Government buys 372000 cases of eggs since December
Government purchases of eggs reached 372000 cases by March 30 with more than 320000 bought in the prior five weeks. The FSCC bought 192000 cases in the last week of March the largest weekly total. Supplies moved mainly to relief and stamp plan stores with 59000 cases in storage in New York and Chicago, and FSCC actions affected regional markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AJOR
Curplus Commodities Corporation
FSCC
Cedar Rapids
Rtlief
New York
Chicago
Iowa
Wissouri
Indiana
Ilinois
FENCE DRIFTCaught in Woven Wire
A Russian report notes researchers using sugar solution in experimental clover fields to attract bees for better pollination and seed yield. It claims red clover nectar is too low in sugar to attract honey bees and some clover varieties with shorter corollas have limited impact.
245 Signers On Clayton Petition For Soil District
AP Des Moines report notes petitions from five Clayton county townships bearing about 245 signatures accepted under Iowa 1939 soil conservation act. No public hearing date set yet. Montromers farmers vote April 13 at Red Oak after a public hearing April 3 on petitions to establish a district in that county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Harry Linn
State Soil Conservation Committee
Clayton County
Montromers
Red Oak
Board Of Trade Right To Discipline Members Is Upheld
In Chicago the referee’s final report upholds the Chicago Board of Trade’s right to discipline members for rule violations. Cargill Inc challenged market manipulation charges from 1937. referee Abbot Maginnis recommended dismissal, with final decision by the Commodity Exchange Commission still to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Cargill, Inc
Commodity Exchange Commission
Abbot Maginnis
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A Wallace
Robert H Jackson
Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins
Maginnis
Closing Out Sale of Farm Livestock and Implements
Public auction on the Charley Nocton farm near Wilton Junction and Bennett for horses cattle hogs and farm machinery plus grain and hay. Sale includes mares geldings ponies and a variety of Holstein Guernsey and Angus cattle, thirteen Hampshire sows, and draft and work mules with milking stock and veal calves. Auctioneer Henry Clerk, Bennett Bank Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eo Owith
Charley
Tyne
Guernsey
Jnst
Wolstein
Beemen Weigh Colony Tax to Fight Bee Diseases
Iowa Beekeepers weigh a colony tax on bees now used in Missouri Wisconsin Nebraska and Minnesota to fund disease eradication. A committee will report feasibility findings to the legislature next session. Spring detection of dead colonies and fall robbing are key disease transfer periods cited. Local funding limits hamper inspection efforts and rely on county boards via petitions by beekeepers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nwa Beekeepers Association
Missouri
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa Beekeepers’ Bulletin
Association
County Board of Supervisors
Walker Creamery Pays 31 Cents For Butterfat
The Walker Farms creamery paid patrons 31 cents a pound for butterfat received during the first two weeks of March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker Creamery
Walker
Walker Farmers Creamery
REA Steam Plant Drawing for Genoa Wisconsin Project
Architect’s drawing unveils a million dollar REA steam generating plant to be built this summer at Genoa Wisconsin on the Mississippi River. It will serve eighteen to twenty thousand farms in Minnesota Iowa and Wisconsin via eleven REA cooperatives . Construction will start immediately and finish by late summer or early fall with Tri-State financing a $1.5 million federal loan through the Rural Electrification Administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
REA
United States
Genoa
Wis
Mississippi River
la Crosse
Tri-State Power Cooperative
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Tri-State
Rural Electrification Administration
Interior hog run bulges on Friday in interior markets
Hog receipts in the interior markets of Inwa and southern Minnesota rose to 31 000 head on Friday, with four day totals at 106 100 and five day totals at 137 100. Prices hovered near 4 75 to 5 14 a hundredweight, while buyers shifted top price brackets toward heavier hogs as unfinished stock increased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inwa
Minnesota
Chicago
Fin
Most Oats To Be Sowed This Week In Webster Vicinity
Oats sowing near Webster will finish this week with some corn ground plowed. About half the gardens are planted, two weeks earlier than last year, and soil is working up well across the area. Field work in Walker includes grass seeding and lime spreading, with seed oats planted by Forrest Cherry and Byron Snodgrass potato planting noted. Tuesday rain aided ground settling and several farmers join a pasture improvement program. Neighbors sowed oats near Conesville for James Moorhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Webster
Walker
Forrest Cherry
Byron Snodgrass
Town notes on farming and damages after winter
In Millersburg field work advances with oats seeding plowing disking and harrowing. Potatoes and early gardens planted. Shrubs being replanted. Raspberries and fruit shrubs damaged by rabbits over winter. Ville's brother George Moor Head died Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millersburg
Clay Rates High In Washington County Achievement Day
Clay township Washington county rated high in all divisions of the achievement day program here Wednesday. Mrs Merle Twinam of Crawfordsville presided. Clay was commended for progress on organization and activity work and for results obtained. Publicity chairmen of Clay and Cedar townships were praised by Miss Marian Edwards. Program ratings named Clay superior Washington excellent Cedar Crawford Jackson good and Brighton fair. Music memory contest saw Clay and Cedar rated excellent with Brighton Jackson Lime Creek listed as good to fair.
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Washington
Clay Township
Washington County
Merle Twinam
Crawfordsville
Clay
Washington Township
Cedar Townships
Marian Edwards
Ames
Superior
Cedar
Crawford
Jackson
Brighton
Fair
Lime Creek
Millersburg Farm Bureau Women Host Achievement Day
Millersburg Iowa The Millersburg county Farm Bureau women plan an achievement day on April 19. The program features judging of home project displays program numbers and a cooperative dinner for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millersburg
Iowa County Farm Bureaui
Livestock outlook from government foreword on cattle and hogs
The Livestock Situation foreword notes a continued rise in cattle numbers through 1939 into 1940, with about 68.8 million cattle and calves on farms Jan 1, and hogs up 18 percent from a year earlier. Slaughter projections for 1940-41 expect higher hog slaughter overall, with seasonal shifts in marketings and spring pig crop sizes likely smaller than 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mary L. Johnson estate farm sale leads April auctions
Coming farm auctions list events including a 120 acre Johnson estate sale 1 1/2 miles south of Mechanicsville Anamosa, and a Bennett area Kleppe closing out sale. Market notes indicate larger early lambs and higher grass fat yearling shipments from Texas, with spring lamb prices influenced by stronger demand and larger overall slaughter supplies through May and June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary L. Johnson
Mechanicsville
Anamosa
Henry Kleppe
Bennett, Ia
City Sales Co
Texas
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RPA
Clayton
Marion
Bertram
Reget Cocina
Seek
Iowa City
STUSAK=CO
Meaat Market
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Derren
James and Sons CO
First ST
East Side River
Skiei Steak
Pennsylvania
Bristow
Katz Auto Parts Co
Dave Flink
Mgr
Adams School
Fifth ST
Seventh Ave
Conesville
James Moorhead
Cones
Ville
George Moorhead
Chiraan
Federal Agricultural Marketing Service
California
Arizona
William Ann Company
West End
F Ave
Dial
First St. NW
P&g
Sunkist
OUR Meat Department
OHIOS
Cobblers
Rose of Iowa Flour
Miller's Corn
Kellogg's
All-Bran
Phas
Palmolive
Wilson
Swift
Sala
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