Des Moines Area Delays Signatures on 1935 Corn Contracts
Des Moines headquarters reports only a few counties have ready contract listings for 1935 corn hog agreements. Officials say most contracts will be ready for signatures after mid May, with Grundy Center and others submitting group 1 sheets. Processing capacity and potential late arrivals may push signing into late May or after the corn harvest begins.
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Des Moines
Leslie Car
Mr Car
Va On
Act Vear Bac
Ta Es
Gruray
Des Mores
Roy
Grundy Center
da Vauns
Des Miones
Butler
Car
Newt
Tosa
Carl Sad
Carlad
Carl
Fence Drift in Teoven Wire and Memorial Notes
Fragmentary obituary style item mentions a cat named Fence Drift and a note of loss. References a Notre Dame likeness and a playful, mischievous cat known for laughs. Preservation of a feline heaven sentiment appears amid a reflective, ceremonial tone.
Iowa Air Survey Shows Huge Corn Planting Ahead
The farm editor reports from an aerial tour across eleven Iowa counties and into Nebraska. Despite drought and erosion visible from the plane, the 1935 corn acreage appears greatly reduced by weather in some areas, but overall large as farmers prepare fields and land is redirected from streams and sloughs to cultivation.
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Lowas
Iowa
Nertheless
Gazette
Missouri River
Nebraska
Cedar Rapids
Guthrie Audubon
Shelby
Pottawattamie
Proved Jersey Sires Lift Benton County Dairies Output
In Benton county Jersey dairymen show four prov ed sires boosted daughter butterfat by 28 to 63 pounds versus dams. Daughters averaged 469 pounds butterfat vs 432 for dams. overall herd butterfat rose from 326 to 386 pounds yearly. Sons of these sires also contribute. Five Benton Cow Test herds total 109 cows yield 6796 milk and 3911 butterfat yearly on twice daily milking.
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Benton TA
Vinton
Benton County
Jersey
Sophie
Ibsen
Prince
Chief Image
Owl
Five Jersey
Benton Cow Test Association
Edward Fuchrer
Shellsburg
C C Epperson
Corn Tops 90.6 in Kleineck Sale near Bertram
Special to The Carette Sins... Corn sold for 70 to 90 cents a bushel at Mrs Alice J Kleineck closing out sale two miles east of Bertram. Cattle hay and straw prices, calves and sows, horses and ponies sold. engines, plows, and farming gear fetched varied sums. Auctioneer W E Challis of Lisbon handled the sale.
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Alice J. Kleineck
Bertram Oats
Poland
China
W. E. Challis
Lisbon
Farmer Troy Mills John Sells 600 Sheep at Waterloo Market
Special to The Garette reports farmer near Troy Mills sold 600 head of sheep on the Waterloo market Friday and Saturday for 825 dollars per hundredweight. The sheep were purchased from the drought area last fall.
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Garette
Troy Mills
John Takes
Waterloo
A Whistle To Toot For Co-op Creamery At North English
Improvements at the English Valley creamery include a new forty five foot smoke stack and a steam whistle from a tie factory. March high producers listed: Orval Fry North English Jordan Deep River Henry Norling South English L R Herrick Webster W W Fleig Son Richland Paul Peiffer Keota A E Shaull Keswick Harry Morse North English Eulis Wolfe South English F O Hall Webster.
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English Valley Creamery
March
Orval Fry
North English
Jordan
Deep River
Henry Norling
South English
L. R. Herrick
Webster
W. W. Fleig
Keswick
Harry Morse
Eulis Wolfe
F. O. Hall
Hog Farmer Sells 110 Hogs For 3000 At Cedar Rapids Plant
Fred Ax mear of North English sold 110 hogs weighing about 300 pounds at Cedar Rapids packing plant. Total sales were 3000 dollars with a ten cent per hundredweight premium.
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Speets
Gazet
Fred Axmear
Cedar Rapids
Oats Sowing Advances Amid Spring Field Work Across Counties
Special to The Gazette reports Rowley farmers actively sowing oats while others finish corn husking and wood sawing. In Marengo April rainfall remains light except for 1.0 inches, delaying plantings. Hazleton notes rain slows seeding. Manchester farmers complete oats despite wind and cold. Gardeners plant potatoes. farm women hatch chicks. fences repaired as plowing and manure hauling continue.
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Gazette
Rowley
Marengo
Iowa
John Olna
Hazleton
Gardeners Plow and Plant As Old Crops Sell Cheap
A portion of gardens have been plowed with some optimistic planters sowing onion sets and lettuce. Potatoes from last year remain plentiful and fetch 40 to 50 cents a bushel, signaling modest market activity.
Butterfat at Oxford Junction Nets 26.7c At The Farm In 34
Oxford Junction creamery run by Rouse and Karns reports 267 cents per pound net farm price for butterfat last year. Total butter 151,682 pounds produced sold for 36434.62 dollars while ice cream revenue reached 214,405 dollars and total income was 38,797.55 dollars. Manufacturing cost per pound of butter averaged 24.4 cents. In early 1935 butter volume rose 269 percent versus 1934.
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Oxford Junction
Oxford Junction Creamery Company
Rouse and
93 Per Cent of Iowa County Soil Needs Limestone
About 93 percent of Iowa county farm land requires a ton or more of lime per acre to prepare soil for alfalfa culture. Results from 800 experiments over a year detect acid soils by a red color test. Experiments led by County Agent D. H. Zentmire show alfalfa as a drought resistant crop option.
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Marengo
Iowa County
D. H. Zentmire
Rowley Creamery Pays 38 Cents For Butterfat
Rowley Farmers Cooperative Creamery patrons received thirty eight cents a pound for last half of March butterfat. Secretary Joe McGrath reports butterfat during the first half of March commanded thirty four cents a pound.
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Rowley
Rowley Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company
Joe McGrath
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