Golden Rule Exemplar Helps Hired Man Build Farm and Stock
A farmer Thore Thompson finances Len Hummel to start farming and to buy land. Thompson backs equipment and livestock. Hummel grows dairy cows horses chickens and hogs and will move to a 94 acre farm near Lima with title transferred against a mortgage. Thompson says democracy depends on more property owners.
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Adena
Thore Thompson
Len Hummel
Wadena
Mr. Thompson
Len
Thore
Hummel
Lima
Thompson
Seed beds rapidly prepared for corn planting season
Reports from the southern and east central parts of the state indicate corn planting will begin by May 10 as soil warm up. Seed beds are being prepared with plows harrowed behind, and some tractors run around the clock. Frost remains in northern counties and many roads have spongy spots. Last year’s cornstalks are being raked and burned due to heavy stalk growth and increased power machinery use.
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Wadena
Cattle Arrive For Jersey Sale Monday At Hawkeye Downs
Jersey cattle owners gathered at Hawkeye Downs south of Cedar Rapids for a Monday sale hosted by the Iowa Jersey Cattle club. Forty four head of selected Jerseys were on site with consignors, buyers, and a dinner for consignors noted. The sale marks the first of five annual Cedar Rapids auctions with cattle tested for TB and Bang's disease.
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Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Hotel Montrose
Iowa Jersey Cattle Club
Ivan N. Gates
West Liberty
Ed Geraghty
McGregor
E. S. Baughman
Bloomfield
W. J. Campbell
Jesup
Tama Farmer First To Receive T. I. P. Energy
Special to The Gazette Hartwick Faye Wilcox her Tama county farm received the first electric service as Tama Iowa Poweshiek lines went live. One hundred fifty two miles of line energized when the main transformer near Hartwick was switched on. More farmers will receive current as meters are installed and transformers cut in over several days. The company has an application on file in Washington for funds to build an additional 250 miles of lines.
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Hartwick
Faye Wilcox
Tama County
Washington, D. C
Sleeping Sickness Cases Break Out In Montana
Helena AP reports three cases of equine encephalomyelitis, first appearing in Montana in 1838 and linked to the death of more than 4,000 horses last year. The outbreak prompts state authorities to monitor livestock health and implement preventive measures.
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Montana
Helena, Mont
Schultz Named Head of New York Social Research Committee
Dr. T W Schultz of Ames economics and sociology department has been named chairman of the committee on social and economic research in agriculture of the Social Science Research council in New York City. The panel is regarded as one of the council’s most important. New members include J M Gaus of Wisconsin, E G Nourse now with Brookings in Washington, Lynn Smith of LSU, and O C Stine, head of the historical and statistical research division at the federal bureau of agricultural economics.
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Ames
T. W. Schultz
Social Science Research Council
New York City
Schultz
J. M. Gaus
University of Wisconsin
E. G. Nourse
Iowa State
Brookings Institute
Washington, D. C
Lynn Smith
Louisiana State University
O. C. Stine
Division of Historical and Statistical Research
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Iowa 4 H Projects In 1938 Valued To Exceed $1 681 562
Iowa 4 H club members, 12 404 boys and 1 280 girls, handled livestock, poultry and farm crops worth over 1 681 562 dollars in 1938. Data from the annual report shows 15 project types, with baby beef the largest single area, and total enrollment reaching 26 133 in home economics and agricultural projects.
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Ames
Iowa
John S. Quist
Ames Extension Service
Iowa 4-H
Quist
Pork and Lard Exports Reach Peak First Quarter 1939
A U S Department of Commerce report shows pork exports for the first quarter of 1939 at 27 552 998 pounds, the heaviest since 1934, up 25 percent from the same period last year and 107 percent above the first quarter of 1937. Lard exports rose 42 percent year over year to 75 161 232 pounds, with March at 22 157 416 pounds. Beef and veal exports totaled 1 993 903 pounds for January–March 1939, while March exports reached 1 047 385 pounds, the smallest March since 1932. Imports remained sizable, with beef and veal imports at 6 219 763 pounds in March and 14 235 608 pounds for January–March, the largest since 1936, and pork imports totaling 12 856 121 pounds for January–March, while exports still exceeded imports by 14 696 877 pounds.
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Aenet States Department of Commerce
Department of Commerce
Better Groomed Contest For Boys Planned In Wapello
OTTUMWA AP Wapello county 4 H boys will compete with city peers in grooming. Club Agent W W Kitchell announced a best groomed boy contest as part of the 1939 county fair at Eldon. Township eliminations will mirror the girls contests. It is believed to be the first such event in the state.
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Ottumwa
Wapello County
W. W. Kitchell
Eldon
World’s Fair Influences Butter and Eggs Market Upturn
Colonel Brown reports World’s Fair trade shaping local food demand with egg receipts rising and seasonal expansion. Butter demand active with retailers offering lower prices as storage grows, while creamery supplies adjust. Poultry markets improve on fair prospects. frozen turkeys and chickens move out of storage. Nearby crops like cucumbers celery cabbage stay tight with Florida supplies aiding prices.
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New York City
Florida
Bertram Women Plan Linn County Achievement Day
Bertram township women held the final meeting of the year to review the nutrition project and finalize plans for the Linn County Achievement Day program set for May 12 in Coggon. Seventeen women attended.
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BERTRAM — Home _ project
Bertram Township
Linn County
Coggon
Two Thousand Forty Clayton Women Reached By Home Project
Clayton county 1938 home project reach set at 2040 women with 3000 farms in the county. County achievement days next month may finalize the year record as 14 township exhibits were rated superior and five named state fair prospects Giard Monona Wagner Marion and Mendon. Officers were reelected including N May Larson Ames as state judge and Costigan Elkport slated to represent Clayton at the state fair public speaking contest. The farm women's chorus performed under Lucia Roggman.
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Elkader
Iowa
Joel Clark
Clayton Home Project
Clayton County
Clark
N. May Larson
Ames
Giard Township
Monona
Wagner
Marion
Mendon
O. H. Elvers
Strawberry Point
Cox Creek
W. J. Miller
Edgewood
George Costigan
Elkport
Costigan
Farm Women's Chorus
Miss Roggiman
Style Show 15 A Feature Of Jones Achievement Day
Jones county women and girls modeled clothing and accessories in a style show marking the annual achievement day in Anamosa. The program highlighted 4-H outfits, home dress wares, and a chorus, with speeches on rural electrification and judging of exhibits by Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis. Townships Wayne Scotch Grove Fairview Castle Grove Lovell Greenfield Clay received top recognition for organization and publicity.
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Anamosa
Jones County
Home Project
Sam Ellison
Martelle
Wayne Township
Ten Voices
County Farm Women’s
Muriel Luick Bissell
Wyoming
Castle Grove
Greenfield
Lloyd Robertson
Sarah Porter Ellis
Iowa
Wayne
Scotch Grove
Fairview
Lovell
Clay
Booted Grove
Ellis
Wyoming Township
Jackson Fair
Jackson
Waterloo
Linn County Farm Bureau Calendar This Week
This week's Linn County Farm Bureau calendar lists events in Cedar Rapids including a Monday 8 p.m. spring cattle feeders meeting at the Chamber of Commerce, a Tuesday 8 p.m. Farm Bureau meeting at the Farm Bureau ofice, and a Thursday 10 a.m. girls 4-H training school at MCA Cedar Rapids.
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Linn County
Farm Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids
Farm Bureau of Ice
New Grange Hall Readied for May 25 Meeting
Oneida Greida Grange announced construction on the new Grange hall at Oneida. Ground was broken and land deed presented at the Thursday meeting. Site leveling is done and the May 25 session is planned in the new building with National Deputy Harold Gaukapp attending for the sixth anniversary commemoration.
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Oneida
Greida Grange
Harold Gaukapp
Stage all set to collect dairy tax Des Moines story
Des Moines reported the Iowa Dairy Industry commission will collect a 1 cent per pound butterfat excise tax during May 1–15, 1939, with about 5 000 handlers informed. The two week tax aims to raise around $125,000 for dairy promotion, payable by June 15. The commission, chaired by C W Foster, has held three meetings. a fourth was planned for May 12 at Ames. Butterfat produced in Iowa is taxed, regardless of marketing point, while farm-consumed butterfat and out-of-state production marketed in Iowa are not.
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Des Moines
Burr Willits
Iowa Dairy Industry Commission
Forty-eighth
General Assembly
Commission
Willits
Ames
C. W. Foster
Carlisle
Iowa
Farm Debt Advisory Board to Meet in Cedar Rapids
The farm debt advisory board will meet at the resettlement office, federal building in Cedar Rapids on Monday at 1 p.m. Interested parties may call then, per C. B. F. Michel, chair.
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Farm Debt Advisory Board
Federal Building
Cedar Rapids
C. B. F. Michel
Corn-Hog Ratio in Iowa Drops to 18.3
Special to The Gazette reports Iowa’s mid-April corn-hog ratio at 18.3, two points below last month and .6 higher than a year ago, driven by cheaper hog prices and firmer corn values. U S mid-April ratio at 14.5, down from 16 a month earlier and 14.7 a year earlier.
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Iowa
the Gazette
Washington
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States
Foe Town
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New York Social Research Committee
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Farm Editor
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Otto Klein
Henry Leonard
Lucia Roggman
Garnaville
Carl Johansen
Amute
O. WN. Elvers
Gilbert Meyer
Melvin Beimfehr
Froelich
Alice Davidson
Mrs. Ellis
Farm Bureau Calendar
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Second Street
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Cedar Rapids Gas Co
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