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Iowa Farm Science: Volume 4, Issue 8
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Government price support action spotlighted the Iowa farm outlook news as 1950 began. Price support activities for butter, hogs and eggs were announced. And acreage allotments were slapped on corn in an effort to hold up the price of corn.
Here are crop varieties recommended for Iowa in 1950. Each one is backed by long and painstsaking experiment and research.
Like many other wild, fur-bearing animals of Iowa, the racoon doesn't get his full share of attention when it comes to proper farm management. But this stout, hump-backed fellow can prove his worth if given the opportunity.
"As you sow, so shall you reap." That's not an outdated proverb. Seed testing can help you make better use of that proverb on your farm.
For years the pendulum of home discipline has been swinging wildly. One generation believed "to spare the rod and spoil the child" was the sole guide in rearing children. The next generation, hoping to erase the mistakes of the first, took up the "door-mat" philosophy of letting Junior have his own way.