Big Four fair opens as barns fill with livestock show
Aug 20 fair opens at Big Four with full barns and judging under Prof M D Hels er at State college. Local stock largely drawn from Butler, Bremer, Floyd and Chickasaw counties, with entries ahead of 1928. Exhibitors include Roy Grove Sonia Ed Thurm Waverly Harold Macey Nashua and others. Machinery row features a new general purpose tractor.
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M.D. Helser
Butler
Bremer
Floyd
Chickasaw
Norton Bloom
Midway
Poland
China
Roy Grove
Sonia
Ed Thurm
Waverly
Harold Macey
Nashua
Howard Carwin
Marion McGrath
New Hampton
Connor
Hill
Shell Rock
Amos Peterson
Jonia
Bowling Brothers
Rockford
Walter
Adams
F. D. Imoos
Og.t. Aierson
Torono
Carliste Hills
Charles City
Arnold Weidler Hord
Five Iowa Women Named Master Farm Homemakers
Aug 20 announcement names Har Watts Shenandoah Ernest Schubert Britt Richard Schmidt Davenport Alva Miller Shenandoah and Josephine Wiggers Muscatine as Iowa’s 1929 Master Farm Homemakers. They are Iowa’s representatives among 100 nationwide honorees to be recognized Oct 17 20 with support from The Farmer's Wife and Iowa State College home economics extension.
Cholera Reports Spread Across Eastern Iowa Villages
Reports from the Eastern Iowa Veterinary association list hog cholera outbreaks in Central City Vinton Durant Manchester Hampton Lowder Baldwin Wyoming Oxford Junction Bennett Washington Eldridge Princeton Tow Moor DeWitt McCausland Grand Mound. Other infections include necrotic enteritis in swine in Bennett Davenport hemorrhagic septicemia in swine in Vinton Preston flu in swine in Durant mixed infection in swine Lost Nation Durant Vietor Bennett hemorrhagic septicemia in sheep Lane Tree hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle in Iowa City Preston Vietor Baldwin Reinbeck infectious keratitis in cate fle Hampton Ft Madison blackleg in young cattle Vinton Hampton.
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Eastern Iowa Veterinary ‘Association
Central City
Vinton
Durant
Manchester
Hampton
Lowder
Baldwin
Wyoming
Oxford Junction
Bennett
Washington
Eldridge
Princeton
Tow Moor
DeWitt
McCausland
Grand Mound
Vineton
Preston
Naton
Vietor
Lane Tree
Iowa City
Crowd at St Ansgar 4-H Club Meeting
A large crowd gathered at Bohemian hall in St Ansgar township to attend a program by the 4-H club, led by Mrs. Dwight Seaton. The event featured a play and other features followed by an ice cream social.
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St. Ansgar
St. Ansgar Township
Bohemian Hall
Dwight Seaton
Tama County fair entries soar as 4-H groups lead event
Tama courty fair pledges record participation with hog pens filling fast, many concessions, and a big midway. The highlight is a two night historical pageant featuring 150 girls and crowning of 4-H club queen Miss Mary F Starr of Geneseo. Events include dairy and beef shows, livestock classes, and a parade of Tama county wedding gowns Ramona music tableaux and a harmonica band.
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Courier Special Service
Traet
Tama Courtty Fair
Harry H. Lichty
Z. R. Mills
Mary F. Starr
Geneseo
Parada
Tama County
Ramona
Chickasaw Champion Named for National Gathering in Mich
Laurence Richardson, Chickasaw county 1928 4-H club day champion and member of Fredericksburg farm record club, is appointed to attend the American Youth Foundation gathering in Michigan as leader of Stapleton township poultry club.
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Farm Bureau
Wiggers
Grange
Dausiters
Mustatine County
Mich
Courker
Fredericksburg
Laurence Richardson
Chickasaw County
Elevator at Hawkeye gets new oats crop
Hawkeye farmers elevator has received about 11 000 bushels of oats since threshing began with oats arriving as early as July 29. Manager T A Pfund reports. About 1000 bushels of barley have also been taken in.
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Hawkeye
Courier Special
Hawkeye Farmers
T. A. Pfund
Apple Growers Hold First Meet in Ames Iowa
Ames Iowa Aug 20 The first apple day program at Iowa State College announced by H F Nichols extension fruit specialist will be Aug 27 during the state fair in Des Moines The extension service and Horticultural department co operate on the program The morning includes tours of the college gardens insectary and plots and a 9 am meeting in the Horticultural building The afternoon features a nursery with 400 hardy stocks 70 000 apple seedlings from 680 varieties and 25 000 cross bred seedlings under irrigation Professors Maney Richey Lantz explain the orchard work varieties cultivation and cross bred results
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Ames
Tea
Iowa State College
H. EF. Nichols
Iowa, State College
Des Moines
Extension Service
Horticultural Department
Nichols
Yowa State
College
Pathology
T. J. Maney
H. We Richey
H. L. Lantz
Plentiful Pastures Drive Butterfat Record This Spring
Des Moines August 20. Heavy butter production in June and July, per Iowa Department of Agriculture analysis. May to July show little difference due to carryover, with June and July peak. Prices varied, $3.51 per pound in November, 47.5c in June. weather and feed caused yearly variation. Arctic lichens and mosses link to Antarctic flora.
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Des Moines
Lowa Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Hawkeye Hogs Are Shot By DeMoine Cameraman
Two hundred feet of moving picture film was shot at the Hawkeye Hampshire farm near Lea GC Johnston farm in Iowa. The Johnston dairy herd was filmed and Russell Johnston bucking pony shown. Shots included individual and group takes. The Johnston farm was the third Iowa visit. A herd of Spotted Poland Chinas in western Iowa was filmed with another Poland China herd to be visited at Downs. The hog film will be shown at state fairs and large swine meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caylist Special Service
Hawkeye
Hawkeye Hampshire
Dea’ Moines
Lea GC. Johnston
Johnston
Russell Johnston
Towa
Downs
Select Best Park Raiser Lions Pig Club Winner
Charles City Illinois August twenty Lions pig club contest awarded Lynn Spurbeck a free trip to the Town state fair with $25 from the Lions club for expenses. Spurbeck saved one litter of eight Poland China pigs as part of the eight member 4-H driven club whose two pigs go to new members. Harold Anway Floyd county agent and other officials judged.
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Charles City
Lynn Spurbeck
Lions Pig Club
Lions Club
Smith- Hughes
Spurbeck
Harold Anway
Floyd
B. RB
Blunt
Oringer
Holbert to Return to College in Fall
J C G Holbert former assistant professor of animal husbandry at Iowa State College will resume his old position this fall. Since resigning this spring he has worked in the advertising department of J E Burke Manufacturing Co at Fond du Lac Wisconsin, makers of household radiator cabinets. He is known statewide for his work with the boys and girls baby beef clubs and his role at the Aberdeen Angus Journal as associate editor in charge of the horse and sheep departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. CG. Holbert
Iowa State College
Holbert
J. E. Burke Manufacturing Company
Fend Dt Lac
Wis
Aberdeen-Angus Journal
OWA CROP REPORTERS TO HOLD FIRST CONFAB
Des Moines Iowa crop reporters plan the state s first general meeting at the state fair grounds on Wednesday Aug 48 to discuss crop reporting methods and the use of crop reports Director Charles D Reed of the Iowa weather and crop bureau says the program will start with brief talks by Leslie M Carl statistician for the US Bureau of Agricultural Economies in Iowa and his assistant A D Brittain followed by an open discussion by reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
State Fair Grounds
Charles D. Reed
Towa Weather and Crop Bureau
Iowa Department of Agricultura
Leslie M. Carl
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economies
Towa
A. D. Brittain
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Watts
Lona
Richard L. Schmidt
Davenport
Mrs. Shen
Earl Watts Shen
Doar, Iowa
Farmer's Wife
Rational Farm Women’s Magazine
ST. Paul
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G. W. Wiscers
Muscatine
Tama Club
Weatherwax Insurance Agency
B. V. Hughes, Mer
Black Hawk
Waterloo Insurance Agency
Lafayette Bldg
Lamar J, Duke
Mer
W. Andres
Mgr
Camp Minnewansea
Michigan
U. S. Royal
U.S
Antarctic
Arctic
Business Men
OWA
Auto Tire Service
J. F. Thomsen
Bth &Ct
Waterloo
United States Rubber Company
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Bes
Scien
THE
National Board ‘of Fire Underwriters
John Stecet
New York
Laié
State
National Association of Insurance Agents
J. R
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