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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
1
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Farmers in the Otley area plan to travel to Kildai for feeder cattle near market. Reporters tour Henry Stursma and Jim N Houweling farms near Pella, noting well fed cattle and tidy lots. Van Zante’s 160 acres show promising corn and white husks, but August rain slows growth. Fields are green, seeding and clover work continue to strengthen forage.
A local work picture shows Beyer, Tone Van Zee, and Andrew Van Zante erecting a 22 by 30 foot chicken house with a dirt floor and cement foundation. The article discusses improving poultry housing as egg prices rise, mentions lean beef demand, and observes two hybrid corn varieties planted May 20 with one drying and the other still green.
Andrew Van Zante owns twenty cattle in his lot, eighteen folds and two Shorthorns among them. The remarkably sturdy steel hat he wears evokes his World War service, reflecting pride in both his war past and farm surroundings.
A northwest farm home of the Andrew Van Zante family is described as neat and comfortable. The house, though of an older type, has electrical lighting and a pump reservoir supplying tanks at lower levels.
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The fragment indicates concerns about corn tying or perhaps planning for the next planting season amid the green corn period. Limited readable text prevents a full event or person attribution.
A local farm feature describes Poortinga and Boot households with acres, bungalow homes, and a life scene near Bethel church. It notes corn stages, straw demand, threshing need, and dairy farmers praising alfalfa silage stored as ensiled feed. The piece contextualizes rural work moments and regional agricultural practices.
E N Hansen, dairy farmer, says spring pastures are generally good with less need for supplements. He notes farmers use corn and cod meal or shelled corn as a preservative for legume silage due to leftover corn. He explains adding 200 to 400 pounds per ton of silage improves preservation. Chinch bugs do not spend winter in the crops, contrary to belief.
In bunch grass crowns and debris in woodlots and fence rows, nearly all bugs attempting to winter in cornstalks freeze out before spring.
Marion county land owners have completed petitions to extend the Marion county Soil Conservation District to cover the entire county. Campaign solicitors have filed 582 signatures with more expected to raise the total to 600.
The article notes at least 20 percent of law owners must sign, with 10 percent in some districts. Hollis Bye, the county auditor, will verify signatures before the State Conservation Committee hearing in Des Moines and a Knvsville referendum. Farmers in dry areas seek artificial ponds as wells fail. Holding back pullets to raise fall prices is detrimental, not beneficial.
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