Langstraat Farm Home Remodeled Near Knoxville
A friend from Knoxville visited the Langstraat farm four miles northeast of Knoxville near Flagler on February 17. John Langstraat, with a Holstein herd and a 120 acre farm, described modernizing his old house into a farm home with electric, hot water, cooler, and a large kitchen. Dairying, hogs, and crop rotation support the operation, with family help from Joyce and Philip Lee. The couple plans further improvements including a picket fence, shrubbery, and lawn, while remembering relatives in Manhattan and Pella.
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John Langar
Knoxville
Langstraats
Flagler
John
Pella
Langstraat
Peoria
Anna Vander Hart
Joyce
Philip Lee
Washington
Howe
Des Moines Cooperative
Gloria
Earl van Wyk
Manhattan
Kansas
Earl
Ft. Riley
van Wyks
Doreen Joyce
Bertha
Anthony Nunnikhoven, Jr
Anthony
Farm Commodity Price Index Edges Up One Percent
The Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes the prices received by Iowa farmers for all farm products rose 1 percent in the month ending January 18, reaching 241 percent of the 1910–14 base. The index remains 15 percent below the previous year, with the livestock index climbing to 241.
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Iowa
Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Agricultural Prices and Indexes for Month Ending January 15
The joint index rose for the month but remained 55 points or 19 percent below the January 15, 1954 level. Egg items edged up, butterfat steady, and wholesale milk fell 10 cents per hundredweight. Hog prices averaged 7.90 per ewt, beef cattle up 1.40, milk cows down 25 per head, chickens down 8.3 cents per pound, eggs down 14.6 cents per dozen, and butterfat down 10 cents. The crop index remained at 145 percent of the 1910-14 base but 8 percent below a year earlier. Corn fell 8 cents, wheat rose 12 cents, oats down 6 cents, soybeans down 28 cents, flaxseed down 68 cents per bushel.
Three Spring Wheat Varieties Recommended by Iowa State Agronomists
Iowa State College agronomists recommend three spring wheat varieties for 1955 plantings in Iowa. Henry, Lee, and Rushmore each show multi year yield records, with Henry 21.1 bushels per acre, Lee 19.4, and Rushmore 18.2. Each has distinct disease resistances and maturities, guiding selection by average performance over years rather than a single season.
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Henry
Lee
Rushmore
Iowa State College Agronomists
Iowa
Rush
Bromegrass Needs Ample Nitrogen For Better Yields
Agronomist Darren Metcalfe of Iowa State College urges spring nitrogen fertilization to boost bromegrass seed and forage yields. He notes sodbound fields recover with high nitrogen, warns 80 pounds per acre as limit, 40 to 60 pounds typical, and cautions against using legumes due to harvest and seed yield drawbacks.
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Darren
Metcalfe
Iowa State College
Nitrogen boosts brome grass yields, warns expert
Metcalfe notes yields as high as 700 pounds per acre from nitrogen-fertilized plots. He cautions that applying nitrogen can raise yields up to five times those of unfertilized plots. Do not pasture or cut brome grass in spring, as it may cut seed yields by 30 to 60 percent.
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Metcalfe
Iowa Swine Project Entries Open for 1955
Towans will participate in the Towa Master Swine Producers Project for the 14th year in 1955. BH. L. Quaife notes 325 hog producers have been honored previously. Entries may be submitted by any interested person to E. L. Quaife at the Agricultural Extension Service, Iowa State College, Ames, until June 1, with early submission encouraged.
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Towans
Towa
BH. L. Quaife
Town State College
E. L. Quaife
Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa State College
Ames
Hog Producers Eligible for Spring Production Award
Announcement invites market hog producers with at least 10 sows farrowing and six years of hog-raising to enter. The Iowa Agricultural Extension Service, Iowa Swine Growers Association and Radio Station WHO sponsor the project, with Quaife handling entry notices of outstanding spring hog production.
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Iowa Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa Swine Growers Association
Quaife
Washington Cream Pie Recipe Idea
A town extension nutritionist Jewel Graham of Town State College suggests a Washington cream pie. Bake a white or yellow cake, split and fill with flavored cream filling, then refrigerate to keep the cream filling safe.
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Washington
Jewel Graham
Town State College Extension
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John Langstraat
Impr
Duroc
John Eros
Durocs
Jake
Lam
Federal Discount Corp. Livermore Building
Oskaloosa, Lowa
Martin Naaktgeboren
Brom's
H&n
Nick Chicks
Austin
Orca
Ames Incross
Brom Hatchery
Mr. Farmer
Allis Chalmers
VOS
Iowa Swine Project
Leighton
Oskaloosa-Olivet Road
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Dearborn
Ferguson
John Deere
Ralph Noel
Vander Zyl and
van Wyk
Bakker
Rus
It Sale
Sargent
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