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...found teams hitched to harrows and fields being broken, plow horses streaking the countryside with new furrows, tractors barking and chattering with lusty strength. Corn was about to go into the fat black acres of Illinois and Iowa. South Carolinians had their cotton planted; their February oats already sprouting. Seed beds for tobacco were being prepared as far north as Connecticut. Spring wheat was being sowed in Kansas now that the thaw had come & gone. Sows had littered in Iowa. John Farmer was starting his 1933 crops on the same haphazard plan of the past because...
...acre farm in Polk County, Iowa, Secretary Wallace has given much time and thought to developing prize seed corn. As a boy he was impressed by the fact that judges always seemed to pick the best looking ear rather than the one that promised the biggest yield. By crossbreeding he perfected a seed corn which now sells far & wide throughout Iowa. Wrote he: "Show corn ideals deal too much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the presence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl...
...adoption of a new Island constitution; sent it to the House for concurrence. ¶ Passed a House bill to merge Washington's two street car systems. ¶ Passed a bill by South Dakota's Norbeck authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust or compromise the repayment of seed loans...
...Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. and the Henry Field Co. are two distinctly different organizations here at Shenandoah, Iowa. The Henry Field Co. own and operate radio station KFNF, while the Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. own and operate radio station KMA. Mistakes of this nature are quite common among people not within a listening radio radius of Shenandoah, due to the fact that Shenandoah has more radio stations per capita than any other city in the U. S. Shenandoah has a population...
President & Manager Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. Shenandoah, Iowa...