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SUNDAY. AUGUST 1. Pf Twenty-flv 7 The Courier's News for Northeast Iowa Farmers WATERLOO SUNDAY COURIER. WATERLOO. IOWA.

First Word from Hereford Club Combine Largest Wheat Crop in County breeding experiments. And oddly enough they produced a variety of cane which was successful in meeting the Louisiana crisis in the early '20s, but which wasn't satis MANGKESTER FALL Former Waterloo Woman in Norway Before America entered the war. factory in Java. That was the rOJ cane, which was introduced WILL ESSE Misi Inga Stiansen of Norway, FESTIVAL. PL0I in Louisiana along with a cane Mat a.1 mi formerly of Waterloo, wrote ta her friends here, but the letteri Has Field Day at Dysart Farm President Announces 4-H Contest Winners.

from India after the almost com were returned at outbreak of SUGAR SHORTAGE plete crop failure in 1028, when the harvest was only one-tenth of normal. nor Now after five years of waiting, a letter was received Saturday The POJ cane and the CO-290 from India provided a stop-gap from Miss Stiansen, who states the is well and happy "after long weary years of want and misery." "But it will take yean of re construction," she wrote. "The north of Norway Is especially First Successful Research Began on Island of Java. in the middle 70s, while the u. department of agriculture established an experiment station at Canal Point, which has the support of the Louisiana agricultural experiment station and the Dysart, la.

The first annual field day of the Mid-Iowa Hereford association was held Wednesday, Aug. 15, on the A. J. Minish and C. A.

Tow and Vance farms five miles north of Dysart, with about 150 persons attending. Judging contests, breed type dis-cussions, a picnic dinner at noon hard hit, with towns entirely wiped American sugar cane league. Varieties Tested. Canal Folnt obtains seeds from and short talks were Included in all over the world and tries to Eighty Prizes Offered in Sixth Annual Event. Courier SpMlat Strviet) Manchester, la.

Eighty prizes, donated by business men and friends, will be offered for best exhibits next Friday, Aug. 24. at the sixth annual fall festival and plowing contest sponsored by the Masonville Granse. The event, which has attracted thousands of visitors each year, will again be held near the Oscnr 0. Smith apple orchard, four miles northwest of Manchester.

Admission is free. a clowine contest, limited to the program. The field day event opened with Inspection of the Minish breed find, or create, varieties which will do well in this state. New varieties are never re ing herd at 10 a. m.

The first two leased until they have been tested classes in the judging contest were placed, then Bruce Taylor, as-! Baton Rouge. La. (UR) It was one success out of hundreds of thousands of failures. More than a decade of work had gone into producing it, and scientists here believe they have the real thing this time. They have named It but its name belies its nature.

It's not an instrument of war, but a hardy, new variety of sugar cane that may go far in easing the current sugar shortage. The work of producing CP-36-105 actually goes back almost half a century and involves experimental work In distant areas, according to W. G. Taggart, director of the Louisiana agricultural thoroughly for resistance to mo saic and red rot, the two dis Combining of the largest single wheat crop In Black Hawk county was in progress yesterday afternoon on the Albert Newton farm, 10 mllfi south of Waterloo, when the above picture was taken. As ahown left to right above, combines are operated by John Martinie, Clem Relter and Everett Mathews, the latter being employed by Newton.

The single field of 100 acres is estimated at nearly half of Black Hawk county's 1945 wheat crop. Newton said the crop would average 30 bushel to the acre. A sample graded yesterday showed No. 1 quality. sistant secretary of the American Hereford association, Kansas City, Mo gave a breed type discussion.

eases which nearly ended the cane industry in the state. The CP38-105 variety if a good general purpose cane, except for the Red river area, or for mucky out and the people driven as cat tie away from their homes to faraway districts. "Now it ii summer and our gardens full of flowen and nature helps us forget all but the misdeeds of the Germans and the fear and hatred of the ges tapo." Miss Stiansen. who formerly op erated a beauty shop in Waterloo, returned to her native land to lecture before women's clubs on beauty culture. OATS YIELD 65 BUSHELS.

Buckingham. Ia. (Special) Oat harvesting here is about completed and one of the highest yields is on the John Cummings farm which yielded 65 bushels to the acre, according to Allard Carolus of Buckingham, operator of the threshing machine. EPITAPH TELLS ALL. Brookfield.

Mass. (U.R)-In the village cemetery it the grave of Joshua Spooner whose epitaph says he was "murdered by three soldiers of the revolution, Ross, Brooks and Buchanan, at the instigation of his wife, Bathsheba." Fred Anderson, Circle A ranch, Morris, 111., and Taylor made the, official contest placings. The group moved one mile south to the Tow farm for a picnic dinner at noon. The type discussion vvas concluded and three classes 1n the judging contest placed. While the contest soil.

It is described as vigorous, has good milling qualities and may be cheaper to harvest than aome Toledo Farmers Soybean Oil "is Rival for Iowa Farm Scene other varieties. experiment station. Once research scientists In Java and India saved the Louisiana About 1,200 acres of the new cane wilt be planted this season. sugar cane industry, and this new, judges compiled results working with Burns Byram, Tama county extension director in charge of the contest, Jack Halsey, Wallaces' Farmer, Des Moines, introduced By KNOX CRAIG Associated Press Start Writer Courrr Sprrifll Srrv-er) Cottonseed The station will watch eagerly for reports on how it does under successful variety has been de Toledo, la, Farm labor from TURKEY TALK rived in part from their work, field conditions and will continue It may seem like rushing the the prisoner of war camp located its search for a better cane for which started around 1900. Resists Disease, as speakers, Fred Anderson, Prof.

C. A. Iverson, Iowa State college, Br RAt rH E. TOI NO Courier Washington Correspondent the south. It waj to produce a variety of Washington, D.

Soybean oil cane which should resist the dis The uhlrllnf movement of a tornado ha been ettmati1 at from 100 mllei an frost-on-the-pumpkin season a lit- i near Toledo at the old Sac and tie, but here's an item on a new; Fox sanatorium will be available industry in Volga, which, though to farmers in groups of 12 for only started five years ago, isj farm work when they are not already attracting attention in the being used by the canning fac-turkey-raising world. I tories in this area, officials there In this Iowa community of announce. hour In the leait deitructlve itormi, to Ames, and Taylor. List Contest Winners. Harold J.

Peterson, president of the Mid-Iowa Hereford association, announced the following contest winners: 4-H club teams, Benton coun eases which have scourged the sugar cane industry that the Java scientists then started their more than 500 mllii an hour In tha most 10 entries, under the direction of James Carradus, will be held at 10 a. m. Competition Unlimited. Contests for the guests will be held starting at 1 p. and judging and viewing of entries of farm produce will get under way.

Competition for all prizes is unlimited, and all exhibits must be in place by 2 p. must have been raised by the exhibitors showing them, must be of the 1945 crop, and must remain on the grounds until 8 p. m. Prizes will be awarded for the best potatoes, rye, oats, barley, display of garden vegetables, I sweet corn, popcorn, yellow corn, white corn, beets, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, onions, cucumbers, gourds, peanuts, eggplant, cabbage, watermelon, cantaloupe, pumpkin, squash, plums, pears, grapes, and others. Other prizes will be for Jelly made, doughnuts, cookies, bread, jellyroll, cake, two-crust pie; apple, beet and cucumber pickles; best jar of tomatoes, corn, peaches, pears, apricots, cherries and apple sauce.

violent one. from domestic sources now is being produced in approximately equal volume with cottonseed oil, according to latest advice received here. Less than 20 years ago soy. beans remained an oriental curiosity as far as the average corn belt farmer was concerned. Now it is a major crop throughout the Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi river basins and is grow ty first with Donald Kozik, Virgil Kozik, Elberon, and Harry K.

Lames, Dysart, judging; Iowa county second with Gerald Maas, Harlan Maas and Virgil Newkirk. Individual 4-H winners: first, Don 300 in Clayton county one hatcn-, ery turned out 25,000,000 turkey! Farme" poults last spring, and of these f1 Ta I about 125.000 are putting on white Bureau office at Toledo. In; meat and drumstick pounds on'er that plans may be se up range near Volga I for making the prisoners of war Credited with 'starting this in-! available, the Farm Bureau office dustry at Volga is James Whit-i be contacted before noon of ford who started a flock on a 'the day before the labor is to.be 40-acre rented place on the edge! made available, of Volga. He is still one of the Labor will definitely be available largest single growers in the area on Aug. 20 and 21 and will proba-with 30,000 birds this year.

bly be available on Aug. 24 and 25, according to present plans. INSURANCE PROGRAM Kpvpn Tnwa rniinlip tn rfatf ald Kozik; second, Gerald Maas, Homestead; third, Mary Jean Reynolds, Newton. Women, first, Mrs. Cleo Maley, Dysart: second, Mrs.

Bernice Johnson, Marshall- ing extensively In various other sections of the United States. During the war virtually all soybean oil was refined for human consumption. One authority places the edible use of the vegetable fat in the high 90's of total production for the past several years. As far as can be ascertained at the present time there Is little town; third, Mrs. Louis Keep, Belle Plaine.

Men, first, V. Foster Reynolds, Newton; second, Jim Stevenson, Reinbeck; third, M. Havdn, Creston. Mrs. Maley and Flower Display, Too Flower displays of all kinds iave met their minimum require-! O.J Dicirif-t WfTC? petition, as I ments or a federal wheat crop OIU LIMIiXl IIUZ Mrs.

Johnson are daughters of will come in for com well as crocheted rugs, quins jnsurance program in their coun Haydn. First and second winners in in 59 Fewer Farms ties, John J. McLaughlin, state AAA committeeman, has reported. dividual contests were awarded and nooKea ana braided rugs, house dress made from feed sacks, fancy work, and To assure a program at least 50 New Hampton, la. (tf) A farms in a county, or one-third! preliminary report on the 1945 many others.

danger of its use being other than temporarily reduced In the immediate future. Industry finds it valuable in many applications, particularly in quick-drying paints, for which there exists a great demand. Prizes will be given for the farms growing insurable farm census disclosed Saturday $25 and $10 to be applied on the purchase of an animal in the next sale of the Mid-Iowa Hereford association hich will be held on the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds, Waterloo1, Sept. 19. Each of the largest family present, youngest crops, whichever is less, must that the Third congressional dis- trict contained 28,844 farms this baby present, eldest person, make application for insurance, tallest stalk of corn, best article Counties which have qualified, year, 59 fewer than in 1940.

Of the total, 2.443 were In boys on the winning team will be sent subscriptions to the American made by schoolgirls, and others. he said, were Plymouth, Wood The time will probably come bury, Harrison, Shelby, Cass, Black Hawk county, the report when the saturation point will Mills and Montgomery. JYIcLaugn- by Charles Reilly, district census lin said that one agent in Jasper director, showed. Worth county county. James Leonard, who also had only 1.519 farms, is township AAA committeeman, Average size of the farms be reached In domestic production of soybeans, but that time is not now in immediate prospect, according to those who know most about the supply and demand of Hereford Journal, Kansas City, Mo.

Walter Brown, secretary of the Iowa Beef Producers' association, Des Moines, was field day chair-man and Mrs. Minish and Tow were in charge of dinner Prizes will be awarded after the evening's entertainment. Views Behind the Microphone will be given by Benny Alter. WMT radio announcer, and there will be concessions, lunch and refreshment stands. A $25 war bond will be given cauea on a larmers ana il i --ree in Hmmpr them signed applications.

vegetable oils, both imported and county to 175 acres in Grundy LOOK HOW I'M DOIM' PROTEINS, VITAMINS, MINERALS TO SUPPLEMENT MV PASTURE SURE MAKES MILK HOW aw I GIVE MUCH ON PASTURE AND WATER? I COULO DO A GOOD JOB ON PROPER FEEO county. domestic. Meanwhile, the crop has become cottonseed's greatest competitor in the edible oil market and in a few short years has given American farmers one of their best paying products. awav. also other cash prizes for BLACK HAWK HIGH $5 and several for $1.

Harry Reese, Prescott, has re- Those entered so far Include I ported that his Guernsey cow, Jackie Anderson. Charles Stim- Stringtown Tarinca's Taressa. has on Roy John Duffev, Oliver made a state champion record Shaw and Junior Witt. Other en-! with her production of 16,500 tries will be published as they pounds of milk and 787.7 pounds enter the contest. butter-fat.

He said it was the Neighbors Complete Oats Threshing for Farmer in Hospital Courier Sprcial Strvirr Buckingham, Ia. Neighbors gathered at the home of Ben Hineg this week to do his threshing while he is in St. Francis hospital mgiiesi record in we siaie maae in class AHI. which mparts she Farm Bureau Monday. Lester 4-H boys meeting at the home of Tom Magee, 8:30 p.

m. Cedar Falls 4-H boys and girls paper drive. Hudson 4-H boys at the Hudson school, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday.

Cedar girls 4-H achievement day at the home of Mrs. Wendell Glasener, 10 a. m. Mt. Vernon township 4-H girls Plan School Lunch Workshop Tuesday FynPrf RAR Plan made the record in the herd im- DxpeLi nnn nun lprovement division ecf AAA Plan to Conserve Soil A state record is claimed by members of Black Hawk county 1 4-H clubs, who, according to G.

in Waterloo being treated for enlargement of the spleen and malignancy of the arteries. Those who helped with oat Problems confronting school lunch workers will be discussed by MLss Frances Hettler, of the National Livestock and Meat board, Sjx-rin SoTirr Fayette, Fayette County I A- Lineweaver, state boy, 4-H (Couritr aaa mmtnittoo annnnnrps that lcnut lae in me num- the 1948 AAA program should go hT projects. He report ed that 110 members had 152 further than any past program in r'-n i. mu. meeting at the home of Virginia Ortony.

7 p. m. Bennington township Farm Bureau meeting at the home of L. R. Stout, 8:30 p.

m. Wednesday. TAKES ALL I EAT, JUST TO KEEP WARM. R0U6HA6E AND GRAIN ALONE 009T HELP MV MUX FLCW MUCH CONTENTED? -YOU BET GOOD ROUGHAGE, GRAIN; AND BLENDED CONCENTRATES KEEP ME IN TOP PRODUCTION meeting the most serious needs county ciuds for soil building and water-con- lead in the number of mem-serving measures on farms. be" dairy bulls, he said, A new nlan of operation for this ninp members having 11 hull.

a bulls enrolled in county work. year's program will give county at a school lunch workshop Tuesday and Wednesday in the kitchen of the Iowa Public Service Co. Miss Hettler will open her dis-cushion with a lecture on "Good Nutrition Builds Good Boys and Girls," in which special emphasis will be given to the part protein plays in the diet. A cookery demonstration will follow, with a number of main dishes prepared by Miss Hettler. In the preparation of these dishes she will stress the use of modern meat cookery methods as revealed through research.

threshing were Fred Wilson, Kenneth Wendt, Theo Kober. Ray Pressley. Louis Dengler, Ed Ur-hammer, Noah Pritchett, Richard Staveley, Erwin Gibson and son Allen. A few weeks ago the same group plowed corn for Hines. who has been ill most of the spring and summer.

The farm is located a mile and a half southeast of Buckingham. LIBRARIAN NAMED FOR FARM BUREAU (Tonrirr Sptctnl Sm-irr) New Hampton. Ia. Mrs. Lloyd Frazee of Bassett has been named women's library chairman for the Farm Bureau.

Mrs. Fred Richardson, county women's chairmen, and Miss Anne Galligan, assistant in the home economics, will act with Mrs. Frazee in selecting books and setting up a book shelf in the Farm Bureau office. Books from the state traveling library will be available. Mt.

Vernon township scrap paper drive. Thursday. Paint demonstration at the home of J. H. Kramer in Bennington township, 1:30 p.

m. Boys' 4-H judging work-out at the Farm Bureau office, 8:15 a. m. Demonstration helps at Iowa Public Service Black Hawk township girls, 10 a. Bennington township girls, 1 p.

West Waterloo township girls, 3 p. m. Friday. Demonstration helns at Iowa and township AAA committeemen more to say in deciding what practices should be pushed in the county, the committee reports. To Stress Economy.

The AAA committee has praised the new plan as being helpful in this particular line. The big increase in production on Fayette county farms during the war has increased the dire need for conservation work particularly the fertility of the soil. POSTWAR NOTE Manufacturers of farm machin-ery, who up to now have shown little concern with the comfort of those who must operate the machinery, apparently are preparing to relent somewhat In the postwar worjd. Plans are being made for some improvement in the uncomfortable seats on agricultural implements. which through all the succeeding improvements in the machinery.

BEGIN THRESHING OATS. Riceville, Ia. (Special) here have started threshing i oats. The run is reported not to The funds available lor aaa assistance are sufficient only for! have remained the same old a small part of the soil-building fashioned, iron bucket seats, and the water conserving needs i BEEN DRY FOR 2 MSNTHS. TAKES EVERYTHING I GET FOR BODY MAINTENANCE AND TO MAKE TH CALF.

STILL GOING STRONG -AND ONLY 30 DAYS UNTIL MY NEXT CALF. be very good although the quality of the oats is excellent. Several heavy rains have delayed threshing. Corn has made rapid growth and now has ears, but will need a late fall to mature properly. Public Service Co.

continued: East Waterloo township Go-Getters, 10 a. Mt. Vernon township girls. 1 p. Cedar Falls girls, 3 p.

rn. All 4-H boys help prepare barns for Club Fair. Cedar Falls 4-H boys meeting of either the nation or the county, CHICKASAW BANKERS The new pian aims 10 ue uioc funds on the farms and for the practices where they will do the TO CIVE 4-H PRIZES (f'ovrirr Snecial Rervir! at the home of Curtis Muncy at 8 New Hampton, Ia. Chickasaw most good. Now! You Can Have One Of The p.

m. West Waterloo township Farm Bureau picnic at the school at 7:30 p. m. Cedar township Farm. Bureau R.

E. Pullin Entry Judged Champion of Iowa Ram Show county bankers this year are awarding totaling $50 to 4-H club boys for promoting good dairy livestock in the county. Winners last year were Robert Massee, Melvin Karnatz and Robert Tett. Top awards will be $10 for first place in the Ayrshire breed; Brown Swiss; Guernsey; Jersey and Holstein. In The United States! with NUTRENA EGG MASH PELLETS Give your flock this scientific ration, specially made by poultry nutrition experts to help your hens produce lots of low-cost eggs.

meeting at the home of J. Dunn-wald. East Waterloo township Farm Bureau meeting at the home of Glen Leland at 8:30 p. m. Spray paint demonstration at the home of Clyde Bechtelheimer at 1:30 p.

m. Saturday. Black Hawk Sunnyside Stars 4-H achievement day at Hudson, Ia. RECORD OATS YIELD. Decorah, Ia.

(Special) Threshing reports indicate the oats crop will be one of the largest in recent years. Wednesday on the John Lee farm, Frankville township, 15 acres of Boone oats threshed out more than 84 bushels MILK AGAIN THAT POUNDS A DAY MY BOSS CAN'T SELL-AND I'M STILL UNDERNOURISHED Ames, la. R. E. Pullin Sons.

Waterloo, showed the champion Hampshire ram at the third annual show and sale of the Iowa Purebred Sheep Breeders association here Saturday. The reserve championship went to Carl Peters and Son, Panora, Ia. Thirty-nine rams were shown In th. classes. The champion Oxford" was dis-played by Iowa State college and the reserve by L.

E. Chappell, Corning, Ia. Pullin topped the Cheviot class, and in the Southdown show Ken Seeley, Algona, had both the champion and reserve. The Suffolk MAMA SAID TO GET A GOOD START LIKE SHE DID, SO I'M EATING MY CALF MEAL EVERY DAY. LARRABEE COAL GRAIN CO.

824 WEST PARKER STREET. 2-2190 to the acre. It is said to be a record yield for that area. Near Postville on the Walter Foels farm four and one-half acres of Tama oats produced 420 bushels or better than 93 bushels per acre, This is believed to be a record for this part of Iowa for a small field. La Porte Auction Co.

Sale Aug. 21 8:00 P. M. 150 Head of Cattle Consisting of 30 Head of White Face Steer Calves, 475 lbs. 30 Head of Choice Angus Heifers, wt.

625 lbs. 40 Head of Mixed Steers, wt. 400 to 700 lbs. 20 Head of Feeding Cows and lleiferettes. Usual run of Veal Calves and Butcher Cattle.

Some feeding hogs. Anton and Rule, Mgrs. LA TORTE CITY, IOWA MAXIMUM PROFIT FEEDING Good beef is said to supply most of the fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals needed to maintain health and vigor in the human body. The things that make beef good are the very things that mean rapid gains and maximum feeding profits. They must be provided in the feed.

For fast gains, quality beef and maximum feeding profits for BIG GAIN BEEF BALANCER Sycamore Poultry Marker, 1100 Sycamore, Waterloo Farmer's Supply, La Porte City Horold Schoeman, Cedar Falls Benson Store, Rt. No. 3, Cedar Falls J. C. Reeder, Hudson Proper feed mOcee th "Vn ST.fAS to of blenrted concentrate, to Juat what It tak.a to make for hlhproduM.tronj healthy clf, and fraHer dairy profits.

Aak your ia dealer. Measurements were on a 54-pound bushel basis. WARNS ABOUT SOFT CORN. New Hampton, Ia. (Special) Adrian W.

Gamble, Chickasaw county extension director, is warn, ing farmers to prepare for soft corn, pointing out that some corn is three to four weeks behind and can hardly mature. He suggests that ventilators be installed in cribs and machinery to cut corn for silos, put in repair. show was won by John Carsten, Breda, Ia. James Lewis Owns Grand Calf Champ (Cmmtr Sprcini Service I Osage, Ia. The grand champion calf of Mitchell county is owned by James Lewis, 14, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Wellington Lewis, Lincoln township. The calf is a black Angus and had plenty of competition. Reserve grand champion was shown by Birchard Isaacs, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer Isaacs of Cedar township. The reserve grand champion is a Hereford and also breed champion of its class. IB A little rhnpprrl chive or onion Into conked spinach give a new flavor. Add when spinach It ready for the table,.