High Jersey Herds and Cows Lead September Milk Show
Jones County Farm Bureau notes the top herd for September is a Balsier Brothers Jersey group from Monticello with 553 pounds of milk and 32.3 pounds of butterfat. The Men’s Reformatory Anamas3 herd ranks second at 381 pounds of milk and 28.7 butterfat. top cows include two from the Reformatory with 1,464 pounds and 55.7 butterfat and 1,716 pounds with 549 butterfat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Donnelly
Cow Testing Association
Balsier Brothers
Monticello
Men's Reformatory
Seek 1937 Program To Meet Farm Situation Caused By Drought
In six Jones county meetings this week farmers discuss 1937 program changes for drought conditions. County Agent Carl Smith leads with LT Lorenzen Wram Stanton Ray Stivers and the county allotment committee. Topics include changes to payment basis crop classifications soil building practices and incentives to seed soil conserving crops. Limestone use and soil lime needs are also discussed with testing and bulletin offers from Iowa State College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Carl Smith
Lorenzen
Wram Stanton
Ray Stivers
Comaines
Osteber & Anamosa
Court House
Olin
Center Junc+ tion
Montaur
Temple Hill School
Amore
Smith
Iowa
Firkims
Doubi
Sons Department
Iowa State College
Ames
Bangs disease test shows progress in Jones County farms
Dr. Neal D. Snell reports on Bangs disease testing in Jones County. Of 50 herds containing 1164 cattle, 317 head were diseased in the first test. Eight herds passed, 42 infected. second test reduced infections to 14 percent, third test dropped to 0.4 percent. 418 infected cattle removed. most infections preexisted. Farmers interested should contact the Farm Bureau through the county agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neal D. Snell
Jones County
Sneil
Snell
Farm Bureau
Jones County 4-H Roundup Set for November 4
The Jones county 4-H Roundup for all 4-H boys and their families will be at Center Junction High School on November 4. Harry Newman of Marcellto chairs the county club committee which plans annual medals trips and awards. Floyd Johnston of Iowa State Extension will speak with pictures from his Europe trip with the United States champion dairy cattle judging team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Center Junction High School
Harry Newman
Martello
Newman
Floyd Johnston
Extension Service
Iowa State College
Europe
United States
England
Johnston
Black Hawk County
Natonal
Boys and Girls 4 H Contests Near Closing Dates
Four H boys and girls are entering county state and national contests with many prizes. Closing dates are October 10 and November 1. Announcements are available to all competitors. Sponsors include major national firms. County awards will be announced after entry closes and prizes will be presented at the county 4 H party later in the year.
1937 Farm Bureau Program Outlined in Anamosa
Jones County Farm Bureau board outlines a year long agricultural education plan featuring crops soils livestock economics women's home projects 4 H clubs agricultural adjustment and community activities. The program aims to meet farmers needs and address emergencies with formal approval plus press and township explanations pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Farm Bureau
Anamosa
President Roosevelt Expands Government Bureaus
The president promised a reduction but has added more than 50 bureaus to run the government operations, signaling a broader federal expansion under his administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
October issue highlights on production control and youth program
The Nation's Agriculture October issue covers a philosophy of production control, a national rural youth training program, and a congressional vote record on key agricultural bills from the last session. It also features the Iowa Farm Bureau Minute Men, showing how informed leaders statewide spread factual agricultural economics and progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Minute Men
Iowa
Farm Bureau seeks 50 percent boost in canned meat tariff
On behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation Chester H Gray Washington representative filed with the U S tariff commission a request for a 50 percent increase in the duty on meats under section 336 of the Tariff Act of 1924 The AFBF argues the agricultural program aims to balance production and consumption and that large imports disrupt this balance It vows to testify at public hearings to support the higher tariff to the permitted 50 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chester H. Gray
Washington
U.S. Tant Commission
Mr. Gray
Chicago
Ilinois
U.S. Tariff Commission
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Correct Soil Acidity With Limestone Now
Soil experts advise applying limestone to correct soil acidity. Fall applications give months to adjust before spring seeding, often yielding better results than spring liming or winter liming when conditions permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. J. Firkins
Iowa State College
Marches Studied By Jones County Girls 4-H Music Program
The 4-H girls will study global marches in a yearlong program titled Marching Through History. Materials including music and phonograph records have arrived for distribution and club meetings as Miss Fannie R. Buchanan notes the historical context of marches from ancient to modern times. Pieces include Crusader's Hymn Turkish March Beethoven Funeral March Liszt Semper Fidelis Sousa Recessional and a medley of Battle Hymn of the Republic Battle Cry of Freedom When Johnny Comes Marching Home plus other era works. Rally day in June 1937 will feature scoring to identify titles and composers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Histor” Watl
Jones Country
Fann
Fannie R. Buchanan
Extension Service
Iowa State Corete
Beethoven
Liszt
Wagner
John Phillip Sousa
DeKoven
Berlioz
Johnny
Baby Beef Club Meets At Anamosa October 16
Baby beef club members and their fathers will meet at the Legion hall in Anamosa the evening of October 16 to discuss locating and buying calves for the feed program and to recruit more members for the 4 H baby beef club project. Eligible youths range from age ten to twenty one on January 1 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby Beef Club
Legion Hall
Anamosa
Baby Beef
New Deal checks paid to nineteen hog producers over ten thousand
Nineteen individuals received government checks over ten thousand dollars each under the New Deal. One concern earned about one hundred fifty thousand dollars and was not engaged in farming.
Puerto Rico sugar cane producer paid $961000
A Roosevelt administration program disbursed funds totaling $961000 to a Puerto Rico sugar cane producer for not growing sugar cane. The payment underscores wartime agricultural policy and subsidy practices in the territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puerto Rico
Iowa Dairy Report Shows Income Rise Per Cow
The Iowa State College dairy extension report covers the year ending Sept 1 with 12 547 cows in 1 273 herds. Income above feed costs rose to 59 dollars per cow and butterfat averaged 311 pounds per cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Dairy Extension Serve
Iowa State College
Waterloo
Soil Conservation Board Met Thursday in Monticello
The directors of the soil conservation program met at their office in Monticello Thursday evening. They discussed the method and progress of compliance work and adopted a budget for expenses through year end. A Wallace Aerial Survey representative explained photographic aerial survey methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Wallace Aerial Survey Company
Onslow Community Notes Hear Meetings and Appointments
Social and civic items from Onslow include Farm Bureau meetings with music by Wanda Petersen and talks on hybrid seed corn and rural electrification. Teachers appointed to Wyoming and Peace Ridge schools include Miss Mable Streeper and Miss Wilma Holub with resignations noted. Several locals attend the Dairy Cattle Congress at Waterloo and trips to Chicago and Lansing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nic] Hamilton and Son
Salina
Kansas
R. W. Chatterton
Farm Bureau
Wanda Petersen
Belgian Colt Club
Onslow
Mable Streeper
Wyoming
Eileen McCormick
Olin
Wilma Holub
Peace Ridge
Pauline Wilcox
Monmouth School
Waterloo
Max Hamilton
William Doll
Clarence
Isaac Edwards
Gus von Sprecken
A. L. Ames
Leo Allen
Chris Eichhorn
W. K. Kennedy
C. A. Reade
O. RE
Spooner
Oxford Junction
A. K. McMaster
Phil Hall
Okoboji
Lloyd Preston
Keith Lemon
Roy Bodenhofer
Scotch Grove
Dodge
Onion
Lee Williams
Floyd Cass
Monmouth
Muriel Johnson
Clinton
Wilma Menald
Sheny Orris
C. R. Smith
Ralph Orr
L. M. Smith
J. D. Wasson
R. E. Chaplin
J. W. Bombay
Orange
Cal
8. G. Hutton
Una Bacon and Harold Haigh wed in Galena ceremony
Miss Una Bacon daughter of Mr and Mrs Co Bacon Hopkinton and Harold Haigh son of Mr and Mrs Walter Haigh Manchester were married in Galena Rev Percy Reic McMahon officiating in a single ring service. The bride wore white taffeta and the bridesmaid white crepe. Both graduates of 1936 high schools. Several local residents attended or sent best wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
Una Bacon
Caughier
Bacon
Harold Haizh
Walter Haigh
Manchester
Reinburg
Cogton
Merit
Galena
Percy Reic McMahon
Buck Creek High School
Manchester High School
Loretta Edgar
Eva Smith
Washington, D. C
Paul Smith
Richmond
Washington
Edgar
Bell Telephone Company
F. E. Allen
A. B. Soule
Wild Rose
Wis
M. E
Lenox College
Pearl M. Reeve
Victor Stead
Lyle Jeffrey
Maurice McNelly
Melvin Leslie
Ada Willard
Waterloo
Dairy Cattle Congress
Kate Smith
Wyoming
F. B. Tibbitts
Ella Reeve
David Gearhart
Detroit
Mich
Robert Gearhart
Madison
Mary Elizabeth Gearhart
Iowa City
N. A. Gearhart
David
Schnectady
N. Y
Kenneth Boots
Oxford
Jay Boots
Robert A. Wallace
Thomas Martin
H. J. Williamson
Roy Jeffries
Waukon
Ralph Wallace
Chicago
Winifred Wallace
Paul Talbot
Illinois
Ruth Dunlap
Fayette
Aitchison
Cascade
W. S. Johnston
Ruth
Oln
W. A. Edgar
Andrew Patton
J. C. Edgar
Loretta
Anna Edgar
D. C. Snyder
Alice Good
Fort Riley
Kansas
Ethel Good
Omaha
Neb
Cedar Rapids
Donald Gustafson
Milwaukee
Morton
E. L. Wright
Citizens State Bank
Herman Dunlap
Wright
Minnie Hooper
Michigan
R. P. Wheeless
J. J. Dunlap
Donald McDonald
Denver
Earl DeShaw
Monticello
Hopkinton News Briefs Include Weddings and Funeral
A Hopkinton visitor last week conducted business here. Mrs Hugh Pierce remains confined with flu. The bridge club meets tonight at Mrs H M Reeve s home. Mr and Mrs Donald Hucker return from their wedding trip and reside on the J B Hucker farm. Mrs Walter Kurth of Homestead visits Mrs Ellen Bradle while she is ill. Funeral services were held Sunday for Robert A Wallace 65 lifelong Hopkinton resident and longtime grocer noted for honesty and charity. Miss Sorenson Cedar Falls elected to teach music in Hopkinton public schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
George Sears
L. M. Smith
Ralph Or
H. Willison
L. B. McKinstry
iGeorge Lawn
A. A. Garrett
Clayton
Bernike White
Lone Prairie
Minn
Anred Remky
Aramasa
Henry Heeren
EB. J. Heeren
Caurtier
Betty Lou
N. J. Paul
Lestie Babook
W. A. Aero
Preston
Lee
Hopkinton
Hugh Pierce
Bridge Club
H. M. Reeve
Donald Hucker
J. B. Hucker
Walter Kurth
Homestead
Ellen Bradle
Presbyterian Church
Robert A. Wallace
Myr. Wallace
Miss Sorenson
Cedar Falls
Dairy Cattle Congress Attendance and Local Visits
Richland Center notes list Mira Ureaie Bein Jr. and others at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress last Saturday, with several attendees from area families visiting or entertaining. The item also mentions Vern on Eilers and a local birth note about Alf M. Landon born September 9, 1887 in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Alf M. Landon
West Middlesex
Europe’s rearming fuels steel industry boom
European nations accelerate arms production boosting iron and steel sectors across several countries as defense spending rises and factory activity expands amid geopolitical tensions.
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Jones Co. Farmer
Farm Bureau Program
Farm Bureau Magazine
A.F.B.F
Tariff Commission
Association
South Hardin
Garnavilio Cox Testing Association
Frederick Larrabee
Standard Association
Ray Lange
Success
Scott
North Tama
Soil Conservation Board Met
W. A. Hicks
Richland Center
Mira Ureaie Bein
Carl Schneiter
Paul
Olga
Will Balsiger
James
Lucile
Delores Yossi
Paul Guyan
Len Buck
Dubuque
George L. Buol
Raymond
Ben Eilers
Dairy Cattle, Congress
Vernon Eilers
University of Dubuque
Chester White
Valley Model Jr
C. Jurgensen
Hit
Diamond City News
Poland
Arens
Dyersville
H. S. Duncan
Arens Farm
Dyersville, Towa
H. J. Arens, Mgr
Centennial Voss Sale
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Voss
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Link
R. H. Balster Farm Equip
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