Few families report changes in responsibility for making decisions, but there was some shifting of household and family tasks when nonfarm job was taken. Some reduction in social participation and leisure activities.

Net worth of private individuals in Iowa in 1962-63 estimated at 25 billion dollars. Farm wealth (land, buildings, machinery, livestock and grain) totals 10 billion dollars. Urban property is estimated at 8.6 billion dollars net.

Brief reports on research at your experiment station at Iowa State University. This month: Nutrition research on cattle, chicks and turkeys; nitrogen uptake by corn; chemicals to boost soybean yields.

On January 1 there were 8,865,000 cattle and calves on feed in the 28 major feeding states. This was 1 percent fewer than a year earlier, and 11 percent more than the 1962 figure.