Farm Gossip Highlights Hattie Van Cleave Area Hog Study
In a rural column four miles north of town, Mrs Hattie Van Cleave of Pella is featured with her Beyer cousins and Steenbock family. The piece covers green pea harvest, crossbreeding plans for Chester White sows and Hereford crosses, hog pen setup, lambs on bluegrass, and a thriving eleven acre alfalfa harvest yielding two tons per acre with lush hay stacks and pasture improvements. Cattle and dairy activity include four milking cows and a focus on pasture-fed livestock.
Beyers Cross bred Hogs Show Promising Farm Performance
The Beyers operate a 140 acre farm with 24.5 acres of corn, hybrid varieties, and good hogs. They diversify with oats beans and livestock, raise White Leghorn chickens, and keep horses and cattle on rolling pasture. Mrs Beyer assists with poultry and drives livestock as needed. The couple shows ambition, prudent land care, and neat, well-kept equipment under cover.
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Boxers
Beyers
Beyer
Nivad
Farming Tips From the County Agent's Office
County agronomists discuss corn yield factors in 10 acre plots including rotation with legumes, manure incorporation, residue plowing, land quality, liming, and 0 20 0 fertilizer. Emphasis on weed control, close planting trials, and moisture, with notes on pasture carrying capacity and moisture shortages reducing forage storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. van Engelenburg
Attractive Farm Home Near Pella On Beyer Farm
Four miles north of Pella near the Chiquaqua river the house long owned and lived in by H. Renaud is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Beyer. The farm is owned by Mrs. Hattie Van Cleave of Pella. The house is very well cared for.
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H. Renaud
Pella
Chiquaqua River
Gerrit Beyer
Hattie van Cleave
Horse and tractor talk from Otley area farmers
In informal county chatter two horse farming men exchange remarks while Henry Vriezelaar of Otley Town shows off two prized colts and plans to feed them through fall and winter. Gerrit Loverink and wife visited Stella De Koning’s Nebraska family last week, returning Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Boscup and son of Des Moines visited Herman Van Veen’s family Sunday, while Johnnie and Katherine Vander Werff were Des Moines guests.
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Henry Vriezelaar
Otley Town
Gerrit Loverink
Stella de Koning
Nebraska
Local social notes and visitors in Rose Hill area
Rose Hill social items record visits by Mr and Mrs Raymond Brouwer of Monroe to the Art Vander Werff home and a trip to Iowa City for son Arthur on crutches. Gladys Verwers of Killduff stayed with Herman Van Veen. Arle Vink remains under a doctor's care. A quiet Halloween is noted along with a miscellaneous shower given for Mrs Dewey Kaldenberg at the George Vanden Berg home in Pella, with many relatives and friends listed.
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Raymond Brouwer
Monroe
Art Vander Werff
John Vanden Berg
Jerry Vanden Berg
Dewey Kaldenberg
George Vanden Berg
Pella
Mra
Jon Vanden Berg
Otley
Henry van Maanen
Os Kaloosa
Clarence de Groot
Prairie
Vanden
Tal
Grinnell
Oir
Herman van Veen
Homecoming Vesper Service Attended by Local Figures
Monroe News notes Supt. and Mrs. W A Pye Elizabeth and Mr. and Mrs. C C Ammer attended the Homecoming Vesper service at Grinnell Sunday afternoon Ruth Eilen Patterson spent Saturday with relatives in town.
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W. A. Pye
Elizabeth
C. C. Ammer
Grinnell
Ruth Eilen Patterson
Lamb Flock Thrives On Beyer Farm Pasture
Fifty lambs graze on blue grass at Beyer farm weighing sixty pounds each. They grow steadily with grain supplement, proving the flock’s strong health and productive feeding routine.
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Beyer Farm
Prairie City Community News Highlights
Halloween party at Baptist youth union church event. visits and gatherings across Prairie City area. Notables include Wes Van Wyngarden, Delores Vriezelaar, and Wooddell family. Anniversary at Westminster Des Moines. Audrey Jean Wooddell earns 10 years of perfect Sunday school attendance.
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Betty Lou Ammer
Baptist Young People’s Union
C. O. Ammer
W. S. Cash
Madeline Vriezelaar
Howard North
Prairie City
Blaine Vriezelaar
Audrey
Lottie Woodell
Dinner guests noted at Carl Ammer home Sunday
A brief item reports that several men were dinner guests Sunday evening at the Carl Ammer residence, detailing a casual social gathering without further specifics.
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Mer
Sunda
Carl Ammer
Peoria rally as election focus prompts farm and civic notes
Last Friday a Democratic rally filled Township Hall as both parties push their men toward election. Nearby, Rus rents a farm NE of Pella and An dinga buys a 120 acre plot SW of New Sharon. Dahm build corn cribs. Stursma erects a cattle barn. Drafts move locally with Vos, Roose among early selections. Visitors from West Des Moines, Oska loosa, Sully, and Pella hear Dr Meeter in Peoria.
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Democrats
Chronicle
Peter P. Rus
A. van Houweling
Pella
G. G. Andringa
New Sharon
Cornie and
Arie Dahm
R. Nicuwsma
John J. Stursma
Peoria
Otto Vos
Lee Roose
Marion Hol
Chas
Oskaloosa
Sully
H. Meeter
Grand Rapids
Vander Molen Death and Local Church News
Ben Vander Molen died at his son Cecil Vander Molen’s home in Peoria at about six o’clock Saturday morning at age 83. He lived in the area 45 years and is buried in Oakwood cemetery, Pella, after funeral at the Peoria church led by Rev. D. J. Hoitenga. Messages of sympathy go to his family. Also mentioned are Mrs. Jacob Vox’s recent hospital operation and a Reformational lecture by Dr. H. Meeter in Pella on Protestant Reform.
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Cecil Vander Molen
Pella
Jacob Vox
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
H. Meeter
Grand Rapids
Mich
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