13 Mar 1941
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1941
Page
1
The Duroc red hog serves as a crossbreed sire on farmers’ plots around the area. At Hen. W. Vriezelaar’s farm the animal is valued for passing vigor and health to pig litters through his lineage and traits.
Henry and Arthur Field trim waste wood into a pile and gather logs for firewood on a Friday afternoon. The brothers use hand wedges and a wood maul to split logs while envisioning a later cut with a power saw. The scene highlights durable wedges passed down from their father and the practice of keeping fields and creek banks well kept.
Don Vriezelaar praises Poland China hogs and crossbreeding demand while Dow’s hogs compete for sale. The piece notes aging farmers Arie and Katie Vriezelaar celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary with twenty eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. It includes commentary on Indian depictions of land use and a surge in alfalfa plantings across Apanoose county.
A Chronicle report from Monroe covers a farm visit to Mr. and Mrs. Arie Vriezelaar at Don and Katie Vriezemar’s acreage on the south edge of Monroe. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Monday March 3. The piece also highlights Poland China and Duroc crossbred hogs kept by Henry W. Vinez Iaar and Stenry, with detail on hog weights, show gains, and pasture care.
The article notes hog farmers add commercial feed to their normal rations and suggests cross-breeding affects reaching market weight in six months. Arthur Vriezelaar Jr. was seen gathering wood from stream banks on the family farm as crews maintain wooded creeks in the pastures.
The Dow photographer captured Mr and Mrs Arie Vriezelaar in their large well preserved house with an orchard and pine wind break to the north. The eleven acre property features a unique cement block barn, among two six sided structures believed not built by Mr Vriezelaar.
Ottumwa planning board and Chamber of Commerce directors approve a resolution urging construction of a dam on the Des Moines river at Red Rock. The board also endorses the contemplated expansion of the St. Lawrence waterway.
Approval of the Red Rock dam north of Knoxville follows a Des Moines action weeks earlier. The dam would almost entirely remove flood danger in Ottumwa by controlling overflow and protecting surrounding areas.
Reud Nygaard of Lake Mills, though only three, will soon be a seasoned traveler after making a solo train journey from Minneapolis to Albert Lea.
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