4-H Club Members Feed 50 Litters for Jones County Fair
Forty-five 4-H members care for market and purebred litters as 350 pigs survive from 400 Farrowed. The list names 4-H members and breeds including Berkshire, Chester White, Duroc Jersey, Hereford, Poland China, and painters Frank Kaufman.
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THE
Monticello
Iowa
4-H
Jones County Fair
Berkshire
Donald Clark
Olin
Galen Cook
Scotch Grove
Merlin Cook
LaVern Kuhns
Jay Levsen
Joe Levsen
Loranee Mackey
Alvin Weers
Center Junction
Chester White
James Miller
Martello
Anton Vanicek
Oxford Junction
Donald Howie
Dale Danneman
Amber
Dorothy Danneman
John Ketelsen
Loren Remington
Gene Walker
Duroc Jersey
Robert Fishwild
Wyoming
Harry Iinster
Raymond Hudrick
Jack Naylor
Jerry Naylor
Stanley Richardson
Hereford
Howard Calvert
Glenn Brown
Poland
China
Willis Fairbanks
Anamosa
Julian Kinley
Herbert Martin
Wesley Siebels
Leo Waggoner
Local Boy Plants Potato Production Demonstration Plot
Leo Levien Clarence and Dale Adams of Monticello establish a potato demonstration plot on their farms to test cultural methods. Supplied seed varieties include Cobblers Red Warba Early Ohio Columbian Russet Mesaba and virus-free Cobblers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Levien
Clarence
Dale Adams
Monticello
Smith- Hughes Department
Jones County Farm Bureau
C. L. Fitch
Town State College
Ohio
Vacations Discussed By Wayne Club Boys
Eleven members of the Wayne Boys 4 H club met at Willis Ricklefs home. Aug Moenk Jr attended as a prospective member. Wesley Siebels and Lavern Engelbart were named vice secretaries. LaVern Engelbart elected kittenball captain. Plans for a club tour and a joint Wayne Girls club picnic were discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Boys 4-H
Willis Ricklefs
August Moenk, Jr
Wesley Siebels
LaVern Engelbart
Wayne Girls Club
William Ricklefs
Practices That Defeat AAA Program Rules Highlighted
County AAA vice chairman Wm. Stanton Jr. warns landlords and tenants that schemes to evade the 1940 farm program will lose payments. Rulings define penalties for misreporting shares, diverting payments, signing false documents, and offsetting individual performance with partnerships or other enterprises. Deductions apply for overplanting across states and related rent-to-offset schemes. Read Express want ads.
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Wm. Stanton, Jr
County
AAA Committee
Stanton
AAA
AAA Payments
Contour Farming Bulletin Aids Iowa County Farmers
Jones county farmers may obtain the new Iowa State College bulletin Contour Farming for Soil and Water Construction just off the press. County Agent Carl Smith reports copies available at the Farm Bureau office. The bulletin explains terracing strip cropping and contour farming impacts on labor and fuel, plus machinery operation over terraces and how to lay out contour guidelines and use the Walking A contrivance for contour lines.
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Jones County
Iowa State College
Carl Smith
Farm Bureau
Mapping Continues on Four Monticello Watersheds
Soil mapping has been completed on 500 acres of 3 375 acres approved by the Monticello Soil Improvement Association. C E Stouffer of the Soil Conservation Service will map 21 farms across four watersheds showing soil type slope, topsoil depth and erosion. Maps aid planning and farmer CAMP technicians in conservation programs with CCC labor contributions toward program implementation.
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Monticello Soil Improvement Association
C. E. Stouffer
Soil Conservation Service
Stouffer
Monticello
CCC
Women Convene To Hear Health Talk
A county wide health program sponsored by the Jones county Farm Bureau women was held at the community building Monti cello with Dr. Carl F. Jordan of the state health department as speaker. Mrs. Thalacker and Mrs. Ellison Martello led the event followed by tea. A second meeting is planned for Anamosa in July with plans to be announced.
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Jones County Farm Bureau
Monticello
Carl F. Jordan
Preventable Disease Division
State Department of Health
Des Moines
Sam
Ellison
Martello
County Home Project
Arnold Thalacker
Thalacker
Ray Peet Named Farm Team Head
Ray Peet of Martelle is named manager of the Jones county Farm Bureau baseball team for the season with James Gotsch as assistant manager. The squad, prepping at workouts, will debut June 2 at 2 p.m. on the Martelle diamond against the Monticello CCC camp team and plans to schedule further local games.
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Jones County Farm Bureau
Monticello CCC
Martelle Diamond
Ray Peet
Martelle
Farm Bureau
James Gotsch
Martello
Scotch Grove 4-H Girls Discuss Music Memory Study
Scotch Grove 4-H girls met at leader Eloise Kuhns home with 12 members and one visitor. Eunice Kuhns and Ida Louise Brokens presented music memory selections while Eloise Kuhns led picture study discussions. Rally day plans and a delegate to the state 4-H convention were chosen. Lunch was served by Mrs. Harry Kuhns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Grove
Eloise Kuhns
Eunice Kuhns
Ida Louise Brokens
Harry Kuhns
County 4-H Kittenball Tourney Set for June and July
The second annual county-wide 4-H kittenball tournament will be held June 20 with all county 4-H boys' club members eligible to participate. Several clubs have named captains and begun practice. finals will be played at the Farm Bureau Sports day on July 4. The site for the county-wide tournament has not yet been selected.
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Farm Bureau
Milk Sales Rise Across Markets In 1939
Final reports from the Milk Industry Foundation show a 2.83 percent increase in daily average fluid milk sales for 1939 compared with 1938, with December marking the tenth straight monthly gain. Three city combined receipts for New York Philadelphia and Boston rose 32.8 million quarts to a record total of 2.060 billion quarts, while San Francisco and Detroit also posted gains in pasteurized and fluid milk sales respectively.
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Milk Industry Foundation
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
San Francisco Milk Dealers Association
Detroit
Michigan Milk Producers Association
Amber People Enjoy Many Parties In Amber Week
Amber residents hosted multiple gatherings last week. Notable events included a birthday celebration for Larry Behrends at the Seehusen home and Iris Porter turning six with a party hosted by her parents in Amber. The week featured showers, 4-H activities, cattle shipments, and community visits to Ames and Anamosa.
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Amber
Jack Seehusen
Otto Danneman
George Seehusen
George Behrends
Larry
Larry Behrends
Harold Porter
Iris
Ruth Craig
Toenjes
Clarence Herren
Alva Gerdes
Julia Toenjes
Miss Craig
Beverly Ann Boland
Waterville
Louie Hagen
Miles Deeny
Beverly
Danneman
Conservation Week Observed In Jones County
Jones county will observe soil conservation week proclaimed by Gov. George A. Wilson for June 3 to 9. An open house at the CCC Camp Monticello and tours on June 6 and 9 are planned with residents urged to attend. Details to be announced next week.
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Jones County
George A. Wilson
CCC
Monticello
Carl Smith
Brinacombe
Five-Year Terms For Stolen Brass In Railcar Case
Eugene Courtney and Frank Henderson received five year terms in Fort Madison for stealing brass boxings from railway cars at Rock Valley. They used a jack to raise tracks and allow the boxings to slip out.
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Rock Valley
Eugene Courtney
Frank Henderson
Fort Madison
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Old Fort Atkinson
Czechoslovakia
Winnishiek County
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Delhi, Iowa
Highway 38
Express
Wayne Club
W. E. Tuetken
Monticello, Iowa
John Iroc EN
John Deere
Farmers Implement CO
E. F. Hofer
Anamoly
Earlville
Department of Agriculture
Arrange County
Farmer Friends
Bolson
Farmer's Mutual Creamery Company
Lowared Lehman
Center Junction Creamery Company
H.W. Cox
Cwe
Wayne
Maxine
Delores Poppe
Elnora Siebels
Ames
Edna Henrichs
Wanda Siebels
Tyler and Downing
Opal Porter
Evelyn Martin
Pauline Siebels
State Park
William Jansen
Roscoe Easterly
Chicago
Meister
E. J. Meister
Denver
Colo
Cecil Meister
Cedar
Wayne No. 7
Herman Folkers
George Mardorf
Warner Heiken
Peter Meister
Cleveland
Cedar Rapids
Mabel Juilis
John Siebels
Dwight Gerdes
Elnora
Vivian Engelbart
Shirley Siebels
Lee Crain
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Amber Creamery Board
Friedman Shelby
Stuhler
Vernon Brockman
Henry Shimerd A
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Friedman
Shelby
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