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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1953
Page
9
When bad weather traps a two to five year old indoors, provide safe space and gear to channel energetic movement. Use boxes for climbing, a stool as a slide, a doorway gym, and a clear hallway for running. Adapt rooms to keep noise reasonable, ensure sunlit ventilated spaces, and keep toys organized for easy access.
Iowa livestock experts warn beef herds must balance numbers and feed to weather price uncertainty. Feed enough to grow calves but avoid overspending on high priced silage, with roughage reserves for emergencies. Target a five month gain and specify a ration of clover hay, corn stover, oat straw, and oilseed meal to support two year old calf production.
Marion County ASC Committee members along with county office manager and local supervisors of grain storage bins attended a district ASC meeting in Des Moines on December 2, 1953. State chairman Dwight W. Meyer stressed Iowa houses the largest share of CCC corn, with about 200 million bushels in 49,000 storage structures across the state.
Town State College researchers found that 12 milligrams of stilbestrol implanted in lambs increased weight gain by about 28 percent. Lambs started at 78 pounds and reached 106 pounds in 61 days on a corn soybean meal hay ration, but butchered yield dropped from 60.8 percent to 48.9 percent.
Iowa farmers can reduce crop risk by planting multiple oat varieties next spring says K J Frey oat breeder at the Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station. Spreading by maturity and disease resistance, with four diseases forecast for 1954, helps protect against losses and guides selection using county extension reports.
Schleswig broke the record for cattle shipments with 103 carloads sent to Chicago during the markets peak. The tradition of sending cattle to Chicago for International show time began in 1922 with 22 cars, marking steady growth.
An Iowa State agronomist shows yields rise or fall with plant population from 8 000 to 24 000 stalks per acre depending on soil fertility. High fertility favors higher populations, while low fertility lowers yields unless population is kept modest. Early hybrids require higher populations to match adapted hybrids. Last year's traffic toll of deaths and injuries was the heaviest in history.
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