LAUREL/LAVERTY EVENTS FROM AGO!

  LAUREL LAVERTYS ALL

RAISING OWN FEEDERS

      Tom Laverty, young Jasper 

county farmer from the Laurel

neighborhood, trucked the Laverty

herd bull into Marshalltown

Wednesday where he was sold as

a butcher bull. The animal wighed 

1,360 pounds on the Laurel scales.

     He was six years old and his service 

with the Laverty Hereford herd was ex- 

tended over a period of two years. He will 

be replaced with a younger sire.

      Tom and his brother, John, farm 650 

acres belonging to T. A. Laverty and Pat 

Laverty, and frankly admit they have a sizable 

job. They have something over 100 head of 

cattle on the farms. For several years they 

have been raising their calves and selling the 

steers off pasture as feeders, but this year they

are keeping their feeders for their own operations,

and now have about 20 on feed.

      Their pasture land includes about 150 acres
which is making possible their extensive
herd development. They have also cribbed more 
than 10,000 bushels of corn from their 
160 acres of corn land and will have ample feed
reserves.