Cold Resistant Seed Corn Sales Top 15000 Bushels in Iowa
Ray Anderson reports The Gazette that one seed firm sold between 15000 and 20000 bushels of cold resistant seed corn this season, likely the largest amount available for planting in Iowa or any state. Officials name farmers planning early plantings and field plans for 1939 production in several counties.
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Anamosa
Iowa
Sioux City
Paul N. Smith
Anamosa Company
Smith
Max Wortman
Cannes
National Hybrid Company
Jones
Cedar
Linn
Johnson
Stuart Smith
Paul Smith
Ames
Town State College
the Gazette
Polish Ham Still Arrives New York
New York City imports of meats remain strong despite lower prices. For the week ended March 25 726 358 pounds of cooked Polish hams in tins were imported. For the week ended April 1 601 986 pounds of Polish hams were imported. New Zealand also contributed with 1 222 pounds of fresh frozen calf livers and 165 994 pounds of fresh frozen beef cuts during the week of April 1.
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the Gazette
New York City
Europe
New York
New Zealand
Weather Notes On Fence Drift And April Showers
The column by R F A discusses the current weather as mostly fair with cool spells. It suggests mild recent chills may not cause major damage and could benefit plant growth by delaying it until conditions improve, with a preference for warm April showers.
Linn County allotments to be announced in two weeks
John Waver, chairman of the county AAA committee, told The Gazette that Linn County farmers will learn their individual corn acreage allotments and soil depleting limits within about two weeks.
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Linn
Islan County
John Waver
County Aaa Committee
the Gazette
Iowa counties begin allocating farm acreage under 1938 AAA
Des Moines reports five Iowa counties Adams Marion Dickinson Emmet and Mills have their acreage allotments issued with Lucas county expected Monday. About 26 counties likely to receive allotments by midweek. State chairman O D Klein says if the schedule holds 80 percent of Iowa allotments may be cut by midmonth. Field staff speed releases and official approval will follow.
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Des Moines
Iowa
O D. Klein
State Committee
Klein
Adams
Marion
Dickinson
Emmet
Mills
Lucas County
Towa
Rural rehab chief transferred to Creston office
Arthur L. Bishop, who led the rural rehabilitation office here for eighteen months, is transferred to Creston to open a new Resettlement Administration office. Eugene Hill of Newton will replace him at the Oskaloosa office. In 1937 Iowa breeders registered 798 Jersey females.
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Washington
Arthur L. Bishop
Creston
Resettlement Administration
Bishop
Eugene Hill
Newton
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Eastern egg markets cautious amid rising storage and uncertain prices
Washington reports that eastern storers await price direction as egg and poultry markets show cautious storage by speculators. March demand and government purchases cushioned a price dip while fresh production slips, shell egg storage edges up slightly, and frozen egg stocks rise only modestly.
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Gazette
Washington
Chicago
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Egg and Poultry Markets
Bureau
Pocket Moments From a Bygone Wardrobe
A reader recalls grandmotherly fashion with full gathered skirts and built in pockets. She describes shawls, night caps, lace mitts, basque waists and hidden treasures in pockets, noting a sweet old woman who produces a small coin purse for purchases.
Iowa Farm Prices March 15 1938 Compared to Feb 15
Des Moines Iowa farm prices show grains weaker while livestock stronger from Feb 15 to March 15 1938. Hog prices rose ninety cents per hundredweight to 860 dollars. corn at 43 cents a bushel down 2 cents. lambs at 7.70 per hundredweight up from last month. eggs 14.4 cents a dozen. butterfat 32 cents. hay drop to 87.70 a ton. seed prices rise with red clover 23 per bushel and timothy 1.50.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
4-H Dairy Heifers Value Jump in Iowa Club Project
The Gazette notes 410 of 452 Iowa 4 H club members enrolled in a purebred heifer project in 1937. Average heifer value rose from 52.88 to 116.10, with 4,470 in premiums and 558 of 628 heifers completed. Total club cattle value reached 87,966.50, up from 62,997 in 1936, led by Benton, Franklin, Grundy, Towa, Jasper, and Marshall counties.
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Gazette
Ames
Iowa
Benton
Franklin
Grundy
Towa
Jasper
Marshall
Delhi Creamery Butterfat Payments Report
Delhi Silver Springs Creamery paid patrons 35 cents per pound for butterfat in February and 34 cents in the first half of March.
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Delhi Creamery
Delhi
Delhi Silver Springs Creamery Company
Johnson Here Tuesday Farm Bureau Meeting
Francis B. Johnson, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, will attend the Linn County Farm Bureau board of directors meeting Tuesday at 8 pm. The session will be held in the Farm Bureau office in Cedar Rapids.
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Francis B. Johnson
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Linn County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Farm Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Feeder Cattle Grading Demonstrations Set in Buchanan County
Rex Beresford Ames extension animal husbandman will conduct two feeder cattle grading demonstrations in Buchanan county on April 12. The first at 1 30 p.m. on the Homer Soules farm north of Independence and the second at 2 45 p.m. on the Max Dubois farm five miles southeast of Winthrop.
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Independence
Rex Beresford
Ames Extension Animal Husbandman
Buchanan County
Homer Soules
Max DuBoies
Winthrop
Exports and Planting Update From U S Grain Markets
Exports of corn from United States ports for the week ending April 2 totaled 1,750,000 bushels, lifting the season total to about 36,500,000 bushels. Argentine exports remained minimal with less than 12,000,000 bushels left for sale. Roumanian authorities approved a 2,000,000 bushel corn export. Planting has begun in southern Kansas and Missouri, with general preparation elsewhere. Barley sales for July and August to the United Kingdom were offered at 60 cents a bushel, while midwestern buyers bid 84 cents a bushel delivered, but no sales were reported.
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United States
BAE
Bureau
Kansas
Missouri
United Kingdom
S.a.s
San Francisco
Rise in U S Apple Exports in Second Half of 1937
Special to The Gazette reports that July to December 1937 apple exports reached 5 275 700 bushels, about 23 percent higher than the previous year. The State Department cites trade concessions and large 1937 crop as factors, with notable gains to France Finland Cuba Brazil and Canada and overall U S crop totaling 202 million bushels, the largest in eleven years.
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Washington, D. C
Department of State
France
Finland
Cuba
Brazil
Haiti
Honduras
Costa Rica
el Salvador
Colombia
Netherlands
Belgium
Sweden
Canada
United States
Cheese Factory Opens at Dundee with Evening Party
The new Dundee cheese factory began operations Friday and held a plant party. Homer Walters of Dubuque is the cheesemaker with Gordon Burgen and Gilbert Gibbs as milk haulers.
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Dundee
Homer Walters
Dubuque
Gordon Burgen
Gilbert Gibbs
Will Rogers Jr Returns From War Front With Trucks In Spain
Will Rogers Jr., son of the humorist, arrived in New York on the Queen Mary after weeks reporting the Spanish war for Beverly Hills Citizen. He said bombs in Barcelona were less dangerous than the wild eyed Spanish truck drivers who roared through streets and wrecked American trucks on the road from Barcelona to Madrid.
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Will Rogers
Barcelona
Rogers
S. S. Queen Mary
Beverly Hills
Calif
Citizen
Madrid
Chinese Claim Taierchwang Triangular Battle Shifts
Reports from Shanghai say Chinese forces claim to have captured Taierchwang while Chinese and Japanese accounts differ on the triangle’s status. Chinese leaders announce renewed Japanese retreats northeast of Taierchwang as Nipponese pull back toward Lanling and Yihsien, site of a mission.
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INS
Taierchwang
Yihsien
Lanling
Girl 11 Gives Birth to Five-Pound Baby in Brownsville
An 11-year-old girl, wife of miner James Nowden, and her two-day-old daughter were reported to be “getting along nicely” in a Brownsville hospital. The baby weighed five pounds and was born Sunday to Mrs. Catherine Nowden, wife of 27-year-old miner James Nowden, with his mother noting the girl would be 12 in May. Hospital staff said she claimed to be 16 on obtaining the marriage license.
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Brownsville
Catherine Nowden
James Nowden
Labelle
Bessie White
Mrs. Nowden
Tory Slap On Commons Floor Sparks Roar
London AP reports Labor MP Emanuel Shinwell slapped Conservative MP Robert Tatton Bower on the House of Commons floor just before a foreign affairs debate. The chamber erupted as ministers demanded Shinwell leave, then he sat back down amid unclear remarks about Poland.
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London
Emanuel Shinwell
House of Commons
Robert Tatton Bower
Shinwell
Bower
Poland
Hollywood Extras Earn $17 Weekly in 1937 Claim
Hollywood reports show feminine movie extras averaging $17 a week in 1937. The Central Casting bureau cites the figure while noting many earn less, despite the pursuit of stardom and its promised rewards.
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Hollywood
INS
State Department of Industrial Relations
Central Casting Bureau
Attack Tariff Cut in Canadian Pact
Washington congressmen and businessmen criticized proposed tariff reductions in a Canada trade pact. Hearings opened with experts urging no cuts in livestock, furs, lumber, paper products, and cheese. Sen. F Ryan Duffy warned milk product cuts would hurt U.S. dairy interests and opposed Cheddar cheese and silver fox pelts reductions.
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Washington
Congress
Canada
Committee For
Ryan Duffy
Wis
United States
Iowa City Briefs Highlight Local Honors and Trials
Mrs E Taylor becomes Iowa City Child Study club president with Mrs John Randall as vice president. Funeral services held for Irving Nathan Owens 72 Penn township survived by widow sister and brother. Five University of Iowa students elected to Order of Artus including Amos Pearsall Perry Osnowitz Norris Nevs elin Edgar Bagley Hobart Carr. Carl Cone awarded Cornell graduate scholarship. he is a University of Iowa graduate student. Marie Zika 71 Iowa City died after lingering illness survivors two daughters seven grandchildren. City health department to be headed by Dr E W Paulus with two inspectors and city officials. inspectors to include L P Graham and J J Carroll. Mary E Pittman files 26150 suit against Central States Theater Corp for theater lighting and step-off injuries at Englert theater.
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E. Taylor
Marie Zika
L. A. Owen
B. Hlubucck
Cedar Rapids
Bohemian
Zika
Czechoslovakia
Mary Walsh
Josephine Korab
Lillian Owen
E. W. Paulus
L. P. Graham
J. J. Carroll
Mary E. Pittman
Central States Theater Corporation
Englert
Fireman Killed as Wall Collapse Roars Through Stable
New York fire officials report Fire Lieutenant John Meehan killed and eight other firemen injured when walls collapsed trapping rescuers during a two story stable blaze. Only one of 138 horses on the second floor survived amid 40 tons of hay burning.
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New York
INS
John Meehan
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