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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
1
The annual Iowa 4-H exhibition crowned top breeders and champions across beef, dairy, and poultry divisions. Notable winners included Brown stock raisers of Merion and Hereford entries, with judges noting consistent performance and improved carcass quality among several senior placings.
A garbled OCR item describes farm activities and local work with scattered terms. It mentions leather cakes, series, and a balloting or prize event with first prize in a decoration contest. The fragment references people like Vander Place and local gatherings with unclear dates or places.
The Marion County 4-H group shows success with champion cattle and award winning heifers at the county fair. Winners include four and female prize entries, with Grand Champion honors and top placings showcased in the paper’s photographic spread.
Walter Wilcox of Lawn State College warns that farmers will seek storage space this fall as old corn is carried over. Government offers a ten cent per bushel storage subsidy, encouraging resealing. Half of sealed corn is stored in towns, and good corn cribs or granaries could pay for themselves, preventing feed loss and crop damage from poor storage.
A damaged text fragment mentions Atlas Surpe or the eunMOL and discusses growth, injury, and retaliation. The readable portion lacks clear events, names, places, or dates to form a coherent news item.
Fragmented OCR text discusses borers in trees and methods to locate tunnels under bark. It mentions digging with a knife and wire, locating larvae in trees, and cautions about harming trees. Describes speeds and capacities in a field, with references to hours and widths.
The excerpt discusses rodent control focusing on barn and shed distance, floor proximity, and damp conditions. It warns that wood floors near ground invite harborage for rats, suggesting elevation and proper ventilation as defenses while noting crop participation in a local program declined.
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