Farm visit details neighbors and Vander Pols in fall work
A Friday farm tour south of Sully spotlights the Vander Pols and Boot families. Ralph Grandman shows a cooled milk room and notes lime silage preservation methods while John and Clarence fetch corn after a productive harvest. Mrs Vander Pol discusses a new 20 by 10 foot chicken house built with solid framing and glass front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sully
Boot Bays
Alexander Vander Pal
John and
Clarence Boot
Ralph Grandman
Ralph
Alexader Vander Pol
Vander Pol Farm Purchase and Conservation Plan
Mr Vander Pol and family own a hillside farm with timber on land and a new barn. They plan a long term rotation, soil conservation, and improved pasture to raise cattle hogs poultry and produce dairy. Neighbors joked at first but he cites soil quality Tama loam and Grundy soils as strong, with a goal of rising fertility and productivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandman
Son
Vander Font
Yiel
Ralph Vander Linden Elected FFA President
Ralph Vander Linden is elected president of the Garden City FPA with Donald Van Dwight Mathes Vander Wilt as treasurer and Robert Van Hemert as reporter. Eight members attend meetings held biweekly. They plan monthly evening entertainment meetings and discuss business, vocational agriculture courses, and projects such as hogs and poultry. Records will be submitted to K C Decker, the agriculture instructor, for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
FPA
Ralph Vander Linden
Donald van Dwight Mathes
Vander Wiltasurer
Robert van Hemert
Sre
K. C. Decker
FFA CI Aare
Vander Pols raise Austra-Whites with contour fields
The Vander Pols report success in poultry and corn on contoured slopes. Mrs Vander Pol notes better house conditions for chickens inside while birds outside huddle in cold. Reporter meets a friendly young farmer who yields about seventy bushels per acre on the slope, aided by Conservationist John Wilson and assistant Jacob De Haan Jr. who mapped contour lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
del Tout
John
Clarence
Vander
Vander Pal
Alexander
Jasper County Soils District
John Wilson
Jacob de Haan Jr
Vander Pol
Fragmented notes on mineral sale at Brem's Feed Store
Fragmentary text describes a plat tying a set of items and mentions Pella, Sederted, and a yield. It notes results sent to a mineral cold at Brem's Feed Store and profits from selling the mineral, with reference to the FRA treasurer and Want Acts producing results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barty Tive Differ
Mi 1
Brem
Pella
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Ed Tysseling
Ingredi
Pillsbury’s
Pillsbury
Pillsbury's Best
Pillsburys
Alexander Vander Pol
Sully Road
Jasper Co
Bates
FFA
S. E
S. W
Lynnville
John Deere
Deering
Great Western
Hays
Stover
Frank Jaarsma
N. Ver Steegt
Farrow
Warrick
White Rock
McCormick Deering
Emerson Gang
Emerson
Sudan
Mary
Martha
The
Third Reformed Church
Frank Bakker
Ver
McCormick-Deering
Satley
Oliver
Neal VanderWerff
Elbert van Maanen
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