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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1962
Page
14
By George Pinkerton farm editor notes muskrats led area construction in 1962. warm wet fall aided growth with muskrats building lodges in ponds and marshes. trappers report good seasons and prices averaging about 2.25 dollars with season running Nov 19 to Feb 28 1963. outcomes depend on trapping success and population trends remain unclear.
Henry Schriver will speak at the Walcott Farm Bureau Service Company annual meeting with a roast and beer dinner at 11 15 a m at Walcott community school. Officers listed include Elmer Hammann and George Reesink. The piece also notes a Winter Agriculture Short Course at the University of Illinois Urbana with topics in econ omics engineering agronomy and animal sciences for young farmers, plus state crop figures and Extension Council sponsored workshops with enrollments by January 3, 1963.
The Agriculture Department forecast the 1963 winter wheat crop at 1,028,374,000 bushels in Washington. This compares with 816,379,000 bushels produced this year and 1,075,005,000 last year, above the 1952-61 average of 376,232,000.
Muscatine and Cedar counties to begin the 1963 4-H club year with weigh-ins for baby beeves and junior feeder cattle. Baby beeves must not exceed 850 pounds and junior feeders 700 pounds each, with 400 to 500 pounds preferred for junior feeders. Cattle will be weighed, tattooed, and recorded as the starting 4-H records under county committees and extension staff.
Washington farmers produced a record tying crop value of 20.107 billion dollars, up 1.365 billion from last year, with harvest near 1 percent higher. California led with 1.915 billion, while Texas 1.4427 billion, Illinois 1.379 billion, and Iowa 1.242 billion also posted high totals.
Washington observers report that the Agriculture Department expects higher feed grain prices into the new year as corn harvests move to market, cold weather may prompt growers to hold remaining supplies. The report notes traders anticipate a post holiday shift in prices with limited new supply hitting markets.
Dec 27 annual Farm Bureau Service meeting at Walcott community school starts 11215 a.m. Dec 27 4 H Citizenship club tours county courthouse. Dec 21 weigh in of baby calves in Muscatine Louisa 3 H clubs. Weigh in for 4 H and FFA allies in Cedar county Dec 27 28 29. Dec 27 28 EFA board meeting. Jan 2 selection of Outstanding Young Farmer in Muscatine county at county extension office. Jan 7 Iowa state legislative convention of NFC at Ames Memorial Union ISU. Delegates to national convention. Jan 7 10 Annual 4 H grain marketing conference Chicago Jan 7 12 National Council of Farmers Cooperative annual meeting Miami Fla Jan 7 Monthly meeting of NFO at YWCA Muscatine. Jan 1 8 tests for cattle in Rochester Center and Sugar Creek townships of Cedar county. Jan 10 10 a.m. Rocksland county extension and home economics councils workshops for farm and home management also on Jan 31 Feb 4 and Feb 11 Statewide Farm Bureau captains meeting Kant theatre Des Moines Jan 21 A E National REA 21st annual meeting Las Vegas Jan 22 Louisa county extension family living meeting Jan 23 Muscatine county extension meeting at YWCA on corn storage structures Feb 26 Jews City regional annual swine day Mar 5 6 Annual Coop directors managers short course at ISU campus Ames
Lester Cornell of Atalissa and Rev. Stephen Root of North Muscatine Methodist parish flank a freight car carrying 1,415 bushels of CROP corn shipped by McKee Feed and Grain Co. to Hubinger Co. of Keokuk for processing for relief aid to overseas refugees. Cornell is county CROP chairman and Root a county board member and publicity chair.
A freight car carrying 1415 bushels of shelled corn was shipped this week for overseas aid by Church World Service and church agencies to aid refugees in Hong Kong and Algeria. The Muscatine county CROP drive across nine townships raised 1308 dollars by Nov 25, plus other donations. The 4H Citizenship Club will tour the county courthouse on Thursday Dec 7 at 2 pm, continuing its study of government and current affairs with future plans on race and religious relations.
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