Cedar Rapids Boasts Only Soy Bean Soap Factory In U S
The Sterling Soap company at the Iowa Milling plant in Cedar Rapids runs the only U S soap made from soy bean oil. Daily output is 500 cases of 100 bars each with soap made from Max Alberts recipe, using dehyrdated beans and filtered oil. The plant plans expanded bean supply as demand grows.
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Cedar Rapids
U.S
United States
Sterling Soap Company
Iowa Milling Company
Joe Sinaiko
Max Alberts
Federal Rulings Prompt Change In Spray Schedule
Special to The Gazette Ames entomologist Dr C H Richardson calls for revised lead arsenate dosages in the cooling moth spray program after new federal rules limit arsenic residues on fruit. He suggests increased initial sprays to two pounds per fifty gallons, with careful timing and thorough application, while later cycles reduce lead use and may add petroleum emulsions. The rules cap arsenic at 0.01 grain per pound of fruit and 0.14 grain lead per pound, risking seizure and prosecution for shipments.
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AMES
C H Richardson
Ames Entomology Section
Richardson
Seed Corn Sells For $1 A Bushel In Cedar County
Tipton area report shows farmer Frank Moffitt delivering 1700 bushels of corn to Stanwood elevator at 27 cents per bushel amid rising seed corn demand as planting season nears. Earlier asking prices reached 75 cents per bushel. buyers now post better prices. Also notes bargains in used lumber and plumbing fixtures listed in Want Ad section.
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Tipton
Frank Moffitt
Stanwood
Daily Farm News For Farm Folk
Ray Anderson edits a rural bulletin delivering farm tips, crop updates, and market notes for farmers. Practical advice and locality focused headlines appear alongside weather outlooks and seasonal chores to guide daily work.
Livestock Prices Rise Across Classes at Union Stockyards
Trade was active at Union Stockyards Chicago with an overall upward swing in prices across cattle hogs and sheep. Fed steers and yearlings led gains while hogs softened late as supplies surged. fat lambs and woolskins posted new highs for the period.
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UNION
Chicago
Inflation and Beer Spur Produce Prices
New York reports dairy and poultry prices rising with inflation and light reserves. Butter fluctuates while cheese remains in strong demand. milk prices face regulatory battles and potential minimum producer pricing. Eggs, poultry exports, and apple markets gain as gold standard shifts aid producers. Lambs arrive late. onions revive after price declines. beans rise as shipping prices climb amid cold eastern weather.
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New York City
New York
Milk Control Board
Institute of American Poultry Industries
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Des Moines
Chicago
Iowa
Long Island
Pacific Northwest
Virginia
Northwestern
California
Mississippi River
Horse-Drawn Outfit Tilt In Farm Power Near Manchester
Seeding of oats is nearly finished and crops show good stands. Early potatoes planted with plowing for corn. Horse-drawn discs and sulky plows common. tractors present but outnumbered. Warm days with frosts recent. butter up three cents to 26 cents a pound.
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Manchester
Cattle Truck Imports Rise 100 Percent in Chicago
The Union Stock Yards and Transit Company reports a year long survey showing trucks delivering cattle to Chicago markets surged dramatically. March figures show cattle by truck nearly doubled from last year with trucks making up 25 percent of receipts. Hog, sheep, and calf truck shares also climbed to 39.7 percent 5.7 percent and 2.7 percent respectively.
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Chicago
Union Stockyards and Transit Company
Herefords Sold By ILevsen At Cedar Rapids
Olin farmer Harry Levsen shipped the equiva lent of four carloads of Hereford cattle to Cedar Rapids, selling 54 head at $5.00 per hundredweight and ten head at $4.50. The operation used multiple trucks so no return trips were needed, marking his first livestock trucking experience. Another local grower, B Muller, has also adopted truck shipping for marketing cattle. Trucking is gaining popularity locally.
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Spreia
Gazette
Olin
Harry Levsen
Cedar Rapids
Mr Levsen
B Muller
Mechanicsville Feeder Buys Corn At 25 Cents A Bushel
Hugh W. Elliott farmer near Mechanicsville purchased 2000 bushels of corn from Eugene Rhoads for 25 cents a bushel. The cattle shipment includes three carloads of cattle and two loads of hogs.
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Mechanicsville
Hugh W. Elliott
Eugene Rhoads
Farmer Uses Auto Exhaust Gas as Gophericide
J N Smith, a farmer near Center Junction, reports that carbon monoxide pumped from a car exhaust into rodent burrows is the most effective way to kill gophers and woodchucks. He drives his fields each spring, increases the fuel mixture to ensure rapid, deadly action, and prefers it over strychnine bait and other methods.
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Center Junction
J. N. Smith
Mr. Smith
Inflation Likely to Double Iowa Crop Values This Year
Iowa farmers could see crop values double if inflation measures under review by Congress pass, with estimates showing 1932 values at 403.8 million and 800 million under a halved dollar gold content. Experts expect grain and hog prices to rise first, aiding farm debt relief and mortgage payments.
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The
Gazette
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Congress
Agricultural Economics Bureau
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Senate
Treasury
Assistant Manager Resigns at Farmers Creamery
Edgewood based Farmers Creamery announces that Ray Lewis assistant manager for over four years has resigned to take a job in Oklahoma. Paul Funk will succeed him here.
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Gazette
Edgewood
Ray Lewis
Farmers’ Creamery Company
Oklahoma
Paul Funk
Wool market climbs as shearing starts in Iowa
The Cedar Rapids area buyers lift bids on wool from 9 to 14 cents a pound as shearing begins. The Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers Association reports pooled wool advances, with guaranteed cash offers at 11 cents for bright quarter and three-eights or native wool and 10 cents for semi-bright and related grades. Flocks are being shorn this week with shearing costs around 15 cents per fleece.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Sheep and Wool Growers Association
Charles Sexton of
Ferguson
Hog consignment tops market at Mechanicsville sale
W H Kline of Mechanicsville, four miles northeast, offered seventy one 306 pound Spotted Poland hogs on the Chicago market. The hogs sold at 3.95 per hundredweight, the top price for their class, and were trucked to market.
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Gazette
Mechanicsville
W. H. Kline
Chicago
Farm racketeer blamed for Iowa unrest in Plymouth county
In Le Mars on Friday and nearby country, farmers, officials, and citizens condemn the attack on Judge Bradley while denouncing racketeers who inflame rural tensions. The piece argues for arrests, stronger justice, and a purge of demagogic influence across Iowa.
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Plymouth County
le Mars
C. C. Bradley
Ralph E. Rippey
Mark Round
Durbands
Qyn
Judge Bradley
Sioux City
Iowa
Rippey
le Mars National Guard
Saint Patrick
Makeshift Bookcases For Farmhouse Living
Doojiggers n Whatyoucallems humorously explores home furniture scarcity among farm families. It describes inventive makeshift bookcases built from boxes and bricks, highlighting thrifty solutions for cramped spaces and the appeal of reading amid modest means.
Linn Holiday Assn Names Delegates To National Convention
Delegates from Linn County Farm Holiday association will elect two voting delegates at a Marion meeting Saturday evening. A 25 to 30 member delegation is expected at Des Moines on May 3 for the national convention at the state fairgrounds. A. F. Whitney of Cleveland will speak and a May 13 national farm strike may be decided.
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Linn County Farm Holiday Association
Des Moines
Marion
E. A. Clark
A. F. Whitney
Cleveland
National Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Linn County Association
Coggon Co-Op Pays 20c for Butterfat First Half April
Linn County Farmers Mutual Creamery patrons receive 20 cents a pound for April butterfat. M. L. Ware reports the week’s butter make totaled 275 tubs. Leading patrons include C R Mills M E Scott H J Rompt W R Dudley C Bodicker and others at Hankin and nearby areas.
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Linn County Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Association
M. L. Ware
C. R. Mills
M. E. Scott
H. J. Rompt
W. R. Dudley
C. Boddicker
C. Winnistorf
Elkader Fair Dates Set for August 15 18
Elkader announces the fair will run August 15 to 18. A meeting this week will outline the general program and details of the event.
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Elkader Fair
Elkader
Sprayer Finishes Apple Orchard Treatment in Edgewood
Special to The Gazette Edgewood Rev. Charles H. True has completed spraying 400 gallons of solution to his apple orchards to control scab. Current conditions suggest blossoms will appear within ten days, signaling imminent bloom.
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Edgewood
Charles H. True
Linn 4-H beefs praised after Linn county tour
Carl Oldsen of the Town Beef Producers association called the 4-H baby beef tour the biggest surprise of his life. He noted marked improvement in Angus and Shorthorn calves, with Herefords weaker, amid 116 Linn calves on feed across 25 stops. Nationwide, about 2,500 4-H members feed 4,286 calves, up 18 percent from 1932, with 13 counties at or above eighty calves.
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Carl Oldsen
Town Beef Producers Association
Linn
Oldsen
Iowa
Oldson
Linn County
Ames
F. P. Reed
State Club Department
Cerro Gordo
Crawford
Marshall
Adair
Fremont
Greene
Johnson
Keokuk
Madison
Osceola
Polk and
Wapello
Fertility Upheld by Lime Manure and Rotation on 120 Acre Farm
Charles Haynes and Son near Manchester report three years of higher corn yields with new seeding and manured pastured fallow. They harvested 2,300 bushels from 30 acres, averaging over 76.5 bushels per acre, while maintaining soil fertility through liming crop rotation and regular manuring. Their Holstein herd produced 366 pounds butterfat in two weeks, and they raise 100 hogs annually along with layers laying 140 eggs daily.
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Manchester
Charles Haynes
Haynes
Manchester Co-operative Creamery
Springville Men Ship Thirteenth Carload of Hay
B. D. Coppock and Son of Springville loaded the thirteenth carload of baled hay shipped from Martelle to drought districts in the north this winter and spring. Eight or ten more carloads are planned to leave Springville.
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The
Gazette
Martelle
B. D. Coppock
Springville
Linn County Farm Bureau Week Calendar
Linn County Farm Bureau schedules a board meeting Tuesday at the bureau office Federal Building, Otter Creek township meeting Wednesday at Alburnett High School, and Fayette Clinton township meeting Thursday at Palo High School.
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Linn County Farm Bureau
County Farm Breau Board
Farm Bureau
Federal Building
Otter Creek Township
Al«burnett High School
Fayette-Clinton Township
Palo High School
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Mechanicsville Feeder
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Bradley
West Iowa
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Kizzoner
Wall Street
Mary Brickley
John Pierpont Morgan
Robbie
Columa
Linn Holiday Ass’n
H Beeves
Linn Farm Bureau Calendar
H. E. Page Cattle Company
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