Homemade tractor cab built near Brandon for winter work
A Gazette photo shows Ross Albert two miles southeast of Brandon with his two sons Lyle and Dean standing by a homemade tractor cab. The $24 device uses strap irons, windshield glass, screws, and bolts and can be lifted off with a block and tackle. The folding rear door avoids the power takeoff, and the cab is electrically equipped with an upholstered seat and rearview mirror though no heater is installed yet. Albert hoped to add a radio and heater later.
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Ross Albert
Brandon Wallboard
Albert
Lyle
Dean
Growers urged to test soybeans for viability nationwide
Special to The Gazette Ames Iowa low germination affects all varieties. Iowa State seed laboratory head R H Porter reports 257 samples show an average viability of 83 percent with 78 percent normal sprouts and 5 percent hard seed. He urges farmers to test, raise seeding rates if needed, and provides a homemade tester method and a formula to adjust seeding rates based on viability measurements.
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Ames
Iowa
R H. Porter
Iowa State Seed Laboratory
Porter
North Central
South Central
Mukden
H. D Hughes
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Kildee to address Linn County beef producers banquet
H H Kildee dean of agriculture at Iowa State and Herman Aaberg field man for the Chicago Producers Commission association will speak at the Linn County Beef Producers association annual banquet April 23. R B Blinks of Marion, the president, announced Saturday. The event is set for 7 p m at the Cedar Rapids venue. Women as well as men will attend, Blinks said.
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H. H. Kildee
Iowa State
Ames
Herman Aaberg Ames
Iowa
Chicago Producers Commission Association
Linn County Beef Producers Association
R. B Blinks
Marion
Cedar Rapids , . C. A
Blinks
Butter and lard ads push to cut big surpluses in Iowa
An Iowa dairy and fat products campaign urges promotion of butter and lard to reduce long standing surpluses. It cites a fall in butter storage from 92.78 million to 8.86 million pounds and discusses consumer grades, quality labels, and broader marketing plans to boost demand and open new channels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
St Paul
East Towa
United States
Outstanding 4-H Club Members In State Designated Iowa
Dorothy Ostrander and Raymond Eveland were named Iowa’s outstanding 4-H club members. They will represent the state at a national 4-H camp in Washington DC next June after interviews from eight finalists. Ostrander, a former state 4-H president, teaches near Buffalo Center, while Eveland is a freshman at Iowa State College.
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Des Moines
Dorothy Ostrander
Buffalo Center
Raymond Eveland
Ames
Iowa
Washington, D. C
Miss Ostrander
Farm Hand Wages Hit Highest Point Since 1931
The Agriculture Department reported that spring farm wage rates rose to 124 percent of the 1910-14 level, the highest since 1931, with April 1 averages at 36.41 per day and 1.45 per hour without board. Despite higher wages, farm laborers numbered 9.797 million, down from 9.96 million a year earlier due to mechanization and migration to industrial sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
4-H Training School At Manchester April 17
Miss Florence Forbes Ames extension home furnishing specialist will lead the third 4-H training school in Delaware county at Manchester on April 17. The 10 am session will include seating of chairs lamp shades bouquet arrangement and refinishing of soft and hard woods with one older girl from each club attending.
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Spreial
the Gazette
Manchester
Florence Forbes
Ames Extension Home
Delaware County
Butter and meat stockpiles sag in April 1 cold storage report
Government cold storage figures released Saturday show butter at 8.856 million pounds on April 1, down from 92.78 million a year earlier, and eggs, beef, lard, pork, and poultry stocks also varied. Turkey holdings were 53.74 million pounds, with beef at 72.578 million and lard at a record 269.284 million pounds.
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Turkey
Butter Surplus Cuts Prices Across Regions and Weak Demand
The federal surplus commodity corporation cut butter paying price on Wednesday by 0.34 cent in New York and Chicago and 0.01 cent on the Pacific coast. Early Chicago sales reached 27.0 cents per pound, with later 27.44 cents. Through Friday FSCC bought 5,452 tubs in New York and 6,196 in Chicago. prices remained around 27 cents in major markets amid short supply of medium butter and expectations of larger production as cows go on grass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Surplus Commodity Corporation
New York
Chicago
Pacific Coast
FSCC
New York City
Rally Day Set for Jones County Girls 4-H Program
Anamosa June 5 has been set as the date for the Jones county girls 4-H rally day program. County Agent Carl R. Smith announced the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Jones County
Carl R. Smith
April in the Country by a Country Woman
Busy people are happy ones as tractors hum from dawn to darkness. Brown fields turn rich black, cornstalks flatten for the grain drill, and wheat and rye show green. Buds swell, rain-soaked soil scents fill the air, promising a fruitful April in the country.
Jackson county Home Crafts Day honors townships at Maquoketa
More than 150 persons attended the Jackson county Farm Bureau women's home project achievement day in Maquoketa. Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis spoke and judged, praising Maquoketa, South Fork, and Bellevue townships for organization strength and noting superior ratings for Maquoketa and good ratings for Bellevue and South Fork. Monmouth and Farmers Creek displayed loom weaving chairs and minor projects, with hobby exhibits of silverware covers and counterpanes. The program included a candle lighting service, recognition for 100 percent township leaders, and music by the farm women's chorus.
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Maquoketa
Jackson County Farm Bureau Women's Home Project
George Roe
Sarah Porter Ellis
South Fork
Bellevue
Farmers Creek
George Stoll
George A.mitchell
Hobby
Ben Downey
Jackson County Pves Bureau
Be Krause
County Health Meeting At Monticello May 15
Mrs. Arnold Thalacker health chairman of the Jones county Farm Bureau announced a county wide health meeting will be held May 15 at 2 p.m. in Monticello. Dr. Carl F. Jordan director of the preventable disease section of the Iowa state health department will speak.
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Sprcial
Monticello
Arnold Thalacker
Jones County Farm Bureau
Carl F. Jordan
Iowa State Health Department
FSA Conference Set in Cedar Rapids at Hotel Roosevelt
Farm Security Administration personnel from 16 eastern flown counties will meet at the Hotel Roosevelt in Cedar Rapids on April 19 to discuss coordinating federal agricultural agencies. Keith Noll, FSA supervisor at Cedar Rapids, announced Saturday.
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Farm Security Administration
Hotel Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Keith Noll
FSA
Nurserymen Harvest Trees With Mighty Digging Team
In a Cedar Rapids nursery, horses and workers using a 24 inch U shaped digger slash three foot wide slices two to three feet deep to uproot fruit trees for wrapping, grading and delivery. Dwight Hughes leads the lead team while Ralph Hughes handles sales and explains grafted seedlings from Kaw valley stock and prewar French seed. The production involves careful pollination and root development practices.
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Cedar Rapids
Dwight Hughes
Ralph Hughes
Kaw Valley
Kansas City
Eider
France
West
Corn Planting At Springville Farm Continues
Dillon Atherton, located about 1.5 miles northwest of Springville, maintains a three year practice of spring corn planting. He began with frost resistant hybrids in 1938, sowing 5 acres on April 12, then April 26 in 1939. This year 51? acres had seed beds prepared but rains halted work. Planting resumed after soil surface thaw. Harvests from April plantings occurred in mid August in 1938 and 1939.
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Gazette
Springville
Dillon Atherton
Atherton
Weather slows spring sowing in Blairstown area
In Blairstown Rajin halted sowing for a week. Farmers finished oats or sowed flax, while most farm work lags behind normal. A few early vegetables planted but potato planting delayed by cold weather.
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Sproint
the Gazette
Blairstown
Rajin
Oats Progress and Sheep Increase Reported in Buchanan
Independence reports 70 percent of oats sown in Buchanan county while spring plowing is light. Winter wheat and rye are thriving. Spring lamb crop expected to rise due to more ewes carried over and increased forage under the soil conservation program, boosting sheep numbers in the county.
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Independence
Homer Soules
AAA
Buchanan
Two Million Trees Supplied To Iowa Farmers
Ames Iowa farmers will plant over two million trees from state nurseries in Ames and Keosauqua this spring. State forester G B MacDonald says the program lowers costs for farm woodlots erosion control and reforestation. Extension forester Guy Ramsey and two assistants conduct nationwide demonstrations on planting and care. Orders through April 12 total 2,065,000 trees with 1,213,000 from Ames and 851,000 from Keosauqua.
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Ames
Iowa
Keosauqua
G. B. MacDonald
Guy Ramsey
MacDonald
Orchard Meetings Set in Linn County for April 16 and 17
Ten demonstration home orchards will be established in Linn county on Tuesday and Wednesday under the direction of J. S Nelson Ames extension horticulturist County Agent Rex Conn announced. Demonstrations teach top working desirable varieties of apples onto winter hardy Virginia crab stock to develop longer lived productive home orchards. Each cooperator will have 6 to 12 Virginia crabs ready to plant.
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Linn County
J. S Nelson
Ames Extension Horticulturist
Rex Conn
Andy Gunderson
Springville
John P. Williams
Whittier
Arnold Hoge
Guy Hillier
Marion
Peter Bremer, Jr
Central City
E. D. Robbins
Palo
L. C. Henderson
Toddville
C. E. Hartzell
Mount Vernon
Archibald Brothers
Albert Blinks
Lisbon
Thornburg seeks federal aid to battle chinch bug invasion
Secretary of Agriculture Mark Thornburg urged immediate federal help for the chinch bug outbreak across Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Entomologists met in St. Joseph to draft plans as they warn a threatening emergency. barriers would require about 9 million gallons of creosote and a program costing at least 2 million dollars.
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DFS
Secretary of Agriculture
Mark G. Thornburg
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
St. Joseph
Thornburg
Eighty Near Morley Brings $68.75 Acre
The 80 acre J. O. Farnham homestead near Morley sold by guardian Henry Seeger for Mrs. Alice Jurgensen to Fred Fritz of Oxford Junction for 5500 total, about 6875 an acre, with immediate possession. The tillable farm lies on a gravel road. improvements are fair.
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Morley
J. O. Farnham
M. H Jurgensen
Henry Seeger
Alice Jurgensen
Fred Fritz
Oxford Junction
No Seasonal Rise in Iowa Milk Flow in March
DES MOINES AP Milk output in Iowa did not rise seasonally in March. State statistician Leslie M. Carl reports April 1 production per cow at 15.9 pounds, unchanged from March and lower than last year's 18.2 pounds. Eastern Iowa showed typical March to April gains while western Iowa, except central, saw declines. Town butterfat price on March 15 held at 30 cents per pound.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Carl
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Iowa Dairy Industry Commission
Towa Dairy Industry Commission
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Inwa
Ray Anderson
Dairy Products Marketing Association
Fdderalt Surplus Commodity Corporation
Turkey Holdings
Jackson
Shover’s Oak Farms
Marion Boulevard
Mexico
Nee Thin
Marien Boulevard
Cedar Rapida
Mari
R. A. Shover
Linn
Chinch Bug
Garvette
Nerle
GARMC
E. Cohn & Sons, Inc
3Rd
Fenick & Ford
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