Farmers May Obtain 1948 Soybean Loans and Corn Rates
Farmers in Town may secure loans or purchase agreements on 1948 soybeans from harvest through December 31 1948 at 3 percent interest with a base rate of 2.18 per bushel for grade two beans or better and moisture 14 percent. Premiums of 0.06 per bushel apply for beans at 11.3 percent moisture or less, plus a 0.07 storage allowance if repaid at maturity, totaling 2.31 per bushel. The 1948 corn loan rate in Jones County is 1.40 per bushel with loans available after harvest. corn must be stored in a moisture compliant crib and all loans handled through the County AAA office in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. D. Sanford
Jones County Agricultural Credit Association
Commodity Credit Corporation
State of
Iowa
Northwest
Jones County
County
AAA
Monticello
12th Annual Mother-Daughter Luncheon Honors 4-H Winners
Over 200 county 4-H girls and mothers attended the luncheon in the community building. Miss Ava Johnson spoke on the 4-H girl as a world citizen. Oxford Happy Hustlers won outstanding club, with Margie Paulsen and Hansetta Hinrichsen named outstanding girls. Awards included $5 for health champion Phyllis Burda and multiple blue ribbon and expense account book recognitions for many club members.
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Ava Johnson
Cedar Falls
Joanne Wright
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls
Peggy Barber
Oxford Happy Hustlers
Margie Paulsen
Scotch Grove
Hansetta Hinrichsen
Center Junction
Blue Ribbon
Janice Freese
Marjorie Behrends
Christina Manternach
Jane Mardorf
Carol Stadtmueller
Lucille Clark
Ruth Spahr
Norma Hintz
Irma Oltmann
Virginia Muller
Rose Stadtmueller
Rose Marie Ortgies
Mary Jo Prull
Beverly Jean Drach
Therese Nowachek
Ardis Heiken
Treva Heiken
Velma Lloyd
Karen Hartwig
Gloria Jean Carstensen
Jean Williams
Bonnie Jo
Virginia Morning
Willene Walderbach
Marlene Ingwersen
Blue
Roxie Lasack
Joyce Postel
Donna Anderson
JoAnn Nowachek
Blue— Hale Wapsie Wanderers
Blue Jackson Wise Owls
Castle Grove Fortune Finders
Madison Merry Maids
Lovell Happy Helpers
Eldora School Seeks New Teacher Profile
Eldora statisticians describe the typical teacher as a single woman age 31 with college study totaling three and a half years and eight years of teaching experience, four years in Eldora.
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Eldora
Farm Bureau Reading Project Members from Jones County 1948
Sixty two Jones County participants completed the Farm Bureau reading project in 1948 with forty two adults and twenty six youths finishing the six book requirement from four Farm Bureau lists. The article lists completed readers by township and names, noting 269 books were reported read by non completers and that some townships did not report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Farm Bureau
Castle Grove
David Cartano
Arthur Kromminga
Naomi Stadtmueller
Boyd King
Fairview
Priscilla Pillard
Sandra Joslin
Judith Schneider
Mary Ellen Connell
Janice Fae Schneider
Raymond Shifflet
Dorothy Mott
Tommy Koppenhaver
Onias Shifflet
Hale—Carel Kay Coleman
Eleanor Kirkpatrick
Lovell
Elizabeth Hoffman
Larry Behrends
Oxford
Roxie Lasack
Peggy Barber
Phyllis Burda
Scotch Grove
Betty Reuter
Ruth Postel
Etta Reuter
Richard Hanssen
Helen Postel
Yvonne Wacker
Delores Oltmann
Anna Hanssen
Deanna Brokens
Carol Kelch
Play It Safe In Corn Picker Use
Norval J. Wardle of Iowa State College warns that no safe method exists to clean a corn picker while running. He notes 184 Iowa corn harvest accidents last year, with 144 from the corn picker and 40 from the elevator, urging farmers to avoid injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norval J. Wardle
Towa State College
Wardle
Four Iowa corn harvests claim four lives in accidents
Wardle notes over 60 000 mechanical pickers operate in Iowa with 184 reported accidents for that machine count. He cites unsafe operations such as cleaning rolling snapping rollers while running and stepping over uncovered power take-offs as common injury causes. Emphasizing safety, he urges stopping machines to lubricate and keeping power take-offs covered, with no children present at startup. Reports say some seriously injured escaped with minor injuries initially.
Swift and Company and the 1000-Mile Meat Bridge
The piece extols the nationwide meat system moving beef lambs and hogs from producers to consumers. It cites the Mississippi as a continental divide for livestock and praises Swift & Company along with 26 000 slaughterers for providing a competitive cash market, processing distributing and refrigerated storage, claiming earnings are a fraction of a cent per pound and stressing time as a factor in a vast industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Texas
Swift
Swift & Company
All America
Copperas Feeding Reduces Piglet Anemia Losses
A North Dakota Agricultural College program fed pregnant sows a copperas iron supplement resulting in piglets with higher blood iron, birth weights, and under 10 percent death loss from birth to weaning. National losses average around 34 percent, with lighter, chilled, or overlaid piglets common in insufficient iron litters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota Agricultural College
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Monticello Monument Co
Kent
Herman Thede Reinbeck
Farmer's Mutual Creamery
Ray Seytem
Talle’s
Henry C. Talle
Henry
Talle
Congress of the United States
Congressman Talle
Henry O. Talle
Henry Talle
Chester A. Condit
Soda Bill Sez
M. L. Buchanan
North Dakota Agric. College
Fargo
Gaveroussit
J. F
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Dante
Buoit @ Company
Acme Electric Comp
General Electric
Harlan
Russell
Democratic
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Jones Cou
Martha Logan
Maryland
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