Feeder Cattle Progress On Bluegrass Pasture In Iowa
Cattle on bluegrass pasture include 18 head with 14 Angus bought at Garner Iowa. They weighed 650 pounds in March and now near 800 pounds. Cattle are Montana origin. In mid July they will be moved to the lot for 60 to 90 days of feeding before sale. They receive some feed along with pasture and do well. Mr Hoksbergen sits on 120 acres once part of an 820 acre banked farm. His brother Ray farms 200 acres. Nick plants Bonda oats and notes good yields after an Rochester Minnesota hospital visit influenced his seed choice. The family owns 200 year old chickens and 400 chicks, with 70 percent hatch. Mrs Hoksbergen plans a bus trip to San Antonio to visit Pvt Edward Hoksbergen at Fort Sam Houston. fiance Silvia Rolffs will accompany. They enjoy television and electricity from Iowa Power and Light. A flower garden with blooming perennials decorates the yard.
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Garner
Iowa
Montana
Hoksbergen
Galesburg Bridge
Nick
Hoksbergens
Ing
San Antonio
Texas
Edward Hoksbergen
Fort Sam Houston
Silvia Rolffs
Pella
Edward
Rochester
Minnesota
Two People on Nick Hoksbergen Farm Have Green Thumbs
On May 27 and 28 rain and clouds delayed a farm visit to the Nick Hoksbergen home on the Jasper County line northeast of Pella. Reporters found a neat, well cared for farmstead with a modern home on view, featuring a large cropped lawn, clean buildings, and a porch den, plus furnishings such as a power mower and a kitchen window with geraniums and a flower box.
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Nick Hoksbergen
Jasper County
Pella
Galesburg Road
Hoksbergen
Hoksbergens
C. Vonk
Hiature
Hoksbergen family enjoys gardening and berry season
The text describes Mr. and Mrs. Hoksbergen tending a fenced garden with a bed of blooming strawberry plants. Nick, noted for his unusual practice of cutting leafs after picking and fertilizing with oat hulls, previously yielded forty quarts in a single picking. The dry weather reduced strawberry beds elsewhere, but the Hoksbergens anticipate a large crop this year.
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Nick
Family reunion on farm inspires neat, shipshape hosts
A reader recalls plans for a Memorial Day family reunion on the Hoksbergen farm. The house and farmstead are described as meticulously neat, reflecting a strict no loafing rule. The visit to the Hoksbergens is described as very pleasant.
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Hoksbergens
Le Claire Named Davenport's First Postmaster in 1836
Antoine Le Claire is believed to have received his commission as the first postmaster of Davenport on April 19 1836. He received his mail on the Illinois side of the Mississippi and carried letters to Davenport in his coattails.
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Antoine le Claire
Davenport
Mississippi
Iowa House OKs 1939 oil bonus for first state well
The Iowa House of Representatives on April 6, 1939 approved a measure granting a $25,000 bonus to the driller of the state’s first oil well. Eligibility requires 100 barrels daily for 30 consecutive days.
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Iowa
House of Representatives
Lost and Found Billfold Recovered After a Year
Harold Presuhn of near Remsen reported losing a $100 billfold while plowing a field a year ago. Last week the plow turned it up again revealing the missing wallet and money.
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Harold Presuhn
Near Remsen
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