Boot Family Sparks Rural Electrification at Pella Coop
A visiting feature highlights the Boal family’s sustained role in the Pella Cooperative as electricity expands from farm to home. John and Virgil Boot, with daughter Lois Ruth and Pauline Ver Ploeg, oversee cattle, hogs, and modernizing farm buildings while embracing conservation and crop rotation. The piece notes 1600 kilowatts used, a $60,000 rent paid to the city, and a hardware-and-appliance ethos shaping area commerce and rural life.
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Msrior
Pella
Boot
Harold Veenstra
John
Montana
Dakota
Omah
Nebraska
Joan
Kra
John Boot
Pauline
J. E. Ver Ploeg
North Main
Randoa John
Farm Livestock Totals Shift Across Species and Years
Boot Farm Home reports mixed gains in livestock with overall hogs up 6 percent from the prior year and older hogs at 23 percent higher. Sheep and lambs show stock at 936000 head on January 1 1955 down 1 percent from 945000 a year earlier but 10 percent above the 10 year average. Ewes numbered 767000 head down 4 percent. ewe lambs rose from 112000 to 184000. Sheep lambs on feed total 371000, down 10 percent from a year earlier. Horses declined to 90000, with male stock down to 2000. Poultry household flocks: town chickens 80378000, up 1 percent. pullets up 3 percent, hens down 3 percent. Turkeys on farms 141000, down from 147000.
More Cattle and Hogs in Iowa Farms January 1 1955
Iowa farms report rising cattle and hog inventories while sheep and lamb numbers fall. Total livestock on farms reaches 6,279,000 head, a record high, led by cattle and hogs with gains versus January 1, 1954.
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Iowa
Milk cow and heifer stocks show decline from prior year
The report notes milk production at 19 percent above the 1944 53 ten year average of 5 258 000 Kal milk. Beef cows milk cows on farms on January 1 numbered 1 111 000 head the lowest on record since 1887. This is 8 percent below the 1 145 000 a year earlier and 14 percent below the ten year average. Estimates of milk heifers 1 2 years old were unchanged from the prior year and heifer calves intended for milk stock remained steady.
Iowa cattle and hog inventories rise on farms
Beef cows on Iowa farms January 1 reached a record 989000 head, up 8 percent from a year earlier and 5 percent above the previous high. Heifers 1 to 2 years old totaled 421000 head, 20 percent above 352000. Hog totals stood at 12048000 head, up 18 percent from January 1, 1954, and 3 percent above the prior year’s 11705000. Pigs under 6 months numbered 6072000, up 11 percent from a year earlier.
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Iowa
Peoria
Chicago
Fall from hay load injures worker in Harris area
Cornelius Wolsterstoff of Harris fell from a hay load after a rope broke. He was knocked unconscious on the frozen ground and sustained injuries.
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Cornelius Wolsterstoff
Larris
Top 1955 Soybean Varieties Named
Five soybean varieties advised for 1956 by Iowa State College and USDA breeders are Blackhawk Hawkeye Adams Lincoln and Clark Blackhawk is best in northern Iowa maturing about seven days earlier than Hawkeye Hawkeye dominates Iowa acres and should be planted by May 10 to 20 in northern regions Adams and Lincoln fit central and southern areas Clark new and will be widely available this year outperforming Adams and Lincoln in southern counties
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Iowa State College
Adams
Lincoln and Clark
R. Weber
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Experiment Station
U. S. Department of Agriculture
North
Iowa
Lincoln
Clark
Iowa Trials Highlight Five Top Apple Varieties
In Iowa the improvement Association notes five varieties lead trials with superior overall performance. Hawkeye is the benchmark and Biren, though favorable, is not clearly superior. Harosey resembles Hawkeye and shows strong traits but falls short of recommendation. Handwriting on the wall means there's a child in the family.
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Provement Association
Iowa
Hawkeye
Weber
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