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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1931
Page
5
Rock Valley residents are notified that Sioux county board adopted a resolution requiring all property owners or managers to destroy noxious weeds on real estate and adjoining highways. J A Gartland, Weed Commissioner, Rock Valley Iowa.
Sioux County farmers report perennial peppergrass spreading in the northwest part of the county. The weed reaches 12 to 18 inches, has small white four petal flowers, and blooms in fall. Control options include summer fallowing, chlorate spraying, or digging out shallow underground root stocks with a spring tooth harrow to prevent spread.
An Easterner chronicles Wenatchee apples from irrigation to packing. He details canal systems, water taxes, thinning, propping, ladders, picking bags, washing, grading, and boxing by hand, with costs per acre and per box, noting labor division and a claim that Wenatchee ships tens of thousands of carloads annually.
J C Galloway farm management demonstrator of the Extension Service will visit Sioux county on June 15 and 16 to aid 33 co operators in the farm accounting project. He and the county agent will tour each farm to ensure proper record keeping and answer questions. A December meeting will close and summarize the cooperation with Mr Galloway.
Sioux county will send 14 delegates to the State 4-H Club Convention to be held June 17 to 20 at Ames Iowa. One girl delegate and one leader from each club are allowed. Delegates include Eileen Verburg Sherama Two Esther Borgman Mable Zimmer man Joan Bruns Esther Schiefen Hazel Benson Florence Corer and leaders Alyda Den Herder J Schiefen Ben Vande Waa C Plickner Aleene Wilson.
CMSIP and Pry timetable lists eastward and westward passenger trains with numbers and times. It notes daily runs unless otherwise, recommends No. 3 for Black Hills and coast, No. 11 or 3 for Sioux Falls and Lebel, No. 22 for Milwaukee Chicago, and No. 4 Local to Mason City with early sleeping car reservations urged by agent C W Jacobs.
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