Price support reseal program for five feed grains
Howard Lins, chairman of the ASCS county committee, announces a reseal program allowing farmers to maintain price support loans and earn storage payments on 1963 crop grains. Reseal covers 1963 corn and oats, plus 1960 1961 1962 crop corn, with application deadlines to county offices by April 30 for oats and July 31, 1964 for corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Lins
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
ASCS
Commodity Credit Corporation
Lins
Trefoil Seeding Requires Care For Best Pastures
County Extension Director Jim Frier outlines essential steps for successful trefoil seedings in Iowa. Prepare a good seedbed, inoculate the seed with trefoil innoculate, and use a sticking agent. Lime and fertilize per soil tests, plant early, and consider empire trefoil for permanent pasture with suggested seed rates and possible companion oats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Frier
Frier
Iowa
Fertilize Grass for Early Pasture in Washington County
Washington County farmers can graze grass 10 days to 2 weeks earlier by applying nitrogen soon. Nitrogen acts as a shot in the arm, boosting forage yields by about a half to one ton per acre. Topdressing revives legume-grass stands and can add up to half a ton per acre in peak years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Jim Frier
Frier
More Men Dye Hair To Look Youthful In Private
UPI reports a rising trend of men dyeing hair at home to avoid gray and appear younger. H B Hagler, head of a barber supply firm, notes growing sales of Ozon color kits for men and says some young workers color gray to fit in with older colleagues, while others color brown or black for livelihood.
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EW York
UPI
H. B. Hagler
Hagler
Ozon
Quality wool boosts incentive payments under National Wool Act
Howard Sinairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee urged growers to improve wool quality to earn higher payments under the National Wool Act enacted in 1954. For 1963, the payment rate was 27.8 percent, raising the average price to the incentive level of 62 cents, with $27.80 paid per $10 of wool sales. He emphasized proper shearing, packing, and packaging to aid processors and urged consulting extension agents or wool marketing agencies for guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Sinairman
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Lins
Lamb and Wool Planning Committee
Thaat
Howard Lins
Department of Agriculture
ASCS
Monkeys Control Their Population
UNIVERSITY PARK PA The monkey may help solve mans population problem as scientists study a Barro Colorado Island howler monkey colony in the Panama Canal Zone. Dr Carpenter of Pennsylvania State University has observed this 30 year project noting leaf eaters in lush, predator free surroundings may limit offspring through group tensions affecting female fertility.
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University Park
UPL
Barro Colorado
Panama Canal Zone
DR. Carpenter
Pennsylvania State University
Wool incentive payments set for 1963 marketing year
The Agriculture Department sets shorn wool payments at 278 percent of dollar returns for April to December 1963, totaling 27.80 dollars per 100 received. Lambs' unshorn wool payments are 54 cents per hundredweight, with 1964 payments to begin in April.
Property transfers and notices across multiple parcels and entities
Records show transfers from Samuel R Meeks and wife to John W Carey of halves and subdivided lots in East Washington and Orchard Circle areas. Elder and wife convey to Arden Freel in Doigs subdivision and east 220 feet parcels. Referee Robert L Swift handles Feltz land in Sec 6 and 31 759 Kalona Co op Switchboard Co listed with vehicles and business entities including Hank Barger Rapid Dispatch International and Ram ler partial references.
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Samuel R. Meeks
John W. Carey
S.M. Cox
East
Washington
David R. Elder
Arden A. Freel
Orchard Circle
Doig
Robert L. Swift
Francis R. Feltz
Kalona Co-op Switchboard Co
Hank Barger
Rapid Dispatch
International
Donald E. Scheeler
Wilson
Karl F. Libe
Ram.ler
Morris elected Iowa swine cholera eradication chairman
John Morris of Columbus Junction was chosen chair of the Iowa swine cholera eradication committee at a meeting on March 26 at Iowa State University Ames. He succeeds Dr Maynard Spear and will guide the third phase of the campaign, with a roster of producers veterinarians and state officials supporting eradication efforts statewide.
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John Morris
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Iowa State University
Ames
Morris
Maynard Spear
Iowa State University Extension
Robert Brenton
Dallas Center
Keith Myers
Grundy Center
Park Bingley
Knoxville
Bernard Ebbing
Packer
Waterloo
A. Krause
Cherokee
G.N Daniels
Clarion
ME. Pomeroy
Divisi State Department of Agriculture
Grant E. Blake
Agricultural Research Service
Pomeroy, Morris
Floyd Beaver
Grinnell
Meyer, Ebbing and Spear
Breakneck Dam Rise Submerges Hochatown in Oklahoma
Dams and diesel fill the mountains as Broken Bow Dam climbs the Kiamichi range flooding 14200 acres and swallowing Hochatown. The town’s Choctaw roots date to the 1830s with a famed bootlegging past, while the new reservoir promises electric power and flood control for future generations.
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Hochatown
Okla
Mountain Fork
Kiamichi Mountains
Broken Bow
Atlantis
Oklahoma
Pesticide exams attract many Iowa applicators
County Extension Director Jim Frier says the new Pesticide Act requires commercial applicators to hold a license and prove competence. Harold Gunderson notes competence is shown by a written test in 13 categories, with over 1800 tests taken in Des Moines and seven other Iowa locations in late February and early March. Tests are offered April 30 in Cedar Rapids, May 1 in Mt. Pleasant, and at the State Chemical Laboratory in Des Moines weekdays 9 am to 3 pm. Reference materials are available at the county extension office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Jim Frier
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State University
Des Moines
River Side Round House
14 Avenue
Cedar Rapids
REA
East Washington St
Mt. Pleasant
State Chemical Laboratory
East Seventh
Court
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