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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1961
Page
11
David Pace describes rough work hoeing five acres of potatoes in Uruguay as part of the IFYE program. He sheds his shirt and shoes, learns from his hosts, and notes practical footwear and household labor differences. The family life, farming methods, and the size of the farm influence his growing understanding of intercultural exchange.
Muscatine county farmers can obtain copies of the Internal Revenue Service Farmer's Tax Guide for 1942 at the county extension office. The guide updates tax rules for farming, includes a tax calendar, a farm income and expenses checklist, and a sample tax return. It aims to help those preparing a calendar year 1941 farm tax return and answers common farming tax questions.
Paul Stamler Jr., 17, of Muscatine, wins the NIVGA state canning crops prize for a second time. He produced 17.6 tons per acre from a 15 acre tomato project in partnership with his father, earning a gross income of 510.42 dollars per acre. He will travel to Detroit for the national canning crops contest, with Heinz Co sponsor. Others placing include Steve Wilson, Thomas Mittman, Sheila Furlong, and Wilbur Burmeister. Patterson, Muscatine helps with advisory input and Stamler serves as FFA chapter president.
Paul Stamler Jr of Muscatine discusses a trip to Detroit for the national MVGA convention with Wilbur Winegard of the H J Heinz Co. He notes tomato farming lessons, early planting, and saving acreage for better management. Stamler and his father raised 24 acres. his brother Bill may enter next year. He aims for Town State University Ames and plans college after graduation with crop farming and dairy as a year round income.
A Shorthorn bull owned by W. Anderson and Son of West Liberty sold for 2600 at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago this week. It ranked among the high prices paid on Wednesday after a grand championship show in the International Amphitheatre. The article notes ten million Americans work in agricultural product storage, transport, processing, and merchandising.
Muscatine officials announce a large Muscatine delegation will attend the National Farmers Organization convention in Des Moines on December 7-8. More than 3,500 delegates are expected at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium for the two day session, with lectures by Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and other notable speakers from Iowa and beyond. The program include banquet addresses Friday and Thursday, with officers to be elected Friday afternoon.
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