Rains And Wet Soil Hold Back Field Work
Weather limits Iowa field activity for the week ending April 22 with heavy rains delaying plowing and oats and barley planting. Early oats stand good. some potatoes planted. Warm days followed by frost in the north and west. Tornadoes, hail, and thunderstorms hit eastern counties. snow fell in the northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ES Moines
INS
Iowa
S. E. Decker
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Decker
Cedar River
Floyd County
Maquoketa River
Jackson County
Montgomery
Guthrie
East Central
Danish System Improves Cleanliness in Isaacs Danish Hog Houses
Remont Isaacs near Iowa City uses a Danish hog housing system to keep litters unusually clean. A purebred Canadian Yorkshire gilt weighing about 275 pounds is one of fourteen Yorks raised in Danish style pens that provide privacy and reduce filth. Isaacs notes hogs are naturally inclined to avoid filth when possible and praises the portable Danish-type pen costing 115 dollars.
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Remont Isaacs
Iowa City
York
Isaacs
Weather Summary from Ames Shows Slight Temperature Dip
An early report from Ames notes soil temperatures near surface around 53.5 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit at several depths. Readings indicate a modest cooling compared with the preceding week as the season shifts post-fall.
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Coe
Ames
Brandon Farmers Restore Fields After Heavy Rains
Special to The Gazette reports Brandon farmers are digging out fields and repairing fences damaged by flood like rains. Replanting will start once soils dry and oats remain scarce and high priced.
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Gazette
Brandon
Early spring farming in Troy Mills area faces cold delays
A light frost affected Troy Mills Monday night as buds swell on fruit trees and strawberries. Gardens are growing. rhubarb and asparagus are used. Farmers report slow farm work due to cold weather and muddy fields, with lime applications underway and limited corn plowing.
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Troy Mills
Rural choruses to compete for district title at Mount Vernon
Eight rural choruses from Linn Benton Scott Jones Poweshiek Johnson Tama and Cedar will perform at loge chapel Mount Vernon on May 10. Mrs Orrin Kiser district chair announces plans. Judges include Harold Baltz Lloyd Oakland and a German professor. The top chorus advances to the state tournament at the Iowa State Fair in August.
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Mount Vernon
Iowa
Loge Chapel
Orrin Kiser
Linn
Benton
Scott
Jones
Poweshiek
Johnson
Tama
Cedar
Jean Sibelius
Harold W. Baltz
Conservatory of Music
Cornell
Lloyd Oakland
German
Population shifts in Iowa and nationwide in 1940 results
Iowa farm population fell 4.8 percent since 1930 while the nation shows a 0.1 percent rise. Connecticut up 19.8 percent, South Dakota down 21.1 percent. Iowa total population around 1,? million, with 1930 figures given for whites and non whites. 65 plus residents numbered 1408 males and 112,708 females, up 23.2 percent since 1930. Florida highest growth, Vermont smallest.
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Washington
Iowa
Connecticut
South Dakota
Florida
Vermont
Seek Allotment For More REA Lines In Buchanan
Independence Carl Krumpel announces for Buchanan County rural electrification project a new REA line allotment to serve 823 customers with an average 55 kilowatt hours. The current month records 45 515 kilowatts used with 122 new customers. another 100 are expected in April.
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Carl Krumpel
Buchanan County Rural Electrification Project
Orchard Plantings To Be Made In Fayette
Ames extension horticulturist L. C. Grove will conduct orchard planting demonstrations on three farms in Fayette county on April 28. Plantings will include Hibernal and Virginia crab trees, hardy for northeast Iowa winters. Grafts of desirable varieties will follow with a schedule: 9 a.m. Mrs. Mary Babcock farm Smithfield township, 10:30 a.m. John Gantenbein farm Harlan township, 1:30 p.m. Vern Thompson farm Bethel township.
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Fayette
L. C. Grove
Ames Extension Horticulturist
Fayette County
Paula
Iowa
Mary Babcock
Smithfield Township
John Gantenbein
Harlan Township
Vern Thompson
Bethel Township
Keokuk Women Set Achievement Day in Sigourney April 30
Keokuk county rural women will hold their annual home project achievement day in Sigourney on April 30 after 12 30 p m county home demonstration agent Miss Ruth Gallentine announced The program features the years home management study The Consumer and Problems exhibits from nine townships a panel by Benton township women a music number by Richland township women and a dance by the Warren Winners 4 H club More than 100 farm women are expected to attend
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Ruth Gallentine
Sarah Porter E Ellis
Ames
Will Inc Sawset
Sigourney Township
Benton Township
Richland Townsip
Warren Winners
Tipton Cedar County Women’s Achievement Day Program
The Gazette notes a Tipton Cedar County event for women featuring home project talks by subproject chairmen and performances including No Agents Wanted by Red Oak township and It’s a Woman’s by Massillon township. Fremont Township presents Pageant of the Americas with a county rural women’s meeting at 10 30 a m.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Dallas
Ed Crist
Curtis Frymeyer
Alvin Stonerook
Louis
Red Oak Township
Massillon Township
Fremont Township
Criminal Investigator To Address Benton Junior Farm Bureau
Des Moines detective R. W. Nebergall, chief of the criminal investigation division, will address Benton county Junior Farm Bureau members Friday evening at Merl Bruch's home near Blairstown. The announcement came today.
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Vinton-R. W. Nebergall
Des Moines
Criminal Investigation Division
Benton County Junior Farm Bureau
Merl Bruch
Blairstown
Rural women chorus to broadcast on WSUI Friday night
Tipton Cedar county rural women's chorus directed by Mrs. Don Dallas of Red Oak township will broadcast Friday at 8 15 p m over WSUI. Accompanist is Mrs. Arnold Swan of Cass township.
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the Gazette
Tipton
Cedar County
WSUI
Don Dallas
Red Oak Township
Arnold Swan
Cass Township
Butterfat payments at Silver Springs creamery rise in March
OSSIAN patrons of the Silver Springs creamery were paid 35 cents a pound for butterfat received at a plant during the first half of March. B. J. Eimers was the high producer with 271.9 pounds.
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Ossian
Silver Springs Creamery
B. J. Eimers
Twin Shorthorn calves gain 300 pounds since Dec 14
DECORAH Twin Shorthorn calves fed since December 14 by Bernard Wanless of Hesper 4-H baby beef club have each gained over 300 pounds. Starting weights were 527 and 567 pounds, now about 900 pounds. Feed includes cracked corn, shelled corn, barley, oil meal and alfalfa hay. Wanless exhibited the grand and reserve champion baby beeves at Winneshiek county fair last year.
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Decorah
Bernard Wanless
Hesper
Baby
Wanless
Winneshiek
Delaware H D A Resigns Position For Gov t Job
Miss Dorothy Lynn Gates longtime county home demonstration agent in Delaware resigns her post in Manchester to take a civil service job in Washington D C within the bureau of home economics department of agriculture division of housing and household equipment.
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Manchester
Dorothy Lynn Gates
Delaware
Gates
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Home Economics
Department of Agriculture
Division of Housing and Household Equipment
Solons Expect Little Change In Farm Program
Two mid limited representatives Coffee and Gilchrist foresee minimal changes in the current farm program as consideration of new proposals starts. Gilchrist backs the AAA program saying it remains solid though dependent on yearly appropriations. He advocates a self-operating plan for farmers akin to tariffs for manufacturers.
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Washington
Coffee
Gilchrist
AAA
Windbreak Plantings In Allamakee County Details
Windbreak planting demonstrations scheduled in Allamakee County on May 1 and May 5. On May 1 at 8:30 a.m. at the E. F. Pieper farm in Ludlow township officials will show proper wildlife game cover planting. On May 5 at 1:15 p.m. at the Will Thompson farm in Center township similar guidance will be demonstrated.
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Allamakee County
E. F. Pieper
Ludlow Township
Will Thompson
Center Township
Testers Conference At Oelwein Planned May 1 2
Oelwein hosts a dairy herd spring conference in charge of Floyd Johnston and Arthur Porter Ames extension dairymen.
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Oelwein
Floyd Johnston
Arthur Porter
Ames Extension Dairymen
Steers Bring $10.50 At Chicago Market
Waukon area farmers Martin and Johnson trucked 23 head of left-pound steers to Chicago Monday. The steers sold for $10.50 per hundredweight, reflecting strong demand in the market.
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Waukon
Martin and Johnson
Chicago
Hog kill exceeds year-ago level by twenty four thousand
Slaughter at 27 federal inspection centers for the week ended April 18 totaled 642,868 hogs, up 24,693 from the 618,188 a year earlier. Sheep and lambs, cattle and calves were below the previous year. Cattle 12,521 versus 17,129. calf 4,857 versus 6,493. hogs 139,000 versus 131,268. sheep 32,065 versus 33,131.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
Corte
Minnesota
Fire Roars Through Rowley Farm Killing 300 Chicks
A blaze at John Wilson's Rowley area farm destroyed a house and 300 three week old chicks two miles south of Rowley. A second house was badly damaged but about 235 chicks were saved in the fire.
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John Wilson
Rowley
Decorah April 30 Observance Noted
A note from Decorah lists April 30 as the target day for the annual C.T. A. event titled Annual April 39, marking a local observance in the town.
Note to the sheriff hints at debtor evasion and a discount offer
A terse verse from a deputy hints the defendant paid nothing after a $110 judgment and was released. The text adds a 20 percent discount offer for advance Want Ads begun by April 27 for four consecutive days or more.
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New York
Butter Production Surges in West North Central States
Des Moines reports a 5 percent rise in butter output for the week ending April 17 in the West North Central region, including Iowa. Federal statistician Leslie M. Carl notes the rise is unusually large for the period, while national creamery production rose 4 percent and the North Atlantic area fell due to a sharp drop in New York.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Carl
North Atlantic
New York
Beef Growers In Muscatine To Tour Feed Lots Friday
Beef growers from Muscatine will tour eight local feed lots Friday starting at 8:30 a.m. from the Farm Bureau office. Stops include John Lee farm Seventy-six township, Ira Lee farm Seventy-six township, Lee Riggs farm Lake township, M E Eichelberger farm Lake township, Carl Phillipe farm Lake township, M R Watts farm Lake township, and Wendell Hoopes farm Lake township, with a noon finish and 12 45 lunch in Muscatine. Rex Beresford of Ames will discuss beef cattle outlook and Herman Aaberg will attend representing the Chicago Producers association.
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Farm Bureau
John Morris
John Lee
Ira Lee
Lee Riggs
M. E. Eichelberger
Lake Township
Carl Phillipe
Lake Ee
M. R. Watts
Lake
Wendell Hoopes
Muscatine
Rex Beresford
Ames Extension Animal Husbandman
Herman Aaberg
Iowa
Chicago Producers Association
Cattle Farms Highlight Livestock in Iowa Headlines
Farmers near Vinton, Springville, Wilton Junction, and surrounding areas raise Angus Hereford and dairy cattle, with herds ranging from 35 to 100 head. The Shadas add Brown Swiss sheep and feeder calves, while J Keith Noll of The Peoria Savings Bank notes loan repayment incentives. Rex Beresford cites mineral feeding as boosting cattle finish and value.
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Eli Shada
Springville
Shadas
Haag Farm Ae Lan
J. Keith Noll
Farm Service
Peories Savings Bank
Cedar Rapids
Harry Duffe
Muscatine
Wilton Junction
Duffe
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