Iowa March feed egg ratio improves despite steady prices
New federal and Iowa figures show the March feed egg ratio at 7.7 for 100 pounds of feed, up from February 7.8, driven by higher egg values rather than lower feed costs. Egg prices rose to 13.7 cents a dozen, while farm prices for corn and oats changed minimally and soybeans advanced five cents. The report notes more poultry to market later in 1939, with higher consumer income and demand expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Carl
Lush Warns One Lactation Record Not Enough for Cow Culling
Dr Jay L Lush of Iowa State warns culling cows on the basis of a single lactation. He says cows may shift production by up to 43 percent in the next milking period and that about 30 percent turnover in test associations leads to hasty, mistaken removal decisions.
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Ames
Jay L. Lush
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Lush
Iowa
TVA Demonstrations Expand in Allamakee County Farms
Four more farms join ten existing TVA superphosphate demonstrations in Allamakee county this year. The new sites are A. G. Bahr Ludlow township Harold Deters Union City Edwin C Schultz Center and Loras College farm Taylor.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
A. G. Bahr
Ludlow Township
Harold Deters
Union City
Edwin C. Schultz
Center
Loras College
Taylor
Allamakee
Fence Drift Curbing Cattle Prices Amid Drought Fallout
A Beverly cattleman declares the 1984 drought and government slaughter have created the deepest beef cattle scarcity in history. He notes buyers struggle to push prices down as feeders and commission men on markets back the shortage, with bids stubbornly firm.
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Beverly
Panhandle
Randalia Farmer Leads Northeast Iowa Farm Body with High Litter Returns
J F Ingels, a Randalia area farmer, topped the Northeast Iowa Farm Business association with the highest return per litter. He averaged a gross $345 per litter, using a Chester White Poland China cross and rotating his purebred boar breed every two years. Ingels saved gilts from his herd and disposed of them after furrowing twice in a year. Last fall he saved 91 pigs from twelve litters and in March marketed 56 butcher hogs averaging 260 pounds at under six and a half months old, totaling 192 hogs in 1938.
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Randalia
J. F Ingels
Northeast
Iowa Farm Business Association
Ingels
U S Plans to Acquire More Submarginal Land Acres
Washington AP Congress learns the Agriculture Department expects options on 1 060 000 more acres of submarginal land before July 1. The total for the fiscal year reaches 2 100 000 acres. Secretary Wallace opposes re cultivating dust bowl areas. 45 48 percent of land-utilization spending goes to submarginal land purchases.
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Washington
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee
House
Wallace
Kansas
Dillon S. Myer
Soil Conservation Service
Trade barriers set up by states hinder national agriculture
A council on state governments report shows most states enacted farm product laws that curb interstate trade. Dairy controls, oleomargarine taxes, and quarantines restrict movement of milk, cream, and other products while many states impose licenses or taxes on decomaragine. The study notes health rules can blur with market protection and warns of retaliation boycotts disrupting internal trade.
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Chicago
Council of State
Council
F. E. Melcher
SCS Demonstrations On Three Farms In Buchanan
Soil conservation demonstrations to be established on three Buchanan farms this spring under L F Wainscott. Contour cropping strips will be used on the Laurance Falcon farm south of Independence and on the Robert Reed farm near Lamont. At the Roy Crawford farm near Jesup a longer rotation plan will include lime and phosphate and expanded seedings of grasses and legumes.
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Buchanan Farm
L. F. Wainscott
McGregor Scs
Laurance Falcon
Here
Robert Reed
Lamont
Roy Crawford
Jesup
Ewe Raises Quadruplets On William Weber Farm
A Shropshire ewe near Riverside seven miles southeast of here lambed four lambs three weeks ago and is raising all four herself, saving the entire brood on the farm of William Weber.
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Riverside
William Weber
Here
Farm Auction Schedule Across Iowa and Nearby Towns
Coming farm auctions slated for April include Iowa Livestock Exchange horses in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday April 4. On Wednesday April 5 M A Nielsen consignment sale at 312 miles southeast Central City featuring George Hillgeson closing out a 200 acre farm near Vinton. Thursday April 6 P N Gibson horses at West Liberty and Mackie and Ca sale at Vinton fairgrounds.
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Iowa Livestock Exchange
Cedar Rapids
M A. Nielsen
Central City
George Hillgeson
Vinton
P. N. Gibson
West Liberty
Mackie
Vinton Fairgrounds
Economy Of Space In Home Economics In Iowa
In Decorah Winnebago county farm bureau women plan an April 27 achievement day focused on economy of space in home management. Demonstrations show a slip-in double-deck kitchen shelf for small dishes and a storage cabinet replacing a bedroom closet. In Washington county the April 12 achievement day will feature judge Mrs. Lucille Cochran of Ames.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County Farm Bureau
Helene Dilger
Mary Lou Pilgrim
Corn Planting Progress and Global Corn Trade Signals
The weekly review notes strong corn planting in the southern United States with as far north as Oklahoma. U.S. exports for March were 235000 bushels, with February at 2681000 and season total to date about 25.3 million bushels. Argentina's dry week boosts harvest while U K buyers take cargoes. Argentina old crop stock around 9.5 million bushels. 31 March quotes for Argentine corn show Liverpool at 73.5 cents and May delivery at 64 cents. U S No 2 yellow for April at about 69.75 cents. South Africa faces a near record crop of 200 million bushels, aiming for 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 head of corn breeding at University of Missouri will be transferred to Ames in May to fill the post left open by the death of A A Bryan in March Pine will represent the cereal crops and diseases division in a joint project by the federal bureau of plant industry and the Iowa agricultural experiment station Sprague earned a Nebraska degree in 1924 and a PhD from Cornell in 1930.
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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
Ackworth Farm Bureau Agent to Speak at County Event
Mrs. Raymond Sayre of Ackworth will be principal speaker at 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 Rescue Eroded Farm Lands
Three million green recruits, trees raised by the regional soil conservation service nursery at Ames, head toward Iowa fields and beyond to aid erosion control. About 1.5 million trees will be planted in Iowa this year, predominantly hardwoods, with conifers and shrubs making up the rest, to assist farmers in Shenandoah, Knoxville, Marion, Greenfield, and McGregor areas along with several projects in Missouri and Minnesota. Labor comes from civilian conservation corps camps and WPA workers may plant in some cases.
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Ames
Iowa
Soil Conservation Service
No Man's-Land
Ames Extension Service
Frank H. Mendell
Big Creek
Bethany
Freeport
Mendell
Shenandoah
Knoxville
Marion
Greenfield
McGregor
Winona, Minn
Elsberry
Civilian Conservation Corps
WPA
Fair and Square 4-H elects new officers in locality
Louis Schultz is elected president of the Fair and Square boys 4-H club with Arnold Busch as vice president and Robert Christensen as secretary and treasurer. Paul McAndrew is reporter and Ivan Christensen leader. Next meeting set for April 7 at Junior Rohling's home to discuss the Iowa weed law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Schultz
Fair and Square Boys
Arnold Busch
Robert Christensen
Paul McAndrew
Ivan Christensen
Junior Rohling
Committee named to handle dairy promotion funds
Ed Estel of Waterloo announces a nine member Iowa Dairy Industry commission to administer funds for dairy advertising and promotion. The group includes Mark Thornburg Dr C Alverson and Dr C Y Cannon from Ames plus nine district appointees. They will meet to organize and prepare report blanks for butterfat records March 1 to March 13 under a 1 cent per pound tax.
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Waterloo
Iowa Dairy Industry Commission
Ed Estel
Iowa Dairy Association
Mark Thornburg
C. Alverson
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 Cedar Rapids Sewers
Cedar Rapids Iowa City Council proposes a resolution of necessity for sanitary sewer construction on Johnson Avenue NW Nineteenth Street NW and Twentieth Street NW with 8 and 12 inch vitrified pipe and brick manholes. Public hearing set for April 20 1939 at 10 A M. Objections to assessments to be filed with the City Clerk.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cry
Saidouncil
Johnson Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Twentieth Street
Nineteenth Street
First Avene
Auditor
Towa
Council Chambers
Elehtgenth Street
First Avenue
Johnson Aveue
Auditor's
Field Seed Prices Decline Generally in 1939
Washington reports lower retail prices for 19 major field seeds on Feb 14 1939 versus last year while five kinds rose. Iowa prices for many grains also listed with per hundred weight and per bushel figures for clovers alfalfa grasses millet rye oats and other crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Canada
Iowa
Antiques Included In Offering At Farm Sale
An auction on the Ed Brandenberg estate farm west of Webster offered antique furniture and old farm machinery. Items sold included a rope bed for 30 dollars, a walnut lounge for 27, a spinning wheel for 11, and stone canning jars now sought as flower containers. The sale also included one of the neighborhood's first ash reapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Webster
Ed Brandenberg
Weather Lore In A Country Woman’s Spring Prediction
A weatherwise tiller declares that a southerly wind on the first day of spring signals a hot summer and a bumper corn crop, reflecting rural beliefs about seasonal forecasting. The remark appears in a feature titled BY A COUNTRY WOMAN.
New Plow Point 13 Declared A Sharpenless Design
South Bend Indiana AP A new plow point uses a safety razor like system to be replaced when dull. Engineer J Altgelt devised a point that fits a plow share and is pulled off for quick replacement. Production has started at a South Bend plant of a farm equipment company. Altgelt previously sold plows in Argentina and was inspired by sharpening difficulties there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
J. Altgelt
Altgelt
Argentina
Free Rooster Chicks Given to Monticello School Children
Monticello hatchery donated unwanted rooster chicks to area schoolchildren last week, six per student, as long as supplies lasted. Many youngsters planned to raise their birds for fryers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Monticello
Eight-and-a-Half-Year-Old Cow Enters AP Cattle Registry
In Dyersville Anton Osterhaus Guernsey herd an eight and a half year old cow was admitted to the American Guernsey Cattle Club advanced registry after a 36 day production record of 14.075 pounds of milk and 5665 pounds of butterfat.
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Dyersville
Anton Osterhaus
Guernseys
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Fairfax State Savings Bank Statement 1939
Statement of the Condition of Fairfax State Savings Bank dated March 29 1939 with assets including Loans and Discounts 264885.02 United States Bonds 43415.00 cash items 29230.49 and totals 340630.50 Liabilities show Capital Stock 25000 Surplus 6000 undivided profits 4451994.451.79 and deposits 305178.71 sworn by C J Lynch President Chas A Elson Vice President J L Krall Cashier before Notary Helen M Krall on April 1 1939.
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United States
Iowa
Linn County
C. J Lynch
Chas. Allson
J. L. Krall
Co. J. Lynch
Chas
A. Elson
J. al, Krall
C. J. Lynch
J L. Krall
Helen M. Krall
E. A. Johnson
Wesley J. Sedlacek
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