Wool sale boosts Iowa fleece association profits and growth
The Iowa Fleece Wool Growers Association sold 1,119,214 pounds of wool, earning about 800,000 dollars for 6,000 consignors. Average price across all wool was 62 cents per pound, with coarse wool prices detailed. The group plans consignor statements and weighs options for a national pure fabric law, with next meeting in Marshalltown on November 25 and 26.
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Iowa Fleece Wool Growers’ Association
Iowa
Marshalltown
Ames Amber Cane Proves Sweet Early Maturing Sorghum Variety
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station reports farmers growing Ames Amber sorghum cane found high sugar content, quick cooking, and yields similar to common varieties. One pound of seed covered about half an acre and was distributed to hundreds of farmers for statewide testing.
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Ames
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Roots Not Hurt by Cold Describe Crops
Parsnips, salsify and horse radish are uninjured by freezing, per B P Stonecifer of the horticultural department at Iowa State College. These crops may stay in the ground until needed, though digging and storing in boxes or barrels set in the ground is best, with a cover over the receptacles and stakes to mark their location under snow.
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B. P. Stonecifer
Horticultural Department
Iowa State College
FLOCK FEEDS FOR HIGH EGG PRODUCTION FROM IOWA EXPERTS
H A Bittenbender of Iowa State College advises a winter feed plan to boost eggs. A scratch grain mix of shelled corn two parts and oats one part should be fed with straw litter, plus a mash for best results. Commercial mashes can be used when mixing is inconvenient.
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Ames
H. A. Bittenbender
Poultry Department
Iowa State College
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Iowa road projects funded by federal aid approved
October federal aid road projects in Iowa total 3.76 million dollars for 194.01 miles of grading 23.86 miles of graveling and 11 miles of paving across fifteen counties. Additional county boards outlined 211.35 miles of grading and 46 miles of paving in eleven counties. Plans on five more county projects were submitted totaling 40 miles of highway and 1.6037 million dollars. One Calhoun project of 18.85 miles of grading at 1.3078 million dollars moved to construction. Marion County completed an 18 mile grading project and Linn County advanced a one mile bituminous filled brick paving segment between Marion and Cedar Rapids. Woodbury County 55 miles of grading nears completion. Black Hawk County likely to finish 4.05 miles of brick paving Cedar Falls to Waterloo. J H Griffith appointed to Iowa State College civil engineering faculty. longtime experience with steel and bridges noted. The Volunteer Movement convention in Des Moines December 31 to January 4 expected to draw 7,500 delegates from many colleges and feature leaders such as Dr. John R. Mott and Dr. James A. Franklin.
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Iowa
Federal Aid
U. S. Office of Public Roads
Boards of Supervisors
Iowa Highway Commission
Office of Public Roads
Calhoun Country
Secretary of Agriculture
Marion County
Linn County
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Woodbury County
Black ‘Hawk County
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Des Moines
West
United States
Canada
Dea Moines
John R. Mott
G. Sherwood Eddy
Robert FE. Speer
A. 8. Lloyd
Milk feeding experiment aids 160 Des Moines children
A motion picture shows the Franklin school milk feeding process which has lifted weight and scholastic progress for 160 Des Moines children under the Women’s Council of Defense. Separate siblings Merle and Gladys Wiltse reunite after years apart, while a search continues for another brother in Ohio. In Des Moines, I W W headquarters suffer vandalism and a raid by returning soldiers, with several arrests for vagrancy. A midwest horticultural show highlights Ames’ twelve acre orchard yielding $11,000 from 6,000 bushels, an above average Iowa apple crop. Dogs rescue children from a Glendale mill fire near Oskaloosa. a dog also helps locate John McManus’s body after a hunting accident near DeWitt. Community events include the High School Declamatory Contest at the M E church and a reminder about Mankato Commercial College programs.
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J. W. Jarnagin
Franklin — School
Des Moines
Women’s Council of Defense
Experiment Division
State College
Ames
Council Bluffs
Horticultural Department
Oskaloosa
Clinton
Glendale
South Skunk River
Marion Jones
Melvin
Leslie
John Francis McManus
DeWitt
For Sale and Referee's Sale Notice Combined
For sale one mile south of town a six room house acre of ground garage chicken house barn wash house and large new building well fenced small cash payment balance easy terms inquiries at this office also items for sale including a machine leather davenport walnut dresser bed springs chairs rugs all in good condition phone 536 Western Union office notice of referee's rule by order of sale directed to the undersigned referee from the Clerk of the District Court of Emmet County Iowa on 4 judgment for partition of real estate Maude Hamilton v Hattie Guttenberg and others sale date December 22 1919 at 10 o clock A M cash price not less than appraised value at the front door of the Court House Estherville Iowa Lots one and two East Lawn Addition Estherville Iowa high bidder to be extended to the full appraised value
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Western Union
District ‘Court
Emmet County
Iowa
Maude Hamilton
Hattie Guttenberg
East Lawn
Estherville
Court House
Reward offered for tampering with sewer lanterns
A notice from Harmen & Kruse signed by W. E. Anderson, Sufit, offers a 25 dollar reward for arrest and conviction of any parties caught tampering with or stealing lanterns from sewer construction work. The unnamed undersigned issues the reward.
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Harmen & Kruse
Per W. E. Anderson
Sufit
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Chester
W. A. Schultz
G. A. Nichols
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Eshherville
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