Early Market Outlook for Pigs and Cattle Prices
Town State College economist Francis Kutish forecasts a normal seasonal hog price drop this fall with a late summer peak around August. He advises farmers to market pigs only when finished and notes strong packing-sow pork demand. Feeder cattle and calves should see price declines later, prompting culling of low grade cows. Lamb prices may hold steadier as grass fats rise, with fewer feeder lambs for the Corn Belt and a likely late season shift due to early lamb marketing and weather-driven wheat growth improvements.
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Francis Kutish
Town State College
Kutish
Texas
Grouth
Boone County Leads Marion in Savings Bond Drive
Boone County surpassed Marion with 69.15 percent of its savings bond quota as the Independence drive progressed, with Pella co-chairman P H Kuyper and E L Job of Marion noting county sales totals of 169 250 66 70 percent of its quota. Statewide sales reached 40 36 percent of a 30 million dollar quota, while Polk trailed in third at 60.34 percent. State director Roger F Warin reported E series sales at 8 173 392, about 42 percent of the state's 19 7 million quota, though county breakdowns were not given.
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Job
Knoxville
P. H. Kuyper
Pella
Marion County
Towa
Iowa
Boone County
Polk County
Roger F. Warin
Savings Bonds Division
Warin
Twenty Drivers to Battle Stock Car Race on July Fourth
Des Moines hosts a July 4 stock car event featuring twenty drivers vying for victory. On June 29 the field includes the country’s top auto racers prepared to wheel 200 miles of high speed action.
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Des Moines
Kansas Driver Sutton Prepares for Des Moines 100-Mile Stock Race
Kansas driver Sutton shown with 1949 sedan entered in Des Moines State Fairgrounds Fourth of July 100 mile stock car race. The event offers $2500 and trophies. 35 cars expected for noon qualifying on July 4 with 20 fastest lining up at 2:30. Leading entrants include Eddie Anderson and Don Smith among seven states represented.
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Sutton
Des Moines
Kansas
Ft. Riley
Kan
State Fair Track
Iowa
Taubby ‘Thompson
Topeka
Eddie Anderson
Grinnell
Mercy
Bob Loudon
Aurora
Nash
Don Smith
Ford
Don White
Keokuk
Mercury
Les Peterson
Vintage Car Entries Listed From Wisconsin to Kansas
A compilation of 1950 and 1949 automobile entries includes Hudson Russ Lee of Hudson Wisconsin, Tiny Lund of Robbinsdale Minnesota, and drivers from Harlan Des Moines Calumet City Oak Lawn Abilene and Emporia. Entrants drive make models Oldsmobile Mercury Lincoln Ford Dodge Chevrolet Nash Packard and more with several female entrants noted.
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Woodville
Wis
Hudson
Russ Lee
Robbinsdale
Minn
Oldsmobile
Tiny Lund
Harlan
Mercury
Junior Sam
Montezuma
Lincoln
Chick Beverlin
Calumet City
Ill
Ford
Roy Longstaff
Des Moines
Dodge
Bob Vestry
Oak Lawn
Chevrolet
Jim Schmitt
Dallas
Packfard
Rodney Clark
Emporia
Kan
Herb ‘Craig
Shreveport
Nash
Patricia Sutton
Abilene
National Farm Safety Week Plans Outlined in Iowa
National Farm Safety Week runs July 23 to 29 in Iowa with the Iowa Farm Safety Committee leading the program. Norval Wardle of Iowa State College says the 133 representatives from state groups will emphasize daily themes from church safety to machinery and falls, aiming to mobilize ongoing farm safety campaigns statewide.
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Iowa
Iowa Farm Safety Committee
Norval Wardle
Iowa State College
Wardle
Bell replica to ring here with historic Liberty Bell tone
An exact copper alloy replica of the Liberty Bell, built to the original specifications, will ring here with the authentic tone heard at the Declaration of Independence. The tour is funded by multiple donors including Anaconda Copper, Kennecott Copper, Phelps-Dodge, American Smelting, American Metal, Miami Copper, and the U S Steel group via American Bridge, with transport by Ford. On Independence Day the bell will be handed to Governor William Beardsley for permanent display in Town by Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Kennecott Copper Mining Company
Kennecott Copper Corporation
Phelps-Dodge Corporation
American Smelting and Refining Company
American Metal Company, Ltd
Weather Dampens Egg Quality Across Town Farms
Warm spell and thunder showers hurt egg quality at Town farms. DL Z Exgleton of Town State College extension warns heat lowers grade and raises dirty egg percentages. Market spreads show top grades now fetch double the standard price, incentivizing grade selling. Eggleton urges confinement, dry housing, frequent gathering, rapid cooling, and direct-to-market transport to improve profits and farm prosperity.
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Town Farms
DL. Z. Exgleton
Town State College Extension
Poultryman
AES
Eggleton
Chicago
Juni
Towa
Keep on Counting Borer Egg Masses
Farmers aiming to combat the corn borer this year should act when 50 egg masses per 100 plants are present says C C Blickenstaff Iowa State College extension entomologist The peak of egg laying does not end moth activity and spraying remains valuable for about two weeks after the peak The later the spraying the more beneficial high gallonage applications become Blickenstaff cautions that applying control after all eggs hatch is a gamble
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C. C. Blickenstaff
Iowa State College Extension
Blickenstaff
Treat in Afternoon Me Opens Tip for Handling Wilted Corn
Treat in afternoon advice notes that fairly tall corn can be handled with low clearance ground equipment without breaking stalks if done when plants are somewhat wilted. Stalks are less brittle then than in the morning or after rain, while rain is not effective against pests hatched in the whorls and leaf axils, Blickenstaff explains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blickenstaff
Radcliffe firemen celebration sees fewer midway attractions
Crowds gathered for the Radcliffe firemen celebration but the midway offered 24 concessions with 16 closed by the sheriff a few hours after opening for gambling law violations.
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Radcliffe Firemen
New Stem Rust Threat to Oats
A new stem rust race, Race 7, threatens Bond cross oats and other rust susceptible varieties across the nation. Discovered in barberry areas as far west as Michigan, it may have already established in the South. Barberry-originating spores blow south then return north with summer winds, unlike leaf rust races that involve buckthorn as an alternate host.
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Clington
Benton
Michigan
A. IL. Hagge
Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine
USDA
Ames
Hagge
NO FISH Jimmy and Ronald Williams Found Safely
Two boys aged 11 and 7 named Jimmy and Ronald Williams slipped away on a fishing trip without permission. They wandered seven miles, became lost and cold, and spent the night in a ditch before a long dawn search located them asleep in the ditch at 4:00 a.m.
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Jimmy
Ronald Williams
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Ferguson
tSide
Wittenburg
JHE
Liberty Bell
William F
Bill) Powers
Iowa Motor Truck Association
Ing
Treasury Department
Ryan Transport Corp
Bell
Voice of Liberty
DDT
Bakker
Rus
Bel Marj Ball
eveWiYt
Wewest
Vandermeulen Hoeksema Co
Main St
Bert
Bert Stegeman
Papillion
Omaha
Nebraska
Clinton
Seinster
ONG Life
Seo Servel
Central States Electric CO
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