Farm and Household Notes Promote Iowa Small Fruit Growth
Iowa experts urge fivefold increase in small fruit production highlighting strawberries as first year pioneers. A Midwest Horticultural Society committee aims to plant berry patches in home gardens, with emphasis on noncommercial, locally enjoyed crops. A separate note touts poultry farming profitability, detailing a Hardin County farmer earning 800 dollars from eggs, and outlines key practices. Club work for boys and girls through Iowa State College extension seeks enrollment in pig, corn, poultry, and garden clubs, noting 18,572 garden club members last year.
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Iowa State College
Iowa
Midwest Horticultural Society
Des Moines
Middle West
Agricultural Extension Department
Corn and Poultry Clubs
Dual Poultry and Orchard Demonstrations Across Iowa
Sixty one counties schedule two day demonstrations by Iowa State College agricultural extension experts from February 3 to March 29. A poultry man and a fruit man will lead the sessions covering house construction breeding stock mites and disease control plus pruning care spraying and local equipment for grapes small fruit and fruit trees across most counties with southern and northern tiers showing varied participation.
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Agricultural Extension Department of
Iowa State
Pipes Freeze Bank foundation to stop basement freezes
A Hardin County Iowa farmer banked the foundation with straw to keep water flowing last winter while neighbors who laughed at the idea dipped water from a cistern as underground pipes thawed in spring. The account illustrates a practical freezing prevention tip amid cold weather.
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Hank
Hardin
Iowa
Meep
Prevent Ash Accumulation Under Grate Damage Risk
Do not let ashes accumulate under the grate as it delays heating. Ash buildup can melt the grate and leave the house cold for days until a replacement arrives.
Freezing Effects on Lime Sulfur and Lead Arsenate Sprays
Iowa State College horticulturist reports freezing largely spares spray materials. Lead arsenate paste survives freezing if thawed slowly. heated powder forms in water to restore clarity. Lime sulfur resists freezing but prolonged chill lowers Baume specific gravity. long cold exposure causes solids to settle. Keep soot and ash off boiler heating surfaces.
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Agricultural Extension Department
Iowa State College
Barberry busts target rust threat across Iowa towns
More than half a million common barberry bushes were found in nurseries and 150000 more on public and private grounds in 300 towns as part of a barberry eradication drive by the U S Department of Agriculture, Iowa State College, and the Iowa Experiment Station. The aim is to starve Puccinia gyraminis of its winter host, reducing spring wheat losses across the Midwest. Some bushes remain potential rust centers, though barberry does not spread easily in the state. Three barberry species are susceptible to the rust.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Towa Experiment Station
Agricultural Extension Department
Iowa State College
Middle West
Common Barberry Varieties Mentioned Across Regions
The note lists common barberry and specific forms such as pars ple leat barberry and Amu river bar berry, while stating the Japanese barberry remains unaffected. The text identifies plant varieties without detailing broader impacts or actions.
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Amu
Increased production won in Iowa agriculture drive
A report to President Pearson by Iowa State College director Bliss details Iowa farm gains last year. Hogs reached 937000 and cattle 167000 with 11 percent more poultry, sheep 24000, grains up 25 percent and staple grain use up 143000000 bushels. Specialists gave 9969 lectures, 4978 demonstrations, 840 exhi bition judgments reaching nearly 700000 people, and over 3.5 million bulletins distributed.
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Iowa
R. A. Pearson
R. K. Bliss
Agricultural Extension Department
Iowa State College
William Hohenzollern
Holland
Buying Corn Through Exchanges Aids Drought Counties
One hundred fifteen carloads of corn and nineteen carloads of hay were ordered through the Montgomery County farm bureau exchange, saving farmers twenty thousand seven hundred dollars. The exchanges help drought struck southwestern Iowa counties obtain feed, with orders also coming from Nebraska Missouri Kansas and Arkansas. Farmers with surplus corn are urged to list supplies with their county exchange to aid distribution.
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Farm Bureau Exchange
Montgomery County
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Silage Good For Beef Cows Says Iowa State College
The animal husbandry department of Iowa State College says silage is a top winter feed for beef cows in breeding herds but should be fed in a medium ration. Limit silage and supplement with clover hay and other roughage like straw or corn.
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Animal Husbandry Department
Iowa State College
Thrifty Winter Ration for Cows and Old Stumps
Farmers can feed cows with silage or a thrifty mix of shock corn, clover hay and straw to maintain good flesh. If corn fodder replaces corn fodder, more clover is needed. The idea is to keep cattle in solid condition pre calving, highlighting that good live stock profits exceed scrubs. The text adds stump removal as a way to ease coal shortages and improve farm finances.
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Stover
James
Beets Do Not Injure Land in Humboldt County Contest
A yearlong contest by a Mason City sugar beet company with the farm bureau shows beets do not harm soil. Crops sown on beet ground yielded more than in adjacent fields, likely from deep cultivation. Beet tops produced substantial feed, with beets averaging about 12 tons per acre. The prize offered was 100 pounds of sugar for top yields of corn, oats, wheat and barley on land previously in beets.
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Humboldt County
Mason City
Farm Bureau
Road plans for Iowa roads to link cities
County supervisors and the state highway commission completed a plan to connect every major Iowa city with about 6,000 miles of main traveled highways. The proposal aims to surface and standardize these roads as permanent highways with federal and state aid pending legislative approval.
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Iowa
State Highway Commission
Care Brot Garden Results In Swan Girl Earns 22.71
Ruth Miner aged 16 of Swan Iowa earned 22.71 net from a small garden 40 by 25 feet last year showing a youthful harvest effort.
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Ruth Miner
Swan
Iowa
Garden club winner nets profit from Iowa garden method
A gardener earned a profit of 22.71 from produce raised for a garden club contest run by Iowa State College's agricultural extension department. Her success came in part from a soil culture system that fertilized in fall and was plowed under in spring, on rich black loam, enabling twelve bushels per unit.
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Agricultural Extension Department
Iowa State College
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