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Skyscraper Corn Displays Reach Elevations For Pickers
At the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds near the women’s building a corn show features stalks towering over ten feet with ladders required for picking. Farmers will use fire department ladders to harvest ears as tall ears stretch above ground. Names and heights of growers from Waterloo and surrounding areas are listed, with several stalks reaching over 12 feet and one at 14 feet.
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Dairy Cattle Congress
Dunkerton
Jens Thal
J. F. Hieronymus
Shell Rock
FEF
Waterloo
Goiter
Tieber Avenue
R. Meeker
T. Curran
Miss N. J. Smith
la Porte City
Wilt Peters
J. J. Kies
M. Moses
Henry Frost