Soil and Water Field Day at Hiemstra Farm
The Thunder Creek Watershed hosts a soil and water conservation field day on September 9 at John C. Hiemstra’s 227 acre Pella area farm three miles west of town. The event highlights pond and ditch work, tiling, contour plowing, and terracing to improve water control and cattle watering.
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Thunder Creek
Reaers
the Chronicle
Hiemstras
Highway 163
Pella
Hospers
Elmer Ver Meer
Watershed Association
Hiemstra
John
Thunder Creek Watershed Association
Gosselink
Don
Bob
Johnnie
Schuring
Marion County Soil District
Lyman Eells
Hog Marketings Rise While Cattle Sales Slip
Hog marketings for slaughter in August and September are forecast to reach a record 3,050,000 head in Iowa, up 14 percent from a year ago and above the 5-year average. August may hit 1,450,000 head, 18 percent higher than August 1964, with sow sales at about 261,000. September hogs could total 1,600,000, a record for the month, 11 percent above the prior record. Sow share in September about 6 percent, 96,000 head. July hogs total 1,100,000, up 13 percent from last year. July sow volume about 396,000.
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Iowa
Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Iowa cattle and calf marketings July to September figures
The report notes July slaughter cattle and calves averaging 6.5 months, up from 6.4 in 1954 and below 7.2 in July. August and September 1955 marketing are seen 3 percent below 1954 but 30 percent above the 1949-53 five year average, totaling about 612,000 head. August volume is 320,000, down 6 percent from last August’s 342,000 but up 29 percent from the five year average. September projections target 292,000 head, matching last year’s peak and 31 percent above the five year September average. July marketings reach 275,000 head, down 7 percent from the prior year but 22 percent above the five year July average.
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Iowa
Cattle Do Better On Green Clippings Than on Pasture
Western Iowa experiments with 112 cattle show feeding green brome alfalfa clippings in drylot yielded $2.43 more per steer than pasture grazing at 1953 54 costs. Clippings produced 1 to 2 times as much beef per acre, according to W H Hale animal husbandman Iowa State College. Dollar returns per acre.
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Iowa
W. H. Hale
Iowa State College
Hale
Midwest Threshers Reunion Heads to Mt Pleasant Iowa
Mt Pleasant Iowa hosts the sixth annual Midwest Old Settlers and Threshers Reunion September 7 to 10 with over 50 steam engines on display. The event features authentic threshing demonstrations, engine power tests, parades each afternoon and two evenings, and is expected to draw nearly 40 000 visitors from across the country.
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Mt. Pleasant
Midwest Old Settlers and Threshers
Baker
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Wayne Geetings
Elmer Dykstra
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Zeaithy TV
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