Emergency govt loans offered to farmers in Pella area
Marion County and Jasper Poweshiek areas designated for Emergency Loans by the Farmers Home Administration. Eligible farmers may borrow for feed seed fertilizer equipment repairs and essential farm and home costs with a 3 percent interest rate. Applications available at ASCS Marion County office in Knoxville Tuesdays 9:30 to 12:00.
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Pella
Gene Hoffman
The
Farmers Home Administration
Washington, D. C
Secretary of Agriculture
Marion County
United States
ASCS
John Graves
Knoxville
Jasper County
Graves
Jasper
Poweshiek
Poweshiek County
Montezuma
Colfax Livestock Sale Yields Strong Bids Across Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Colfax reports a robust sale last Saturday with 982 head of cattle including droves of yearling steers and heifers, Holsteins, and heavy feeders selling steady to strong. Hogs and sheep also moved well with bred sows and heavy feeders trading upward, while forecasters hint at a liberal run for the Newton Sale and upcoming consignments from L. S. Gardner Nevada Hereford herd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. S. Gardner
Nevada
Newton Sale
Weekly crop and weather report for Iowa week ending April 17
A cool dry week with subnormal rainfall in most areas and high water along Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Temperatures 25 to 75 F with some frost. soils moist but subsoil moisture lacking where frost remained. Fieldwork limited. oats only 1 percent sown. farmers consider soybean substitution. pastures green in south. some winter wheat killed in south. roads muddy. livestock care predominant.
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Towa
Onawa
Sioux City
Mississippi
Des Moines
April meeting of the Galesburg Go-Getters held at Vander Werff home
The April meeting was called to order by president Kay McGregor at Ilene Vander Werff's home with fifteen members and one leader answering roll call April Fool Joke. Vander Werff demonstrated how to select a dairy calf. Sonnenberg and McReynolds were named to the Photographing Committee. Project enrollments were distributed and refreshments served by the hostess and her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galesburg
Kay McGregor
Ilene Vander Werff
David Sonnenberg
Joyce McReynolds
Osceola Brahmd Lyle Miller Wins Reserve Grand at Arizona National
Osceola cattle showman and breeder Lyle Miller captured the reserve grand championship at the 1965 Arizona National Livestock Show in Phoenix with a summer yearling angus steer.
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Lyle Miller
Osceola
Phoenix
Vander Pol top dairy bull in the state
Vander Pol of a dairy farm near Sully owns the top Holstein bull in Iowa. Wetherbee Homestead Butter Boy rated 93 Excellent by National Holstein-Friesian Association on April 8, weighing 2970 pounds at age five. Sire Carnation Madcap Butterboy, dam Wetherbee Homestead Gom ar Mary. Vander Pol plans to upgrade herd and may sell semen to others. Local notes include WCTU meeting and community visits.
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Bernie Vander Pol
Sully
Wetherbee Homestead
Holstein - Friesian Association of America
Vander Pol
Charlie Howe
Maine
John Wetherbee
Marshalltown
National Dairy Congress
Waterloo
van der Pal
Vander Pal
Carnation Madcap
Butterboy
Algo
Gomar Mary
Marshallown
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Iowa
Pella Chronicle Farm
Lynnville observes 94th birthday of Mrs. Leo Coffey
Lynnville notes mark for Mrs. Leo Coffey as she turns 94. Her daughter Mrs. Mary White of Chicago visited with her mother and sister Mrs. Ruth Ratcliff, joined by Carl Coffey and Charles of Montezuma for a birthday dinner. She taught at Friends church Sunday school for years, receiving an Easter lily from the class.
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W.C.T.U
Friends Parsonage
Schuler
Harold Macy
Union
Coffey
Gertsma
Fenner
Macy
Gertrude Meredith
Gertrude Davis
Gerald Benson
Donald Wagaman
Danny
Timmy
Charles Wagaman
Dysart
Ada Wagaman
Don Westerkamp
Baxter
Friends Church
Douglas Terpstra
Arnold Terpstra
Clyde Lisk
Alan
Jill
Harold Renaud
Grinnell
Dorothy Renaud
Renaud
Des Moines
Lynnville
Harvey Jennings
Newton
Bruce Gause
Leo. Coffey
Mary White
Chicago
Ill
Ruth Ratcliff
Carl Coffey
Charles
Montezuma
Gleaners
The
Five Generation Family Brings Cumberland Matriarch to Winterset
The 93 year old Mrs. Margaret Bright of Cumberland, now living in Winterset, topped a five generation gathering. Present were her daughter Mrs. Glen Conk of Winterset, son Wayne Staley of Winterset, grandson Kim Staley of Des Moines, and great granddaughter baby Cinda Staley, two months old.
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Margaret Bright
Cumberland
Winterset
Glen Conk
Jin
Wayne Staley
Kim Staley
Des Moines
Cinda Staley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Colfax Sale
Colfax Sale Company
Clippinger, Shields & Briles
MGRS
Earl & Bill Shields
AUCTS
South Pella
Country Girl
Golden Corn
Oleo
Northrup King
Northrup King Seeds
Bakker
Rus
Northrup
King Seeds
Pella, Iowa
Raymond Tice
New Sharon
WCTU
Scott Pyle
Vern Appleton
Ralph Evans
Raymond Mitchell
Lynnville News
Mrs
Harold F. Macy
Cain
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