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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
15
Iowa State College extension dairyman Bob Finehman urges production efficiency to offset lower dairy prices in 1950. He recommends a high quality legume roughage based ration, balanced grain with protein supplements, and production records with milk testing through DHIA or local plants.
Inland fishing ends for most game fish on November 30, except bullheads and crap pies with a continuous open season. Rough fish such as sheepshead, redhorse, suckers, gar and others remain continuously open. Officials note overall season yields vary by lake with some above and others below average.
Monroe Farmer's Evening School will host a meeting on Wednesday December 14 at 7 30 discussing the corn borer problem. Color slides and a sound movie from Pfister Associated Growers will illustrate growth and management with time lapse photography. Reports from Gunnar Hjortshoj farm near Monroe and a project near Marshalltown are cited along with local damage statistics per stalk.
Marion County board through county attorney William Nardin asks district court to dismiss Dunreath Coal Company suit challenging the new strip mining law. If dismissal denied, board seeks to strike portions and for more specific statements including land legal descriptions and active locations in Marion county.
Miss Mary Kysink, longtime Pella Chronicle reader, writes of a week hush trip to New York City Philadelphia and Washington DC. She details travel by Rocket and Pace-Ker trains, the Grand Central Terminal the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. The narrative covers times in Chinatown Wall Street Broadway Times Square and university sites with vivid yet factual descriptions of landmarks and transit experiences.
D Lundberg of Minneapolis will present a color picture series A Message in Art Under Light at the Salvation Art Auditorium 219 N Second Ave Newton Saturday evening Dec 1 accompanied by Christmas hymns and a youth choir. Also featuring De Kool Monroe Lynnville Quadette and Gil Dodds Wheaton Minvs world mile champ coaching at Wheaton College with plans for January rally speaker and Newton Group third anniversary. Leas are peculiar they wont work unless you do.
Entomologist Harold Gunderson of Iowa explains stalk cutters can reduce borers but not fully solve the corn borer issue. Field tests show 20 to 80 percent reduction depending on machine type, yet insecticide spraying remains needed if weather favors borers. Fall 1948 data show 202 borers per 100 stalks before winter, with weather and cutting causing mortality but leaving a substantial overwintering population.
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