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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1954
Page
2
Full line of 1954 RCA television sets offered with beautiful models and expert service by Hamilton Hatchery at Titanka. Sale showcases latest models with assured service and local display available for viewing and purchase.
Kossuth county 4-H girls held their annual Rally Day in Burt with 400 attendees including girls leaders and mothers. Ruth Pehrson of Swea Sunbeams was elected county president. Dorothy Gade vice president. Phyllis Mauffinan secretary treasurer. Phyllis Rustemier historian. Registration was managed by Bancroft Busy Bees. Joyce Hammer presided morning, Mrs. Kenny Looft afternoon. Ann Rules spoke from Williams on her Chile trip as a TFYKE student. Roger Linde of Swea City became an honorary member, and the Fenton Forwards staged a Wheel of Good Entry skit.
Sixty nine 4-H boys and girls from multiple counties will join about 500 peers at the district 4-H camp at Clear Lake June 9 to 11. Activities include leather belts, crafts, outdoor cookery, swimming, boating, and entertainment with notable speakers from Rev. O Leonard Nelson Ames Ray Cunningham Boyce McGhee Roger Lawrence among others.
The USDA reports that output per farm worker in the United States has doubled in three hours, signaling a sharp productivity surge. Analysts warn the rapid gain may mask underlying labor and efficiency issues across sectors.
Plans to avert forage shortages in Iowa include nitrogen on oats seeded with forage mixes and earmarking fields for forage. Sudangrass provides pasture or silage, needs 40 pounds phosphate and 50 nitrogen for high yields, and is ready for grazing in 6 to 8 weeks. Soybeans offer hay and seed concerns, with varieties Blackhawk Hawkeye Adams Lincoln Chief. seed shortages expected in 1954. A top emergency mix combines soybeans and sudangrass planted early, soybeans at 1 bushel per acre, sudangrass 10 to 12 pounds per acre.
Kossuth county voters face limited local races with Republicans contesting for governor, U S senator, and several county offices. County candidates include Auditor Marc Moore and Treasurer E M Huxber among others. incumbents and a large Republican ballot dominate the scene. State and district races list Republican nominees for U S senator, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, secretary of agriculture, with multiple contenders for each office.
Democratic ticket names for governor lieutenant governor secretary of state and other statewide roles listed alongside congressional and state representative contenders. Includes W C Fletcher Henry Wormsey Dayton Countryman Guy Gillette Clyde Herr ing Maurice Rawlings Frank Davey J Rex Weddle J E Hansen Albert Loveland L E Plummer Walter Conway Vaughn Lumond Wilcox and Casey Loss among others.
Additional nitrogen may be supplied to corn up to the third cultivation says E R Duncan extension agronomist at Iowa State College Sidedressing places nitrogen beside the plants where it is readily available during peak growth You can expect excellent response if potash and phosphorus are ample Nitrogen may be applied as a liquid gas or in dry forms like ammonium nitrate or ammonium sulfate All forms yield similar results at comparable rates of application Cost of actual nitrogen is the chief factor in choice
Joe Esner at a gas station asserts Iowa has the most surfaced roads per square mile, a claim supported by the speaker who notes every city and hamlet is connected by surfaced roads. The remark ties infrastructure to a broader sense of Iowa democracy and neighborliness.
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