Farm Bureau News Notes by D D Offri ng a County Agent
Notes of interest to Farm Bureau members and boosters describe current farm activities and programs conducted by county agent D D Offringa. Topics include agricultural improvements, community efforts, and guidance for farmers seeking help and resources.
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Farm Bureau
D. D. Offringa
Variations In Cream Tests In Cream Separator Use
Questioning why cream tests vary among farm separators. Causes include separator bowl speed changes, richness of milk, milk temperature, milk condition, inflow rate, bowl vibration, skimmilk flushing, cleanliness, and screw adjustment. Corrections and maintenance impact fat percentage outcomes.
Farm Bureau Plans Work For Next Year
Bremert county farm bureau sets six main projects for 1933 including organization, livestock, crops, marketing, home project and 4 H club work. Home project lessons in November focus on making dresses and coats from old. Programs to be refined through township meetings and approved by the Bremer county farm bureau board. aims include active membership, informative meetings, and cooperation with community organizations.
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Bremert County Farm Bureau
Waverly
Times
Bremer County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Bureau-Farmer
Iowa and
American Farm Bureau Federations
Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Program For 1933 County Plan
A detailed county plan outlines goals across livestock crops and soils marketing and farm management and home projects. It calls for low interest rates price strategies tax relief dollar stabilization and cooperative marketing with vaccination schools soil conservation limestone tests and corn variety trials. It urges marketing cooperatives quality cream wool eggs and a county marketing committee along with 4-H and girls clubs and leadership training.
Trees that migrated millions of years ago in South America
Carnegie expedition led by Prof. Ralph W. Chaney and Dr. Erling Dorf compares South American foliage with fossil leaf prints from the western North American coast. The finding supports the view that North American forests migrated south as climate cooled and dried.
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California
Oregon
South America
North America
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Ralph W. Chaney
University of California
Erling Dorf
Princeton University
Longfellow Quote on Compassion and Understanding
A reflective meditation on judging others, urging mercy for the fallen. It laments sneering at sins and recognizes the temptations, fears, and loneliness that shape a troubled heart. The passage emphasizes empathy and shared humanity in human frailty.
Corn Husk ing Contest Near Waverly Farme West of Waverly
The Bremer county corn husking contest will be held at Will H Miller's farm one half mile west of Waverly on Friday October 28 starting at 1 00 p m Contestants will husk for one hour and twenty minutes and two shots from a shotgun will start the event The winner earns a John P Wallace silver trophy and 100 cash with prizes of 50 25 15 and 10 for next places Various rules cover coaching equipment weighing gleaners and deductions for husks to determine the winner with penalties for violations and disqualifications Several merch ant prizes will be offered by Waverly traders as Bremer county entrants qualify to the state contest in Jasper county on November 4
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Bremer County
Will H. Miller
Waverly
Iowa
Jasper County
John P. Wallace
Bremer
Subscription note from Forest City reader
A subscriber from Forest City encloses one dollar for a one year subscription to The Leader and expresses appreciation stating they cannot do without it. The letter notes Tripoli as the reader's old home and is signed by Ella M. Green.
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Leader
Tripoli
Ella M. Green
Forest City
Simon Brandt
Fiddler Crabs and the North Atlantic Orchestra
Text describes fiddler crabs inhabiting mud flats along the south Atlantic coast. The male crab waves its oversized claw in quick jerks, creating a fiddling motion that resembles bowing a violin, prompting speculation that crabs signal, communicate, or synchronize their activity.
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South Atlantic
No Other Inducement For a Wife With Money
A brief exchange from London humorist chatter where one says he must marry a wife with money and the other remarks you won’t find one with other traits. The wry line captures social dating humor in casual banter.
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London
Homecoming Preparations at Iowa Teachers College
Bud Krueger appointed to the eleventh annual homecoming committee at Iowa Teachers College Cedar Falls for Saturday October 22. The event features a football game Teachers versus Morning Side Sioux City, campus luncheons, movies, social events and a big dance with Harry Newell and his Call of the South orchestra. An Alumni luncheon addresses by J S Hilliard on The Outlook for Public Education and interdenominational church services will precede festivities.
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Bud Krueger
Iowa Teachers College
Cedar
Morningside College
Sioux City
College Interdenominational
Cedar Falls
Harry Newell
Call of the South” Orchestra
J. S. Hilliard
Teachers College
Estherville
Devastation by Lemmings and Their Strange Migrations
The Norwegian lemmings migrate in large masses from central Norway to the coasts, fleeing into the sea where many die. A small number survive to propagate, aided by rapid breeding. Once a man owns six suits of clothes, they begin to trouble him with variety.
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Scandinavian Countries
Norway
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