on sow and piglet rations, including prefarrowing feed, postfarrowing diet, pasture emphasis, and mineral mixes to improve outcomes and reduce corn reliance.
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Jones County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Three New Home Project Officers Appointed
Mrs Bernard Cass announced three county officers at a meeting of township chairmen and publicity Friday. Mrs Duncan Wasson Ons low named county health chairman. Mrs Harlan Russell Anamosa will head world peace committee and Mrs O O T Furst to chair library service committee.
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Bernard Cass
Jones County Farm Bureau
Duncan Wasson
Onslow
Harlan Russell
Anamosa
Lovell and Castle Grove Farm Bureau Meetings
The Lovell township Farm Bureau met at Edwin Wilcox home in Monticello Tuesday with an all day session and a noon picnic. Irving Hintz Lloyd Hutton reported on their Farm and Home Week trip to Ames. Castle Grove township met Friday at Schoolhouse No 2 with Mrs. W D McLaughlin discussing Farm and Home Week and plans to finish membership work when roads allow.
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Lovell Township Farm Bureau
Edwin Wilcox
Monticello
Irving Hintz
Lloyd Hutton
Ames
Castle Grove Township
Center Junction
Wyoming
Davenport
Greeley
Harold Alyea
Chris Petersen
Dick Thompson
Jack Stingley
Dillon Mead
Harley Bulgren J
Ed Duncan
Osage
Hearst R. Duncan
Leroy Dirks
Nels Mortensen
Will Serbousek
Glen
Rock Island
John Carson
B. D. Heiken
Marie Heiken
Fred Kempf
J. N. Smith
Boone
Catherine Thompson
Cornell
Mount Vernon
G. Thompson
J. A. McDonald
Fred Carson
Chfford McDonald
Batchelder
James Mead
Lyman Thompson
Onslow
E. F. Kleineck
Jane DeShaw
Peter Prahm
Earl Pulver
Anamosa
George McDonald
Fred Biere
Ed Goldsmith
N. C. Holst
Ernest Rohwedder
A. Burmeister
Cedar Rapids
Herman Schladesky
Thomas Bell
Merlin Dreibelbis
L. A. Dreibelbis
S. G. Thompson
John Thompson
C. M. Holst
Carl Husman
Jones county farmers hear state farm plan briefing
Attendees from Jones county agricultural conservation committee and County Agent Carl Smith joined state figures at a Monday meeting at Iowa State College February 28. O D Klein and Rit Bliss organized the session as Claude Wickard led a farm bill discussion. Plans outline county meetings to explain the new program.
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L. T. Lorenzen
Wyoming
William Stanton Jr
Bernard
Ray Sanford
Scotch Grove
Olin Howie
Monticello
Jones County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Carl Smith
Iowa State College
O. D. Klein
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Rit Bliss
Extension Service
Claude R. Wickard
North Central
AAA
Jones County
Holstein Breeders Hold Their Annual Meeting in Anamosa
The Jones County Holstein Breeders association met in Anamosa on Wednesday. Officers were reelected: President G H Monroe Vice President Joe Tyrer Secretary-Treasurer William Vincent State Director W S Smith Alternate State Director George Slater County Directors Lee Finn and William McGovern The group is affiliated with Iowa State and the national Holstein associations. Plans for the year include promoting the breed in the county assisting members in selling surplus stock and promoting 4 H club work.
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Jones County Holstein Breeders’ Association
Anamosa
G. H. Monroe
Joe Tyler
William Vincent
W. S. Smith
Central City
George Slater
Olin
Lee Finn
William McGovern
Jones County
Iowa State Holstein Breeders Association
National Association
Home Project Training School Date Changes
Mrs Bernard Cass county home project chairman announces the fourth lesson in the home furnishing course will run March 22 to March 25. Meetings are one week later than previously scheduled with a study on Commercial Floor Coverings and Resurfacing of Linoleums including quality price and use and a demonstration of linoleum resurfacing.
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Bernard Cass
County Home Project
Good Interest Shown In Swine Production Meets
Farm Bureau meetings in Jones County drew strong attendance from local swine producers. E L Quaife of Iowa State College Extension led the talks. Attendees noted pigs may be farrowing earlier this year as favorable feed conditions tempt earlier market, with emphasis on sow nursing pig and feeder pig care through to market weights.
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Farm Bureau
Jones County
E. L. Quaife
Extension Service
Iowa State College
Pruning School Planned For Jones County
Jones county fruit growers will attend a pruning school on March 18 at 1 00 PM. S. W. Edgecombe of Iowa State College extension horticulturist leads the demonstration at the Frank Walker farm, Monticello area. Focus areas include pruning apples grapes and raspberries with talks on varieties planting spraying topworking and hardy stock choices.
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Jones County
S. W. Edgecombe
Iowa State College Extension Horticulturist
Frank Walker
Monticello
Edgecombe
Rural Youth Program Planned With March Meeting
Rural youth program committee met February 28 at the Farm Bureau office to design March April and May activities. Planned topics include a trade boycott of Japan panel discussion highway safety talk and a May charter reception with social activities. Max Specht serves as chairman. The next meeting is March 17 in the Anamosa court house community row inviting interested rural youths to join.
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Rural Youth Program Committee
Farm Bureau
Japan
Max Specht
Court House
Anamosa
Four 4-H Club Meetings Planned in March Across Local Areas
The Olin Boys and Jackson Boys 4-H clubs held meetings on March 1 and 2 to discuss pig project issues and finalize the 1938 program. Scotch Grove and Cass township clubs schedule meetings March 3 and 4 to write programs and recruit members. Town State College leader J 5 Quist will assist Jones county leaders March 4 to plan the 1938 4-H activities.
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Olin
Jackson
Delbert Brickley
Scotch Grove
Scotch Grove Township
Cass Township
Cass Center
Fred Heiken
Cass
Quist
Town State College
Jones County
Well Framed Pictures An Asset To A House
Miss Nora Workman of Ames teaches a home furnishings lesson on selecting well framed pictures for wall space color and room harmony at a February training in Jones County. Twenty one women from four townships attended as part of the farm bureau program and the next session will cover Floor Coverings in March. A closing note observes Englishmen live longer thanks to better water hygiene and surgery.
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Nora Workman
Ames
Pete Sievers
Wyoming
Clay
Madison
Scotch Grove
Jones County Farm Bureau
Ray Naylor
Green Grass Boosts Poultry Yields and Winter Egg Hatch
An article traces how pasture grazing and fresh green grass improve hatchability and chick survival. It describes experiments with milk, cereal grasses, and grass dehydration fed to breeding flocks, noting January hatch rates rose to eighty chicks per hundred eggs. It links grassy feeds to reduced pullet-year mortality and cites a hatcheryman using dehydrated spring grass mixed with buttermilk to improve outcomes.
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Milwaukee
Marvin’s Operation Recovery in Cedar Rapids Scene
A report notes Marvin and family traveling to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday for news related to a medical operation he underwent two weeks earlier.
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Cedar Rapids
Marvin
Scotch Grove Moves And Social Courtesy Notices
Neighbors in Scotch Grove hold courtesy gatherings for families relocating to farms near Amber Monticello and Monticello area. Names include Husman Kray Zimmerman Ernst Sanford Lange and others with moves planned March first to farms near Monticello and Amber. Local meetings and social events listed with dates March 9 11 and where Laura Sinclair Wilma Kuhns perform. Kathleen Hughes returns from Chicago six weeks stay.
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Elmer Ernst
Zimmermans
Lee Sanford
Krays
Hans Lange
Husmans
Kathleen Hughes
E. J. Fedderer
Chicago
Bernard Cass
W. B. Clark
Anamosa
County Farm Bureau
Gillen Hotel
Women's Community Club
Farm Bureau
R. A. Naylor
Laura Sinclair
Wilma Kuhns
Beall
Center Junction
M. J. Cass
Monticello
Scotch Grove Centennal Celebration Program Notes
Reported fragment describes a Scotch Grove centennial event with refreshments served at the close of the program. No further details provided.
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Scotch Grove
Desperate gamble in Britain’s foreign policy warned
The Davenport Times argues Britain faces a risky policy as time could favor Nazidom amid Balkan expansion. It suggests peace may come only if Ethiopia is recognized, potentially tying Britain to Italy and inviting further aggression from Japan and Germany.
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Davenport Times
Britain
Fuehrer
Balkans
Ethiopia
Italy
India
Japan
Germany
Friendly and Significant Boone Tour to Buenos Aires
The article describes a goodwill tour to Buenos Aires as a friendly gesture toward a South American neighbor. It notes the U S flight demonstrated new aircraft capable of enforcing the Monroe Doctrine and emphasizes the tour’s amicable purpose over any warlike implication.
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Boone
News-Republican
Buenos Aires
United States
Not much would be left of the new deal for its program
The Globe-Gazette notes that without funds the New Deal program would collapse, emphasizing the critical role of the money bag in sustaining relief and public works efforts. The piece underscores fiscal limits and policy reliance on continued funding.
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Mason City Globe-Gazette
Local social notes and community updates from Center Junction
Center Junction residents gather for dinners and meetings as Dorothy Goodman and others attend events in Iowa and nearby towns. Notable items include Methodist Ladies' Aid, Presbyterian church missions planning, neighborhood party with five hundred, and local trades changes. Also reports on J F Livingstone stroke in Daytona Beach and Tomlinsons selling garage business and home near Anamosa.
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Dorothy Goodman
Leon
Jerry Warren
Atwood
Kan
Harold Gaunt
Des Moines
Ellen McDonald
Iowa City
Miss McDonald
George McDonald
W. H. Chamberlain
Cleveland
Ohio
McDonald
Methodist Ladies’ Aid Society
O. O. Watson
Farnham
Wyoming
Henry Heeren
Onslow
F. L. Himebaugh
S. W. Clark
Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Ethel Stingley
Prahm
Japan
Gladys McNeilly
Meta Prahm
C. M. Holst
E. Peters
Mike Paulsen
Ben Heiken
Chris Gill
N. C. Holst
J. F. Livingstone
Wil Leech
Daytona Beach
Fla
Livingstone
Florida
E. L. Tomlinson
Harry Scheele
Anamosa
Tomlinsons
Wilt Mead
Tomlinson
S. A. Leek
Mercy Hospital
C. H. Nelson
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Frank Priebes
Thelma Husman
Frank Husman
Leroy
Howard Leech
Smith Farm
Arthur Wilcox
Leech
W. H. Archer
Compton
Ill
J. L. Serbousek
Archer
E. R. Young
Hammond
Ind
Earl Mather
R. E. Beall
Center Junction School
Ottumwa
Jones County Board of Supervisors
Vinton
James Farley
Bryan
A. Nichols
Lyman Thomson
Scott McDonald
Maquoketa
Belle Dodson
Charles Moncrief
Benadom’s Hospital
Pauline Prahm
Cedar Valley Daily Times
Presbyterian Ladies’ Working Band
Augusta Norris
Imogene Chase
Reta Noah
Evelyn Courtney
Lenox College
Hopkinton
D. O. Sinclair
John
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John Deere Store
Frances Speidel
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