Help Needed to Plant Corn and Soybeans Amid Late Season Delays
County Extension Director C B Jessen urged immediate recruitment of high school students and volunteers to operate tractors for corn and soybeans. He estimated three man hours are required per acre and warned a single day’s delay could jeopardize the crop. Recruiting captains should log volunteers and report to the farm labor center or extension office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
C. B. Jessen
Jessen
Europe
Montana and Mountain States Key Metal Producers
A small regional population pumps out a large share of vital shipbuilding metals. About 40,000 miners in Montana Wyoming Colorado Utah and New Mexico produce half the U S copper nearly all molybdenum and vanadium virtually all vanadium, plus substantial lead and zinc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
U. S
Spraying Instructions For Fruit Trees and Bushes
County extension officials urge timely spraying to combat apple scab brown rot and other diseases after cold wet weather. Apply cluster bud sprays to apple plum and pear trees before blossom opening with plums and pears spray timing ahead of apples. Use lime sulfur lime and arsenate mix with water. dilute separately before combining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Jessen
DP. Sylvester
Town State College
Jessen
Contour Corn 10 Acre Yield Award Announced in Iowa
Iowa farmers enter the fifth annual 10 acre corn yield contest. The contouring award, given by the state soil conservation committee, honors fields producing 100 bushels per acre or more. Master medals for 100+ bu, merit certificates for 125+ bu. Entrant names and addresses go to the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers' Association by July 1. Only local-contest entrants are eligible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Iowa
C. B. Jessen
State Soil Conservation Committee
Town Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Joe L. Robinson Ames
AAA
Vocational Agriculture Groups
Soils District
County Tlarm Bureau
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Ames
Robinson
Defense Meeting Scheduled May 16 for Canning Crop Transport
A meeting for all producers haulers dealers processors and receivers of canning crops in the Davenport district is set for 7 30 p m May 16 1944 at the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce building Cedar Rapids. An elected canning crop transportation advisory committee will guide motor truck movement within the Davenport area once approved by the Office of Defense Transportation. The Davenport district covers specific Iowa counties and adjacent Illinois counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
ODT
Cedar Rapids
Benton
Buchanan
Cedar
Clinton, Davis
Delaware
Des Moines
Dubuque
Henry
Iowa
Jackson
Jefferson
Johnson
Jones
Keokuk, Lee, Linn
Louisa
Muscatine
Scott
van Buren
Wapello
Washington
Henderson, Henry, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren and Whiteside Counties
Ilinois
Farm Bureau Calendar May 15 Lovell Township Meeting
May 15 Lovell Township Farm Bureau meeting on the calendar followed by May 16 Greenfield Township events. May 17 Clay 4-H Club meeting and May 18 11 H health examinations for South Jones. May 19 Wyoming Township events and May 25 4-H health examinations for North Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Lovell Township
Greenfield Township Farm Bureau
Clay
South Jones
Wyoming Township Farm Bureau
North Jones
Rural Youth Group Seeks Home Life Ideals in Postwar Talk
The Jones county Rural Youth association met at the Kearns home near Martelle with Rev. Baskerville of Central City as speaker on The Post War American Home. He contrasted farm homes with industrial coastal homes and noted many urban children lack home life. Three new members joined. June meeting set at Harold Larson's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones Count Rural Youth Association
James Kearns
Martelle
Theavor Baskerville
Central City
Towa Farm
Atlantic Coast
Harold Larson
New Rutile Titanium Dioxide White Pigment Unveiled
A new rutile type titanium dioxide pigment offers about one third greater opacity and superior chalking and fading resistance due to a denser crystalline structure. This wartime development promises enhanced durability for white pigments.
Graduation rites and community notices in Hopkinton
Members of the graduating class include Gene Bacon Rita Rees Graden Blount Virginia Lahey Mabel Peters James Keith Washburn Kenneth Washburn Donna Mac Orr Ione Bacon Clara Huber Tone Dufoe Roberta Shover Nicholas Haas Elda Wilson Myron Zumbach Beverly Stead Shirley Young and Imogene Winch. Lenox junior college baccalaureate May 14 at 8 p.m. with processional Doxology and sermon. Community events cover hosts Mrs Krueger luncheon Kensington Kill Kare clubs and various local visits and church services.
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Monti
Jeannette Bacon
Biiney
Miss Earhart
R. E. Lux
Buck Creek
Donna Mae Orr
Virginia Lahey
Elda Wilson
Kenneth Washburn
Myron Zumbach
Tory
Rita Rees
Imogene Winch
Keith Washburn
Roberta Shover
Beverly Stead
Nick Haas
R. L. Helt
Gene Thompson
Girls’ Glee Club
H. E. Morrow
Gene Bacon
Graden Blount
Mabel Peters
James Keith Washburn
Donna Mac Orr
Ione Bacon
Clara M. Huber
Tone Dufoe
Roberta Jean Shover
Nicholas M. Haas
Elda E. Wilson
Myron Calvin Zumbach
Shirley Young
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Huy
Belgium
Brussels
Bolson
Bolson’s
Farmer's Mutual Creamery Company
Monticello
General Insurance
Chester A. Condit
Farmers Mutual Creamery Company
Center Junction Creamery Co
Center Junction, la
Nora Workman
Iowa State College
Monticello v
Anamosa
Onslow
Olin
Hopkinton Public Schools
Rose Wilgenbush
Paul Britt
Sand Spring Immaculate Conception Church
Hopkinton
Finkbohner Hall
Robert Burns
Paul Burrack
Edward Gerlich
Ethel Davis
Bette Hageman
Betty Mae Jones
Grace Neal
Marilyn Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Hazel Patricia Talmadge
Margaret Thompson
Patricia Talmadge
Wilgenbush
Britt
Nick Wilgenbush
Ryan
South Fork Township
John J. Britt
Union Township
Immaculate Conception Church
Sand Springs
F. J. McEnany
Father McElliott
Mary Wil
Ray Kirby
So-Lo
McNeill
Court House
Mr. Wilson
Mr. Harrington
Hodgin Hardware
Commodity Credit Corp
Ohlman & Sons Co., Inc
B” Avenue N.E
Cedar ‘Rapids
Lenox Baccalaureate
Lenox Junior College
Gladys Pulver Hucker
Presbyterian Church Choir
F. E. Allen
D.D
Charles Thing
A. Thalacker
Gladys Hucker
Mrs. Krueger
D. R. Krueger
Kensington and
Kill Kare
Miss MaeKenny
Lena Reggentine
Rachel Littlefield
S. Milroy
N. Nagel
Manchester
Hopkinton Briefs
Wayne E. Dufoe
U.S.N
Bermuda Islands
Floyd Dufoe
Charity Thompson
Ray Hartman
Marshalltown
Martin Steen
James A. Wilson
Main ‘Street
H. J. Dunlap
F. R. Tesar
Berkley Smith
Bruce
Sioux City
Cornelia Humphrey
Clinton
Tenn
Robert Ihm
Lionel Martin
David
South Bend
Ind
R. V. Porter
Lucetta Porter
Web Hammond
St. Luke’s Catholic Church
Jennie Winch
Lucy Winch
Irene Zeuch
Waterloo
Charles Richard
William Eike
Robert Stock
Mary Marolf
Elnora Griffith
Opal Green
Floyd E. Davis
Loren A. Smith
Roy J. Hardin
Delaware County
Camp Dodge
R. E. Monk, Prop
Monticello, Iowa
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