Chicago Producers Handle 13 852 Cars Of Livestock In 1932
Chicago reports show the Chicago Producers Livestock Commission association moved 13 852 carloads of cattle and hogs in 1932, 93 percent of the city’s total livestock receipts. Swanson cited declines in overall volume from 1931, with direct and truck movements shifting share among rail and trucking. The co op handled about 112 890 cattle and 16.8 percent total hogs, dominating shipments compared with other firms.
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Chicago Producers Livestock Commission Association
D. L. Swanson
Terminal Co-Operative
Union
Iowa
Swanson
Shipping Association
Co-Op
Terminal Co-Op
FENCE DRIFT AND CATTLE MARKET NOTES AT VIOLA
A farmer near Viola frees himself when a fence drift tears his overalls. The event precedes market figures showing sheep and hog trends. H H Parke of Genoa leads sessions with industry leaders on livestock prices and the money system impact.
Mount Vernon Farmers Plan to Grow Flax
Mount Vernon farmers plan to grow flax this season while others cut down corn acreage. The article notes clover timothy seedings survived winter well and fall wheat and rye fields show a good stand, with no alfalfa killed by frost in the locality.
Wonderful to Take Kruschen Salts for Weight Loss
Mrs Mabe of San Diego endorses Kruschen Salts saying they help weight loss and health, noting better humor, clear skin, and energy. One daily half teaspoon in hot water each morning allegedly ends constipation, gas, and acidity, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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Mabe
Proctor
San Diego
Calif
Dee
Mav Drug Company
Cedar Sheep Men To Hear McDonald On Marketing By Grade
Cedar county sheep producers meet next Monday at 7 30 p m with County Agent Emmett Gardner. C W McDonald of the Ames extension service will discuss graded marketing and feeding to elevate lambs to top grades. Last year over 400 lambs across Henrys, Washington and Johnson counties were graded at home and sold by grade with top grades fetching 50 cents to 1 dollar above Chicago top on market day.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Emmett C Gardner
C W McDonald
Ames Extension Service
McDonald
Henrys Washington
Johnson Counties
Chicago
Farmers Near Nichols Receive Feeder Cattle
Metcalf and Son shipped four carloads of feeding cattle Monday and Tuesday John Kirkpatrick received five carloads On Tuesday TB Nichols shipped two carloads of fat cattle to Chicago and John Foley marketed one carload Seed oats neon in demand in this locality and barley selling for 24 to 30 cents a bushel Many farmers are sowing five to ten acres of spring Wheat Some plowing is being done on heath sands soil oats being sown.
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Nichols Metcalf and Son
John Kirkpatrick
TB Nichols
Chicago
John Foley
Holiday group audits Cedar County Farm Bureau books
Insistent demands by the Cedar county Farmers Holiday association lead to a three by three auditing committee from the Holiday group and the board of supervisors reviewing the Farm Bureau records. The audit ends with a report declaring the records in good shape and the bureau entitled to a $3,000 appropriation for 1933.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Farmers Holiday Association
Board of Supervisors
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
O'Connor
Bureau
William Freese
W C Fairley
Ray Chapman
Fred von Roden
George J. Ormsby
John P Jensen
Hazel Bown Shows Women How To Modernize Old Dresses
Ames extension specialist Hazel I Bown advises homemakers to remodel last year’s dresses to fit 1933 silhouettes. She suggests raising low waists with darts, adding fullness to sleeves, using scarves or lace to fill low necklines, and reworking side seams to remove fullness while preserving a slender look.
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AMES
Hazel I Bown
Hopkinton Extends Corn Scrip Plan Through Week
Hopkinton extends the corn scrip program to Saturday night due to bad side roads. Merchants accept 27 cents a bushel in scrip with a 5 percent discount for the corn bank. Farmers may deliver up to 100 bushels each, and 8 200 bushels were received on Saturday and Monday.
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Epcoiat
Hopkinton
J. Miller
Vinton
Miller Hopkinton
April 15 hotbed time for gardeners
Ames Iowa gardeners concentrate on hotbeds for sweet potatoes ahead of May planting. Extension botanist Duke V Layton notes phosphorus rich 2-12-12 fertilizer outperforms 3-9-5 in Muscatine Island experiments. Growers like T M Hummel adopt the 2-12-12 mix. Farmers apply four to six tons of manure and about 500 pounds of fertilizer per acre for melons in Muscatine county.
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The
Gazette
Ames
Iowa
Muscatine Island
Duke V. Layton
Ames Extension
Niven D Morgan
Layton
Muscatine
Spencer's Grove Farmer Keeps Turnips In Pit
Spencer's Grove farmer Eugene Babcock removed 100 bushels of turnips from a three foot deep winter storage pit. The turnips are solid and sweet and selling in nearby towns. Last fall there was no demand so he covered them with straw and soil.
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Spencer's Grove
Eugene Babcock
Babcock
Tri State Farmers Holiday Association Formed At Sioux City
A new tri state Farmers Holiday association unit was formed in Sioux City with officers led by W. C Daniels as president and J F Kriege as secretary treasurer. Directors include Joseph A Trudeau and others. the group voted to sanction President Roosevelt's farm relief plan and the grain alcohol gasoline motor fuel bill in congress.
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Sioux City
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
W. C Daniels
Sergeant Bluffs
J. F Kriege
South Sioux City
Neb
Joseph A Trudeau
Union County
S. D
P. O. Simpson
Clay County
Barrett Tuntland
Lincoln County
S.D
Simon Madison
Thurston County
C. J. Schultz
Plymouth County
Roosevelt
Congress
Bennett A Duroc Jersey sow farrows twenty one pigs
Albert Thiering, a former Bennett resident, owns the Duroc Jersey sow that recently farrowed twenty one live pigs. The litter’s sire is a Hampshire boar.
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Special
the Gazette
Bennett
Albert Thiering
Hampshire
Corn Belt Shifts 2,000,000 Acres to Pasture Plan
The April 1 report from the bureau of agricultural economics notes retrenchment in farming with eastern and central corn belts planning to move about 2 million acres from crops to pasture. Crop acreages in the central northern plains and parts of the Pacific coast are expected to decline by about 4 million acres. Farmers anticipate reductions in corn, spring wheat, oats, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, while tobacco acreage could rise by 22 percent. Western states report declines in food and feed crops, and livestock prices show mixed movement as dairy and poultry adjust. Paul E. Mann farm near Gladbrook, 60 acres, sold at auction for $25 an acre, totaling $1,500.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Great Plains
Pacific Coast
Bureau
Mississippi
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