March feed egg ratio improves in Iowa over February
New Iowa figures from Leslie M. Carl show 7.7 dozen eggs needed to buy 100 pounds of poultry feed in March, down from 8 in February. Egg prices averaged 13.7 cents a dozen on March 15, with other farm prices for corn, wheat, oats, rye, and soybeans shifting modestly. The report also notes higher expected poultry production and stronger consumer demand in 1939.
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Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Des Moines
United States
Cain
Lush Challenges Culling Based on One Lactation Record
Dr. Jay L. Lush of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station told AMES that culling cows on the basis of a single lactation record is ill advised. He argued cows may shift production by up to 43 percent in the next milking period, and with about 30 percent annual turnover, many hasty judgments rely on too little data.
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Ames
Jay L. Lush
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Lush
Iowa
TVA Demonstrations Expand in Allamakee County
Four additional farms in Allamakee county are chosen for TVA superphosphate demonstrations this year. They include A. G. Bahr’s Ludlow township farm Harold Deters Union City Edwin C Schultz Center and Loras College farm Taylor. Ten demonstrations already established in Allamakee.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
A. G. Bahr
Ludlow Township
Harold Deters
Union City
Edwin C. Schultz
Center
Loras College
Taylor
Allamakee
Cattle Market Hurdles Amid 1934 Drought Shortage
A Beverly cattleman declares the beef shortage is the deepest in history as buyers push to lower cattle prices. Supported by Panhandle ranchers and market commission men, the drought led to government slaughter of breeding stock and continues to drive price resistance.
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Beverly
Panhandle
Randalia Farmer’s Litter Income Tops Northeast Iowa
J. F. Ingels of Randalia, a leading member of the Northeast Iowa Farm Business association, posted the highest litter income last year with an average gross of 345 dollars per litter. He breeds a Chester White- Poland China cross and saves gilts from his herd. Last fall he kept 91 pigs from twelve litters and in March sold 56 butcher hogs at about 260 pounds. In 1938 he marketed 192 hogs.
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Randalia
J. F. Ingels
Northeast Iowa Farm Business Association
Ingels
U S Plans Purchase of 1 Million Acres of Submarginal Land
Washington AP Congress learns the Agriculture Department expects options on 1,000,000 more acres of submarginal land before July 1, raising this fiscal year total to 2,100,000 acres. Secretary Wallace opposes returning dust bowl areas to cultivation. Subcommittee heard 45 to 48 percent of land-utilization funds, about 13 million dollars, go to submarginal land purchases. The next year budget of 5 million would block new land purchases, says Dillon S. Myer of the Soil Conservation Service.
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Washington
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee
House
Wallace
Kansas
Dillon S. Myer
Soil Conservation Service
Subcommittee
States enact wide range of internal trade barriers
A council study finds most states have laws restricting free exchange of farm products. Dairy regulations and oleomargarine taxes are highlighted, with quarantines and nursery product rules cited as varied and sometimes unjustified.
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Chicago
Council of State
Council
F. E. Melcher
SCS Demonstrations On Three Farms In Buchanan
Soil conservation demonstrations will be set up this spring on three Buchanan farms under L. F. Wainscott, McGregor SCS project director. Contour cropping strips will appear on the Laurance Falcon farm south of Independence and on the Robert Reed farm near Lamont, while the Roy Crawford farm near Jesup will trial a longer rotation with lime, phosphate, and expanded seedings of grasses and legumes.
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Buchanan Farm
L. F. Wainscott
McGregor Scs
Laurance Falcon
Robert Reed
Lamont
Roy Crawford
Jesup
Quadruplet Lams Raised by Riverside-A Ewe
A Shropshire ewe on the William Weber farm seven miles southeast of here lambed four at once and is rearing all four. The mother has saved and raised the entire brood without assistance three weeks after birth.
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Riverside
William Weber
Here
Farm Auctions Set For Early April In Iowa Listings
Coming farm auctions schedule lists events on Tuesday April 4 at Iowa Livestock Exchange in Cedar Rapids horses. Wednesday April 5 consignments by M A Nielsen 342 miles southeast Central City George Hillgesen closing out and 200 acre farm 8 miles northeast of Vinton. Thursday April 6 P N Gibson horses West Liberty Mackie and Ca sale at Vinton fairgrounds.
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Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
M. A. Nielsen
Central City
George Hillgesen
Vinton
P. N. Gibson
West Liberty
Mackie and
Vinton Fairgrounds
Economy Of Space In Home Economics Decorah Program
In Winnebago county Farm Bureau women plan an April 27 achievement day with a focus on economy in home management. Exhibits show space saving equipment at low cost including a slip in double deck kitchen cupboard and a storage cabinet repurposed as a bedroom closet. Mary Lou Pilgrim demonstrates a storage cabinet built by her father Ellis Pilgrim and Mrs. M. L. Flaskerud is shown reaching for a dish in the double deck cupboard.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County Farm Bureau
Helene Dilger
Mary Lou Pilgrim
Corn Planting Advances in Southern States with Early Progress
The weekly federal grain review notes good progress in corn planting across the southern United States with some fields reaching as far north as Oklahoma. March exports amounted to 235000 bushels, February exports 2681000, and total shipments since Oct 1 stood at 25300000 bushels versus 44244000 last season. Argentine corn harvest aided by dry weather saw several cargoes sold to UK importers, with old stocks at 9500000 bushels and May shipments priced around 64 cents. US No 2 yellow for April was 69 1/2 cents. A potential record South Africa crop could reach 200000000 bushels, threatening a 50 million bushel exportable surplus.
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United States
Oklahoma
Weekly
Federal Review
United Kingdom
Argentina
Liverpool
U. S
South Africa
Sprague of Missouri to Succeed Bryan at Ames
Dr. George F. Sprague of the University of Missouri corn breeding division will move to Ames on May 1 to fill the vacancy left by Dr. A. A. Bryan's death in March. He will head the cereal crops and diseases division in a joint project by the federal bureau of plant industry and the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. He graduated from Nebraska in 1924 and earned a PhD from Cornell in 1930 and has since worked in plant industry.
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Ames
George F. Sprague
University of Missouri
A. A. Bryan
Federal Bureau of Plant Industry
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Nebraska
Sprague
Cornell University
Washington County Women’s Home Project Day Set for April
The annual Washington county women’s home project achievement day program will be staged in Washington on April 12. County women’s chairman Mrs. Clayde Knupp announced the event and Ames resident Mrs. Lucille Cochran will serve as judge.
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The
Gazette
Washington
Washington County Women’s Home Project
Clayde Knupp
County Women’s
Lucille Cochran of
Ames
Maquoketa to Host Jackson County Women’s Achievement Day
Mrs. Raymond Sayre of Ackworth Farm Bureau committeewoman will be principal speaker at the Jackson county women’s achievement day in Maquoketa on April 13. Mrs. Lucille Cochran of Ames will judge township exhibits and records.
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Maquoketa
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
Farm Bureau
Jackson County
Lucille Cochran
Ames
Army Of SCS Trees Sent Out To Restore Eroded Iowa Lands
The Soil Conservation Service mobilizes 3 million trees from Ames nurseries to reclaim denuded hillsides and gullies. About 1.5 million trees will be planted in Iowa this year by cooperating farmers with labor from civilian conservation corps camps and WPA workers aiding in plantings.
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Ames
Iowa
Soil Conservation Service
Frank H. Mendell
Big Creek
Bethany
Freeport
Ill
Mendell
Shenandoah
Knoxville
Marion
Greenfield
McGregor
Winona, Minn
Elsberry
Civilian Conservation Corps
WPA
4-H Club Elects Officers In Lost Nation
Louis Schultz is elected president of the Fair and Square boys 4-H club with Arnold Busch as vice president Robert Christen as secretary and treasurer Paul McAndrew reporter and Ivan Christensen leader. The next meeting is set for April 7 at Junior Rohling's home to discuss the Iowa weed law.
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Louis Schultz
Fair and Square Boys
Arnold Busch
Robert Christensen
Paul McAndrew
Ivan Christensen
Junior Rohling
Iowa dairy committee named to administer promotion funds
Ed Estes of Waterloo announced a new Iowa Dairy Industry Commission to oversee funds from a 1 cent per pound butterfat tax. The three top members are Mark Thornburg, Dr. C A Iverson, and Dr. C Y Cannon. Nine district appointees were added by the state dairy association executive council. The panel will organize soon and set up report blanks for butterfat operations from March 1 to 15.
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Waterloo
Iowa Dairy Industry Commission
Ed Estes
Iowa Dairy Association
Mark Thornburg
C. A. Iverson
Ames
C. Y. Cannon
State Dairy Association
Donald Jones
Iowa City
Don Wherry
Wyoming
H. O. Larsen
Dike
E. T. Smith
Volga City
C. J. Mottet
Ottumwa
C. W. Foster
Carlisle
L. A. Nelson
Red Oak
J. H. Anderson
Thompson
Roy J. Smith
Spirit Lake
Estes
Notice of Resolution of Necessity for Sanitary Sewer
Cedar Rapids Iowa city council proposes a sewer construction on Johnson and nearby streets with 10 am April 20, 1939 hearing. It details pipe sizes No 1 vitrified sewer pipe brick manholes and drop connections and notes assessments against benefited properties.
Field Seed Prices Decline Generally in 1939 Report
Prices for 19 field seed varieties fell from mid February 1938 to mid February 1939, with several grains and legumes showing declines while a few kinds rose. Iowa figures show diverse per hundred pound and per bushel changes across clovers alfalfa grasses millet ryegrass and crops like soybeans and wheat.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Canada
Iowa
Antiques Featured in Webster Area Farm Auction
Antiques and old farm machinery were auctioned on the Ed Brandenberg estate farm three and a half miles west of Webster. Items included a rope bed for 30 dollars a walnut lounge for 27 dollars and a spinning wheel for 11 dollars. Stone canning jars sold well as planters. A historic grain reaper was among the lot.
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Webster
Ed Brandenberg
Executor Named In Will Of Sarah Kelly
Notice states John W. Tobin appointed and qualified as Executor of Sarah Kelly's estate in Linn County Iowa. Creditors are asked to pay outstanding debts and file claims with Linn County District Court. Tobin Tobin & Tobin serve as attorneys for the estate.
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Linn County
Iowa
Hearing on Cedar Rapids sanitation project contract
Notice sets 10 A M April 20 1939 hearing at City Hall Cedar Rapids Iowa on prepared plans specifications and proposed contract for a sanitary improvement estimated at 9051 30 involving 1240 feet of street west of Twenty Street NW to First Avenue and north Auditor's Plat No 165. Objections may be filed and heard. City Clerk M Krebs Deputy. Published Cedar Rapids Gazette April 3 4 1939.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Johnson Avenue
A Iit
Twentieth Street
Nineteenth Street
First Avenue
Code of Iowa
Jm. Croveniant
Cit
Sanitary
Eighteenth Street
Auditor's
L. J. Storey
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Promote Digestive Health
An Ohio doctor highlights constipation risks and praises Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as vegetable, harmless bowel cleansers that also aid liver bile flow for better fat digestion. Available in 15 30 and 60 cent sizes for trial tonight.
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Ohio
F. M. Edwards
Dr. Edwards
Weatherwise Tiller Predicts Hot Summer After Spring
A weatherwise tiller of the soil tells a country woman that if the wind blows south on the first day of spring, a hot summer and a bumper corn crop will follow.
New Plow Points Use It and Throw It Away
South Bend Indiana AP A plow point designed on a safety razor idea can be pulled off when dull and replaced with a new point Altgelt engineer says production has started at a South Bend plant The inventor formerly a plow salesman in Argentina saw farmers struggle to sharpen shares and devised the disposable point system
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South Bend
Ind
J. Altgelt
Altgelt
Argentina
Monticello hatchery gives free rooster chicks to school children
In Monticello last week, unwanted rooster chicks were distributed free to school children, six per student while stock lasted. Many children planned to raise the chicks for fryers.
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Monticello
Eight-and-a-Half-Year-Old Guernsey Remains High Producer
In Dyersville the Anton Osterhaus herd adds an eight and a half year old Guernsey cow to the American Guernsey Cattle Club advanced registry for a 36 day production record of 14 075 pounds of milk and 566 5 pounds of butterfat.
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Dyersville
Anton Osterhaus
Guernseys
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Fairfax State Savings Bank Statement March filing
Statement of the Condition of Fairfax State Savings Bank of Fairfax Linn County Iowa dated March 29 shows loans and discounts 264 885.1 and securities 43 415.00 total resources 340 630.50 and liabilities including deposits and time certificates 305 178.71 with capital and profits 29 230.49. Sworn by C J Lynch president Chas A Elson vice president and J L Krall cashier before Notary M Krall on March 1.
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Iowa
Linn County
Ss. We
C. J. Lynch
Chas. A. Elson
J. L. Krall
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