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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1939
Page
5
R H Dennison, a farmer six miles southwest of Knoxville, reports contour furrows on his sheep pasture as part of a Soil Conservation Service demonstration. He notes water retention improves grass growth, saying furrows hold water on the land rather than letting it run away, with benefits already visible as fall rains approach.
The Knoxville Journal notes moisture keeps the crop alive into late summer. It explains sheep manure that previously washed from fields now remains in furrows, with dark brown liquid after rain signaling fertility is retained rather than lost.
Mahaska county supervisors completed a lease to provide more lime for agricultural use. They leased land on the Lorinda M. Taylor farm in south White Oak township, adjoining the regular county rock quarry on the John Yeoman farm. This marks the first lime site leased directly by the county since the agricultural liming program began last summer. Earlier quarries, previously leased by Eldert Grocnendyl, Tracy man, continued to be operated directly by him.
Sunday school at 9 30 for Reform Church Otley with morning worship at 11 including a sermon Divine healing for today. Evangelistic and prayer services planned. Local church circle meeting Friday afternoon. Pre Easter series begins with Moods at Calvary. Additional services for another church feature discussions on war justifications and modern ills. Multiple pastors and services listed.
Groenendyk will run the new limestone quarry for the county alongside his operations in Adams and Scott townships. Other agricultural limestone sites have been discontinued. Auditor Evans notes the farm liming program, funded by the state soils conservation unit, has never proven very popular with farmers. The price is 94 cents per ton plus a 5 cent county handling charge and a graded hauling fee. Applications rose in late fall but have dwindled recently.
Farmers face lower prices for livestock and products this year but will likely earn more cash income due to larger on farm supplies and marketings. Iowa State College economist Lauren Soth cites Bureau of Agricultural Economics figures showing 18 percent more hogs farrowed than in 1937, with a 21 percent rise overall.
The spring farrowings are expected to rise while cattle on feed in the Corn Belt increase seven percent as corn supplies remain ample. Poultry flocks grow five percent and egg output in December runs 10 to 15 percent above last year. Dairy production stays about five percent higher, and breeding sheep flocks remain large though overall sheep on feed drop five percent nationwide. Lamb crop size depends on weather at lambing time.
Wanted notices list a walnut dining room suite for sale and a good Hoover vacuum cleaner offered by Mrs B F Van der Linden. Compact classified item brief but clearly states two sale items and the seller's name.
A historic church bulletin lists services at FIRST REFORMED CHURCH with Pastor A Haverkamp including Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship at 10:45 a.m. Golden Milestone Service, Holland service at 2:00 p.m., and Third Reformed Church evening worship at 7:30 p.m. SECOND REFORMED CHURCH details morning worship, church school, junior and intermediate C E groups, and Prof Tunis Prins leading both services. A Young People's Bible Class directed by H L W Pictenpol meets Tuesday Feb 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Puerto Rico bought 28.8 million pounds of lard from Midwest producers in 1988 at a cost of 2.78 million dollars. The island, which produces no lard, purchased more from the United States than from all but two foreign countries, taking 14 percent of total lard sales to foreign buyers.
The council notes lard is used for baking and for the staple rice and beans. It cites that nearly all rice and beans consumed in Puerto Rico originate from American farms, as does over half of the territory's food. Last year Puerto Rico spent 80.75 million dollars on mainland goods, including 24 million on food.
C. C. Culbertson of Town State College reports that feeding soybean oilmeal to cattle does not alter carcass firmness or color. It can replace linseed oilmeal as a cheaper protein feed, with similar palatability and comparable quality for poorer and medium quality cattle, though gains and finish may be affected. Pound for pound, soybean oilmeal is about 85 percent as valuable as linseed meal for fattening high quality cattle.
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