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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1966
Page
8
A 24 by 30 foot pig parlor was completed on December 10 at the Gerald Weber farm near Sand Springs. It includes 40 named pens, 20 thermo-pane glass windows, double hollow-tile walls with four inches of insulation, four exhaust fans, 16 inlet openings, plus storage and straw space above the first floor.
The Weber farms show a new pig parlor with all pen gates removed. The facility also includes a remodeled dairy barn with silo unloaders bank feeder pipeline milkers bulk cooler and barn cleaner for improved livestock operations.
The description outlines individual 6 by 8 foot maternity ward pens with removable steel side gates to expand the weaning area. Farrowing rails mount to walls and the parlor ceiling uses insulation board with vinyl coating crowned by four inches of powdered insulation.
The Jones county Soil Conservation District represented by Wonder of mechanics competed in the regional contest at Manchester. Prizes for district winners include 15, 10, and 5 dollars for first to third. Regional prizes total 25, 15, and 10 dollars. Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co provides scholarships and cash awards including a 250 dollar scholarship plus 100 dollars to the state contest winner. Second and third prizes are 75 and 50 dollars respectively.
Mrs. Joe Heeren will host the Oak Drive club March 10 at her home. Mrs. John R. Wright will oversee recreation. Mr. and Mrs. Lonie Hanken attended the open house for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Himebaugh who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Eggers relocate to a farm south of Center Jet, with Reece Maats and family moving from Wyoming to the Eggers property. Mrs. F. A. Royden returns home after a month in Monticello hospital recovering from a fall injury.
Jones county Farm Bureau reached its 1403 member target on Monday with 143 new members. Campaign manager Dale Adams of Monticello announced the county is the 34th in Iowa to meet the goal by March 1, earning campaign managers of all meeting counties a three day Washington, D.C. trip March 9-11. Wyland C. Bone of Monticello will exclusively use the prefix Bomond for Holstein dairy animals bred in his herd, a privilege granted by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America and added to official breed records at its national headquarters in Brattleboro Vermont. The prefix naming rights became an active membership requirement in 1965.
Vale Wewman, chairman of the Jones county Conservation District Commissioners, announces the topic Water Conservation- Vital to All for the fourth annual contest. The event is co sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Iowa Association of Soil Conservation Districts and the Grin.
Amiben word control is pitched by the Saathoff Brothers and associates from Rembrandt Iowa. The copy touts minimum tillage and dry weather farming techniques, urging readers to hear broadcasts at the Farm Clinic and visit dealers for proof that Amiben works.
Nell Mutual Reinsurance Co of Grin nell announces an entrant contest open to all junior and senior high school students in Jones County with a deadline of April 1, 1966 for students to enter.
Connie Boots of Monticello won the 1965 Jones county district contest. She received a chack bracelet as the district win.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Arthur Riedel visited Mrs. Gertrude Owen in Anamosa alongside visitors Mrs. Louis Helgens and Mrs. Herman Helgens of Monticello. Thursday evening Mr and Mrs Art Riedel called on Joe Ringhofer in Monticello to help celebrate her birthday with Mrs. Henrietta Hartford of Clinton also in attendance.
Mr and Mrs Ronald Litherland longtime Monticello high school faculty members from 1962 to 1964 have accepted college posts for the next academic year in Moorhead Minnesota and Fargo North Dakota. Litherland will earn a PhD in guidance from the University of Iowa this June and serve as assistant professor at Moorhead State College. Mrs Litherland currently teaches at the University of Iowa and will become an assistant professor in the College of Home Economics at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
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