Farm Family Renovates and Feeds Cattle on Swinkel Farm
A Swinkel farm near Pella shows an attractive homestead after a 1953 move from Fremont. De Penning milks one cow as 125 white leghorn pullets reach about 70 percent production after weather cut. The family, including two plump girls, hosted visitors and showed a dismantled barn and rebuilt granary.
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Mr. de Penning
Andrew de Penning
Walter de Penning
Skunk River
Pella-Galesburg
Pella
Swinkel Farm
Fremont
Harold
de Pennings
De Pennings Start Cattle Project With New Barn
The De Penning family near Pella in Madison Township Mahaska County began a cattle program aided by a two A Doane System barn. The 52 by 65 foot open south barn, built in four days, uses poles car siding and a galvanized roof. It lacks hay loft and horse stalls but provides pens for hogs or calves and bale storage while staying warm and dry with livestock inside.
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de Pennings
de Penning
Livestock Program at De Penning Farm Cattle Rise
The 1958 plan started when landlord and tenant bought ten purebred Hereford two year olds to calve in the fall. Now eight calves remain, all heifers, with more stock cattle. Only the best Hereford cows and heifers will stay, forming the core herd. A registered Hereford bull towed with the herd, plus fourteen gilts and the same number of hogs, are part of the farm.
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de Penning
Cross Bred Sows to Farrow Early Spring Plan
The article notes cross bred sows with a Hampshire male will furrow about March 1st and the gilts follow shortly after. Hogs will be raised in individual houses on clean ground to ensure proper welfare and growth.
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Hampshire
Farm description and family background from a local house visit
The text outlines the De Penning family linked to Gerrit Ustermarkt and a Pella home, detailing their heated house with oil heaters, electric stove, running water for livestock, and a 228 acre productive farm. About 160 to 170 acres are cultivable with upland and bottom land, occasionally flooded by the Skunk River.
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de Penning
Gerrit Ustermarkt
Harvey
Pella
de Pennings
Alfalfa Plots Planted Amid Winter Weather Hopes
Last year corn covered 110 acres with ten acres in alfalfa and ten more seeded to alfalfa last fall. Survival through the drought and winter remains uncertain. Harold is cautiously optimistic. On December 7 a warm day allowed him to plow six acres of land.
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Harold
Good Pupil Ernest Dean Saved by 4-H Camp Training
Ernest Dean of Shell Rock nearly died from carbon monoxide fumes, but the rescue trace back to life saving CPR training Walt Harms learned at a 4-H club camp years earlier. The incident highlights the enduring value of youth program instruction.
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Ernest Dean
Shell Rock
Walt Harms
Mr. Harms
Dean
Vanden Berg Wins Dutch Boy Paint Sales Contest
G N Vanden Berg of Van den Berg Electric and Paint Co won a $100 prize after increasing Dutch Boy paint sales by 43.8 percent in the year long contest ending in 1953. James H Vance of Des Moines sent the prize check and letter. The second place dealer grew 21.7 percent. The piece also notes the founding of the National Education Association in Philadelphia in 1857.
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G. H. Vanden Berg
G. N. Vanden Berg
Vanden Berg Electric & Paint Company
Dutch Boy Products
James IH. Vance
Des Moines
Vanden Berg
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Mahaska County
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Lila Joy
Harold Mning
Erma
Madison Township
Hereford
Harold de Penning
Erma Jeanne
Julia
Virgil
Glenwood
Peter Schakel
Mark Schakel
Newton
Bess Schakel
Kenmore
Tervall, Sears & Oekaloosa
Federal Discount Corp
Livermore Building
Oskaloosa, Jowa
Martin Naaktgeboren
Ty Wire
Mahaska Book Store
North Side Square
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Remington Rand
E. A. McFadden Ray L. Swanson
Gue Hy-Lin
van Gorp Hatchery
National Educational Association of the
United States
Philadelphia
A & Hounds
Dcompect
Natoral
Coronado
U/L
Wrdorne
Ens
Buick
America
VOS Farm
Main Street
Pella, Iowa
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