Boys at Oskaloosa fair show strong 4-H stock projects
Images and reports highlight Norman Vander Linden with a champion Hereford Baby Beef calf and Lester Vander Linden with a market pig litter, plus several other Mahaska County youths and their stock. Robert Hagen wins 4 H health champion. others place in gilts and litters as first fair experiences turn into skill and economy in gains. Harold Hagen and Herman Vander Linden also feature with top calves.
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Norman Vander Linden
Norman
Lester Vander Linden
Lester
Glen
Eugene
Robert Hagen
Mahaska County
Robert
James Huyser
Mark de Prenger
Herman Vander Linden
Harold Hagen
Prize haul overshadows costs at Oskaloosa show
A large display of prizes highlighted the event as expenses outweighed returns. Next week will feature photos of the remaining projects shown in Oskaloosa, including some that earned grand champion status.
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Oskalooss
Lawrence Blom Profits From Pig Litter at Lake Prairie Club
The Lake Prairie Township 4-H IT club met at John Vanden Beard home for its regular monthly session chaired by Lawrence Blom. Myron Nollen urged members to report county and state fair placings and costs, noting Blom’s pig project netted 122 dollars after 70 dollars feed and sow costs. Farrowing occurred March 3 with pigs sold during county fair week at 225 pounds.
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Lake Prairie Township
John Vanden
Lawrence Blom
Myron Nollen
Ernest Blom
Lawrence
John
John Vanden Beard
Joyce Ver Ploeg Wins 4 H Honors
Joyce Ver Ploeg daughter of Mr and Mrs Con Ver Ploeg and a member of the Scott Aneedus 4 H club has been selected to submit five jars of canned food to be included in the Town exhibit at the National Club Congress in Chicago this winter Nelle Thompson state 4 H nutrition specialist praised her for fine work in the nutrition project and said she would help select jars when she visits Oskaloosa October 19 for a 4 H training school The honor will have Mahaska county and Iowa represented well at the congress.
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Joyce Ver Ploeg
Con Ver Ploeg
Chicago
Nelle Thompson
Iowa
Joyce
Thompson
Oskaloosa
If You Plan to Feed a Calf See The County Agent
Last week the Shorthorn Breeders Association met at the Farm Bureau office to plan securing baby beef calves for club members this year. The committee of Carroll Teter Cyril Rees Harrison Phillips and county agent Walter Brown visited northern Iowa herds and secured three cows and nine calves. Carroll Phillips Pleasantville will take two cows and four calves Glen Arden Frees one cow and one calf Billy Emerson one calf Norma Jean Mallory one calf Dwayne Van Rockel Monroe one calf and Herbert Rees Pleasantville one calf. Other cows and calves have been secured for other club members wishing calves. Any boy or girl wishing to feed calves should contact the county agent's office soon.
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Shorthorn Breeders Association
Farm Bureau
Carroll Teter
Cyril Rees
Harrison Phillips
Walter Brown
Iowa
Carroll Phillips
Pleasantville
Glen Arden
Billy Emerson
Norma Jean Mallory
Dwayne van Rockel
Monroe
Herbert Rees
Mature Sorghums Make Best Beef Silage
Beef cattle can be fed sorghum silage with success, says C C Culbertson of Iowa State College. Maximum feed value comes when the sorghum is left in the field as long as possible without harvesting.
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C. C. Culbertson
Iowa State College
Farming notes on silage and crop residues in livestock feed
The article discusses feeding silage with beans and soybeans, adding lime or carbonate to improve calcium content, and the effects of harvest stage on bean feed value. It notes hogs pick up undigested seed from frost damaged crops, and advises against burning crop residues to boost soil organic matter and microbial activity. It also mentions sleeping sickness cases declining with warm weather and frost imminent.
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Culbertson
Riners
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Jersey
Herman Lloyd Vander Linden
Harold Hugen
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A. B. van Houweling Auto Co
Dodge-Plymouth Sales and Service
Pella, Iowa
Leonard van Soelen
Travelers Insurance Compeez
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Ail-Agatnet
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Pella
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