The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 22

benefits of this program, Whitfield vmntMnrnunnumtmiiHii 1 Iowa Production points out. SHUCKS! I WDiATT9 WEHATT OUT ON THE ACRES Of Eggs Topped Nation Last Year AMES Iowa led, the nation in USD A Jumps 1948 Wheat Export Go a several otner raciors nave proD-ably contributed to this improved performance, says Whitfield. More widespread -use of balanced rations, self-feeding of all feeds and confinement of the laying flock the year around have had a place in the progress made. IMMUMUHMtMuC egg production and sales last year. fOWA STILL HAS FAR excited about the whole soil conservation program.

The nation's three billion dollar WASHINGTON (INS) The TO GO ON SOIL SAYING Martin Bice Is national income from eggs, chick Others include the lncreasea use of insulated houses, summer shelters, large range feeders, water-ers and deep litter. agriculture department Tuesday increased its estimate of 1948- 7 tt.l'lirl ens and broilers was a record 17E IOWANS boast about our state having 25 percent of all Itt i A FARM EDITOR learns some-new every day. The advance crop wheat available for export to breaker, and Iowa contributed Firm Believer in Production Tests about 450 million bushels. $136 million in returns from eggs Earlier forecasts placed the ex the Grade A' land jn the United States, but we aren't doing enough about keeping it A report issued by the state soil conservation com blurb on the new-USDA yearbook said the book tells all about grass, legumes, weeds and orbs. alone to top all other states.

Sec port figure at somewhat less than rAtl '11-' 1 1 1 22 THE CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE: Wed- Am. 4, 1948 Heath Named i To SCS Post In New York I AMES Manager Maurice E. Heath pf the regional soil conservation nursery near Ames has been transferred to a new position at Elmira, N.Y. This announcement came Tuesday from State Conservationist Frank Mendell, who said the transfer had been approved by the regional office in Milwaukee, Wis. Heath Is to become assistant chief of the nursery division In SCS Region No.

1 which Is made up of 13 northeastern-states. He earn to the Ames nursrry In 1839 as technician, and was named manager in 1941. ond in egg sales was Pennsyl By Rex Conn. uu numon ousneis, cuinii That word "lorbs" naa me vania, with Minnesota. California with 485 million sent abroad dur- mittee snows now mucn mc juu still remains to be done.

and New York following in that Allamakee DHIA Cows Average 27 Lbs. Fat WAUKON Average. July production of the 566 cows, including 78 dry, in the Allamakee DHIA was 726 pounds of milk and 27 ir.g the crop year ending! June 30. stopped. When the book came I looked it up, and right there, on order.

Thr are annroxunateiy ao mil page 727 was the answer. Iowa Producers have increased lion acres of land in Iowa, of "To the stockman or tne west. which 25 million acres are class! production by an average of 53 eggs per hen daring the last 10 weed is a nongrasslike range Allowing 750 million bushels of new wheat for domestic consumption, it was predicted 687 million bushels will bereft for export and carry over by next July 1. Interviewed: Martin Bice, 51, owner of 46 acres on Thirty-fifth street and Third avenue in Cedar Rapids and renter of 40 acres of farmland and 40 acres of pasture neqr Walker. Married; four daughters.

Brown Swiss cattle breeder. How long have yon had Brown firf as eroD land. About two- herb or what the ecologist calls pounds of butterfat. Association years. However, the nation as a II Vv t-MS: orb." the yearbook says.

An thirds of this crop land is sloping enough to need special conserva tion practices. It is estimated that 10,750,000 acres should be farmed on the contour and that 5,250,000 ecologist, I understand, is a fellow who studies plants in relation to The carryover the amount of whole has had an increase oi oniy 36 eggs per hen. Iowa's production average is not 161 eggs per hen, two above the national yearly average. the places and conditions under old-crop wheat still available at Swiss, Martin? which they grow. the end of a crop year a year hence thus would be 237 million Supervisor ciem JuarKin nas reported, Twenty-six 305-day lactation records were completed during July.

Topping the list were Hoi-stein cows owned by the following: L. W. Kerndt and Son, Lansing, 467.2 lbs. fat; Kenneth J. SchulU, Postvllle, 461.9 and 416.3 lbs.

fat: Walter R. Hagen. Water- acres should be protected oy ter racing. Many of these forbs provide The mortality rate oi oiras in Over 20 years. How did yon happen to get bushels, or sliehtly above the considerable livestock feed, the the laying flock has dropped Let's see how far we have gone.

1932-41 averace. yearbook says. Some really started in them? On Jan. 1, 1948, conservation prac-tw had been established on shouldn't be considered weeas. XV' The department said: "On the basis of very tentative figures on We were farming near Walker So when the sheep trim up the sharply, partially due to the fact that pullorum disease has been reduced by half since 1936.

Many other factors have brought about this, improved performance 520 farms in Cooperation wim me xtate'a soil conservation districts. The nursery cooperates closely with the agricultural experiment station of State college, and during his 10 years of service here nirweed in the barnyard or the then and got dissatisfied with our milk cows, so we sold them all off ville, 434.3 lbs. fat; H. H. Kerndt and Sons, Lansing, 399.1 lbs fat; Lyle Zieman, Luana, 385.4 lbs.

fat. These farms represent about five MARTIN BICE for Dewey. production, world suppues, avau-able for export in the year beginning July 1, 1948, may total about 900 million bushels. "Roughly, it would be expected horses snatch at the ragweed in the that makes them forbs. of Hawkeye hens, according to Heath helped in the development percent of the land in jowa.

On these 12.520 farms, 620,000 Iowa State college1- extension poui- of grasses and legumes for sou but one. A neighbor asked me to go to West Union with him to help pick out a Brown Swiss bull. I bought six grade Swiss cows on that trip and then I went back Somehow it sounds a' bit more acres of row crops were planted erosion control as well as for eral vears. We sent 12 head lo scientific than iust calling them tryman W. R.

Whitfield. Among the foremost is the increased use of chicks from well- on the contour, compared with the South America and about uie forage. SAVE that about two-thirds of such ah amount would go to the European countries participating in the Eu weeds. 10,750,000 acres needing ine prac same number to Greece. In June the next week and bought a regis bred stock produced by Record- tice.

Only 54.000 acres of Iowa we -sold 11 head of heiiers io He worked with the experiment station, the extension Service, SCS fieldmen and hundreds of Iowa tered cow from Barney Wenhold. Hunwardsen Oats Yield Foxwood Farms, Eberon, 111. land had been terraced as against the 5,250,000 acres which should ropean recovery program. The department noted that nrices of new-crop U. S.

winter farmers in a two-point program. 103 Bushels Per Acre It involved first of all the bringing be terraced lor best sou conservation and land use. wheat are at present below the Where do you market your milk? We're been selling our milk to How large a herd have you now? About 60 head. Tou must buy considerable feed? We buy auite a bit oNour feed. together and evaluating of all On too of all that, fifty million ONSLOW Marvin Hunward sen.

Onslow, threshed 2,060 bush support level of 2 dollars a bushel on a national average. types of grasses and legumes that of-Performance breeders, wnu-field says these ROP breeders have done much to improve laying and living ability of some of the more popular farm breeds of poultry. Egg production and mortality have been influenced considerably by the all-pullet flock program, introduced by Iowa State college specialists in 1943. The 18 eggs acres of crop land and two and the Co-Op dairy for years. We one-half million acres of pasture els of Clinton oats from a 20-acre field Monday.

This made an av might have a place In the soil conservation Secondly, It meant making available to farm erage yield of 103 bushels per acre will need applications of limestone within the next 10 years. Our population is going up and Last year we hauled sweet corn silage from the Shellsburg canning plant and it was a lifesaver. I'm stocking up on oats right now. I've paid 68 to 70 cents and hauled The oats were of good quality ers through soil conservation dis It said, however, that the government loan program and heavy movement into storage is expected to strengthen prices, aa the season advances, in line with an historical pattern, adding: "Wheat nrices in 1948-49 are ex and with 10 acres still not started delivering Grade A muic to the plant the first of June, We got $4.57 per hundred for 3.9 percent milk the last check. What doea your milk average for test? A little better than four percent.

Durinff the flush season in our acreage of fertile crbp land tricts throughout the state a stock of the best possible plant material per hen yearly increase since it was introduced illustrates the threshed, will fill his bins to ca pacity. is going down in this country. It Is time to be getting a little more for multiplication nd use in the them myself. What have you had to pay for program. pected to average moderately above the loan level.

I During the time Heath has hay this year? early summer the test drops off served as nursery manager im "It is not likely that average prices in 1948-49 will exceed the loan rate by as much as in the last a little, but it will run rigni ai 4.2 percent the year around. Prices are pretty high, aren't thev? two years because of the increase During file Sensational SALE of HUNDREDS proved varieties of brome grass, notably Fischer, have been brought into use. In addition, reed canary grass has been pushed for gully control, and birdsfoot trefoil which was first introduced into southern Iowa in 1941, has been widely used I should say so. Everything is high. Are we headed for a crash? People have been talking crash in the size of me carryover na the, plentiful supply and lower cost of other grains, "Prospects for the 1949 growing crops will again be an important price-factor." The department suggested two weeks ago that farmers reduce their wheat plantings in the new The most I ever I've givn $25 a ton for baled timothy and clover In the field.

How long have yon been testing? We've been doing DHIA testing for 20 years and we've had the herd on H.I.R. testing or JJ years. Our best record was a herd average of 440 pounds of fat in 1944. The next year ve had 439 pounds. Yon are preity strong for production testing; aren't you? Yes, very rmich so.

We were in Linn DHIA No. 3 for years. Purine the war we lost our tester, for two or three years and we haven't had it yet. I think things look pretty good for a while yet throughout the state. At the nursery during the past 10 years some 900 different collections of grasses and legumes have been evaluated.

The most promising have been riven field-" trials in various parts of the state. In addition, the nursery has co You're Republican, aren't crop year by 2.4 million acres, primarily by resowmg less productive lands to grass. JULb i ILi13-1 and L. C. Adams, supervisor of Linn No.

1. took us on. We didn't Argentina and Australia, which with the United State and Canada comprise the four major exporting countries, do not harvest their wheat crops until December. Last winter, U. S.

wheat prices operated with the state highway department in developing grasses and sods for highway shoulders, you? That's right A Bice could hardly be anything but a Republican, could he? How do you like the national ticket? I've always been for Dewey. I think he'll be elected. Do yon think he can straighten out some of the national problems that are bothering us? I sure do. miss a test. Testing makes your stock bring more money.

In fact it's getting hard to sell a rbull cuts and fills were weakened by a large Aus Heath's field work took him Into many parts of Iowa, and from 1939 to 1942 he also traveled in without a record on his" dam. Have yon been selling quite a few cattle? tralian: crop and unexpectemy good yields per acre in Argentina. Minnesota and northern Illinois. He will leave Ames with his Yes, we have for the last sev- wife and children about Sept. Prices Received for his new post.

His successor has Cedar 4-H Style Review not yet been named. Tropical By Iowa Farmers Is Scheduled Aug. 14 Here are value highlights in our great storewide August Sale furnishings for the entire home, all drastically reduced. Easy terms if desired! Doerr Buys Nesvlck Were Up in Julyl TIPTON Cedar 4-H girls will hold a style review in the Tipton Forty Near Calmar DES MOINES (INS) Prices school gymnasium on Aug. 14.

received by Iowa farmers ad CALMAR Clarence Nesvlck vanced 11 points in July, going has sold 40 Improved acres to Each 4-H member will model a John Doerr of Decorah. He will garment she has made during the KLJU take possession of the place lo from 346 to 357 percent oi pre-World war I levels. The crop and livestock reporting service said clothing projects this year. cated three miles north of Calmar Displays of garments made by on Dec 1. Mr.

and Mrs. Nesvik will move 5fo)50 REGULAR TO $35 The heavily weighted meat section of the index accounts members of each club will be set up around the outside of the gym. State, fair entries will be selected to Calmar. $159.00 Living) Room Suite! 2-piece, rich velour You save $60 now Better Hurry! Tall Corn, Big Ears To Compete At All -Iowa Fair The tallest stalk of corn and the largest ear of corn in eastern Iowa will be selected at the All-Iowa fair Aug. 15-21, Fair Manager Andy Hanson said Monday.

Those two classes are included in the agriculture department, one of several new competitive departments which add to the New Look of the 1948 All-lpwa. a native of Minnesota, has heard plenty about the "tall corn of Iowa" since he assumed managership of the All-Iowa fair last November. "I'm looking forward to seeing that big and tall corn myself," Hanson said. "This new department will give farmers a chance to show their neighbors who has the best corn." for most of the advance as crops Aftl from this display. 4 began a downward adjustment in values coincident with theincep- Name of the style review girl who will represent the county at the fair in Des Moines also will be tion of a bountiful harvest.

Meat animals at 398 hit a new high. Feeding ratios advanced sharp announced. AND ly with the corn-hog ratio back $219 Sectional Sofa! 4-piece, rose tapestry sectional. Buy now, save $90! .........11 to 13 to 1. The butterfat-dairy and egg-poultry ratios also showed Amana Society Has substantial Improve ment, the Good Grain Yields service said.

SpeeUl to Th GMttt. AMANA Oats have averaged Achievement Day Set better than 60 bushels and wheat The fair manager urged in this area to select those For Aug. 10 at Vaukon iOO $209.00 Davenport and Chairl more than 30 bushels to the acre on the Amana, South Amana, High Amana, Middle Amana and tall stalks and big ears now. "They can be either new or old Beautiful frieze suite. A value you can't beat! Save $60! East Amana-farms.

Threshing is WAUKON Allamakee county's 4-H club girls' achievement day will be held Aug. 10 at the county for qooL BUR.MIL TROPICAL just starting-at West and Home stead. fair grounds. The program will get The Amana Society has 2,117 underway at 9:30 a.m. with judg acres of oats and 385 acres of RAYON wheat this year.

ing of individual projects ana demonstration teams. Marjorie Fincham, Wlnnesheik county home economist, willjudge the competitive events. SUITS At rJ Soybean Trading Limit Guaranteed construction! $59.50 Sofa Bed! Beautiful blue tapestry cover, save $20! 3v ou Is Raised at Chicago One demonstration team wilj be picked to compete at the state fair along with the top individual corn," he pointed out. In addition to those two classes, there will be classes for best 10 ears of both old and new corn, and the best single ears of both new and old corn. Premiums in each class are $5, $3, $3, $2 and $1 i Other divisions in the new agriculture department are grain, sheaf grain and grass and forage sheaves.

Premiums of $3, $2, and $1 will be paid in each of the classes of those divisions. Grain classes, with entries to be shown in one-peck quantities, are oats, barley, spring wheat, winter wheat and soybeans. Entries in the sheaf classes are to be three inches in diameter at SIZES CHICAGO (UP) The Chicago Board of Trade has raised the items. daily trading limit on soybean tures from 8 to 10 cents a bushel. NEW ALBIN HOMECOMING.

Board officials said the change, LONGS NEW ALBIN The annual $lfo50 In order to have; more variety of home grown grains for his Ben Bauer raised a small field, of wheat on his farm north of Cedar Rapids. If you have any farm-finance problems consult the -farm service department of Peoples Bank and Trust Company, Cedar Rapids with offices at Newhall and Center Point. Muddy, stagnant pools in pastures are not good places for milk cows, says K. W. Stouder, Iowa State college extension veterinarian.

Udder infection or mastitis may, re--sult if cows are permitted in these places. The quality of milk produced also is affected. If the animals cannot be kept out of pastures where there is stagnant water, such should be fenced off until they dry up. And speaking of fencing brings to mind fencing off some of the gullies to keep the stock out so the gully banks may have a chance to become sodded and erosion It win soon be time for summer seeding of alfalfa and with the alfalfa can be sown brome grass. One of the highest yielding forage fields ever observed was an alfalfa-brome mixture seeded in August.

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Save $30! 39 tiiu classes in the grain division and 12 in the grass and forage- sheaf division. Henry Kling is supervisor for the agriculture department, exhibits of which will be in Exhibition hall. Farmers who have not received a premium book can obtain one by writing to the- All-Iowa fair. Chamber of Commerce, Cedar Rapids. Regular $69.50 Chrome Set! Porcelain and chrome dinette set.

Leatherette trim. Save $30! 3y FINE GROUP ALL-WOOL TROPICAL WORSTED SUITS REGULAR $37.50 to $45 Calmar Farmers in this vicin ity are busy threshing. Yields are averaging around 70 bushels per acre. i $139.50 Gas Stove! $(p)(p)50 Sav. now on this buiitiful Less $40 ATTENTION! TRUCKERS FARMERS CONTRACTORS Will Sell or Trade for SCRAP IRON Eastern Iowa's Better Consignsnenf Auction HORSES CATTLE HOGS SHEEP FRIDAY, AUG.

6th, 1948 and EVERY FRIDAY Beginning at 10:30 A.M. A few new names and a few more cattle were in evidence for last week's sale. Demand was very rood In all departments and prices were steady to stronger on some classes. Figs of all sizes are still in demand. For best results, use the services of this strictly consignment auction.

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