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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1925
Page
2
The Rock Valley Bee lists A L Halstead as publisher at Neck Valley Iowa with an annual subscription rate of two dollars per year and notes entry at Neck Valley for postal purposes.
In Corning Adams county farm youths test frozen seed corn from fifteen to twenty farms to assess growing qualities with a demonstration at a forthcoming corn show. State board of control members praise a contract delivering 2,000 bushels of potatoes to fifteen institutions, with mixed potato varieties priced around 1.22 to 1.32 per bushel, amid national crop shortages. Grundy County farmer Dick Burns harvested 4,000 bushels, tended chores, fed hogs, milked cows, and averaged 150 bushels per day. Studebaker brothers visiting town discuss public utilities and a new 7.06 million dollar Des Moines power plant supplying 50 towns, while noting corn and other products' roles in global food supply.
Col Clem Studebaker notes hotel and restaurant demand for scarce foods and return home to family meals. J F Grawe praises fried corn muffins with cow butter in autumn breakfasts. A Bloomfield farmer reports 40 acres of soybeans yielding 20 bushels per acre worth 31,500 bushes. a Winnis factory crushes soybeans for oil. At Seymour 500 attend oil well bailing with crude oil samples, well depth 985 feet, project hoping for 2,000 more. Mrs Lavte Carroll gifts a braided rug to Coolidge, who honors her with a photograph and a personal note. Iowa tax official A Le Urick finds 5,655 husking machines across three counties in current survey, up from 52 counties in 1921.
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