Farmhouse plans and garden life on 120 acre Iowa farm
A June day highlights the Gradus Kuiper farm four miles northeast of town, detailing the 120 acre Iowa property built by the Lankemans and plans conceived by Successful Farming ideas. The piece covers the Kuipers’ four bedrooms, modern kitchen, bottled gas heating, extensive electricity, deep well, and a heavy emphasis on hogs, cattle, fertilizer use, and a cement silo. The family includes five children and a married daughter Nancy. farm activities include 50 acres of corn, 20 oats, 25 alfalfa, bluegrass pasture, and a hog operation with nine sows and 80 pigs born May 1. Television, CCC work on the Worp Borgman and Mahaska soils districts, and long-standing CCC era cement structures are noted.
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Gradus Kuiper
Worp Borgman Place
Kuipers
H. P. Lankeima
Cleveland
Ohio
Iowa Power and Light Company
Arthur Glen
Ver Meer Mfg. Co
Pella
Larry
Harley
Flintridge
Linda
Marcia
Nancy
Howard Brummel
Waterloo
Iowa
Mr. Kuiper
Kuiper
Worp Borgman
C.C.C
Mahaska
Kuiper Farm Projects and CCC Changes Captured in Visit
A Kuiper family farm narrative notes feeding livestock as a major project and pond bullhead fishing, with CCC workers altering fences to balance convenience and soil retention. The hillside homestead, built higher and westward, offers a pleasing view. photos show the house, a kitchen family group, and pigs in alfalfa.
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Kuiper Farm
C.C.C
Kuiper
Gradus Kuiper
Hardware disease threatens cattle losses across farms
Dr John Herrick extension veterinarian at Town State College warns that hardware disease affects about one in twenty cows with one in fifty dying. Careful hay and silage preparation is needed to remove metal fragments, especially baling wire. Remove loose nails from feed areas and avoid junk piles.
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John Herrick
Town State College
Herrick
Floyd
Arnold
Dairyman
Burglars Steal 35 Pound Safe From Malcom Elevator
Burglars removed a 35 pound safe from the Malcom elevator, but investigators believe the theft will not be completed or hindered by the incident. Police urge any witnesses to come forward with information.
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Malcom
Thrifty Iowans Still Hold Half of Savings Bonds
Iowa residents retain about one billion dollars in Series E and H Savings Bonds purchased since 1941, amounting to roughly 50 percent of the total. The figures reflect persistent thrift amid postwar economic conditions and suggest continued public confidence in government savings instruments.
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Iowa
Movement of stomach walls and foreign bodies in animals
The text discusses how heavy metal pieces drift to the bottom of the stomach, enter the reticulum, and can penetrate the stomach wall. It notes animals off feed should be watched closely for swallowed objects, as some may remain or pass with time, while others cause complications.
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Ye Herth
Fragmentary report on veterinary stomach foreign body removal
The text notes progressive deterioration, misdiagnosis, and delays in identifying a stomach foreign object in a animal. Dr Herrick mentions early symptoms allow veterinarians to open the large stomach and search to remove the object.
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Herrick
Object in the anterior floor of the stomach or the reticulum
R H Bolton of Audubon reports an in fetorestine soljection of an Hislar pride ion Colt, the original iBrontice model, indicating a historic object found in the anterior gastric region or reticulum.
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R. H. Bolton
Audubon
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