Borgman Farmhouse Heads Toward Modern Quiet Living
East of Pella Worp Borgman builds a two story frame home with full basement and two glassed porches, insulated and heated by hot air furnace. Living room spans 27 by 13 feet four inches, seven rooms total, electrical fridge nook, and modern bath facilities. Contractors Veenstra and Croll of Pella. A shell corn crib and other cribs with metal roofs appear on the farm as local building activity shifts to improved farm structures.
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Pella
Worp Borgman
Borgmans
Veenstra & Croll of
Borgman
Worp
Farm Local
Borgman Farm
Poultry and Farming Notes From Pell and Area
Prices of poultry products have begun to drop ahead of winter with fall eggs easing before pullet production. A local merchant links this to abundant supply and favorable weather, noting higher November sales than last year. The page also highlights 4 H calf Frances De Bruin’s Hereford, its growth from 460 to near 1000 pounds, and her class placing at Knoxville Fair. Additional items cover farm profits, home poultry management, lighting for hens, and alfalfa variety yields.
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Pella
Frances de Bruin
J. C. de Bruin
Union Street
Pell
Frances
Oklahoma
Knoxville
Chicago
Hereford Club
Marion County Fair
Don t Sleep When Gas Presses Heart Adlerika Ad
An advertisement for Adlerika claims relief from stomach gas pressure on the heart caused by constipation. It states one dose clears out both bowels and promotes easier sleep and appetite. Vander Linden's Drug Store.
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Vander Linden
Fourteen Iowa 4-H Members Attend Chicago Congress
A group of thirteen Iowa 4-H Club youths and chaperones traveled to Chicago on December 2 to join the Eighteenth Annual 4-H Club Congress and the International Live Stock Exposition as guests of Rock Island Lines. Winners in state contests earned trips to Chicago. the delegation includes Joyce Martens, Marian Fredrickson, Nelda Paulsen and others. The exposition runs December 2 through 9, as part of a national 4-H enrollment exceeding 1,300,000, with Iowa contributing 26,138 members.
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Iowa
Chicago
Rock Island
Joyce Martens
Waverly
Marian Fredrickson
Walnut
Nelda Paulsen
Stockton
Bertha McMahon
Towa
Three Iowa 4-H Boys Net 7000 in Livestock Business
Three Iowa 4-H boys built a $7,000 enterprise through live stock and allied projects. Average enrollment under eight years. About 200 sheep swine and beef cattle plus crops. prizes total $353.75. Allan Bentley 17 Ames Robert Howerter 20 Woolstock Elmer Fritzel 19 Wellsburg. Bentley state sheep champion. Howerter state market pig champion. Fritzel baby beef champion. Gross incomes 2834.55 3965.76 877 from six beeves.
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Iowa 4-H
Frank P. Reed
Cudahyacking Company
National Club Congress
Chicago
Allan
Bentley
Ames
Robert Howerter
Woolstock
Elmer D. Fritzel
Wellsburg
Young Benley
Elmer Fritzel
Farm records show farmer’s income and livestock totals
The farmer reports fifty-eight pigs across eleven market hogs and six litters, with a gross income of 1384.00 dollars. This reflects the era’s farm accounting style and earnings from livestock transactions.
Record Corn Yield Emphasizes Soil Fertility and Conservation
Iowa State College agronomist Bruce M Kilpatrick notes a 51.5 bushel per acre rise in this year s corn yield reaching 504 million bushels on under 10 million acres. He warns higher yields intensify soil drain and urges organized conservation to preserve nitrogen phosphorus and potassium. Recommendations include crop rotation with legumes, monitoring soil phosphorus, plowing stalks and manure back into fields, and using terracing strip cropping and grassy waterways. The report cites increasing use of hybrids boosting yields and soil nutrient removal per acre.
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Towa
Bruce M. Kilpatrick
Iowa State College Extension
Town Agricultural Experiment Station
Kilpatrick
4-H Banquet Date Set For County Club Event
The county 4-H Club plans the annual banquet with tentative dates in December. A meeting of the county club committee discussed a proposed Saturday evening schedule and considered December 16 the most favorable time for the event.
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Farm Bureau
James Holland
County Girls’ Club
Herbert Cline
Knoxville Journal
Butterfat price outlook for Iowa dairying in winter
Town farmers can expect lower butterfat prices as milk production rises in late December or early January. Yet stronger demand and smaller storage may keep winter butter prices above last year’s government purchase peg, according to Iowa forecasts.
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Iowa State College
Iowa
Towa
State College economists note favorable butter feed balance
State College extension agricultural economists say large feed supplies and a favorable butter feed price ratio mean relatively liberal feeding through winter and milk production near last year’s record. They also warn consumers are eating more butter at higher prices while storage holdings are down 34 percent from earlier burdens and only 6 percent above the 1933-37 average.
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State College Extension
Broodiness in Hens Tied to Inherited Trait
The tendency of hens to set or become broody is inherited and can be reduced only through elimination of both male and female breeding stock showing that trait. Diet does not influence the tendency for broodiness. Crossing of breeds often intensifies it.
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Ilinois
de Bruins
Ladak
Grimm
Lowa Agricultural Experiment Station
W. Bergman
Marion County State Bank
Pella, Iowa
John Blom
Peoria
Fleming School
Tainter
Jersey
John Deere
Fordson
Jenny Lind
Deering
McCormick-Deering
Pray and
Albia Sales Co
Albia, Low
Don Rinner
Johanna Ficne
Marion County
D. Schippers
Old Vink Farm
Frank Jaarsma
Walter van Dorland, Jr. Jaanen
ST Er Cpanel
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Ral-Vnom Dodkes OY Pisa
Igeray
Chevrolet
H.P. Valve
Milas
Wien
Bowper
Tate
White Way Auto Company
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