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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1956
Page
2
National style notice lists Tripoli Iowa publication details. Established 1894 as official newspaper for Town of Tripoli and Bremer County. William A Buckley is publisher. Subscription rates three dollars yearly in Iowa and three fifty elsewhere. Published every Wednesday under March 8 1879 act.
Readout lists numerous 4-H participants and awards across cattle breeds including Guernsey and Jersey classes. Notables include Merlin Orth, Eugene Knoploh, Don Juhl, Ronald Orth, and Fred Thoms earning blue and red ribbons in Holstein, Brown Swiss, Jersey, Ayrshire, and Guernsey divisions.
Tripoli Iowa entries list winners across categories including Market Swine Pen of Three and Market Litter with names such as Frederick Mallie Jerry Snelling and Ronald Ressler. Chester White Hampshire Yorkshire and Duroc breeds show results with growers like Dale Wehl ing Larry Waggett Ellanor Hirsch and Charles Burman listed for gilts boars and litters.
The U S Department of Agriculture announced a new low cost dairy production record plan dubbed weigh a day a month. The program, approved by the American Dairy Science Association and Extension Committee on Organization and Policy, will be run by state extension services with county agents overseeing local implementation. It weighs each cow’s milk output morning and night one day monthly, costing about 50 cents per cow yearly for calculations and summaries.
An enthusiastic group of farmers from counties across the Third District met in Waverly to unite in the Eisenhower Farm Crusade. Kermit Taylor, Missouri farmer, spoke on organizing in Iowa with the Farm Council as a series of meetings will run to election day. A tri county meeting from Franklin Butler and Bremer is planned at Allison in early September. All farmers may attend, invited or not, said J Francis Allan, Butler County Republican chairman.
A public advisory warns handlers that lifting a rabbit by the ears can injure the animal. The notice emphasizes humane care and proper handling practices to prevent stress and harm.
Iowa State farm economist Francis A. Kutish notes a sharp rise in cow marketings and a widening gap between weak cow beef and stronger fed cattle prices. Utility cows sold in Omaha for 9.25 to 10.75, with canners and cutters at 7.50 to 9.00, while grain-fed margins should stay favorable as supplies tighten later this year. Lambs begin a seasonal rise as the market enters spring, with pork holdings similar to last year and hogs carried toward 220 pounds.
Kutish advises farmers to sell lambs carrying finish and push the rest to finish quickly to capture better market prices as the gap between good and choice lamb values widens.
Doyle Gordon urges Bremer County tenants and landlords to use written leases as a clear memo of understanding. Iowa State College economist J. W. Arthur notes 52 percent of Iowa farm leases are oral, leading to overlooked costs such as spraying, seed and fertilizer, and lease length.
A speaker notes that leases should be shared for moving equipment used in feeding livestock and that farm rental leases can be arranged in a garden setting. He mentions an Iowa State College publication, a guide for solving farm rural problems, and that the lease forms are available at the office.
Mrs Allen Baker of Arnolds Park renewed her Milford Mass subscription, marking the 57th year the paper has received cryptic support from Mrs Baker, her parents, the late Mr Albert Griswold, and others.
Jack Koch of Shelby required 15 stitches to close an ear wound when an automobile struck his parked car as he repaired it, authorities reported.
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