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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
1
Local notes describe farmers taking a threshing trip after harvest with little field presence. Dave Vander Placy is seen in a corn field predicting mixed yields, noting rains and drought could hurt crops. Reports cover oat varieties, drought effects, and varying performance of crops across several farms including Van Duselderp and Vox areas.
The report details Paul Vos raising two hundred Leghorn chicks bought for two cents each, plus a small herd of various pig breeds. He records feed costs at about 17.50 total and projects a profit around 15 dollars, noting per-bird costs and market price. The piece mentions Vos’s family, home, and farm improvements, plus local interest in beekeeping and a proposed Marion County Dairy Breeders Association with Walter Brown coordinating outreach.
A farm survey at Kaldenbergs shows their seventy acre spread neat and well kept with crops healthy. M J Kaldenberg and wife were painting the home while others tended corn and weed cutting along the road. A field visit includes Peter Vos and McConoghey homes with scythe work noted and a plan to visit Glen McConoghey abandoned.
In Marion County many farmers rely on dairy programs as a core enterprise. The piece notes the steady dependability of dairy farming against shifting annual profits and the farmers’ commitment to dairy despite temptations of other ventures.
A garbled report notes the corn hoigh ratio remains steady during the current period. It mentions federal inspection weights and compares to a prior interval, indicating no significant shift in totals or conditions observed.
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