Listing corn by furrow and ridge in western Iowa soils
Iowa State agronomists report listing adapts well to deep well drained western and eastern Iowa soils. At Castana’s Western Iowa Experimental Farm listing out yields standard surface planting by furrows 4 to 5 inches deep with 10 to 12 inch side ridges. It uses a lister planter and a disk cultivator to plant, weed, and manage soil, with hard ground and loose ground variants differing in preplant tillage.
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Western Iowa
Western
Iowa
Iowa State College Agronomists
Castana
Lister-Planter
Lister
Eighth Annual State High School Typing and Business Contest
Kossuth county public and parochial high school seniors may enter the eighth annual state high school typing and business personality contest at the American Institute of Business in Des Moines on Saturday April 21. Winners receive portable typewriters and watches with medals and other prizes. Deadline for entries is April 20. There is also a Chariton national guard company note reporting twelve pairs of brothers in the roster.
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Kossuth County
American Institute of Business
Des Moines
E. O. Fenton
A.B
Shrine Club
Fenton
Final Spring Enrollment At SUI Iowa City
Final enrollment at the State University of Iowa totals 9 145 for the spring term up 844 from 1955 and 1 634 from 1954. Men total 6 437 and women 2 708 with 1 963 veterans enrolled. Also notes 16 year old Osceola high senior Clifford Smith severely injured when his arm was amputated after his sleeve caught a portable saw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
State University of Iowa
Clifford Smith
Osceola High School
Tornado Season Prepared by Weather Bureau Warnings
The Weather Bureau strengthens defenses for the 1956 tornado season by adding equipment and faster communication to improve public warnings. Forecasts alert reporters and the public to threatening conditions, with tornado warnings issued only after sighting. Citizens should seek shelter in basements or lower floors, and towns are urged to develop local warning networks.
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United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
Washington
D. C
Tornado Safety Advice from Historic Home Guidance
The text notes safety tips for tornado scenarios, stressing frame houses offer greater protection, moving at right angles to an approaching tornado in open country, and if escape is impossible, lying flat in a nearby ditch or low area.
Trout stocking begins in northwestern Iowa streams
Fisheries officials report stocking has started in several northwestern Iowa streams with mid April as the target for full activity. Rainbow brown and brook trout will be stocked as road conditions allow hatchery trucks access, with no daily fishing hour restrictions this year and big trout found in deep holes.
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Iowa
The
Conservation Commission
Elkader
Houn' Dawg Long Gone Fox Hound Returns to Humeston Owner
In southern Iowa a fox hound named by Bert Joy vanished after chasing a coyote. The dog, carrying Joy's name and address, was missing for weeks before Ned Armstrong, a farmer eight miles north of Humeston, found it a month later. The tale notes the hound's persistence and local notoriety.
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Iowa
Bert Joy
Ned Armstrong
Hound’s Long Journey Ended With Pending Pups
Guthrie Center officer traced a missing fox hound to an owner after Joy drove to Guthrie Center and recovered the dog. The journey covered about 85 miles as the crow flies though the hound likely traveled farther along river bottoms. Whether chased a coyote or transported remains unknown. The hound was pregnant.
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Guthrie Center
Joy
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Titonka
Canada
Titenka
Iowa Press Y Association
Asso Ciariag Peres Meptheidt
Chariton National Guard Company
Kossuth
Harold E. Gartner
General Fund
Fred Adamson
Botsford Lumber Co
Interstate Power Co. Light & Power
J.S. Latta & Son
Harley R. Lehman
Frank D. Fisher
Hawkeye Truck Equip. Co
Ginn & Company
D. C. Heath & Co
Klipto Loose Leaf Co
K & H Co-op. Oil Co
Nu-Ball Manufacturing Co
Nasco, Inc
Krafft Music Co
Mownheys Gwkheel Supely Co
Royal Typewriter Co, Inc
Metropolitan Supply Co
State Educational Agency
Acct
Titonka Telephone Co
W. P. Truesdell
Ads
Scott, Foresman & Co
Booken Insurance Agency
Carleton Stewart Music Co
Farmer's Elevator Co
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Lyle Opheim
Julia Stott
McMillan Co
le Frank Paxton Lumber Co
Webster Publishing
Lee R. E. Liljedahl
G. E. Hansen
Ee Decker Athletic Supply Co
H. W. Kitzinger
Educational Music Bureau, Inc
Algona Machine Shop, Co
Callies Bros
Ing
BHO HO Deceibe Elk Cleaners
Pratt Sound Films, Inc
Fairmont Music Shop
Steel
Peete Hardware & Tool Co
Bowmar Records
the Stackpole Co
Kossuth County Recorder
Fee
Decker Bros, Inc
E. L. Erickson Products Co
Ray's
Iron Stansi Scientific Co
W. E. Ley Motor Co
Internal Revenue
Ser
Pete Haines
Vetsment Co
Haack's
Iowa Body & Equip
Chicago
Rock Island
Iowa ‘State Industries
Tnamboo, CO
Seviloia Grover Keagle
T. A. Dunmire
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Robbins
Stecker’s Food Market
Hedrick Bros
J. Weston Walch
I. Harold E. Gartner
A. W. Boyken
SUI
Root Destroyer
BOYER
Willemssen Hardware
Seurge
Marvin Penning
Sports Gorner
Bert Weaver
Louisiana State University
Weaver
Charley Harper
Howie Johnson
Bobby Bragan
Pittsburgh
Harmon Killebraw
Chuck Dressen
Washington Senators
Killebraw
Louisville
Juan Fangio
Argentina
Eugenio Castellotti
Italy
Sebring
Fila
Ervin
Jerome
Halvorson
Inc No
Allis
J. E. Urena & CO
Hardware and
Lakota, Iowa
Titonka, Lowa
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