Mistaken Italian Creates Leather Like Cotton Fabric
An Italian textile technician accidentally treated cotton with a coating, producing a leather like fabric named aeroes. The material breathes, resists scuffing, and can be washed and ironed, prompting early adoption by children's wear and ready to wear designers. The error could boost demand for leather alternatives in apparel and home furnishings. A license notice follows for Louisa county court.
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Iowa Turkey Report Highlights Profit Factors
The 1963 Iowa Turkey Demonstration Flock Report notes lower feed costs and targeted marketing as keys to higher profit. Data from 22 growers cover 39 flocks totaling nearly 250,000 birds, with average production costs 19.43 cents per pound and receipts 21.54 cents. Mortality affected profits more in early stages. careful marketing timing boosted gains. Wallace Ross of Iowa State urges participation in the ongoing program for updated guidance.
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Iowa
Wallace Ross
Iowa” State
Turkey
Evidence of Agriculture Found at Hartley Hartley Iowa Village Fortified
Archaeologists from State University of Iowa led by Professor Marshall B McKusick report the Hartley culture site near Lansing on the Upper Iowa River yields the first solid evidence that Woodland Indians in eastern Iowa practiced agriculture. Charred corn fragments and possible beans indicate farming started around 1200 A D as a defensive village fortification buried in bedrock burial and a log earth rampart outline a one acre fortified area. A buried infant grave with clay vessel and tools was also uncovered suggesting ceremonial or daily use contexts.
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State University of Towa
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Iowa City
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Hartley
John R. Harley
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Fishmeal competes with soy and cottonseed meal in feed
Washington D C Saturday report says fishmeal becomes a growing rival to soybean and cottonseed meal as a livestock feed supplement. It is a high protein concentrate used in balanced feed mixtures, mainly fed to hogs and poultry. World exports hit a record last year with the United States as a non-importer and user, while Peru produced more than half of the meals exported.
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Foreign Agricultural Service
United States
Peru
Archaeology Team Uncovers Rock Artifacts at Lansing Site
The SUI group reports multiple borrow pits near Lansing. The largest pit reaches almost 100 feet in diameter and four feet deep. Digging at four feet or more has yielded hundreds of stone knives, pottery fragments, projectile points, rock chips, and other artifacts.
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McKusick
Lansing
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