Rapid Improvements Amaze Even Those Close To Farm
Interview with O N LaFollette executive secretary of the Feed Institute of Iowa urges citizens to observe a centennial week of October 6 focusing on Iowa agriculture. He notes rapid farm progress over 100 years, soil conservation laws, and agriculture as Iowa’s key industry underpinning state prosperity.
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O. N. LaFollette
Feed Institute
Hawkeye State
Iowa
Feed Institute of Iowa
LaFollette
Mr. LaFollette
War Years Took Much From Land in Northwest Iowa Farms
A survey of 105 farms in northwest Iowa finds 68 percent of land in corn oats or soybeans over five years with little hay or pasture. Farmers blame wartime prices and labor shortages for heavy cropping and foresee shifts if corn prices fall, noting soil erosion risks.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
Earl Heady
A. J. Englehorn
Iowa Farm Science
Property Transfers In and Around Wyoming Area This Week
Multiple real estate transfers filed including W O Shaffer and Amy L to Ethel Elizabeth and Wayne Hildreth joint tenants for Lots 10 11 12 Block 2 Original Wyoming and other deeds. Fannie Hicks widow to Ben Harms includes NW NW Sec 18 NE4 NE Sec 14 SW% SW Sec 12 in 84-1 W with railroad ROW excepted. Laura Wilson Conmey and James Jr to Charles T Foley and Edward J Houser deeds support surrounding acreage in 85 4W region section 26 and 35 with highway boundary. L D Murfield Ruth to Otto W Wegner for South 60 ft Lots 6 7 Block 35 Scott Skinner add to Anamosa. BE G Rawson Ida B to Otto W Wegner deed similar. Margaret Livingstone widow to Otto W Wegner and Katherine L Wegner joint tenants with identical parcel details. Louie J Krouse widow Wilma Eggleston Harold Jurgengoff and Edmund Earl Krouse Marie wife to Melvin Wilsler deed Lot 10 Block 17 original town of Wyoming.
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W. O. Shaffer
Amy L
Ethel Elizabeth
Wayne Hildreth
Wyoming
Fannie Hicks
Ben Harms
Jones County
Laura Wilson Conmey
James Jr
Charles T. Foley
Love
L. D. Murfield
Ruth
Otto
Katherine Wegner
Scott & Skinner
BE. G. Rawson
Ida B
Otto W
Katherine L. Wegner
Margaret Livingstone
Louie J. Krouse
Wilma Eggleston
Harold
Iola’ Jurgengoff
Edmund
Earl
Krouse
Marie
Melvin Wilsler
Farm Land Prices Then and Now in Iowa's History
A Century Ago Iowa land sales began in 1837 with public surveys in the Black Hawk Purchase and offices in Dubuque and Burlington. By 1846 Iowa City joined as a Federal land office, with 160 acre farms costing about 200 dollars. The piece notes early settlers hoarded savings for clear titles, and some Johnson County families still reside on lands first bought from the government over a hundred years ago.
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Iowa
Dubuque
Burlington
Marion
Fairfield
Iowa City
J. A. Swisher
the Palimpsest
Johnson County
City
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Mila Fillmore
Franklin
Pierce
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E. D. Frizell
Fort Larned Ranch
Larned
Kansas
Box Ranch
Branson, Colorado
Frizzel
Felnell, Kaneen
Yeostex Company
Waterloo
Iowne
Frizell & Sons &.G. Frac
Ing Build
BOX Ranch Branson
Milo
Milos
E. E. Frizell & Sons
PARM
Boe
Monticello
Minro-Tex
Yeastex Company
Augusta Melsha
Monticello, Iowa
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