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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1929
Page
10
The Des Moines Register notes the Evans Bros mill near Roland in Story County has entered its fifty ninth year of sorghum production. Started by Erick Evans Jr in 1871, the operation now uses a gasoline engine to extract juice from cane stalks and press it into syrup for nearby farms.
Workers press the sorghum stalks to extract juice that flows through a pipe into cooking pans. The juice boils and moves between pans as it becomes a sweet brown syrup. An old weathered building hosts the operation beside a small stream visited by many spectators crossing a homemade suspension bridge.
Nevada leaders approve a multi year plan including organization and membership drives, 4 H clubs, home furnishings training, weed eradication, and cooperative marketing with Iowa Farm Bureau and Federal Farm Board. Projects cover livestock, crops, pruning, fertilizer, pest control, windbreaks, and public demonstrations. Members list and shelterbelt progress noted.
Story county farmers spearheaded Iowa's first county area shelterbelt program begun in 1924. I T Bode of Iowa State College reports the sixth annual check shows most belts thriving with few replacements needed. Participants include John L. Anderson Lafayette S L Bielefeldt L T Sande Howard and S W Guthrie Warren.
Dr Charles R Brown likens listening to a radio sermon to attending church, equating it with the difference between a telephone call to a girl and spending an evening with her, as reported by the Story City Herald.
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