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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1965
Page
8
Vernon Carter, a Muscatine area farmer, examines the potential of Christmas trees as a valuable future crop. Dick Mittman notes the agricultural viability and market prospects for this venture along the highway west of Muscatine.
On Vernon Carters Muscatine county farm a 20 acre field hosts a growing pine tree plantation begun in 1961, with 18 000 trees now standing. The project aims at conservation and future income, financing the Carters three children's college plans and promoting sound land use through thinning and selective cutting.
Louis F Ruess and Son report four pigs on test at the Ames Testing Station with details pending on results and implications for herd productivity and future breeding plans.
The Muscatine County corn yield study shows averages 10 bushels per acre below the 1964 peak. Although yields had risen since 1959, this year reports 20 sites versus 111 last year, with a preliminary USDA mailed report by George Apland noting the project gauges soil productivity.
Iowa final 1965 corn crop projected at a record 82 bushels per acre after a four million bushel increase. Soybeans also at a record high though down 2.5 million bushels from a month earlier. The report notes higher feed efficiency and gains for tested boars, with a cooperative Iowa State University USDA study detailing soil types and plot yields across Tama and Fayette soils.
The Wapsie Best 4-H club held a Christmas party at Dobbin Hals home with food drives for the elderly and caroling. Nineteen members attended as plans for Awards Night on January 8 at Muscatine High School were discussed.
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