Farm and Home Week Short Course Planned at Ames
Iowa State College will resume its Farm and Home Week Short Course during the February 9 week after influenza disruption. The program will cover agriculture home economics and engineering with new features including market grading of grains and demonstrations by U S Department of Agriculture officials. The Tewa Corn and Small Grain Show will accompany the event, with unusually favorable past growing conditions boosting expectations for the state corn shows. The college will suspend regular work to dedicate facilities and housing for visitors and will offer plans and specifications for a fireproof hollow-core smoke house from the agricultural engineering division of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Iowa
George M. Allee
Tuzz
Vista County
Ames
Iowa State College
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Tewa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Polk County Boys Win Non College Livestock Contest Title
A Polk County school boys team won the championship in the non college livestock judging at the International Livestock Show in Chicago. Iowa ranks strong in internals with Edward Meneough tied for top honors on a perfect 150 and Donald Brazie of Harlan leading Iowa State College in intercollegiate judging. The Polk County team, coached by C N Kennedy and Don Merrill, also placed high across cattle hogs and horses with strong showings from Iowa State College and Town State College in the 18 institution field.
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Chicago
Polk County
Town State College
Texas Agricultural Collegh
Donald Brazie
Harlan
Iowa State College
Iowa
Texas
Edward Mencough
Edward Meneough
Dwight Kinsey
Merwin Smith
C. N. Kennedy
Don Merrill
Proper Firing Rules To Save Coal For Homes
Iowa State College engineers advise steady firing and regular interval feeding to extract 25 percent more heat. Avoid covering live coal bed, place fresh fuel to back, adjust dampers briefly to vent gas, and keep doors airtight. For a copy of a house furnace firing bulletin, write the Engineering Extension Department Ames.
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Iowa State College
Engineering Extension Department
Ames
Mulching and Planting Tips From Old Garden Notes
The text describes laying out plant clumps in rows with eighty inch spacing, tying tops, bending plants toward adjacent clumps, and covering with soil. It instructs cutting wires, lifting plants in spring, and leaving mulch in place. A noted bed used eight loads of straw per acre two years ago, requiring no cultivation for two years.
Engineers Study Iowa Test On Culvert Pipe
A six nation committee from leading American engineering societies and the Ames state testing station studied a pioneer reinforced concrete culvert pipe experiment. The standard highway culvert was built and daily observations recorded on structure response to earth loads. Early data may illuminate long standing questions about highway and railroad culvert behavior.
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Engineering Societies of America
Ames
Ameritéiy Society of Civil Engineers
Améxivaiy Society For
American Railway Engineers Association
American Association of State Highway Departments
American Concrete Institute
American ‘Concrete Pipe Association
Feeding hogs before killing warned by Iowa study
A twenty four page circular from the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station by M. D. Helser advises not feeding hogs for at least twenty four hours before slaughter while ensuring ample water. The guide, titled Selecting dressing and curing pork on the farm, details steps for humane and efficient processing.
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Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
M. D. Helser
Cover Up the Berry Bushes
More tender and better sorts of raspberries can be grown in Iowa if they are protected during the winter months. Bend over the canes and cover them with soil if the ground is not frozen. Waste straw or coarse litter is cool material to use for covering. Thin out superfluous plants.
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Iowa
C. V. Holsinger
Agricultural Extension Department
Iowa State College
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